Democrats and their willing acolytes are going all in, hoping to kill the spending cut package that includes cutting funding for NPR and PBS.
I think the bill is likely to pass. But Democrats will say anything, no matter how silly, to push their narratives.
I reported earlier on the remarks from Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who claimed PBS was essential for disaster weather updates in rural areas. As though it were 1945 and no one had other outlets, smartphones, or other apps. I don't know anyone who is checking PBS for weather alerts.
READ MORE: Watch: Amy Klobuchar Wants Us to Know the Disasters That Will Befall Us If We Defund NPR, PBS
Now, NPR head Katherine Maher is hitting the airwaves to push a similar take: tribal and rural areas are desolate and will implode without NPR and PBS.
"Large rural communities, large tribal communities" don't have "a lot of other options. Broadband service is not universal, and heck, even cell phone service is not universal. There's a real understanding of the need there as well as for emergency alerting, in which public media plays an extraordinarily important role."
This is an elitist, disconnected view of rural communities. Talk about not getting it and looking down your nose at people. Either she doesn't understand modern communications, or she will say anything to keep federal funding -- or both.
People dropped some reality on her, including my colleague Jim Thompson.
Maher claimed the money going to NPR wasn't much. Good, then you won't miss it. Why are you fighting so hard for it then?
Maher also argued that they were unbiased and asked people to inform her of anything they saw.
That's when Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) finished her off.
In the past, NPR CEO Katherine Maher said that America is “addicted to White supremacy” and that the words “boy and girl” are “erasing language for non-binary people.”Now that NPR might finally lose its taxpayer money, she’s singing a different tune.
Americans don't buy it.
Game, set, and match to Kennedy. If you don't want the truth, don't ask for it - he just served it up to her.
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