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This is all about a sting operation conducted against NPR radio to reveal their polarized political prejudice. This is taken from their own NPR site and their responses are contained in the 'continues here' link provided. You'll have BOTH sides of the story to use to form your opinions.
by Mark Memmott

(8:30 a.m. ET, March 9: We've added to this story many times, as you'll see below. This post starts with our original report, and then is followed by the updates we did along the way.)

Our original post:

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."

NPR, as you'll see below, has called Schiller's comments appalling.

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.
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Although a comment is made that this Schiller is not related to Vivian Schiller of the same organization who was a deeply involved embarassment in the Juan Williams affair and who resigned because of it. Since NPR itself has confirmed the Schiller comment that only about 10% of it's funding comes from public (government) funds it surely won't mind when that source of funding is removed.

Gee whiz! If this is actually true and NPR itself doesn't need that 10% of OUR funding, why the Hell are the demonRATs fighting against de-funding NPR of government (public ...read 'taxpayer') monies? [sarcasm]Is it just me or does this entire affair smack of some sort of behind-the-scenes collusion between demonRATs in congress and representatives of NPR?[/sarcasm]. I couldn't help but notice that the first guy who said they didn't need that 10% became a victim of a "collateral damage" explosion at NPR and is out the door, headed off to new employment.

Remember that old axiom gang that goes thisaway..."Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.". I was reminded of that as I read about the circumstances of Ron Schiller's new hiring by The Aspen Institute It seems that there is a conflict here where NPR says Schiller had already advised them of his leaving and new job prior to the "sting" embarassment, but Aspen contradicted that in announcing his employment a full NINE (9) DAYS AFTER the date of the sting taking place. YIKES! What's going on here? Is this NPR house of cards crumbling around them? I'm wondering if the slumping in the ratings of MSNBC pseudo-ingenue Rachel Madcow has her looking over her shoulder worried about the replacement potential of one Betsy Liley, currently of NPR?

And then there's the old story, to be reconsidered, of the Two Left Hands and Ron Schiller's new employer. The dung trail never seems to end.
In August 2004, according to this article in the liberal New Yorker, “a clandestine summit meeting took place at the Aspen Institute, in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. The participants, all Democrats, were sworn to secrecy” and included five billionaires who “shared a common goal: to use their fortunes to engineer the defeat of President George W. Bush in the 2004 election.” The wealthiest of these “hard-core partisans” was George Soros, who had been a “leading crusader for campaign-finance reform.”
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Again, I'm not a big fan of deception investigation. That said, as I've said previously, I have less issues when presenting oneself as a completely ficticious thing rather than masquerading as a specific other person and profitting upon their reputation.

I think most of the Muslim comments are relatively to be expected and come from his job position and can realistically be assumed to be just as likely smoke being blown up their asses as legitimate views. However, the Tea Party comments are a bit over the line, though they still fit in the same category.

Stupid guy says stupid things and is on his way out of a company who condemned his stupid things. Not a huge deal to me honestly.
 
ACORN, NPR, PBS, Fannie, Freddie.......

How did liberals ever manage to get these massively liberal and corrupt institutions things paid for with taxpayer money?

Apparently, the "stimulus" is nothing new after all.
 
What's wrong with PBS?
 
Shouldn't this be in blogs? I mean, it's not really breaking news since it's not produced by npr but by a blogger using npr's blogging website....
 
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Zyphlin said:
Again, I'm not a big fan of deception investigation. That said, as I've said previously, I have less issues when presenting oneself as a completely ficticious thing rather than masquerading as a specific other person and profitting upon their reputation.

I think most of the Muslim comments are relatively to be expected and come from his job position and can realistically be assumed to be just as likely smoke being blown up their asses as legitimate views. However, the Tea Party comments are a bit over the line, though they still fit in the same category.

Stupid guy says stupid things and is on his way out of a company who condemned his stupid things. Not a huge deal to me honestly.
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Our government uses the same tactics.

Undercover Web Site Derailed By Hosting Firm | The Smoking Gun
 
Can these be combined into one thread? This would be number 4.
 
Zyphlin said:
Again, I'm not a big fan of deception investigation. That said, as I've said previously, I have less issues when presenting oneself as a completely ficticious thing rather than masquerading as a specific other person and profitting upon their reputation.

I think most of the Muslim comments are relatively to be expected and come from his job position and can realistically be assumed to be just as likely smoke being blown up their asses as legitimate views. However, the Tea Party comments are a bit over the line, though they still fit in the same category.

Stupid guy says stupid things and is on his way out of a company who condemned his stupid things. Not a huge deal to me honestly.
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Then, as you appear to be over-simplifying things you may have missed the point, which is why I dragged it out with the word/phrase links I posted in the latter part of the OP. There is a discernible "pattern of behavior" demonstrated here. When any one of these partisan left NPR people has to fall on the sword for some indiscretion another left-masquerading entity like The Aspen Institute opens their door for them. Soros is the tie that binds this crap together. You may have not read the link sources.

Something else that puzzles me. You don't seem bothered at all by the reality that a left-leaning "public" corporation receives federal("public") funding under false premises? When I post on a topic I try not to lay out the obvious, not wanting to limit the reader's peception so they will make their own conclusions, but there was more here than the single issue you addressed.

All Things Considered I'd say that removing their tax-exempt status and federal funding should be a top agenda item. If what they do is so important it can vie for commercial support on the open "private corporation" marketplace of ideas.
 
doctorhugo said:
Then, as you appear to be over-simplifying things you may have missed the point, which is why I dragged it out with the word/phrase links I posted in the latter part of the OP. There is a discernible "pattern of behavior" demonstrated here. When any one of these partisan left NPR people has to fall on the sword for some indiscretion another left-masquerading entity like The Aspen Institute opens their door for them. Soros is the tie that binds this crap together. You may have not read the link sources.

Something else that puzzles me. You don't seem bothered at all by the reality that a left-leaning "public" corporation receives federal("public") funding under false premises? When I post on a topic I try not to lay out the obvious, not wanting to limit the reader's peception so they will make their own conclusions, but there was more here than the single issue you addressed.

All Things Considered I'd say that removing their tax-exempt status and federal funding should be a top agenda item. If what they do is so important it can vie for commercial support on the open "private corporation" marketplace of ideas.
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They are a left-leaning organization because one person who works there is liberal? So, you're telling me, the only way a trustworthy organization can exist is if they hire neutral-bots: a series of politically neutral robots that are able to run a news radio station? I'm sure none of us were aware of these stipulations and we will work harder to provide a news station that is run by robots who have no political leanings.
 
Erod said:
Our government uses the same tactics.
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If you can't see the difference between law enforcement doing these kind of things focused on criminals and random bloggers doing it to target political opponents and with a definitive political agenda then I don't really know what to say to you.
 
whysoserious said:
They are a left-leaning organization because one person who works there is liberal?
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I just know that Zyphlin appreciates you jumping in for him, but since you have offered YOUR opinion you may want to step back and view the CPB/PBS/NPR history. You do, btw, realize that CPB is the umbrella organizaton under whose aegis NPR functions don't you? And that they enjoy an IRS 501-C-3 "tax-exempt" status?
In my OP I alluded to only one 'other' incident, the infamous and recent Juan Willaims affair. In that one another left-leaner fell upon her sword for the old team, Vivian Schiller...numero uno. Point of information to you on that incident pal. Within 48 hours of the Williams firing Georgie 'Death Camp Assistant' Soros gave $1.8 billion dollars to NPR. Isn't that a remarkable coincidence! I digress though. That Juan Williams thingy along with this incident and CEO Ron Schiller, numero dos, I have already demonstrated three left-leaners for you, two named Schiller and one named Betsy Liley, numero tres. If you hadn't gone off again half-cocked you wouldn't have read most all of that and I wouldn't have to reprise it for you here and waste everyone's time. I could enlighten you to a greater "culture of coruption" as your Dame Pelosi would say, but we'd stray far afield then and OFF-TOPIC wouldn't we.



So, you're telling me, the only way a trustworthy organization can exist is if they hire neutral-bots: a series of politically neutral robots that are able to run a news radio station? I'm sure none of us were aware of these stipulations and we will work harder to provide a news station that is run by robots who have no political leanings.
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Just some informal, neighborly advice you seriously may wish to consider. I'm relatively new here, but have noticed that you have a consistency of habit of coming to the table of debate ill-informed. This hapless and gratuitous indulgence in what you think is effective sarcasm again marks you as ill-prepared. I hate to have to observe that.
FACT> What I'm telling you is that NPR as a branch of PBS enjoys a special tax-exempt status (IRS Code 501(c)(3)), one BIG advantage it has over it's "private sector" counterparts and "public funding" by federal appropriation, another BIG advantage over those same "private sector" counterparts. In exchange for such benevolence, in what would otherwise be a level private/public playing field, they are obligated to be NON-political in their production, direction and presentation of programming. Have you got all that? Sadly they have a miserable record of being left-leaning and in 2006 an attempt to revoke their special IRS status and government funding was made. Alas! With a demonRATic congress in session in that second Little Georgie-boy Bush term it failed. Somehow I don't think that effort will cease.
 
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