Megyn Kelly on critique of left-leaning NPR: ‘Why are we funding this bullsh*t?’

Megyn Kelly responded to some sharp criticism of NPR by asking a familiar question to those who have been paying attention.

Sohrab Ahmari, founding editor of Compact, drew attention to the mindset at NPR, which he said uses “the label ‘far right’ to describe anything to the right of full-spectrum progressivism.” A mindset where the use of “gender-inclusive” language is deemed to be more accurate, based on a mistaken belief “that some women don’t menstruate.”

The reliably no-nonsense Kelly asked, “Why are we funding this bullsh*t?’

NPR has insisted in the recent past that it receives “less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget” from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), but Fox News noted that “a deep dive into the data shows CPB funds smaller stations that funnel cash to NPR.” In effect, “a good deal of its budget comprises federal funds that flow to it indirectly” due to the 1967 Public Broadcasting Act, according to Howard Husock, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

The call to strip NPR funding due to its left-leaning bias is nothing new, but with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) coming online, there is a lot of hope — perhaps too much — that this will finally happen.

Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on the social media platform X:

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