Defund Them Now: NPR CEO Gets Pampered by CNN in Pants-on-Fire-Filled Interview

With $1 billion in taxpayer funding on the line as part of a rescission package the Senate could vote on late Wednesday, PBS and NPR have teamed with their liberal media allies to throw the proverbial kitchen sink at trying to maintain the farce of non-partisan, robust, and unique local programming that saves lives. That was the message Wednesday morning from NPR CEO Katherine Maher on CNN’s Situation Room.

Co-host Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown were more than happy to help Maher, openly rooting for NPR and, amid their softball questions, letting her spew lies about NPR’s biases, funding, and then vile smears about rural Americans.

Brown greased the skids in a fretful tease: “And just ahead, Wolf, PBS and NPR stations could soon lose the federal funding that’s helped keep them on the air for decades. We’re going to speak to the head of NPR up next.”

After a break, Blitzer cued up Maher by lamenting “NPR faces a fight for survival,” but cheered Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) arguing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which oversees the entire public media cabal — shouldn’t be “gut[ted].”