National Review senior editor Charles C. W. Cooke, on today’s edition of The Editors, looked at NPR CEO Katherine Maher’s recent congressional testimony and deemed it “one of the funniest things I’ve seen in Congress for a long, long time.”

Cooke doesn’t believe Maher is woke: “It’s that Katherine Maher is a drone. Katherine Maher does not have a personality. She doesn’t have a worldview. There is nothing to her. She is a hollow person, and she is typical of many people who work for institutions such as NPR in that regard.”

During the hearing, some of Maher’s tweets were read aloud to her, and Cooke pointed out that what she had said in them was “fashionable at that moment. She received her marching orders from the progressive movement, and she went with it. Some of that is careerism. Most of it is incompetence, emptiness.

“It might look to us as if her disavowal of everything that she said is appalling, but it’s not to her. That was at that moment de rigueur. And so she went with it with . . . ostensible passion.”

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