By\u00a0Eric Utter
\nAmerican Thinker<\/p>\n
Elon Musk’s Twitter recently officially branded NPR “state-affiliated media<\/a>.”\u00a0\u00a0The label is not only undeniably true, but probably an understatement.\u00a0\u00a0Nonetheless, the designation predictably caused John Lansing, National Public Radio’s CEO, to clutch his pearls and attempt to un-bunch his panties.<\/p>\n By way of reply, Lansing issued this laughably preposterous statement:<\/p>\n NPR and our Member stations are supported by millions of listeners who depend on us for the independent, fact-based journalism we provide. NPR stands for freedom of speech and holding the powerful accountable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now tell us the one about the three bears, John.\u00a0\u00a0Sometimes Babylon Bee articles almost write themselves.<\/p>\n While the mainstream media have leaned liberal since Moby-Dick was a pup, it has recently gone full-on Marxist in lockstep with the Democrat party.\u00a0\u00a0Nearly every outlet uses virtually the same phrases to denounce conservatives and further its agenda.<\/p>\n Guns bad.\u00a0\u00a0Abortion rights good.\u00a0\u00a0“Toxic masculinity” bad.\u00a0\u00a0“Trans women” good.\u00a0\u00a0Appropriation bad.\u00a0\u00a0Men in women’s locker rooms and bathrooms good.\u00a0\u00a0Climate change bad.\u00a0\u00a0Fundamentally transforming the United States good.\u00a0\u00a0And on and on,\u00a0ad infinitum<\/em>.<\/p>\n The mainstream media will vociferously proclaim any conspiracy theory to be true, and any truth to be a conspiracy theory.\u00a0\u00a0Doubt that?\u00a0\u00a0They aggressively and shamelessly promoted the “Russian Collusion” fallacy for well nigh two years but reported that the Hunter Biden laptop story “had all the earmarks of Russian disinformation.”\u00a0\u00a0Then came their reporting on the coronavirus pandemic, and the subsequent mask, social-distancing, and vaccine mandates.\u00a0\u00a0Etc., etc., etc.<\/p>\n