"Step one: act like gun-toting racists. Step two: catch NPR exec on tape acknowledging reality of step one. Step three: scandal!" — Tom Tomorrow on Twitter.This NPR "scandal" keeps popping up in my Google news headlines, so I guess this means the MSM hasn't yet learned to ignore the lying, video splicing, misogynistic accused felon also known as James O'Keefe.
O'Keefe is behind this latest ruse where Ron Schiller, NPR's senior vice president for fundraising, was secretly videotaped conversing with actors posing as members of the fictitious Muslim Action Education Center.
Here is one of Schiller's "scandalous" comments about teabaggers: "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."
Funny because that's what I've been saying all along. Wow, he's an elitist liberal just like me, but I didn't know that being caught in the act could cause such a stir.
Let's be clear that nothing illegal happened in this setup. This fact gets buried at the bottom of all these stories, but when the pair of actors wanted to give $5 million to NPR, Schiller refused to take it.
However, he did make some dumb moves. Number one was going to lunch with two unknown men from an unknown activist group. Dumb.
And then Schiller made a comment that will haunt NPR for years. He said NPR "would be better off in the long run without federal funding." This is counter to what the organization believes.
But who would take this off-comment during a shitty prank seriously anyway? The GOP of course. They've destroyed ACORN already and now, with purely political motivation, they're out to get Planned Parenthood, PBS and NPR -- the last two because, you know, real journalism is warfare and they don't want any of that.
Ron Schiller resigned from NPR today. He can be thankful for one thing though. At least O'Keefe didn't invite him onto his dildo boat.
i am glad you wrote something about this story. if i recall, wasn't o'keefe caught doctoring his video of the ACORN ambush? i have trouble believing anything from someone with such terrible credibility. you are right that the npr executive made an error by meeting with unknown members of an unknown group. i don't think anything schiller said about the tea party was off point.
ReplyDeletei also read the main motivation of the government wanting to cut funding to npr and other such organizations has to due with shifting the money overseas to increase U.S. propaganda in order to paint a more positive image of the U.S.
This seems like a dangerous game for conservatives to play. Considering all the horrible things they have been caught saying and doing in private, I think people who live in glass houses should not throw hidden video sting operations.
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