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A top House Democrat questioned the patriotism of Republicans criticizing NPR on Wednesday during a heated hearing about the taxpayer-funded outlet’s bias issues, suggesting they were playing into the hands of American enemies.
In a withering opening statement at the House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing, Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., said figures like Vladimir Putin watched with glee when American journalists were attacked by politicians.
“Foreign adversaries like the Chinese Communist Party, Russia’s Putin or Iran’s violent theocrats certainly enjoy it when American politicians undermine our own objective journalists,” she said. “This committee should not do their dirty work for them. Instead, we need to invest in public broadcasting, NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.”
Tim Graham, editor of the conservative watchdog Media Research Center and a witness at the hearing, responded later that he shouldn’t be compared to Putin for having the temerity to criticize NPR.
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