NPR or (D)PR? Democrat Jim Himes Cued Up to Spin WILDLY About Trump Speech
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NPR or (D)PR? Democrat Jim Himes Cued Up to Spin WILDLY About Trump Speech

Sometimes, you can read a transcript of National “Public” Radio with a Democrat, and just laugh at how much it sounds like questions a press aide would toss to make their boss tap on all his talking points. On Friday’s Morning Edition, the supine PR helper was NPR anchor A Martinez. NPR and MS NOW sound the same. Get a load of these questions.One:A MARTINEZ: Congressman, you wrote an op-ed for The New York Times before the speech titled "Trump's Election Denial Has Never Been More Dangerous." So did he deliver the speech you expected?JIM HIMES: His delivery was actually a great deal more brazen than I thought....Two:MARTÍNEZ: Congressman, you said more brazen than you thought. What was the most brazen part?HIMES: Well, probably the most - well, again, you know, our elections are not corrupt. They are fair and free, and that is sort of an undebatable fact based on the evidence that is out there....NPR doesn’t blink for a second on the “undebatable fact.” Your wish is my command, Jim.Three, changing to midterm gossip:MARTÍNEZ: Now, we just heard from our reporter Tamara Keith, who mentioned that Trump is possibly setting up a reaction if Republicans lose in November, that the election was not fair. Do Democrats have a plan to make sure that people can trust the results in November?HIMES: Yeah. Look, all we can do is point people to the facts, and the facts are there for all to see, including, by the way, on the documents that the president touted last night. But I will also tell you that we are participating in much broader efforts to make sure that at the most local level, which is where elections are administered, that those administrators know the law....And four, what do you say to the dumber voters, who don’t believe everything Democrats say?MARTÍNEZ: Congressman, what do you say to voters who, no matter what is presented in terms of evidence, are dug in, are dug in with the belief that elections are somehow rigged or not on the up and up?This guy deserves at least a 20 percent gratuity for all of this service. Tell us, oh champion of the Undebatable Facts, how do we deal with idiots who vote Republican?HIMES: Well, you ask a question that has been exceedingly painful in both of Trump's presidencies. He has supporters who, if he tells them that the moon is made of green cheese, there is no fact, there is no evidence that will cause them to disbelieve whatever it is that the president says. The good news is that's a relatively small percentage of people. But I'm trying to remind everybody, you know, again, just look at the evidence and consider what I said before. Apparently, the two elections that he won were fine, but the one that everybody knows he lost was not fine. It's just sort of absurd.Now, here's the key point. America will get the democracy that its citizenry deserves. And if we have become a citizenry that is so obsessed with social media and willing to make conclusions based on no evidence, we'll lose our democracy. And quite frankly, that's what Donald Trump is counting on.Trump is counting on losing our democracy? It doesn't matter who wildly conspiratorial Democrats sound. NPR will just use its more than 800 stations spreading this diseased word.