If I remember right NPR let him go because he stood up for FNC and he worked there part time or was a consultant. Something like that. I do remember he got a raw deal from NPR and it was then I realized NPR were not the good guys at all.
That's the thing lib-progs do; they use flowery words and fake smiles to say one thing when they really mean another and they understand each other very well this way but those of us not in their lib-prog mindset (thank God!) are left out of their little inside joke. The more educated of them learn this way of speaking that sounds good until you actually hear what they are saying then you get they have just called you a horses ass in a really nice way with that fake smile. They think they are being really smart because they don't think we will catch on. I call them on it every single time.
This act of heresy got him fired.