National Public Radio has had a rough go in the last few years with declining audiences, financial shortfalls, and the recent exposure of its political bias by longtime editor Uri Berliner. However, if you tuned into the comments of NPR CEO Katherine Maher this week at the Texas Tribune Festival, you would think that the only challenging decision for NPR is picking the design of the next pledge drive tote bag.
Despite comments that were repeatedly evasive and misleading, a room full of journalists seemed to just nod like William Safire’s “nattering nabobs.”
Mayer led with what many former employees like Berliner may have seen as a literal punchline: “I stand here to defend the integrity of the newsroom and to defend the integrity of the reporting and to say that every single day our folks get up, and they want to stand there and make sure that they are serving the American public in the best possible way from a nonpartisan perspective.”
NPR, however, has lost much of the public. Ironically, it is now more liberal and white than ever with relatively few minority, male, or conservative listeners.
NPR’s audience has been declining for years. Indeed, that trend has been most pronounced since 2017 — the period when Berliner said the company began to openly pursue a political narrative and agenda to counter Donald Trump. The company has reported falling advertising revenue and, like many outlets, has made deep staff cuts to deal with budget shortfalls.
As she has in the past, Maher portrayed Berliner as pushing a false political agenda in claiming any bias at NPR. She denounced his criticism as an “affront to the individual journalists who work incredibly hard to report the news and report the news well and report the news with integrity … in a nonpartisan way.”
The portrayal of NPR as unbiased and balanced is laughingly absurd. Indeed, many of us objected to Maher’s selection after years of declining audiences and increasing criticism. Maher had a long record of far-left public statements against Republicans, Trump, and others.
As I have stated in the past, I am not suggesting that NPR does not have a right to slanted coverage. Many outlets today have such bias. However, they do not have a right to receive public subsidies.
In a competitive media market, the government has elected to subsidize a selective media outlet. Moreover, this is not the media organization that many citizens would choose. While tacking aggressively to the left and openly supporting narratives (including some false stories) from Democratic sources, NPR and its allies still expect citizens to subsidize its work. That includes roughly half of the country with viewpoints now effectively banished from its airwaves.
While local PBS stations are supported “by listeners like you,” NPR itself continues to maintain that “federal funding is essential” to its work. If NPR is truly relying on federal funds for only 1 percent of its budget, why not make a clean break from the public dole? NPR would then have to compete with every other radio and media outlet on equal terms. And it would likely do well in such a competition, given its loyal base and excellent programming.
Maher and NPR want to continue to offer slanted coverage but require all Americans (including most who do not listen to NPR due to the bias) to pay for it.
Maher’s talk was a litany of faux expressions of concern with no indication of a willingness to change a thing at NPR. Maher expressed a heart-felt need to face “perceived criticism.” Putting aside that there is nothing “perceived” in the criticism, it is clear that she rejects the very premise of the obvious bias of the outlet.
When finally asked by Fox New Digital about voter registration records in 2021 showing an astonishing disparity between Democrats and Republicans in the NPR newsroom, Maher dismissed the data. Berliner found 87 registered Democrats and zero Republicans. However, Maher said that there were many employees not part of those stats. That is like dismissing a poll because not every American was contacted. There is no reason to expect that those self-reporting are hugely skewed toward Democrats without a single Republican participating.
She added that they are not allowed to hire employees based on political affiliation. It was again transparently evasive. No one is suggesting a political litmus test based on party registrations. The problem is the hiring of people who are uniformly left and Democratic in their outlooks and values.
Maher said that she believes that “it’s incredibly important for us to have people of diverse viewpoints in the newsroom, and the totality of the lived experience.” However, they clearly are not doing that in their hiring process. It is not an accident when you lack a single Republican in hiring.
We face the same rationalization in academia.
A survey conducted by the Harvard Crimson shows that more than three-quarters of Harvard Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences faculty respondents identified as “liberal” or “very liberal.” Only 2.5% identified as “conservative,” and only 0.4% as “very conservative.”
Likewise, a study by Georgetown University’s Kevin Tobia and MIT’s Eric Martinez found that only nine percent of law school professors identify as conservative at the top 50 law schools. Notably, a 2017 study found 15 percent of faculties were conservative. Another study found that 33 out of 65 departments lacked a single conservative faculty member.
When pressed, administrators and academics express the same befuddlement why their faculties are exclusively liberal. It is just a mystery. It cannot be due to their own bias in hiring people with clearly liberal or far left views.
Maher was clearly singing to the choir in this event. She noted that some of her viewers want NPR to be harder on Trump. That is hardly surprising. While taking federal funds from the entire country, NPR currently has a shrinking audience of largely liberal, older, white, female Democrats. “Balance” is viewed by many as considering whether Trump is an existential threat to democracy or to humanity.
The falling audience and revenue shows that Maher and NPR are not appealing to a larger audience. Once again, they should not have to do so. If they want a smaller audience while maintaining the current one-sided coverage, that is entirely between them and their donors. What they do not have a right to is a public subsidy for that slanted coverage.
It is time for NPR to operate entirely in the free market like all of its competitors from CBS Radio to Fox Radio. If it is truly offering a broad and balanced news source, Maher will have little difficulty thriving without public funding.
I want a president that can spew hatred and racist BS like he was lobbing candy to a kid.
Oh wait, that would be Trump…
“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in,” Trump said. “They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in this country and it’s a shame.”
“Nattering nabobs” was Spiro Agnew, not Safire.
“’Nattering nabobs was Spiro Agnew, not Safire.”
As written by Safire for Agnew.
If you’re going to play “Gotcha!”, make sure you’re right.
Oh my. An orange hog just got its bulbous ass owned super hard. Weep, magats.
You’re delusional you commie idiot. Trump handed her her nagging whiny nasal ass on a platter.
Butthurt Trumpster.
Butthurt commie idiot.
Please do not criticize the Dunceocrat for his degenerate fantasies. It’s all he has.
Matt Taibbi on NPR
“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.”
https://www.racket.news/p/nprs-brilliant-self-own
that was me
Estovir,
Well said and spot on!
RFK, Jr now says his supporters should vote for Trump in *every* state. Here is his powerful statement to his supporters:
https://youtu.be/3wl8T1pwSU8?si=FWjhMs9Uiks6hQQ7
Kamala Harris supports mandatory gun buybacks.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-says-she-supports-a-mandatory-buyback-on-assault-weapons
Kamala Harris supports mandatory gun buybacks.
Communists change the language in hopes their Marxist extremism becomes more palatable.
Flood the border with criminal Illegal Aliens in pursuit of political hegemony in Washington DC – insist everyone use your new term for these criminals: “undocumented migrants”.
Insist that semiautomatic firearms are “Assault Weapons” – despite the fact no firearms manager has ever referred to them as such, and not one of them is issued by the military who issue actual full automatic assault rifles.
Use law enforcement to confiscate legally purchased and owned firearms: Insist that it be referred to as a “buyback” – despite the fact the government never owned them and you don’t want to sell them.
* so dog, you’re intelligence is noted. Who are you. I shouldn’t ask I know.
* so dog, you’re intelligence is noted. Who are you. I shouldn’t ask I know.
“Who are you?” Asked the Anonymous commie kiddy, right after his mommy gave him her vibrator collection, hair dryer, and the kitchen toaster for his nightly bath toys.
😂
Mary
Like The View I thought NPR was for wine-guzzling, leftist, ladies with yapping mini-dogs. They will alter their opinions when a Haitian barbecues their pets.
They will only alter their opinions when they figure out that Pete Svetty’s salty balls that they love sooo much are made from ground Fifi burger. The only good thing to come from NPR were SNL comic relief episodes, the left ruined that also!
Trav…love your comment.
After you get some psychiatric help for believing that Haitians are eating dogs.
Jonathan: You have a problem. Public funding for NPR is not a big issue in Congress nor will it be an issue in the debate tonight. And it’s a non-issue for the public.
As to the debate tonight we know Harris spent a week preparing. As a former prosecutor, a Calif. AG and a Senator she knows how to prepare. And how is DJT preparing? He campaign advisors want him to stay focused on the issues tonight and avoid personal attacks on Harris. Can DJT do that or will he go off script? We shall soon see.
One issue that will come up tonight will be immigration. DJT pledges to use the military to round up millions of immigrants, put them in concentration camps and then deport them. Is that even possible? We pretty much know how DJT will answer a Q on immigration tonight. Yesterday DJT had a phone call with the conservative National Faith Advisory Board that supports him. He continued to falsely claim Harris wants to flood the country with immigrants. He told the NFAB: “Every day she is flooding our country with billions and billions of illegal aliens. She wants to make them citizens. She wants to have them vote…which will destroy the voting powers of Christian conservatives forever”.
FACT CHECK: Billions and billions of immigrants are not coming across our southern border. There have been about 11 million unauthorized border encounters between 2019 and June of this year. And many of those encounters end in expulsion. So DJT’s claim is clearly FALSE.
And most of the migrants coming to the border are now intact families with children. They are fleeing poverty and cartel political violence in Mexico and countries in Central and South America. They are not coming at the invitation of Kamala Harris. And Harris doesn’t want to “make them citizens”. That’s entirely within the authority of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and immigration judges. Harris has no control over that process. And any migrant that eventually becomes a citizen will not “destroy the voting powers of Christian conservatives forever”! It’s just DJT doing what he does best–fear mongering!
There will be a certain irony in tonight’s debate in Philly. Harris would not have been allowed in the debates by the Founders when they were arguing about how to write the Constitution. She would have been barred. Now we have a woman of color running to be the President of the United States. No doubt the White male Founding Fathers would be aghast that such a thing could happen!
Jonathan: You have a problem. Public funding for NPR is not a big issue in Congress nor will it be an issue in the debate tonight.
Dennis, you lie by omission again. Virulently extreme left neo-communist propaganda media like NPR Fake News is an issue to HALF THE COUNTRY. All the more so when the only way it survives to be the propaganda arm of the Democrats is taxpayer funding – more than half of it from Republicans that NPR trash talks and lies about.
But you are right that your fellow extreme far left Democrat moderators tonight will try to save Harris from herself.
What they won’t be able to avoid is the disaster of the Guest Democrat Illegal Aliens that Harris was “the last man in the room” when Biden/Harris invited them here, threw the border wide open to admit them even though they weren’t vaccinated while Border Patrol serving as greeters were being fired if they refused to be vaccinated.
You and Harris/Biden’s 30+ MILLION Illegal Aliens are costing American taxpayers almost half a TRILLION tax dollars. That’s a security problem AND a “Bidenomics” problem Dennis.
Bipartisan House Report Cites Historic $451 Billion Cost Of Biden/Harris Illegal Alien Crisis
https://nypost.com/2023/11/13/news/house-gop-report-cites-historic-451-billion-cost-of-migrant-crisis/
Now we have a woman of color running to be the President of the United States.
I will correct you. We have a vicious police state fascist neo-communist running for office. One who happily jailed young black men to make her bones on the political career that Willy Brown used to pay her for her services.
Her color has nothing to do with it. And you are the first to put your Kluxxer hat on to attack Justice Thomas and any other conservative black – if they won’t vote Democrat, they ain’t black.
No doubt the White male Founding Fathers would be aghast that such a thing could happen!
No doubt both the men and the women of that day would have driven both you and Harris out of town on a rail, Dennis.
Crispus Attucks didn’t die as a free black man fighting redcoats for the revolution with the idea of empowering lying police state fascists like you and Harris – who would have belonged on the side of the redcoats.
Dennis
When are you going to answer for your lie from yesterday?
You sound like you’re a violent person.
FACT CHECK ON DENNIS MCINTYRE IN ISLE NINE:
Fact Check Jonathan: They are not coming at the invitation of Kamala Harris.
And yet they’re wearing shirts thanking Biden/Harris and thanking them by name on video. And Harris was “the last man in the room”, confirming Biden’s decisions in the campaign and when he threw the southern border wide open.
And Kamala Harris is the Border Czar – the one who was probably told NOT to stem the invasion of millions of future Democrat voters.
Joe Biden And His Campaign Told The World That If They Were Elected, Illegal Aliens Should “immediately surge to the border” To Claim Asylum And They Would Let Them In
What I would do as president is several more things. I would in fact make sure that there is… we should immediately surge. We immediately surge to the border, all those people who are seeking asylum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNLn912fVxg&t=1s
Your lies can’t help Harris escape her lies that she had nothing to do with being “the last one in the room” when Biden decided to invite millions of Illegal Aliens to come here and claim they were asylum seekers.
Old Airborne………Thumbs up!
Your comment is the dumbest one I’ve read this week. But, lucky for you the week’s not over. If I read one even more idiotic I’ll let you know.,
Jonathan… And Harris doesn’t want to “make them citizens”.
Dennis… you’re lying so hard and so fast to Jonathan on behalf of Harris that you aren’t even aware that she finally put up her policy website that reaffirms her previous promises to give Illegal Aliens citizenship so they can vote for Democrats.
VP Harris Campaign Website Vows To Provide A Way For Illegal Aliens To Obtain Citizenship
https://nypost.com/2024/09/09/us-news/kamala-harris-vows-to-grant-amnesty-to-migrants-who-illegally-cross-border/
One of the first acts of the Biden-Harris administration was to release a framework for the “U.S. Citizenship Act”. Ignore the title deceptive title: that bill specifically was intended to put virtually every Illegal Alien in the United States — including serious criminals — on a path to citizenship, while at the same time allowing Illegal Aliens deported under Trump to return.
Dennis, you can’t lie often enough, fast enough, and hard enough to your good personal friend Jonathan to save Kamala Harris from her record in office and her lies.
Dennis McIntyre, changing the language: Jonathan: One issue that will come up tonight will be immigration.
Bipartisan House Report Finds Biden/Harris Illegal Alien Crisis Has US Taxpayers On The Hook For At Least $451B
https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Phase4Report.pdf
The issue tonight is criminal Illegal Aliens. Tens of millions of them here by Biden/Harris invitation. This flood of tens of millions of criminals is the issue tonight – not legal immigration.
Tens of millions of Illegal Aliens – here by invitation – is not ‘immigration’, Dennis. You know that. And you deliberately used the wrong word to lie by misdescription to your good friend Jonathan.
Immigrants arrive in America, vetted by our government, background checked, vaccinated, and with an American visa laminated in their passport. These criminals are the exact opposite.
And Illegal ‘Migrants’ aren’t even migrants – migrating geese, plains animals, etc move from place to place, back and forth. These 30+ MILLION Illegal Aliens aren’t going anywhere: they’re here to stay. Staying to eventually vote Democrat in exchange for being on the taxpayer grift programs to keep them bought off.
The straight up cost of simply processing and supporting your Democrat Guest Illegal Alien Voters Program is almost half a trillion dollars, Dennis. That doesn’t account for the dark figure of the cost i.e. crime, unpaid taxes, etc.
It’s contemptible the way you lie to your best friend Jonathan, Dennis. I’m beginning to think he knows that, which is why he ignores your posts, even though he still allows you to use his blog as though it were your personal propaganda blog.
Jonathan: DJT pledges to use the military to round up millions of immigrants, put them in concentration camps and then deport them.
No legal immigrant need fear deportation like they fear your criminal Illegal Aliens that you call “immigrants” – while hoping those criminals can soon vote for criminal Democrats like Biden/Harris.
BUT Dennis – the Biden/Harris military and willful blindness (like your choosing to use the word “immigrant”) WILL be one of the subjects tonight! A subject you hoped to conceal from Jonathan!
WILLFUL BLINDNESS: The Biden Harris Withdrawal From Afghanistan And The Death And Chaos That Followed
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/WILLFULL-BLINDNESS-An-Assessment-of-the-Biden-Harris%20Administrations-Withdrawal-from-Afghanistan-and-the-Chaos-that-Followed.pdf
Dennis, as Last Man In The Room with The Big Guy, Harris BRAGGED she was there arm in arm with Biden making the decision of how the desertion of Afghanistan and Americans would take place.
Everybody told Harris not to do it, Dennis. Our generals, the State Department, the NATO commander on the ground, the Afghans telling Harris and Biden the Taliban were STILL NOT COMPLYING with the Doha Agreement.
But Harris and Biden who reversed every single other Trump policy and agreement like Remain In Mexico, ignored that and deserted Afghanistan and thousands of Americans and our allies to hajji terrorists. And for what? A cheap photo op on the 9/11 anniversary… handing the Hajjis a massive victory instead.
Harris, who claims to be a defender of women, happily abandoned the women and girls of Afghanistan to live their lives as uneducated sex slaves living their lives in head to toe black beekeeper suits.
Harris is going to have to answer for her part in that slaughter and advancing Hajji terrorism, Dennis.
And you… you’ll be lying about it with no consequences whatsoever.
Black beekeeper suits. 😂
So there is a clear, demonstrated liberal bias in both the media and academia.
Look where else such a bias exists:
Former CIA officer John Gentry has written a book about what he perceives as bias among CIA officers:
Neutering the CIA:
Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-term Consequences
https://g.co/kgs/mJ6bN2v
“Neutering the CIA is an insider look at how political bias at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
has undermined its effectiveness both domestically and internationally.
The central case study is the impact of the bias
on the interaction between the CIA and the Trump Administration
…
[Gentry’s] academic detachment makes all the more eye-opening
his chapter on how James Clapper and John Brennan
used diversity as a screen
to fill the intelligence community with partisan Obama allies”
A woman’s sole duty is to bear children and make citizens sufficient to grow and defend her nation.
Without children, there is no point, no raison d’être, and there is no nation.
What is the level of self-esteem of a barren and purposeless woman?
Is she not internally conflicted or twisted?
Women should remain affordable, available, reusable, and taxable, and the “burden” of evidence sequestered in darkness with benefits in sanctuary jurisdictions. Women should take a knee to feminists, masculinists, social progressives, and males who identify as the feminine gender with wolf’s attributes.
Heil Hitler.
Hey, let’s go eat some cats before the Haitians get them all.
I love JD Vance, maybe he will jail all the cat ladies and then trump can greet them with his familiar grab em by the pussy embrace.
^ Idiot ^
Who? JD for doubling down on Haitians eating cats?
Or JD for making fun of a Miss Teen for her stumbling to answer a question?
Or trump for his rambling crap. such as grab em by the pussy?
Of JD for suggesting school shootings are just a fact of life, get over it.
I mean there are so many things for JD and trump to own, which one is the idiot? Or is it both?
^ You</strong are the idiot.
I didn’t eat any cats
I think cat ladies can have as many cats as they can care for. I also think cat ladies should be able to vote, unlike JD.
I didn’t accuse Haitians of eating cats
I never said I can grab em by the pussy
I do not think school shootings are a fact of life.
So why am I the idiot and JD or trump not?
I never said I can grab em by the pussy
Did you ever manage to find an actual victim? Your fellow liars and propagandists in the Mainstream Media spent millions in hope of finding one.
You made sure you never mentioned Senator Biden raping a young aid by ramming his fingers into her pussy:
Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden has been accused of rape by one of his former Senate staff assistants. According to the victim, Biden forcibly penetrated her against her will with his fingers in Washington, D.C. in 1993.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/he-penetrated-me-with-his-fingers-joe-biden-accused-of-sexual-assault/
There’s the actual name and the statements of an actual victim. Where’s the name of yours?
You also made sure you never mentioned Ashley Biden talking about Presidential Daddy-Daughter Incest Showers.
Joe Biden’s Daughter Ashley Confirms Legitimacy of the ‘Showers with Dad’ Diary Entry, Claimed Horrifying details of a “hyper-sexualized” childhood.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/joe-bidens-daughter-ashley-confirms-legitimacy-of-the-showers-with-dad-diary-entry/ar-BB1pfCEm
So why am I the idiot and JD or trump not?
Because you’re a pathetically poor liar while claiming Vance says cat ladies like you shouldn’t be able to vote, while insinuating Trump is a rapist, while you continue pimping for the pervert Bribery Biden.
That and your sophomoric attempt at double standards – one special set of standards for Biden and Harris; the exact opposite for Trump
It’s not that you’re another cowardly Anonymous neo-commie; it’s the lies and double standards that expose you’re another brown skid mark in the Woke Soviet Democrat virtue signaling panties.
School shootings are nurtured through abortive ideation under psychiatric care, psychotropic drugs, including Levine’s Dreams of Herr Mengele’s social progress.
You DO know that JD’s “just a fact of life comment” was a deceptively-edited creation of MEDIA and HARRIS CAMPAIGN that were then forced to RETRACT it.
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/ap-blasted-deceptively-edited-vance-quote-school-shootings
The AP’s original headline was not inaccurate: ““JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security.”
What part of that is factually untrue?
Did JD Vance claim that school shootings are a fact of life? Yes. Per the transcript, he said: “I don’t like that this is a fact of life.” [THIS] is clearly referring to school shootings. The prior paragraph discusses JD’s view on Kamala Harris’s solution reducing school shootings (i.e., “to take law-abiding American citizens’ guns away from them.”).
Did JD Vance call for better security? Yes, he claimed that the Senate has “worked on legislation that would give schools more resources to bolster their security…”
Nothing was factually inaccurate in the AP’s original post.
Don’t forget thoughts and prayers.
That has worked so well. I mean there hasn’t been a single school shooting since the last school shooting.
Don’t forget thoughts and prayers. That has worked so well. I mean there hasn’t been a single school shooting since the last school shooting.
Better or worse than Chicago alone reporting over 80 mass shootings so far? Atheist Democrat police state fascist gun control in Chicago works better than thoughts and prayers?
Extreme hard left Chicago, reporting over EIGHTY mass shootings already this year, 433 “gun deaths” this year as of this afternoon. Let’s hear it for atheist commies using utopian police state fascist “gun control” to solve their violent crime problem of one of their identity politics branches slaughtering each other by the hundreds each year!
Chicago Crime, Murder & Mayhem
https://heyjackass.com/
Does the sudden switch to talking about school shootings mean you cowardly Anonymous neo-communists are finally eager to talk about the manifesto of the Democrat Woke gender blender lesbian racist school shooter? Shall we talk?
Manifesto of Nashville School Shooter Finally Released, Becomes Clear Why They Tried To Keep It Closed
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/09/03/manifesto-of-nashville-school-shooter-finally-released-becomes-clear-why-they-tried-to-keep-it-closed-1484630/
The one whose manifesto the FBI hid for nearly as long as they hid the laptop of The First Pervert Felon Son? The Woke tr@nny lesbian journal with all the Obama/Woke code words i.e.
“f*ck their White Privilege”, “I’m going to kill them little white cr@ckers”, “Jesus is a f@ggot”.
Discuss, atheist cowardly Anonymous neo-commie.
Don’t forget thoughts and prayers. That has worked so well. I mean there hasn’t been a single school shooting since the last school shooting.
Better or worse than Chicago alone reporting over 80 mass shootings so far? Atheist Democrat police state fascist gun control in Chicago works better than thoughts and prayers?
Extreme hard left Chicago, reporting over EIGHTY mass shootings already this year, 433 “gun deaths” this year as of this afternoon. Let’s hear it for atheist commies using utopian police state fascist “gun control” to solve their violent crime problem of one of their identity politics branches slaughtering each other by the hundreds each year!
Chicago Crime, Murder & Mayhem
https://heyjackass.com/
Does the sudden switch to talking about school shootings mean you cowardly Anonymous neo-communists are finally eager to talk about the manifesto of the Democrat Woke transgender lesbian racist school shooter? Shall we talk?
Manifesto of Nashville School Shooter Finally Released, Becomes Clear Why They Tried To Keep It Closed
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2024/09/03/manifesto-of-nashville-school-shooter-finally-released-becomes-clear-why-they-tried-to-keep-it-closed-1484630/
The one whose manifesto the FBI hid for nearly as long as they hid the laptop of The First Pervert Felon Son? The mass murdering Woke transgender lesbian manifesto with all the Obama/Woke code word dog whistles i.e.:
“f*ck their White Privilege”, “I’m going to kill them little white cr*ckers”, “Jesus is a f*ggot”.
Discuss, atheist cowardly Anonymous neo-commie.
MRCTV?
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hahahahhaha
Overall, we rate Media Research Center strongly right-biased based on advocacy for a conservative agenda and Mixed for factual reporting due to the promotion of propaganda, pseudoscience, and a poor fact-check record by their primary sources.
Media Research Center? Is that the one run by a Joseph Goebbels?
The full quote is, “I don’t like that this is a fact of life.”
“this” referred to school shootings.
What about him saying school shootings are a fact of life is not true?
THen why did Media sources change their headlines and “add context” to his statement?
You know why. https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2024/jd-vance-school-shootings-fact-of-life/
“school shootings are just a fact of life, get over it.” This is a lie.
Here is the full quote from Politifact:
“What is going to solve this problem? And I really do believe this is, look, I, I don’t like this. I don’t like to admit this. I don’t like that this is a fact of life. But if you’re, if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets, and we have got to bolster security at our schools so that a person who walks through the front door … we, we’ve got to bolster security so that if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they’re not able to.
“And again, as a parent do I want my kids’ school to have additional security? No, of course, I don’t. I don’t want my kids to go to school in a place where they feel like you’ve got to have additional security. But that is increasingly the reality that we live in.
“And a, and a bunch of my colleagues in the Senate, we actually worked on legislation that would give schools more resources to bolster their security because if these psychos are gonna go after our kids, we’ve got to be prepared for it.
“We don’t have to like the reality that we live in, but it is the, the reality that we live in. We got to deal with it.”
* How many kids are dying of fentanyl overdoses daily? Guess there should be better security?
Or trump for his rambling crap. such as grab em by the pussy?
There’s a Soros billionaire willing to pay a cowardly Anonymous Useful Idiot (or anyone else) a $10 MILLION bounty if they can produce a woman willing to put her name on a criminal complaint, on pain of perjury, who will say Trump grabbed her by E. Jean Carroll’s moneymaker.
I can’t believe these neo-communist Anonymous Democrat welfare kings and queens would pretend to have so much character that they won’t deign to cash in on such an offer.
But wait! Is that you in disguise, President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Incest Showers?
Or perhaps First Daughter Ashley, junky, felon, and proud racist pimp obtaining paid sluts (as long as they’re not Asian) for the First Felon Crackhead Kid.
Now when it comes to obsessive sexual pervert crap… The First Pervert Family currently in the White House are world champs. And posting here Anonymously to augment the Biden PornHub Channel cements that reputation.
Stupid idiot.
Think of the kittens, and cats in pussy hats on a warming rooftop, and the excess murder, rape… and rape-rape through immigration reform in sanctuary States. American Civil Liberties Unburdened
Just eliminate all government support and let them either thrive or wither in the market place
I think I know which it would be
Agreed – “Just eliminate all government support and let them either thrive or wither in the market place”
Just eliminate all government big business contracts and let them either thrive or wither in the market place.
Arabella: The Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America – April 9, 2024
by Scott Walter (Author)
Exposes Arabella Advisors as a major “dark money” operation that channels billions into progressive causes through opaque networks and deceptive grassroots groups, revealing its significant influence on U.S. politics and its far-reaching impact on issues from Supreme Court nominations to election manipulation.
“Ever heard of Arabella Advisors? Probably not. And that’s strange, since they’ve done a lot to destroy the world you grew up in. You should know, so read this book.”
—Tucker Carlson
While billionaires like George Soros, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett are well known as left-wing megadonors transforming the country’s politics, few Americans know about Arabella Advisors, a “dark money” operation that channels much of this money into particular causes via pop-up groups designed to look like grassroots outfits. Citizens across the spectrum will be shocked to learn how Arabella’s empire secretly operates using arrangements that produce the darkest of “dark money.”
Thanks to the author and his colleagues at the Capital Research Center, which first exposed Arabella, even the mainstream press have begun to report on this scandalous story. As this book reveals, Arabella is a major player in battles over Supreme Court nominations, environmentalism, abortion, Medicare for All, fake local news outlets, “Zuck Bucks” that manipulate election offices, lawsuits brought by Democratic super-lawyer (and Steele dossier booster) Marc Elias, and much more.
The money is staggering. In the 2018 election cycle, Arabella’s nonprofits took in $1.2 billion, more than double the fundraising of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee combined. In the 2020 election cycle, Arabella’s fundraising spiked to $2.4 billion.
This mountain of money explains why the left-leaning major media are alarmed. Arabella is “the indisputable heavyweight of Democratic dark money,” warns the Atlantic. A “dark-money behemoth,” says Politico. An “opaque network,” says the New York Times, that funnels “hundreds of millions of dollars through a daisy chain of groups supporting Democrats and progressive causes.”
https://www.amazon.com/Arabella-Network-Leftist-Billionaires-Transforming/dp/1641773812
Good one.
Also, Clinton administration appointee Eric Kessler founded Arabella Advisors, and he is now president of, and chairs, the other dark money giant, Sixteen Thirty Fund. (Koch Bros were much more transparent in their endeavors!)
How is Eric Kessler any better/worse than Leonard Leo? Dark money groups exist because we create legal structures that allow them to exist. There is nothing wrong with taking advantage of these structures.
If you think the law should be changed, what is the proposal?
Criticizing Kessler/Arabella seems to be as misguided as the attacks on Leonard Leo.
Do you have a reading comprehension problem? Looks to me like she is just pointing out a fact, not a criticism.
That’s how Musk did it. He refused government support (except for the $7 billion in government subsidies).
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court, the Justices of which swore an oath to support the Constitution with absolute accuracy and fidelity.
The activities of NPR require and deserve no debate.
America enjoys a free press, which is designed to function and flourish comprehensively in the free markets of the private sector and to compete to the consumer’s delight and satisfaction.
NPR is immutably unconstitutional, understanding that Congress enjoys no power to tax for or fund NPR and no power to regulate publicized information or the press.
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The entire communistic American welfare state is unconstitutional including, but not limited to, admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, welfare, food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, NPR, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc.
Article 1, Section 8, provides Congress the power to tax for ONLY debt, defense, and “…general (i.e. all, the whole, not some, one, or a few) Welfare…,” omitting and, thereby, excluding any power to tax for individual Welfare, specific Welfare, particular Welfare, favor or charity.
The same article enumerates and provides Congress the power to regulate ONLY the Value of money, Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes, and land and naval Forces.
Additionally, the 5th Amendment right to private property was initially qualified by the Framers and is, therefore, absolute, allowing no further qualification, and allowing ONLY the owner the power to “claim and exercise” dominion over private property.
Government exists, under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, to provide maximal freedom to individuals while government is severely limited and restricted to merely facilitating that maximal freedom of individuals through the provision of security and infrastructure only.
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Article 1, Section 8 (excerpted for enumerated power to tax and regulate)
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian Tribes;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
The activities of NPR require and deserve no debate. America enjoys a free press, which is designed to function and flourish comprehensively in the free markets of the private sector
Confederate constitutional “experts” require and deserve being publicly mocked and laughed at. Oh yeah…. the enjoyable free press like CNN, NPR, the NYT, the Wapoo are all functioning as designed, to flourish comprehensively in free markets! So much so that they’re flat broke or headed that way, laying off staff as Americans drop them for being irrelevant, and others hope for rescue by a billionaire like Jeff Zebos, Carlos Slim, etc.
This is what “flourishing” looks like to self-appointed experts:
Billionaires Wanted to Save the News Industry. They’re Losing a Fortune.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/18/business/media/billionaires-news-media-owners.html
Run and hide George, you Cheap Fake Confederate Kluxxer Constitutional Expert
Has NPR: EVER been anything but Liberal? Not to my recollection. I stopped listening during the Panama Canal hearings when they fostered the nonsense that the United States was an Imperial Colonizer. They sided with naïve democratic liberals who pushed and succeeded in relinquishing rights to the canal while using the divisiveness of colonization.
What has NPR offered other than a Radio station with talking heads full of liberal notions of a gravure etching of nonsensical dogma with a tyrannical twist?
The Left of whatever class they may be (Left-Centrist-Right) have wasted this great nation, they preach amelioration of the class below but neglect to follow through, they are blind to future outcomes from their nonsense, of recent they are singing Oh What A Joyful Party, come hither an join us in our authoritarian paradise, you’ll have no more worries, will fix everything like we have before. When I listen to a liberal, my stomach turns, and I worry that our future as a free nation is at extreme risk of imploding into an authoritarian social construct. They have breached voting fail safes with mail voting, registration processes and have succeeded in changing how votes are counted (rank choice); I use the phrase RANK to mean odorous in thought and smell.
If the Center and Right of the Democrat party do not cast aside the center-left and beyond we will remain divided by unintelligible and camouflaged course of action proposed by extremists.
George W,
Great comment!
The United States has an imperialist history. That isn’t a liberal or conservative opinion. The Guano Islands Act of 1856, together with the Supreme Court’s Insular Cases are connected to the United States’ acquisition of islands and the development of American imperialism.
Somewhat ridiculously, American imperialism started with our desire to acquire large amounts of guano (bird poop), which was needed for fertilizer.
The Supreme Court held that these guano mining islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific are actual parts of the United States, establishing the constitutionality of the fact that the United States can claim overseas territory and that is consonant with the US Constitution.
I don’t know why we outsourced poop to the Guano Islands when we had natural producers of poop right here in Biden and Harris. All the poop fit for the NYT.
So what you’re saying is you seek no compromise with people who think differently than you and would send them to gas chambers.
The good professor’s article is, of course, spot on. Why not cut NPR funding, allow them the opportunity to prove themselves as providing quality journalism in a free market.
A lot of good comments from former NPR listeners too. Pointing out how far NPR has fallen in terms of journalism with their advocacy journalism and obvious bias.
I believe it was last year they had to cut some 10-15% of their staff due to low ratings of listeners and falling ad revenue.
Meanwhile, recently The Free Press has hired a number of new writers to include former veteran NPR staff member Uri Berliner who bravely exposed NPR’s political bias. They have also added to the staff additional editors, support staff and interns. Clearly they are a growing platform worthy of reading and supporting with a paid subscription.
The same is true at WAPO and NYT. That
‘The Washington Post’ will cut 240 jobs through voluntary buyouts
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/10/1204939842/the-washington-post-will-cut-240-jobs-through-voluntary-buyouts
Upstate
I listen to satellite radio when in my truck and do not turn on political stations, just music, that’s an agreement I’ve made with the boss (wife).
George W
George W,
I have only AM/FM. I channel surf between classic rock, 80s till now and a local country station. They have news on events going on in the immediate area and are the best for weather warning updates.
Imagine the massive audience gains if NPR were to limit itself to programming similar to:
* NPR used to play classical music
JAFO,
Thank you for the laugh! Back when SNL was worth watching and could make a joke.
Will someone explain this to Dennis?
* PBS was good back when McNeil Lehrer were there and wonderful Bill Moyers, mystery theater and others. I once upon time looked forward to Sunday and Saturday evening programs.
Today it’s just another extremist blowhard whining program aligned with network programming. Just DEI mean stuff now…
My opinion…
Exactly!
Barry Goldwater considered Bill Moyers, LBJ hit man! When Goldwater ran against LBJ. Moyers used dirty ads against Goldwater, including Daisy AD. According to Wikipedia. Moyers used FBI to discredit Martin Luther King.
* I remember Moyers and the wonderful series with Joseph Campbell and others.
You’d need citations with your accusations and citations for the citations.
My opinion
It sure would be interesting to see the assessment of the federal funding of NPR by a Government Efficiency Commission headed by Elon Musk.
NPR barely gets funding from the federal government anymore. Not as much as you think. Something like 1-2%.
Wrong. That is only part of the money.
Maybe DEI should include Republicans and Libertarians
Maybe DEI should include Republicans and Libertarians
And maybe you should explain why you would like them to ALSO engage in the racism and misogyny of DEI????
Aren’t the Democrats, Mainstream Media (but I repeat myself), colleges, Hollywood, and professional sports enough to satisfy?
I think he meant diversity of opinion and inclusion of Republican and Libertarian voices.
From NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/09/nx-s1-5099236/trump-harris-debate-2024-when-watch-time
What are the rules for the debate? The debate rules echo those agreed on for the June matchup. That means microphones will once again be muted unless a candidate is speaking, something the Harris team asked to change for this debate.
It’s a rule initially proposed by the Biden campaign ahead of the first debate and was largely seen as a potential shake-up to Trump’s typical debate style. Instead, it ended up benefiting the former president, who has a history of interrupting in these settings to the point of his campaign’s detriment. Instead, the technical change helped Trump appear more controlled.
Harris’ campaign told ABC that Harris would be disadvantaged by the muted mics because it would shield Trump from direct exchanges — but said that it would agree to the terms lest Trump drop out of the debate altogether.
A campaign official, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe private negotiations, said that a pool would be on hand to hear what the candidates are saying into muted microphones — and that if there is “significant crosstalk,” the network may unmute both microphones. The moderator will warn candidates to stop frequent interruptions, the official said. “Our understanding of these things helped inform our decision to accept muted mics,” the official said.
There will be no audience and candidates will not be permitted to question each other directly. In addition, neither will be allowed to bring pre-written notes or props onto the debate stage.
But the rules!!! These people are so duplicitous it makes Hamas look like amateurs. Then again, the Democrats have been responsible for the killing of over 60 million unborn babies since Roe v Wade, and countless adolescent bodily mutilations that pales compared to what Afghanistan’s ISIS does to young women.
Then there is this:
She has also struggled in the past with unscripted moments as vice president….
That and her staff has had such a high turnover rate, due to her unhinged attacks on personnel
Harris’s Personnel Problem: Over 90 Percent of VP’s Staff Left in Last Three Years
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/harriss-personnel-problem-over-90-percent-of-vps-staff-left-in-last-three-years/
Kamala is a public relations disaster. Considering her oral skills as an attorney (Ha!), I hope Trump’s physician gives him 2 mg Ativan prior to the debate to heel him. Better to let Kamala do what she does regularly as NPR admitted, and likely implode like she did with Tulsi Gabbard.
In high school we used to call NPR “National Peoples Radio”. Not sure if their staff today wears Mao suits but Kamala definitely does
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