Executives at National Public Radio recently called reporter Mara Liasson onto the carpet. They don't like the fact that she appears as a commentator on Fox News. The network, they complain, is biased.
That's rich. We love nearly everything about NPR's supremely well-done shows, except for two things: (1) the navel-gazing personal essays in which every third word is "I," and (2) the supercilious leftism that pervades the programming like the odor of patchouli at an Earth First! powwow.
Executives at the government-funded network insist that President Obama's suggestion earlier this year that other news networks shun Fox has nothing to do with their deliberations. Probably not -- we suspect they're more than willing to stamp out ideological deviationism on their own. They already tried to get NPR reporter Juan Williams to stop identifying himself as such when he appears on Fox.
Ironically, NPR execs complain that by airing commentary from Liasson and Williams, Fox can deflect the charge that it's dominated by right-wing voices. "Fox uses Mara and Juan as cover," an NPR source complained to Politico.
Perhaps. But at least Fox leavens its right-wing bias with liberals. Still doubt NPR is even more biased than Fox? Just imagine NPR inviting Sean Hannity as a regular guest commentator.
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