It's all projection with these people: accusing their enemies of what they themselves are doing (Updated)

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Not Perusing Room Alert: For No Particular Reason NPR Repeats 'Fine People' Lie

The author says “for no particular reason” but of course he knows the reason: it’s in these people’s blood.

Beege Welborn HotAir

…. National Public Radio .. [has] been so entitled to government largesse for so long that they have forgotten what it is to be a 'public' service, not a dogmatic, ideological one.

They have lost their ability to 'read the room' in the service of furthering their resistant aims. They have lost the innate sense of caution that one needs to develop when one's product is produced and paid for, not by the sweat of one's own brow but by the work and taxes of others.

They are not an independent studio of artists - they are 'publicly' supported institutions.

No worries at all to those inside the buildings.

The current head of NPR is one sylph-like brainiac of the Davos school named Katherine Maher, in whose New World Order/globalist speak, our 'reverence for truth' is but an annoying concept that we often let 'get in our way.'

.,,,, In 2020, she argued that the New York Times should not have published Senator Tom Cotton’s op-ed, “Send in the Troops,” during the George Floyd riots. In 2021, she celebrated the banishment of then-president Donald Trump from social media, writing: “Must be satisfying to deplatform fascists. Even more satisfying? Not platforming them in the first place.”

As CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, Maher made censorship a critical part of her policy, under the guise of fighting “disinformation.” In a speech to the Atlantic Council, an organization with extensive ties to U.S. intelligence services, she explained that she “took a very active approach to disinformation,” coordinated censorship “through conversations with government,” and suppressed dissenting opinions related to the pandemic and the 2020 election.

In that same speech, Maher said that, in relation to the fight against disinformation, the “the number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States.” These speech protections, Maher continued, make it “a little bit tricky” to suppress “bad information” and “the influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it.”

Now, maybe no one would have done any more than squawk during Trump's first term. I mean, it seems as if the entire country and bureaucracy were mobilized against him, and they rode that Charlottesville hoax horse to death.

But this is 2025 - a different Trump, a different America post-POTATUS, and a different Congress.

For starters, one of NPR and PBS's biggest fans was already gunning for them on the floor of the Senate yesterday morning.

NPR, crying 'poor mouth,' which just bought itself a $201M+ headquarters 'up the road from the capitol,' has been living pretty well on the government dole. NPR hosts make as much as $532K a year. The chief diversity officer gets about $350K.

It's all 'taxpayer money,' as the good man from Louisiana says. Senator Kennedy thinks it's time they started paying their own bills.

(CCF): I’ll add that, although direct federal funding to NPR is a mere pittance: 10%, I believe, a hunge chunk of its revenue comes from local affiliates, and they receive a much larger proportion of their budget from U.S. taxpayers. So, done properly, some of the worst of NPR’s excesses can be curbed.

UPDATE: A reader from up north writes,

… {N]ot only has NPR's Maher had a charming life, with a cushy upbringing in Wilton, but unfortunately, her nutty mom "Ceci" is my CT state senator. Shortly after getting elected, mom went out of her way to send all of her constituents an email reminding us to not judge too harshly the "youths" who home-invaded and carjacked a guy in Westport a day or two earlier.

I guess the crabapple does not fall far from the tree...