'PUBLIC' Broadcasting Watch: NPR Reporter Tamara Keith Is NOT 'Independent' #Political
NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith joined the conga line of journalists protesting President Trump for taking the press-pool and press-credential powers away from the White House Correspondents Association. As a former WHCA president, Keith tweeted: “An independent press makes our leaders more accountable and our nation stronger.”
That sounds good. But we don’t have an independent press, especially in "public" broadcasting. Tamara Keith is not an independent reporter. NPR and PBS both rely on her to operate as a state-funded propagandist -- befitting a graduate from Berkeley.
We could fill a chapter of a book on Democrat-favoring White House reporters just unspooling the bias of Tamara Keith. But let’s start with one of the doozies. On June 6, 2016, Keith spoke to Hillary Clinton when she won her party's presidential nomination. This made our Worst of 2016 list.
“Last night when you took stage in Sacramento, there was a woman standing next to me who was absolutely sobbing. And she said, you know, ‘It’s time. It’s past time.’ And you see the women — you see people here and people just come up to you and they get tears in their eyes. Do you feel — do you feel the weight of what this means for people?”
Hillary said, "I do. I do."
Just like Joe Biden in 2020, Hillary Clinton was very limited in talking to reporters, unlike the broad access granted by her opponent Donald Trump. The “independent” reporters didn’t protest that, and when Keith had a rare opportunity to challenge her with an “independent” question, she threw her a wet kiss of a question about sobbing feminists.
In fact, Keith defended Hillary avoiding the press. She agreed that was smart. On CNN’s Reliable Sources on August 21, 2016, Keith noted that it had been 260 days since Clinton has done a proper press conference outside of reporter gaggles and scrums at her events. And host Brian Stelter rationalized it saying, “There is obviously political strategy here about why she’s not giving a press conference. She’s trying to sit on here lead, right?”
Keith agreed: “Absolutely! I mean, why would she give a press conference? I mean, from a purely strategic standpoint."
Fast-forward to this: after he dropped out last year, President Biden rarely spoke to the press. When Keith was granted a question on October 4, 2024, she threw another softball. “The election is a month away. One, I'd like to know how you're feeling about how this election is going? And then, also, do you have confidence that it will be a free and fair election, and then it will be peaceful?” Then she followed up with another hint at a violent election: “Are you making any preparations, getting security briefings related to domestic security?”
Keith played White House Helper on Biden’s decline. On February 9, 2024, when special counsel Robert Hur drew the fury of the so-called “independent” press for announcing he would not indict Biden for stealing classified documents because he wouldn’t come across as mentally fit, Keith asked Biden spokesman Ian Sams: “How concerned is the President and the team here that the, quote, ‘gratuitous’ [Hur] comments are going to damage him, damage public perception of him?” It sounded like state-run radio.
Keith appears as a pundit on the PBS News Hour on Monday nights, and PBS relied on her throughout the Biden years to repeat the Biden line for their liberal viewers, which didn’t sound “independent” at all. A typical one came on March 1, 2024.
GEOFF BENNETT: Well, meantime, the Biden campaign is looking to lock in the image that President Biden projected at that State of the Union address last week. Here's a new ad from his campaign released over the weekend.
JOE BIDEN: Look, I'm not a young guy. That's no secret. But here's the deal. I understand how to get things done for the American people.
BENNETT: So walk us through the new strategy here, Tam.
KEITH: If you can't change it and you can't hide from it, why not run straight into it headlong? And that's exactly what they're doing with the age issue.
Here's another, "spin for Biden, Tam" moment on November 28, 2023. Bennett asked, “Tam, how does the White House see it?...President Biden, the White House, I'm told, feels that he doesn't always get the credit for doing the work, because he doesn't do the work in a way that's properly politically theatrical.” Keith explained: Biden “very much does not make a public show of things until after it's done. And then he tries to claim credit, like with all of his economic accomplishments. And then he can't get the credit."
Biden's "economic accomplishments"? Like massive inflation? More state-run radio.
On PBS @NewsHour, they asked NPR's Tamara Keith why Biden doesn't get enough credit. Biden “very much does not make a public show of things until after it's done. And then he tries to claim credit, like with all of his economic accomplishments. And then he can't get the credit." pic.twitter.com/RcE2pbWO7j
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) November 29, 2023
Keith isn't this supportive when it comes to the Republicans, as you might expect. On October 24, 2023, Keith painted Republicans as arsonists: "What's happening in the House is a reflection of a broader divide in the Republican Party, where there's maybe like 20 percent or 30 percent of Republicans who don't want to burn it all down and who have discomfort with Trump… there really is this divide between Republicans who realize that governing requires some bipartisan compromise just because of the sheer math, and those that don't care.” (I cited this when I testified before Congress on NPR's bias last May.)
Now put that insult next to remarks from when Keith was WHCA president. She created unintentional comedy in her 2023 speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner. It’s a “challenging time for our country,” she proclaimed. “People are choosing their news in part based on what they want to hear. And this makes us all vulnerable to conspiracy theories, to seeing the worst in our fellow citizens, to losing sight of our shared humanity.”
Yes. Liberals choose NPR because it's what they want to hear. They want President Trump described in dehumanizing terms as a monster. Like this one from Keith:
DEHUMANIZING! On the PBS @NewsHour, NPR reporter Tamara Keith cites (liberal) historian to define Biden in relation to beating Trump: "Right now, if you ask, he was the dragon slayer, as one historian told me, but then he also is the man who let the dragon back in." pic.twitter.com/HjyehNKnrb
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) December 31, 2024
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