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NPR’s defenders receiving money from the same Soros-backed organization


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Daily Caller:

After NPR fired Juan Williams in late October for comments he made about Muslims on Fox News’ “O’Reilly Factor,” NPR saw supporters come out of the woodwork to decry right-leaning calls for the radio company to be stripped of government financial support. Interestingly, many of those who voiced their opinion that NPR should keep its government provided cash happen to receive funds from the same source: liberal financier George Soros and his Open Society Institute.

On Sunday, NPR CEO and President Vivian Schiller said she takes the threats to defund NPR “very seriously.” So too, it seems, does Soros, who gave NPR a $1.8 million donation in October and whose Open Society Institute has given money to many of the organizations that have offered a highly-publicized defense of the radio giant.

In a piece on the Huffington Post, Free Press Campaign Director Timothy Karr lambasted the right’s “shenanigans” and said their “gamble here is that their efforts to paint public broadcasting as the voice of encroaching socialism will fire up the passions of some Americans.”

The Free Press’ own passions are fired up by $350,000 over two years from the Open Society Institute.

The New America Foundation also came to NPR’s defense amid calls for the radio station’s defunding. According to the Open Society Institute’s website, the New American Foundation is receiving $200,000 from the Soros project over a two year period.snip
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