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Democrats Mock GOP Attacks on PBS, NPR Execs at Hearing: ‘Are Bert and Ernie Part of an Extreme Homosexual Agenda?’


Democrats ridiculed Republican efforts to paint PBS and NPR as biased: 'Are Bert and Ernie part of an extreme homosexual agenda?'

Democrats ridiculed a Republican-led effort to defund American public media at a congressional hearing Wednesday about alleged bias at PBS and NPR. The hearing by the House of Representative’s Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee, titled “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the Heads of NPR and PBS Accountable,” started at 10 a.m. Greene, in her opening remarks Wednesday, labeled PBS and NPR as “radical, left-wing echo chambers for a narrow audience of mostly wealthy, white, urban liberals and progressives, who generally look down on and judge rural America.” She also accusing the public broadcasters of “grooming and sexualizing” children.

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