00:12:13.380UNRWA is, of course, the U.N. agency that it's now been reported had multiple Hamas terrorists working for it that actually participated in the October 7th mass murder.
00:12:23.300These people call themselves Christians for Palestine.
00:12:42.600And I got to say, when I talk to these young lefties who are so ignorant, they're so sure of what they think, and they don't know a damn thing.
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00:14:13.100There's also, I think, a second phase that is happening.
00:14:16.920And it seems to be, as I mentioned earlier, organized around the country.
00:14:20.940But ABC News had to report that there were bags with anti-Semitic messages as well as unidentified substances found on cars and buildings in Lincoln Park.
00:14:31.500The Chicago police say they're investigating this after these dozens of anti-Semitic messages were found on cars and on buildings.
00:15:52.660Look, it is any university's obligation to protect the safety of every one of their students.
00:15:57.680And the fact that there are so many Jewish students facing threats of violence, facing harassment, facing vicious anti-Semitism with the college campuses, the administrators and the protesters,
00:16:09.580at a minimum turning a blind eye to it in many ways, tacitly or even explicitly agreeing with it, it is a sign of an enormous corruption that has just infiltrated the left in a way.
00:16:26.660Look, I would actually like a strong and vibrant Democrat Party.
00:17:30.220No, no, look, God bless John Fetterman.
00:17:32.080Yeah, John Fetterman has really not backed down from him standing with Israel and has taken a lot of heat from a lot of protesters and a lot on the left that are like, wait, dude, you're supposed to be a radical leftist.
00:17:45.200And he has refused to back down on it.
00:17:47.160I'm glad you mentioned his name because it's important that we say job well done to people on the left that are saying, I'm not going to be bullied in supporting Hamas.
00:17:55.860Listen, a couple of weeks ago, I went over to the Democrat cloakroom where John was there, and I just said, hey, I wanted to tell you thank you.
00:18:03.620I really appreciate the courage you've shown on Israel on speaking out.
00:18:26.060I mean, in any normal world, you and I should be listing a dozen Democrats that have the courage to denounce the radical screaming death to America,
00:18:34.240that have the courage to stand up and say, no, we stand with Israel, that have the courage to say, you know, there is a difference.
00:18:41.040There is a moral difference, there is a fundamental difference between psychotic, genocidal terrorists who are murdering civilians, who are raping little girls, who are murdering women, who are desecrating corpses.
00:18:56.040There is a fundamental difference between that and the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, that are defending civilians and killing terrorists.
00:19:14.860And that tells you about the Democratic Party.
00:19:16.760And also, I think the messaging from the White House, they've gotten really silent on supporting Israel, really silent on standing up on these issues.
00:19:24.180And, yeah, the White House was asked about this.
00:19:26.060Like, yeah, of course, people shouldn't be saying death to America.
00:24:16.140For decades, since its founding in 1970, a wide swath of America tuned into NPR for reliable journalism and gorgeous audio pieces with birds singing in the Amazon.
00:24:28.080Millions came to us for conversations that exposed us to voices around the country in a world radically different from our own,
00:24:35.820engaging precisely because they were unguarded and unpredictable.
00:24:39.780No image generated more pride within NPR than the farmer listening to Morning Edition from his or her tractor at sunrise.
00:24:47.720Back in 2011, although NPR's audience tilted a bit to the left, it still bore a resemblance to America at large.
00:24:56.70026% of listeners described themselves as conservative.
00:25:01.16023% as middle-of-the-road and 37% as liberal.
00:25:05.440By 2023, the picture was completely different.
00:25:09.840Only 11% described themselves as very or even somewhat conservative.
00:25:15.40021% as middle-of-the-road and 67% of listeners said they were very or somewhat liberal.
00:26:43.860When did the thing that everyone sort of recognized as sort of a liberal bias start to shift into something harder than that, into what you call a knee-jerk activist and even scolding quality?
00:27:29.660But I think also we kind of locked down after a while.
00:27:34.420I think after a while we started covering Trump in a way that, like a lot of legacy news organizations, that we were trying to damage his presidency, to even find anything we could to harm him.
00:27:49.060And I think what we latched on to was Russia collusion, like a lot of news organizations, which was, as I write, sort of catnip.
00:27:56.420Although it was just rumors, and a lot of it based on pretty shoddy documents or evidence.
00:28:26.140You know, and in most of those conversations, he sort of alluded to evidence he may have had or sort of teased out, yeah, Russia, you know, he was colluding or the campaign was colluding with Russia.
00:28:35.100And then the Mueller report came out, and no collusion.
00:28:40.140And, you know, I think we sort of went to sort of the story kind of disappeared.
00:28:44.720But to me, that was like a time for like, what went wrong?
00:31:00.820Quote, in October 2020, the New York Post published the explosive report about the laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware computer shop containing emails about assorted business deals.
00:31:14.140With the election only weeks away, NPR turned a blind eye.
00:31:19.280Here's how NPR's managing editor for news at the time explained the thinking.
00:31:24.660Quote, we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.
00:31:29.240And we don't want to waste our listeners and readers time on stories that are just pure distractions.
00:31:34.820But it wasn't a pure distraction or a product of Russian disinformation, as dozens of former and current intelligence officials suggested.
00:31:45.780The laptop did belong to Hunter Biden.
00:31:50.240Its contents revealed his connection to the corrupt world of multimillion dollar influence peddling and its possible implications for his father.
00:32:03.600But the timeless journalistic instinct of following a hot story lead was being squelched.
00:32:12.020During a meeting with colleagues, I listened as one of NPR's best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren't following the laptop story because it could help Trump.
00:32:25.940When the essential facts of the post post-reportings were confirmed and the emails verified independently about a year and a half later, we could have fessed up to our misjudgment.
00:32:40.780But like Russia collusion, we didn't make the hard choice of transparency.
00:32:46.520Why fix it if it's your ideology, right?
00:32:49.940If this is what the ideology is and it's being funded by taxpayers, why stop?
00:32:55.880Which brings me to my final question on this.
00:32:57.800I've heard about this and we've talked about this for, I hate to say it, 20 years.
00:33:03.580How on earth are they getting this type of government funding, especially now if we know this from someone that worked there for 25 years?
00:33:10.820Is there any way to say to NPR, that's fine, if this is what your mission is, go and do it, but you're not going to do it subsidized by taxpayers?
00:33:17.820Listen, I would eliminate the funding for NPR tomorrow.
00:33:24.000We shouldn't be in the business of funding NPR.
00:33:26.860The problem is every Democrat wants to spend your taxpayer dollars funding NPR because why wouldn't you?
00:33:32.820If you're a leftist, why wouldn't you be willing to use taxpayer dollars to fund a propaganda outlet for your view?
00:33:40.140And I've got to tell you, in the budget battles, too many Republicans are scared of taking on NPR, and so between the two, it keeps going.
00:33:49.320Look, I actually think it speaks volume that where Uri Berliner wrote this was the Free Press.
00:33:57.020The Free Press was started by Barry Weiss.
00:33:59.180Barry Weiss resigned from the editorial board of the New York Times and wrote a letter.
00:34:05.320If you haven't read the letter, we may do a podcast where we just read the letter because it's something I actually think should be taught in every journalism class in America.
00:34:14.000It is a letter where – and listen, Barry, by her own description, is left of center.
00:34:18.200She's a liberal Democrat who voted for Obama twice, but she was horrified.
00:34:23.160And actually, Barry's resignation letter reads very much like Uri Berliner's article.
00:34:28.320They're both people left of center who actually believe in some modicum of free speech, some modicum of fairness, and they look at the corruption of institutions they respected.
00:34:39.960I look at Uri Berliner, and I'm reminded of John F. Kennedy's famous speech at the Berlin Wall,
00:34:46.360Ich bin ein Berliner, which he thought meant that he was a Berliner, a resident of Berlin,
00:34:54.020but actually it was poorly translated German, and what the better translation was is I am a jelly donut,
00:35:01.040which was not JFK's finest moment, but nonetheless, I feel the same sentiments.
00:35:07.220Uri Berliner and I may disagree on a lot of things, but I'm proud to stand with Uri Berliner for daring to speak the truth
00:35:13.960because free speech matters, and I actually think it matters.
00:35:17.760I met recently with the CEO of a major journalistic enterprise, I won't say who it is,
00:35:25.200and I told him, I said, listen, I actually believe in a free press.
00:35:30.400I defend you even when you kick the crap out of me, even when you attack me,
00:35:33.980because I think it's important to democracy and free speech to have a real and vibrant press.
00:35:38.940But when you guys are just corrupt ideologues, when you're just propagandists, it hurts the entire country,
00:35:47.420and so I give a big shout-out to Uri Berliner, like Barry Weiss, on whose platform he wrote this.
00:35:54.640There are a handful of liberals, and I actually want to call out, listen,
00:35:58.500I don't know that many fair-minded liberals in the media listen to Verdict,
00:36:03.320although we're close to a million listeners, so maybe there are.
00:36:05.660If you're a fair-minded liberal working in the media and you don't like the bias and propaganda,
00:36:12.400and I'm not saying you're suddenly conservative and a right-winger, that's okay.
00:36:15.520That's okay. We can have reasonable discussions.
00:36:20.100But when people speak out, like Uri Berliner and Barry Weiss, it makes a difference,