At a time of trillion dollar deficits, every Democrat voted to continue funding the network even though the sum total of public radio’s budget that comes from government sources amounts to only 10%. Interestingly, seven Republicans voted to support NPR, most of them from tony suburbs of Seattle, Atlanta and New York City where NPR is popular with chablis-and-brie listeners of all parties.
The NPR vote came just hours after the Daily Caller revealed how much NPR gets from key liberal donors, and how much it strives to make sure that isn’t well known. In the third tape that video provocateur James O’Keefe made of conversations with top NPR executives, its director of institutional giving revealed that left-wing billionaire George Soros had made significant donations to the organization before his controversial $1.8 million gift last year, which went to support NPR reporting in state capitals.
…She also noted that Mr. Soros’s foundation first contributed to NPR in 2000 and that some of the money went to fund a documentary critical of the death penalty as it’s employed in Texas. It aired on October 12, 2000, a day after then-Texas Governor George W. Bush was questioned about the death penalty in a debate with Democratic candidate Al Gore.
