Huh, weird, I actually looked into this exact same site (when it was being shared all across FB) and found something else telling -- a reused Google Adsense publisher tag ("ca-pub-1413743582782046") which I then found on a number of other sites: FireBrandLeft.com, NationalReport.net and some articles by this author http://www.liberalamerica.org/author/matt/ -- All were either owned by the same guy or he was a "journalist" at these other sites.

Except these all pointed back to the same individual: Matt Terzi

https://www.facebook.com/Mattterzi

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-terzi-aa6b4542

terzimatt@gmail.com

But then I lost interest and moved onto something else, guess I should have contacted NPR. I assume this is simply Jestin Coler's fake persona and I should have done some more digging.