WorldNetDaily keeps up the whining in a May 10 article complaining that White House press secretary Jay Carney “has refused to allow two questions to be raised that were caused by concern over the idea of spending tax money to lobby for more tax money for ‘liberal’ causes” by WND’ Les Kinsolving.
As per usual, the article is structured to suggest that Carney had advance knowledge of what Kinsolving was going to ask, which WND offers no evidence to back up.
Besides, as it turns out, Kinsolving’s questions are based on a false premise, that NPR is using “taxpayer financing for lobbying.” In fact, an NPR spokesperson told Politico that the federal funding it receives through grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting “must be used ONLY for the specific projects covered by each grant. The funds are not used to support NPR’s general operations. So the notion that these grants would be used to pay for advocacy is completely bogus.”