This strikes me much more like the ABSCAM thing which brought down Senator Pete Williams (whom I was no fan of). Entrapment is entrapment. It's one thing to go looking for dirty money and it's another thing to think we would all turn it down when it came looking for us.
ML/NJ
Getting news from NPR is intellectually equivalent to getting science from Al Gore.
This isn’t about the money so much (the Saudis are buying a stake in numerous bits of US media) as it is an executive lashing out against “tea partiers” for xenophobia and racism while TOLERATING antisemitic outbursts from supposed muslim activists against the “zionist controlled media”.
The NPR exec is a bigot who tolerates the company of bigots while denouncing the political opposition as “bigots”. That is the scandal. All a day after NPR denied having any liberal bias.