Left-wing bias and propaganda in the mainstream media was one of the key reasons Mark Alexander launched The Patriot Post in 1996. Since then, media bias has arguably grown, especially since Donald Trump descended that escalator in 2015.

On Wednesday, National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher tried to gaslight Congress by denying any political bias at her partially taxpayer-funded enterprise. She effectively told the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency that she’d be shocked — shocked — to hear of gambling at her casino.

“Is NPR biased?” Ohio Republican Jim Jordan asked Maher.

She replied, “Congressman, I have never seen any instance of—”

“Never?” Jordan interjected.

“—of political bias determining editorial decisions, no,” Maher finished as listeners in the room laughed at her obvious lie. She also falsely insisted that NPR consistently delivers “unbiased, nonpartisan, fact-based reporting to Americans.”

In her opening statement, Maher said, “We have a responsibility to serve Americans across the full political spectrum in a trustworthy, nonpartisan fashion. It is essential we deliver on this commitment, and we have work to do, and we are doing it.”

She’s right about one thing: They have work to do.

You see, Republicans came to the hearing with the receipts. Maher — who runs NPR — is as woke as they come. She has indicated on her social media accounts that white people feel superior to other races, that “yes, reparations” are a good idea, and that it was “hard to be mad” about the destruction caused by rioters and looters after George Floyd’s death. She called Trump a “deranged racist sociopath.” When he was deplatformed by social media companies, she crowed, “Must be satisfying to deplatform fascists. Even more satisfying? Not platforming them in the first place.”

Rep. Brandon Gill brings up all of Katherine Maher’s old tweets claiming that “America is addicted to white supremacy” and supporting looting, reparations, and BLM.

This woman is the blonde version of Robin DiAngelo. pic.twitter.com/w5BRyMJlHd

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 26, 2025

Perhaps Maher has little or nothing to do with what or how news is covered, but it’s a stretch to say her employees don’t think like her. Of NPR’s editorial board, 87 members are registered Democrats with zero Republicans. When confronted with that stat, Maher admitted, “That number is a concern if it is accurate.” How inaccurate would it have to be to no longer be concerning? Can she counter it by naming a single reporter or sound technician who holds political opinions to the right of Karl Marx?

Almost a year ago, former 25-year NPR veteran Uri Berliner outed the bias in a damning article and accompanying podcast at The Free Press. “It’s true NPR has always had a liberal bent,” Berliner wrote, “but during most of my tenure here, an open-minded, curious culture prevailed. We were nerdy, but not knee-jerk, activist, or scolding. In recent years, however, that has changed.” His candor earned him a suspension, followed by his resignation.

He’s back, by the way, once again writing for The Free Press, “NPR Should Refuse to Take Federal Funds.” He knew Maher’s testimony was coming and that Republicans would take aim at taxpayer funding for the left-wing outfit. He contends that NPR could “regain its respect by doing something no one ever does in American life: Turn down government support.”

Berliner also has the receipts. Last year, he recalled the disgraceful instance of NPR spiking the news about Hunter Biden’s very real laptop and the Biden Crime Family corruption it revealed in October 2020. “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories,” NPR’s then-Managing Editor Terence Samuel haughtily argued at the time. “And we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”

Refusing to cover that story and instead covering for the Bidens constituted what I still argue was decisive election interference. NPR (and every other Leftmedia outfit) did the opposite with the hoax of Russian collusion.

What did Maher tell Congress about that? Oops.

“NPR acknowledges that we were mistaken in failing to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner,” Maher responded to a question from Texas Republican Michael Cloud.

A mistake is adding Jeffrey Goldberg to an administration chat about a military strike on Signal — for which, by the way, Maher chairs the board. Putting your thumb on the editorial scale because you’re helping Joe Biden win the presidential election is something else entirely.

Another “mistake”? Treating the COVID lab leak theory as racist and xenophobic, as NPR did for years — along with myriad other examples of pandemic fakery. Now, Maher says, “We acknowledged that the new CIA evidence [of a leak] is worthy of coverage and have covered it.” You don’t say.

Other instances of NPR’s bias abound, but Maher passed the buck, saying, “That was before I was CEO.” Not all of it. In Berliner’s aforementioned essay on Tuesday, he names other examples of rampant bias since Maher took over.

Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, chair of the DOGE subcommittee, was exactly right: “NPR and PBS have increasingly become radical, left-wing echo chambers for a narrow audience of mostly wealthy, white, urban liberals and progressives, who generally look down on and judge rural America.” The outrageous thing is, as she noted, NPR’s “federal funding is also paid for” by people held in contempt by its listeners, personnel, and leadership. She later asserted, “They can hate us on their own dime.”

On Tuesday, Trump weighed in, saying he “would love to” defund NPR and its television counterpart PBS, calling the two Leftmedia networks “very biased” and a “waste of money.”

REPORTER: Would you be interested in defunding and taking away taxpayer dollars to NPR and PBS?@POTUS: “I would love to do that. I think it’s very unfair, it’s been very biased — the whole group… the kind of money that’s being wasted, and it’s a very biased view.” pic.twitter.com/hegd05Zxr8

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 25, 2025

I’m not sure which is less likely — Congress defunding NPR or NPR declining further federal funds. This is a lucrative grift, and I’m skeptical that there’s enough backbone anywhere to end it.

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