"Democrat propaganda": Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to team up with Musk to defund NPR

[Galraedia]

Source: Salon

When she's not claiming that her opposition controls the weather or accusing her own party of covering up sexual assault, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is gearing up to work in President-elect Donald Trump's second term, and she has some novel ideas about bringing down the deficit.

Greene has been tapped by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a new House subcommittee working with the pair's not-yet-created Department of Government Efficiency. During a stop by Fox News on Sunday, Greene gave a glimpse at the sort of line items the government-budget-slashing department would focus on.

"It's all over," Greene said of supposed government waste. "We'll be looking at everything from government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda...all kinds of programs that don't help the American people."

The statement led "defund NPR" to trend briefly on Musk-owned social media app X. In truth, NPR receives very little of its budget directly from the federal government. How exactly to calculate its funding is up for debate as money granted to local public radio stations via the government-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting is frequently used to pay for the rights to air NPR-produced national programming locally. However, the conception of NPR as an entity that only exists thanks to government largesse is false.

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2024/11/24/democrat-propaganda-marjorie-taylor-greene-plans-to-team-up-with-musk-to-defund-npr/

[wcmagumba]

1. Total witch...sorry for name calling...

[jimfields33]

9. Most of the funding is donated.

They get very little federal funds. They may not even want the funds and be able to run it like they want. Taking federal funds cord with some rules. They may be better off without the crumbs they get.

[Rebl2]

31. Just what

I was going to say. During the local fund drives, they seem desperate for money the last few years.

[BOSSHOG]

2. I agree with Marge

The Truth is “Democrat propaganda”

“All kinds of programs that don’t help the American People”. This is based on MTGs extensive and objective 10 year investigation of NPR programming? NPR offers programs everyday that help the American people. I think it’s quite apparent that MTG doesn’t not listen to NPR and that’s a BFD relative to her warped, skewed, altered, wrong perspective. But you go girl!

[DBoon]

11. How can you say "Car Talk" didn't help the American people?

Not only did I learn an immense amount about automobiles, I figured out how to understand a Boston accent.

[BOSSHOG]

13. Excellent Point My Friend

Tom and Ray were awesome, brilliant aiders of Americans. Excellent advice on NPR. I could not listen to them while driving for fear of laughing so hard I’d wreck. MIT wants their diplomas back. Brilliance, education, humor. Kryptonite to trump voters.

[ReRe]

18. I miss Car Talk so much!

Especially when they had their Mother on. I'd love to hear reruns just to hear
their voices & laughter again. It was informational & joyful at the same time!
I tell you, they will be shocked by the uproar if thy come after NPR & /or PBS.

[BOSSHOG]

21. A few years back

I got three CDs of some of their shows. They never get old.

[sakabatou]

19. "We're Click and Clack: the Tappert brothers!"

[walkingman]

3. Hell is empty - all the devils are here in the GOP.

[SKKY]

4. It always amazes me what people will do to remain relevant...

...

[babylonsister]

5. She is a true bone head. Did Musk agree?

Did anyone consider checking out how many people really like npr? Who the fuck does she think she is?

[hadEnuf]

6. No Marge, you subhuman piece of shit.

NPR is not fascist Republican propaganda, which is why you have a problem with it.

[jls4561]

7. The bleached blonde bad built butch body brainless (your choice of alliteration here)

Just reminded me to renew my pledge to NPR before “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” did.

[stopdiggin]

8. and the little noted irony ....

(although 'irony' might not be the best descriptor). Is the number of times I have seen NPR derided as 'right-wing sell-out' here on this sight.

Damned if you do, and damned if you ...
And - still not entirely sure ... Does that mean that you might be doing something right - once in a while? Or - just garbage all the way around?

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[TomSlick]

32. NPR is hardly a left-wing organization.

I have been known to refer to NPR as "Nice Polite Republicans."

[stopdiggin]

36. thank you !

for both being somewhat sane about it - and at the same time verifying my statement !

[underpants]

10. 12%. Reagan (unsurprisingly) tried to cut it.

Funding pre-2000
edit
During the 1970s and early 1980s, the majority of NPR funding came from the federal government. Steps were taken during the Reagan administration in the 1980s to completely wean NPR from government support, but the 1983 funding crisis forced the network to make immediate changes.

According to CPB, in 2009 11.3% of the aggregate revenues of all public radio broadcasting stations were funded from federal sources, principally through CPB;[46] in 2012 10.9% of the revenues for Public Radio came from federal sources.[47]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR

[Karasu]

12. Unfortunately, the truth doesn't matter. Republicans are idiots and BELIEVE NPR exists because of federal funding...

...therefore it needs to be "defunded."

[Orrex]

14. After NPR has spent 8 dutiful years sane-washing Trump?

[electric_blue68]

34. I can tell you local WNYC radio host Brian Lerher while at first using other synonyms than liar at first got...

to calling him a liar by about 1 yr in or so.

Possibly Kai Wright (weekend show, now national) as well.

Pretty sure some other local Piblic Radio talkers did the same.

[Orrex]

35. I believe you. And, to be fair...

The flagship programs Morning Edition & ATC were the ones that consistently downplayed his bullshit, with NPR's ombudsman famously performing all kinds of acrobatics to explain why Trump's obvious lies weren't actually obvious lies. (Spoiler alert: "because he believes them.&quot

[Ohioboy]

15. Big Bird, Car Talk, This old House, Prarie Home Companion..

...oh the propaganda!

[boonecreek]

16. Can she even spell "NPR"?

Asking for a friend.

[jalan48]

17. Musk, the unelected Oligarch is in charge now.

[Timeflyer]

20. We need Mr. Rogers back in the neighborhood, to take on the Howler Monkey from Hell.

[jmowreader]

23. Have you seen what they're playing now that Fred Rogers is gone?

It's called "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood." It's animated. The production company Fred Rogers founded makes it. It teaches kids the same lessons Fred did, and it is REALLY cute. Daniel is part of a family of tigers in which Dad Tiger dresses just like Fred Rogers did. The first time I saw this was in the Spokane VA waiting room; they had the TV set to it and the parallels to "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" are quite obvious.

[Timeflyer]

28. I'm so glad he is still out there in some form helping little ones grow. Some children's stuff is so frenetic

and loud--wow, I sound old. But Mr. Rogers was special. And he actually appeared before Congress May 1, 1969 to defend public television, when gov't. was looking into cutting out funding for it.

[rurallib]

22. Wondered how long it would take before NPR became a target

I thought it would be the first week. Very surprised PBS isn't in her sights also - maybe she has that channel blocked? Or more likely she can't figure out how to use that complicated remote.

She may just trigger NPR's greatest fundraising ever.

[Marthe48]

24. Nothing to do with us

We're the Democratic Party. They are such a butt sniffer.

[maxsolomon]

25. Now Promoting Republicans is as Centrist as it gets nowadays.

Treating Repuke gaslighting with deference and respect. Repukes don't like it because it's not servile ENOUGH.

Plus those weekend shows? The Moth? Livewire? What are they even about? They confuse my tiny Repuke brain.

[Irish_Dem]

26. Anyone who speaks truth will be destroyed.

Like in Russia, China, etc.

[Deuxcents]

27. MTG has been sitting idle since she got kick off her committee and now she's got plenty of pent up

Ambition to become a dictator of her newly appointed position.

[ificandream]

29. Horrible thought: Musk and MTG married.

Ugh.

[Martin68]

30. Republicans always go after NPR funding, to the point that I don't really think there are many red states that haven't

already eliminated their funding for the national public media. I don't think they get very much from the federal government anymore.

[C0RI0LANUS]

33. The real danger is the GOP purging the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

and replacing the BBG with iconoclasts, Islamophobes, and Russophiles.

The mission of United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) is to inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy. The Agency’s mission is reinforced by those of the individual broadcasters (VOA, RFE/RL, RFA) that are overseen by USAGM.

Source:

https://direct.usagm.gov/about_direct

[iemanja]

37. Takeaway: because NPR doesn't live up

The Democratic Party’s ass, it deserves to be defunded. Nice way to do MTG’s work for her, folks. I knew she could count on you.