NPR didn't blow it. They got a tom of free publicity during pledge week. You and your group are talking about it are you not?

Was it P T Barnum who said there is no such thing as bad publicity?

They will gain more listeners than they lost. They will gain more funding than they lost. Fox gets free publicity for itself and gets to play the "victim." The country gets just a little more polarized, so the secret money wins and NPR gets to stop having Bill O'Rielly stop leveraging their brand to peddle his lunacy.

EVERYBODY WINS.