[Non-Sequitur]

Name aside, NPR is not a government agency and it never has been so the government can’t shut it down. All it can do is deny it any federal grand money which, depending on who you talk to, comes to between 1 percent and 10 percent of its budget. Most if its money comes from state and local governments, charitable foundations, corporations, and private individuals.

[Question Liberal Authority]

All it can do is deny it any federal grand money

Really? So if the Ku Klux Klan started a broadcast radio station which paid nothing for its FCC license and paid no taxes because it was a "non profit organization", the only thing the Federal government could do is deny it federal funding?