Posted on 03/26/2025 12:02:45 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Katherine Maher is preparing for the hot seat. The embattled NPR CEO is scheduled to testify before Congress later today and will face intense scrutiny from Republicans who have already introduced legislation to defund the left-wing radio station.
Last year, I published exclusive reports on Maher’s background as a US-backed regime change agent in the Middle East and North Africa, her role in censoring information as CEO of Wikipedia, and her troubling social media history, which revealed significant left-wing ideological bias and support for removing the political opposition from digital platforms.
I have prepared briefing notes for members of the committee, focusing on Maher’s most controversial statements and actions. Here are ten questions members should ask her when she sits down for her testimony:
1. According to a report in City Journal, you worked for US government-backed NGOs that advanced regime change campaigns in the Middle East and North Africa. A former cabinet minister in the Tunisian transitional government publicly accused you of working with the CIA. When you were working in that region, did you ever work for, speak with, or advocate in parallel to anyone in the American intelligence services?
2. In 2020, you wrote that “America is addicted to white supremacy” and expressed support for race-based “reparations.” Do you still believe that America is addicted to white supremacy? And do you still support wealth transfers from one race to another?
3. In 2016, you chastised Hillary Clinton for using the words “boy and girl,” arguing that “it’s erasing language for non-binary people.” Can you tell us what a “non-binary person” is? And can you define the word “woman” for us?
4. In 2021, when describing your work as CEO of Wikipedia during a presentation for the Atlantic Council, you stated that the First Amendment was “the number one challenge” for suppressing “bad information” on the internet. Do you still believe that the First Amendment is a problem and that censoring dissent is the best method of eliminating “bad information”?
5. In that same speech, you explicitly stated that you “took a very active approach to disinformation and misinformation” during the Covid pandemic and the 2020 election. You further explained that you censored information “through conversations with government.” With which governments did you consult about these issues and, specifically, what information did Wikipedia censor?
6. In 2020, when President Trump was banned from all major social media platforms, you wrote: “Must be satisfying to deplatform fascists. Even more satisfying? Not platforming them in the first place.” Do you still believe that banning the political opposition is consistent with the First Amendment and, more broadly, a culture of free speech?
7. That same year, you called Donald Trump a “deranged racist sociopath.” Do you still hold this opinion? In your estimation, how many Republicans are “deranged racist sociopaths”? And why should conservative taxpayers continue to subsidize someone with such obvious contempt for them?
8. In an interview, you stated that, as CEO of Wikipedia, you abandoned a “free and open” internet as the organization’s mission, because those principles recapitulated a “white male Westernized construct” and “did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be.” What is a “white male Westernized construct”? And do you still oppose a “free and open” internet?
9. We have identified dozens of left-wing reporters who work at NPR. Can you name a single conservative reporter that works in your newsroom? Why should right-leaning Americans continue to subsidize a station that promotes a uniformly left-wing worldview?
10. On Twitter, you have written that you were “so done with late-stage capitalism,” derived from Marxist economic theory, and suggested that you would support efforts to “go punch Nazis.” Do you still oppose the system of American capitalism? And do you still support physically harming political opponents?
At this point, NPR deserves all of the scrutiny coming its way. There is a strong argument that the state should not subsidize the media, much less hyper-partisan media that always arrives at a left-wing consensus. When Republicans consider the budget later this year, they should not hesitate to defund NPR. If they are successful with today’s hearing, the vote will be that much easier.
I think her eyes scream CRAZY.
PBS has been warning me about the treachery of white people....
Defunding NPR is a no brainer which is why Republicans will never do it.
Those are all excellent questions. She sounds like a bizarre liberal. But let her tell us about her views.
It has been my thought for many years that the governors must kill NPR and PBS.
All public radio is controlled by the states. All the governors have to do is just go tell the station managers to cease broadcasts of NPR and PBS. Their state must get out of the propaganda business. Propaganda is not free speech when delivered over state publicly owned stations.
When Free Republic had chapters, the Media Bias Chapter researched the subject in depth. What we learned is that PBS and NPR are in effect left wing bastions, superb fortresses enclosed with land mines and then moats and then more land mines and then tremendous rolls of concertina razor wire and then walls of sand bags 4 to 6 feet thick on top of which are rows and rows of interconnected fields fire machine guns. Their defense is serious.
Kindly list the reasons why we don’t want to fund NPR and tell us what you will do to do overcome them.
My main objection to NPR is the constant whining for more federal handouts for everything.
I used to regularly donate to public broadcasting.
It needs to be made palatable to both sides of the political spectrum.
2. In 2020, you wrote that “America is addicted to white supremacy” and expressed support for race-based “reparations.” Do you still believe that America is addicted to white supremacy? And do you still support wealth transfers from one race to another?
My main objection to NPR is that they have become a state-funded mouthpiece to indoctrinate people to vote for ever more state control over many aspects of life. We are being forced to fund the destruction of individual liberty and freedom that our contract with government (the constitution) guarantees. I basically object with being forced (with threat of imprisonment) to fund my own enslavement to the state.
Ugly lesbian
Good luck fixing that toxic trash.
It needs to be gone.
No federal funding.
End local station licenses for their TV affiliates.
Ban their use of the name “national” and “public”.
Enough is enough.
Everyone of them looks like that. ..rumpled ill-fitting clothes, matted dirty hair, etc.
The Woodstock thing ended in ‘72, but no one told them
After retiring he took a major road trip into what he referred to as “fly over country.” The attended backyard BBQ’s, church services, went hunting and fishing with red necks. Until then he had never fired a firearm. After spending several months he found the people to be honest, kind, and extremely ethical, friendly and inclusive. He was stunned at how much he liked and admired them. He then went on to reflect that his exposure had changed him and his views.
If she has read Ken's book, ask her what she is doing about the liberal bubble at NPR? If she hasn't give her a copy and ask her to get in touch with the former NPR CEO after she has read the book to discuss his advice on what NPR should be doing.
If you haven't read the book, I suggest that you read it.
Which is why the GOPtards won't ask any of them. They'll speechify for sure, and what questions they ask will lack all coordination and come off like nailing jello to the wall.
The demoncraps will have a unified defense, and a coordinated attack on the GOP gomers.
I believe she is the one who asserted literally that ‘the truth’ is not high on her list of priorities.
“Supporting PBS\NPR allows people to pretend they are part of the cultural glitterata”
Your post is spot on.
For members of Congress, they fear most of all their inability to network properly if they vote for cuts in NPR, etc. They fear they’ll be cut out of holiday parties, cocktail receptions and honor banquets - or god forbid, word will get out and a local political columnist will write badly of them.
So much of DC thrives on this atmosphere and the perks that come from it.
"When we completely de-fund your propaganda network, are you going to learn to code?"
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