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(The Hill) — NPR Chief Executive Vivian Schiller defended taxpayer funding for public broadcasting Monday and challenged critics to find any evidence of liberal bias in NPR’s coverage.
Schiller said the accusation that public broadcasting has a liberal bias is just a “perception problem” that doesn’t accurately reflect NPR’s journalism.
“We are urban and rural . . . red state and blue state,” she said.
But Schiller also said the effort to cut public media dollars is linked to concern about the deficit and not being driven by the perception that NPR has a liberal tilt.
“I believe this is driven mostly by an attempt to find cuts to the deficit, and that is certainly understandable,” she said.
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/147839-npr-ceo-public-media-should-not-fall-victim-to-the-turbulence-of-these-times
That was followed up by this gem:
NPR executives caught on tape bashing conservatives and Tea Party, touting liberals
By Matthew Boyle - The Daily Caller | Published: 6:30 AM 03/08/2011 | Updated: 12:09 PM 03/08/2011
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.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/08/npr-executives-caught-on-tape-bashing-conservatives-and-tea-party-touting-liberals/#ixzz1G1wQh0x7
The video can be watched on their site.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHH AHA! Talk about an owning. Not only that, these money-grubbing vampires at NPR have no qualms with welcoming the Muslim Brotherhood with open arms. Talk about sickening.
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Racist thread reported.
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Racist thread reported.
My bad. I should have rephrased it to, "I love the Muslim Brotherhood! James Clapper said they're a secular organization, and being that he's head of national intelligence, I'm inclined to believe that he knows what he's talking about."
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I think you shouldn't go by what people say in "private" as opposed to what is presented as composed pieces on the air.
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I think you shouldn't go by what people say in "private" as opposed to what is presented as composed pieces on the air.
Good point....if their on-air reporting was any different. ::)
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I think you shouldn't go by what people say in "private" as opposed to what is presented as composed pieces on the air.
What people say in private is a much better indicator of their views than the staged pap put on for the public.
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I think you shouldn't go by what people say in "private" as opposed to what is presented as composed pieces on the air.
He's right! You should always trust what someone says in scripted, pre prepared writings that are drafted for a wide listening audience and designed for public consumption. That's when you know people will really tell the truth! Politicians always tell the truth when they speak in public. So do criminals and suspected terrorists. In private, people lie-- especially when they think nobody of consequence is listening. But in public with everyone listening, 99.9% of people always tell the complete and unbiased truth.
BF you should be ashamed for being so gullible. After all, what is truth anyway? It's just like history... History is written by those who win wars--- Wars are bad because they are violent-- violence is evil unless its for the greater good and there are no alternative means of rebellion because of the majority oppressing the minority. That's why terrorists are really freedom fighters and soldiers are evil. See? Its all relative and nobody is better than anybody else.
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He's right! You should always trust what someone says in scripted, pre prepared writings that are drafted for a wide listening audience and designed for public consumption. That's when you know people will really tell the truth! Politicians always tell the truth when they speak in public. So do criminals and suspected terrorists. In private, people lie-- especially when they think nobody of consequence is listening. But in public with everyone listening, 99.9% of people always tell the complete and unbiased truth.
BF you should be ashamed for being so gullible. After all, what is truth anyway? It's just like history... History is written by those who win wars--- Wars are bad because they are violent-- violence is evil unless its for the greater good and there are no alternative means of rebellion because of the majority oppressing the minority. That's why terrorists are really freedom fighters and soldiers are evil. See? Its all relative and nobody is better than anybody else.
;D
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He's right! You should always trust what someone says in scripted, pre prepared writings that are drafted for a wide listening audience and designed for public consumption. That's when you know people will really tell the truth! Politicians always tell the truth when they speak in public. So do criminals and suspected terrorists. In private, people lie-- especially when they think nobody of consequence is listening. But in public with everyone listening, 99.9% of people always tell the complete and unbiased truth.
BF you should be ashamed for being so gullible. After all, what is truth anyway? It's just like history... History is written by those who win wars--- Wars are bad because they are violent-- violence is evil unless its for the greater good and there are no alternative means of rebellion because of the majority oppressing the minority. That's why terrorists are really freedom fighters and soldiers are evil. See? Its all relative and nobody is better than anybody else.
:D :D :D :D
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He's right! You should always trust what someone says in scripted, pre prepared writings that are drafted for a wide listening audience and designed for public consumption. That's when you know people will really tell the truth! Politicians always tell the truth when they speak in public. So do criminals and suspected terrorists. In private, people lie-- especially when they think nobody of consequence is listening. But in public with everyone listening, 99.9% of people always tell the complete and unbiased truth.
BF you should be ashamed for being so gullible. After all, what is truth anyway? It's just like history... History is written by those who win wars--- Wars are bad because they are violent-- violence is evil unless its for the greater good and there are no alternative means of rebellion because of the majority oppressing the minority. That's why terrorists are really freedom fighters and soldiers are evil. See? Its all relative and nobody is better than anybody else.
lol. All good points.
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can you say juan williams?
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Another massive waste of tax dollars.
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Another massive waste of tax dollars.
If they had a conservative slant our heads would spin at how fast public funding would be cut.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110308/ts_yblog_thecutline/npr-appalled-by-former-execs-comments
Schiller said that he's proud of NPR's firing of Juan Williams for expressing fear of flying with people in "Muslim garb," because it showed that "NPR stood for is a non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news." (Just yesterday, NPR chief executive Vivian Schiller--no relation--talked publicly about how the network "badly" handled the Williams situation).
hahahah yea but they dont lean left at all ::)
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Its only racist and bigoted when minorities are involved.
You can disparage any white person and its always fine with these communist pukes.
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Schiller applauded their non-racist, non-bigoted stance as he railed against Christians, whites, and Tea Parties. Makes sense.
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Ha Ha Ha - payback is a bitch!
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Activist (James O'Keefe) says he targeted NPR because of Juan Williams firing
cnn ^ | 3/8/2011 | Kevin Liptak
The conservative activist responsible for producing an undercover video showing a National Public Radio senior executive slamming the Tea Party as "racist" and "scary" is speaking out about why he went after the organization.
And late Tuesday, NPR announced it has placed the executive, Senior Vice President for Fundraising Ron Schiller, on administrative leave.
Filmmaker James O'Keefe said the idea for the sting stemmed from an incident in October when NPR fired analyst Juan Williams after he said he got scared when people wore Muslim garb on airplanes.
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NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Resigns
NPR ^ | March 9, 2011
NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller has resigned, NPR just announced.
This follows yesterday's news that then-NPR fundraiser Ron Schiller (no relation) was videotapped slamming conservatives and questioning whether NPR needs federal funding during a lunch with men posing as members of a Muslim organization (they were working with political activist James O'Keefe on a "sting.") Vivian Schiller (2008 file photo). Enlarge Michael Benabib/AP
Vivian Schiller (2008 file photo). Vivian Schiller (2008 file photo). Michael Benabib/AP
Vivian Schiller (2008 file photo).
Vivian Schiller quickly condemned Ron Schiller's comments, and he moved up an already-announced decision to leave NPR and resigned effectively immediately. But Ron Schiller's gaffe followed last fall's dismissal of NPR political analyst Juan Williams, for which Vivian Schiller came under harsh criticism.
NPR just sent this statement from NPR Board of Directors Chairman Dave Edwards to its staff and member stations:
"It is with deep regret that I tell you that the NPR Board of Directors has accepted the resignation of Vivian Schiller as President and CEO of NPR, effective immediately.
"The Board accepted her resignation with understanding, genuine regret, and great respect for her leadership of NPR these past two years.
"Vivian brought vision and energy to this organization. She led NPR back from the enormous economic challenges of the previous two years. She was passionately committed to NPR's mission, and to stations and NPR working collaboratively as a local-national news network.
"According to a CEO succession plan adopted by the Board in 2009, Joyce Slocum, SVP of Legal Affairs and General Counsel, has been appointed to the position of Interim CEO. The Board will immediately establish an Executive Transition Committee that will develop a timeframe and process for the recruitment and selection of new leadership.
"I recognize the magnitude of this news – and that it comes on top of what has been a traumatic period for NPR and the larger public radio community. The Board is committed to supporting NPR through this interim period and has confidence in NPR's leadership team."
We'll have much more on this as the story develops.
Update at 9:30 a.m. ET: "I'm told by sources that she was forced out," NPR's David Folkenflik just said on Morning Edition.
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O'Keefe was on Savage last night and said the whole operation cost 4k to do.
Ha ha ha ha - the ivy league educated brilliant left wing intellectuals suckered by a kid with a camcorder and 4k. Morons.
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He's right! You should always trust what someone says in scripted, pre prepared writings that are drafted for a wide listening audience and designed for public consumption. That's when you know people will really tell the truth! Politicians always tell the truth when they speak in public. So do criminals and suspected terrorists. In private, people lie-- especially when they think nobody of consequence is listening. But in public with everyone listening, 99.9% of people always tell the complete and unbiased truth.
BF you should be ashamed for being so gullible. After all, what is truth anyway? It's just like history... History is written by those who win wars--- Wars are bad because they are violent-- violence is evil unless its for the greater good and there are no alternative means of rebellion because of the majority oppressing the minority. That's why terrorists are really freedom fighters and soldiers are evil. See? Its all relative and nobody is better than anybody else.
Nice :D
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NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Resigns
NPR ^ | March 9, 2011
NPR President and CEO Vivian Schiller has resigned, NPR just announced.
This follows yesterday's news that then-NPR fundraiser Ron Schiller (no relation) was videotapped slamming conservatives and questioning whether NPR needs federal funding during a lunch with men posing as members of a Muslim organization (they were working with political activist James O'Keefe on a "sting.") Vivian Schiller (2008 file photo). Enlarge Michael Benabib/AP
Vivian Schiller (2008 file photo). Vivian Schiller (2008 file photo). Michael Benabib/AP
Vivian Schiller (2008 file photo).
Vivian Schiller quickly condemned Ron Schiller's comments, and he moved up an already-announced decision to leave NPR and resigned effectively immediately. But Ron Schiller's gaffe followed last fall's dismissal of NPR political analyst Juan Williams, for which Vivian Schiller came under harsh criticism.
NPR just sent this statement from NPR Board of Directors Chairman Dave Edwards to its staff and member stations:
"It is with deep regret that I tell you that the NPR Board of Directors has accepted the resignation of Vivian Schiller as President and CEO of NPR, effective immediately.
"The Board accepted her resignation with understanding, genuine regret, and great respect for her leadership of NPR these past two years.
"Vivian brought vision and energy to this organization. She led NPR back from the enormous economic challenges of the previous two years. She was passionately committed to NPR's mission, and to stations and NPR working collaboratively as a local-national news network.
"According to a CEO succession plan adopted by the Board in 2009, Joyce Slocum, SVP of Legal Affairs and General Counsel, has been appointed to the position of Interim CEO. The Board will immediately establish an Executive Transition Committee that will develop a timeframe and process for the recruitment and selection of new leadership.
"I recognize the magnitude of this news – and that it comes on top of what has been a traumatic period for NPR and the larger public radio community. The Board is committed to supporting NPR through this interim period and has confidence in NPR's leadership team."
We'll have much more on this as the story develops.
Update at 9:30 a.m. ET: "I'm told by sources that she was forced out," NPR's David Folkenflik just said on Morning Edition.
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O'Keefe was on Savage last night and said the whole operation cost 4k to do.
Ha ha ha ha - the ivy league educated brilliant left wing intellectuals suckered by a kid with a camcorder and 4k. Morons.
Hahahahahaha! Props to O'Keefe.
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Schiller had been planning to leave NPR to join the Aspen Institute. However, the institute released a brief statement Wednesday saying Schiller informed the think thank he would not be coming on board, "in light of the controversy surrounding his recent statements."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/09/npr-president-schiller-resigns/#
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O’Keefe: More Controversial NPR Videos to Come
Newsmax ^ | 3/9/2011 | David A. Patten
There’s more video where that came from, says James O’Keefe, the muckraking activist behind TheProjectVeritas.org. The controversial video-sting impresario tells Newsmax that he’s prepared to release yet more embarrassing revelations about NPR, but first he wants to gauge NPR’s reaction to the bomb he dropped Tuesday.
In an exclusive Newsmax interview, O’Keefe says he’s waiting to see whether NPR comes clean “about what is going on” before he doles out more video.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
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Wonder if the same dolts supporting ALL of the wikileaks will now support O'Keefe? :-\
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Wonder if the same dolts supporting ALL of the wikileaks will now support O'Keefe? :-\
Or better yet - does 240, Blacken, Straw et al, who all jumped on the fake Koch tape in Wis. support O'keefe now?
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Or better yet - does 240, Blacken, Straw et al, who all jumped on the fake Koch tape in Wis. support O'keefe now?
:-\ I would love to see O'Keefe nail Michael Moore. The guy is obviously damn good at this and should give it a go.
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Surprise: New NPR interim CEO a Democratic political contributor
Daily Caller ^ | 3/9/11 | Jeff Poor
If NPR is trying demonstrate in the wake of the video scandal that it embraces a diversity of viewpoints and is not the left-wing outlet it has been portrayed to be, its first move after the resignation of president and CEO Vivian Schiller isn’t a particularly good start.
After Schiller announced her resignation on Wednesday, the NPR Board of Directors promptly named Joyce Slocum as NPR’s interim CEO. According to a statement from NPR, Slocum’s appointment was part of a CEO succession plan adopted by the Board in 2009. Slocum, however, appears to be just another Democrat.
According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics website OpenSecrets.org, Slocum has donated $3,480 dating back to 1999 – all to Democratic candidates:
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haha, NPR is on a roll, baby !!!!! Everytime I tune it in, it's always that 900yr old hag that you can barely understand stammering out some incoherent jibberish....
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Taking them out is going to be sweet.
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Juan Williams must be laughing his ass off.
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Racist thread reported.
He's right! You should always trust what someone says in scripted, pre prepared writings that are drafted for a wide listening audience and designed for public consumption. That's when you know people will really tell the truth! Politicians always tell the truth when they speak in public. So do criminals and suspected terrorists. In private, people lie-- especially when they think nobody of consequence is listening. But in public with everyone listening, 99.9% of people always tell the complete and unbiased truth.
BF you should be ashamed for being so gullible. After all, what is truth anyway? It's just like history... History is written by those who win wars--- Wars are bad because they are violent-- violence is evil unless its for the greater good and there are no alternative means of rebellion because of the majority oppressing the minority. That's why terrorists are really freedom fighters and soldiers are evil. See? Its all relative and nobody is better than anybody else.
LOL
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President Obama to increase funding for NPR
Politicons ^ | March 9th | Henry D'Andrea
FOXNation reports that the White House wants to increase funding for NPR by 31 million dollars. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports NPR, was appropriated $420 million for fiscal year 2010. Obama wants to increase CPB’s funding to $451 million in his latest budget.
The White House press secretary Jay Carney defended the increase in NPR funding as a “worthwhile” and “important priority” for President Obama......
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(Hoaxer) to NPR executives: Now you know what it feels like to be an everyday American
The Daily Caller ^ | 3/10/11 | Matthew Boyle
Shaughn Adeleye, one of the men who acted as a representative of the fake Muslim Brotherhood front organization that spawned the National Public Radio (NPR) sting videos conservative James O’Keefe released Tuesday morning, told The Daily Caller “it’s unfortunate that they [Ron Schiller and Vivian Schiller] had to lose their jobs over expressing what they believe.”
“But, everything they have been saying is contrary to what they should have been saying and what they say that they are,” Adeleye said in a phone interview. “I do not feel bad for them that they got fired – well, they say they resigned. And, he lost his job at the Aspen Institute. He’s pretty much in the unemployment line, both of them, him and Vivian. You know what? Now they’re going to know what it feels like to be common, every day citizens who have lost their jobs or just struggling every day to pay bills and make a life for themselves.”
Adeleye also told TheDC that the public might be missing the point of this investigation: “What would have happened if we were actually a Muslim group and we actually had everything laid out and we got to the point where we could show them the proof?” What would have happened is anyone’s guess, but Adeleye is almost certain NPR would have taken the money and said he expects NPR would adjust its news coverage in doing so – possibly drastically.
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Awesome.
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(Hoaxer) to NPR executives: Now you know what it feels like to be an everyday American
The Daily Caller ^ | 3/10/11 | Matthew Boyle
Shaughn Adeleye, one of the men who acted as a representative of the fake Muslim Brotherhood front organization that spawned the National Public Radio (NPR) sting videos conservative James O’Keefe released Tuesday morning, told The Daily Caller “it’s unfortunate that they [Ron Schiller and Vivian Schiller] had to lose their jobs over expressing what they believe.”
“But, everything they have been saying is contrary to what they should have been saying and what they say that they are,” Adeleye said in a phone interview. “I do not feel bad for them that they got fired – well, they say they resigned. And, he lost his job at the Aspen Institute. He’s pretty much in the unemployment line, both of them, him and Vivian. You know what? Now they’re going to know what it feels like to be common, every day citizens who have lost their jobs or just struggling every day to pay bills and make a life for themselves.”
Adeleye also told TheDC that the public might be missing the point of this investigation: “What would have happened if we were actually a Muslim group and we actually had everything laid out and we got to the point where we could show them the proof?” What would have happened is anyone’s guess, but Adeleye is almost certain NPR would have taken the money and said he expects NPR would adjust its news coverage in doing so – possibly drastically.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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Awesome.
Racist post reported.
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Fmr. NPR CEO Admits Liberal Establishment Is Terrified of Being Exposed
Politicons- Politically Conservative ^ | April 5th | Henry D'Andrea
Tell me something I don’t know….
Today former NPR CEO Vivian Schiller admitted that the liberal establishment is terrified of being exposed for their blatant corruption and far left bias.
Fired and failed lib NPR CEO Vivian Schiller spoke Tuesday at the Paley Center for Media in New York and lashed out at the videographers who exposed the bigotry in her organization, calling the undercover sting an “abomination.” She admitted the rest of the establishment is “terrified” of being the next NPR, Planned Parenthood or ACORN…and speculated that the goal of these stings is to instill fear. “It’s terrifying,” Schiller said, that’s their “objective......
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