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[00:00:28] I pulled this story yesterday and I didn't get to it because that's you'd be amazed how much

[00:00:35] show prep I've actually I have a stack that's over here. It's probably about in a little bit

[00:00:40] less than an inch thick. And I get to maybe like 12 sheets of paper out of it. That's like

[00:00:50] that's my that's my burn rate. Anyway, because I spend time talking about stuff like this,

[00:00:56] it's totally irrelevant. I apologize. Let me get to it. Yesterday, I pulled some stories on the

[00:01:01] NPR, the continuing fallout over at our national public radio and and the fallout over Uri

[00:01:11] Berliner or Berliner. I like Uri Berliner because otherwise it sounds like I'm saying

[00:01:19] Berliner, which then kind of conjures up the JFK quote, which actually said I'm a jelly

[00:01:23] donut or something. And so anyway, just not to I'm just trying to avoid that sort of national

[00:01:27] humiliation. So I want to call them Berliner, but I don't know if that's how he pronounces

[00:01:31] it. But that's how I'm pronouncing it. The respected editor, Uri Berliner. And he put

[00:01:40] out that piece the other day last week and I read large portions of it. And he was he

[00:01:46] went through several examples of how the coverage at NPR has been blinkered by its internal

[00:01:54] bias. And that is based on a political philosophy. And that is also seen in it's like the D.C.

[00:02:04] Bureau, where he went and pulled everybody's voter registration and found that there are

[00:02:08] 87 Democrats and zero Republicans. And that does not make a diverse newsroom. And that

[00:02:13] was his point that there are stories that we have missed as an organization because of our

[00:02:21] blinders. And in one case, we refuse to even cover one of them. I think it was the Hunter

[00:02:26] Biden laptop story. So and by the way, when people try to make the analogy between NPR

[00:02:34] and their bias, and they try to like come over and say, well, that's you know, the

[00:02:37] same thing as, you know, what you do, Pete, this is news talk radio and conservative

[00:02:42] talk radio and you guys do the same thing. So there are some differences. And I say this

[00:02:45] as one who grew up listening to NPR, which has taken a has taken a turn in the last like

[00:02:51] 10 years or so. And that's what Yuri Berliner was writing about, that things are

[00:02:56] different now. And it is it's due to progressivism because it's a cancer. This

[00:03:03] political philosophy, this Marxist inspired philosophy is a cancer. It will destroy

[00:03:10] whatever institution it takes root in. Okay, by the way, I will be getting to this, we're

[00:03:17] going to do this. Well, the first phase of it will start tomorrow. The Methodist Church

[00:03:24] is in the process of imploding. And they're coming to Charlotte in a couple of days for

[00:03:30] their quadrennial general conference, they're having the big meeting of all of the

[00:03:36] Methodists, and they're going to be voting on what they call their book of discipline.

[00:03:42] And they're basically they're caving to the progressive wing inside their party that has

[00:03:48] been fighting the conservative wing for several decades. And the conservators finally

[00:03:52] said, you know what, we're out. And they are disaffiliating. And the so the United

[00:03:58] Methodist Church is lost. It is lost. And so we'll get into that. But it's the

[00:04:06] same dynamic. It's the same dynamic that is happening in K-12 education. Right? This is

[00:04:13] the long march through the institutions. The institutions are media, the institutions

[00:04:20] are schools, the institutions are churches. Because the whole point is you affect and

[00:04:28] you change the course of the culture because politics is downstream of culture.

[00:04:35] So you take over the institutions, you infect them with this radical activism that's

[00:04:40] Marxist in nature. And you pit people against one another because again, Marxism

[00:04:47] is just about tearing down. It doesn't build anything. It destroys. That's why I call it

[00:04:53] a cancer. It's an infection. So this cancer has infected NPR. And I think it might be

[00:05:02] a terminal case. NPR CEO Catherine Maher has responded now to, well first, this was

[00:05:10] the other day. So this was on the 14th. This was over the weekend where I saw the

[00:05:14] story and I was going to do it yesterday but I didn't because I ran my mouth too

[00:05:16] long like I'm doing right now. But she responded to Uri Berliner's column

[00:05:22] and appeared in that column to confirm everything that he was alleging. And that

[00:05:31] she has no intention to bring greater balance to its coverage or its editorial

[00:05:36] staff. Berliner, this is from by the way Jonathan Turley writing at his blog

[00:05:41] jonathanturley.org. Berliner detailed the complete exclusion of any Republicans

[00:05:47] among the editors of NPR's Washington office and various examples of raw bias

[00:05:51] in favor of democratic narratives and claims. By the way, Berliner is no

[00:05:55] conservative. OK. Maher then responds to exactly none of those specific points in

[00:06:04] any kind of substance. She just ignores it. She deflects. Instead, she attacks

[00:06:09] Berliner as profoundly disrespectful, hurtful and demeaning to his colleagues

[00:06:16] by calling out the company for its political bias. In a memo on Friday,

[00:06:19] she told staff that Berliner attacked not only the quality of our editorial

[00:06:23] process and the integrity of our journalists, but our people on the basis of

[00:06:27] who we are. There is an acronym called Darvo. Have you ever heard this before?

[00:06:34] Darvo. It's not the thing that dogs get. OK. That's Parvo. This is Darvo.

[00:06:42] And it stands for deny, attack. And then the RVO is reverse

[00:06:51] victim and offender. Darvo. Deny. OK. So what does she do? What does Maher do

[00:07:00] here? She says this is not the case. His accusations are not true. She does not

[00:07:06] she does not rebut them. She does not provide any evidence of why they are

[00:07:11] not true, but she denies that they are true. She then attacks him, calling

[00:07:16] him his comments were profoundly disrespectful and hurtful and demeaning

[00:07:25] and that he attacked not only the quality of the editorial process and the

[00:07:30] integrity of our journalists, but reverse victim and offender. He attacked

[00:07:34] our people on the basis of who we are. So there's your reversal. This is

[00:07:40] what narcissists do. Darvo. This is how they turn any kind of critique

[00:07:47] about how they are behaving, how they are harming, how they are, how they're

[00:07:52] stringing you along, how they are hurting you. Right. And when you confront

[00:07:56] them, narcissists engage in this Darvo activity. Deny, attack, reverse

[00:08:03] victim and offender. Maher offered spin when she suggested falsely that

[00:08:10] Burliner was somehow opposed to a diverse workplace. Right. So here's

[00:08:14] your classic progressive response, saying it is deeply simplistic to assert

[00:08:19] that the diversity of America can be reduced to any particular set of

[00:08:23] beliefs and faulty reasoning to infer that identity is determinative of

[00:08:27] one's thoughts or political leanings. Each of our colleagues are

[00:08:30] here because they are excellent, accomplished professionals with an

[00:08:34] intense commitment to our work. We are stronger because of the work

[00:08:37] we do together. We owe each other our utmost respect. We fulfill our

[00:08:42] mission best when we look and sound like the country we serve. We

[00:08:47] fulfill our mission best when we look and sound like the country we serve.

[00:08:53] But what was his criticism? When it came to a lack of diversity, what

[00:08:57] was he saying? It didn't have anything to do with the way people

[00:09:00] looked. It didn't have anything to do with the way people, I guess,

[00:09:04] sounded if she's talking about some sort of a racialized dialect kind

[00:09:07] of sound. Because honestly, that's not even true because it's NPR

[00:09:11] and every single one of them has got vocal fry over there. They all

[00:09:14] sound like that. I'll talk like the vocal fry. Just like all of

[00:09:21] the if you need a good example, I won't tell you to go listen to

[00:09:24] it. I'll just tell you, go check out some of the like the

[00:09:27] bachelorette or bachelor reality shows. Because like all the

[00:09:33] young yeah, it's like all the young girls they all talk with

[00:09:35] the vocal fry anyway. And a lot of young guys do too. I don't

[00:09:40] I do not understand it, but they do. So his criticism though was

[00:09:46] that they do not represent the diversity of American political

[00:09:50] thought or philosophical thought or religious thought. That's the

[00:09:55] problem that is afflicting NPR. And this new CEO's response is to

[00:10:01] say no, it's not true. We fulfill our mission when we look

[00:10:08] like the rest of the country. But that's exactly what he's

[00:10:12] saying is the false sense of diversity. You're not finding

[00:10:15] out why you're losing people who are centrist, Latino, black,

[00:10:22] Republicans, like all of these different groups you're losing

[00:10:26] because you're not speaking to them. You're speaking with one

[00:10:29] homogenized voice of awful affluent white female liberals

[00:10:34] who want to hear bump tunes of the Himalayan throat callers

[00:10:39] rather than you know, some black keys. Alrighty so the the new

[00:10:44] chief of NPR put out a statement after Yuri Berliner

[00:10:48] criticized the the the radio network for its you know,

[00:10:55] blinkered progressivism. Shannon Thaler at the New York

[00:10:59] Post reassembled Mars deleted postings from Twitter.

[00:11:02] Yeah, have you? Oh, sorry. Yeah, this was the other thing. She

[00:11:07] has a bit of a history shall we say on the Twitter machine.

[00:11:11] She's never held a position in media as far as I know. She's

[00:11:17] been at various other agencies, nonprofits and management and

[00:11:20] that sort of stuff. But she has always been a progressive.

[00:11:24] She's been a partisan. She write she wrote about one tweet

[00:11:29] where it was like she had a dream about eating nuts with

[00:11:33] Kamala Harris. I I'm just relaying the information.

[00:11:40] Okay. Shannon Thaler at New York Post found some more of her

[00:11:46] deleted postings, including a 2018 declaration that Donald

[00:11:50] Trump is a racist. She also had a statement that appeared to

[00:11:55] excuse all of the looting during the summer of fiery but mostly

[00:12:02] peaceful expressions of disapproval. She's also quoted for

[00:12:07] saying saying that white silence is complicity. She has

[00:12:11] described her own quote hysteric white woman voice.

[00:12:17] She also stated quote I was taught to do it I have done

[00:12:20] it it's a disturbing recognition while I don't recall ever

[00:12:23] using it to deliberately expose another person to immediate

[00:12:26] physical harm on my own cognizance. It's not impossible

[00:12:30] that is whiteness. I got a feeling like that was after

[00:12:34] remember that woman in the park who was yelling hysterically

[00:12:36] at the at the bird watching guy and they called the cops and

[00:12:40] all that and he was recording the whole thing and then

[00:12:42] that woman's life got destroyed. I think this might have

[00:12:45] been what she was responding to like everything because

[00:12:47] this woman. Okay look, I'm not a psychiatrist. I have zero

[00:12:52] training on this at all but I feel like she's a narcissist.

[00:12:55] I kind of like I really feel like she's in every single thing

[00:12:58] that she's like all these tweets it's all about turning the

[00:13:02] focus back to her and this this fake signaling to you know

[00:13:10] people to to the others that like I recognize this and by

[00:13:14] recognizing this about my whiteness I'm better than

[00:13:17] all of the other white people and I'm also better than

[00:13:20] you. Right? Like that's that's the vibe in all of these

[00:13:24] types of she says I grew up feeling superior. Ha! How

[00:13:28] white of me because I was from New England and my part of

[00:13:31] the country didn't have slaves or so I'd been taught.

[00:13:36] What? You grew up thinking you were superior because

[00:13:41] New Englanders didn't have slaves. I'm sorry did did you

[00:13:46] not have slaves? Did you have slaves like did like

[00:13:50] the neighbor down the street have some slaves at one

[00:13:52] point but I got rid of them or something like that has

[00:13:55] nothing to do with you. But here she is she makes it about

[00:13:58] herself. Alright so the head of NPR is exactly who you

[00:14:02] would expect her to be and oh by the way after she put

[00:14:06] out the statement this would have been on Friday NPR

[00:14:09] put out the statement saying essentially no uh you're a

[00:14:13] bad person Yuri Burliner they suspended him they

[00:14:18] suspended him without pay for five days the public radio

[00:14:22] network is grappling in other ways with the fallout from

[00:14:25] Burliner's essay for the online news site The Free Press

[00:14:28] it angered many of his colleagues led NPR leaders to

[00:14:31] announce monthly internal reviews of the network's

[00:14:34] coverage and it gave fresh ammo to conservative and

[00:14:38] partisan republican critics of NPR including former

[00:14:42] president Donald Trump. That really is the issue here

[00:14:50] ammo for the right right because in the culture war you

[00:14:53] don't shoot your own Yuri come on man conservative activist

[00:14:58] Christopher Rufo is among those now targeting NPR's new

[00:15:02] CEO Catherine Marr for messages that she posted to

[00:15:05] social media years before joining the network

[00:15:08] among others those posts include a 2020 tweet that

[00:15:11] called Trump racist and another that appeared to

[00:15:13] minimize rioting during social justice protests uh what

[00:15:18] else uh oh how about this one 2018 she says that Silicon

[00:15:23] Valley versus Russia thread was pretty funny until it

[00:15:26] got on to ideological diversity in case it's not

[00:15:29] evident in these parts when you say ideological

[00:15:33] diversity that's often a dog whistle for anti feminist

[00:15:37] anti pock or people of color anti pock stories about

[00:15:41] meritocracy maybe uh maybe it's not what the author

[00:15:45] meant but I don't know maybe it is um she has Christmas

[00:15:50] ornaments she says that function as visual puns

[00:15:55] oh look how cute a dumpster fire of 2016

[00:15:58] oh so brave um

[00:16:03] oh I've stopped using this one apparently that what is this thing

[00:16:08] no no band no wall this is crazy she's got oh it's a protest

[00:16:14] sign she's got a bunch of protest signs uh and this one says

[00:16:17] this is crazy and she says I've stopped using this one because

[00:16:20] it's ableist uh this is their new yeah this is the

[00:16:26] woman that's going to write the ship that Yuri Berliner says

[00:16:30] is is lilting to the uh to the was it lilting or listing

[00:16:34] listing listing to the left right Berliner provided a copy by

[00:16:40] the way I'm reading here this is from the NPR website by

[00:16:43] David Volkanflay and um Berliner provided me a copy with

[00:16:48] the formal rebuke from his bosses NPR would not confirm

[00:16:53] her comment in presenting Berliner's suspension the

[00:16:57] organization told the editor that he had failed to secure

[00:16:59] its approval for outside work for other news outlets as is

[00:17:02] required of NPR journalists it called the letter a final

[00:17:06] warning saying Berliner would be fired if he violated NPR's

[00:17:09] policy again Berliner is a dues paying member of NPR's

[00:17:13] newsroom union but says he's not appealing the punishment

[00:17:17] the free press is a website that has become a haven for

[00:17:20] journalists who believe that mainstream media outlets have

[00:17:23] become too liberal which by the way that is false

[00:17:26] it's not too liberal it's too illiberal illiberal you become

[00:17:34] too biased and progressive you are illiberal you do not allow

[00:17:40] other people to have different opinions about things

[00:17:46] Berliner said he did not get permission from NPR to speak

[00:17:48] with well NPR for this story but he said he's not

[00:17:54] worried about any consequences here he said quote talking to

[00:17:56] an NPR journalist and being fired for that would be

[00:17:59] extraordinary I think it would it would and I suspected

[00:18:04] could happen this is uh there's a p hang on David Marcus

[00:18:11] writer and I think he's a playwright also in New York he

[00:18:13] says I'm starting to think that the head of NPR doesn't

[00:18:16] actually exist and she is in fact just generated by AI

[00:18:22] which is possible and Jeff Blair who's a writer for various

[00:18:28] publications like the national review among them he says this

[00:18:30] is the oh he also does political beats the podcast um he

[00:18:34] says this is the best I have seen yet at summarizing just

[00:18:37] how weird it is to see all of these old tweets from this

[00:18:43] Katie Marlater lady every single stereotype is displayed in

[00:18:48] these tweets every single imaginable woke stereotype

[00:18:52] possible up to and including cis white mobility privilege she

[00:18:58] literally says this that she has cis white mobility

[00:19:02] privilege because she can move around and the reason she

[00:19:05] can move around is because she's white apparently uh uh

[00:19:09] okay so this is news to me I was not aware that uh

[00:19:13] that non-white people cannot travel in America I was not

[00:19:16] aware of that which is weird because I have friends and

[00:19:18] neighbors they do a lot they travel more than I do well hang

[00:19:23] on but they're Hispanic so they're not maybe they're one of

[00:19:27] those white Hispanics

[00:19:32] do people even hear what you sound like like in your in your

[00:19:39] your raging fight right to punch Nazis and out all the

[00:19:43] races you guys are sounding like racists holy smokes

[00:19:48] Oliver Darcy at CNN NPR is still in the thick of it after

[00:19:54] Yuri Berliner's scathing essay last week the outlets chief

[00:19:57] executive Catherine Marr is facing criticism from the

[00:20:00] right over old tweets skewering Trump NPR spokesperson

[00:20:04] Isabelle Lara dismissed the attacks which have been

[00:20:06] fueled by right-wing activist Christopher Rufo saying Marr

[00:20:10] was quote not working in journalism at the time so this

[00:20:14] is totally fine right so that makes her the right person to

[00:20:17] write the ship of course she has all of the right opinions

[00:20:22] but she wasn't working in journalism at the time where

[00:20:24] those opinions would be more problematic but now that

[00:20:27] she's getting into the journalisming now none of

[00:20:30] those things matter her ideas her ideology her

[00:20:32] philosophy none of that stuff matters don't worry at all

[00:20:37] about any of that she was going to get a covid test and she

[00:20:43] said quote I love this little prompt of inclusion and she

[00:20:46] takes a picture and says for the the wi-fi then the wi-fi

[00:20:52] where she's getting her covid shot it says the network's

[00:20:54] name one medical guest and the password is he she they

[00:20:58] oh my god i feel so safe here that's what she says

[00:21:06] yeah there's her uh this is crazy uh oh it's so strange to be

[00:21:09] called a biden supporter she says i'm a supporter of human

[00:21:12] rights dignity and justice well that's obviously the same

[00:21:16] thing right i mean this is the right person

[00:21:20] the right person to write the ship she's walking in

[00:21:23] eyes wide open to all the potential biases of progressives

[00:21:28] by the way the uh here's here's the other one i had a

[00:21:32] dream where kamala and i were on a road trip in an

[00:21:35] unspecified location sampling and comparing nuts and baklava

[00:21:41] from roadside stands my god she even dreams and woke

[00:21:45] she says woke up very hungry uh yikes it's just awful

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[00:22:53] let me go over here to ralph hello ralph welcome to the program

[00:22:57] eight p great afternoon as a person that was baptized as a man

[00:23:02] methodist i feel obligated to call in and stand up for the denomination

[00:23:09] uh... at least the methodists will speak to you in the literature the bad

[00:23:14] business is a tough one there's six feet tall

[00:23:17] and then all of a sudden they're three and a half feet there

[00:23:20] oh yeah on the vodka i literally was telling somebody in the parking lot

[00:23:23] this is a very joke today

[00:23:26] um... i the joke is that uh...

[00:23:28] jews do not recognize jesus as the son of god

[00:23:31] uh... believe that protestant or yet protestants do not recognize

[00:23:35] uh... mary as uh... like the

[00:23:39] assumed into heaven right seven of that and then uh...

[00:23:42] and uh... uh... baptist don't recognize each other in a liquor store

[00:23:46] or strip club but yeah

[00:23:48] but being truthful though at we were a member of our part show we went at

[00:23:52] ten of the church up probably a

[00:23:55] and about fifteen years ago

[00:23:57] that's when it started really and you can tell the progressiveness

[00:24:01] uh...

[00:24:02] you know started there was

[00:24:04] members of that church of generations of family

[00:24:07] that had went to that church and

[00:24:10] they just

[00:24:11] cost it to implode

[00:24:13] and all those generational families that started that church

[00:24:17] you know seventy eighty hundred years ago

[00:24:20] you know are no longer there

[00:24:22] now it's a yeah it's a just it the point is destruction

[00:24:25] uh... ralph i appreciate the call

[00:24:27] uh... we're gonna get into the the method is thing because there's this

[00:24:30] big split going on in the method is church it's been brewing for apparently

[00:24:33] you know years

[00:24:34] it's coming to a head

[00:24:36] right here in charlotte

[00:24:38] next week starts the the the big like multi-day it's going for like

[00:24:43] from like the twenty-third like may third or something like that they got

[00:24:45] like a whole week of

[00:24:47] meetings and stuff and then they're going to be doing like a whole bunch of votes

[00:24:50] uh... where they're going to be

[00:24:52] uh... i'd doing like

[00:24:54] they're going to be basically cave to what the progressives have been doing in

[00:24:57] defiance which has been ordaining gay bishops they've been doing gay marriages

[00:25:02] in violation of the church's rules

[00:25:04] and so now the church is going to change the rules

[00:25:07] because the conservatives the traditionalists have

[00:25:10] left

[00:25:11] the church wasn't enforcing their rules

[00:25:15] rock and roll hall of famer john melanchem

[00:25:19] uh... cut short a concert

[00:25:22] sunday in teledo ohio i spent a week there one day

[00:25:26] anyway

[00:25:26] where uh... hecklers in the crowd would not stop interrupting him here's how

[00:25:31] it sounded

[00:25:35] oh

[00:25:37] so he's he's telling a story there and somebody calls out a place of

[00:25:41] music

[00:25:42] uh...

[00:25:44] heller

[00:25:57] joseph

[00:25:58] i think they seem after the show

[00:26:00] and

[00:26:01] stop the show

[00:26:06] Say what I'm gonna do.

[00:26:09] Since you've been so wonderful,

[00:26:11] I'm gonna cut about 10 songs out of the show.

[00:26:14] Here we go.

[00:26:15] ["The Show's Over"]

[00:26:29] Show's over.

[00:26:32] There you go.

[00:26:33] Rock and roll hall of famer.

[00:26:35] 70-something year old John Mellencamp

[00:26:38] not used to getting heckled in such an intimate environment,

[00:26:41] which by the way, that's, you know,

[00:26:43] you're an intimate environment.

[00:26:44] That's what happens when you're not playing songs

[00:26:46] and you're telling stories about Joe Biden.

[00:26:49] Just shut up and play, man.

[00:26:50] All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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