Former NPR executive Ron Schiller slams Republicans and the tea party movement and suggests that NPR would be better off without any federal funding in a hidden-camera video (below) released Tuesday by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe. Schiller, president of the NPR Foundation and a senior vice president for development until just last week, appears on the tape at Georgetown’s Café Milano with NPR director of institutional giving Betsy Liley and two men posing as executives from a fake Islamic organization considering a $5 million donation to the network.
In the video, Schiller said that the current Republican Party has been “hijacked” by a group that’s “not just Islamophobic, but really xenophobic” and suggests the tea party movement is comprised of some “seriously racist, racist people.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd9OYJMX9t4&feature=player_embedded
Schiller said that he’s proud of NPR’s firing of Juan Williams for expressing fear of flying with people in “Muslim garb,” because it showed that “NPR stood for is a non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.” (Just yesterday, NPR chief executive Vivian Schiller–no relation–talked publicly about how the network “badly” handled the Williams situation). Also, Ron Schiller doesn’t appear to interject when the two men make outlandish comments about Jews controlling the media and laughs when they jokingly refer to NPR as “National Palestinian Radio.”
The irony is, only just yesterday NPR Chief Executive Vivian Schiller defended taxpayer funding for public broadcasting and challenged critics to find any evidence of liberal bias in NPR’s coverage. Schiller said the accusation that public broadcasting has a liberal bias is just a “perception problem” that doesn’t accurately reflect NPR’s journalism. “We are urban and rural . . . red state and blue state,” she said.
OK, Vivian but be careful what you ask for……..
IamDagny has a great take on this story: – Ann Barnhardt “Hear me now, communist NPR boy. The reason I own more firepower than the French army is because of people like you. Smug, deluded, self-important pricks like you are exactly the kind of people the Founders were thinking of when they wrote the Second Amendment. You have absolutely no respect for me or my capacity to think, reason and act for myself, therefore I must be ready to defend myself and my fellow citizens if and when you and your evil, Marxist ilk decide to strip me of my God-given rights, my personhood, and eventually my life. Because as any educated person who has done even a cursory examination of Marxist regimes in the 20th century knows, mass extermination is where every Marxist political system leads without exception. But then, a highly educated super-intellectual like you already knew that, right Ron Schiller?” ( continue reading here)