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Trump flushes woke programs at Smithsonian museums, orders return of leftist-targeted statues
The left's long march through the institutions was a resounding success. Numerous businesses, churches, libraries, law enforcement agencies, schools, and other organizations have for decades served as incubators for radical activists and amplifiers for pernicious ideologies.
Leftist marchers are, however, now being routed.
Conservatives and other normalcy advocates have in recent years undertaken a reconquest, enjoying success with certain academic institutions such as the New College of Florida as well as major businesses including Walmart, Harley-Davidson, and John Deere.
President Donald Trump — who has taken an axe to DEI, critical race theory, and gender ideology in the federal government and in federally funded organizations — continued his D.C.-focused purge of radicalism on Thursday, this time taking aim at the nation's premier museums.
Trump intends to rid the Smithsonian Institution, its 21 museums and 14 education and research centers, and the National Zoo of radical leftist programs, policies, and installations.
In an executive order titled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," the president noted, "Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation's history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth."
'Museums in our Nation's capital should be places where individuals go to learn — not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination.'
"This revisionist movement seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light," continued Trump. "Under this historical revision, our Nation's unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed."
Trump slammed the Biden administration for advancing this "corrosive ideology" and cited the following as examples of the anti-American propaganda at issue.
- The Smithsonian American Art Museum's exhibit "The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture," which represents that "[s]ocieties including the United States have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement."
- The National Museum of African American History and Culture's assertions that the nuclear family, rugged individualism, self-reliance, prioritization of work over play, emphasis on rational linear thinking, punctuality, decisiveness, and a future-oriented outlook are "aspects and assumptions of whiteness and white culture in the United States."
- The "forthcoming Smithsonian American Women's History Museum plans on celebrating the exploits of male athletes participating in women's sports."
The Smithsonian also enraged conservatives in recent years with the National Museum of American History's Hispanic exhibit portraying religion and history through a Marxist lens and the Smithsonian Institution's 2020 "Girlhood" exhibit featuring the racist founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, and a medical transvestite.
Trump directed Vice President JD Vance to work with senior staffers to "remove improper ideology" from the Smithsonian Institution and its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.
Trump also tasked Vance and Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, to work with congressional lawmakers to ensure that Congress avoids bankrolling exhibits or programs at the Smithsonian Institution that "degrade shared American values, divide Americans based on race, or promote programs or ideologies inconsistent with Federal law and policy."
Cognizant and critical of the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum's initiative to feature male cross-dressers in future exhibits, Trump also insisted that the museum does "not recognize men as women in any respect."
"Museums in our Nation's capital should be places where individuals go to learn — not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history," said Trump's order.
In addition to flushing leftist radicalism out of the Smithsonian museums, Trump — whose administration has been reverting the names of federal lands and military bases to what they were before Joe Biden took office — set his sights on a restoration of that which the iconoclasts of yesteryear chose to eliminate from the public consciousness.
Radicals both inside and outside government committed to a campaign of destruction and deracination in the wake of George Floyd's death in 2020, digging up graves, toppling statues, renaming animals, melting down busts, and knocking out church windows.
Trump directed Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to figure out whether public monuments, memorials, statues, or other properties within the Interior Department's jurisdiction were removed or changed during this radical campaign "to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history, inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures, or include any other improper partisan ideology."
The president demanded further the reinstatement of pre-existing monuments that were removed.
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Colorado Democrats: State can save money by funding abortion, killing 30% more babies
Colorado Democrats are more than willing to blow taxpayer money on programs for illegal aliens; however, when it comes to coverage for American mothers and their unborn babies, they will apparently appeal to lethal ways to reduce spending.
State Democrats are advancing legislation that would enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution; require the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to fund abortions for Medicaid and Child Health Plan Plus program participants using taxpayer dollars; and force public employee insurance plans to fund abortions for plan members — something they are not presently required to do.
Senate Bill 183 — a consequence of Colorado voters' overwhelming support last year for Colorado Amendment 79, which set the stage for the use of public funds for abortion — passed the state Senate in a 22-12 party-line vote on March 12.
Prior to the bill passing the committee on health and human services on Tuesday, Colorado House Speaker Julie McCluskie (D), a prime sponsor of the legislation, indicated that the use of taxpayer funds to kill babies could save the state a little bit of money.
"That savings comes from the averted births that will not occur because abortions happened instead," McCluskie said in a video shared to social media. "So a birth is more expensive than an abortion — so the saving comes in Medicaid births that will not occur."
"This bill will actually decrease costs for our health care policy and financing department, our Medicaid expenditures, in both this year and out years as the savings from averted births outweigh the costs of covering reproductive health care for all Coloradans," continued McCluskie, who was endorsed last year by Planned Parenthood.
'Abortion care services represent a one-time expenditure.'
While the Colorado House speaker indicated the state will initially see an "increase to general fund of $1.5 million," over time, the taxpayer-subsidized elimination of human life will ultimately lead to "cost savings."
McCluskie was referencing a state fiscal analysis that made the following assumptions and assertions:
- 333,330 women ages 15 to 44 will be enrolled in Medicaid or the Child Health Plan Plus program in fiscal year 2025-2026;
- 1.67% of members from this cohort will seek abortions each year;
- 50.4% of abortions will be performed "procedurally" and 49.6% will be chemical abortions;
- "abortion procedures are assumed to be reimbursed at a rate of $1,300, and medication abortions are assumed to be reimbursed at a rate of $800";
- taxpayer-funded abortions through Medicaid/CHP+ will increase the number of unborn babies killed by 30%; and
- the average reimbursement cost for child birth is $3,850, which is funded by state and federal programs.
According to Democrats' calculus, abortions will not only save the state on total reimbursement costs for the delivery of children but will likely also spare the state from having to deal with additional costs that might arise in relation to human beings whose lives they failed to "avert."
"Medicaid-covered births typically involve additional social safety net impacts for the child, whereas abortion care services represent a one-time expenditure. These impacts have not been addressed in this fiscal note," said the fiscal note on SB 183.
"On net, the bill will decrease costs for HCPF by about $286,000 in FY 2025-26 and $573,000 in FY 2026-27 and ongoing," continued the fiscal note. "These impacts are the net result of increased costs for abortion services and decreased costs from averted births."
State Rep. Kenneth G. DeGraaf (R) tweeted, "Holy Human-Haters, Batman! 'Killing people is less expensive than caring for them' coming soon from a eugenicist near you."
"Paying for abortions for low income women will save our state millions of dollars on 'averted births,'" wrote Republican state Rep. Brandi Bradley. "Margaret Sanger would be so proud."
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Far-left Boston mayor blasted for 'condolences' to family of thug shot dead by cop; suspect tried to stab 2 people: Police
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is under heavy criticism after she offered her "condolences" to the family of a knife-wielding suspect who was fatally shot by an off-duty police officer in a Chick-fil-A over the weekend.
The suspect allegedly tried to stab two people before the officer opened fire, Fox News reported.
'Boston ... You desperately need a new mayor. Trust me.'
"My condolences, and all of our thoughts, are with the family of the individual whose life has been lost," Wu said to reporters after the shooting.
But the far-left mayor wasn't alone in her sympathies.
Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden added that "in tragic circumstances like this ... our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of the individual who's been lost."
Police Commissioner Michael Cox noted that "we don’t look for loss of life, so our condolences go out to the individual who was killed tonight," WFXT-TV reported.
Wu also said she was "thinking of all the people who were impacted here today in one of the busier parts of the city with this tragedy" and that she's "glad that the officer is safe and very grateful for a quick response from all of our first responders here again," Fox News noted.
What's the background?
Police told WBZ that just before 5:30 p.m. Saturday a male was trying to stab two people and chased them into the restaurant. But an off-duty Boston police officer also was in the Chick-fil-A, identified himself, and told the suspect to drop his weapon, WBZ added. But that male didn't obey the officer's command, and the cop shot him, Cox told WBZ.
The suspect later died at a hospital, WBZ said.
Cox did say he was "proud of police officers who activate themselves, whether it's on duty or off duty, to try to save lives," Fox News noted.
Wu hit with backlash
As you might expect, a number of notable voices took Wu to task for her remarks.
- Fox News contributor and former Boston resident Joe Concha noted on X, "How exactly did Boston vote for this again? I lived in the Back Bay area. It was one of the safest parts of the city. And she’s offering condolences????"
- Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk added, "Boston ... You desperately need a new mayor. Trust me."
- Journalist Jonathan Choe noted, "It's all upside down in Boston. When is the last time you heard of a mayor apologizing to the family of a knife-wielding attacker who allegedly tried to kill multiple people? What about the people who were nearly killed?"
- Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (S.C.) was equally incredulous over Wu's remarks and added, "Thankfully this guy was stopped in his tracks by a brave law enforcement officer."
Others reacted similarly to Wu's "condolences":
- "I don’t think there has been another Mayor of a major metropolitan city that has been as embarrassing and rocked by national scandal as much as Mayor Michelle Wu," X user Boston Mom noted.
- "Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is possibly the worst mayor in America," another commenter said. "That’s a tough title to grab."
- "You can’t hate liberals enough!" another user exclaimed.
- "Liberalism is a threat to every person in America," another commenter declared.
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BlazeTV's Sara Gonzales exposes Dallas LGBT church and its 'satanic' services
The Cathedral of Hope, a Dallas-based leftist organization that identifies as a United church, has made no secret of its LGBT activism and ideological capture. After all, among the non-straight resources linked on its site is a document claiming that identification as a homosexual is a sacrament and another document providing homosexual men with dating tips.
It appears, however, that behind closed doors, things at the COH are far more "unhinged" than critics might have suspected.
The host of BlazeTV's "Sara Gonzales Unfiltered" and others at the Texas Family Project similarly committed to protecting children attended an event at the COH over the weekend titled "Celebrating the Art of Drag Sunday." They were greatly disturbed by what they found at the service and at the subsequent drag brunch.
Sara Gonzales, who serves as vice president of the Texas Family Project, told Blaze News, "Nothing about this 'church' service was godly or Christian. What's worse: The drag brunch fundraiser afterward was full of raunchy acts, sexual references, glorification of drug use, and scantily clad men dressed as women."
"What church do you know that embraces such degeneracy and sin? Only one comes to mind: the church of Satan," added Gonzales.
The event was advertised as a "fabulous and spirit-filled Drag Sunday," where the COH would "celebrate the artistry, resilience, and joy of drag, affirming the beauty of self-expression and the sacredness of every person." Families were invited afterward to attend a drag brunch fundraiser, which the ticket site indicated was an event for ages 18 and up.
'Go forth and sin some more!'
During the service, which had children in attendance, the COH's senior pastor Neil Thomas tried using the words of Jesus Christ to justify having a cross-dressing activist as a preacher.
Thomas asserted that Christ's statement recorded in Mark 10:27 that "with God all things are possible" means "that a preacher can be a drag king. It's not every day that you are part of a denomination who would ordain not only a woman to ministry but who'll allow that woman to be a drag king."
The senior pastor was referring to Brooke Dooley, an LGBT activist who decided to don a fake beard and masquerade as a man named "Rev. Brock Bottom" for the occasion and who was also afforded an opportunity to give a sermon.
Dooley suggested "the drag show begins" just after a child's birth, criticized "evangelical purity culture," and asserted that gender is an "arbitrarily constructed" social invention used to "maintain power dynamics."
At one point in the service, Dooley joined Thomas on the altar to heap praise both on members of the United Court of the Lone Star Empire, an LGBT outfit populated by apparent autogynephiles, and on members of the Dallas Fort Worth Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group that has long derided Christian beliefs.
Since its inception on Easter Sunday 1979, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence has, for instance, mocked Catholic teaching and doctrine, ridiculing the church's orthodox views on marriage, sexuality, homosexuality, transgenderism, and abortion.
Bill Donohue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights noted that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is "known for simulating sodomy while dressed as nuns" and "like to feature a 'Condom Savior Mass,' one that describes how the 'Latex Host is the flesh for the life of the world.'"
The motto of the group is, "Go forth and sin some more!"
In footage captured by the Texas Family Project, Thomas and Dooley invite members of both groups to the altar. Several heavyset men dressed in drag oblige the pastor, as does a man dressed in a fetish suit with a dog mask who crawls about on his hands and knees.
'OK, 'cause I will kill him.'
After the transvestites and the man in the dog costume take their place in front of the altar, Thomas states, "I don't know about you, but somethings [at] this Cathedral of Hope I think we forget just how queer we are."
— (@)
One transvestite afforded an opportunity to speak at the drag after-party — attended by Thomas, other activists from the COH, and members of the radical groups honored earlier at the altar — instructed potential supporters of President Donald Trump to refrain from outing themselves.
After raising the prospect that some people in the crowd might not have voted for his preferred candidate, the transvestite speaker's mind evidently turned to violence. He asked whether the COH members in attendance engaged in human sacrifice, then asked whether they should "start" with sacrificing Trump supporters.
The transvestite speaker then misunderstood a murmur from the crowd as an audience member's admission of having voted for Trump and said, "He voted for Trump?"
When told that was not the case, the transvestite replied, "OK, 'cause I will kill him."
'These people are seriously unhinged.'
The same speaker at the nominally Christian church's fundraiser proceeded to mock Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's disability, noting that he traveled down to Austin with other transvestites "to, you know, fist fight Greg Abbott. But he just — he just wouldn't stand up and fight me."
"I think that the easiest thing we can do with the money that we raise is just take away those wheelchair ramps," added the transvestite.
— (@)
The Texas Family Project noted that "'churches' that allow drag queens to be preachers are satanic."
Kaden Lopez, the executive director of the Texas Family Project, stated, "We don't go film these events because we want to, it's because we have to. The absolute insanity that some 'churches' are promoting is mind boggling."
Libs of TikTok said in response to the videos of the event, "These people are seriously unhinged and insane. They need to start being investigated."
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Blaze News investigates: Sparing taxpayers from funding leftist propaganda
National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service are kept afloat with the help of taxpayer dollars. NPR has gone so far as to claim that "federal funding is essential to public radio's service to the American public and its continuation is critical for both stations and program producers, including NPR."
The media outfits' unmistakable ideological bias and imbalanced coverage in recent decades have prompted a steady stream of calls to defund both organizations or perhaps even to close the fountainhead of most of their taxpayer funding, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — a move that would require lawmakers to revisit the Communications Act of 1934 and its amendments.
Following the re-election of President Donald Trump, who has characterized NPR as a scam and whose first administration sought to cut funding for the CPB, there has been mounting pressure both to ascertain whether NPR, PBS, and their respective member stations have violated federal bylaws and to spare American taxpayers from having to bankroll leftist propaganda.
Blaze News reviewed the media outfits' recent history of partisan hackery and reached out to a top critic of public broadcasting as well as to lawmakers involved in holding the taxpayer-funded media outfits accountable. It appears that to ensure no partisan media outfit is subsidized at taxpayers' expense, the government may have to get out of the business of public broadcasting altogether.
Funding
NPR, a beneficiary of National Endowment for the Arts grants, claims that less than 1% of its annual operating budget comes in the form of grants directly from the CPB — which has an operating budget of $545 million for fiscal year 2025 — and other federal sources.
The outfit, which operates as a syndicator to a network of well over 1,000 public radio stations, has acknowledged, however, that multitudes of public radio stations that receive grants directly from the CPB use the funds to "pay NPR and other public radio producers for their programming."
According to consolidated financial statements, the organization secured over $96.1 million in "core and other programming fees" in 2023, $93.2 million in 2022, $90.4 million in in 2021, and $92.5 million in 2020.
"These station programming fees are one of NPR's primary sources of revenue," noted the media outfit. "The loss of federal funding would undermine the stations' ability to pay NPR for programming, thereby weakening the institution."
Like NPR, public TV stations that receive CPB funding pay significant programming dues to PBS.
According to the public TV broadcaster, its flagship "News Hour" program, for instance, receives roughly 35% of its "annual funding/budget from CPB and PBS via national programming funds — a combination of CPB appropriation funds and annual programming dues paid to PBS by stations re-allocated to programs like ours."
A spokesman for PBS, which has over 330 member television stations, recently indicated that the organization receives 16% of its funding directly from the federal government each year.
Propaganda
While neither NPR nor PBS has done a good job hiding its political leanings, Uri Berliner, a Peabody Award-winning senior business editor who worked at NPR for 25 years, helped shine a spotlight last year on just how slanted public broadcasting has become, slamming NPR specifically in an opinion piece for mindlessly advancing Democratic propaganda and altogether giving up on journalistic independence.
Berliner, the son of an LGBT activist and a grandson of Holocaust victims, made clear at the outset he was no rightist, characterizing himself instead as something akin to the stereotypical NPR listener, "an EV-driving, Wordle-playing, tote bag-carrying coastal elite."
While acknowledging the media outfit’s long-standing "liberal bent," Berliner noted that NPR had effectively transformed into a Democratic propaganda machine, working vigorously to "damage or topple Trump's presidency," in part by "hitch[ing] our wagon to Trump's most visible antagonist, Representative Adam Schiff," and amplifying the Russia collusion hoax.
Berliner — who discovered that 87% of NPR’s Washington, D.C., editors and reporters were registered Democrats and that none were registered as Republicans — hammered NPR further for gaslighting Americans about the likely origins of COVID-19, for turning a blind eye to the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and its characterization of the damning story as a "pure distraction," and over its obsession with race.
While NPR's objectivity had been criticized for decades, Berliner suggested that "independent journalism" at the company really began to slip under former CEO John Lansing, who apparently used George Floyd's death as an excuse to center race and identity in everything the company did while eliminating any remaining "viewpoint diversity."
Berliner indicated that things worsened under the current CEO, Katherine Maher, a longtime BLM supporter who previously helped transform Wikipedia into a repository of leftist propaganda, publicly stated, "Donald Trump is a racist," and suggested that "our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that is getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done."
After Maher said that Berliner had been "profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning" for daring to question the neutrality and integrity of taxpayer-funded propagandists, NPR suspended him. The journalist resigned shortly thereafter.
PBS may not have a Berliner-caliber whistleblower to call its own, but it is certainly no better.
The Media Research Center conducted a study from June 1, 2023, to Nov. 30, 2024, analyzing political labels used by anchors, reporters, and contributors on PBS' "News Hour." PBS staff apparently threw around the term "far right" or some variation thereof 162 times but used the term "far left" only six times.
Reporters reflexively deemed social conservatives and Trump-adjacent Republicans as "extreme" or "extremists."
'I understand the importance of nonpartisan, balanced media coverage.'
While numerous reporters and guests liberally applied the "fascist" label to Trump or his polices, PBS reportedly clamped down on characterizations of failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris and other Democrats as Marxists or communists, writing them off as "slurs."
In another study published last year, the MRC tallied every comment made by PBS journalists during the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Of the 191 minutes of PBS commentary on the Republican National Convention, 72% of opinionated comments were reportedly negative and only 28% were positive.
For instance, when it came to the RNC, "News Hour" co-anchor Amna Nawaz exhibited no pretense of neutrality, accusing Republicans of "echoing some white supremacist notions" and veering "into outright racism."
The DNC coverage was a different story altogether. Not only did PBS air more speeches and footage from the Democratic convention than for the Republican convention, the co-anchors salivated over the speakers.
Geoff Bennett said that the "elevation and evolution" of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was "so striking because she has found a way to blend populism and pragmatism and blend protest and power."
Not to be outdone by her co-anchor's fawning over AOC, Nawaz stated, "We know we're hearing a lot of this messaging around the joyful warriors that are Harris and Walz, which is really a stark contrast to what we saw on the Republican side."
Defunding
There have been numerous efforts in recent years to defund NPR, defund PBS, and/or shutter the CPB.
Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), for instance, took aim at both NPR and PBS with a bill in March 2023 titled the No Partisan Radio and Partisan Broadcasting Services Act. By the following year, the bill had 13 co-sponsors but did not go the distance.
Jackson noted that whereas at the time of the media outfits' initial receipt of federal funds, the understanding was that their content "would remain unbiased and benefit every American," it has become "obvious that NPR and PBS have abandoned their founding principles."
Following Berliner's suspension, Republican lawmakers narrowed their focus and pushed multiple bills aimed specifically at kneecapping NPR.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), for instance, introduced the Defund NPR Act of 2024, a piece of legislation co-sponsored by 16 other Republicans that would have prohibited federal funding to NPR or to any successor organization.
"As a former newspaper owner and publisher, I understand the importance of nonpartisan, balanced media coverage and have seen firsthand the left-wing bias in our news media," Tenney said at the time. "NPR is using American taxpayer dollars to manipulate the news and lie to the American people on behalf of a political agenda."
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, tried something different in December, introducing the No Propaganda Act, which would amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit federal funding for the CPB. Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) introduced a corresponding bill in the House.
Kennedy cast doubt on whether the over $15 billion already blown by Congress on the CPB has actually gone toward satisfying the organization's stated goal of educating, informing, fostering curiosity, and promoting civil discourse essential to American society, suggesting that instead it has merely bankrolled "Big Brother's propaganda outlet."
"The Corporation for Public Broadcasting refuses to provide Louisianans and Americans with fair, unbiased content," said Kennedy. "It wastes taxpayer dollars on slanted coverage to advance a leftist political agenda."
Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation who has long written about the need to defund public broadcasting, emphasized to Blaze News that given the option of whether to defund the propaganda outfits or to defund the CPB altogether, the latter choice is optimal, although he'd personally seek to go farther.
Gonzalez, who indicated that no attempt at mending could justify keeping taxpayers on the hook for public broadcasting, said that Kennedy "going after the CPB is the right approach."
"I would prefer dissolving it," continued Gonzalez. "You can defund the CPB, but that only delays the problem. That's not a permanent solution."
'For my own part, I do not see a reason why Congress should continue sending taxpayer dollars to NPR and PBS.'
While Gonzalez anticipates that the liberal media will continue to circle the wagons and gripe over the potential loss of taxpayer cash to fellow travelers, he suggested that those open to defunding public broadcasting should not lose sight of NPR's and PBS' long-standing efforts to antagonize at least half the population..
"My liberal friends say, 'Look, this is important. We need more journalism, not less journalism.' I don’t, first of all, think [NPR and PBS] are going to go away, but if they go away, I don’t care," said Gonzalez. "Second of all, you have to know what they're doing."
Gonzalez noted that NPR and PBS "gave up any attempt at appearing impartial or objective in any way," adding that in the case of NPR, the choice of Maher as CEO was a crystal-clear message that things won't soon change for the better.
"Maher, on the record, is calling Trump racist. She was an enthusiastic supporter of Kamala Harris," said Gonzalez. "She's on the record as saying the First Amendment and our obsession with truth is getting in the way of consensus. Well, gee — that's the CEO of NPR. Anything else you need to know?"
Neither NPR nor PBS responded to Blaze News' request for comment by deadline.
Comeuppance
There is clearly blood in the water.
The Federal Communications Commission has public broadcasting in its sights, as does the new House Oversight Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee, which is chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
On Jan. 29, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced that the commission's enforcement bureau was opening an investigation into the airing of NPR and PBS programming across their various broadcast member stations.
Carr expressed concern that the two media outfits might be in violation of federal law by airing commercials. While apparently concerned that NPR and PBS member stations might be testing the boundaries of their federal noncommercial authorizations, Carr made no secret that the investigation could furnish lawmakers with further justification to pull the plug on the whole project.
"Congress is actively considering whether to stop requiring taxpayers to subsidize NPR and PBS programming," wrote Carr. "For my own part, I do not see a reason why Congress should continue sending taxpayer dollars to NPR and PBS, given the changes in the media marketplace since the passage of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967."
'We shouldn't be taxing the American people to fund radically left-wing propaganda.'
"To the extent that these taxpayer dollars are being used to support a for-profit endeavor or an entity that is airing commercial advertisements, then that would further undermine any case for continuing to fund NPR and PBS with taxpayer dollars," added Carr.
On Feb. 3, Greene invited the CEOs from NPR and PBS to testify at a hearing in March regarding their biased news coverage. Both Katherine Maher and Paula Kerger were notified that the hearing constitutes an opportunity to explain why they feel they deserve to continue receiving federal funds.
The subcommittee said in a release, "NPR and PBS have repeatedly undermined public trust by ignoring stories that were damaging to the Biden administration, dismissing genuine calls for balanced reporting, and pushing partisan coverage. As stewards of tax dollars, NPR and PBS have an obligation to provide objective and accurate coverage that serves all Americans."
When asked about the perceived need to defund NPR and PBS and the significance of doing so, a spokesman for Greene told Blaze News that the congresswoman "is looking forward to the hearing and questioning the heads of these publicly funded media outlets, and her letters speak for themselves."
In Greene's letters to the CEOs of the liberal media outfits, she noted on both occasions that as organizations that receive federal funds through their member stations, they should provide reporting that serves "the entire public, not just a narrow slice of like-minded individuals and ideological interest groups."
When asked about the prospect of defunding NPR and PBS or dissolving the CPB altogether, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas), a member of the DOGE subcommittee, told Blaze News in a statement, "I fully support defunding these organizations and am exploring legislative options to ensure public funds are spent responsibly."
"We shouldn't be taxing the American people to fund radically left-wing propaganda," continued Gill. "Nothing about NPR or PBS is neutral, and taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to bankroll news organizations that hate them and everything they stand for."
While NPR appears set in its ways, PBS — having seen the writing on the wall — appears eager to placate some of its harshest critics by doing the bare minimum: its lawful obligation.
A PBS spokesman confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter on Feb. 10 that the organization had shuttered its race-obsessed DEI office in order to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order "ending radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preference."
"The staff members who served in that office are leaving PBS. We will continue to adhere to our mission and values. PBS will continue to reflect all of America and remain a welcoming place for everyone," the spokesman said in a statement.
While it was apparently easy to shutter the DEI office and kick to the curb Cecilia Loving, the organization's senior vice president of DEI, eliminating political bias at PBS and NPR would be a herculean feat with no promise of a lasting solution.
When condemning the use of taxpayer funds for public broadcasting during the first Trump administration, Mike Gonzalez appealed to Thomas Jefferson to help make his point, quoting the third president as saying, "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagations of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.
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