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Fox News
17-07-2025
- Politics
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NPR head asks critics to 'show me a story' that proves liberal bias amid defunding threats
NPR CEO Katherine Maher challenged critics to show her a story that would prove the radio network is biased on Wednesday. Maher defended her organization on CNN's "The Situation Room" as it faces efforts by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans to remove its federal funding. Though Trump and other conservative critics have accused NPR of being politically biased towards Democrats, Maher insisted that they "serve all Americans" and seemed to deny any bias. "It doesn't help anyone to take this funding away," Maher said. "As far as the accusations that we're biased, I would stand up and say, 'Please show me a story that concerns you,' because we want to know and we want to bring that conversation back to our newsroom." She added, "We believe that, as a public broadcaster, we do have an obligation to serve all Americans, and we need to make sure that our coverage reflects the interests and perspective. And we hear from Americans across the political spectrum. That's important to us, and we want to make sure we live up to that." Maher's comments received backlash from right-leaning social media users who were quick to provide examples. "'We're here to serve all Americans' is a humongous lie. NPR is here to serve Democrats and Antifa and people who think the Communist Manifesto is a stirring book," Newsbusters executive editor Tim Graham wrote. "Here you go @krmaher! These are just a few!" Libs of TikTok wrote with a photo of several NPR headlines. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., posted a thread featuring videos of himself on the Senate floor providing examples of NPR's political bias. "NPR reported that country music and birds are racist, told American people to stop eating beef, and promoted the Russia-gate conspiracy. No person with a brain above a single-celled organism would call these articles fair and balanced," one tweet said. Another read, "NPR claimed President Biden's presidential debate performance didn't change the election, days before he dropped out of the race. If you believe that headline, you believe in the tooth fairy. But that's what NPR reported with your tax dollars." "NPR reported that there is no evidence that biological men have an unfair advantage over biological women in sports. NPR also called America's interstate highways racist. I did not know our highways were racist. I thought they were concrete, but not according to NPR." He concluded, "NPR referred to rural Americans as 'Christian nationalists' and heaped praise on Biden administration official Rachel Levine. I could go all day. American taxpayers shouldn't have to fund this opinion journalism." Newsbusters managing editor Curtis Houck told Fox News Digital her comments "despicable and rancorous" and a "pants-on-fire lie," pointing to several examples of NPR's political bias, including their failure to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. "Maher can lock herself in an ideological bubble all she wants, but what she's not entitled to are the facts and poisoning the body politic with actual disinformation," Houck said. Maher had admitted that ignoring the Hunter Biden laptop story was a "mistake," but one that happened before she was appointed CEO in 2024. Shortly after she was named NPR CEO, however, NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner wrote a scathing rebuke of his publication and revealed that in the newsroom there were 87 registered Democrats in NPR editorial positions and "zero Republicans." Maher also came under fire after her old social media posts emerged featuring her openly supporting former President Joe Biden and attacking Trump leading up to the 2020 election. She also repeated several left-leaning talking points, such as saying that property damage was "not the thing" Americans should be upset over during the George Floyd riots.
Fox News
07-02-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Maxine Waters, House Dems ripped for 'unhinged' clash with security guard at Education Dept
Conservatives on social media blasted Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., after she and other Democrats protesting President Donald Trump attempted to enter the Department of Education building in Washington, D.C., while accosting a security guard in the process. Thirty House Democrats attempted to enter the Department of Education building on Friday morning to meet with acting Education Secretary Denise L. Carter regarding Trump's plans to significantly downsize or even eliminate the department, but they were stopped by security. Video of the Democrats attempting to convince the visibly uninterested security guard to let them in quickly spread on social media, sparking strong pushback from conservatives. Waters and other Democrats could be seen on video berating the security guard, repeatedly asking for his ID, and telling him to look at the camera, so viewers could see his face. "This is hilarious," author Justin Hart posted on X. "The Democrats have octagenarians going around town trying to intimidate federal workers for some reason or another." "Absolutely pathetic theater from House Democrats at the Department of Education, down to claiming the security officer is a modern day police officer in the Deep South blocking school integration," Newsbusters managing editor Curtis Houck posted on X. "The quote at the end is my favorite," Daily Signal investigative columnist Tony Kinnett posted on X. "Three years ago, Democrats wanted to hear NOTHING from parents concerned about their kids' schools. They sent the FBI after parents. Now they're claiming to represent them. Hilarious." "I can't stop watching this," Congressional Leadership Fund Communications Director Torunn Sinclair posted on X. "It's so funny. Democrats are floundering." "Unhinged Maxine Waters is annoying AF," White House Communications Director Steven Cheung posted on X. "This deranged behavior is like a scene ripped straight out of Flowers in the Attic." "Trump has completely broken the Democrat party," Outkick founder Clay Travis posted on X. "They are in total shambles." Fox News Digital reached out to Waters' office for comment. An aide made it inside the building and explained to security that lawmakers were there. Members then tried to go inside the building, and at that point, the doors were locked, Fox News was told. The Nation's Report Card, which assesses how American students are performing in various subjects, showed seven out of 10 fourth graders are not proficient readers, which is a worse score than the last report card in 2022. The report card noted that reading scores showed "no significant change" since 1992. Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who served in Trump's first administration, slammed the department and called for a revamp in an opinion piece. "A complete reset begins with ending the failed experiment resident in the Department of Education. The bureaucrats have focused on mandating DEI, when students needed the focus to be on ABC and 123," DeVos wrote. "President Trump and Congress should take their corrosive power away and instead block grant all necessary education funding directly to the states." On the campaign trail, Trump suggested several times that eliminating the department entirely was on the table. "One thing I'll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and sending all education and education work it needs back to the states," Trump said in a 2023 campaign video.
