http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/03/28/nprpbs-hearing-n2654520
By Matt Vespa
Townhall
March 28, 2025
The Democrats didn’t take this House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing on Wednesday seriously, but that’s to be expected. Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), who looks and acts like an insufferable tool, mocked the hearing, asking if Elmo was ever a member of the communist party. Of course, he and the rest of his ilk acted like this, as the hearing centered on two major allies of the Democratic Party — PBS and National Public Radio.
Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) ~ This is @NPR. Your tax dollars shouldn’t pay for this propaganda.
Video ~ http://twitter.com/i/status/1905341108298866791
This exchange between Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) and Maher, where the Texas congressman corners her on her woke nonsense, is when you knew the latter was going to get totally smoked, and she did:
Video ~ http://twitter.com/i/status/1904933514635862132
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) ~ Still laughing about the fact that Katherine Maher tweeted that she took an entire day off to read The Case for Reparations, then admitted to Congress that she lied about it and had never read the book. The perfect symbol of the AWFL mindset.
Yeah, she tried to deny it but got owned again. It was a disastrous day for the outlet, whose own CEO made an ironclad case for it never to receive another dime in taxpayer money. Only years after everyone and their mother knew the Hunter Biden laptop story was accurate, Maher admitted that NPR failed miserably in covering a significant story. Again, we all know why they didn’t, along with the rest of the liberal media (via NY Post):
NPR … finally admitted that it made a mistake in failing to promptly cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal — as the left-leaning broadcaster fights to keep its federal funding.
The mea culpa by NPR’s chief executive Katherine Maher came during intense questioning from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and other Republican legislators during a congressional subcommittee hearing regarding the broadcaster’s perceived bias in its coverage.
“I do want to say that NPR acknowledges we were mistaken in failing to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively or sooner,” Maher told the committee. ...
Maher’s admission corroborates claims made by former NPR editor Uri Berliner, who left the publicly funded outlet last year and criticized his former bosses for ignoring The Post’s exclusive reporting about Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 election.
The hearing included testimony from both Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger — though Maher was the primary focus of Republican criticism.
Well, Ms. Maher ... your "admission" that NPR made a mistake about choosing to ignore the Hunter Biden laptop story is a ridiculously laughable, self-serving, disingenuous falsehood. NPR made absolutely no mistake in not covering the Hunter Biden laptop story - it intentionally and willfully chose to ignore and demonize the true story for partisan reasons to help get Joe Biden elected in 2020. And everyone knows that if this had been on the other foot, so to speak, you Democrats would be SCREAMING "Election Interference" at the top of your lungs! NPR was simply being the DNC-bought-and-paid-for propaganda outlet that it is, which is exactly the prime reason why NPR needs to be totally and permanently separated from government funding - period, end of story. NPR is nothing but a cesspool of Democrat hacks, so your funding needs to come entirely from your masters at the DNC.
The past remarks of CEO Katherine Maher came back to haunt, like when she said in 2021 that the “truth is a distraction from getting things done.”
Again, Ms. Maher ... while your statement actually reveals your true nature (and that of NPR), it is a disingenuous deflection. The truth IS a distraction from getting things done at a DNC propaganda outlet like NPR because NPR is in the business of disseminating lies, disinformation, and half-truths for the express benefit of the Democrat Party.
@amuse (@amuse) ~ STATE FUNDED MEDIA: NPR's CEO Katherine Maher explained, "Truth is a distraction from getting things done." She didn’t realize that 100% of NPR’s editorial staff were Democrats and has never seen any bias in the newsroom.
Video ~ http://twitter.com/i/status/1905182191644029400
Tsk, tsk, tsk, Ms. Maher ... again, you're telling obvious fibs. You very damn well know that you have no Republicans on your staff at NPR ... hell, you couldn't even abide one of your own, Uri Berliner - who is certainly no Republican. Berliner committed the cardinal sin of publicly opining that "NPR had lost America's trust" because of its overt bias, so YOU. INTOLERANTLY. FIRED. HIS. ASS. Oh, everyone knows that there is rampant bias at NPR, dearie ... and everyone knows that you know ... and everyone already knows that you are a-okay with this rampant bias because it is the type of bias that you lovingly adore and promote, you hack.
KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) ~ REP JORDAN: "Is NPR biased?"
NPR CEO: "I have never seen any political bias."
JORDAN: "In the DC area, editorial positions at NPR have 87 registered Democrats and 0 Republicans."
NPR CEO: "We do not track the voter registration, but I find that concerning."
JORDAN: "87-0 and you're not biased?"
NPR CEO: "I think that is concerning if those numbers are accurate."
JORDAN: "October 2020, the NYPost had the Hunter Biden laptop story, and one of those 87 Democrat editors said, 'We don't want to waste our readers and listeners' time on stories that are just pure distractions.' Was that story a pure distraction?"
Video ~ http://x.com/i/status/1904947259198075212
KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) ~ REP FALLON: "In 2020, NPR branded Hunter Biden's laptop story a 'waste of time.' Do you know how many times NPR interviewed Adam Schiff about the Russia Collusion hoax?"
NPR CEO: "Idk."
REP FALLON: "25 times. How many times did NPR interview Chairman Comer about the Biden impeachment inquiry and the Biden family's illicit business dealings?"
NPR CEO: "Idk."
REP FALLON: "0 times. 25 to 0. Between June and November of 2023, PBS's News Hour used the term 'far-right' 162 times, and 'far-left' was only used 6 times. Do you find that troubling?"
PBS CEO: "I want to see how they did that analysis."
REP FALLON: "Media Research Center did the study. You either use the term 'far-right' or 'far-left.' That's a 96% to 4% skew. Did PBS cover the DNC and GOP conventions in 2024?"
PBS CEO: "Yes, we did."
REP FALLON: "72% of the coverage of the GOP convention was negative. 88% of the coverage of the DNC was positive. PBS's anchor described the Republican convention as 'outright racism' and 'echoing white supremacy.' Do you believe your reporters are non-biased at NPR?"
NPR CEO: "I believe they work to be every day."
REP FALLON: "The recent registration of your newsroom was 87 Democrats and 0 Republicans."
NPR CEO: "I find that very concerning, sir."
REP FALLON: "It shouldn't be surprising when their CEO says 'I'm so done with late-stage capitalism' or calls the POTUS a 'deranged racist sociopath' or says that 'America is addicted to white supremacy.'"
REP FALLON: "Billions of taxpayer dollars have gone into both of your coffers over the last few decades, and I understand why Democrats are going to viciously and vehemently defend you all because you've become a propaganda wing of the Democratic Party."
Video ~ http://x.com/i/status/1904969715501641802
That explains why NPR has all 87 editorial positions occupied by Democrats. NPR has gone so far off the rails that even self-described liberal Democrats, like Matt Taibbi, have railed against them for being an out-of-touch outlet riddled with content that would make most Americans drive off a bridge to end the incessant drivel aimed at making Acela Corridor elitists feel superior. Their 2021 piece about why Ben Shapiro’s Facebook use is a problem perfectly captured how NPR is just state-funded media. It was an open secret, and now they shove it in our faces (via Racket News):
Is the complaint that Shapiro peddles misinformation? No: “The articles The Daily Wire publishes don't normally include falsehoods.” Are they worried about the stoking of Trumpism, or belief that the 2020 election was stolen? No, because Shapiro “publicly denounced the alt-right and other people in Trump's orbit,” as well as “the conspiracy theory that Trump is the rightful winner of the 2020 election.” Are they mad that the site is opinion disguised as news? No, because, “publicly the site does not purport to be a traditional news source.”
The main complaint, instead, is that:
By only covering specific stories that bolster the conservative agenda (such as… polarizing ones about race and sexuality issues)… readers still come away from The Daily Wire's content with the impression that Republican politicians can do little wrong and cancel culture is among the nation's greatest threats.
NPR has not run a piece critical of Democrats since Christ was a boy. Moreover, much like the New York Times editorial page (but somehow worse), the public news leader’s monomaniacal focus on “race and sexuality issues” has become an industry in-joke. For at least a year especially, listening to NPR has been like being pinned in wrestling beyond the three-count. Everything is about race or gender, and you can’t make it stop.
Conservatives have always hated NPR, but in the last year I hear more and more politically progressive people, in the media, talking about the station as a kind of mass torture experiment, one that makes the most patient and sensible people want to drive off the road in anguish.
Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) ~ I know NPR only receives a small amount of its budget from the government but it really doesn’t make sense for taxpayers to give a dime to an openly partisan — and sometimes anti-American (why parrot Iranian propaganda??) — outlet.
In its underbelly, pro-censorship stooges were elevated at NPR as well:
... a familiar figure was named Chief Operating Officer of National Public Radio. Ryan Merkley, who directed the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder and also appeared in the Twitter Files as Wikimedia’s liaison to “Industry Meetings” with federal law enforcement, was elevated to the job by NPR ...
“Throughout his career Ryan has demonstrated a commitment to the public trust, leading organizations that prioritize universal access to the common good,” said Maher, perhaps best known for describing the First Amendment as the “number one challenge” that makes it “tricky” to remove content.
Merkley’s name figured in several high-profile efforts to control “disinformation” through aggressive content moderation. In 2021, the Aspen Institute created a Commission on Information Disorder, whose big-name participants included Katie Couric, “Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex,” and DHS official Chris Krebs. Merkley was the Commission’s Director.
It's time to gut this outlet.
You can read Guy's post on the hearing here.
Last Note ... Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) with straight fire here:
Townhall.com (@townhallcom) ~ 🚨 MTG just TORCHED the CEO of NPR:
"You called [Trump] a deranged racist and sociopath."
"You posted ... America is addicted to white supremacy."
"You've publicly chastised using the phrase boy and girl."
"There's only two genders, by the way."
Video ~ http://twitter.com/i/status/1904913020494454949
Yeah, Ms. Maher ... you got raked over the coals ... but, you deserved it, dearie ... because you are a sleazy, lying whore.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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