This Is Why NPR Deserved to Be Defunded

At the end of March, yet another activist judge ruled that President Trump couldn't defund far-Left media outlets NPR and PBS, citing the First Amendment.

I'm no law expert, but I've read the First Amendment more than a few times, and while it's pretty clear on free speech, it does not — in any way, shape, or form — say taxpayer funding is a fundamental part of free expression.

The judge also seems to have forgotten that Congress voted to defund both outlets, which is perfectly constitutional.

No organization has a right to taxpayer dollars: not NPR, not PBS, not Planned Parenthood. None of them. They can all stand, or fail, based on the quality of the product they provide and the willingness of Americans to consume that product or donate money towards them.

Because no American should have to fund this terrorist-shilling garbage:

NPR didn’t manage to quote a single member of the Michigan synagogue that was attacked last month by a crazed Hezbollah-supporting terrorist last month — but did manage to track down his pals 6,000 miles away in Lebanon, a new report reveals.
Now even NPR’s public editor is criticizing the lefty broadcaster for the stunning oversight.
Instead of focusing on the victims in the heinous attack, a March 14 “All Things Considered” segment sent an NPR reporter to the Lebanon hometown of Ayman Ghazali, 41, who just days earlier had rammed his truck into a Jewish preschool at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township.

Ayman Ghazali is a terrorist with deep ties to Hezbollah. He tried to kill Jewish children at Temple Israel last month. NPR couldn't find a single parent or staff member of the synagogue who was willing to talk?

I somehow doubt that.

This is, at best, journalistic malpractice. At worst, it's providing material support for terrorism. Hezbollah is a designated terrorist organization, one that has killed hundreds of Americans through suicide bombings, kidnappings, and attacks on U.S. military personnel, including the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing. And NPR spoke to them.

But not the Americans targeted by terrorists on American soil.

Remember, the media's narrative around the synagogue attack was that Ghazali's family was killed in Israeli-led airstrikes in Lebanon. The New York Times even described him as a "quiet restaurant worker." But the reality is much more revealing. Ghazali's brother was a Hezbollah commander. Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali managed weapons operations that launched hundreds of missiles at innocent civilians.

Even the Mayor of Dearborn Heights excused the attack, citing the family killed in Israeli airstrikes. Imagine being a non-Muslim citizen of that town; your Mayor thinks it's justified to kill children if your terrorist family members are killed in a war.

Those are the people NPR chose to interview, however. The terrorists in Lebanon. Not the Jews living in Michigan, who almost lost their children to the hands of a terrorist.

Pulling funding for NPR was the right move, and NPR should probably shut down. Or maybe they can get some money from Hezbollah instead. They seem to be on friendly terms.