Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) had harsh criticism for taxpayers funding “public” leftist propaganda outlets such as National Public Radio, the Corporation Public Broadcasting, and the Public Broadcasting System.
Kennedy called the scheme more just a “gravy train” but a “gravy train with biscuit wheels.”
In November, video footage of NPR CEO Katherine Maher from an August 2021 Ted Talk reappeared on X, sparking new debate over the taxpayer-funded broadcaster’s alleged bias.
In the 10-second clip, Maher questioned the role truth plays in the industry as the then-CEO of Wikimedia. She took over as CEO of NPR in March 2024.
Maher told the crowd, “I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done.”
Elon Musk weighed in on the video asking if taxpayer funds should be used for an organization headed by someone who thinks the truth is a “distraction.”
Should your tax dollars really be paying for an organization run by people who think the truth is a “distraction”? https://t.co/W79tcJJLxu
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 12, 2024
In his remarks, Kennedy said, “In calling for the defunding of President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is looking for fat to trim. As far as I’m concerned, this gravy train – this gravy train with biscuit wheels called the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – is the perfect example of a project the American people no longer need and should not fund.”
Kennedy provided examples of the leftist ideology inserted regularly into the “news reporting activity” of the organizations.
“Eating less beef is a climate solution.”
“Nice white people can still be complicit in a racist society.”
“Scientists debunk lab accident theory of pandemic emergence.”
“I’m all for this, if that’s what these outlets want to do,’ he stated.
“But, I’m not for taking $500 million every single year and giving it to these stations (CPB) to the exclusion of everybody else. That’s immoral.”
He added, “We are running $36 trillion in debt. This is disgraceful in 2025. It is disgraceful whether it is left-of-center opinion journalism or right-of-center opinion journalism. It is disgraceful to the American people to have to fund this rot.”
“It doesn’t mean the rot doesn’t have a right to exist, but they don’t have a right to taxpayer money.”
Watch:
Partial transcript per MRCTV.
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