If NPR truly achieved fairness and balance on air, it would include conservatives trashing NPR for making America worse. This actually happened for a minute this week on the NPR show Left Right and Center, where ex-Trump spokesman Mike Dubke trashed NPR and ProPublica for undermining public confidence in the Supreme Court.
The "Center" of the show title if former NPR News anchor David Greene, who is routinely on the Left, so it's more like Left Left and Right on a good week. This week's episode was titled "Could the judiciary benefit from all of these White House lawsuits?" That's lawsuits against the White House. With Republicans in control of Congress, the media and the courts are the centers of #Resistance.
The left loves judicial activism on behalf of its goals, and when conservative judges resist or repeal them, they call that activism.
This was the summary of the lead segment was this: "The Trump administration has faced over 200 lawsuits in its first four months….The White House has called the judges overruling their policies a 'threat to the will of the American people.' Could Trump be making an enemy of the judiciary branch to help create a stronger executive?"
The second topic of the show was the lack of intellectual diversity on campus, starting with Harvard. Greene declared that Trump had found a "real problem," but his bullying wasn't going to help. Dubke didn't take on NPR on this -- that they completely lack viewpoint diversity on NPR. But his presence this week was bringing some balance.
Dubke's NPR hit came in the final minutes of the show in a "Rants and Raves" segment. Greene "raved" about anti-Trump bias, that CNBC reporter Megan Casella asked the president about "TACO," or "Trump Always Chickens Out" on tariffs, which Trump called a "nasty" question. Then Dubke turned back to criticism of the judiciary. (HT: Nook)
I'm going to rant just slightly here, but I'm going to go back to one of our original topics on this, and that is the Supreme Court. I'm actually really tired of the attacks that we've had on the Supreme Court, and that they're too conservative, that they're going to give in to this administration. I think time and time again, we've seen that they've actually really deliberated on topics that have been brought before them. Sometimes it's a win for the administration, sometimes it's a loss.
But after having an activist court for decades, now that we have a more conservative court that actually takes the American people and the practical matters of these issues into the fore, we've got those on the on the far left that are attacking, not intellectually, the decisions they're making, but they're attacking them from an ethics point of view. They're trying to undermine the court.
So for all of this talk of Donald Trump and JD Vance and the Republicans undermining our judicial system, I think more damage has been done by NPR and ProPublica, and a lot of left-wing pundits in undermining our courts, and setting it up that it looks like Republicans are undermining the courts.
Dubke concluded: "This is a sham job, this is a setup by the Left to undermine our judiciary." Greene didn't rush in to disagree, he just politely turned to liberal panelist Mo Elleithee for his turn. We at the Media Research Center would love to be able to make an anti-NPR case on NPR, but everything "public" broadcasting does is tout itself as wonderful.
