You can imagine that a lot of people are asking me, a guy once fired by National Public Radio, whether I’m getting a kick out of the media firestorm now enveloping the organization.

Well, I’m over that personal hellhole. The executives who fired me and publicly called me a psycho and a bigot have all either resigned or been forced out by now. But it is hard to wipe off the rain of contempt from NPR executives who judged me to be too conservative a Black guy to work for them.

Now NPR’s arrogance is setting off a new round of national controversy. Uri Berliner, a veteran editor, broke ranks to say publicly that “an open-minded spirit no longer exists within NPR.”

That led the chairman of the hard right House Freedom Caucus, Rep. Bob Good (R- Va.), along with Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), to introduce bills to cut off federal funding to NPR.

So Republicans hope to capitalize on Berliner’s insider critique of NPR to fulfill a conservative dream of crippling NPR, because right wingers have felt for decades that NPR does not support their viewpoint.

Good complained in a news release that “National Public Radio has a track record of promoting anti-American narratives on the taxpayer dime.”

On the other side of the political divide, several years ago, the........

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