NPR 'Fresh Air' Offers Obsequious Tongue Bath to Nikole-Hannah Jones

Tim Graham
November 18th, 2021 2:30 PM

NPR offers a daily talk show called Fresh Air out of WHYY-FM in Philadelphia. Its leftist tilt is legendary, and the legend was strongly underlined on Wednesday with an incredibly servile interview with Nikole Hannah-Jones, organizer of the "1619 Project" agitprop at The New York Times.  There are 15 questions offered over 36 minutes, and every single one of them is like a…

 

NPR Trashes GOP as Enabling Trump's 'Proto-Authoritarian Cult'

Tim Graham
June 9th, 2020 4:21 PM

A large minority of American voters chose Donald Trump for president, and their tax dollars go in part to fund National Public Radio....which trashes the president as a wannabe tyrant. A recent Fresh Air interview was headlined "Journalist Explains Why Republican Leaders Back Trump's 'Proto-Authoritarian Cult'."

 

This NPR Host Couldn't Be More In Favor of Abusive Al Franken

Tim Graham
July 28th, 2019 3:21 PM
Longtime NPR Fresh Air host Terry Gross is completely In The Tank for Al Franken. Back in the Dubya years, we contrasted her giggly, tickly Franken interview with a very hostile Bill O'Reilly interview, where he actually stormed out of the studio. Gross is also a big fan of New Yorker writer Jane Mayer, so it's completely predictable that she awarded 43 and a half minutes of national taxpayer-…
 

WashPost Celebrates Broadway Play on How the Constitution Fails Women

Tim Graham
April 14th, 2019 3:54 PM
Sunday's Washington Post pushed the new liberal sensation on Broadway: a play called What The Constitution Means to Me, written by Heidi Schreck. Here's your spoiler on the plot: the Constitution has never been great. In March, NPR's Fresh Air promoted Scheck under the headline "How Women Have Been 'Profoundly' Left Out Of The U.S. Constitution." Post drama critic Peter Marks marked the play's…
 

NPR, NY Times Can't Find Failed Socialism in Venezuela

Tim Graham
April 7th, 2019 10:27 PM
We have noted many times how the media cannot manage to bring the word "socialism" into the dialogue as Venezuela crumbles into ruin. On NPR's Fresh Air on Tuesday, substitute host Dave Davies chatted for 37 minutes with Nicholas Casey, the "Andes bureau chief" of the New York Times. They talked about about 3,800 words of transcript before the S-word came out, and then it was just informational…
 

NPR Host on Russian Meddling: Did Mitch McConnell Commit 'Treason'?

Tim Graham
October 6th, 2018 10:57 PM
On NPR Monday, Fresh Air host Terry Gross spent 35 minutes with Washington Post reporter Greg Miller, promoting his book The Apprentice: Trump, Russia And The Subversion Of American Democracy. She wanted to know if they could accuse Sen. Mitch McConnell with treason for going soft on Russian meddling in the election. This is weird, since Gross has gone all soft on Pentagon bomber Bill Ayers and…
 

NPR Won't Accept Use of 'Abortion Doctor' in Ad for Movie on Gosnell

Tim Graham
September 21st, 2018 10:58 PM
National Public Radio wouldn't accept the word "abortionist" in a proposed underwriting announcement for a movie on Kermit Gosnell. They insisted on "doctor." The Gosnell movie-makers said "abortion doctor"? NPR said no....even though NPR has used the term "abortion doctor" routinely in stories. 
 

NPR Alarmed by Conservatives at HHS Defending Religious Freedom

Tim Graham
March 23rd, 2018 6:51 AM
Liberal National Public Radio expressed alarm on Tuesday that religious conservatives inside the Trump administration are pushing "discrimination" against women seeking abortions and people seeking "gender affirming" surgery. Roger Severino runs a new office at the Department of Health and Human Services defending the religious freedom of health care providers. Liberals don't see religious…
 

NPR Plugs Trans Woman Denouncing a 'Presidency of Prejudice'

Tim Graham
March 2nd, 2018 9:11 PM
On Wednesday, NPR's Fresh Air devoted more than 36 minutes to promoting transgender Democratic activist Sarah McBride and her new book Tomorrow Will Be Different. It turned harsh on the Republicans near the end: "We went from a presidency of progress to a presidency of prejudice...This has truly become in the last year the most explicitly anti-LGBTQ adminstration we've seen in history." 
 

Doubts Aired in Liberal Media Over Impact of Russian Trolls

Jack Coleman
March 1st, 2018 9:18 PM
Two weeks since special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russians for an alleged propaganda assault to interfere with the 2016 campaign, euphoria among liberals has given way to much more sober assessments. Typical of the hot-take reaction on the left to Mueller's indictment was the response of National Public Radio journalists on the NPR Politics podcast on Feb. 16, the same day the…
 

Pot, Meet Kettle: NPR Talks Up 'Epidemic' of Team Trump Sexual Assault

Tim Graham
February 15th, 2018 1:35 PM
On Tuesday's Fresh Air on NPR, host Terry Gross and her guest, liberal author Joshua Green, discussed how Trump and Trump-affiliated Republicans somehow created an "epidemic" of sexual assault. Green wrote a book on Trump adviser Steve Bannon unsubtly titled Devil's Bargain. Gross briefly mentioned NPR has its own sexual harassment problem ("epidemic"?). 
 
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Fresh Air? NPR Show Obsesses Over Anita Hill, Elides Media Harassers

Tim Graham
December 1st, 2017 12:01 PM
In the midst of all the sexual harassment shockers emerging from the media, Hollywood, and politics, the Left is still hailing Anita Hill as the patron saint of sexual harassment. An especially egregious case unfolded on Thursday afternoon, as the NPR show Fresh Air with Terry Gross spent a half-hour re-litigating Clarence Thomas as a harasser with his old journalistic nemesis Jane Mayer (now…
 

Clinton Plays Innocent, Calls Secret Tarmac Meeting a 'Phony' Scandal

Kristine Marsh
September 19th, 2017 3:03 PM
Perhaps it was an apology for giving Hillary Clinton a tough interview last week, but NPR decided to make it up to her this week, with a long-winded gushy, self-flagellating interview by Fresh Air’s Terry Gross, that let Clinton lay all the blame for losing the election on every one of her dozens of excuses, including the media.
 

Katy Tur: I Don't Vote Because...I Want to Appear Neutral (on MSNBC?)

Tim Graham
September 17th, 2017 1:07 PM
MSNBC host Katy Tur is granting interviews to promote her book Unbelievable on being a political correspondent on the Trump campaign, and that included an hour-long softball session on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Tur claimed she doesn't vote because "I don't have a horse in the race." Earth to Miss Tur: When you host a daily program on MSNBC and received adulatory hour-long interviews on…