A Half-Baked Full-Blown Famine Assessment

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Cindy McCain says there's a "full-blown famine" going on in Gaza. The agency she heads at the UN does not agree. Plus, a House of Representatives hearing into NPR bias was skipped by NPR's CEO and not even covered on CPSPAN, but it did feature a House Republican saying he likes his NPR station, a House Democrat saying maybe NPR really should consider the allegations of bias. And we're joined once more to talk Paul Manafort and other fans of sumptuous fabrics with Brody Mullins, author of The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | MikePesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.2	It's Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.
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0:39.0	The House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing on quote accusations of ideological bias at NPR.
0:46.4	It wasn't an unbiased hearing.
0:47.9	It wasn't exactly a murderer's row of witnesses.
0:50.4	No one from NPR showed up and the experts did, were all the invitees of the Republicans on the committee.
0:56.0	Now, you know I've been critical of NPR's content and programming.
1:00.0	My interest being MMParga, you know, make NPR great again or at least sensible?
1:06.5	As far as federal funding, I think the local stations definitely need it, though I'm a little
1:11.3	ambivalent about it. I'm a little ambivalent about it I'm a little ambivalent
1:13.4	about if NPR might be better off just issuing federal money and then they can escape
1:18.6	charge as a bias you know no private news organization would ever be subject to a congressional hearing even if its head declined to attend and by the way
1:27.5	the NPR president she has been on the job a very short time and she had only one week notice for this hearing and this was the day of her first actual board meeting which really should have been a priority.
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