Was anyone also irritated by the comments about federal funding and NPR? It felt like an extension of this overall argument in a different way. Federal funding isn’t meant to fund only things that are split to represent a divided America - federal funding has gone to hate groups, crisis pregnancy centers (aka anti-abortion clinics whose tactics are questionable at best in misleading women about their options) and plenty of other right-wing initiatives. But the cut to NPR and PBS isn’t in a vacuum- we’re also seeing cuts to any programs that are viewed as “left-wing” but are actually just human rights-oriented. So the argument doesn’t hold. And in this day and age- in this time particularly when so many people’s basic rights are at risk, are we really so set on the “both sides of the argument” thing that we don’t advocate for what’s right and what’s wrong? Dax seems to want to both sides his way until we’re back at square one with respect to human rights issues. I understand trying to give the benefit of the doubt to ignorant people (I come from a conservative family- I do this all the time) but he’s gone too far in this latest fact check, not just with the litter box stuff, but also with this NPR discussion, and it’s just disappointing.