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Leftist Bureaucrats In Charge Of Government-Run Media Refuse Peaceful Transition Of Power
The Federalist ^ | July 16, 2025 | Beth Brelje

Posted on 07/16/2025 5:09:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

It takes the undeveloped ego of a toddler to pout this long. But if Elmo on Sesame Street can learn how to share, surely these three can too.

For all its concern about a peaceful transfer of power, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) are probably not planning a story about the three board members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) who have refused to leave the board after Trump removed them in April.

Not so long ago — in 2020 and 2021 — PBS and NPR were spreading propaganda that President Donald Trump was going to make a ruckus before giving Joe “Autopen” Biden the keys to the Oval Office.

Even before the November 2020 election, PBS and NPR tried to get Trump to commit to the results of the election. When he took a wait-and-see approach, the outlets suggested that he would refuse to accept the election results and buck a peaceful transfer of power.

But when his last day in office came in January 2021, Trump exited with class. PBS and NPR did not apologize, nor did the CPB learn from his example.

PBS and NPR receive hundreds of millions from the federal government, much of it through the CPB, “the largest single source of funding for public radio [and] television.” The CPB is a nonprofit created by Congress to provide funding for programming for the public. The three are so intertwined that they are sometimes mistaken for the same entity.

The president has the authority to appoint (with the Senate’s confirmation) and...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: 4thestate5thcolumn; agitprop; aidandcomfort; biasmeanslayoffs; censorship; considerthesource; cpb; domesticenemies; fakenews; ministryoftruth; npr; pbs; perfidy; propaganda; sedition; treason; trysellingthetruth

1 posted on 07/16/2025 5:09:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Absolutely no way beloved Elmo’s Jew-hate was ‘hacking’!

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hacked-elmo-account-says-kill-all-jews-calls-trump-netanyahus-puppet/


2 posted on 07/16/2025 5:15:24 PM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://cpb.org/aboutcpb/leadership/board/


There are 5 board members? only 3 being a problem?


3 posted on 07/16/2025 5:16:19 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If pbs and npr go away, what public organizations are left to have the need of a board. they can remain and not get paid. I’m confused.


4 posted on 07/16/2025 5:31:52 PM PDT by GMThrust
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just cut off the funding of NPR and PBS. They’ll soon die. They can’t live without sucking from the public teat.


5 posted on 07/17/2025 3:05:11 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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