No, NPR was not trying to start a revolution NPR calling for listeners to overthrow the government definitely would have made for an interesting Independence Day.

(CNN) – NPR calling for listeners to overthrow the government definitely would have made for an interesting Independence Day. But the public radio network wasn’t calling for a revolution, and it wasn’t calling the President a tyrant. NPR was just doing what it has done for years on the Fourth of July: Reciting the Declaration of Independence.