Posted on 01/12/2021 12:22:55 PM PST by Red Badger
PBS is distancing itself from a former employee featured in a Project Veritas video who appeared to defend violent attacks on the White House, proposed re-education for the children of President Donald Trump supporters, and praised the COVID-19 deaths of GOP voters.
“This employee no longer works for PBS,” a PBS spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “As a mid-level staff attorney, he did not speak on behalf of our organization, nor did he make any editorial decisions.”
“There is no place for hateful rhetoric at PBS, and this individual’s views in no way reflect our values or opinions,” the spokesperson said. “We strongly condemn violence and will continue to do what we have done for 50 years — use our national platform and local presence to strengthen communities and bring people together.”
PBS did not clarify to the DCNF whether the employee was fired as a result of the video. Project Veritas tweeted Tuesday afternoon that former PBS principal counsel Michael Beller had been fired.
Michael Beller has been FIRED #ExposePBS pic.twitter.com/W3R9XUCmlO
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) January 12, 2021
Project Veritas published a video Tuesday that allegedly shows Beller saying, “We go for all the Republican voters and Homeland Security will take their children away…we’ll put them into the re-education camps.”
Another clip shows Beller allegedly discussing “enlightenment camps,” saying, “They’re nice, they have Sesame Street characters in the classrooms, and they watch PBS all day.”
“Americans are so f*cking dumb,” Beller allegedly said in the video. “You know, most people are dumb. It’s good to live in a place [Washington, D.C.] where people are educated and know stuff. Could you imagine if you lived in one of these other towns or cities where everybody’s just stupid?”
The video also shows Beller allegedly saying, “What’s great is that COVID is spiking in all the red states right now. So that’s great…a lot of them [red state voters] are sick and dying.”
It’s still unclear if Beller was speaking in his own voice, interpreting how GOP voters feel, or recounting something he’d heard.
How do you fire a “former” employee?
Next step is to get this guy disbarred.
Why, free speech is free speech. It’s not like he is not saying anything most libs are saying among themselves, it sure is their theme.
This lefty loon is just one of thousands working for PBS.
PBS in its entirety needs to be terminated, if at all possible
Just defund it.
I disagree. This was a private conversation. He did nothing to actually accomplish those ridiculous ideas. We have to stop the Cancel Culture even when it hits people opposed to us. If we don’t, it will be applied to people who are aligned with us.
The ex-boss followed me and told me he needed the paper back for their files. I turned around, glowered at him and said "come and get it!"
He didn't.
$100 bucks says this guy is also a pedo.
Republicans should now defund PBS, but that will never happen because Republicans are traitors. More interested in disenfranchising voters, and sanctioning voter fraud.
They are minimizing his role at PBS. He is now a “former employee”. Well, yes, he is now. And a mere “mid-level” attorney in the organization, at that. Cripes, how many levels of attorneys do they have at that place?
Meanwhile, a Washington mailroom boy complains about Trump, and suddenly he’s quoted all over the MSM as a “high-level administration source, familiar with the situation.”
Good. If he had a 401k he should thank Trump for it going up big over the last few years.
His sin was that he got caught and recorded saying it.
I can see why he'd say that, since Big Bird and Elmo have more credibility than the cast at CNN or MSNBC.
No, but he accurately repeated the sentiment of almost everyone that works there.
It's even simlper than that.
Republicans do not control the House, the Senate or the White house.
Game.
Set.
Match.
That’s what I was thinking.............................
Republicans can’t defund anything, now..........................
“ Principal General Counsel”
Wanna know how bad it was.
McConnell and Ryan couldn’t even defund PBS and NPR.
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