NPR CEO's Grilling by GOP Rep Was Embarrassing but Left Will Really Flip Out Over Bill Maher's Remarks

NPR CEO Katherine Maher was grilled by Congress this past week about NPR's bias, and it did not go well, to say the least.

Part of it went viral because it was a masterclass in how to grill a liberal from Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX). Maher insisted that NPR was non-partisan and unbiased. She even claimed she'd never seen any evidence of bias in editorial decisions, a completely laughable claim. But then Gill hit her with her own past tweets.

She was caught between a rock and a hard place, claiming she couldn't remember any of the bad things she had tweeted. All she could say was her thinking had evolved as he grilled her over her tweets. She said she couldn't remember the leftist books she had said she read, like the book on reparations that she tweeted was so important. That was the funniest part. She came off looking completely ridiculous.

This look from her was quite something, and it didn't go over well with Gill.

"As a general rule, I don’t like giving money to people who hate me," he tweeted.

This is such a typical liberal "I am superior to you" sneer.

The grilling was so bad it even helped make Bill Maher (no relation) speak out on the issue, and even he thinks NPR should be tossed on the ash heap of history. He wasn't buying Katherine Maher's claim that NPR was completely unbiased. He responded on his "Real Time" show on Friday to a question about ending the funding.

"Give me a break, lady," Maher scoffed. "I mean, they're crazy far-left."

He said we were "past the age" for this, that we were no longer in a place where this made any sense.

"Why do we need to subsidize? We're so polarized. These outlets became popular at a time when Republicans and Democrats didn't hate each other and weren't at each other's throats and didn't think each other was an existential threat. In that world, you can't have places like this, I think, anymore. They have to be private."

Columbia University professor John McWhorter agreed, saying it was no longer what it once was.

There was never any reason to subsidize it, but especially not when it's preaching a far-left ideology. Why should we have to pay for that, even if the amount is not that much, in government speak? So when DOGE is sweeping out a lot of the fraud, waste, and abuse, this is certainly something that should be swept out. NPR can say what it wants — without our money to help in the indoctrination.

I previously reported how Sheryl Crow posted that she was donating the proceeds of the sale of her Tesla to help NPR.

What she didn't understand in her effort to attack Elon Musk with the sale is that doesn't hurt him, but it also proves the point he was making about NPR can be (and should be) privately funded.

So the left can whine about losing funding for NPR and act like it's some kind of a right, but it looks like it's coming, whether they like it or not.

Editor's Note: The left is in panic mode thanks to President Trump halting its dishonest, backdoor, taxpayer funding.

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