NPR ‘appalled’ by former exec’s comments

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[Sub-Driver]

NPR ‘appalled’ by former exec’s comments By Michael Calderone michael Calderone 50 mins ago

Former NPR executive Ron Schiller slams Republicans and the tea party movement and suggests that NPR would be better off without any federal funding in a hidden-camera video released Tuesday by conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe.

Schiller, president of the NPR Foundation and a senior vice president for development until just last week, appears on the tape at Georgetown's Café Milano with NPR director of institutional giving Betsy Liley and two men posing as executives from a fake Islamic organization considering a $5 million donation to the network.

The Daily Caller posted the 11-minute video Tuesday, as did O'Keefe's Project Veritas—a site that also includes hidden-camera investigations of other conservative targets, including teacher's unions and ACORN. (A full two-hour version is available here).

In the video, Schiller said that the current Republican Party has been "hijacked" by a group that's "not just Islamophobic, but really xenophobic" and suggests the tea party movement is comprised of some "seriously racist, racist people." You can watch the footage below:

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).

Also, Ron Schiller doesn't appear to interject when the two men make outlandish comments about Jews controlling the media and laughs when they jokingly refer to NPR as "National Palestinian Radio."

[Sub-Driver]

Holy smokes.......

[Christian Engineer Mass]

We can expect this to be reported by the Bureau of Propaganda in about 25 years or so.

“NPR would be better off without any federal funding”

Yes. Yes it would.

[EyeGuy]

Sounds like the semi-literate, vocabulary challenged Schiller worships at the high altar of faux “racism”.

[Nevermore]

What’s just is disturbing is that Some People will be surprised by this . . . no shock here, though.

[Brad from Tennessee]

New York Times blog has a version of this:

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/npr-executive-caught-calling-tea-partiers-racist/

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I posted this on another thread. Too funny!

According to Byron York....Schiller will be heading for the Aspen Institute on 4/1.

http://twitter.com/ByronYork/statuses/45132674964267008

David Koch is on the Board of Trustees for AI.

http://www.aspeninstitute.org/people/david-koch

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I luv it.

[SMARTY]

WE certainly would be better off!!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Your tax dollars at work.....

[AngelesCrestHighway]

NPR....Nutty Puke Radicals

[Allegra]

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."

He probably needs to hang out in Saudi Arabia or Iran for a while, living among the local populace, not on a compound.

'Bout six weeks ought to straighten him out a little on that.

[ClearCase_guy]

Recorded on Feb 22 2011.
As of last week, Shiller is no longer an NPR executive.

I haven't seen anyone say that he was fired over this, but it appears that he was.

[Fido969]

I'm appalled!

[detch]

Instead of pledge drives and taxpayer funding, why don’t they use the Billions of $$$$ from Sesame Street sales and merchandise from the other programs?

Then, they can run all the liberal programs they want, which many of them are (while being disguised as programing for ALL of us). N-O-T.

[Brett66]

Well, what are you waiting for Repubs? End this propaganda machine now!

[dead]

Those NPR types are vile, but so typical of the far left's movers and shakers. They hate this country, they hate the majority of its citizens and they feel they have a gaia-given right to take money and property from those people they despise under the threat of government force.

Deep down, they all believe that they should be the ones to decide who gets rewarded with loot and who gets loaded into the box cars.

[reefdiver]

This is great, hang this guy right around their necks. NPR Winning!

[Fantasywriter]

Here’s the little note I zipped off a few minutes ago:

Dear NPR: Good news! Not only are you now open and honest about your hatred of Christians and conservatives—you don’t even need taxpayer $ to peddle your bias/bigotry! Win-win!

[paraphrase]Former NPR executive/big-time Leftie Ron Schiller trashed Republicans and the TEA party, bragging that NPR would be better off without extorted tax-payer $/so-called ‘federal’ funding. The refreshingly candid remarks were caught on hidden-camera, the video of which was released 8 Mar 11 by independent filmmaker James O’Keefe.

Others may want to follow suit:

npr_response@npr.org

[JaguarXKE]

My son was stationed in one of those A-rab countries and went down town with a group of his fellow Airmen. They had to stand by and watch as a husband slapped the crap out of his wife for some minor offence the husband perceived she had committed. Had they stepped in to defend her, they would still all be in jail. Lovely traditions those muslims have!

[clintonh8r]

Yeah...probably off the payroll as a “consultant” now....