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Says PBS can broadcast what it wants, but it’s ‘immoral’ for taxpayers to be billed

By Bob Unruh

U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La. (Video screenshot)
U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-La.

It’s not just a “gravy train” that is dumping millions of taxpayer dollars into a broadcast scheme that delivers leftist propaganda, it’s a “gravy train with biscuit wheels.”

That’s from Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., who recently took to the floor of the Senate to blast the continued funding of National Public Radio, the Corporation Public Broadcasting and the Public Broadcasting System.

Those organizations often have been criticized for having a leftist ideology, and inserting that regularly into the news reporting.

Kennedy brought with him examples of that activity, through headlines that actually were created by the organizations.

Such as, “Eating less beef is a climate solution,” “There is no neutral. Nice white people can still be complicit in a racist society” and “Scientists debunk lab accident theory of pandemic emergence.”

“No fair-minded person with an IQ above a single cell organism would conclude that this is anything but biased to certain points of view,” he said.

A report at RedState explained that Kennedy was calling on Congress “to stop funding all public broadcasting.”

Kennedy said the taxpayer-funded organizations are “the perfect example of a project the American people no longer need and should not fund.”

He said the outlets can broadcast what they want.

“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. 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,” he warned.

The report also noted that NewsBusters’ Executive Editor Tim Graham wrote about the same time, “NPR Is National Public Relations for the War on Trump.”

He explained, “At the top of every hour, hundreds of taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio stations in 50 states transmit leftist public relations, badly disguised as news. You can get talking points jammed in your ear on your rush-hour commute. Nobody is allowed to question the concept of ‘systemic racism’ on NPR. They’re deeply invested in that ideology. It’s why NPR favors describing race riots against cops as ‘rebellions.'”

He explained, “The half of the country that voted for Trump shouldn’t have to support this clearly hostile radio network with our tax dollars. Lambda Legal and all the other leftists should pony up for NPR’s supine press releases, since NPR’s ‘newscasts’ aren’t diverse or inclusive enough for conservatives.”

Kennedy noted that since 1970, Congress has given NPR more than $14.5 billion and it has purchased a $200 million office building, pays its hosts as much as $532,000 a year.

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