Have you heard all the hoopla over NPR sting by James O’Keefe- you know, the guy who posed as a pimp and busted ACORN. Well, he exposed NPR for the biased and liberal outlet that it is. Yes, this is the same NPR that fired Juan Williams for offering his opinion. The tape is stunning.
NPR’s soon-to-be-departing senior vice president for fundraising Ron Schiller is seen and heard on a videotape released this morning telling two men who were posing as members of a fictitious Muslim Education Action Center Trust that:
— “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.”
— “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.”
— “I think what we all believe is if we don’t have Muslim voices in our schools, on the air … it’s the same thing we faced as a nation when we didn’t have female voices.” In the heavily edited tape, that comment followed Schiller being told by one of the men that their organization “was originally founded by a few members of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.” There’s no sign in the edited tape that Schiller reacted in any way after being told of the group’s alleged connection to an Islamic group that appeared to be connected with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.
— That NPR “would be better off in the long run without federal funding,” a position in direct conflict with the organization’s official position.
Schiller is also heard laughing when one of the men jokes that NPR should be known as “National Palestinian Radio.”
The video comes from Project Veritas, and is another in political activist James O’Keefe’s undercover exposes (he most prominently took on ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). In the video, Schiller and NPR institutional giving director Betsy Liley are at lunch in Washington with two Project Veritas “investigative reporters” identified as Shaughn Adeleye and Simon Templar, who posed as “Ibrahim Kasaam and Amir Malik.” They were allegedly interested in having their organization donate $5 million to NPR. O’Keefe’s organization says the recording was made on Feb. 22.
The edited video is a little more than 11 minutes long. Project Veritas has posted the two-hour uncut version here:
http://www.theprojectveritas.org/nprjudge
Word comes out today that NPR president and CEO Vivian Schiller (no relations to Ron Schiller) resigned Wednesday in the wake of comments by a fellow executive that angered conservatives and renewed calls to end federal funding for public broadcasting.
The chairman of NPR’s board of directors announced that he has accepted Schiller’s resignation, effective immediately.
NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik said in a tweet that Schiller was forced out by the board.
James O’Keefe promised that there would be more damaging information to be released so one has to wonder why Vivian Schiller was pushed out by the board.
Juan Williams must be a very happy man today.
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