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The ridiculous left-wing meltdown over defunding NPR

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President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have finally delivered on a longtime GOP promise: defunding National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. Many taxpayers will celebrate that their hard-earned dollars are no longer going to ideologically biased, out-of-date media. Meanwhile, liberal commentators are losing their minds.

For example, liberal pundit Robert Reich claimed Trump was trying to “fire Elmo” and compared this action to slaveowners and the Nazis. (In reality, only 4% of Sesame Street’s funding came from the government, and it just signed a deal with cash-flush Netflix.)

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