It’s always been the case that state media, no matter what country it’s in, tells you an awful lot about the state. Listen to North Korean state media for five minutes, and inevitably, the strict-looking anchorwoman will communicate a very clear message, which is that no criticism of Dear Leader is allowed. They might even pan to a crater or two, just to demonstrate what happened to the last guy who broke that rule.
Tune into Canada’s state broadcaster, meanwhile, and before long, they’ll inform you that thousands of children are buried underneath Christian schools in Ontario, even though it’s an obvious lie. They’ll also complain about Donald Trump a lot, and tell you how great their new prime minister is, even though he’s barely ever lived in Canada in the past decade. The message to reasonable people watching this, of course, is that Canada is a self-loathing post-national globalist blob that despises anyone who believes the government is not God. Again, whether they realize it or not, state media tells you everything you need to know about the state.
With that in mind, what do NPR and PBS tell us about America?
By any definition, these organizations are state media. They were created by the state. And for more than half a century, these two outlets have relied on funding from the federal government to survive. They couldn’t peddle Washington’s propaganda without taxpayer cash. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which distributes funds to state-media outlets like NPR and PBS — now receives more than half a billion dollars from the American taxpayer, every single year. Yes, they take in half a billion dollars every year. That’s not an overstatement. You often hear from outlets like NPR that federal funding isn’t a big part of their budget, but it’s a lie. It’s true that they don’t directly receive most of that money. But the Corporation for Public Broadcasting does receive the money, and in turn, it distributes the funds to member stations of organizations like NPR. In other words, if the federal funding is gone, then so are these outlets.
So what have they been doing with the money that they desperately fight for, even as they claim they don’t really need it?
Here is an actual segment that recently aired on NPR. Listen:
They’re talking about transgender dinosaur emojis on a show called “All Things Considered,” which is one of the premier programs on NPR. And this kind of content wasn’t out of the ordinary. NPR also posted this insight on social media, for example:
Some white people may choose 👍 because it feels neutral — but some academics argue opting out of 👍🏻 signals a lack of awareness about white privilege, akin to society associating whiteness with being raceless.https://t.co/9g3rochT0K
— NPR (@NPR) February 9, 2022
This is all very unserious race-baiting, obviously. No one who doesn’t suffer from ten different serious psychological co-morbidities would take it seriously. But you could make the case that it’s actually more clever than that. By acting like buffoons who are transfixed with emojis, NPR might come off as harmless to most people. They certainly don’t seem like carefully calculating political operatives. But that’s exactly what they are. That’s why, when the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, NPR posted this message:
Screenshot: X/Twitter
It’s from a man named Terence Samuels, who served as NPR’s managing editor for news at the time: “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
In other words, NPR was explicitly participating in the Democrat Party’s efforts to bury a story about the fact that the Democrat’s candidate for president was taking money from foreign adversaries. And what happened to Terence Samuels after he made this call? Was he terminated for gross incompetence on the job? Of course not. He did exactly what he was supposed to do, so he was promoted. NPR made him their top editor, before he went on to become the editor-in-chief of USA Today. His career didn’t suffer at all. In fact, it helped his career. Terence Samuels even started doing lectures on “disinformation” at American University, if you can believe it. The guy who buried the biggest story of the 2020 election, on the fraudulent grounds that it was “disinformation,” is now teaching students how to spot “disinformation.” You can’t script this kind of stuff.
WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show
For decades, state media outlets got away with this kind of thing. Republicans would register their complaints, but they’d never actually haul these executives before Congress and seriously threaten to remove their funding. But that changed yesterday, when the DOGE committee in Congress questioned the chief executives of both NPR and PBS. Maybe the most remarkable moment in the hearing came when congressman Brandon Gill questioned the head of NPR, a woman named Katherine Maher.
Specifically, Gill went through Maher’s tweets over the past few years. And in response to Gill’s questions, Maher repeatedly dodged and lied under oath, to the point that it seemed almost like a comedy routine. Watch:
You could not distill the 2020-era affluent liberal woman stereotype any more perfectly than this. She’s asked about a tweet that she wrote, concerning an article she claimed to have read during the BLM hysteria. She said she took the whole day off to read it. But now she admits that she didn’t read any of it. I had to go back and check that this is real, and it was. Here’s what Katherine Maher said at the time: “‘America begins in black plunder and white democracy.’ I appreciate the day off today to finally fully read The Case for Reparations. … I grew up feeling superior (hah, how white of me) because I was from New England and my part of the country didn’t have slaves, or so I’d been taught.”
Now she has no idea about any of this. She also pretends not to understand that she previously called for reparations, even though she clearly did — in writing. And as the questioning went on, Maher continued to deny things that she had posted publicly. She also defended some of NPR’s most deranged programming at the same time. Watch:
There are about a million more posts from this woman that are obviously disqualifying. Every single one of them is proof that NPR should not receive another dime of taxpayer money.
For example, here are some of Maher’s posts from shortly after Joe Biden was declared the winner in the 2020 election:
Screenshot: X/Twitter. @krmaher
So by her own admission, she’s floored by the idea of Joe Biden winning the presidential election, to the point that she can’t contain her emotions. And at the same time, she’s claiming that she’s qualified to run a news organization that deserves taxpayer money.
There was one moment during the hearing when Katherine Maher attempted to address some of these tweets. It came when Congressman Tim Burchett read Maher’s post about how Donald Trump is a horrible racist fascist dictator. And again, it would be extremely depressing to watch, if it didn’t have any comedic value. Fortunately it has a lot of comedic value. Watch:
She begins by saying that she”appreciates the opportunity to address” her past tweets, which is code for “A PR company told me how to respond to this question, and they told me that the first step is to claim that I’m not actually on the defensive.” This is a very common tactic in PR. It’s intended to defuse the accusation by demonstrating, at the outset, that the person being questioned isn’t fazed by the question — even though it’s obviously damning and extremely humiliating.
But in this case, Katherine Maher botches it. She states that she wasn’t actually talking about who Donald Trump “is.” Instead, she claims that she was merely talking about what Donald Trump “had said.” Well, here’s what Maher wrote: “What is that deranged racist sociopath ranting about today? I truly do not understand.”
Reading that, with my admittedly untrained eye, it doesn’t seem like she’s talking about Donald Trump’s words. Instead, it looks a lot like she’s talking about how Donald Trump is a “deranged racist sociopath.” In fact, it seems like Katherine Maher is committing perjury if she’s trying to say anything else, under oath. So there are now two problems here. First, the head of NPR is clearly a low-IQ, highly emotional partisan hack. And two, she’s lying under oath about what she’s said in the past. Each of these problems, independent of one another, is disqualifying. Either one of these issues should result in the immediate termination of all funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
As the hearing went on, things got even worse for Katherine. Jim Jordan brought up the allegations from an NPR whistleblower named Uri Berliner, which were first published in the Free Press. Berliner won some of the most prestigious awards in all of journalism. He worked at NPR for more than 25 years. Watch:
If you were inclined to give Katherine Maher the benefit of the doubt for some reason — if you thought that maybe she’s just another inept bureaucrat who’s in over her head — it’s important to revisit what she’s said publicly, many times, about the concept of “the truth.”
It helps explain some of her answers. Watch as Katherine Maher explains, in two different speeches, that “the truth” is less important than “getting things done.” She also claims, bizarrely, that multiple people have different “truths.” Here it is again:
The fact that Maher was named as the head of NPR, even after these videos surfaced, is proof that no one at NPR is actually concerned about accurate reporting. NPR, as an organization, is focused entirely on achieving certain political outcomes. And there’s nothing wrong with that, by itself. Plenty of media organizations, including The Daily Wire, seek to achieve certain political outcomes. The problem is that NPR, together with other organizations like it, rake in half a billion dollars per year from taxpayers. That’s the issue here. At no point during yesterday’s hearing did the executives from NPR or PBS explain why we should continue that funding.
Instead, they continued to plead ignorance. Congressman Pat Fallon, for example, tried to question Maher — as well as the head of PBS — about their coverage. And in both cases, one after the other, they said they had no idea what he was talking about. Watch:
Separately, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was chairing this hearing, played this footage of a male “drag performer” who PBS promoted as part of its children’s programming. This appeared on the website for a show that targeted children between the ages of 3 and 8 years old, before PBS took it down. Watch:
When they’re shown footage like this, along with the clear evidence of bias from both NPR and PBS, it’s clear that the vast majority of taxpayers are going to want their money back. There’s obviously no reason that we should be funding this garbage. It’s not just uninteresting. It’s actively harmful to the country.
But in the interests of fairness, as always, I will present the other side of the debate. And that means that, once again, you’re going to see another clip of representative Jasmine Crockett. Yes, that’s the same Jasmine Crockett that we’ve cancelled a dozen times this year. Jasmine Crockett is now putting out demented, unintelligent soundbites at a rate that far exceeds AOC, which is a feat that was previously believed to be humanly impossible. But here we are.
Behold Jasmine’s highly lucid, grammatically correct and totally convincing argument for why you should continue paying for NPR and PBS to remain on the airwaves:
At least she announced she was going to “skip off real quick.” That’s a new one for Jasmine Crockett. Normally, she doesn’t provide any warning before she starts vomiting random, unintelligible words in the trashiest, fakest ghetto accent she can come up with. But in this case, she gave everyone a heads-up. It’s like those disclaimers on the news when they say, “Warning: this footage could be disturbing for some viewers.” So that’s appreciated. What’s especially funny about this is that, when she says Republicans “want to shut down everyone who’s not Fox News,” she’s inadvertently acknowledging that Fox is pretty much the only mainstream conservative news outlet. Everyone else — from CNN to ABC to CBS to MSNBC and so on — all skew Left. And taken together, they all have a much larger market share than Fox.
Of course, the bigger problem here is that, contrary to whatever Jasmine Crockett was barking about, no one wants to “shut down everyone who is not Fox News.” Republicans are not calling for the elimination of MSNBC or CNN or ABC or CBS. Instead, what we’re calling for is the elimination of taxpayer funding for rabidly partisan organizations that pose as news outlets. That is what Republicans have sought, in one capacity or another, for the better part of a century, since NPR and PBS began seizing money from American citizens. What’s different now is that, because of this DOGE subcommittee, Congress is closer than it’s ever been to achieving that goal. And the more Democrats like Jasmine Crockett “skip off real quick,” the more they’re helping to make the case.
America is a very different place than it was when NPR and PBS were founded. Whether you think that founding NPR and PBS was a good idea or not, the fact remains that they no longer perform the fundamental function of all state media, which is to tell you something about the state. Instead, they stand in opposition to the United States and its progress. And for that reason, especially after this debacle of a hearing, they must be eliminated.
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It’s always been the case that state media, no matter what country it’s in, tells you an awful lot about the state. Listen to North Korean state media for five minutes, and inevitably, the strict-looking anchorwoman will communicate a very clear message, which is that no criticism of Dear Leader is allowed. They might even pan to a crater or two, just to demonstrate what happened to the last guy who broke that rule.
Tune into Canada’s state broadcaster, meanwhile, and before long, they’ll inform you that thousands of children are buried underneath Christian schools in Ontario, even though it’s an obvious lie. They’ll also complain about Donald Trump a lot, and tell you how great their new prime minister is, even though he’s barely ever lived in Canada in the past decade. The message to reasonable people watching this, of course, is that Canada is a self-loathing post-national globalist blob that despises anyone who believes the government is not God. Again, whether they realize it or not, state media tells you everything you need to know about the state.
With that in mind, what do NPR and PBS tell us about America?
By any definition, these organizations are state media. They were created by the state. And for more than half a century, these two outlets have relied on funding from the federal government to survive. They couldn’t peddle Washington’s propaganda without taxpayer cash. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which distributes funds to state-media outlets like NPR and PBS — now receives more than half a billion dollars from the American taxpayer, every single year. Yes, they take in half a billion dollars every year. That’s not an overstatement. You often hear from outlets like NPR that federal funding isn’t a big part of their budget, but it’s a lie. It’s true that they don’t directly receive most of that money. But the Corporation for Public Broadcasting does receive the money, and in turn, it distributes the funds to member stations of organizations like NPR. In other words, if the federal funding is gone, then so are these outlets.
So what have they been doing with the money that they desperately fight for, even as they claim they don’t really need it?
Here is an actual segment that recently aired on NPR. Listen:
They’re talking about transgender dinosaur emojis on a show called “All Things Considered,” which is one of the premier programs on NPR. And this kind of content wasn’t out of the ordinary. NPR also posted this insight on social media, for example:
Some white people may choose 👍 because it feels neutral — but some academics argue opting out of 👍🏻 signals a lack of awareness about white privilege, akin to society associating whiteness with being raceless.https://t.co/9g3rochT0K
— NPR (@NPR) February 9, 2022
This is all very unserious race-baiting, obviously. No one who doesn’t suffer from ten different serious psychological co-morbidities would take it seriously. But you could make the case that it’s actually more clever than that. By acting like buffoons who are transfixed with emojis, NPR might come off as harmless to most people. They certainly don’t seem like carefully calculating political operatives. But that’s exactly what they are. That’s why, when the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, NPR posted this message:
Screenshot: X/Twitter
It’s from a man named Terence Samuels, who served as NPR’s managing editor for news at the time: “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
In other words, NPR was explicitly participating in the Democrat Party’s efforts to bury a story about the fact that the Democrat’s candidate for president was taking money from foreign adversaries. And what happened to Terence Samuels after he made this call? Was he terminated for gross incompetence on the job? Of course not. He did exactly what he was supposed to do, so he was promoted. NPR made him their top editor, before he went on to become the editor-in-chief of USA Today. His career didn’t suffer at all. In fact, it helped his career. Terence Samuels even started doing lectures on “disinformation” at American University, if you can believe it. The guy who buried the biggest story of the 2020 election, on the fraudulent grounds that it was “disinformation,” is now teaching students how to spot “disinformation.” You can’t script this kind of stuff.
WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show
For decades, state media outlets got away with this kind of thing. Republicans would register their complaints, but they’d never actually haul these executives before Congress and seriously threaten to remove their funding. But that changed yesterday, when the DOGE committee in Congress questioned the chief executives of both NPR and PBS. Maybe the most remarkable moment in the hearing came when congressman Brandon Gill questioned the head of NPR, a woman named Katherine Maher.
Specifically, Gill went through Maher’s tweets over the past few years. And in response to Gill’s questions, Maher repeatedly dodged and lied under oath, to the point that it seemed almost like a comedy routine. Watch:
You could not distill the 2020-era affluent liberal woman stereotype any more perfectly than this. She’s asked about a tweet that she wrote, concerning an article she claimed to have read during the BLM hysteria. She said she took the whole day off to read it. But now she admits that she didn’t read any of it. I had to go back and check that this is real, and it was. Here’s what Katherine Maher said at the time: “‘America begins in black plunder and white democracy.’ I appreciate the day off today to finally fully read The Case for Reparations. … I grew up feeling superior (hah, how white of me) because I was from New England and my part of the country didn’t have slaves, or so I’d been taught.”
Now she has no idea about any of this. She also pretends not to understand that she previously called for reparations, even though she clearly did — in writing. And as the questioning went on, Maher continued to deny things that she had posted publicly. She also defended some of NPR’s most deranged programming at the same time. Watch:
There are about a million more posts from this woman that are obviously disqualifying. Every single one of them is proof that NPR should not receive another dime of taxpayer money.
For example, here are some of Maher’s posts from shortly after Joe Biden was declared the winner in the 2020 election:
Screenshot: X/Twitter. @krmaher
So by her own admission, she’s floored by the idea of Joe Biden winning the presidential election, to the point that she can’t contain her emotions. And at the same time, she’s claiming that she’s qualified to run a news organization that deserves taxpayer money.
There was one moment during the hearing when Katherine Maher attempted to address some of these tweets. It came when Congressman Tim Burchett read Maher’s post about how Donald Trump is a horrible racist fascist dictator. And again, it would be extremely depressing to watch, if it didn’t have any comedic value. Fortunately it has a lot of comedic value. Watch:
She begins by saying that she”appreciates the opportunity to address” her past tweets, which is code for “A PR company told me how to respond to this question, and they told me that the first step is to claim that I’m not actually on the defensive.” This is a very common tactic in PR. It’s intended to defuse the accusation by demonstrating, at the outset, that the person being questioned isn’t fazed by the question — even though it’s obviously damning and extremely humiliating.
But in this case, Katherine Maher botches it. She states that she wasn’t actually talking about who Donald Trump “is.” Instead, she claims that she was merely talking about what Donald Trump “had said.” Well, here’s what Maher wrote: “What is that deranged racist sociopath ranting about today? I truly do not understand.”
Reading that, with my admittedly untrained eye, it doesn’t seem like she’s talking about Donald Trump’s words. Instead, it looks a lot like she’s talking about how Donald Trump is a “deranged racist sociopath.” In fact, it seems like Katherine Maher is committing perjury if she’s trying to say anything else, under oath. So there are now two problems here. First, the head of NPR is clearly a low-IQ, highly emotional partisan hack. And two, she’s lying under oath about what she’s said in the past. Each of these problems, independent of one another, is disqualifying. Either one of these issues should result in the immediate termination of all funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
As the hearing went on, things got even worse for Katherine. Jim Jordan brought up the allegations from an NPR whistleblower named Uri Berliner, which were first published in the Free Press. Berliner won some of the most prestigious awards in all of journalism. He worked at NPR for more than 25 years. Watch:
If you were inclined to give Katherine Maher the benefit of the doubt for some reason — if you thought that maybe she’s just another inept bureaucrat who’s in over her head — it’s important to revisit what she’s said publicly, many times, about the concept of “the truth.”
It helps explain some of her answers. Watch as Katherine Maher explains, in two different speeches, that “the truth” is less important than “getting things done.” She also claims, bizarrely, that multiple people have different “truths.” Here it is again:
The fact that Maher was named as the head of NPR, even after these videos surfaced, is proof that no one at NPR is actually concerned about accurate reporting. NPR, as an organization, is focused entirely on achieving certain political outcomes. And there’s nothing wrong with that, by itself. Plenty of media organizations, including The Daily Wire, seek to achieve certain political outcomes. The problem is that NPR, together with other organizations like it, rake in half a billion dollars per year from taxpayers. That’s the issue here. At no point during yesterday’s hearing did the executives from NPR or PBS explain why we should continue that funding.
Instead, they continued to plead ignorance. Congressman Pat Fallon, for example, tried to question Maher — as well as the head of PBS — about their coverage. And in both cases, one after the other, they said they had no idea what he was talking about. Watch:
Separately, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was chairing this hearing, played this footage of a male “drag performer” who PBS promoted as part of its children’s programming. This appeared on the website for a show that targeted children between the ages of 3 and 8 years old, before PBS took it down. Watch:
When they’re shown footage like this, along with the clear evidence of bias from both NPR and PBS, it’s clear that the vast majority of taxpayers are going to want their money back. There’s obviously no reason that we should be funding this garbage. It’s not just uninteresting. It’s actively harmful to the country.
But in the interests of fairness, as always, I will present the other side of the debate. And that means that, once again, you’re going to see another clip of representative Jasmine Crockett. Yes, that’s the same Jasmine Crockett that we’ve cancelled a dozen times this year. Jasmine Crockett is now putting out demented, unintelligent soundbites at a rate that far exceeds AOC, which is a feat that was previously believed to be humanly impossible. But here we are.
Behold Jasmine’s highly lucid, grammatically correct and totally convincing argument for why you should continue paying for NPR and PBS to remain on the airwaves:
At least she announced she was going to “skip off real quick.” That’s a new one for Jasmine Crockett. Normally, she doesn’t provide any warning before she starts vomiting random, unintelligible words in the trashiest, fakest ghetto accent she can come up with. But in this case, she gave everyone a heads-up. It’s like those disclaimers on the news when they say, “Warning: this footage could be disturbing for some viewers.” So that’s appreciated. What’s especially funny about this is that, when she says Republicans “want to shut down everyone who’s not Fox News,” she’s inadvertently acknowledging that Fox is pretty much the only mainstream conservative news outlet. Everyone else — from CNN to ABC to CBS to MSNBC and so on — all skew Left. And taken together, they all have a much larger market share than Fox.
Of course, the bigger problem here is that, contrary to whatever Jasmine Crockett was barking about, no one wants to “shut down everyone who is not Fox News.” Republicans are not calling for the elimination of MSNBC or CNN or ABC or CBS. Instead, what we’re calling for is the elimination of taxpayer funding for rabidly partisan organizations that pose as news outlets. That is what Republicans have sought, in one capacity or another, for the better part of a century, since NPR and PBS began seizing money from American citizens. What’s different now is that, because of this DOGE subcommittee, Congress is closer than it’s ever been to achieving that goal. And the more Democrats like Jasmine Crockett “skip off real quick,” the more they’re helping to make the case.
America is a very different place than it was when NPR and PBS were founded. Whether you think that founding NPR and PBS was a good idea or not, the fact remains that they no longer perform the fundamental function of all state media, which is to tell you something about the state. Instead, they stand in opposition to the United States and its progress. And for that reason, especially after this debacle of a hearing, they must be eliminated.
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