NPR CEO Katherine Maher has come under fire for past social media posts that show insight into her liberal political beliefs. Fox News host Jesse Watters believes that makes her the perfect candidate to run the public broadcaster.
While discussing the recent scuttlebutt from NPR employees and their responses to an op-ed from colleague Uri Berliner that claimed the network has a decidedly liberal bias, Watters pointed out that Maher fits right in as the chief executive of the organization.
“What do we know about this new NPR CEO Catherine Maher? She’s got the perfect resume. In 2016, she criticized Hillary (Clinton) for not being woke enough. In 2018, she declared that (Donald) Trump’s a racist. And she did it again in 2020,” said Watters.
“During the summer of love, she called all white people racist, and then kept the year off showing how excited she was to vote for Biden. That’s who NPR hired. You see, not only is she an avid lib, she’s a liar. She gave a whole TED Talk about working for Wikipedia and talked about how important different perspectives are.”
After playing a clip of Maher’s conversation about the importance of differing opinions and noting that debates make better ideas, Watters argued Maher doesn’t practice what she preaches.
“Berliner claims NPR newsroom had a ratio of 87 Democrats to zero Republicans. Doesn’t sound like much debate’s going on there,” the Jesse Watters Primetime host said.
Katherine Maher joined NPR as its new CEO in January after the retirement of John Lansing, after previously serving as the CEO of Web Summit and as the CEO of Wikimedia Foundation.
