One Maher Is Becoming Red-Pilled, Another Is a Red

Two Mahers are in the news–for entirely different reasons. 

The first one is Bill Maher, who by now is familiar to anybody who retains more than two brain cells, is over 16, and owns electronic devices. He is the smart, witty, irreverent, and long-time liberal Boomer who helped shape how we think of political humor this century. 

Maher has been creeping ever-so-slowly into Red-Pilled territory. He isn’t attracted to Trumpian populism and still thinks most Republicans are Neanderthals, but he has a pretty good grasp of how insane liberals have become. He is the sort of liberal who would like how Gavin Newsom talks, but knows that Newsom and the oily wing of the Democratic Party are insincere grifters. 

Conversely, he sees the progressives as nuts and incapable of interacting with or representing ordinary Americans, so he is becoming politically homeless. 

NEW: Bill Maher REVEALS game plan for upcoming meeting with Trump

“We’re not p*ssies … My longest relationship way back in the early ’90s, and her father was military. And he and I did not see eye to eye politically, but he liked me because I wasn’t a p*ssy. That’s my… pic.twitter.com/w7cNKhSXdP

— Jason Cohen (@JasonJournoDC) March 23, 2025

“We’re not p*ssies … My longest relationship way back in the early ’90s, and her father was military. And he and I did not see eye to eye politically, but he liked me because I wasn’t a p*ssy. That’s my model for meeting Trump. It’s like, you know, be respectful — which he deserves. He won, not one, but twice … it’s an honor to be invited to the White House.” 

The other Maher in the news is Katherine Maher, who has a decidedly lower profile as the CEO of National Public Radio but a cultural reach that far exceeds Bill’s in that all-important Establishment liberal demographic that often decides elections, or at least used to. 

   

NPR has always leaned left, but under Maher, it has become something more than a centrist’s dream world where overeducated and under-experienced people Establishment types spin their idealistic yarns about peace, harmony, and how mean Ronald Reagan was. I used to think that NPR did a pretty good job reporting the news–as long as you took their bias into account, you could get a pretty decent read on the news of the day. 

   

Their bias was more in the category of Fox News–decidedly left, but not filled with outright lies. And because NPR swam in money to an extent that no other news outlet could possibly dream of, they often had the best talent in the business working for them. At the very least, their “talent” had amazingly soothing voices and would surely have degrees from the very best schools. 

   

They could be infuriatingly biased, but they weren’t stupid or resource-constrained, however much they pled poverty during pledge drives. (I often appeared on Minnesota Public Radio and TV, and their studios were practically gold-plated in their opulence). 

NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who is testifying before congress today, says wikipedia is biased because it doesn’t have enough non-binary and gender non-conforming writers, has too many male contributors, and uses written sources instead of “oral tradition”:pic.twitter.com/cFb83fLohs

— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) March 26, 2025

But sometime around the Obama era, they went from liberal to Pravda, and during the Trump administration they became the home of highbrow MSNBC-style propaganda. 

Meet NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher.

She is on video stating her ‘number one challenge’ is ‘The First Amendment.’@POTUS is right—NPR should be defunded! pic.twitter.com/vnACNS87SG

— Jim Banks (@Jim_Banks) March 26, 2025

So it is no surprise that somebody with the pedigree of Katherine Maher rose to the top at NPR. She has impeccable credentials, and embodies the aspirations of the transnational elite in almost every conceivable way. While not being transgender and sporting a hair color common to human beings, she mirrors the ideals of all the best liberals who pretend to admire such things but actually find them off-putting among their peers. 

Katherine Roberts Maher ( MAR;^[1] born April 18, 1983)^[2] is an American non-profit executive. She has been the chief executive officer (CEO) and president of NPR since March 2024.^[3] Prior to NPR, she was the CEO of Web Summit and chair of the board of directors at the Signal Foundation. She is a former chief executive officer and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation.^[4][5][6]

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Maher worked for UNICEF, the National Democratic Institute, the World Bank and Access Now before joining the Wikimedia Foundation. She subsequently joined the Atlantic Council and the US Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board.

Early life and education

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Maher grew up in Wilton, Connecticut,^[2] and attended Wilton High School.^[7] Her father, Gordon Roberts Maher, worked in finance in New York City, and died in 2020.^[8] Her mother, Ceci Maher, is a former non-profit executive who was elected to the Connecticut State Senate in 2022.^[9]

After high school, Maher graduated from the Arabic Language Institute’s Arabic Language Intensive Program of The American University in Cairo in 2003, which she recalled as a formative experience that developed her interest in the Middle East.^[10] Maher also studied at the Institut français d’études arabes de Damas in Syria and spent time in Lebanon and Tunisia.^[2][11][12]

In 2005, Maher received a bachelor’s degree from New York University in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.^[13]

Look at that resume. It is so perfect–at least perfect for somebody aspiring to become an executive at the World Economic Forum. Or CEO at National Public Radio, which in many ways is the propaganda arm of the WEF and transnational elite. 

Rep Gill: do you believe this exact quote you said in 2020?
Katherine: I don’t believe that at all, and I am not familiar with that.
Rep Gill: ok well you tweeted it. How about this exact quote in 2020 where you said this and that, do you still believe that quote?
Katherine: I…

— ZENNY (@zenny_bets) March 26, 2025

Maher is exactly the kind of tony Marxist who appeals to NPR listeners these days. She looks and acts normal, has all the “right” opinions, believes herself to have a firm grasp on what the “truth” is, and a willingness to emphasize whatever supports The Narrative™ and censor whatever doesn’t. 

As a certified “critical theory” believer, her understanding of “truth” is not based on reason, facts, or logic; it is fealty to her understanding of the “Good.”

Radical leftist @NPR CEO Katherine Maher claims she never read “The Case for Reparations”

Yet publicly tweeted about reading it.

Was she lying then or is she lying now? pic.twitter.com/WXHPK5qmMY

— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) March 26, 2025

You and I have this quaint notion that the truth is an accurate representation of reality mated to a solid understanding of how things work. Some facts might be inconvenient or downright disturbing. Reality may not always be to our liking, but there it is. 

Not so for critical theorists. Reality is what they say it is, and can change by the minute. They live in a world where their words define reality. 

Great two minutes of @Jim_Jordan getting NPR CEO Katherine Maher to admit the taxpayer dollars sent to local stations to help keep them operating actually end up back at the main network #DefundNPR pic.twitter.com/q68Bf8jvGr

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 26, 2025

Which is why inconveniences like freedom of speech are so frustrating to people like Katherine Maher, and platforms like X are so offensive to her and her kind. Reality often contradicts The Narrative™, and if you cannot banish reality, then people might get the wrong idea. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene rips NPR CEO Katherine Maher for claiming that the First Amendment is the “number one challenge” for suppressing “bad information.” pic.twitter.com/iwqhvNTYef

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) March 26, 2025

No doubt anybody at National Public Radio will tell you that reality contradicting the Narrative™ they relentlessly push doesn’t expose any bias on their part. It is reality itself that is so flawed. It is racist, sexist, homphobic, transphobic, filled with awful people who have never attended a school where French is the common language, and they never once worked for the United Nations. 

This clip is “Hot Wheels is just my funny name for immigration policy” but for political bias at NPR. Yes, sounds believable no Rs work here . Yes, we get all gigantic, important stories wrong in ways that only help/align with Ds, but we’re not biased! pic.twitter.com/Rb1cH4BSKU

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) March 26, 2025

National Public Radio has been married to the Democratic Party for decades, but its alliance with Democrats is more transactional than you might think. Its fealty is to a higher ideal, and that is technocratic rule more in line with the European Union model of politics than anything remotely as messy as American democracy. 

It was Marxist before Marxism was cool in the Democratic Party. 

Katherine Maher is lying through her teeth, claiming that she has “never seen any instance of political bias determining editorial decisions.”

This is like a Soviet commissar claiming that Pravda is a neutral news outlet. pic.twitter.com/ivLWZ9UHrU

— Christopher F. Rufo (@realchrisrufo) March 26, 2025

I’m sure that Katherine Maher really does believe that NPR is not a partisan news outlet. It’s values and goals transcend anything as grubby as controlling the politics of any one country. The only Democrats who truly embodies the values of NPR is perhaps Barack Obama, with his neatly creased pants, transnational background, belief that America is just another country that should be absorbed into a larger and better world government, and that rules exist for the little guy, not the elite who know best. 

: NPR’s Katherine Maher admits it’s ‘concerning’ that 100% of her editorial board—87 members—are registered Democrats, with zero Republicans.

NPR’s blatant partisan imbalance is unacceptable—taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill for a one-sided echo chamber. pic.twitter.com/BMWnxq9Ffe

— Congressman William Timmons (@RepTimmons) March 26, 2025

Watching Maher testify before Congress is something of a Rorschach test. NPR listeners probably hear something akin to a pack of howling wolves chasing a damsel in distress. She is an innocent young woman being hounded by grubby, smelly predators who can’t appreciate her value and beauty. 

She wants so badly to keep her job to the point where she’s lying through her teeth. If she loses it, she’ll go back to accusing Trump of fascism. If a Democrat comes into office four years from now, she will do the same.

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 26, 2025

People like me see a smug cultural Marxist who lives off the taxpayer dime, looks down on all of us, and is offended by the idea that she has to justify the excessive generosity of the public to her corrupt and damaging organization. 

BREAKING: NPR CEO Katherine Maher admits to @RepCloudTX that NPR FAILED to properly cover Hunter Biden’s laptop & the truth about COVID-19.

American tax dollars should not be used to fund LIES and DISINFORMATION across television and radio. pic.twitter.com/g8Pb4UTTfd

— DOGE Subcommittee (@DOGECommittee) March 26, 2025

I’m sure she found it icky that she had to answer Marjorie Taylor Greene’s questions! Greene represents grubby MAGA constituents who are far too dirty and smelly to take seriously. They probably don’t even know enough French to know what Soup du Jour means! 

Perhaps. But they are certainly smart enough to know that what comes out of her mouth smells like bovine excrement.