Posted on 08/20/2024 9:46:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
How do voters know the prestige press is hopelessly partisan? For three weeks, Kamala Harris has been refusing all requests for interviews or press conferences, and that goes unpunished. Donald Trump held a press conference, and he was absolutely punished.
Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio demonstrated their ultraliberal tilt for the millionth time — at least that’s how it feels. NPR political director Domenico Montanaro organized a team to pore over Trump’s Aug. 8 press conference transcript and “found at least 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies in 64 minutes. That’s more than two a minute. It’s a stunning number for anyone — and even more problematic for a person running to lead the free world.”
This scandalous figure had all that Glenn Kessler energy from The Washington Post. Remember when Kessler made a database that identified 30,573 “false or misleading claims” from President Trump? When Joe Biden was elected, he proclaimed the Database Days were over. Kessler proclaimed on MSNBC, “I assume the Biden presidency will be a lot like the Obama presidency, and that they will be responsive, and will be able to quickly back up what they’re saying.”
The crucial word there is “assume.” Democrat journalists assume Democrats tell the truth.
This piece was eagerly shared on X by leftist die-hards, from movie star Mark Hamill to “comedian” Dean Obeidallah to MSNBC host Katie Phang.
Let’s stipulate that some of these 162 statements were inaccurate — Trump overstated his support in polls, and there’s some trolling Trumpian braggadocio, like suggesting his crowds are bigger than Martin Luther King Jr.’s. But NPR broke out the usual annoying habits of Democrat-defending “checkers.”
— Trump says if he loses, “You could end up in a Depression of the 1929 variety.” That’s not a factual statement at all. That’s a prediction. It’s like all the Democrat journalists in 1992 insisting it was a lie to say Bill Clinton wouldn’t raise taxes. He did.
— Trump said Harris is “a radical left person at a level that nobody’s seen.” NPR’s “fact” guy argued, “It’s debatable how liberal Harris is.” That’s not a fact check. That’s just an emotional reaction.
— Trump said Gov. Tim Walz is “a radical left man.” Montanaro replied, “Few, if any, reasonable people would say Walz is a ‘radical left man.'” He then claimed, without irony, that when Walz legalized pot and “protected” abortion, it wasn’t radical because it was supported by a majority of Minnesotans.
— Trump said Walz was “heavy into the transgender world.” Walz signed legislation making his state a “trans refuge” for “gender-affirming care,” but Montanaro just complained, “‘Heavy into the transgender world’ is vague and misleading.”
The lamest entry was NPR legal reporter Carrie Johnson arguing it was wrong to say Hillary Clinton deleted hundreds of government emails from her private server because she was facing a subpoena for them. “The FBI said there’s no evidence the messages were deleted with a subpoena in mind.” No, they were destroyed before the subpoena. So much better.
When Biden gave a speech last month saying he wouldn’t run for reelection, NPR didn’t assemble a team to fact-check it. Montanaro offered “four takeaways.” The first takeaway compared Biden to George Washington and folded the alleged menace of Trump into words from Washington’s farewell address about how “cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people.”
The hard-earned dollars of nonliberal taxpayers help fund NPR launching emotional ramblings over how the Democrats aren’t radicals, and they won’t ruin the economy. As often happens, “fact checking” is actually a lot of spin control and denial.
Day 1 I hope he defunds them.
NPR and PBS both need to be de-funded and shuttered.
Why are my tax dollars supporting two far-left broadcasters? I wouldn’t mind so much if they had at least one govt. supported radio or tv station that was, at least, right of center.
I hope he does but the reality is the GOP will never go along with defunding these subsidized purveyors of propaganda.
That’s a big criticism of mine regarding the Republican Party.
They have talked about this and campaigned and fundraised on the issue. Same with the Department of Education and many others.
But, when given the power to act, they do nothing.
BTTT
In many ways NPR is the worst of all of them. I have conservative friends who think NPR is unbiased. Dumbasses who do not know how to listen.
https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/profile/sharon-percy-rockefeller/
That's only one link that connects public propaganda systems to them.
Sesame Street makes over $100 million dollars off toys every year........
How does blatantly liberal biased NPR get away with public funding? This has been going on since its inception.
It needs to end now!!
Then they had power and they basically just admitted 'we were lying' and moved on. That's one even the low info voters can understand.
They are not actually different than the dems, they have the same agenda but tell different lies to keep the illusion of two parties going.
The more they scream, the more they’re scared.
I stopped listening to NPR News after 9/11. In a seminar, a psychiatrist said to listen to classical music instead. He was more right than he knew!
Since 9/11, NPR News has gotten more and more shrill and partisan. It is not fulfilling its role as PUBLIC radio at all!
The content is irrelevant to MPR. All that matters is the headline.
Oh please do. NPR is the hotbed of raw radicalism.
Yes the bonus round would be the department of education or as they call it department of indoctrination.
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