NPR exposed by Conservative Tea Party (Updated)
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A man who appears to be a National Public Radio senior executive, Ron Schiller, has been captured on camera savaging conservatives and the Tea Party movement.
“The current Republican Party, particularly 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,” declared Schiller, the head of NPR’s nonprofit foundation, who last week announced his departure for the Aspen Institute.
In a new video released Tuesday morning by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, Schiller and Betsy Liley, NPR’s director of institutional giving, are seen meeting with two men who, unbeknownst to the NPR executives, are posing as members of a Muslim Brotherhood front group. The men, who identified themselves as Ibrahim Kasaam and Amir Malik from the fictitious Muslim Education Action Center (MEAC) Trust, met with Schiller and Liley at Café Milano, a well-known Georgetown restaurant, and explained their desire to give up to $5 million to NPR because, “the Zionist coverage is quite substantial elsewhere.”
On the tapes, Schiller wastes little time before attacking conservatives. The Republican Party, Schiller says, has been “hijacked by this group.” The man posing as Malik finishes the sentence by adding, “the radical, racist, Islamaphobic, Tea Party people.” Schiller agrees and intensifies the criticism, saying that the 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.”
Schiller goes on to describe liberals as more intelligent and informed than conservatives. “In my personal opinion, liberals today might be more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives,” he said.
UPDATE: NPR executive Vivian Schiller resigned today according to The New york Press
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ACORN, Planned Parenthood Shirley Sherrod all of them being taken down by this little turd and Andrew Breitbart. Now they are going after NPR. I don’t see it stopping anytime soon and that little smarmy bastard O’Keefe is a known liar, yet they keep giving him airtime. Oh but when someone punks a Koch brother it’s not a good thing to go after such a pillar of the community.
All you libruls over here always worrying about republicants and then youre always right about everything which youre not because nobody needs this snooty station anyways and now you got caguht.
The snooty station you refer to is the last real outlet for radio journalism in the United States. Get rid of that and all we have left is TV fluff from the major networks, and a lot of blusterry bullshit from MSNBC and Fox. That would suck, in my opinion.
Now they got caught WTF. What the hell did they get caught doing? Telling the truth about baggers, please, the guy was telling them what everyone already knows about baggers and their overlords.
Oh yeah, they got caught telling who they thought was a Koch brother they were going to come in and disrupt protests with thugs on a phone call. They got caught red handed in being willing to get a “we’ll take good care of you” bribe if a governor in WI could get the unions busted. Redstate and free republic are over that way>>>>>> They will appreciate your logic over there probably given that us libruls are always wrong and you’re not. *sigh*
James O’Keefe is behind it. That fact alone should tell any smart, well informed person the video is probably highly edited to give a distorted impression.
BTW, it’s an insult to actual filmmakers to call O’Keefe a filmmaker.
You’re totally correct here. O’Keefe is no more a filmmaker than the National Enquirer is a newspaper.
Not fair to the Enquirer. I’d believe an Enquirer story before I’d believe anything from O’Keefe.
I heard about this yesterday but I don’t see what the fuss is about. What is the controversy?
That person cannot voice an opinion about a group? The NPR person said nothing illegal, isn’t taking a bribe…. what is the big expose? They were offered repeatedly a 5 million dollar check from this fake “Muslim” group but NPR refused it after checking about their documentation and required filings.
But the talk show hacks and Republicans were all over it. Funny how NPR gets pranked with no indications of wrong doing and the organization catches hell with a person resigning.
BUT when a Republican Governor, Walker, gets pranked and the audio has the Governor discussing serious ethical and illegal plans with the fake Koch, the Republicans are nowhere to be found.
In fact, the Republican legislators of Wisconsin introduced legislation making such a prank call illegal but not even mentioning the conversation.
Your title should have been “NPR prank exposes the hypocrisy of the Conservatives”
I wonder if the Schiller on the tape is related to Vivian Schiller, the NPR Chief Executive who resigned today? One hell of a coincidence if not. I like your title suggestion; effective and appropriate.
Vivian Schiller is the CEO and President of NPR with over 25 years experience in news. Ron Schiller is the vp exec in charge of fundraising for NPR. No relation.
The 26 year old James O’Keefe describes himself as an investigative journalist without formal training. Apparently part of the formal training that he missed out of were ethics and integrity.
They are not related. Heard that on NPR, ironically.
Yeah, they’re good as dressing up as pimps’ with hooker’s on their arms’ in order to splice together tapes like this… who funded it? (yes, I’m using that example… but obviously this has been a well funded “punk” ie: Americans for Prosperity for instance?) I mean, really… who funded it? And now this site distributes something that may or may not be due-ly diligent on or even credible …
NPR and PBS / mainly NPR / does the vast amount of research (that’s due diligence btw) done in the American news services at this time… even NYTimes and MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC use their research services. That is because as a govt funded organization they are enabled to take on interns who are the back bone of news research. If you had any IDEA of the actual editorial or journalistic mechanism works, you would understand that … making this kind of spliced BS a very ironic questionable piece of rightwingnuttery propaganda.
Just saying…
It is truly Right Wing propaganda and sadly it worked as Schiller ended up resigning. I wonder when the dems are going to try their hands at operations such as this. If the right can play dirty, and occasionally win, why can’t the left?
NPR has been in the crosshairs for some time now and this little sting operation verifies that. Conservatives want this pesky critter out of the way and are willing to resort to guerrilla tactics to get it done.
I’m not sure what they think is the smoking gun here that ultimately vilifies NPR once and for all. What Schiller and Liley say, within the context of meeting with a potentially large donor, is spot on.
I agree completely. I think it was the Juan Williams talk that did it. I suspect that information was supposed to be confidential.