NPR: National Progressive Radio

In October 2010 NPR accepted $1,800,000 from George Soros' leftist "Open Society Foundations". NPR president at the time Vivian Schiller soon fired Juan Williams arguably for his affiliation with the Fox News channel. Although the democrat controlled media outlets do not discuss Mr. Soros and his associations, his views are shared by those at NPR. Matthew Shaffer collected evidence of the political sympathies of board members of NPR Inc. and its fundraising entity the NPR Foundation in November 2010. Almost every board member has demonstrably liberal/democrat political leanings (support for democrat candidates, pro-abortion groups, and environmental activism for example). NPR Foundation chairman Antoine W. Van Agtmael was a trustee at the leftist Brookings Institution. Jane Katcher gave Democrats and Emily's List more than $64,000. Sukey Garcetti was also director of the Roth Family Foundation ("progressive" PAC). 50 such examples were collected by Mr. Shaffer. The content of NPR programming is one issue, but as to who runs the partially taxpayer funded operation, there is no argument, it is run by the democrat/liberal side of our country's 2-party ideological split and has no business being granted taxpayer money.