Blog #111 The Case to Immediately Defund PBS, NPR, and GBH

Your taxes prop up GBH, NPR, PBS agitprop

Jim Braude’s $344,850 annual pay your tax dollars at work
By Howie Carr | howard.carr@medianewsgroup.com | Boston Herald

UPDATED: April 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM EDT

Mr. President, we all understand that you and the rest of your administration are very busy, what with stripping racist Harvard of $2.3 billion in handouts and deporting thousands of bloodthirsty illegal-alien gangbangers and Muslim Jew-haters from Ivy League schools.

Americans are all in on restoring sanity to the society, across the board. But can I ask you for just one small favor, if you guys could multi-task just one small reform that we’ve all been waiting for.

Defund National Panhandler Radio and all the rest of “public” broadcasting.

We’ve been waiting now for 10 weeks and those limp-wristed fops are still getting millions or billions or whatever they claim they’re pocketing from people who work for a living.

Usually the PBS comrades claim it’s only one or five percent of their budgets. But then when some Republican pol says they’re on the chopping block, they put the gun to the head of Elmo.

You know how Mayor Michelle Wu uses her infant daughter as a shield whenever something scandalous happens at City Hall?

The limousine liberals use Elmo the same way – as a hostage.

“Don’t shoot me or Elmo gets it!”

Guess what – nobody watches PBS anymore. Just like nobody listens to NPR. It’s just another gold-plated government welfare program for shiftless, unemployable twits, like the DEI programs in every public agency.

The House’s DOGE hearing about “public broadcasting” was almost a month ago now. Despite the “dark” tone, as the New York Times called it, there was no talk about stripping the First Amendment rights of any of these chinless toffs with their plummy accents.

The only question is, why the hell should normal Americans have to pay for this noxious far-left agitprop?

In her closing statement at the hearing, GA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene summed it up perfectly:

“Here’s how it works in America every single day. Private businesses operate on their own without government funding. We believe that you all can hate us on your own dime.”

Exactly. I don’t read left-wing rags, especially if I have to pay to subscribe to them. It would only encourage them. It’s the same reason I cut the cord on my cable TV. If you want to pay Rachel Maddow and Al Sharpton and Jake Tapper millions of dollars for their abhorrent nonsense, be my guest.

But not on my dime.

Do you realize that Jim Braude, a failed party apparatchik who will be 76 years old next month, is still pocketing $344,850 a year from WGBH, er GBH? He used to make $464,031 a year, but then his TV show that nobody watched went off the air and he had to, uh, tighten his belt.

Shouldn’t Comrade Braude be retired by now in some luxurious lakefront dacha somewhere, maybe near Commissar Bernie Sanders’, railing about running-dog capitalist roaders and how Leon Trotsky got what was coming to him.

The head of NPR is currently a rabid trust-funded Karen by the name of Katherine Maher. She’s on record as calling President Trump “a deranged racist sociopath.” (Now she tells Congress she “regrets” her statement.)

She once slammed Hillary Clinton for using the words “boy and girl,” saying it was “erasing language for non-binary people,” whatever a non-binary person is.

She once said that the First Amendment was “the number one challenge” for suppressing “bad information.”

In addition to despising the Bill of Rights, this tax-fattened sow doesn’t much like “white male Westernized constructs,” whatever those might be.

When President Trump was thrown off social media, she was ecstatic, saying, “Must be satisfying to deplatform fascists. Even more satisfying? Not platforming them in the first place.”

That’s NPR on steroids. If they don’t like what you say, you’re a “fascist.” But if you object to giving them money to call you a racist, or a fascist, or a sociopath.

Republicans are described 162 times as “far right.” Democrats are described as “far left” six times.

When Hunter Biden’s laptop was exposed in 2020, NPR refused to cover it, calling it “a waste of time, a distraction.”

Not only did NPR ignore one of the biggest Democrat scandals in history, they said that no one should even mention it, because “Experts say attack on Hunter Biden deepens stigma for millions.”

In other words, Hunter Biden was a victim. Not an entitled crackhead bagman, but a victim.

Yesterday was tax day. I think you and I are the real victims here, that we have to pick up the tab for this toxic political rhetoric.

Again, if George Soros wants to support this sort of Stalinist excrement, the way his billions support the wretched local sports talk station in Boston, that’s his call. But taxpayers shouldn’t have to pick up the tab.

Regime-controlled media defends National Panhandler Radio the way they always defend waste, fraud and abuse – by lying about it.

After the Congressional hearing, the Washington Post wrote a slobbering puff piece about the “enormous value” of NPR’s left-wing propaganda, dismissing criticisms of “its allegedly liberal bent.”

Allegedly liberal!

A recent story on NPR bemoaned how a Chicago hospital “bows to federal pressure on trans care for teens.”

One teenager, described by NPR with male pronouns, was described as having “already frozen his eggs in case he wants to have his own biological children one day.”

A boy with eggs? These are your tax dollars at work.

In the same story, another “16-year-old boy” was bereft when his scheduled double mastectomy was canceled. Damn that Trump!

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“He has been binding his chest for more than five years, but doing that causes rib and back pain.”

This is insanity. If you’re a “he,” you don’t have eggs. And you don’t need a double mastectomy either. Right NPR?

“The truth is that biological sex, like a lot of scientific categories, is nuanced.”

But as Marjorie Taylor Greene would say, nuance on your own damn dime. Don’t forget that Boston has two of these crackpot radio stations – two!

Again, if the market will support them, who cares. After all, nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of Massachusetts Democrats.

Please, Mr. President, I know you have bigger fish to fry, starting with Harvard, the state of Maine and all those “Maryland dads” from MS-13 on welfare.

But don’t forget NPR and PBS. It’s really not that nuanced. Just cut ‘em off, 100%. It’s time Elmo started supporting himself. Jim Braude too, for that matter.

Actor and writer David Duchovny on WGBH's Boston Public Radio show hosted by Margery Eagen and Jim Braude. Photo taken at the WGBH Studios at the Boston Public Library.

Originally Published: April 16, 2025 at 4:06 AM EDT