If far-left Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas is angling to become leader of the kook wing of her party — which seems increasingly poised to take complete control — she couldn’t do a better job.
Last week, she said GOP Senator Ted Cruz must be “knocked over the head.” On Saturday, she called Republican Governor Greg Abbott of Texas “hot wheels,” a remark that invited the introduction of a censure resolution.
Today, she called hearing on National Public Radio “goofy” and “bullsh*t.”
Crockett’s only competition to lead the party is equally far-left Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. Whoever hikes farthest into the fever swamps of the Left will win.
Maybe that’s why Crockett — a booster of the Tesla Takedown movement — assaulted a reporter, he alleges, who asked whether she condoned violence against Tesla owners and dealerships.
The Hearing
Top NPR executives took a beating in yesterday’s hearing of the House Oversight Committee’s subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency.
Repeatedly asked about bias at NPR, headmistress Katherine Maher repeatedly said she didn’t see bias at the far-left outfit, despite repeated examples offered by GOP Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio.
Jordan reprised NPR journalistic crimes revealed by former NPR man Uri Berliner, whose essay about the taxpayer-subsidized playground for the Left ended in his leaving it.
As Jordan noted, Berliner wrote that not one Republican worked at the network. As well, it killed the Hunter Biden laptop story as a “distraction” and bought the bogus narrative that the Covid-19 virus emerged from nature, not from the poorly run lab in Wuhan, China. The network interviewed then-Democrat Representative Adam Schiff of California more than two dozen times about the Russia Collusion Hoax.
“But when [special counsel Robert Mueller’s] report found no credible evidence of collusion, NPR’s coverage was notably sparse,” Berliner wrote. “Russiagate quietly faded from our programming.”
NPR’s audience, he wrote, is mainly elite white leftists.
As if that weren’t enough, Maher’s unhinged leftism — expressed unreservedly on X — also came up.
The City Journal’s Christopher Rufo disinterred her remarks after she became NPR chief last year. Trump, she wrote on X, is a “deranged racist sociopath.”
“I regret those tweets; I would not tweet them again today,” she said under questions from GOP Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee. “I don’t presume that anyone is a racist.”
That probably isn’t the case, but anyway, the hearing, which also included PBS President Paula Kerger, didn’t go well.
Public broadcasting was left a smoking ruin.
Crockett to the Rescue
Crockett rushed in to spray water on the embers.
Calling the hearing “goofy,” she attacked subcommittee chairman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Crockett claimed that Greene doesn’t care about her own constituents.
Without public broadcasting such as NPR-affiliated WNGH in Greene’s district, she said, “Americans in rural communities would lack access to lifesaving information and public safety alerts.”
“In fact, Georgia Public Broadcasting serves as the official distributor of evacuation route information during state ordered evacuations, and the chairwoman is here advocating to strip their funding,” Crockett continued:
Look, the DOGE agenda isn’t about government efficiency. It’s about breeding corruption at the expense of the safety of the American people, particularly Americans living in rural or remote parts of the country. They don’t care about public safety. They don’t care about emergency management and they don’t care about free speech. All of which are harming American people.
Warning that she would soon “skip off,” Crockett noted and Maher agreed that she wasn’t at NPR when she posted her unhinged comments.
“Free speech is not about whatever it is that y’all want somebody to say,” Crockett continued:
And the idea that you want to shut down everybody that is not Fox News is bullsh*t. We need to stop playing, because that’s what y’all are doing in here. You don’t want to hear the opinions of anybody else.
Crockett finished that rant by citing the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment. For the record, the GOP has no plans to “shut down” any far-left mainstream media outlet other than taxpayer-subsidized NPR and PBS.
Self-awareness not being a “progressive” strong suit, Crockett ignored Maher’s own opinions on free speech revealed, again, by Rufo.
“In a speech to the Atlantic Council, an organization with extensive ties to U.S. intelligence services, she explained that she ‘took a very active approach to disinformation,’ coordinated censorship ‘through conversations with government,’ and suppressed dissenting opinions related to the pandemic and the 2020 election,” Rufo wrote:
In that same speech, Maher said that, in relation to the fight against disinformation, … “the number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States.” These speech protections, Maher continued, make it “a little bit tricky” to suppress “bad information” and “the influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it.”
Reporter Attacked
And perhaps in a more dramatic bid to overtake Ocasio-Cortez — who is traveling with socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour and might primary far-left Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer or even run for president — Crockett aggressively tried to snatch a reporter’s camera yesterday while walking with Burchett.
Loomer Unleashed correspondent Charles Downs asked about the Tesla Takedown meeting in which Crockett said she wanted Tesla chieftain Elon Musk “taken down” for her birthday. When he asked whether Crockett condoned violence, she grabbed for his camera.
On X, Downs reported that he has filed charges against Crockett with Capitol Hill Police for “ASSAULT, BATTERY AND ATTEMPTED THEFT OF MY CELL phone.”
“I just stepped back…. It was a bad situation,” eyewitness Burchett told a Daily Caller reporter. “She shouldn’t have grabbed that guy’s phone whatsoever.”
