David Welna
In Mattis Aide's Tell-All, NPR Finds Mattis Fighting for Obama Legacy
October 24th, 2019 4:06 PM
NPR's David Welna offered an online book review on the new "tell-all" book by Guy Snodgrass, a top aide to former Defense Secretary James Mattis. Welna highlighted several examples of Mattis digging in to defend Obama's legacy and getting frustrated that President Trump kept overturning Obama.
NPR Practices Viewpoint Discrimination: No Conservatives Allowed To Sp
November 6th, 2013 7:06 AM
NPR practiced its typical Inevitable Gay Progress bias on Tuesday’s Morning Edition. By a vote of 61-30, the Senate voted to proceed on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would allow LGBT activists to file lawsuits if they felt they were fired or weren’t hired or promoted on the grounds of “sexual orientation” or “gender identity.”
Congressional correspondent David Welna piled up…
NPR Lines Up Liberal Boosters of 'Path to Citizenship' For Illegal Imm
April 11th, 2013 7:12 PM
NPR's David Welna stacked his Thursday report on Morning Edition full of liberal politicians and activists who support granting citizenship to illegal immigrants. Welna aired sound bites from a representative of the left-wing SEIU, three Democratic politicians, and a woman who has illegal immigrant family members. He only included one clip from a Republican – Senator John McCain, who has long…
NPR Celebrates Obama-In-Ohio Day By Ripping GOP Senate Candidate For
July 5th, 2012 11:34 PM
As Obama prepared to tour northern Ohio cities by bus on Thursday, NPR's Morning Edition was trying to take apart the Republican challenger to liberal Senator Sherrod Brown. First, correspondent David Welna dismissed 34-year-old GOP state treasurer Josh Mandel as someone "who could easily be mistaken for a teenager."
Then he added that "independent" (read: liberal media elite) fact-checkers…
NPR Represents 'Undocumented' Romney Heckler As Typical 'Alienated' La
May 28th, 2012 7:33 AM
Mickey Kaus at the Daily Caller flagged an example of NPR “laundering” an amnesty activist named “Lucy” as just a typical Latina who represents how Romney might have difficulty with the Latino vote. It’s the same “Lucy” that heckled Mitt Romney until supporters applauded over her yelling. It’s not even the first time “Lucy” has harassed Romney.
On the May 23 All Things Considered, NPR’s…
NPR Offers 'Conservative' AEI Expert Hailing the 'Very Big Fat Cherry
December 24th, 2010 7:27 AM
Norman Ornstein is a long-time congressional expert (and favorite TV talking head) who works for the American Enterprise Institute. We've established that NBC anchor Brian Williams was citing him after the president's last press conference in support of how historic and wonderful and "productive" this Democrat-dominated Congress has been.
But the fact that AEI has long been a right-leaning…
NPR Skips Opponents of Amnesty in Story on Latino Liberals and ObamaCa
March 21st, 2010 8:50 AM
In Friday's speech at George Mason University, President Obama slammed as one of the "crazy things" conservatives said about his health-care effort was that it would offer federal insurance coverage to illegal aliens. On Friday night's All Things Considered newscast on National Public Radio, reporter David Welna's story underlined that liberals like Rep. Luis Gutierrez expected exactly that, but…