Faux News provides some views that are so sad to make you laugh. Here is Eschaton summary of Bill O'Reilly's comments on arts funding at a The Creative Coalition event.

By the end, I think a reasonable summation of his final argument was: The reason there isn't enough education funding for the arts is that celebrities have shamefully failed to use their powers of public persuasion to convince people to support more arts funding, and this is a travesty about which they should be horribly ashamed even though more federal arts funding would be a bad thing.