There are an awful lot of people out in Mountain Home, Arkansas and Killeen, Texas who listen to NPR. NPR listeners don’t all live on the lower East Side of Manhattan or in Malibu. And the ones who would really suffer if the Republicans were successful are, as Patrick Butler pointed out, from small town America where there aren’t as many donors to fuel those pledge-drives.
The Republican ploy to defund NPR may be just Jim Dandy with their Fox News-watching base. But with swing voters — not so much. It will be one more tactic that blows up — right in their faces.
Oh, about those jobs that the voters wanted last November. One more week has passed without the Republicans lifting a finger to create one job in America. Instead they busied themselves passing legislation to destroy several thousand more broadcasting jobs at the NPR affiliate near you.
Why the Republicans hate NPR