Well, whaddya know? NPR has a right-wing bias. How can we be sure? Because NPR tells us so. (You know, if you're wondering if a given news organization has a political bias, the best way to find out is to ask it! Because if it were biased, then it would, uh... well...)

Pundits on the right note the numbers appear to be laughably bogus:

Are CSIS and Brookings really the only left-leaning tanks that provide experts for NPR stories? Let's try Googling NPR for the New America Foundation. Whoop, there's a bunch of hits. How about the Economic Policy Institute? Oh, gosh, there's a bunch more. How about the Institute for Policy Studies? Hits galore! And those are just the first three leftish tanks that came to mind; I hear there might be a couple more out there. To say the ombudsman pulled his numbers out of his ass would be an insult to asses everywhere. ...

(He also notes that, worse still, left-wing academics are also apparently being omitted from the count.)

Meanwhile, pundits on the left swallow the argument hook, line, and sinker:

As a result, no one is well-served -- not listeners, who are force-fed propaganda [i.e. conservative viewpoints] along with useful information [i.e. liberal viewpoints]; not management, which will be branded as liberal no matter how far it bends over backwards to avoid the charge; and not reporters, who have found themselves in a career that values equal-opportunity stenography more than enterprise journalism.

Well, good enough then! Perhaps then all you "progressives" who really buy this argument will gladly join with conservatives in helping defund that horrible, right-wing-biased propaganda outlet which is known as "NPR", right?

Hehe, right. :-)