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."

[cycleoflife]

Gaffe: When somebody accidentally tells the truth.

[tsomer]

Hi:

Nipper (NPR)is claiming Ron Schiller had already announced he was leaving— describing him as a “former executive” who had severed their connection. Further, Nipper claims they refused the muzzy largess.

But consider:

Ron made his announcement March 6.

This meeting was filmed on February 22.

It would be interesting to know a few more details about the chronology.

I wonder if the Aspen Institute— whatever it is— is rethinking their decision? Schiller should be hounded back to hell-where-he-came-from.

[winstonwolf33]

O'Keefe has also attracted criticism over how the ACORN videos were edited. For instance, the edited videos suggest that O'Keefe pretended to be a young woman's pimp inside and wore the outlandish costume he donned outside ACORN's offices in the videos (and on Fox News after their release). However, O'Keefe actually told ACORN staffers he was the prostitute's boyfriend or friend inside and didn't wear the pimp garb.

LOL...I always wondered how those people on the tape can be so stupid as to believe that dude was a pimp.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Lots of ‘jooooooos’ in the Aspen Institute, too. Wonder what they think of this???

[buccaneer81]

90% of the comments at that site are by people who need to be exiled to Antarctica after we pull off the sweep in 2012.

[Right Wing Assault]

NPR ‘appalled’ by former exec’s comments

Yes, likely appalled that he didn't go after conservatives, the Tea Party, Christians, and Jews much more strongly.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

lol. Had to look. Wasn’t sure if this was yesterday’s “NPR has no liberal bias” or todays “Conservatives and Tea Partiers suck!” thread.

[yup2394871293]

None of this counts though. NPR and all the other PB’s will come up with another mantra or two to justify their government funding (it’ll be interesting if they report this on All Things Considered, etc). It seems to me that their running out of excuses, so the thing to do is to keep exposing them until they want to be 100% private, and then nature will take its course.

[Red Boots]

having weird religious views

Well weird religious views, like your 12th inman coming out of a well, where he's been for 10 centuries, or that beating women is ok with your god...or slavery of all who aren't in your religion... those kinds of weird religious views are A-OK in Schiller's book...but Christianity !

[KeyLargo]

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/

[lentulusgracchus]

(Just saying that because we're at the end of Day Two of high, howling winds and blowing sand.)

Hi, Allegra. Speaking of which, I know our 'puters are silicon-based life forms that we goose and tickle to spin electrons for us, but surely all that loose silicon dioxide particulate matter can't be good for them. What do you do, wrap yours in Saran Wrap?

[infowarrior]

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.

Unless, which I definitely suspect, the bozo is incredibly dense, it should take far less time than six weeks, and with his over engaging mouth, I doubt he could even survive six weeks...

the infowarrior

[SunkenCiv]

additional (locked topic):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2685513/posts