Laura Ingraham: NPR ‘Elites’ Think Indians And Poor People Live In ‘Redneck Country’

(By Alex Alvarez, Mediaite) - On her radio show [yesterday], Laura Ingraham tackled Andrea Mitchell’s defense of NPR in the wake of the recently-released undercover video showing former NPR executive Ron Schiller making negative remarks about Tea Party members.

[Wednesday], Mitchell had said that “the elimination of federal funding for public broadcasting would be extraordinarily damaging to the services that they provide in rural America, on Indian reservations…in a lot of poor communities it’s their only news service.”

Ingraham did not hold back in her response:

We have to trot out the Indians and the poor people in what most of the elites think is backwater USA. That’s what the elites think–it’s redneck country. And they think all the rednecks are listening to NPR.

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NPR deserves what it gets. NPR did this to itself. It was incredibly biased, it was sneering toward the people supposedly in the rural communities who only listen to NPR. I can tell you what the people in the rural communities are not doing with their free time: listening to NPR. NPR is the favorite place, broadcasting arena, for the elites in the United States.