Rep Brandon Gill Exposes NPR CEO’s Radical Tweets “How Much Reparations Have You Personally Paid”

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]it's hard to be mad about protests in reference to the BLM protest not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression.

[00:00:09]You didn't condemn the looting. You said that it was counterproductive.

[00:00:13]NPR also promoted a book called In Defense of Looting. Do you think that that's an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars? You're about to watch a MAGA congressman sit across from an NPR executive and ask the most basic common sense questions any American taxpayer has every right to ask and she could not answer a single one straight. Tweets about white supremacy, reparations, looting being counterproductive instead of wrong, gender queer dinosaur enthusiast on your dime. And her answer every single time was I don't recall or I wasn't there. You are paying for this.

[00:00:48]Your tax dollars every year and Brandon Gill just dragged every bit of it into the light. If you are done watching your money fund radical left-wing activism disguised as journalism, hit that like button right now, subscribe, and stay to the end because we are going through every single moment of this and it only gets Miss Miss Mara, I I want to start with you just generally. Would you say you generally agree or disagree with the following statement? The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

[00:01:20]I would not say I agree with that statement.

[00:01:22]>> That's good to hear. It's It's interesting because a lot of your thinking as expressed by your public statements is deeply infused with economic and cultural Marxism.

[00:01:31]Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy? Um I believe that I tweeted that and I as I've said earlier, I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade. It has evolved. Why did you tweet that? I don't recall the exact context, sir, so I wouldn't be able to say. Okay. Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy? I don't believe that, sir. You You tweeted that in >> reference to a book you were reading at the time, apparently, The Case for Reparations. I don't think I've ever read that book, sir.

[00:02:05]You tweeted about it.

[00:02:07]You said you took a day off to fully read The Case for Rep- Reparations. You put that on Twitter in January of 2020.

[00:02:14]I apologize, I don't recall that I did.

[00:02:16]I no I have no doubt that your your tweet there is correct, but I don't recall Okay. Do you believe that white people inherently feel superior to other races?

[00:02:26]I do not. You don't you you tweeted something to that effect. You said, "I I grew up feeling superior. Ha, how white of me." Why did you tweet that? Um I think I was probably reflecting on what it was to be to grow up in an environment where I had lots of advantages. It It sounds like you're saying that white people feel superior. I I don't believe that anybody feels that way, sir. I was just reflecting on my own experiences.

[00:02:50]>> think that white people should pay reparations? I I've never said that, sir. Um yes, you did. You said it in January of 2020. You tweeted, "Yes, the north. Yes, all of us. Yes, America.

[00:03:01]Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes, reparations. Yes, on this day." I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.

[00:03:09]What kind of reparations was it a reference to? I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us.

[00:03:17]That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted.

[00:03:21]Um Okay, how how how many rep- how much reparations have you personally paid? Uh sir, I I don't [clears throat] believe that I've ever paid reparations. Okay, just for everybody else. I'm not asking anyone to pay reparations.

[00:03:33]>> what you're suggesting.

[00:03:35]Do you believe that looting is morally wrong? I believe that looting is illegal and I refer to it as counterproductive.

[00:03:41]I think it should be prosecuted as a crime.

[00:03:42]>> it's morally wrong, though? Of course.

[00:03:44]Of course. Then why did you refer to it as counterproductive?

[00:03:48]That's a very different very different way to describe it. It is both morally wrong and counterproductive as well as being like >> it's hard to be mad about protests in reference to the BLM protest not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression.

[00:04:04]You didn't condemn the looting. You said that it was counterproductive.

[00:04:08]NPR also promoted a book called In Defense of Looting. Do you think that that's an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars? I'm unfamiliar with that book, sir, and I don't believe that was at my time at NPR.

[00:04:19]>> that you read that book, but I I don't believe that I did read that book, sir.

[00:04:23]Do you think that a few few years ago NPR educated America about quote the whole community of gender queer dinosaur enthusiast. Do you think that that's a inappropriate use of tax dollars?

[00:04:35]>> I was not at NPR at the time, sir.

[00:04:36]>> That's not the question though. Do you think that that's an appropriate use of our tax dollars? I think our tax dollars that we use are to be able to provide a wide range of >> I'll take I'll take that as a yes. You do believe that that's appropriate. Your health advisor at NPR also stated in an interview that quote fear of fatness is more harmful than actual fat.

[00:04:55]Would you like to explain how fear of fatness is more harmful than actual fat?

[00:04:59]That's directly That's an editorial at NPR. I am not familiar with the editorial and I don't believe that was published during my time here.

[00:05:06]>> It's called Diet Culture Is Everywhere.

[00:05:08]Here's How to Fight It. Do you think that that's an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars? I think any reporting on health is an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars. Yes. And you And you think that editorializing that fat is not unhealthy is appropriate. I don't know that what that article is, sir, and I'm not familiar with it, so I couldn't say.

[00:05:25]>> news.

[00:05:26]Um do you think that basic accommodations like doorways or seatbelts represent quote latent fat phobia?

[00:05:33]I don't have an opinion.

[00:05:34]>> It's also from NPR. Do you think civility is racist? No, sir. No. Your outlet ran an article entitled quote when civility is used as a cudgel against people of color.

[00:05:46]That was on All things considered.

[00:05:49]Would you like to explain? I Well, I'm not on the editorial side, so I don't I'm not familiar with that story. You talk about how NPR is news. This is This is editorialization. And I'll read it.

[00:05:59]For many people of color in the United States, civility isn't so much social lubricant as it is a vehicle for containing them, preventing social mobility, and preserving the status quo.

[00:06:09]This is garbage. I'll spend all of my time doing everything I can to ensure you guys never get another dollar of taxpayer funding. This is complete garbage. Thank you, Madam Chair. This wasn't a hearing. This was an autopsy.

[00:06:23]And that senator performed it perfectly.

[00:06:26]He came in with receipts, actual tweets, actual articles, actual quotes, and watched an NPR executive try to squirm away from every single one of them. You tweeted that you grew up feeling racially superior. You tweeted yes to reparations. You called looting counterproductive instead of evil. And now, sitting under oath in front of Congress, suddenly none of it rings a bell. That is not humility. That is cowardice. This is exactly what conservatives have been saying for years, and the left has called us liars for it. NPR is not a news organization.

[00:07:01]It is an activist operation with a government subsidy. They published defenses of looting. They run segments on gender queer dinosaur communities.

[00:07:10]They tell readers that fearing obesity is more dangerous than obesity itself.

[00:07:15]They call civility racist. And then they cash the check that you signed with your tax dollars and tell you it's journalism. They I don't recall routine fooled nobody. Those tweets were celebrated when they were written. That language was fashionable in the progressive bubble, and she wore it proudly until a senator put it on the record, and suddenly her memory went completely blank. Americans see through that. Working people who get up every morning, follow the rules, and love this country are being told by taxpayer-funded elites that their values are oppressive, their civilization is built on plunder, and their basic decency is white supremacy in disguise.

[00:07:53]And then they're handed the bill. That senator said exactly what millions of Americans are thinking. This is garbage, and it stops now. Not one more dollar.