NPR's wacko reporting on Republicans

 Robert Spencer:

American taxpayers pay for National Public Radio, and what do we get for our money? Increasingly hysterical and unbelievable Leftist propaganda. This Thursday’s Morning Edition Report was over the top even for NPR, with the far-Left organization’s “Domestic Extremism Correspondent,” Odette Yousef, claiming that fully 20% of Republican state legislators want to alter the Constitution itself, getting rid of the equal protection and due process clauses, reimposing slavery, and denying women the right to vote. This is comic book-level vilification with no basis in fact whatsoever — and your tax dollars are paying for it.

Yousef was basing her claims on a report from what NPR termed a “social justice group” but tellingly did not name. Yousef told NPR’s Steve Inskeep:

This report looked at more than seven thousand state legislative seats at capitals across the country during the 2021-2022, um, legislative period, Steve, uh, Steve, and, uh, it found that 875 of them had joined at least one far-right Facebook group, so that’s more than one in ten of all state legislators, and more than one in five of Republican state legislators. Um, and, you know, you’ll note that this may very well be an undercount, um, you know, maybe not all state legislators advertise their affiliations, um, through joining Facebook groups. Um, but it does start to paint a picture. Um, it also had another key finding, which is that these legislators have been involved in sponsoring nearly a thousand bills across a number of areas, including, uh, limiting access to voting, limiting discussion of race in schools, restricting women’s access to abortion, anti-LGBTQ legislation, putting restrictions on protests, and more.”

This was a decidedly Leftist spin on what these legislators were supporting, as they themselves would likely characterize it as ensuring the integrity of the electoral process, throwing the divisive and hateful race-baiting of Critical Race Theory out of schools, defending life, preventing transgender indoctrination of children, and prosecuting rioters. But that point of view doesn’t get heard on NPR.

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I have never heard any Republican suggest what NPR is implying.  Are their editors as misinformed as their reporters?  Is there any adult supervision at NPR?  I think there is no good reason for US taxpayers to continue funding NPR.  We should not be paying for such leftist nonsense. 

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