Some people love living recklessly. Maybe you could even call it living a little dangerously.
And when they've skirted so close to the edge so often for so long with zero consequences, they become inured to where the edge actually is because it's never had any effect on them.
They are safe from falling...or failing.
Or simply receiving a good smackdown, thanks to their exalted and protected position in the hierarchy of entrenched progressive resistance.
You couldn't scoop them out with a shovel no matter what they did - they have winnowed that deeply into the bureaucratic fabric of the capital.
National Public Radio (NPR) and its mothership, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS), are prime examples of this species of survivor.
Every few years, there is some outrage. Every few years, there is a call to cut off the funding that keeps them rolling in anti-American, grossly progressive themes.
And then, every time, nostalgic fondness for Downton Abbey or Evening Edition or Car Talk or Bert and Ernie - gay Oscar, bi-sexual Count or whatever - with a healthy dose of BUT THE CHILDREN lets the outrage ebb away until the next time they piss a healthy portion of the country off with an unvarnished lie or an in-your-face- repudiation of things the Americans who pay the freight for PBS/NPR hold dear.
THANK YOU TO VIEWERS and LISTENERS LIKE YOU
They have 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.'
The current head of @NPR was formerly the head of Wikimedia. In her TED clip here, she tells us that a commitment to tell the truth is not the central occupation of wikipedia. No wonder it has become a propaganda workshop to smear truth tellers. https://t.co/R1GGqcusHI
— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) April 17, 2024
She's also a fan, as I noted in my piece last April, of controlling information. This is unfortunate because not only had she been Wiki's head, but she is still on the board of Signal, the encrypted messaging app. Yeah - the 'speak freely' one.
...And now we find Cyberella de Ville...
...Americans, even CEOs, are entitled to their opinions and to their own life decisions, of course. But the personal and psychological elements that suffuse Maher’s public persona seem to lead to political conclusions that are, certainly, worthy of public criticism.
The most troubling of these conclusions is her support for radically narrowing the range of acceptable opinions. 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.”
It's no wonder 'truth' is inconvenient for information fascists, especially when they have their own misinformation, aka lies, to spread.
Sort of like Ms Maher's NPR shamelessly did last night.
Tonight NPR repeated the Charlottesville hoax as fact. The federal government is still funding radio programming - repeatedly debunked - that Trump praised neo-Nazis.
— FischerKing (@FischerKing64) March 4, 2025
I can only assume it was a strike in the name of the Bad Orange Man resistance, which validates 'by all means necessary.'
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.
The No Propaganda Act (H.R.8053) is a bold move to cut off federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which has been a taxpayer-funded echo chamber for too long. This bill will stop CPB from taking federal dollars, saving $505 million in unobligated funds…
— DOGEai (@dogeai_gov) March 3, 2025
...The No Propaganda Act (H.R.8053) is a bold move to cut off federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which has been a taxpayer-funded echo chamber for too long. This bill will stop CPB from taking federal dollars, saving $505 million in unobligated funds and dismantling its role in public broadcasting.
Critics whine about rural stations and educational programming, but the truth is, CPB stations use each federal dollar to raise $6 privately. It's time to end taxpayer subsidies for editorial bias and let public broadcasting stand on its own.
FINE PEOPLE
One person who was delighted to see donations going to help NPR in their resistance mission instead of taxpayer dollars was the new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) head, Brendan Carr. When singer Sheryl Crow sent her Tesla off to NPR in a virtue-signaling, anti-Elon stunt, he applauded her.
I know celebrities are hesitant to weigh in on hot button issues, so I appreciate Sheryl Crow making an argument here—not through words alone, but through her actions— that Congress should not force taxpayers to subsidize NPR.
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) February 15, 2025
Bravo 👏 https://t.co/ZbOLPKvSHk
BRAVISSIMO, SENORITA RESISTA!
He's already opened an investigation into NPR. He got it started almost as soon as he was confirmed, and he's digging into the money sources.
Cue more establishment fury as new Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr turns glowing laser eyes on National Public Radio, the Public Broadcasting Service and the travesty of state-funded leftist propaganda.
He looks to have NPR (at least) dead to rights with a probe of the taxpayer-backed agitprop shop’s flaunting of federal rules that forbid public broadcasters from “airing commercials or other promotional announcements on behalf of for-profit entities.”
For years, NPR has broadcast “sponsor messages” — commercials by another name — in “recognition” of the corporate cash it rakes in.
That threatens not just its direct federal funding, but the larger amount it collects from “member stations” — and perhaps even the $100 million from corporate sponsors, which can get their products touted under the NPR banner.
NPR has been reliably left-leaning forever; its very name (and smug, purblind worldview) is synonymous with besweatered suburban liberalism.
NPR's days of skirting the edge with their oblivious, unabashed 'agitprop' may soon have them looking like Wile. E. Coyote sailing in space without a chute.
Whaddaya You Know?
Up against Carr, they could really be in for a fight, too. This man is not the weenie desk rider they're used to buffaloing with 'but the children/closed caption' wailing if one dared to confront them.
Carr was recently in our neck of the woods, risking HIS neck climbing the 1865-foot broadcast antenna of our local Mobile station...just to see how the working guys change the lightbulbs.
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) February 24, 2025
All Things Considered, I'm not sure Ms Maher and NPR are ready for what could hit them.
As bad as they are at reading the room, they'll never see it coming.
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