As Twitchy reported recently, NPR CEO Katherine Maher continues to insist that the media outlet is in no way politically biased in its news coverage. Isn't this the media outlet that put out a statement explaining why they would not be covering the Hunter Biden laptop story? Isn't that political bias? "We wish we’d gotten on that earlier," Maher told Congress. Yeah, right.
I reported a few days ago that three Yale professors were leaving the United States because of President Trump and taking gigs at the renowned University of Toronto’s Munk School. It was the Yale Daily News that called the Munk School renowned … I've never heard of it.
NPR has no political bias, but they felt they had to interview philosophy professor Jason Stanley, who said his decision to leave the country was “entirely because of the political climate in the United States.” Oh no … the U.S. is losing a single philosophy professor to Canada. NPR assures us that Stanley is an expert on fascism, having written several books about it, including "Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future."
Here's one of the highlights of NPR's interview:
NPR Update: A Martínez interviews “fascism expert” Jason Stanley who is fleeing to Canada.
— Lomez (@L0m3z) April 2, 2025
His main concern is that Trump’s efforts to remove DEI policies are “an attack” on his black-Jewish children and puts their “safety” at risk.
Jason Stanley at his most Jason Stanley. pic.twitter.com/WQvDUHz9iF
"They're attacking Black history." Really? Like how Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was going to pull the history of slavery from the public school curriculum?
Stanley told NPR's A Martínez that the president withholding funding from universities is war:
Martínez: But what war can be won without funding?
Stanley: You might lose anyway. But you can't win a war unless you recognize it's a war. This way they're going to pick us off one by one. And history is watching here. Our institutions will be written about. They're being attacked for this entirely fake reason that's furthermore fomenting antisemitism in the United States. It's going to create mass popular anger against Jewish people.
So, if universities want to fight anti-Semitism, they need to stand up and say, 'No, we are not threats to American Jews. You are threatening American Jews.'
I understand. He doesn't want to risk his kid's safety by staying in the United States. After all, they're black and Jewish.
One trick to being a successful public figure is, anytime you move somewhere for some reason, don't forget to invent a political reason for it so that people will shower you with attention
— Kerwin Fjøl (@zermatist) April 2, 2025
He’s so good at this
— Lomez (@L0m3z) April 2, 2025
So stunning and brave.
— Just Loki (@LokiJulianus) April 2, 2025
I remember the time he inadvertently admitted that he only got paid $150 per speaking engagement. Many laughs were had by all.
— Microplastics Proliferator (@DuncanConst) April 2, 2025
Jason lives in an imaginary world.
— David Gray (@Bad_DavidG) April 2, 2025
Unfortunately, he’s not alone.
Always to Canada, never to Mexico
— chris collins (@chriscolli42272) April 2, 2025
I noticed that when all of the celebrities were threatening to leave the country if Trump won. None of them said they were headed for the paradise that is Mexico … they all picked Canada.
The suggestion it's "fascism" to roll back egregious violations of equality before the law is absurd.
— Bumpkin, Esq. (@BumpkinEsq) April 2, 2025
Liberals spent decades arguing that imposing legal disabilities is immoral, yet now they're suddenly a moral imperative. Sounds more like a power grab than a principled stand.
So powerful
— Lomez (@L0m3z) April 2, 2025
As I always say, you can tell media bias not only by the way they report the news but by which stories they decide to cover and which ones to ignore. One nutjob professor is leaving the country because of imaginary fascism, and NPR devotes a whole story and interview to him. And of course, the interviewer never pushes back on anything he says, no matter how ridiculous.
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