Posted on 03/08/2011 2:52:03 PM PST by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
As well they should, Nation Public Radio is backing and shuffling fast to cover the public humiliation of the promulgation of a video showing NPR execs playing funding footsie with two putative donors masquerading as representatives of a Muslim Brotherhood front group.
NPR is quick to point out that one of the executives, Ron Schiller, left the company a week ago for reasons unrelated to the release of the video. They fail, however, to explain why the other executive present, institutional giving director Betsy Liley, is still with the company. It is Lilely who registers her unequivocal approval at NPR being called “National Palestinian Radio.”
Rep. Eric Cantor, upon viewing the video (which is now viewable in an unedited version), has called for a defunding of NPR, given our economic straits. That is the least of it. What this video demonstrates most of all is the cultural and ideological ignorance of modern liberalism, more dangerous even than the millions donated to NPR.
What this video reveals is a festival of projection. NPR’s own blog contains some of the evidence:
“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.”
“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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
That was a serious blunder. You’d think that intellectuals would be smarter than that...but...they probably weren’t the intellectuals that you think they are.
On another note...since they admitted that NPR funding from the big corporations is just for BIG NPR, and not it’s little stations throughout America...then it’s kinda like Air America. As forty or fifty stations go by the wayside...they lose impact. It’ll end up in five years being just forty metropolitan areas that have NPR coverage. The rest of the heartland will lose contact with the network. Sad way to go...keeping the big bucks for headquarters and forsaking the broadcast towers.
De-fund the caustic, confused, anti-America, anti-American NPR. These hate-filled creeps don’t need me funding their uncivilized vitriol.
But the event happened on 2/22/11, before he resigned.
No more funding, no more deductible contributions.
Support James O’Keefe.
Project Veritas Investigates:
NPR
Mar 8 2011
Project Veritas’ latest investigation focuses on the publically-funded media organization, National Public Radio. PV investigative reporters, Shaughn Adeleye and Simon Templar posed as members of the Muslim Action Education Center, a non-existent group with a goal to “spread the acceptance of Sharia across the world.”
In this first video, produced by James O’Keefe, Shaughn and Simon sit down with NPR Foundation President Ron Schiller.
http://www.theprojectveritas.org/
Thanks Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears. There won’t be any day-after-day drumbeat about this story in the rest of the leftist media.
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