The rot runs deep at NPR. This is what we must do now

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Imagine if the Federal Highway Administration spent just 11% of its congressional funding on roads in red states and 67% of its funding on roads in blue states. Would that last long?

Of course, not--Republicans and moderates in Congress would put an end to it immediately. It would be clearly unfair to taxpayers and a dysfunctional way to operate a federally funded highway system.

But that’s how things work at the nation’s largest public radio news organization, and that’s why I am introducing the Defund NPR Act.

NPR WHISTLEBLOWER URI BERLINER RESIGNS: ‘I CANNOT WORK IN A NEWSROOM WHERE I AM DISPARAGED’

National Public Radio (NPR) has 87 registered Democrats and zero registered Republicans working in its Washington, D.C.. newsroom, and they’ve been preaching to the choir. Over two-thirds of NPR listeners are liberals and barely more than one out of every ten leans conservative.

But the U.S. taxpayers -- who are sending NPR nearly $100 million dollars a year in federal funding—i.e. the American people—lean conservative.

Why should they pay for a radio station that they don’t like to listen to? Their money doesn’t go to a conservative alternative to NPR, which is fine, but we shouldn’t make an exception for far-left radio.

NPR SCANDAL: WHISTLEBLOWER SCOLDING OUTLET’S LIBERAL SLANT PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON ORGANIZATION'S FEDERAL FUNDING

Of course, the problem isn’t just that NPR doesn’t appeal to conservative Americans—it’s far worse than that. The heart of the issue is that NPR despises Republicans and their values.

Just listen to their new CEO, Katherine Maher, who said that the "the number one challenge here [to censoring Americans] that we see is, of course, the First