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Downsize Your House? Downsize Your Family? NPR Pushes Beto On Climate Crackdown

June 17, 2019 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ Democratic candidates generally don’t have much to fear from interviews on National Public Radio, but Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep raised our eyebrows by pushing Beto O’Rourke a bit on Friday on what people will be forced to give up under liberal climate-change policies. The liberal media often focus on the […]

NPR Talk Show ‘1A’ Devotes Hour To Pro-Abortion Viewpoint, It’s Just ‘Pregnancy Tissue’

May 28, 2019 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ The National Public Radio talk show 1A did an hour on new “restrictive” laws on abortion on Tuesday, but it was not a debate, it was a pro-abortion show. Substitute host Sasha-Ann Symons announced “we understand passions run very high, but we want today’s conversation to focus on the impact and […]

Fetus-Fixated NPR Lingo Czar: ‘Babies Are Not Babies Until They’re Born’

May 22, 2019 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ Ramesh Ponnuru at National Review pointed out that NPR standards-and-practices guru Mark Memmott issued a new memo — a “guidance reminder” — instructing his taxpayer-funded staff how their language on abortion should not concede anything to “antiabortion groups.” It isn’t about objectivity. It’s about using language to shift public opinion. According […]

NPR Anchor Asks If GOP Using The ‘Mob’ Word Will ‘Backfire’ With Women

October 15, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ On Friday’s night’s All Things Considered, the Week in Politics segment began by pushing the theme that the Republican rhetoric about “mobs” is all wrong, and will harm them in the midterms. NPR anchor Ailsa Chang (pictured) brought no context about protesters mobbing the front door of the Supreme Court, or […]

John Kelly’s Scathing Criticism Of ‘Vicious’ Press On NPR Left On The Cutting-Room Floor

May 14, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ White House chief of staff John Kelly surprised the liberal media by granting an interview to National Public Radio, something Donald Trump hasn’t done in his brief political career. Kelly talked to John Burnett, who knew Kelly as a press briefer when he was embedded with the troops in southern Iraq. […]

Weinstein Amnesia Rules At Sundance

January 28, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham ~ The Hollywood Left flew to Utah for the Sundance Film Festival (and its homegrown Women’s March) with a small item of regret on its agenda. Just last year, they had put on their pink knit hats and marched for women’s rights with one of the most visible figures […]

NPR, PBS Offer Five Times As Much Coverage To Feminists Compared To Pro-Life March

January 23, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ Taxpayer-supported radio and TV showed the same pattern of liberal favoritism as the commercial TV newscasts, devoting more attention to the feminist Left over the weekend than to the pro-life conservatives. From Friday through Sunday, NPR’s newscasts devoted 10 minutes and five seconds to the annual March for Life. But the […]

NPR Anchor Uses Misquote To Trump Fan: Are You Backing A Lunatic Who’d Launch Nukes?

January 8, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ On National Public Radio on Saturday morning, Weekend Edition anchor Scott Simon interviewed Ed Martin, a pro-Trump author and Republican Party man, reveling in the Donald Trump-Steve Bannon feud. Martin said “I’m trying not to be on a side – it’s like Mom and Dad had a little bit of a […]

NPR And PBS, The Biggest Sexual Harassment Hypocrites

December 3, 2017 by PA Pundits - International

By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham ~ The swift revolution against sexual harassment is ending the careers of a series of media “icons,” left and right, but perhaps nowhere is this hypocrisy more notable (and deeper) than at PBS and NPR. These were the entities that made sexual harassment the boiling feminist issue during the […]

Government Broadcasters Versus The FCC?

July 23, 2017 by PA Pundits - International

By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham ~ The Hollywood Reporter unveils that PBS and its public-broadcasting brethren have written the Federal Communications Commission with a list of complaints. The headline: “PBS Wants the Government to Reexamine Hard Stance on Indecency.” That’s a funny headline, since we haven’t seen a “hard stance on indecency” since the […]

WashPost Prints Op-Ed: ‘NPR And PBS Don’t Need Tax Money Anymore’

March 27, 2017 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ The Washington Post published an op-ed on Sunday headlined “NPR and PBS don’t need tax money anymore.” Manhattan Institute vice president Howard Husock is uniquely qualified on the topic: he’s a former producer for Boston PBS superstation WGBH and now serves on the board of directors of the Corporation for Public […]

NPR’s Dionne Promotes Smear: Next, Trump Will Name Mexican Kingpin To Run The DEA

December 12, 2016 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ National Public Radio likes to think it’s about civility (not rudeness) and real news (not fake news). But when it comes to Donald Trump, on Friday night NPR became the promoter of a rude and disparaging joke on All Things Considered. Washington Post columnist and NPR contributor E. J. Dionne passed […]

NPR Shares Teacher Letter: Black Kids Ask ‘Do I Matter…Am I Human?’

September 26, 2016 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ NPR comes to the news of police shootings ready and willing to feel the pain of “black and brown” people, including the children. On Weekend Edition Saturday, anchor Scott Simon launched into a commentary with the online title “For Students In Tulsa, Pain Frames Conversation About Crutcher.” Simon shared a viral […]

NPR Notes Hillary’s ‘Very Few’ Pressers; ‘May Have A Point’ In Skipping

August 6, 2016 by PA Pundits - International

By Matthew Balan ~ Friday’s Morning Edition on NPR spotlighted Hillary Clinton’s “very few and far between” press conferences during her presidential campaign so far. David Folkenflik pointed out how it’s been “more than two months” since Mrs. Clinton was confronted about her lack of pressers, and how she “suggested there are other, better ways […]

NPR, New York Times Promote ‘America’s First Climate Change Refugees’

May 15, 2016 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ Following the lead of The New York Times, NPR on Saturday touted a new American trend – “climate change refugees,” people being subsidized by the federal government to move away from their lives on the coast. NPR Weekend Edition anchor Scott Simon announced: “Members of a small Native American community in […]

NPR Offers ‘Trump Training’ To Help Reporters Deal With Violence

March 24, 2016 by PA Pundits - International

By Randy Hall ~ There’s no doubt that the current presidential campaign has been more antagonistic than previous contests for the White House, and as a result, one national news organization is taking action to train its correspondents in “hostile environment awareness.” According to an article by Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi, the National […]

Propaganda And ‘The Danish Girl’

January 3, 2016 by PA Pundits - International

By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham ~ As night fell on Christmas Eve, National Public Radio was in its usual holy-day mode, using your tax dollars to mock the traditional Christian creed. This time they promoted an activist movie called The Danish Girl, yet another alleged “true story” about artist Einar Wegener, a married man […]

‘Real Excellence’? NPR Honors Anniversary Of Atheist ‘Dark Materials’ Trilogy For Kids

September 28, 2015 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ On Saturday, NPR’s Weekend Edition celebrated atheist author Philip Pullman and the His Dark Materials trilogy he wrote for middle-schoolers, a sort of anti-Narnia series. Anchor Scott Simon celebrated the 20th anniversary of the first book in this trilogy and interviewed Pullman as he sat a BBC studio in Oxford, hinting […]

Frightening Details From Beheader’s Oklahoma Mosque – Video

October 3, 2014 by Grumpy Old Man

I doubt you’ll see or hear about this on PBS/NPR or any major networks. Have you? Thank GOD for Fox TV. –Al Posted by: act4america Related Articles: CAIR’s intimate links with Oklahoma beheader’s jihad-preaching mosque exposed (video) We told you previously that the imam of the beheader’s mosque was a member of CAIR . Breitbart […]

Actual NPR Headline: ‘Healthcare.Gov Could’ve Been Worse’

October 24, 2013 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ NPR is looking quite desperate in its promotion of Obamacare. This was an actual headline at the NPR website: “Despite Glitches, HealthCare.gov Could’ve Been Worse.” Jonah Goldberg told me “I thought you made up that headline!” He cracked on Twitter: “For instance, logging on could have permanently blinded you!” On Tuesday […]

NPR Pushes Leftist Author Charging JFK Was Actually Killed By ‘Swirling Forces Of Right-wing Fanaticism’

October 11, 2013 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ George Will’s column on Thursday recounted the end of liberalism in how The New York Times began blaming John F. Kennedy’s assassination on the “far right,” in complete denial that Oswald was a communist. James Reston wrote in a front-page story that Kennedy was a victim of a “streak of violence […]

NPR Argues Los Angeles ‘Reflects America’ Better Than Washington Does

September 23, 2013 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ This is the view of National Public Radio brass: “L.A. kind of reflects America a lot more than Washington does.” If you believe that, you’ll believe the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” represent housewives. There are even fewer conservatives in Los Angeles than there are in DC, so that might be […]

NPR Coos Over ‘Creating Passionate Environmentalists’ To Pressure Colleges To Dump Coal Stocks

May 11, 2013 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ Today’s proof that National Public Radio is your taxpayer-funded rip-and-read press-release service for the Left: a Morning Edition story summarized as “College Divestment Campaigns Creating Passionate Environmentalists.” Reporter Elizabeth Shogren compared Brown University’s anti-coal campaign to anti-apartheid campaigns of the 1980s: “Students at more than 300 colleges in the United States […]

Forget Abortion! NPR Promotes The ‘Rights’ and ‘Souls’ of Plants

October 29, 2012 by PA Pundits - International

By Tim Graham ~ As liberal reporters obsess and nearly faint in the waning days of the campaign that conservatives would dare to assert a right to life for a human being conceived in rape, NPR.org offers a better idea: Plants deserve rights. The NPR headline: “Recognizing the Right of Plants to Evolve.” Unborn babies […]