The “public broadcasting” elites argue with a straight face that removing any taxpayer subsidies is a violation of the First Amendment. On Monday morning, National Public Radio filed a lawsuit claiming that President Trump’s executive order telling the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to withhold funds from NPR is “a clear violation of the Constitution.”
The lawsuit says Trump’s order violates both “the expressed will of Congress and the First Amendment’s bedrock guarantees of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of association.”
NPR and PBS refuse to engage in the allegations of 24/7 liberal bias. The White House laid out chapter and verse about the tilt, and NPR CEO Katherine Maher put out a statement accusing Trump of “retaliatory, viewpoint-based discrimination.” Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
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