NPR went to court and sued the Trump administration over the president’s executive order calling on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to deny federal funds to NPR and PBS. They claim it’s “a clear violation of the Constitution.”

NPR argues with a straight face that removing any taxpayer subsidies is a violation of the First Amendment. Apparently, liberal speech must be forcibly supported by conservative taxpayers for the Constitution to be upheld. NPR CEO Katherine Maher has even contended that defunding NPR would be violation of the free speech of NPR's private backers. 

Trained lawyer Dan Schneider exposes the nonsense. NPR is not a private broadcaster. It takes federal funds, and it has to live up to what the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 called for: "strict adherence to objectivity and balance" in programming. But the CPB has never forced "strict adherence." Liberal bias would go unchallenged. 

NPR and PBS refuse to engage in the allegations of 24/7 liberal bias. The White House laid out chapter and verse about the tilt, and NPR CEO Katherine Maher put out a statement accusing Trump of "retaliatory, viewpoint-based discrimination." Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! 

PBS CEO Paula Kerger claimed “we work really hard to try to bring multiple viewpoints forward.” No. They don't. In the latest study of PBS News Hour guests by MRC's Clay Waters, the liberal-to-conservative (or Democrat to Republican) ratio was 4.2 to 1. In 2023, we found it was 3.7 to 1, so it’s getting worse! But that's being generous. We counted anti-Trump Republicans on the right side, and eight of those 18 guests were PBS-pleasing Trump critics.

The current News Hour crew is the most biased PBS team we've ever seen. In March, Bennett interviewed Senate Democrat leader Charles Schumer and pounded him from the left! Schumer upset the far left by preventing a government shutdown. Bennett asked "Why not be as tactically ruthless as Republicans have shown themselves to be?"

Republicans have never displayed any "ruthlessness" in the face of ruthless anti-Republican bias in "public" broadcasting. Will now be the time for defunding? Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts.