I'm glad to see NPR is giving us:It really is amazing watching people like Katherine Maher hear things she’s said and posted, and be so stunned at how absurd and ridiculous they sound that they deny saying what they’ve already said
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) March 26, 2025
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I love those 2 pictures together. So expressive! Both women seem to be earnestly accessing some ideal that is positioned upward and to her left. Here's the link if you need NPR to hand you "4 takeaways."
Here's Maher's bio at NPR. A very interesting fact: "Maher is the Chair of the Board of Signal Foundation, responsible for the secure, private Signal Messenger app...."
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I see their “4 takeaways” and raise them “6 fuckoffs”.
Why is it so hard to understand that NPR and PBS are grossly unfair and biased?
She couldn't refuse to testify, I guess, so she must have been resigned to the unpleasantness, certain that this too, shall pass. They should have put her under oath, if such a thing were possible - it would have made it much more fun to watch.
That was an enjoyable watch. Thank you.
"Maher is the Chair of the Board of Signal Foundation, responsible for the secure, private Signal Messenger app...."
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The lizard has shed that skin now, your questions reference the old lizard, sir.....
Not stupid:
"In one fiery statement, Texas Democrat Jasmine Crockett lashed out at Republicans for what she suggested was a double standard when its comes to free speech. "Free speech is not about whatever it is that you all want somebody to say," she said. "And the idea that you want to shut down everybody that is not Fox News is bull****."
"We need to stop playing because that's what y'all are doing in here. You don't want to hear the opinions of anybody else," she said.
It does raise the question: Did she actually read the woke-approved books she tweeted about, or did she just say she read them as a way to buttress her Democrat-leaning bonfides? Maybe she just read the dust jackets.
Seems like Signal is just another deep state op.
Her bio is impressive, for a woman. Joy Behar might suspect Maher slept her way to the top.
Let's stick to the issue, and it isn't about messaging. In today's unlimited channel world, we don't need a publicly funded NPR. Cut them loose to be whatever they want to be.
Karens on the Hill
2019/2020: Virtue signal on Twitter about the causes du jour.
2025: "I never read those books and I never believed those things."
Thank God for X and the interwebs!
Here's my question: why is the government funding a news/broadcasting corporation?
BTW, Texas' Brandon Gill is the model congressional committee member, for me.
Just ask the questions. No need to bloviate.
Is Elmo MAGA?
"At one point, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., asked ''''' if the Sesame Street character Elmo was a communist? "No" she replied.
Garcia: "Are you sure Ms. ? Because he is red."
"Well, he is a puppet, but no," (she)replied.
Translation:
Of course I believe all of my tweets. Why else would NPR hire me?
So what you are saying is that Trump is not the only public figure that tweets stupid shit.
Public funding for the PBS has a bigger problem than its obvious bias, although it’s not generally acknowledged. That problem can be expressed in one word: Why? Why does the government, in the age of cable, streaming etc, need to fund radio and TV? PBS was created in the ‘60’s, during the time when FCC Commissioner Newton Minow characterized commercial TV as “a vast wasteland” and most people had only a few stations to choose from. Creating a “quality,” non- commercial alternative made sense. (Who wanted to watch more westerns, sit coms and cartoons, punctuated by cigarette commercials?) But seriously, can anyone imagine making an argument that it was necessary to create a publicly funded media network in the era of Prime, Netflix, Apple TV etc?
"It does raise the question: Did she actually read the woke-approved books she tweeted about, or did she just say she read them..."
It raises a different question for me: It illustrates the modern principle that anything can be said into a microphone, but there is no reason to think that it is true, or that the person saying it is truthful. The questioner thinks he is serving up one 'gotcha' moment after another. Maher could not care less - this is simply a meeting on her scheduler. She is perfectly happy to say that her views have changed, or that she 'doesn't recall' - just as she was perfectly happy to first mouth those ingrateful and self-serving progressive platitudes to build her credibility, when it suited. She would do it again, tomorrow, for tomorrow's cause. Words are not reflective of character, they are the water in which this shark swims.
By the way, NPR gets about 25% of their funding from Federal appropriations, colleges/universities, and state & local governments. PBS gets about 40%.
She's think that blonds have more fun.
It raises a different question for me: It illustrates the modern principle that anything can be said into a microphone, but there is no reason to think that it is true, or that the person saying it is truthful.
Right-wingers call that a postmodern principle; left-wingers call it Trumpian. Both are right.
Did anyone ask her about Signal?
Maher will land on her feet somewhere in the non-profit sector. Time to give her and NPR the heave-ho.
Kerger told the story of a local rancher with young children. "[He] drove hours to attend a local station event," she said.
"He pulled me aside and told me this: 'We need PBS. We don't live near a preschool. My children have learned to read [by] watching PBS shows and the shows we watch on PBS are our connection to the rest of America."
That has a "This Never Happened" smell.
"He pulled me aside and told me this: 'We need PBS. We don't live near a preschool. My children have learned to read [by] watching PBS shows..."
2 year old learning sign language watching Miss Rachel on You tube. Sesame street is also on you tube
It illustrates the modern principle that anything can be said into a microphone, but there is no reason to think that it is true, or that the person saying it is truthful.
That has been true in politics for a very long time. The change is that nowadays so much more is said into microphones -- or written online -- that politicians and others in the public eye have become more brazen. There are whole industries that work according to that principle -- not just politics, but public relations, advertising, the media, the legal profession. You have to forget an awful lot of writing on propaganda over the years to think that any of that is new or post-modern or Trumpian.
Cut off the head of a snake, another one appears…
Apologies to whomever it might offend but there’s
something about bleach-blond hair that whispers “Lie to me, and I’ll lie to you.”
Media apparatus controlled (funded) by government always devolves - quite quickly - to a propaganda system. See the UK and the BBC.
Once written, twice... said...
A few years from now conservatives will face the same humiliation for things they espoused during this period of Trump.
As you eluded, Trump was President once before, and our hostess has been 'blogging every day since January 14, 2004'. She not only has searchable archives, she even helpfully tags posts for content. What are you waiting for?
I love the 4 takeaways. Nothing about how 87 out of 87 top execs are democrats. Or how incredibly anti-Trump and pro-Democrat NPR's coverage is. Or how PBS/NPR simply echo MSNBC/NYT/WaPo on every issue. No there 4 takeaways are:
1) Republicans pounced
2) Republicans pounced using criticism from a former NPR guy
3) In some places, PBS is the only source of Emergency Broadcasting
4) Democrats say this is a distraction from the real issues
Points 3/4 are useless. Points 1/2 make is seem like there is no objective problem with NPR/PBS its just R's using it for political reasons. So, real takeaway - NPR/PBS are great and don't need to change a thing!
Once written, twice: "A few years from now conservatives will face the same humiliation for things they espoused during this period of Trump."
Things "espoused" like....what, precisely?
No more open borders? Europe should meet its obligations? We shoulnt be maiming kids based on trans cult lunacy?
Dont keep us in suspense! Tell us about whats going to boomerang back!
The only reason to listen to NPR is to learn what the enemy is planning. I do miss Click and Clack, the Tappett brothers, but that was long ago.
NPR and PBS have valuable assets. They should be sold to the highest bidder.
Also, the ever popular: Hoist by her own Petard
Full Moon endorses Jasmine Crockett's response to all this, "Free speech is not about whatever it is that you all want somebody to say," she said. "And the idea that you want to shut down everybody that is not Fox News is bull****."
Well, here's the difference. Whatever Fox News chooses to say, I don't have to pay them to do it. With PBS, I do have to pay, and being forced to pay for someone else's propaganda is NOT what I would call "free speech." It is compelled speech, which is very far from free speech.
So, you and Jasmine are just wrong about this point!
Thanks to Joan Kroc NPR isn't going anywhere.
Upward into the federal trough--and certainly to the left. NPR and PBS supporters argues that only one percent of their funding comes from the government. Everything else is covered by private donations. If it's only one percent of their funding, why are they always fighting so hard to preserve it?
Interesting; both women started out at UNICEF! I guess that's the career starting point for trustifarians. I'll give Kerger this; at least she worked at WNET for a while before they put her in charge of PBS unlike Maher who's had nothing but policy wonk jobs in the past.
Holy shit, Maher is an asshole. That is one of my takeaways.
The Left thinks every Trump supporter watches Fox News.
Read another book, sweetie.
Thanks to Joan Kroc NPR isn't going anywhere.
Great! I think just about everyone in this comment section would love to see NPR/PBS 100% supported by private donations!
Too bad Maher isn’t an open, out communist. Then we could say a capitalist (Musk) sold her the rope (X) she hung herself with.
@Whiskeybum, "So I wonder what percentage...." - those are the estimated numbers for taxpayer dollars provided to NPR and PBS, whether from direct Federal appropriation or other indirect government-funded grants, budgets, etc.
A very interesting fact: "Maher is the Chair of the Board of Signal Foundation, responsible for the secure, private Signal Messenger app...."
Nice work, Meade. Althouse is now starting her own conspiracy theories!
Anything set up during the corrupt Biden administration - must be dismantled and deleted.
When NPR stations played classical music or jazz, they served a cultural function and deserved some small amount of government support. At this point, though, many NPR stations are all news and their audience is affluent, college educated, and largely white. They should pay for it if they want to hear that programming.
NPR and PBS have valuable assets. They should be sold to the highest bidder.
No they don't. CTW kept all the rights to Sesame Street characters. Every creator kept their IP. Garrison Keillor became a millionaire reselling his Prairie Home crap to all the separate PBS outlets. Ditto Bill Moyers.
Just what "assets" of value do you think these two grifter outlets have to sell? Be specific.
I might have mixed up PBS and NPR in my recent rant. Still, y'all get the idea.
And yes, Maher is listed on the BOD for Signal app. Could very well be she is currently serving as Chair.
She supported the current thing. Now she's evolved and supports a different current thing.
Hold on there. The early Garrison Keillor material was not crap, it was charming, clever, unique, and dare I say it, mesmerizing. It was appointment radio. I planned my Saturdays around it.
Yes, years later, after his sabbatical in Denmark, he had lost his mojo, but not his audience. It got way too political, and turned to crap.
Republicans would appear to have PBS and NPR right where they want them, but it’s catch and release if Republicans cut funding. Mayer comes from Wikipedia, which thrives on near-total reliance on private contributions.
It’s pretty rich that Mayer is also associated with Signal. Trump’s team using a Lefty App when they could have been using X or Truth Social, say it isn’t so!
By the way, Mayer was truthful when she testified that she didn’t read the book, The Case for Reparations. It’s a 63 page article, not a book.
"Just what "assets" of value do you think these two grifter outlets have to sell? Be specific." Broadcast licenses. I don't know how valuable they are these days, but each station holds one.
To roughly quote Selina Meyer, she was hoisted by her own retard.
<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/signals-katherine-maher-problem>Signal’s Katherine Maher Problem</a>
From Chris Rufo in 2024.
Trump constantly denies saying things that he has already said but the right-wing journos go searching for undeniable denials from even an unimportant official like Katherine Maher who was appointed by the opposition party.
"All the Federales say, we could have had him any day.
But we let him slip away - out of kindness , I suppose."
Signal’s Katherine Maher Problem
From Chris Rufo in 2024.
She does not want to give up her privilege.
"Free speech is not about whatever it is that you all want somebody to say," she said. "And the idea that you want to shut down everybody that is not Fox News is bull****."
We don't want to shut down NPR and PBS. We just want to stop paying for them out of the money the government thugs steal from us, ultimately at gunpoint if we refuse to pay.
Or does this nincompoop think Fox News gets taxpayer subsidies too?
"We don't want to shut down NPR and PBS. We just want to stop paying for them out of the money the government thugs steal from us, ultimately at gunpoint if we refuse to pay."
"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all . . . . It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain" ~ Frederic Bastiat
Left Bank of the Charles said..."....
By the way, Mayer was truthful when she testified that she didn’t read the book, The Case for Reparations. It’s a 63 page article, not a book."
LOL! Mayer didn't even know it was an article, she thought it was a book. Typical dimocrat.
Hassayamper said...
"Free speech is not about whatever it is that you all want somebody to say," she said. "And the idea that you want to shut down everybody that is not Fox News is bull****."
We don't want to shut down NPR and PBS. We just want to stop paying for them out of the money the government thugs steal from us, ultimately at gunpoint if we refuse to pay.
Or does this nincompoop think Fox News gets taxpayer subsidies too?
She is the new Maxine Waters, only younger and better looking.
By the way, NPR gets about 25% of their funding from Federal appropriations, colleges/universities, and state & local governments. PBS gets about 40%.
Colleges/universities and state governments also get Federal monies (not sure how much Federal funding goes to local governments). So I wonder what percentage of the college/university/state funds came indirectly by way of Federal funding, i.e., US taxpayers.
We are discovering that even the "private" donations to these statist propaganda mills are largely derived from redirected taxpayer dollars, laundered through a web of lavish government grants to shadowy non-profit organizations with high-minded names.
If we audited the source of every dollar NPR and PBS spends, I'd bet three-quarters of it is ultimately fished out of my pocket and yours by the corrupt scum and filth who staff this enemy occupation government.
Destroy them, Mr. Trump! Leave not one stone standing upon another.
It's odd to have someone with such a terrible memory to be in such positions of authority throughout her career. (Unless she's just a terrible liar.)
From Yahoo: "In 2021, Katherine Maher, Wikimedia's ex-CEO who departed the company in April 2021, earned $789,495, the filing shows. Over $600,000 of that sum was paid out as severance."
I couldn't find out about her NPR or Signal salaries, but you can bet that she's making about the same or more money now.
D.D. Driver said...
"So what you are saying is that Trump is not the only public figure that tweets stupid shit."
No, that's not the point. Also, Trump doesn't publicly deny his tweets. He's proud of them.
Trump funds all this, by the way. She literally works for Donald Trump.
That's the standard pose for despots everywhere: up and to the left, eyes fixated on the middle-distance.
"Lawmakers heard that public broadcasting is the only source of news and emergency broadcasts in some parts of the country."
That doesn't make it true. I can't think of anyplace in the country where PBS is the only broadcast outlet available. We still have plenty of radio and television stations broadcasting in the country. In fact, PBS actually has pretty lousy coverage in a lot of areas of the country compared to other broadcast outlets. In Los Angeles, PBS is channel 28 in the UHF band. KFI radio in Los Angeles is the go to radio station for disaster information. It's not affiliated with NPR or PBS and it's transmitter puts out 50,000 of power. It can reach almost half of the country at full power. That's why it's called, "the big blowtorch." And in Medford OR, we couldn't receive any PBS or NPR at all.)
This is just another example of the old, "Some people say..." ploy.
"We are discovering that even the "private" donations to these statist propaganda mills are largely derived from redirected taxpayer dollars, laundered through a web of lavish government grants to shadowy non-profit organizations with high-minded names."
Data Republican to the white curtesy phone.
"It's odd to have someone with such a terrible memory to be in such positions of authority throughout her career. (Unless she's just a terrible liar.)"
Of course she's a liar.
So what you are saying is that Trump is not the only public figure that tweets stupid shit.
You won't get a better example of TDS than this.
On a subject that has absolutely nothing to do with Trump, he makes it about Trump.
"A few years from now conservatives will face the same humiliation for things they espoused during this period of Trump."
Please give us some examples of the humiliation we're going to face. We really want to know.
The early Garrison Keillor material was not crap, it was charming, clever, unique,
True. His musical guests were often delightful, even though I care little for music, and some of the skits were really comical. They did lean a bit too heavily on the foibles of rural Minnesotans planning the potluck roster for the next Lutheran church supper.
and dare I say it, mesmerizing.
That's a stretch.
It was appointment radio. I planned my Saturdays around it.
Huh. Not me. I don't disrupt the important things in life for mere entertainment.
Oh no, I bungled the italics for the first time ever.
Anyone with a cellphone within an area of cellphone coverage is within an emergency broadcast area. And can get amber alerts that wake them up at oh-dark-thirty so they can be on the lookout for a missing child as they drift back to sleep...
And people are more likely to have their cellphones with them then they are to be listening to PBS or NPR. And I'd really like to see a complete list of anywhere in the USA that has NPR or PBS coverage that doesn't have one or more commercial stations reaching it. At night when the 50,000 watt AM stations crank it up, I'm certain they cover all of CONUS, and then some.
If she were honest - she would say something like - "yeah - our programming is left of center and we cater to people who are left of center. WE cater to democrat party talking points."
That would be honest.
Katherine Maher is NOT honest. She is another lying liar who lies.... on the left.
They are as common as toilet seats.
italics? wooough
DD Driver - you're not understanding this at all, are you.
Wouldn't it be nice for our public education to be fully functional and functional... and NPR needs a bake sale for funding.
"funded and functional"
No TAX Payer dollars for leftist bullshit like NPR.
Where every employee is a resisted democrat.
D. D. Driver writes, "So what you are saying is that Trump is not the only public figure that tweets stupid shit."
DDD misses the point, perhaps deliberately. The issue is not so much what Maher posted on social media but the fact that she brazenly lied before Congress and the American people by denying the public record of her words and actions. It speaks to her honesty, or more directly, to her evident dishonesty. Furthermore, the fact that she would so brazenly and adamantly make false statements before those well-prepared interlocutors speaks to Maher's intelligence, or more directly, her evident stupidity.
Lastly, D. D. Driver, I am quite disgusted with your habits of inserting your words into the mouths of others. There is no need; your own gaping maw is sufficiently large to hold any insipid words you wish launch at your utterly bored audience. Besides being unnecessary, it's ill-manner and fucking close to lying by proxy.
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It's truly unbelievable. How could someone so well-educated and impressively credentialed as Katherine Maher believe she could weather that hearing by lying? Perhaps I'm comically old-fashioned to expect basic honesty from the leader of a publicly-funded news outlet. Too bad for me and the world. But how can Maher show her face ever again? Too bad for me and the world is the fact that the Democratic Party is full of stupid liars who'll welcome Maher's performance as some sort of triumph, and that's why I'll not be listening to NPR's "4 takeaways" in dread of being proven right once again.
"But how can Maher show her face ever again? "
People like her have no sense of shame. For progressives, every day is a new day and what happened yesterday doesn't matter to them.
Well, unless it gives them an excuse to whine some more about Donald Trump, that is.
Katherine Maher: She-Wolf of the ⚡️SS ⚡️.
DD is the OBD (Original Baby Driver).
Here's Maher's bio at NPR. A very interesting fact: "Maher is the Chair of the Board of Signal Foundation, responsible for the secure, private Signal Messenger app...."
The plot thickens.
The news about Maher's role at Signal came as a bit of a shock to me. No app or platform is perfect, but Signal is well-regarded by knowledgable people in the tech world. Given Signal's core purpose of providing secure, private communications for sensitive applications, having someone as political as Maher in an important governance role is a very serious concern.
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She will read those books as soon as her coffee table gets done reading them.
The most biased and disturbing content from PBS and NPR are the lesson plans they create, which are imposed on captive audiences of children in the vast majority of public school districts. The content is stridently anti-American, partisan, anti-white, extremist DEI garbage and may fairly be labeled Maoist. This is how PBS and NPR quietly gets a lot of their funding, too: we pay for it with our federal tax dollars, and then we pay for it again with our school property taxes to brainwash our kids. And if you want to watch it streaming, you have to subscribe and pay for it a third time.
Tear the whole thing down.
You're right, Original Mike, that they are also getting our taxpayer dollars washed through shady nonprofits bankrolled publicly. Public schools are the largest piece of this money, but there are others, with many grants coming from the DOE. I did a deep dive into their financing some time ago for a report on their lesson plans during the 2016 elections, and, even setting aside the shockingly anti-Trump bias and outright lies being forced on school kids, their money laundering operation would make the mafia blush. Georgia has either proposed or passed a state-level DOGE program, and eliminating NPR/PBS content in the schools should be its first priority.
Loudogblog, I don't see her salary because the 990s are not up, but her predecessor made about 600K. Interestingly, the accessible search engine for nonprofits data, Guidestar, gives them their lowest rating for good corporate practices. You don't see that very often. The national anchors earn around $550 to $600K. I'm not sure if they get to earn speaker's fees, which can be more than salaries.
Wow, is she a spook. Degree in Islamic Studies, worked at Department of State, Council on Foreign Relations, Atlantic Foundation (Soros), and the World Bank. That all points to the CIA.
‘That has a "This Never Happened" smell.’
I’ll take Things That Never Happened for $1000, Alex!
Jim Gust said...
The only reason to listen to NPR is to learn what the enemy is planning. I do miss Click and Clack, the Tappett brothers, but that was long ago.
Cartalk was the best!
“Even though the suits at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting clutch their pearls and run for the fainting couches everytime we say it, this is NPR.”
Mason G said...
"But how can Maher show her face ever again? "
People like her have no sense of shame
Shame is still a terminal disease in some parts of the galaxy … or so I’m told.
Not here, though.
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