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To Celebrate NPR Losing Federal Funds, Here Are Seven Of Its Worst Stories​


The Senate voted in the early hours of Thursday morning to end federal funding of NPR programs deemed wasteful and ideologically driven. Liberals say the move will reduce safety warnings for rural America, while conservatives point out that NPR has a history of pushing leftist narratives.

To celebrate ending its federal funding, here are some of the worst NPR articles from over the years.


Hunter Biden’s Laptop Is A “Pure Distraction”

When the New York Post broke the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop in 2020, media outlets rushed to suppress the story. NPR decided not to cover it at all, saying, “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”


In an “analysis” of the story, NPR said the Post’s scoop was “marked more by red flags than investigative rigor.”

In 2022, NPR quietly admitted the Hunter Biden story might have been worth paying attention to, after all.

Consider The “Gay Asylum-Seekers”

One story NPR did find worth covering was a 2021 piece titled “Trump Years Were Terrifying For Gay Asylum-Seeker.”

The piece explains the life of a gay man afraid of being deported during President Donald Trump’s first term.

Gay immigrants seem to be one of NPR’s favorite topics. You can read about gay Muslims living in Russia, gay refugees fleeing Ukraine, gay refugees from Uganda, or a Mexican shelter for gay immigrants coming to the United States — and that’s not even half of NPR’s gay immigrant coverage.

The Trump administration is deporting illegal immigrants because they broke the law, not because of anyone’s sexual orientation. Despite being obsessed with the subject, NPR has yet to find one immigrant who was deported for being gay.

Everything Is Racist

In 2020, NPR ran an interview titled “Fat Phobia And Its Racist Past And Present.” The interview went “all the way back to the transatlantic slave trade to understand the racial origins of fat phobia.”

The interviewee claimed diet culture came from Europeans deciding to “be slender” to “make [them] the premier race of the world,” and added, “There are so many problems” with “telling people to lose weight.”

For more NPR gems about racism, consider stories such as “Experiencing racism may physically change your brain,” an article about how “nice white people” are still racist, or a long article detailing next steps if you “flunked a racism test.”

Transgender Truckers

Have you ever driven past a semi on the interstate and wondered if the driver was transgender? He (or she, or they) might be, NPR explained in an interview about “diverse” trucking.

The interviewer talked to the founder of a company that screens trucking companies to find out if they “support LGBTQ drivers or if their health insurance covers things like trans health care.”

“It’s trying to bridge the gap between the regular LGBTQ community and trucking community, letting them realize that there is [sic] drivers out here, that it’s a good option for a job and paying for surgeries and whatever, you know, your personal goal is,” the company’s founder said.

NPR also talked to a trans-identifying man to learn about the world of “women truckers” and what “they tell us about about living and working alone.”

Brandie Diamond describes himself as a “transgender truck driver/chef/Jill-of-all-trades” who used his “windshield time … to explore her [sic] identity as a transgender woman.”

Alone time is a great way to plot how to change your gender, NPR seems to suggest.

“What’s Bugging You?”

In 2013, NPR ran a story with the headline “Maybe It’s Time To Swap Burgers For Bugs, Says U.N.”

In 2017, NPR said, “At Bug-Eating Festival, Kids Crunch Down On The Food Of The Future.”

In 2018, the outlet mused, “Your Ancestors Probably Ate Insects. So What’s Bugging You?”

And in 2023, NPR wondered why so many conservatives were refusing to eat bugs: “This right wing conspiracy theory about eating bugs is about as racist as you think.”

One X user summed up the saga perfectly.


COVID-19 Was Not Created In A Lab
NPR blasted Americans who believed the “baseless conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was created in a lab in China,” saying “there is zero evidence for this.”


The problem? The CIA now says COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in China.


Transgender Dinosaurs

NPR once spent 10 minutes describing the battle between pro- and anti-trans activists over the dinosaur emoji. To help explain the controversy, the outlet spoke to a trans-identifying science writer who uses she/they/it pronouns.

LGBT activists love dinosaurs and use terms like “allysaurus” and “transceritops,” NPR explained between updates about January 6 hearings.

But then anti-trans activists started using dinosaur emojis.

“Dinosaurs are ours,” the science writer said, even though he admitted he doesn’t know why the LGBT Subreddit loves dinosaurs so much.

“This is a dark day,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in response to the NPR cuts.

Well, maybe it is for the transgender dinosaurs. The rest of us are just fine.
 

Watch: Vance Scolds Reporter For Complaining About Taking Out Narcoterrorists​


Vice President JD Vance was having none of it when a reporter appeared to take issue with the Administration’s obliteration of a vessel carrying narcoterrorists and a boat load of drugs on its way to the US from Venezuela.



“What legal authority were you guys working under?” The reporter asked.

Vance shot back, “These are people—literal TERRORlSTS—who are bringing deadIy drugs into our country… next question.”


What authority?

Errrr, how about the authority of protecting the country from foreign enemies, which is their sworn duty under the Constitution?




As we highlighted earlier, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth noted that this incident in which 11 drug trafficking terrorists were vaporised, would just be the beginning.



Secretary of State Marco Rubio echoed Hegseth by stating “strikes like this WILL happen again!”

“They were heading towards the U.S. to flood our country with POISON, and under President Trump, those days are OVER,” Rubio urged.


“The President of the United States is going to wage war on narcoterrorist organizations,” he added.

“Interdiction does not work, because these drug cartels know that they are going to lose 2% of their cargo. They bake it into their economics, Rubio further asserted, adding “What WILL stop them is when you blow them up.”


Meanwhile, once again, the only Democrat to back defending the country from complete wrong ‘uns is Senator John Fetterman.

“I fully support confronting the scourge of cartel drug trafficking to our nation,” Fetterman declared.


Fetterman should switch teams.
 

CBS Changes Policy For 'Face The Nation' Interviews After "Shamefully" Editing Noem Interview​


CBS News has announced it will no longer edit guest interviews on its flagship Sunday program “Face the Nation,” moving to a live or live-to-tape format following days of criticism over its handling of a sit-down with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

The change comes after Noem accused the network of “shamefully” cutting portions of her Aug. 31 interview in order to “whitewash the truth.”



As Tom Ozimek reports for The Epoch Times, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the broadcaster removed over 23 percent of her answers, “exposing the truth about criminal illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, President Donald Trump’s lawful actions to protect the American people, and Secretary Noem’s commitment to fight on behalf of the American people and their tax dollars.”

CBS initially defended its actions, saying that the unedited version was posted online, but the backlash continued to grow on social media and beyond.

Noem and others circulated clips of the missing passages online and accused the network of trying to manipulate public opinion by withholding harsh truths—like when Noem said that Abrego Garcia was a “known human smuggler, MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife beater.”

Then, on Sept. 5, CBS said that it will now only broadcast live or live-to-tape interviews, meaning guests’ answers will not be edited in any way—except in situations where legal or national security reasons require it. The broadcaster said it was changing its editorial policy “in response to audience feedback.”

“This extra measure means the television audience will see the full, unedited interview on CBS and we will continue our practice of posting full transcripts and the unedited video online,” a CBS spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement.
The Noem interview is the second time in less than a year that CBS has figured into disputes over alleged selective editing.

Last fall, then-presidential candidate Trump sued CBS, alleging that a “60 Minutes” interview with Democratic challenger and then-Vice President Kamala Harris had been manipulated to improve her image and boost her chances in the 2024 election.

CBS defended the editing of the Harris interview, saying that transcripts and videos of the full interview showed that the broadcast “was not doctored or deceitful.”

The uncut transcript showed that some of Harris’s answers were cut roughly in half while also clarifying her full response to a question about the Israel–Hamas war, which Trump’s campaign alleged was deceptively edited to make her look better to potential voters.

Later, Trump amended his complaint to include CBS parent company Paramount Global as a defendant, while doubling the amount of damages sought to $20 billion.

Paramount ultimately settled that case in July for $16 million, while denying any wrongdoing.
 
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