NPR executive caught on tape spewing anti-conservative venom
A most revealing look behind the scenes at NPR was made by some sleuths who went undercover disguised as a front group for the Muslim Brotherhood (via Doug Powers at Michelle Malkin):
He's tried to defend himself by pathetically claiming he didn't really mean it, but no sale. All he can do now is acknowledge that he's a scumbag and distance himself from any political activity. Eric Cantor has rightfully slammed Schiller for his disgusting lubricant.
Following this, he may have been booted (we certainly must hope), and now another executive, Vivian Schiller, who may not be related, has resigned (also via Doug Powers). There's more at Hot Air.
Update: Newsbusters has a 2 part video of Juan Williams telling things as they are.
Update 2: Brent Bozell says Vivian Schiller's resignation doesn't really change anything.
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.This is a really stupid man. A funny thing about his allusion to newspapers is that he generalizes, making it sound as though the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Village Voice and other such awful papers actually support the Jewish community in the whole, when truly, they don't. What it does tell is that for Schiller, they aren't good enough, or he sees NPR - and himself - as superior. A clue to how many liberals don't really respect one another.
“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. [...]
When O’Keefe’s two associates pressed him into the topic, Schiller decried U.S. media coverage of Egypt’s uprising against former dictator Hosni Mubarak, especially talk of the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence on the protests and future of Egypt. Schiller said that is what he is “most disappointed by in this country, which is that the educated, so-called elite in this country is too small a percentage of the population, so that you have this very large un-educated part of the population that carries these ideas.”
When the man pretending to be Kasaam suggests to Schiller that “Jews do kind of control the media or, I mean, certainly the Zionists and the people who have the interests in swaying media coverage toward a favorable direction of Israel,” Schiller does not rebut him or stop eating. He just nods his head slightly.
The man posing as Kasaam then joked that his friends call NPR, “National Palestinian Radio,” because, according to him, NPR is the only media outlet that covers Palestinians’ perspective. Schiller laughed.
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.”
Liley chimes in at this point to add that, “even one of our biggest funders who you’ll hear on air, The American Jewish World Service, may not agree with us. I visited with them recently and they may not agree with what we put on the air but they find us important to them and, sometimes it’s not that easy to hear what we say and what our reporters say, but they still think NPR is important to support.”
Schiller added that “they [the American Jewish World Service] are really looking for a fair point of view and many Jewish organizations are not.”
He's tried to defend himself by pathetically claiming he didn't really mean it, but no sale. All he can do now is acknowledge that he's a scumbag and distance himself from any political activity. Eric Cantor has rightfully slammed Schiller for his disgusting lubricant.
Following this, he may have been booted (we certainly must hope), and now another executive, Vivian Schiller, who may not be related, has resigned (also via Doug Powers). There's more at Hot Air.
Update: Newsbusters has a 2 part video of Juan Williams telling things as they are.
Update 2: Brent Bozell says Vivian Schiller's resignation doesn't really change anything.
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