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0:55

Most conservative see public broadcasting

0:57

as a left wing operation. Public

1:02

broadcasting is required to have political

1:04

balance on controversial issues,

1:07

but the political bias of NPR and PBS

1:09

seem to find its way into their shows.

1:12

Perhaps one c Span caller put it best

1:14

in twenty fourteen when Chastising,

1:17

a head executive of the public broadcasting

1:19

industry.

1:20

The non political shows

1:22

are great. All the political shows

1:24

you have, though, are far left wing.

1:26

Almost everyone covers three

1:28

subjects, global warming, racism,

1:31

and homosexuality stuff.

1:33

Given its obvious left wing bias, what

1:36

can conservatives do to fix public

1:38

broadcasting?

1:42

I'm Patrick Carlci and I'm Adriana

1:44

Cortez.

1:45

And this is Red Pilled America, a

1:47

storytelling show.

1:49

This is not another talk show covering the day's

1:52

news. We are all about telling stories.

1:55

Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.

1:58

The media marks stories about

2:00

everyday Americans. If the globalist ignore.

2:03

You could think of red Pilled America as audio

2:06

documentaries. And we've promised only one

2:08

thing, the

2:10

truth.

2:15

Welcome to Red Pilled America.

2:26

No one can deny that public broadcasting

2:28

puts out some high quality content, from

2:31

NPR shows like This American Life

2:33

to PBS's series Frontline.

2:36

Some of the country's best produced documentaries

2:38

come from the public broadcasting networks.

2:40

But to many on the right, it goes without

2:43

saying that the entire ecosystem has

2:45

a left wing slant. Can

2:47

anything be done to fix this problem?

2:49

To find the answer, we tell the story of

2:51

one of MPR's biggest controversies,

2:54

and take a journey to the origin of public

2:56

broadcasting. We also speak

2:58

to Mike Gonzalez, and your fellow

3:00

at the Heritage Foundation and an expert

3:02

on public broadcasting. NPR

3:05

and PBS have long been the bane

3:07

of conservatives, and maybe the movement

3:09

needs to think out of the box on how to

3:11

fix the problem.

3:20

It was the summer of twenty ten when

3:22

a debate began to rage in Lower Manhattan.

3:28

I hope you I hope you get and

3:30

I'm not racist.

3:31

Thank you. No, I'm not.

3:33

You're you're saying that so that it makes

3:36

it down.

3:36

My time racist.

3:37

A New York City developer was approved

3:40

to build an Islamic mosque just

3:42

two blocks from ground zero. The

3:44

developer called it the Cordoba House, and

3:46

when news of the projects spread throughout the

3:48

area, a town hall meeting was organized

3:51

to address the community's concerns. Supporters

3:54

and opponents of the development predictably

3:56

clashed over the project, and I.

3:58

Could not be more further. I

4:01

apologized.

4:03

I apologize.

4:04

Today's up there.

4:05

We need to get the police to quiet

4:07

this person.

4:08

National Public Radio or NPR,

4:11

covered the building controversy and the way

4:13

they often do, feigning an unbiased

4:15

perspective on the hot button topic.

4:17

I'm Michelle Martin, and this is tell me more from NPR

4:20

News today. We want to talk about a building,

4:22

the proposed Islamic Center, a couple of

4:24

blocks from ground zero. So just to make

4:26

it clear, the center in New York has already been approved,

4:28

and the issue now is whether or not the building

4:30

should receive special landmark preservation status,

4:33

which would mean the thirteenth story building couldn't be torned

4:35

down. But this center is likely to move forward

4:37

regardless.

4:38

Michelle Martin, a longtime journalist

4:40

for National Public Radio, was executing

4:42

NPR's patented approach to covering

4:45

the news. That is, she played

4:47

the role of the neutral host while her equally

4:49

impartial, liberal leading guest delivered

4:51

an opinion on the matter.

4:53

The fact is there are a lot of people who are still very angry

4:55

about it. Maybe they just found out about it. What steps

4:57

would you take to address these feelings.

5:00

We have to get to a larger conversation about

5:02

people's aspirations for their communities,

5:05

not their fears and preconceived

5:07

notions and maybe their prejudices.

5:09

Sarah Palin, the former Vice presidential

5:11

candidate sent a series of Twitter posts

5:13

on Sunday asking the Muslim community

5:15

to move away from the site in the interest of

5:18

healing. I mean, she's suggesting that people

5:20

may have a right to build the site there, but they should

5:22

make the gesture to the larger community,

5:24

as she put it, in the interest of healing. What do you make of that.

5:27

Argument, Well, you know this is

5:29

your segment on faith, right and forgiveness

5:32

actually often begins with those who

5:34

have been perceived to be wronged in

5:36

something, not those who have necessarily

5:38

perpetrated it.

5:39

In other words, it was the responsibility

5:42

of Americans like Sarah Palin to roll

5:44

over on the issue of a mosque at ground

5:46

zero. Over

5:52

the decades, NPR has developed a

5:54

masterful way of camouflaging their

5:56

bias, a technique that most honest

5:59

right leading listeners identify, namely,

6:01

the public radio network cherry picks

6:04

facts to lead the audience towards the worldview

6:06

of NPR's liberal staff.

6:08

One thing I think has been lost in all this is that

6:10

there are many Muslims who lost their lives

6:12

on nine to eleven, both at the World Trainer

6:14

Center, both of the World Trade Center, and at

6:17

the Pentagon that there are people of the Muslim faith

6:19

who lost their lives.

6:20

As the summer of twenty ten progressed, the

6:22

ground zero Mosque debate just wouldn't

6:24

go away, and it was to be expected. The

6:27

country was in the midst of a mid term election

6:29

cycle, and the issue created a clear contrast

6:32

for voters, a contrast that became

6:34

even more stark when then President Obama

6:36

entered the fray.

6:37

I understand the emotions that this issue

6:40

engenders, and Ground zero is

6:42

indeed hallowed ground. But let

6:44

me be clear, as a citizen and

6:47

as president, I believe that Muslims

6:49

have the right to practice their religion

6:52

as everyone else in this country, and

6:55

that includes that

6:58

includes the right to build place of

7:00

worship in a community center on

7:02

private property in Lower Manhattan

7:05

in accordance with local laws and ordinances.

7:08

This is America, and our commitment to religious

7:10

freedom must be unshakable. The

7:12

principle that people of all faiths are

7:14

welcome in this country and that they will

7:17

not be treated differently by their government

7:19

is essential to who we are. The

7:22

writ of the Founders must endure.

7:26

That's when the issue went nuclear.

7:29

Republican politicians and pundits stepped

7:31

up the rhetoric on the national debate.

7:33

Nazis don't have the right to put

7:35

up a sign next to the Holocaust

7:38

Museum in Washington. We would never

7:40

accept the Japanese putting up a

7:42

site next to Pearl Harbor. There's

7:44

no reason for us to accept a mosque next

7:47

to the World Trade Center.

7:48

I'm a reasonable human being. I had

7:50

no problem with a mosque.

7:51

You want to build a church, a mosque, a synagogue,

7:54

any place.

7:55

That's fine.

7:56

You want to build it, and you want to open it. On

7:58

September eleventh, a fool.

8:00

It was a debate that the right appeared to be

8:02

winning, and that seemed to bother the staff

8:04

in NPR. You see, prior

8:07

to Obama's comments, National Public

8:09

Radio had a nuanced approach to covering

8:11

the controversy, But now that the

8:13

scale of public opinion was leading to the right,

8:15

journalist at MPR took a noticeably

8:18

more aggressive approach.

8:19

This is a morning edition from NPR News.

8:22

I'm Linda Wertheimer and I'm Steven'sgate.

8:24

Good morning.

8:24

There was a time after the nine to eleven

8:26

attacks when American officials struggled

8:28

to make a crucial point from President

8:30

Bush on down. They said Osama bin Laden

8:33

did not represent all Muslims.

8:35

They said, it would be a victory for al Qaeda

8:38

if Americans turned against the

8:40

entire Muslim world. Nine years

8:42

after nine to eleven, American politicians

8:45

are doing what they were warned against.

8:47

A plan for an Islamic center two blocks

8:49

away from the World Trade Center site has created

8:51

a political opportunity, and many candidates

8:54

are seizing that opportunity.

8:56

To be clear, Republicans are not the

8:58

only opponents of the Islamic sis. Republicans

9:01

are the ones who appear to be eager to use

9:03

the issue to put Democrats on the defensive

9:06

in this fall's elections.

9:07

Even NPR's Michelle Martin began to

9:09

express her feelings on the matter. During

9:11

an appearance on CNN, a guest panelist

9:14

suggested the Cordoba House developers move

9:16

the mosque away from Brown Zero. Michelle

9:18

Martin countered the idea.

9:20

And wouldn't it be a great thing if they moved it

9:22

a few blocks and Muslims

9:24

and Americans who still worry would

9:26

be talking to each other.

9:27

Let's compromise.

9:28

Well, why don't we compromise with

9:31

Catholic church?

9:32

Did anybody move a Christian church after Timothy

9:34

McVeigh, who adhered to a cultic white

9:37

supremastics cultic version of Christianity.

9:39

Even now, somebody tried to Bill Michelle

9:42

Martin was mistaken. Domestic terrorist

9:45

Timothy McVeigh was not a Christian. The

9:47

day before his execution, he identified

9:49

himself as agnostic, but the MPR

9:52

journalist skipped over that fact to argue

9:54

in support of the ground Zero mosque. As

9:57

election day twenty ten approached,

9:59

he the issue was still raging as Bill

10:02

O'Reilly swaggered onto the set

10:04

of the View.

10:04

Please welcome Bill O'Reilly.

10:08

The producers must have been hoping for

10:10

fireworks, because it was obvious that

10:12

the View co hosts Joy Beharn and Whoopy Goldberg

10:15

were not big fans of the then Fox News

10:17

Nighttime host of Fact, Bill O'Reilly

10:19

addressed, immediately, look at.

10:21

You every time I come on Issues head.

10:23

Did this happen?

10:26

Well, I have a case of

10:28

gas, that's all.

10:29

That's As

10:32

the discussion progressed, O'Reilly inevitably

10:35

brought up the hot topic.

10:37

Let me break this to you.

10:38

Seventy Americans don't want

10:40

that moss down there.

10:41

So don't give me the wead.

10:44

You wanna better that

10:47

America.

10:50

They don't want to Why is that? But why

10:52

are we saying inappropriate?

10:55

Seventy families on

10:57

nine to eleven?

11:00

Oh hell broke loose.

11:02

Modus didn't kill us?

11:16

Want to out

11:19

In protest, Woopy Goldberg and Joy

11:22

Bahar walked off the set.

11:29

It looked like this would be the peak of the

11:31

ground zero mosque debate, but

11:34

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12:53

Welcome back to Red Pilled America.

12:55

Today, I'm the View Forshelle HLN host

12:57

Stroy Behar and Fox News host Bill O'Reilly

13:00

discussing a proposed mosque near grounds.

13:02

Early well, they had a difference of opinion,

13:04

to put it mildly.

13:08

On his next show, Bill O'Reilly brought

13:10

up his feud on the View with Fox News

13:12

commentator Juan Williams.

13:14

So where am I going wrong now?

13:16

One?

13:16

Well, actually, I hate to say

13:18

this to you because I don't want to get your ego going, but I

13:20

think you're right. I think look, political correctness

13:23

can lead to some kind of paralysis

13:25

where you don't address reality.

13:27

I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a big at.

13:29

You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights

13:31

movement in this country.

13:32

But when I get on a plane, I gotta

13:34

tell you.

13:34

If I see people who are in Muslim garb

13:37

and I think you know they're identifying themselves first

13:39

and foremost as Muslims.

13:41

I get worried, I get nervous.

13:46

The comment seemed pretty tame, but

13:49

at the time, Juan Williams wasn't

13:51

just a Fox News commentator. He was

13:53

also a news analyst for National

13:55

Public Radio, and his candid statement

13:57

was it complete odds with nprs

14:00

sanctioned narrative. It

14:04

wasn't long before MPR CEO Vivian

14:07

Schiller gave Juan Williams the boot.

14:09

An analyst with National Public Radio

14:11

has been fired.

14:12

Juan Williams fired by NPR.

14:14

NPR's chief executive, Vivian Shiller,

14:16

issued a written statement saying, in part,

14:19

William's remarks on the O'Reilly factor

14:21

this past Monday were inconsistent

14:23

with our editorial standards and practices

14:26

and undermined his credibility as a news

14:28

analyst with NPR.

14:30

NPRCO held a press conference

14:32

to address her decision.

14:33

He has been a frequent contributor to Fox

14:36

News.

14:37

That's fine.

14:37

We don't necessarily have an issue with that. However,

14:40

we expect anybody that appears on our

14:42

air, either as a journalist or a news analyst,

14:44

to conduct themselves according to our

14:46

journalistic rules. Of ethics wherever

14:48

they might be, in any form and in any venue.

14:51

There have been several incidences over

14:53

the years where Juan has strayed from

14:55

that line. In

15:00

this case, we decided that his integrity

15:02

as a news analyst has been undermined

15:05

by the fact that he has expressed

15:08

these very divisive views, and

15:10

those two things are not compatible. His feelings

15:13

that he expressed on Fox News are really between

15:15

him and his psychiatrist

15:18

or his publicist, or take your pick, but it

15:20

is not compatible with the role of a

15:23

news analyst on NPR's era.

15:25

The firing reeked of political

15:27

bias. Just a few months earlier,

15:30

NPR journalist Michelle Martin falsely

15:32

aligned Christians with domestic terrorists Timothy

15:34

McVay, yet she still had

15:36

a job, and days earlier, another

15:39

MPR journalist had labeled Tea Party

15:41

Republicans as extremist.

15:43

Can you think of another time in

15:45

American history when there have been

15:48

as many people running for Congress

15:50

who seemed to be on the extreme.

15:53

Critics of the firing noted other times

15:55

NPR journalists made controversial comments

15:57

but weren't fired, including when Nina

16:00

Totenberg suggested that God might give

16:02

the aids virus to the grandchildren

16:04

of a Republican senator for his policy

16:06

positions.

16:07

I don't think I have any Jesse Helms defenders

16:09

here, Nina Ni.

16:11

I think he ought to be worried about

16:14

what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because

16:16

if there's retributive justice,

16:18

he'll get aids from a transfusion or

16:20

one of his grandchildren.

16:21

Will Kenneth.

16:22

People were outraged by MPR's

16:24

firing of Juan Williams. In the immediate

16:27

aftermath, Laan was asked why he thought

16:29

MPR fired him, So.

16:31

What do you think the issue is here?

16:32

Do you think it's just that the fact

16:34

that you were working for Fox became too much trouble

16:37

for MPR.

16:37

I think, you know what, this is one of the things in my life

16:39

that's just such a shocking because I grew up basically

16:41

on the left. I grew up here in New York City, and I've

16:44

always thought the right wing was the ones

16:46

who were inflexible and intolerant. And

16:48

now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy

16:51

at NPR, if it's representing the left,

16:53

it's just unbelievable.

16:57

Conservatives had long considered public

16:59

broadcast as left wing, so

17:02

the entire affair was perfectly positioned

17:04

for them to mount an attack on NPR specifically

17:07

and public broadcasting more broadly.

17:09

Conservatives and some liberals are lashing out

17:11

at National Public Radio for firing one of its

17:13

best known voices, Juan Williams.

17:15

Mike Hockaby says he won't do any interviews on NPR.

17:17

New Gingrich accused NPR of censorship.

17:20

The chef.

17:21

I think that the US Congress

17:23

should investigate NPR and I should consider

17:25

cutting.

17:25

Off their money.

17:26

Sarah Palin tweeted, lights shine

17:28

on left's lamestream media, lies and hypocrisy.

17:31

He explained his feelings, and the guy

17:33

gets fired because it doesn't fit

17:36

the left wing dogma that you have

17:38

to follow, and we put

17:40

taxpayer money into that censorship

17:43

program.

17:43

People listen to NPR and they walk away

17:45

saying God.

17:46

Is just absolutely liberal in its orientation

17:49

and his outlook, and it's reporting.

17:51

I'm a fan of NPR if I listened to it, my

17:53

family's contributed to it. But why

17:55

do they get federal money? Why should

17:58

tax dollars go to a meet the

18:00

outlet? It is clearly a left of center.

18:02

It's a really bad strategic move

18:04

for ENPR. This is a media

18:07

entity that for years has.

18:09

Been dogged by allegations of

18:11

being two liberal. NPR has a show called

18:13

All Things Considered, and it turns

18:15

out there aren't all things considered. There's a few viewpoints

18:18

that are considered and considered worthy

18:20

of airing.

18:21

NPR denies that their broadcasts have

18:23

a liberal agenda, and they say very little

18:25

of their money comes from the government anyway.

18:27

But now Republicans in Congress are trying to

18:29

cut funding not only to NPR

18:31

but to all public broadcasting.

18:33

Senator Jim Dementz says he'll introduce a

18:35

bill to end taxpayer subsidies. He

18:38

says the firing of Williams just shows NPR

18:40

promotes a one sided liberal agenda.

18:43

I think we have a national momentum to defund

18:45

NPR, and that's what should happen.

18:46

But I do believe that will happen.

18:51

One Williams would quickly land on his feet

18:54

after his firing. He reportedly

18:56

signed a multi year deal with Fox News

18:58

worth two million dollars. But the

19:00

turn of events put taxpayer funding for

19:02

public broadcasting in the crosshairs

19:05

of conservative Americans. At the

19:07

time, public broadcasting was receiving

19:09

four hundred and twenty million dollars annually.

19:12

Calls to defund the entire operation

19:15

grew to a fever pitch while

19:17

still in the eye of the tornado. NPR's

19:19

on budsman said the reaction to the firing

19:21

had quote unleashed an unprecedented

19:24

firestorm of criticism directed not

19:26

at Williams but at NPR end

19:28

quote within the first twenty

19:30

four hours of the controversy, and PR

19:32

reportedly received more than eight thousand emails,

19:35

which the onmbudsman said was quote a

19:37

record with nothing a close second end

19:39

quote. Conservative anger towards

19:42

public broadcasting had been building up

19:44

for decades, dating back to its launch.

19:47

From day one, right leaning America

19:49

saw liberal bias throughout the newly formed

19:51

ecosystem, which may lead

19:54

one to wonder how did this government

19:56

funded system even come into existence.

19:59

To understand that, we need to go back

20:01

to the nineteen fifties where public

20:03

broadcasting finds its roots.

20:10

By the early nineteen fifties, broadcasting

20:13

was in its infancy. There was no cable

20:15

TV, no Internet, no podcasts,

20:18

no streaming services. There were

20:20

just three national networks CBS,

20:23

NBC, and ABC. All

20:25

three were in both radio and television

20:27

broadcasting. No other major

20:29

national players were in the game, but

20:31

there was an organization that was looking to

20:34

throw its hat in the ring. Enter

20:36

the Ford Foundation, a tax exempt

20:38

philanthropic outfit founded by

20:40

automotive pioneer Henry Ford and his

20:42

son Edsel. The Ford Foundation

20:45

was formed in nineteen thirty six, and when

20:47

Henry Ford died in nineteen forty seven,

20:49

the foundation received the financial windfall

20:52

of ninety percent of the non voting

20:54

shares of the Ford Motor Company.

21:01

Shortly after his grandfather's death, the

21:03

Ford Foundation's chairman, Henry Ford

21:05

the second, identified education as

21:08

one of its primary areas of action. In

21:10

nineteen fifty two, the Foundation made

21:13

a move into the arena by funding

21:15

the Educational Television and Radio

21:17

Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The

21:19

center was to distribute educational programming

21:22

to both radio and television. Now

21:24

this was a touchy time for tax exemp

21:27

entities like the Ford Foundation. Members

21:29

of Congress viewed many of them with a

21:31

skeptical eye. They were concerned

21:34

that the trustees heading the big ones like the

21:36

Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Ford Foundations,

21:38

were adopting a subversive approach to

21:40

their grant making activities. And it

21:43

wasn't some hair brain conspiracy theory.

21:45

The Rockefeller Foundation funded Alfred

21:47

Kinsey's controversial human sexual

21:50

Behavior Studies, a line of research

21:52

that would eventually lead to the transgender

21:54

and broader LGBTQ movement. One

21:57

U S. Congressman Tennessee Congressman Brazilica

22:00

Carol Reese openly wondered, quote,

22:02

to what extent, if any, are the funds

22:04

of the large foundations aiding and abetting

22:07

Marxist tendencies and weakening the

22:09

love which every American should have for his

22:11

way of life. So

22:16

Congressman Reese set out to find the

22:18

answer. He put together what would

22:20

come to be known as the Rece Committee

22:22

to investigate not the stated missions

22:25

of the Foundation, but instead their

22:27

actions. He

22:30

added an economist to the committee by the name

22:33

of Norman Dodd. Dodd would

22:35

become the director of Research of the Committee

22:37

shortly before his passing in nineteen eighty seven.

22:40

Dodd was asked in a series of interviews,

22:42

what is investigations found out about

22:44

the tax exempt Foundations.

22:46

We found out, doctor, that these foundations

22:49

had as their objective the

22:51

orientation of the people of this

22:53

country to the idea of collectivism

22:57

and thereby nulla

23:00

flying for good and all of

23:03

the commitment of the country to

23:05

individualism, which was the

23:08

creature of the country at the beginning.

23:11

To do this, the large tax exempt

23:13

foundations honed in on education,

23:16

and according to Norman Dodd, they used

23:18

their vast resources to influence

23:20

the entire United States educational

23:23

system. It was their attempt to chip

23:25

away at the fabric of American society.

23:28

What the Race Committee claimed to have found

23:30

was that the trustees of these tax exempt

23:32

foundations were dramatically shifting

23:34

away from the beliefs of the industrialists

23:36

that created the foundation's wealth. They

23:39

instead adopted an Unamerican Marxist

23:41

ideology. When asked why

23:44

they wanted to move the country towards Marxism,

23:46

Norman Dodd had an answer.

23:48

Well, because to them, what communism

23:51

represents some means of developing

23:54

what we call a monopoly. They

23:56

will be the beneficiaries.

23:59

Yes, Dodd highlighted one

24:01

off the record conversation he had with the president

24:03

of the Ford Foundation, Horas Gaither, during

24:06

his investigation. Mister Gaither

24:08

summoned Norman Dodd to his office in New York.

24:11

And on arrival, after amenities,

24:14

mister Gaither, who was the then president,

24:17

said, mister Dodd, we invited

24:20

you to come and see us this morning, hoping

24:23

that you would, off

24:25

the record tell us why

24:27

the Congress was interested in operations

24:30

of foundations such as ours.

24:32

And before I could think of how I would

24:34

reply to him, he volunteered the following.

24:37

He said, mister Dodd, those

24:39

of us here at the policy making level

24:41

have all had experience either

24:44

with the OSS or the European

24:46

Economic Administration in operating

24:49

under directives, the origin

24:51

of which was the White House. We

24:54

today operate under just such directives.

24:56

Would you like to know what the substance

24:59

of the the directives is? And

25:01

I said yes, mister Gazer, I like very

25:04

much to know. Whereupon he said to

25:06

me, the substance of the directives

25:09

under which we operate is

25:11

that we shall use our grant making

25:13

power so to all their life in

25:15

the United States that we can be comfortably

25:18

merged with the Soviet Union, well

25:21

figuratively. I nearly fell off the chair.

25:29

The power of the Carnegie, Rockefeller,

25:32

and Ford foundations proved to be too

25:34

much for the rece Committee. The tax

25:36

exempt organizations successfully

25:38

marginalized the committee's findings. By

25:40

nineteen fifty four, the Ford Foundation

25:43

continued their venture into so called educational

25:46

television by funding the National Educational

25:48

Television Network, and the organization

25:50

began distributing content.

25:52

This is National Educational

25:54

Television, a program

25:57

distributed by the Educational Television

25:59

and Radio Center.

26:00

Now the Ford Foundation had made such

26:02

a dramatic shift towards radical causes

26:05

that Henry Ford's grandson, Henry Ford

26:07

the second, resigned as chairman of the

26:09

Foundation in nineteen fifty six. On

26:12

his way out, he had monished the trustees,

26:14

stating in his resignation letter that the foundation

26:17

was quote a creation of capitalism.

26:19

I'm just suggesting to the trustees and the

26:21

staff that the system that makes the foundation

26:24

possible very probably is worth

26:26

preserving end quote. A few

26:28

years later, on April third, nineteen sixty

26:30

one, the National Educational Radio Network

26:33

used funding by the Ford Foundation to

26:35

begin broadcasting on six radio

26:37

stations. The

26:40

seeds of public television and public radio

26:43

were beginning to take root, but

26:45

the cost of these endeavors were mounting,

26:48

and the Ford Foundation began looking for ways

26:50

to reduce their financial commitment. And

26:52

their timing was impeccable.

26:54

Like everybody, I wear more than one hat.

26:57

I am the chairman of the FCAC. I'm

27:00

also a television viewer and the husband

27:02

and father of other television viewers.

27:04

On May ninth, nineteen sixty one, newly

27:07

appointed FCC Chairman Newton Minnow

27:09

gave a speech to the National Association

27:11

of Broadcasters in Washington, d C.

27:14

Historians mark this as a turning point

27:16

for public broadcasting. His speech

27:18

in effect provided the rationale for the government

27:21

to fund a new broadcasting network.

27:24

The speech came to be known as the Vast Wasteland

27:26

Speech, and in it, Newton Minnow

27:28

criticized the content of the entire broadcasting

27:31

industry.

27:32

I have seen a great many programs that seem

27:34

to me eminently worthwhile. When

27:36

television is good, nothing,

27:38

not the theater, not the magazines

27:41

or newspapers, nothing is better. But

27:43

when television is bad, nothing

27:45

is worse. I invite each of

27:47

you to sit down in front of your own television

27:49

set when your station goes on the air, and

27:52

stay there for a day, keep

27:54

your eyes glued to that set until the station

27:56

signs off. I can assure you that

27:59

what you will observe is a vast wasteland.

28:02

You will see a.

28:02

Procession of game shows, formula, comedies

28:05

about totally unbelievable families, blood

28:07

and thunder, mayhem, violence,

28:09

sadism, murder, western bad men,

28:12

western good men, private eyes, gangsters,

28:15

more violence, and cartoons and endlessly

28:17

commercials, many screaming, cajoling

28:20

and offending, and most of all boredom.

28:22

True, you'll see a few things you will enjoy.

28:25

But they will be very, very few.

28:27

And if you think I exaggerate, I only

28:29

ask you to try it. And most young

28:32

children today, believe it or not, spend

28:34

as much time watching television as.

28:36

They do in the school room.

28:38

Is there no room on television to teach,

28:40

to inform, to uplift, to

28:43

stretch, to enlarge the capacities of

28:45

our children? Is there no room for a

28:47

children's news show explaining something

28:49

to them about the world at their level of

28:51

understanding? Is there no room for reading

28:53

the great literature of the past, for teaching

28:55

them the great traditions of freedom? There

28:58

are some fine children's shows, they

29:00

are drowned out in the massive doses

29:02

of cartoons, violence, and more

29:05

violence. Must these be

29:07

your trademarks? Search your consciences

29:09

and see if you cannot offer more to your

29:12

young beneficiaries whose future you

29:14

guide so many hours each and

29:16

every day.

29:26

It was effective rhetoric and Newton

29:28

minnow would go on to be considered one of the

29:30

godfathers of public radio. He'd

29:33

later head the Carnegie Foundation and played

29:35

a part in Barack Obama's life. In

29:37

the late nineteen eighties, he recruited Obama

29:40

to his law firm, where Barack met his future

29:42

wife, Michelle. President Obama

29:44

would return the favor by giving Newton

29:46

Minnow the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

29:48

In twenty sixteen, a year after

29:51

Newton Minnow's nineteen sixty one speech,

29:53

President Kennedy signed the Educational

29:55

Television Facilities Act, which brought

29:57

the first major federal funding to public

30:00

broadcasting, authorizing roughly twenty

30:02

five million to create technical facilities

30:04

for educational TV. The public

30:06

broadcasting movement was gaining steam,

30:09

so much so that a pioneer in radio

30:11

and television news broadcasting got

30:13

in on the action.

30:15

Good evening, I'm ad Meirle and

30:17

this is Channel thirteen WNDT

30:20

something rather different. This is educational

30:22

television. It is nine years old, quite

30:25

young in the annals of education. But

30:27

then television itself is but newcome to

30:29

being. This afternoon, there were sixty

30:31

seven stations in the country tonight.

30:34

This becomes the sixty eighth. In

30:37

time, there will be over two hundred such stations.

30:40

It will, in short, be the development of

30:42

a new fourth television network serving

30:44

all the peoples of the fifty states that are

30:46

this land. Educational television

30:49

is nonprofit. Upon these airwaves,

30:51

you will see no commercials. The only

30:54

thing this channel will sell is the lure

30:56

of learning. The only product they

30:58

will push is the node of no college.

31:00

Tonight, you join me in being present at the

31:02

birth of a great adventure.

31:04

Edward R.

31:05

Murrow was a journalistic icon, but

31:07

he was also an undercover radical.

31:09

He sponsored a communist school in Moscow

31:12

and played a hand in bringing Marxist professors

31:14

from the German Frankfurt School to the United

31:16

States, the same professors that would develop

31:19

the woke ideology saturating universities,

31:21

media, and all of modern American culture.

31:24

To anyone that was paying attention, something

31:27

fishy was developing in public broadcasting.

31:30

The entire ecosystem was made up

31:32

of leftists friendly to the socialist

31:34

cause, and they were about to get a

31:36

big boost.

31:43

From Dallas, Texas.

31:44

The flash apparently official President

31:47

Kennedy died at one

31:49

pm Central Standard Time.

31:52

Upon the death of JFK. Junior Lyndon

31:54

B. Johnson became president of the United

31:57

States, and it was just a few years

31:59

earlier, when he was the Senator from Texas,

32:01

that the pioneers of public broadcasting

32:03

sold him on the idea of a government

32:05

funded broadcasting network.

32:07

They really sold it, at least

32:10

they didn't mean it. At least they sold it as

32:12

education television.

32:13

That's Mike Gonzalez, a senior

32:15

Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. In

32:17

his well researched twenty seventeen

32:20

article for the Knight Foundation, he argued

32:22

for an end to taxpayer funded public broadcasting.

32:25

Mike Gonzalez notes that the pioneers

32:27

of public broadcasting sold it as a

32:29

government funded educational network.

32:32

Besides once being a teacher, Lyndon

32:34

B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird made

32:37

their fortune in radio and TV. In

32:39

the early nineteen fifties, they owned the sole

32:41

license for a commercial TV station in

32:43

Austin, Texas. So Johnson

32:46

understood the power of radio and

32:48

TV.

32:49

As when they met with Senator

32:52

Johnson before he became Vice president

32:54

and then president, when he was a powerful

32:56

senator from Texas, and

32:59

he had been a principal in Cotula, Texas,

33:02

and that experience mark Johnson

33:05

a great deal at least he said it did, and

33:07

they said, look, you can multiply that

33:09

you have a teacher teaching the thousands

33:12

of kids rather than just twenty eight

33:14

kids, and they

33:16

sold it as education television.

33:19

The pioneers of public broadcasting argued

33:21

that they'd air the local symphony orchestras

33:23

and be the classroom in the TV, but

33:27

by the nineteen sixties they were already

33:29

drifting from that promise. The

33:33

Ford Foundation, who'd been a primary

33:35

funder of public broadcasting, had started

33:37

experimenting with financing documentaries

33:40

and public affairs programming that it

33:42

distributed through its National Educational

33:44

Television Network. Their content was saturated

33:46

with the radical counterculture ideas of the

33:49

nineteen sixties, which Mike Gonzalz

33:51

branded as quote an all out assault

33:53

on America's institutions end quote.

33:56

When the National Educational Television

33:58

Network was rebranded as those

34:00

who were carefully watching could see

34:02

that public broadcasting was evolving

34:04

from an educational network to a news

34:07

outfit. When Lyndon B. Johnson

34:09

became president, even with this transformation

34:11

underway, he sold the creation of

34:13

public broadcasting to the American public as

34:16

a much needed educational service.

34:18

We should develop educational television

34:21

into a vital public resource

34:24

to enrich our homes, educate

34:26

our families, and to provide

34:29

assystems in our classroom.

34:31

And I will propose these measures

34:34

to the ninetieth Congress.

34:35

Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting

34:38

Act of nineteen sixty seven, and by

34:40

doing so, he established the Corporation

34:43

for Public Broadcasting or the CPB,

34:45

the entity that distributes funds to public

34:47

broadcasting networks and content creators.

34:50

Nationwide distribution of the preceding program

34:52

as the service of the Corporation for Public

34:55

Broadcasting.

34:56

The Public Broadcasting Act also

34:58

transformed the National Educationational Radio

35:00

Network into National Public Radio

35:03

or NPR.

35:04

Thousands of young people came to Washington willing

35:07

to risk being arrested in order to end the war.

35:09

They went into the streets this morning to stop the government

35:11

from functioning by clogging many Washington

35:14

roads during this morning's rush hour.

35:16

In addition, it turned the National Educational

35:18

Television Network into the Public Broadcasting

35:20

System, better known as PBS.

35:27

The cost of the far left Ford Foundation's

35:29

creations were now being subsidized

35:31

by taxpayers. NPR

35:34

and PBS officially began airing

35:36

during the Nixon administration, and Nixon

35:39

hated the networks. He tried

35:41

to defund them when he did, the Young

35:43

Enterprise look like it was on the ropes. But

35:45

when the Watergate hearings commenced, PBS

35:48

decided to cover the entire affair

35:50

from start to finish. A public

35:53

broadcasting executive at the time said,

35:55

quote, Nixon vetoed the funding

35:57

bill, cut our funding, and now he's

35:59

giving us are best programming end

36:01

quote again Mike Gonzalez.

36:04

Every Republican president, says Nixon,

36:06

has tried to defund the CPV,

36:09

including also not a president but

36:11

new Gingridge when you're Speaker of the House. No

36:14

Democrat president or speaker

36:16

has ever tried to do that because they're very happy.

36:18

With the results.

36:19

And into the modern day, the large tax

36:22

exempt foundations still have a hand in

36:24

funding public broadcasting.

36:28

Welcome back to red pilled America. In

36:31

the wake of the Jan Williams firing, National

36:33

Public Radio claimed that it was not biased,

36:36

and it almost got away with that claim, but

36:38

then in early twenty eleven, a young

36:40

journalist pulled the curtain back on NPR.

36:47

An NPR executive was caught on tape

36:50

in a conservative sting.

36:51

Investigative journalist James O'Keefe

36:53

had a team go undercover to investigate

36:56

the Public Broadcasting Network.

36:58

You're looking at a sting operation, a

37:00

setup by people who know how to do it. NPR

37:03

Foundation executive Ron Schiller thinks

37:05

he's meeting with a potential donor, but he's

37:07

actually being punked.

37:08

Last month, Schiller went to the posh Georgetown

37:11

eatery Cafe Milano, where he thought

37:13

he was meeting potential donors affiliated with

37:15

the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood who

37:17

were offering a five million dollar donation. He

37:20

was caught on tape trying to ingratiate himself

37:22

to the donors by disparaging Jews,

37:24

the Tea Party and Republicans.

37:27

The current Republican party of a

37:29

particular tea party is

37:32

fanatically involved in people's

37:34

personal lives and very fundamentally

37:37

Christian, and I wouldn't even call it Christian.

37:39

It's this weird evangelic altna.

37:43

He also said the network would be better off

37:45

without federal funding.

37:47

This, to me is finally a

37:49

window into how they really think. It's like

37:51

you were tuning your radio and just by

37:53

accident, you got the right wavelength

37:55

and now.

37:55

You're hearing the truth.

37:56

Schiller was living down to the conservative

37:59

stereotype of an executive sneering,

38:02

arrogant, utterly dismissive of views

38:04

not his own. I mean, if you were to cast

38:07

a character in the right

38:09

wing fever dream of NPR

38:11

executives.

38:12

He would be this guy today. In response to

38:14

that news, Schiller was placed on administrative

38:16

leave. The

38:23

remarks were captured as part of a video

38:25

sting by conservative activist James

38:27

O'Keeffe. At a time when public broadcasting

38:30

is under assault, O'Keeffe.

38:31

Pulled off what he called a long con,

38:34

whereas operatives set up an elaborate

38:36

ruse to expose a left wing bias

38:38

of NPR.

38:39

O'Keefe and his operatives went to great lengths for

38:41

the sting, even setting up a fake website

38:43

for the Muslim Education Action Center. Then

38:46

the operatives posting a wealthy Muslim donors,

38:48

set up a meeting at this DC restaurant

38:50

and set up a hidden camera inside. I

38:53

spoke with NPR President and CEO

38:55

Vivian Schiller, who's not related to Ron

38:57

Schiller, over the phone.

38:59

The comment made by Ron Schuller an

39:01

affront to this organization and our contrary

39:03

to everything we stand for as a news

39:05

organization.

39:06

Her response didn't save her job.

39:09

The NPR CEO was eventually forced

39:11

out along with the executive caught in the sting.

39:14

The CEO of NPR submitted

39:16

her resignation today. Their chief fundraiser

39:18

was also shown the door. Their casualties

39:20

in a war over culture and spending cuts

39:22

that threatens the very existence of public

39:24

broadcasting, including Big Bird

39:27

and Elmo.

39:27

The House Rules Committee called an emergency

39:30

meeting this afternoon to consider a bill that

39:32

would cut government funding for NPR.

39:35

I think that the image that we have

39:37

seen on the videos.

39:39

Tells us something about the internal culture

39:41

of NPR.

39:42

Listen to the executives at NPR that

39:45

says that they don't need taxpayer funding.

39:48

We ought to take that advice for what it is.

39:50

Why should we allow taxpayer dollars

39:53

to be used to advocate one ideology?

39:57

Why should we we shouldn't?

40:00

Remarks and their public disclosure could

40:02

hardly come at a worse time for public broadcasting.

40:05

House Republicans have voted to strip away all

40:07

funding for public media starting in twenty

40:09

thirteen, citing budget constraints

40:11

and what they say is NPR's liberal bias.

40:26

But in the end, it was all talk in

40:29

twenty thirteen, Public Broadcasting

40:32

received over four hundred and twenty million dollars

40:34

from Washington DC, and those funds

40:36

have been slowly increasing ever since.

40:39

In twenty twenty four, Public Broadcasting

40:41

is set to receive a whopping five

40:44

hundred and twenty five million in taxpayer

40:47

dollars.

40:54

Which leads us back to the question, what

40:56

can conservatives do to fix public

40:58

broadcasting?

41:01

Well, the right can try to defund public

41:04

broadcasting, but it's been failing at that

41:06

for half a century. I mean, the GOP

41:08

was unable to defund Planned Parenthood

41:11

even after the country learn they sold

41:13

the fetal tissue of aborted babies.

41:16

Maybe the right should attempt something

41:18

new. Perhaps it should try

41:20

to infiltrate public broadcasting by

41:22

creating its own organizations

41:24

that can tap these massive funds.

41:27

Think about it. The left also played

41:29

the long con by transforming an educational

41:32

network into a news organization. Now

41:34

it has an annual slush fund

41:36

of roughly half a billion dollars to produce

41:39

news and documentaries that help keep

41:41

the Democrats in power. NPR

41:43

and PBS have led the way in defining

41:45

the narrative of almost every hot

41:48

button issue in America from

41:50

its beginning it helped turn the public

41:52

against Richard Nixon to modern times,

41:55

where it's received a prestigious Peabody

41:57

Award for its coverage on the so called

41:59

insurre direction of January sixth, but

42:02

was absent in characterizing the George

42:04

Floyd riots as the insurrection

42:06

it was. Maybe the way

42:08

to fix public broadcasting is for the

42:10

right to infiltrate the industry

42:12

to become conservative public broadcasters.

42:15

Because even in PR admits that

42:17

their entire organization is staffed

42:20

almost exclusively by left wingers.

42:22

You and I both know that if you were to

42:24

somehow poll the political orientation

42:27

of everybody in the NPR news organization

42:29

and at all of the members stations, you

42:32

would find a progressive liberal

42:34

crowd, not uniformly, but.

42:36

Overwhelmingly journalism in general,

42:39

reporters tend to be Democrats and tend to be

42:41

more liberal than the public as a whole.

42:43

Sure, but that doesn't change what is going

42:45

out over the air.

42:47

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