National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher admitted the outfit’s blackout of the Hunter Biden laptop story was a mistake during a congressional committee hearing on Wednesday, acknowledged that NPR’s alleged 87-to-zero percentage of Democrats to Republicans in newspaper positions is a” concern,” and stumbled through a security of her publicly stated views, including that” America is addicted to white power” and called the First Amendment” the number one concern” to suppressing data.
One of NPR’s most notorious displays of fraud, as Democratic members of Congress pointed out, was Hunter Biden’s support of the Biden household scandal connected to his laptop in the run-up to the 2020 election.
Radio Managing Editor for News Terence Samuel  stated in a speech explaining the blackout,” We don’t want to waste our time on stories that aren’t really stories,” and” we don’t want to spend the listeners and viewers ‘ time on stories that are just natural obstacles.”
More than enough evidence was provided at Wednesday’s hearing to support the organization’s desire for good federal subsidies to be the organization’s future priority. Here are 10 additional times Radio has demonstrated its propaganda doesn’t need another taxpayer money, in event the Trump presidency needs a few more factors.
1. SCOTUS Maskgate
Nina Totenberg of NPR’s Nina Totenberg published a fake story in January 2022 accusing Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch of forcing his colleague Justice Sonia Sotomayor into telework because he refused to wear a mask despite [her ] COVID concerns.
The judges released a joint declaration the following morning, debunking the invented play and labeling Totenberg’s tale “false.”
We were surprised to learn that Justice Sotomayor had asked Justice Gorsuch to wearing a helmet. They claimed that this is false. We are nice coworkers and friends, even though we may occasionally agree on the legislation.
2. ‘ Before they are born, children are not considered children.
NPR formally made a “reminder” of its terminology for writers to use during their pregnancy policy in May 2019. This “guidance” from NPR’s Joe Neel demonstrated how committed the organization is to defying truth to advance its democratic objectives:
The phrase “unborn” implies that a child is inside a pregnant woman, not a newborn. Before they are born, children are no. They are females. The wrong labeling a newborn a “baby” or” the pregnant” is a part of the tactics employed by antiabortion organizations to change language, legality, and public opinion.
3. Broadcasting an Pregnancy
Radio made the perplexing choice in November 2022 to heat audio of a baby being sucked from his family’s womb by an abortionist. According to the NPR writer’s quiet assessment, the broadcaster obviously wasn’t trying to distract viewers from the horrors of the process even though the audio unwittingly brought attention to the horrors of the process.
The video features an 11-week-old unborn baby being aborted in the background, and the lights are dimmed and there is soothing music. The medical gown, your bare legs in stirrups, and a person next to you saying,” You can do this, I can do this.”” It actually feels a lot like a childbirth.
4. Thermoscope Hoax
NPR and nearly every other major legacy news outlet falsely claimed that U.S. Park Police had tear-gassed demonstrators outside the White House in June 2020.
According to an NPR headline,” Park Police Tear Gas Peaceful Protesters To Clear Way For Trump Church Photo-Op,” and according to a tweet from NPR Politics,” Police in Washington, D.C. used tear gas and rubber bullets on peaceful protesters to clear them from St. John’s Church, which suffered a small fire.”
According to acting Park Police Chief Gregory T. Monahan, the protesters who NPR described as “peaceful” were actually “hurling projectiles including bricks,  , frozen water bottles, and caustic liquids.” Monahan confirmed that neither Park Police nor any “assistant law enforcement” had used tear gas. Instead, they had used smoke canisters, which lacked the irritant used in tear gas.
What was the” small fire” at St. John’s Church used to describe an apparent arson attack that destroyed the church’s nursery?
5.’ In Defense of Looting
NPR assistant editor Natalie Escobar used her position at the government-funded outlet that summer to use the title” In Defense of Looting” as the title of a book promotion. According to author Vicky Osterweil, “looting is a powerful tool for bringing about real, lasting change in society,” as Escobar put it in writing.
6. The heartbeat of a baby equals” Sounds from the fetus”
In 2016, after , Ohio Gov. NPR described the heartbeat bill as a “bill tied to sounds from the fetus” after John Kasich vetoed a bill that would have restricted abortion after a baby’s heartbeat is detected around the six-week mark.
The bizarre, dehumanizing language has since vanished from the narrative.
7. lies about Senate testimony by Don Jr.
NPR falsely portrayed Donald Trump Jr.’s testimony as saying the Trump Organization’s real estate negotiations had ended in 2014, an account NPR claimed” contrasts with” attorney Michael Cohen’s admission that the negotiations continued into 2016 when the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled him Jr. in 2017 about the Trump Organization’s previous discussions of real estate developments in Russia.
Trump Jr. had explicitly told senators that the negotiations did continue into “late 2015 or 2016,” according to Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway’s remarks at the time, according to Cohen’s testimony. The portion of his testimony that NPR cited was actually a response to a completely different question in which Trump Jr. claimed that negotiations with a different party ( not Cohen ) had ended in 2014. NPR had to make a story correction.
8. ‘ Verbal Slips Do Happen.
NPR dismissed Americans ‘ concerns about the president’s obvious senility and resisted Special Counsel Robert Hur’s decision to criminally prosecute Biden for retaining classified documents due to the president’s “poor memory,” insisting that “verbal slips happen.” Before turning to the topic of “why so many see Trump as a threat to democracy,” the outlet tried to persuade readers that Biden’s obvious lack of mental wherewithal was no different from the occasional misspoken word from Trump.
That certainly lasted a long time!
9. Victim of an assault or “right-wing extremist”?
NPR featured a photo of the woman fleeing her attackers in her car in a story about” Right-wing extremists… turning cars into weapons” after armed assailants attacked a Kentucky woman at gunpoint in 2020. The dishonest juxtaposition made it appear as though the crime victim was using her car to run over innocent bystanders rather than flee from their attacks.
NPR eventually took the photo.
10. Country music: A” Symbol of Racism”
Your tax dollars don’t just go to the NPR’s lies; they also go to the extremely serious journalism, such as podcast investigations that link the country music idiom to racism. An episode titled” How racism became a marketing tool for country music” was hosted by NPR’s Britany Luse in August 2023.
Is racism necessary for country music to reach number one? she told a story. ” I wanted to know how country music came to be this symbol of racism, and why fans of country music are eying stars who are currently dissuasive of racist rhetoric.  ”,
The Federalist’s editor of elections is Elle Purnell. Her work has been featured on CNN, RealClearPolitics, The Tampa Bay Times, and the Independent Women’s Forum. She received a B. A. in government from Patrick Henry College, with a journalism minor. Follow her on Twitter at @ellepurnell.
