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Title: NPR executives caught on tape bashing conservatives and Tea Party, touting liberals
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The Daily Caller
URL Source: http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/08/n ... nd-tea-party-touting-liberals/
Published: Mar 8, 2011
Author: Matthew Boyle
Post Date: 2011-03-08 10:45:47 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: None
Views: 12498
Comments: 17
A man who appears to be a National Public Radio senior executive, Ron Schiller, has been captured on camera savaging conservatives and the Tea Party movement. “The current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, is fanatically involved in people’s personal lives and very fundamental Christian – I wouldn’t even call it Christian. It’s this weird evangelical kind of move,” declared Schiller, the head of NPR’s nonprofit foundation, who last week announced his departure for the Aspen Institute. In a new video released Tuesday morning by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, Schiller and Betsy Liley, NPR’s director of institutional giving, are seen meeting with two men who, unbeknownst to the NPR executives, are posing as members of a Muslim Brotherhood front group. The men, who identified themselves as Ibrahim Kasaam and Amir Malik from the fictitious Muslim Education Action Center (MEAC) Trust, met with Schiller and Liley at Café Milano, a well-known Georgetown restaurant, and explained their desire to give up to $5 million to NPR because, “the Zionist coverage is quite substantial elsewhere.” On the tapes, Schiller wastes little time before attacking conservatives. The Republican Party, Schiller says, has been “hijacked by this group.” The man posing as Malik finishes the sentence by adding, “the radical, racist, Islamaphobic, Tea Party people.” Schiller agrees and intensifies the criticism, saying that the Tea Party people aren’t “just Islamaphobic, but really xenophobic, I mean basically they are, they believe in sort of white, middle-America gun-toting. I mean, it’s scary. They’re seriously racist, racist people.” Schiller goes on to describe liberals as more intelligent and informed than conservatives. “In my personal opinion, liberals today might be more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives,” he said. O’Keefe’s organization set up a fake website for MEAC to lend credibility to the fictitious group. On the site, MEAC states that its mission is combating “intolerance to spread acceptance of Sharia across the world.” At their lunch, the man posing as Kasaam told Schiller that MEAC contributes to a number of Muslim schools across the U.S. “Our organization was originally founded by a few members of the Muslim Brotherhood in America actually,” he says. Schiller doesn’t blink. Instead, he assumes the role of fan. “I think what we all believe is if we don’t have Muslim voices in our schools, on the air,” Schiller says, “it’s the same thing we faced as a nation when we didn’t have female voices.” When O’Keefe’s two associates pressed him into the topic, Schiller decried U.S. media coverage of Egypt’s uprising against former dictator Hosni Mubarak, especially talk of the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence on the protests and future of Egypt. Schiller said that is what he is “most disappointed by in this country, which is that the educated, so-called elite in this country is too small a percentage of the population, so that you have this very large un-educated part of the population that carries these ideas.” When the man pretending to be Kasaam suggests to Schiller that “Jews do kind of control the media or, I mean, certainly the Zionists and the people who have the interests in swaying media coverage toward a favorable direction of Israel,” Schiller does not rebut him or stop eating. He just nods his head slightly. The man posing as Kasaam then joked that his friends call NPR, “National Palestinian Radio,” because, according to him, NPR is the only media outlet that covers Palestinians’ perspective. Schiller laughed. When the ersatz Islamists declare they’re “not too upset about maybe a little bit less Jew influence of money into NPR,” Schiller responds by saying he doesn’t find “Zionist or pro-Israel” ideas at NPR, “even among funders. I mean it’s there in those who own newspapers, obviously, but no one owns NPR.” Liley chimes in at this point to add that, “even one of our biggest funders who you’ll hear on air, The American Jewish World Service, may not agree with us. I visited with them recently and they may not agree with what we put on the air but they find us important to them and, sometimes it’s not that easy to hear what we say and what our reporters say, but they still think NPR is important to support.” Schiller added that “they [the American Jewish World Service] are really looking for a fair point of view and many Jewish organizations are not.” Later in the lunch, Schiller explains that NPR would be better positioned free of federal funding. “Well frankly, it is clear that we would be better off in the long-run without federal funding,” he says. “The challenge right now is that if we lost it all together we would have a lot of stations go dark.” When one of O’Keefe’s associates asked, “How confident are you, with all the donors that are available, if they should pull the funding right now that you would survive?,” Schiller answered this way: “Yes, NPR would definitely survive and most of the stations would survive.” That is precisely the opposite answer Schiller’s boss, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller (no relation), gave at a press conference Monday in Washington. “We take [federal defunding] very, very seriously,” she said. “It would have a profound impact we believe on our ability – of public broadcasting’s ability – to deliver news and information.” At the Café Milano lunch, Schiller said he’s “very proud of” how NPR fired Juan Williams. “What NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news and our feeling is that if a person expresses his or her opinion, which anyone is entitled to do in a free society, they are compromised as a journalist,” he said. “They can no longer fairly report.” With that, Schiller once again directly contradicted NPR’s public statements. At her Monday press conference, Vivian Schiller apologized for the way it handled the Williams matter. “We handled the situation badly,” she said. “We acted too hastily and we made some mistakes. I made some mistakes.” Check back for more updates and reactions from NPR.
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#1. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
Truth is not bashing.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
You're exactly right. Calling Obama the worst POTUS in US history (i.e. the truth) is not bashing him.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ Worse than W? LOL!
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Yep. Worse than Carter, even. Carter was simply incompetent. Zero is incompetent AND an idealogue - a terribly dangerous combination.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ He was right about oil - and that's a biggie.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
He was right about oil - and that's a biggie. You liked Carter's long gas lines & rationing?
Hmm - let's see - long gas lines vs Bush's $4.50 a gallon gas? Its a toss up. I liked his long term vision to address a problem that keeps re-occurring.
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the efforts of men who are better than you. Ludwig von Mises in a letter to Ayn Rand
Gas was $1.61 a gallon when Bush left Office.
Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …”. Can I get an ‘amen’??
When you guys try and make out that Bush jr was not the worst president of our lifetime - it makes you look like what you are - ideologues with no basis in reality. Obama has over 2 years of office in his first term to go yet. So you can be honest and say the verdict is still out. At this point in Bush's presidency we were gobsmacked by terrorists W ignored previously and were about to start 2 wastefully run wars.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
So much left to destroy, and so little time . . .
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …”. Can I get an ‘amen’??
of all the presidents I have lived under none were hit by spectacular terrorist, attacks, a loss of an American city, 2 badly managed wars and a financial collapse. All of which were forecast and preventable. W was a disaster.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
We've had many worse Presidents Johnson Started the Vietnam War and created the Great Society entitlement programs which set the stage for the inflation of the 1970s and the entitlement mentality and deficits we are living with today. Nixon Expanded Johnson’s Vietnam War and Great Society programs. Took the U.S. off of the gold standard. Imposed wage and price controls, creating shortages of everything from gasoline to toilet paper. Few remember this, but people were eating horse meat under Nixon because his price controls caused a beef shortage. Created the EPA. Watergate. Carter Couldn't make a decision in a crisis (according to his own National Security Advisor) leading to American hostages in Iran and a generally failed stint as leader of the free world. Nearly destroyed the military through neglect (I was there, so I know). Bush Jr Lied about Iraq’s involvement with 9/11. Iraq war. Corrupted the Constitution to spy on Americans with the Patriot Act and other legislation. Created the first new entitlement program since the Great Society. Created massive deficits and more than doubled the national debt on his watch. Quasi-nationalization of the financial sector. Largest federal intrusion into the classroom in history. Torture in Guantanamo. Obama Created the second new entitlement program since LBJ, which is already escalating health insurance costs. Wasted $1 trillion on a stimulus that didn't stimulate anything. Will run up nearly 6 trillion in new debt in his four years in office. Turned the nation's airports into havens for perverts and pedophiles. Failed to lead AT ALL on the 2012 budget. Shut down oil production in the Gulf of Mexico. Digging us into a deeper hole in Afghanistan. Renigged on ALL of his promises regardless Guantanamo. Too much more to write here.
Obama still does not look that bad compared to that list of yours and who were you supporting for pres? McCain/ Palin? And why was Reagan not on the list?
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Reagan? Reagan and Truman were by far the two best Presidents of the 20th century. They weren't perfect, but they were heads and shoulders above the rest. No I did not support McCain / Palin.
a loss of an American city, They were all there last time I checked 2 badly managed wars If they were so badly managed, then how come Obama is copying his management plan unchanged? financial collapse You mean the one caused by the GSEs of which the Bush Administration had been calling for reform for years? You are just a partisan hack, and not even very clever.
Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …”. Can I get an ‘amen’??
I like Ike Eisenhower too. It's interesting that both he and Reagan had scumbags riding their coat tails, Nixon and Herbie Bush. Lincoln was the worst prez yet, Bush second and O's working his way up, IMO.
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... “The current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, is fanatically involved in people’s personal lives and very fundamental Christian – I wouldn’t even call it Christian. It’s this weird evangelical kind of move,” declared Schiller, the head of NPR’s nonprofit foundation, who last week announced his departure for the Aspen Institute.
#2. To: Godwinson (#1)
Truth is not bashing.
Political tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth -- are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”
-- Robert A Heinlein
#3. To: Ignore Amos (#2)
#4. To: Godwinson (#3)
Worse than W? LOL!
Political tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth -- are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”
-- Robert A Heinlein
#5. To: Ignore Amos (#4)
Carter was simply incompetent.
#6. To: lucysmom (#5)
Carter was simply incompetent.
#7. To: Happy Quanzaa (#6)
You liked Carter's long gas lines & rationing?
#8. To: lucysmom (#7)
#9. To: Ignore Amos (#4)
#10. To: Godwinson (#9)
Obama has over 2 years of office in his first term to go yet.
Political tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth -- are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”
-- Robert A Heinlein
#11. To: Godwinson (#9)
When you guys try and make out that Bush jr was
not the worst president of our lifetime - it makes you look like what you are - ideologues with no basis in reality
#12. To: no gnu taxes (#11)
#13. To: Godwinson (#9)
When you guys try and make out that Bush jr was not the worst president of our lifetime
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#14. To: jwpegler (#13)
#15. To: Godwinson (#14)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#16. To: Godwinson (#12)
of all the presidents I have lived under none
were hit by spectacular terrorist, took such bold and decisive actions to prevent any further attacks
#17. To: jwpegler (#15)
Reagan and Truman were by far the two best Presidents of the 20th century.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
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