Conservative activist James O’Keefe, whose deceptively edited hidden camera videos* have made him a star on the right, is out with a new video targeting National Public Radio executive Ron Schiller – and by extension NPR itself.
The video purports to show Schiller speaking to a pair of men posing as representatives of a phony Muslim group seeking to give $5 million to NPR. The men tell Schiller they are affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist political movement.
It shows Schiller stating that the Republican Party and the Tea Party is “fanatically involved in people’s personal lives and very fundamental Christian – and I wouldn’t even call it Christian. It’s this weird evangelical kind of move.”
Schiller goes on to say that the “xenophobic” Tea Party has hijacked the GOP and calls them “white, middle-America, gun-toting – I mean, it’s scary. They’re seriously racist, racist people.”
The video suggests that Schiller subsequently added that he wanted to “talk personally, as opposed to wearing my NPR hat,” then suggesting that there is an “anti-intellectual” bent among much of the Republican Party.
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This was great. Their beginning of their end.
James has probably received a new assignment to plague a different forum and report the "baddies" to the WH.
James chooses his battles well! Even he knows that NPR is nothing more than a losing proposition at this point in time.
I'm glad to see you all miss me so much.
As far as I'm concerned, both Schiller and O'Keefe are self-aggrandizing idiots. And since rural, typically conservative areas will suffer the most from any NPR funding cuts while more liberal areas will likely suffer little if at all, I have somewhat mixed emotions about the issue.
We know you'd be here anyway, eventually.
But I really don't see rural conservative areas suffering from any potential loss of NPR.
Perhaps some liberals in the same rural areas.
I'm sure the conservatives in your social circle don't listen to classical music or opera or news. But some do.
I know people who lives in a place with no cable and where the mountains block television–the only choices are radio (little of which carries news nowadays) or a very expensive satellite system. But again, most of those folks are conservatives, so maybe it doesn't matter.
James my main man I drive a lot so I listen to the radio and guess what I hear a lot of liberals on the air,one who comes to mind is Leslie Marshall and another is that guy who looks like a worm with hair Alan Colmes sometimes I have to listen to music.Another thing you hate O'Keefe because he runs a sting to catch liberal crooks,then you must hate the FBI,CIA and local police for running stings to catch the bad guys.Do you honestly believe that that Holder would look into the NPR scandal,good Lord he won't look into the Panthers wielding batons outside a voting place.
How do you come up with the notion that typically conservative areas "suffer the most" from defunding the NPR propaganda machine? Typically conservative areas have made their opinion known in poll after poll. They don't want their tax dollars propping up a mouthpiece for liberals. I agree that liberal listeners won't suffer at all; NPR is preaching to the choir as far as they are concerned.
Killing the messenger won't work this time. Self-aggrandizing or not, O'Keefe unmasked NPR for what they really are. Of course, when liberals can't refute the truth they attempt to smear the person(s) that exposed them. If NPR is so confident that their message is what Americans want to hear, let them put THEIR money where their mouth is. I don't see the government clamoring to subsidize Savage, Limbaugh, Hannity, et al, nor do I see those personalities holding their hands out for financial support. Take away the financial edge of a federal grant and let's see if NPR can survive. My guess is that they won't. At least not at the level they're at now, which is already underwhelming,
National Public Radio is anything but that. Their funding by the government is the only thing "national" about it.
"How do you come up with the notion that typically conservative areas "suffer the most" from defunding the NPR propaganda machine?"
Those are the areas in which outside government funding provides the biggest share of the budgets. In liberal areas, donors do more. My argument was monetary, not ideological.
Good for you. Recent article showed, as I recall that G Soros is part of NPR. Keep exposing corrupt actions by those who pretend to have the good of the US in their hearts. Would be interesting to see if you could interview some of the thugs harrasing Gov Walker as NOT being a citizen of that state or an employee of anyone except the unions! Mostly imported at the union's expense to be there!