National Public Radio found itself swept up in a perfect storm of criticism and static Tuesday after an undercover videotape captured a top executive condemning tea party supporters as “seriously racist” and suggesting the nonprofit network would be better off without its federal taxpayer subsidies.
Conservative muckraker and underground videographer James O’Keefe and two costumed actors posing as potential Muslim donors managed to document outgoing NPR development executive Ron Schiller vilifying grass-roots conservatives and questioning NPR’s need for millions of federal dollars, all over lunch at a tony Georgetown restaurant.
“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,” Mr. Schiller said to his convincing lunchmates, who were posing as members of the Muslim Education Action Center, a fictitious interest group with a convincing fake website.
“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,” the executive continued.
NPR distanced itself from the comments and from Mr. Schiller, who resigned from NPR a week ago to take a post at another Washington nonprofit, but reaction to the tape, which the 26-year-old Mr. O’Keefe posted online Tuesday, was swift.
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(NPR) National Progressive Radio. And it should not get anymore taxpayers money.
Hey Ellen; Looks like you are getting a pass this week. The news is not about Barry's Birth this week.
National Public Radio Is Just Another Name For A Soros/Obama Run Station That When The Truth Comes Out The Whole Group Running The Station Are Part Of The Govt Gimmie Crowd Of Liars, Yikeess, The Tea Party Patriots With Sarah Palin And Fox News Is All It Takes To See What NPR Stands For, Yippee, A Great Read About Pres Obamacare Is "Born To Lie" Written By Dr D.L. Goetsch And Dr A.P. Jones If You Can Find It Read. God Bless America And Sarah Palin.
Now that O'Keefe has been shown–yet again–to be a manipulative liar, I'm sure you'll move this post to your "outrageous lies" section, right, Caleb? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti…
I don't trust O'Keefe either but NPR sure does not deserve any tax dollars. They can stand on it own and spin all the positive stories they want for the left, but not on the tax payers cash. THe tape was edited but the people that are gone now deserve to be gone.
Funny the birther stuff has slowed down, at least here. Hey Ellen your Fired. LOL
Hay Hay ACLU Teachers-Azz James Bond "No More Red Ink" Bring Out That "Lie Detector" And Dump The Obamacare Telepromter, Yippee, God Bless America And Palin/Bachmann.
There Is Only One Way To Handel Any Of These Questionable Soros-Type Medias, Yippee, Bring-Out The "Lie Detector" For NPR, ABC, NBC, CBS Plus Union Goons, Let Michelle Bachmann Handel The Above "Lie Detectors". God Bless America And Palin/Bachmann.