NPR Interviews Hasan Piker Again: Wow, America Isn't as Viciously Racist as We Feared

What kind of supposedly respectable pundit did National "Public" Radio go looking for on the morning after the big blue wave came ashore for the Left? Looking for a hip influencer of American youth, NPR once again happily interviewed Mao-loving, Hamas-backing Hasan Piker on Wednesday's Morning Edition. It came under the headline:

Hasan Piker says Democrats must craft a 'resilient' and 'easily identifiable' party platform

On October 15, NPR Morning Edition anchor Leila Fadel awarded Piker a 40-minute Newsmakers softball interview that was posted on YouTube. This time, the anchor was Michel Martin. And once again, NPR didn't dig into Piker describing mass-murdering communist dictator Mao Zedong as a "great leader," and never touched his declaration that "America deserved 9/11."

MICHEL MARTIN: Let's talk now with somebody who is closely identified with the progressive wing of the party as a surrogate, as a campaigner, as an advocate. And that is Twitch streamer and commentator Hasan Piker. Hasan Piker, good morning, or should I say hello, since apparently you've been up all night and haven't slept?...Well, do the best you can. Stay with us. What do you think is the message that voters sent last night?

HASAN PIKER: I think it's very clear that the last two years of Trump was an absolute, utter disaster and that voters from basically every demographic all across the country in virtually every locality, every state, every House district decided to punish the Trump administration and the Republican Party for the death and destruction it's brought about all around the world, the instability that it's caused and its impact that they felt on the gas prices here at home.

This is as close as NPR came to describing Piker's radicalism – well, actually they let Piker do it:

MARTIN: So you just heard our colleague Elena Moore mention that the exit polling suggests that Republicans lost pretty much all the gains they made with young men in 2024. That's your Twitch audience. Your Twitch audience is overwhelmingly young and overwhelmingly male, as I understand it. What were you hearing from them during your livestream last night as the results rolled in?

PIKER: I would say that they are considered a little bit more radical than most. We are obviously further left than the Democratic Party. But it was - I mean, we were libbing out, to say the least, last night. We were very excited about it.

Then it turned more amusing as Piker basically said he used to think America was a viciously racist country until his favorite candidates emerged victorious:

PIKER: It's very exciting to see this coalition build after two years of this algorithm-induced manic state that we were experiencing, where it almost felt like this country was far more vicious, far more racist than it actually was. I myself was at the center of some of this controversy, some of these attacks in not just the Abdul El-Sayed race in Michigan, but in races that I did not touch at all. And it definitely made me feel and our community feel as though racist vitriol was the only thing that Republicans had to bring to the table after all of the destruction that they had brought about on the American economy. And I sincerely was worried that the Republicans would respond positively to that. And it turns out there is time for - there is hope, and there is time for optimism in America, in American politics.

Martin felt it was important to point out that Republicans didn't succeed in convincing voters that Piker-endorsed candidates were radicals:

MARTIN: But, you know, there were Democrats, establishment Democrats, if we want to call them that, who said that you were the problem or that your side was the problem. Some people argued that some of the candidates you supported were not attractive candidates because they argued that they could never win, especially in swing states. That has turned out not to be true.

PIKER: Yeah.

MARTIN: So I'm wondering what message you think that sends.

PIKER: I think it's great. We have a big tent. You know, I - we brought the under-45-year-olds. We brought the young men. They brought the Barbaras and the Deborahs in the suburbs.

This is where the headline portion of the interview kicked in: 

PIKER: I really hope that we can continue this exact same trajectory, start investigations on the Trump administration, unearth some of the unbelievable corruption that we've seen, and bring accountability to the White House and to the regulatory agencies that this administration has gutted and destroyed.

MARTIN: Is that going to be enough?

PIKER: No. We also need to have a resilient platform that is easily identifiable, with key policy agenda items that focus on the material realities.

Clearly, NPR and its left-wing audience like hearing from Hasan. Repeatedly! But NPR Public Editor Kelly McBride did have to struggle with much listener outrage when NPR offered a long "Newsmakers" interview in September to Tucker Carlson.