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| 2011-03-08 | |||||
"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." When the ersatz Islamists declare they're "not too upset about maybe a little bit less Jew influence of money into NPR," Schiller responds by saying he doesn't find "Zionist or pro-Israel" ideas at NPR, "even among funders. I mean it's there in those who own newspapers, obviously, but no one owns NPR."
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| #10 Disregard above. Wrong thread, dammit. Sorry. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2011-03-08 21:20 |
| #9 Here's the Rantburg article, TW. Those were my comments. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2011-03-08 21:18 |
| #8 Public Money is involved, should be retired to pound me in the Aspen Institute. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-03-08 21:16 |
| #7 So ... how many umbrellas and tote bags to you get for a 5 million $ NPR contribution? |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-03-08 16:43 |
| #6 Is Betsy Liley still at NPR (National Palestinian Radio)? It seems that NPR doesn't appreciate Tea Party taxpayers and all the other taxpayers who foot part of their bill. The bad publicity will also kill off some donors who think they might be giving to a good cause. Defund NPR! |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-03-08 16:10 |
| #5 So sorry -- that last line was my own comment, and should not be in italics. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-03-08 15:37 |
| #4 NPR has noticed, and issued a statement: Dana Davis Rehm, NPR's senior vice president of marketing, communications and external relations, has released this statement: "The fraudulent organization represented in this video repeatedly pressed us to accept a $5 million check, with no strings attached, which we repeatedly refused to accept. According to the NPR article, this is already making waves on Capitol Hill. The vote against funding should pass easily, I expect. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-03-08 15:36 |
| #3 "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. How disconnected from reality can you be and still manage to breathe? |
| Posted by: gorb 2011-03-08 15:31 |
| #2 National Public Radio senior executive, Ron Schiller, has left NPR this week for the Aspen Institute. Nothing to do with this sting, just a coincidence. Uh huh |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-03-08 15:23 |
| #1 Progressive hate and projection at its best. Defund NPR and PBS now. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-03-08 14:09 |