ProPublica journalist Andy Kroll was interviewed by Terry Gross on Fresh Air where he exposed Russell Vought as the christianic monster behind the rescission of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Bible thumping radio stations have been crowding local NPR broadcasts on the lower FM bands for decades. But how to dismantle the administrative state?
Here is a snip from “Put Them in Trauma:" Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda.Vought does not hide his agenda or shy away from using extreme rhetoric in public. But the apocalyptic tone and hard-line policy prescriptions in the two private speeches go further than his earlier pronouncements. Vought referred to the people detained for alleged crimes committed on Jan. 6, 2021, as “political prisoners” and defended the lawyers Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman, who have both faced criminal charges for their role in Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Federal law enforcement agencies, he added, “are keeping political opponents in jail, and I think we need to be honest about that.” [Kroll]NPR is suing CPB for yanking "a planned three-year contract worth $36 million in the face of intense pressure from the White House."
Bill Janklow's idea of public broadcasting hanging on despite attacks from Earth haters.
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