On Friday’s episode of In The Arena with Kasie Hunt, they were discussing Trump’s executive order to defund NPR and PBS alongside his questioning of federal funding for Harvard with its serious antisemitism problem. They couldn’t actually delve into the evidence of Harvard hating Jews or the incessant liberal bias of “public” broadcasting.
New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro, who spent 17 years at NPR (as Lourdes, not Lulu) had a not-so-surprising theory about Trump — he just hates “independence,” anything that threatens his power. They all cast liberal bias as “independence.”
This implication that Trump as an autocrat is a little bit amusing, because Lulu is not always anti-autocrat. We like to recall in her NPR days, she gushed that being kissed by one of Fidel Castro’s two brothers in Cuba was like being “getting the blessing of the Holy…
