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**Written by Doug Powers

Alternate headline: Progressives 11% More Inclined to Jump on “Defund NPR” Bandwagon

US News:

Conservatives have long complained that the public broadcaster has a liberal bias, a charge NPR’s defenders have denied. In at least one regard, however, NPR’s board and fundraisers have, as a whole, shown a marked lean to the left in recent years: political contributions. A review of campaign finance data found that NPR board members’ campaign contributions have sharply favored Democrats. Since 2004, members of the boards of NPR and the NPR Foundation, the public broadcaster’s fundraising arm, have contributed nearly $2.2 million to federal candidates, parties, and PACs, of which $1.95 million, or 89 percent, has gone to Democratic candidates and liberal-leaning political action committees.

Imagine the hectic scene inside the NPR board room. By now they’ve heard that one in every ten dollars that august body donated to politicians and political causes may well have been handed to somebody with a stated goal of using a crowbar to pry NPR’s lips from the public teat. It’s possible that any secretly right-leaning heretics in their midst are being rooted out as we speak and may well be on their way to a mandatory summer of reeducation at Camp Totenberg or else face the Board expulsion committee (everybody knows that Republicans can’t be trusted to help guide and maintain an unbiased media operation). But granted this is all just speculation.

(h/t Newsbusters)

**Written by Doug Powers

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