The Patriot Post® · NPR's Iran Quid Pro Quo

Barack Obama wasn’t just turning to a fiction writer to make up the narrative on the Iran nuclear deal. As is turns out, one of the groups Obama con man Ben Rhodes commissioned to help sell the fraudulent deal was also funding the very media reporting on it.

Earlier this month we reported on Rhodes, who recently admitted, “We had test drives to know who was going to be able to carry our [Iran deal] message effectively, and how to use outside groups like Ploughshares, the Iran Project and whomever else.” Now we learn, courtesy of the Associated Press, that the Ploughshares Fund “gave National Public Radio $100,000 last year to help it report on the pact and related issues, according to the group’s annual report. It also funded reporters and partnerships with other news outlets.”

Hot Air’s John Sexton explains, “There are no conditions on the money and yet, guess who NPR turned to when reporting on the Iran deal? If you guessed Ploughshares’ president, Joseph Cirincione, you are correct. He appeared on the network twice as the deal was being reached last March.” Moreover, “Cirincione appeared on NPR twice without so much as a dissenting voice in sight.”

As further evidence of collusion, it appears NPR also censored Republican whistleblowers. According to The Washington Free Beacon, “The publicly funded National Public Radio declined interviews with Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.), a leading critic of the Iran nuclear deal. … When asked by reporters last week about refusing the interviews, NPR suggested that Pompeo’s office had never reached out to the station. However, multiple emails viewed by the Free Beacon demonstrate that Pompeo’s office had been in two separate talks with NPR producers about scheduling an interview.”

The Iran nuclear deal was only possible through myriad bribery and deceit. It truly is the sum of all lies.