The tale of Katherine Maher, the witchy white woke woman at the heart of a new scandal at one of America’s most prestigious institutions, is something of a morality tale.
Maher’s troubles are not part of some “gotcha” campaign to take another scalp (is that xenophobic to say?) of a vulnerable Lefty. Unlike, say, Claudine Gay, she was not outmaneuvered by a much-reviled Congresswoman who temporarily had the upper hand in the power struggle, cornering Gay into admitting she had no moral compass.
Maher’s auto-da-fé has been fueled by logs stacked by her, with gasoline she poured on the pyre and lit with the matches she used to burn herself alive (metaphorically). Her biography explains why she has played with fire:
She then got internships with the Council on Foreign Relations and Eurasia Group in London and Germany before landing a job in New York City at UNICEF. She had stops with the National Democratic Institute and the World Bank, among other global nonprofit groups, before rising to become the CEO of Wikimedia in 2019.
It would be impossible to create a resume of a person more disconnected from Americans and more intertwined with the wealthy, urban, globalist elite who run the largest banks, media companies, and nonprofit groups in the United States. In other words, Maher has the perfect resume to run NPR.
And her tweets prove she is the perfect person for the job.
She is being revealed through her tweets, her speeches, and her actions over the years to be a third-rate Titania McGrath wannabe with the intellectual depth of a puddle and the arrogance of a fascist dictator. If she falls from her great height–and I think she will–it will be because she spewed her venom on the internet and declared that the truth is irrelevant compared to unity.
NPR CEO Katherine Maher:
-Wikipedia editors aren’t focused on finding truth
-Truth isn’t where to start when settling disagreements
-“Each of you has your own truth and it’s probably a good one”She ran wikimedia. She runs NPR. This is who decides what information you get to see pic.twitter.com/CHEKJpTF2B
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) April 17, 2024
Her arrogance is there for all the world to see, and it is breathtaking if not surprising. It is the arrogance of a WEF Young Global Leader or member of the Council on Foreign Relations or The Atlantic Council. It is just the kind of arrogance you expect from somebody who ran Wikipedia and is now leading one of the most influential news sources in the world.
Her highest goal is telling people what to think and shutting up the plebs, and she is proud of it. She hadn’t spent a day in the news business prior to running one, but then again, NPR is not in the news business anymore.
EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says the “the number one challenge” in her fight against disinformation is “the First Amendment in the United States,” which makes it “a little bit tricky” to censor “bad information” and “the influence peddlers” who spread it.
NPR’s censor-in-chief. pic.twitter.com/0vY6hIpbmO
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 17, 2024
None of that should surprise.
It is her midwittery that does, at least a bit. She isn’t just woke; she is wokeGPT. She can’t help herself. She must share her brilliant intersectional insights with the world, signaling her virtue as Commissioner Gordon did to Batman.
NPR CEO: You Better Believe I Partnered With Gov’t to Suppress ‘Misinformation’ About Pandemic, Elections
Hiring the Queen of the Karens wasn’t a bug in NPR’s plans. It was a feature.
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) April 17, 2024
The invaluable Christopher Rufo has assembled a small collection of her greatest hits; trust me, for the ones you see there are many others at least as bad.
Maher is, of course, obsessed with race in all its forms and is appropriately guilty about being White. She imagines a Black internet, worries about intersectionality, and wants us all to bask in her truth, because the real truth is just too White or something.
Current CEO of NPR Katherine Maher in 2021, back when she worked for Wikipedia, literally talking about rewriting history because it currently favors white people. pic.twitter.com/9oEJlomJrF
— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 17, 2024
Ed has a great quote in his article that I will steal.
Conn Carroll calls Maher “Queen of the Karens” in a hilarious WashEx column today. Perhaps a better nickname would be “Big Sister.” Carroll also notes her track record of government censorship, and what Maher found objectionable in that role:
She’s a vegetarian. She hates cars. And white men flying on planes. She supports race-based reparations, rioting, and the Black Lives Matter movement. She believes “America is addicted to white supremacy.”
She doesn’t want to become a mother because “the planet is literally burning.” She usesphrases such as “CIS white mobility privilege” unironically. She admits to growing up “feeling superior … because I was from New England and my part of the country didn’t have slaves.” I wonder what fuels her sense of superiority now.
As completely out of touch as Maher’s views are with the rest of America, the scary part is how willing she is to use her ample power to snuff out dissenting voices. Not only did she falsely label Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) New York Times op-ed on the 2020 riots as “misinformation,” but she considered it her job at Wikimedia to censor speech she deemed harmful. Such speech includes former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, of all people, using terms such as “boy and girl,” which Maher believes is “erasing language for non-binary people.”
Literally burning? I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Maher would probably have escaped scrutiny for her long history of hating (other) Whities, but she couldn’t resist picking a fight with an employee who pointed out the obvious: NPR is terminally biased. Almost as if they didn’t believe the truth mattered…
Maher put herself in the crosshairs by being unable to take any criticism–criticism of flaws that she so obviously loves to indulge in. If she had stood next to Uri Berlin and said, “You know, we should talk about this and improve” should would have been treated like a hero.
Doing that would have been impossible because she is so arrogantly sure that the rest of us are evil. She is so proud of her record of idiocy that even as she gets dragged she hasn’t purged her Twitter feed. She is letting it all hang out there because she thinks it reflects well on her.
I suspect that, as with Harvard, the bigwigs at NPR will have to cut her loose. Not because they disagree with her or her beliefs but because they will keep paying a huge price until they do. Not only in financial resources, although no doubt some consequences will come from this, but in prestige.
There is blood in the water, and she keeps throwing out the chum. She lives in such an opaque bubble that she believes an executive at a news outlet can complain about the First Amendment and dismiss the importance of truth and be applauded.
Perhaps she can–but only in her closed circle. And that is unlikely to be large enough to keep her at NPR.