NewsBusters Podcast: Biden Visits Border, NPR Asks Why Border Control?

January 9th, 2023 10:52 PM

President Biden's visit to the border in El Paso was greeted by liberal media operatives in two noticeable ways. Either they sympathized with Biden's work on this "complex" issue, or -- like NPR's Steve Inskeep -- they asked Team Biden "why" they would tell people not to come to America and cross the border illegally? MRC Latino Director Jorge Bonilla offers his expertise on these matters.

NPR Attacks Rush Limbaugh and Salem Radio in Seven-Minute Hit Piece

January 7th, 2023 8:35 AM

On Friday's Morning Edition, co-host Steve Inskeep broadcast some unintentional hilarity when offering a seven-minute attack on conservative talk radio starring Katie Thornton, who has a liberal podcast series called "The Divided Dial." NPR's website summarized the segment as NPR "examines how right-wing radio spreads misinformation." The lodestar of this "misinformation"? The late…

NPR Smears Twitter Files as 'Ugly' Musk 'Stunt' That Spurred Threats

December 15th, 2022 4:13 PM

Taxpayer-subsidized NPR had been aggressively ignoring the "Twitter Files" revelations, but when they finally acknowledged them on Tuesday's Morning Edition, the new information was described as an "attention-grabbing stunt," "not a bombshell," and an "ugly" spectacle causing threats of violence to Dr. Anthony Fauci and former Twitter "trust and safety" czar Yoel Roth. 

NPR Analyzes GOP with Author of 'The Republican Party Lost Its Mind'

November 12th, 2022 6:37 AM

National Public Radio hates Republicans, and it doesn't matter if Republicans pay a chunk of their salaries. On Wednesday, Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep brought on New York Times Magazine writer Robert Draper, author of a book colorfully titled Weapons Of Mass Delusion: When The Republican Party Lost Its Mind.

Why NPR Can't Lecture Anyone About Refusing to Condemn Rioting

October 18th, 2022 10:20 AM

We know National Public Radio has promoted a book called In Defense of Looting and championed an author who wants riots to be described as "rebellions," as an admirable political tactic. On Monday's Morning Edition, NPR anchor Steve Inskeep welcomed a radical leftist author who thinks President Biden shouldn't have spoken out against rioting in 2020.

NPR Cheerleads for New 'All-Trimester Abortion Clinic' in DC Area

September 4th, 2022 8:11 AM

National Public Radio takes your tax dollars and puts on completely one-sided propaganda. On Friday's Morning Edition, former NPR morning anchor Melissa Block narrated a completely one-sided seven-minute story they titled "An all-trimester abortion clinic prepares to open in Maryland, one of few nationally". This is, for NPR, a good-news story.

NPR Puts On Leftist Who Thinks the Pro-Life Side Shouldn't Get TV Time

July 9th, 2022 8:09 AM

As part of its ongoing abortion advocacy badly disguised as journalism, Thursday’s Morning Edition devoted a segment to how Hollywood hasn’t been pro-abortion enough! Anchor Rachel Martin spoke to Tanya Melendez, a doctoral fellow at the University of Illinois, who wrote an article for Vox.com last fall titled “How TV lied about abortion.”

NPR Dumps Annual Reading of Declaration of Independence on July 4

July 5th, 2022 1:30 PM

Taxpayer-funded National Public Radio canceled their annual July Fourth reading of the Declaration of Independence. The surprise here is that NPR ever showed reverence for 1776 in the first place. They’re more marinated in the spirit of 1974, lobbying to impeach Nixon and lose the Vietnam War and enshrine abortion on demand.

Tax-Funded NPR Promotes Leftist Effort to 'Chop Off Fox News's Head'

June 13th, 2022 7:05 AM

National Public Radio has made it clear over the years that it despises Fox News. On June 9, the morning before the primetime Pelosi Panel hearing, Morning Edition promoted a radical leftist group of censors that wants Fox News beheaded. Of course, NPR never called them "leftist" or anything ideological as they aim to starve Fox News of digital ads.

NPR: Alito's 'Strident' Opinion Used 'Abortionist,' 'Unborn Children'

May 5th, 2022 7:59 AM

On Wednesday's Morning Edition, your taxpayer-funded National Public Radio expressed alarm at Justice Samuel Alito's "quite strident" draft opinion on abortion. He used terms like "abortionist." A guest was upset with the term "unborn children."

Dear NPR: Why Leave Nina Totenberg's Sister's Name Out of Your Story?

April 22nd, 2022 3:05 PM

National Public Radio energetically reported on left-wing attempt to cancel Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the ballot in Georgia, and "a judge" who allowed their crusade to continue. But there was an ethical problem: The enabling judge's name was Amy Totenberg, the sister of NPR legal correspondent Nina Totenberg. Reports on Friday morning and Thursday night avoided the name entirely. 

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PBS and NPR Air Unanimous Taxpayer-Funded LGBT Radicalism

April 3rd, 2022 7:22 PM

Taxpayer-funded PBS and NPR marked the so-called "Transgender Day of Visibility" on Thursday by celebrating leftist cultural radicals and refusing to grant one second of airtime to rebuttals from social conservatives. 

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NPR Morning Host Asks Blinken About Putin Fans on TV and in the GOP

March 16th, 2022 3:43 PM

National Public Radio broadcast ten minutes of an interview with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday's Morning Edition. Anchor Steve Inskeep asked Blinken twice about pro-Putin voices repeating Russian talking points on TV and in the GOP. It sounded like taxpayer-funded NPR doesn't like Democrat presidents being critiqued. 

NPR Stacks the Verbal Deck Against DeSantis on Racial Gerrymandering

February 24th, 2022 10:30 PM

On Thursday's Morning Edition, they stacked the verbal deck against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the state's redistricting battle. DeSantis was opposing "federal and state protections for Black voters" and using a "conservative activist group" to make his case. On the other side, there were nonpartisan "voting rights groups" like the Brennan Center.