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The newspapers routinely play Hide the Ideology when liberal judges are resisting President Donald Trump. They'll write "a federal judge" ruled against Trump and not tell consumers that the judge is a liberal. Liberals are always painted as nonpartisans when they act like partisans.

That's the case with Obama-appointed judge (and former Clinton Justice Department attorney) Randolph Moss, who mysteriously found it was a violation of the First Amendment and "viewpoint discrimination" for Trump to push defunding of PBS and NPR in an executive order.

"The message is clear: NPR and PBS need not apply for any federal benefit because the President disapproves of their 'left-wing' coverage of the news," wrote the partisan judge. The First Amendment "does not tolerate viewpoint discrimination and retaliation of this type."

They loved this ruling at NPR. "Today's ruling is a decisive affirmation of the rights of a free and independent press," Black Lives Matter-loving NPR CEO Katherine Maher said in a statement. An "independent press" isn't defined by taking government money. That makes you a dependent press.

Then Maher unleashed her typical insincerity: "Public media exists to serve the public interest -- that of Americans -- not that of any political agenda or elected official." Everyone listening to NPR knows that's a pants-on-fire lie. NPR whistleblower Uri Berliner found in D.C. voter records that the NPR newsroom had 87 registered Democrats and no registered Republicans.

PBS said in a statement that the judge's ruling affirmed that Trump imposed "textbook unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination and retaliation, in violation of longstanding First Amendment principles."

Where on Earth in the First Amendment is the part about how conservatives should have to support government-funded viewpoint discrimination and retaliation? PBS and NPR have been discriminating against conservatives and Republicans since the Nixon years.

That's why the phrase "public broadcasting" is ludicrous. They have no interest in representing the entire public. They are broadcasting by the Left, for the Left. They're like taxpayer-funded MS NOW. There's no reason for taxpayers to support that.

When we've studied guest counts, the tilt is obvious. In the first four months of Trump's second term, we found the "PBS News Hour" guest count was 173 liberals to 41 conservatives -- a ratio of 4.2 to 1. When elected officials and political appointees were removed from the count, the ideological tilt was 149 to 23, or 6.5 to 1.

That's actually much better than NPR's ludicrously titled "All Things Considered" evening newscast. In the two months after Congress rescinded their funding -- from July 19 to Sept. 18, 2025 -- the guest count was 53 liberals to three conservatives, and one of those three was opposed to Trump. That's almost 18 to 1. Nobody at NPR believes in what they call "false balance." They believe in rhetorically shoving conservatives to the ground and roughing them up. After all the bullying, they steal their lunch money.

These people have the audacity to claim they're on the wrong side of "viewpoint discrimination." It's the same way that liberals insist you can't object to "The View" having a guest disparity of 128 to 2, or late-night comedians favoring liberal guests 99% of the time (as per our 2025 counts). At least these shows didn't take conservative money and bash them over the head with it.

Luckily, Congress rescinded the subsidies for PBS and NPR (for now), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shut down their propaganda-backing shop. But as soon as Democrats get back control of Congress, they'll start trying to subsidize it all over again. Why wouldn't Democrats want to fund DNC Media? That's why the entire "public broadcasting" concept is an enormous fraud.

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Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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