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Joe Rogan on the government funding NPR (YouTube brewing) - C C - Aug 14, 2025
Apparently there's no option for "let's allow and enforce DEI hiring" with respect to a balance of political orientations. It's purely "you're defunded" if you're not doing that on your own.
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https://youtu.be/d-FC0GM-D1E
VIDEO EXCERPTS: The fact that the government was funding NPR is crazy. Like you can't have a completely one-sided media organization that's funded by taxpayers. That's crazy.
And they went over all the amount of people that were on NPR that were Democrats, and it's 100%. It's like out of 87 people it's 100%.
So look at The New York Times...
But The New York Times is a privately funded company. [They can be as pro-Democrat as they want.]
[...] You don't need to publicly fund something that's clearly biased, when the internet exists. You can get whatever you want. If you want to consume only left-wing media -- there's so much of it available, you can find it. But our tax dollars should not be going to that.
[...] Here's another great quote that she said: "The truth is a distraction from getting things done."
That is such a [ __ ] Orwellian thing to say.
[...] Oh my god, that's fantastic. ... That is such a wild thing to say. You know, going for the truth as a journalist. But no, it's not important. The truth is a distraction.
[...] I don't like that little Bobby Brown microphone either....
https://youtu.be/d-FC0GM-D1E