[Updated]
NPR (NHPR) has some audio up this morning with a very amusing headline above it and an even funnier statement beneath. “Amid Russia Scandals, Conservative Media Provides Air Cover For President Trump.”
NPR not only published this but made it laughable thanks to the copy they added below the audio player (emphasis mine).
Many Americans don’t believe Russia tried to meddle in the presidential election despite intelligence evidence to the contrary.
The only evidence is that there is an investigation which has so far produced nothing actionable. Put another way; there is no evidence of evidence, and NPR knows this. 
They also know, or should, that the special investigator will probably never bring a case and while it may be desired it is not expected. His job is to investigate so that Democrat friendly media like NPR can create stories about “the investigation” while providing cover for the Democrat narrative about the purpose of the investigation while suppressing anything that might discredit the investigation, its premise, or distract the public from it.
It is what they do. It is why they exist.
While we’re on the subject, James O’Keefe dropped another CNN video yesterday in which John Bonifield, a Supervising Producer at CNN, reiterates that the Russia story is mostly “bulls**t. Project Veritas also has audio of Bonifield admitting that CNN suppresses conservative voices.
No surprises there. But that’s old news, so how about something new?
Pakistani-born Imran Awan, long-time right-hand IT aide to the former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman is being investigated by the FBI. Imran Awan, who wired nearly $300,000.00 dollars from the Congressional Federal Credit Union to Pakistan before trying to board a plan to that same country. Imran Awan, under investigation by the Capitol Police, implicated in the theft of computer equipment from sitting members of Congress, and any number of suspicious activities, and who was still on former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s congressional office payroll until the morning after his arrest.
This story is five days old, and neither NPR or NHPR have published a word or made one recorded peep about an actual international scandal, perpetrated by an accused foreign national, in the employ of a prominent Democrat Congresswoman, caught trying to flee the country.
What was the NHPR headline again? Amid Russia Scandals, Conservative Media Provides Air Cover For President Trump. How about, “Amid International Scandal involving Prominent Congressional Democrat Taxpayer funded Public Radio cannot find its voice.”
[Updated]
NPR has changed the photo with the story and added an actual story to the link. Here’s a tiny peice.
According to a recent Washington Post/ABC poll, 40 percent of Americans don’t believe Russia tried to meddle in the presidential election despite evidence to the contrary provided by the entire U.S. intelligence community. The percentage of Republicans who believe the Russia story is a big deal actually dropped sharply.
Conservative media is one of the big reasons for this disconnect, says Dartmouth College professor Brendan Nyhan.
“A lot of the conservative media has become almost full-time media criticism,” Nyhan said.
Outlets such as Breitbart and Fox News, and talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Michael Savage have crafted a powerful counter-narrative, downplaying or discrediting developments in the Russia probe.
Plenty more, all with the NPR learn, but it’s better than it was.
They still have nothing on Imran Awan. I wonder how long it will take for them to break that story?
[Update 2]
To be fair to NHPR, no one in New Hampshire media is covering the scandal involving Imran Awan and Wasserman Schultz. No. One.
