Real pride swallowing would be just admitting they have an extreme liberal bias. They have to be tired of pretending.

So, NPR will do just fine without Federal Funding? Well, let’s oblige them and liberate our tax dollars! After all, I’m sure they don’t want all the xenophobic racists and downright scary tea party tax dollars to mix with the elite tax dollars…. The “elites” can just fund NPR directly. Problem solved and more $$ back to pay down the obscene debt run up by Obama.

ModerateMan said:
Real pride swallowing would be just admitting they have an extreme liberal bias. They have to be tired of pretending.

not like the moderate reporting of foxnews.

All Federal funding should be immediately yanked from NPR.
I’m sure algore and socialst soros will be obliged to fund this anti-american org.

He has already left them before this phony crap came out. No story here. What would you jokers do when you find out that NRP still exists the day after it’s federal fund is stopped.

No tax dollars for NPR. If it is going to be a partisan, left wing outlet, let the left pay for it.

skyfet said:
What would you jokers do when you find out that NRP still exists the day after it’s federal fund is stopped.

Hold a party celebrating all the money taxpayers are saving by not funding liberal hate speech.

ModerateMan said:
Hold a party celebrating all the money taxpayers are saving by not funding liberal hate speech.

i second that.

skyfet said:
He has already left them before this phony crap came out. No story here. What would you jokers do when you find out that NRP still exists the day after it’s federal fund is stopped.

That’s the way I understood it, too; that at the time of the interview, he had already moved on, and wasn’t working there anymore. And what was wrong with his opinion to begin with? So he thought the Tea Partiers was a bit extreme? It’s true. The thing is, what does his opinion have to do with the reporting at NPR? NPR isn’t fixated on the Tea Party, and not nearly as fixated as the Tea Party is with NPR.

Simply eliminating public funding for NPR isn’t the complete answer. Congress should revoke the tax exempt status of PBS-NPR, and they can then compete in the market of ideas the same as all other broadcasters. If they espouse the liberal/socialist/Marxist agenda so popular with their listeners, then these same cretins can pony-up the funds to keep them alive and spouting the Communist inspired agenda. Liberals unit and support the anti-American NPR with your dollars, and keep your hand out of my pocket and the pockets of others. In other words, redistribute your own money, and that includes you welfare scumbags also.

Ben Pratt said:
not like the moderate reporting of foxnews.

Fox News isn’t taxpayer funded.

skyfet said:
He has already left them before this phony crap came out. No story here. What would you jokers do when you find out that NRP still exists the day after it’s federal fund is stopped.

We’ll be ecstatic the day after the federal funding stops, whether they survive or not.

When NPR says it’s appalled, it is unlikely they’re appalled by the statements. They’re appalled they got caught.
http://twitter.com/JonahNRO/status/45157282262159360

In the video, Schiller, the fellow who was charged with fundraising for NPR said that HIS JOB would be easier, if there was no federal funding where fewer philanthropists would be confused. Perhaps the people in charge of the budget and administration would disagree, but like a lot of the tape, it was obviously Schiller’s opinion (about how it’d affect his job) and it may have been after he removed his NPR hat.

Cisco said:
Simply eliminating public funding for NPR isn’t the complete answer. Congress should revoke the tax exempt status of PBS-NPR, and they can then compete in the market of ideas the same as all other broadcasters. If they espouse the liberal/socialist/Marxist agenda so popular with their listeners, then these same cretins can pony-up the funds to keep them alive and spouting the Communist inspired agenda. Liberals unit and support the anti-American NPR with your dollars, and keep your hand out of my pocket and the pockets of others. In other words, redistribute your own money, and that includes you welfare scumbags also.

Some people are just really ignorant “scumbags” when they keep referring to the “socialist/Marxist agenda” and the “Communist inspired agenda.” Tell me how in the world NPR has a Marxist or Communist agenda, if you even know what that means. Typical Glenn Beck ignoramous.

ModerateMan said:
Hold a party celebrating all the money taxpayers are saving by not funding liberal hate speech.

Tell me what “liberal hate speech” you actually have heard on the air from NPR? You probably never have listened to it. If you did, you would see that they probably have one of the most unbiased news reporting out there. Further, they have liberal and conservative guests on various programs.

What NPR does not have is the yelling and screaming and bashing of liberals that a network such as Fox “News” has very often.

ModerateMan said:
Hold a party celebrating all the money taxpayers are saving by not funding liberal hate speech.

Forgot to ask……do you even know the amount of “all the money taxpayers are saving…..”??????

It’s peanuts. It will not make one iota of a dent in the federal deficit if NPR is defunded.

ModerateMan said:
Hold a party celebrating all the money taxpayers are saving by not funding liberal hate speech.

Semper_Map said:
i second that.

third…

Ben Pratt said:
not like the moderate reporting of foxnews.

Fox News isn’t stealing my money.

skyfet said:
He has already left them before this phony crap came out. No story here. What would you jokers do when you find out that NRP still exists the day after it’s federal fund is stopped.

It is nice to know you support/justify bigotry and hate. Thank you for making your position and your morality clear to us all.

“NPR President: Tea Party Racist, Racist People”
“New Video Shows Top NPR Executive Trashing Tea Party and Republicans”

…our tax dollars at work (or is that “WASTE”).

F#X News is stealing my airwaves. They own two stations in my area. They control 50% of the broadcast content. They are in violation of every rule regarding monopolies I learned in school. Some activist right wing judges gave them a waiver of MY rights. So, yes, F#X is supported by the fed. govt.

NPR Liberal? LOL. Even the Libs have to laugh at this one because it’s not news. Come on guys, the gig is up. Let’s take away public funding for NPR and PBS and any tax exempt status. Enjoy the private sector fellas, you know that thing that carries your salaries?

skyfet said:
He has already left them before this phony crap came out. No story here. What would you jokers do when you find out that NRP still exists the day after it’s federal fund is stopped.

Laugh. Air America anyone?

Colorado_Conservative said:
All Federal funding should be immediately yanked from NPR.
I’m sure algore and socialst soros will be obliged to fund this anti-american org.

Yeah all 1% of it, yeah who cares.

TeaPartyPatriot said:
“NPR President: Tea Party Racist, Racist People”
“New Video Shows Top NPR Executive Trashing Tea Party and Republicans”

…our tax dollars at work (or is that “WASTE”).

No I think anytime you can trash the hell out of the mouthbreathing knuckledraggers that are making our country stupider and a lot fatter, you should do it. Especially when you are receving federal funding! That is hilarious dude!!

Color Me Badd said:
No I think anytime you can trash the hell out of the mouthbreathing knuckledraggers that are making our country stupider and a lot fatter, you should do it. Especially when you are receving federal funding! That is hilarious dude!!

Did you just say “dude”?

TheTruthHurts said:
NPR Liberal? LOL. Even the Libs have to laugh at this one because it’s not news. Come on guys, the gig is up. Let’s take away public funding for NPR and PBS and any tax exempt status. Enjoy the private sector fellas, you know that thing that carries your salaries?

So then when are we going after the Protestant Churches?

Jackie_Treehorn said:
So then when are we going after the Protestant Churches?

Why should a radio station have the same status as religious institutions?

atreyue said:
Why should a radio station have the same status as religious institutions?

Well we’re defunding NPR because of their political views so why not do the same to Churches? Why should they not be paying taxes when they push Right Wing views on their congregation?

Color Me Badd said:
Yeah all 1% of it, yeah who cares.

1. NPR President/CEO Vivienne Schiller said funding cuts to public broadcasting “would have a profound effect on our ability to deliver news and information.” From the horse’s mouth. 1% Huh? If it was only 1% why all the bitching and crying? I mean, the left has NEVER cooked the books on numbers or anything. LOL. That’s what I thought.

2. It’s not even just the funding. NPR and PBS try to give off this aura of fair reporting just because it’s “Public”. They aren’t and it’s well known. It’s about time they are pushed out of the nest and have to fly on their own. Enjoy.

i dont see anything wrong with what he said

he is right

Jackie_Treehorn said:
Well we’re defunding NPR because of their political views so why not do the same to Churches? Why should they not be paying taxes when they push Right Wing views on their congregation?

I believe that the idea is to defund NPR because it is widely believed to clearly have a political viewpoint and thus shouldn’t be treated differently from any other radio station. Every church is allowed to hold different viewpoints with no effect on their tax-exempt status.

Jackie_Treehorn said:
So then when are we going after the Protestant Churches?

Seriously? Your comparing churches, who feed the poor and take care of women and children, to public broadcasting? Go ahead, you take away churches tax exempt status. I’d like to see you run on that. For once the Left will have to defend killing women and children, but this time it would be true. What an idiot.

Video footage of tea party lunatics: shouting down everyone at town hall meetings, holding signs with Obama as Hitler, spewing all manner of hate rhetoric, carrying guns at political rallies, shouting “if ballots don’t work, bullets will” over loud speaker at campaign rally, telling reporter that if elections don’t go their way, people should examine “second amendment remedies.”

Conservative outcry: MSM reporting is biased, because individual footage doesn’t reflect the overall makeup of the Tea Party.

Ron Schiller, NPR Executive trashes the Tea Party, and his words are condemned by NPR officially. (It doesn’t matter whether he was fired for his comments, or was already on his way out.)

Conservative outcry: Shiller’s statements prove the NPR is liberally biased and should lose federal funding, non-profit status, airway licensing, and anything else possible to destroy it. Meanwhile, California Rep. David Deier (R) “professes his love for NPR’s foreign coverage and says he detects no pronounced political bias.” http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/la-et-onthemedia-20110219,0,4378345.column

(whereupon right wing attacks Deier as being an out of touch RINO)

Ah, the three H’s of conservatives: Hysteria, Hypocrisy and Hatred. So typical of the right wing. No need to even read the comments of this thread. Responses will come as follows in no particular order:

1) links from right wing blogs stating irrelevant or completely imagined “facts” to support the core argument that NPR has a liberal/socialist/Marxist anti-American agenda (thanks for the example above) and should be destroyed.

2) Ad-hominem attacks on anyone who disagrees with their tunnel vision, attacking their credibility by connecting them with commies, pinkos, socialists, anti-Americans, baby-killers, terrorists, traitors, union thugs, the mentally deranged, criminals, and any other group that comes to mind.

3) Simplistic name calling or other personal insults.

On to the next.

What I want to know…are they (NPR) so stupid that no one recognized this kid? His face has been all over the place…oh wait, wait, don’t tell me…the greasepaint mustache threw them off….

Whyaduck?

Bruin (if you’re still around), should NPR have denounced what Schiller said? I’m not sure he did anything wrong. Individuals are allowed to have their own opinions, and he was clearly stating his own.

From NPR’s web site.

NPR’s revenue comes primarily from fees paid by our member stations, contributions from corporate sponsors, institutional foundation grants, gifts from major donors, and fees paid by users of The Public Radio Satellite System. While NPR does not receive any direct federal funding, it does receive a small number of competitive grants from CPB and federal agencies like the Department of Education and the Department of Commerce. This funding amounts to approximately 2% of NPR’s overall revenues. The largest share of NPR’s revenue comes from program fees and station dues paid by member stations that broadcast NPR programs.

According to FY 2008, 5.9% of NPR’s funding was from federal sources

Hard to pick out the best comment from the NPR exec — but maybe the revelation that science editors at NPR were told only to cover pro-global warming stories, and ignore anti-global warming stories.

This tape simply makes public the behind-the-scenes philosophy that could also be found at CBS, NBC, CNN, etc. We can all see the bias in how they cover (or don’t cover stories). But the NPR guy made the mistake of getting caught on tape. This, in a nutshell, is why people are abandoning the mainstream media, and turning to Fox. If you want to find out the real news, and not some liberal’s censored and purified version of the news, you don’t have much of a choice, do you?

So what did David Folkenflik say that was untrue? Tea Party members ARE “xenophobic” and “gun-toting”! That’s their cute lil’ quirk.
That and be’n over da top bat-shit crazy.

NPR, PublicTV take away the taxpayer money and they both go the way of Air America.

Wallycrawler said:
So what did David Folkenflik say that was untrue? Tea Party members ARE “xenophobic” and “gun-toting”! That’s their cute lil’ quirk.That and be’n over da top bat-shit crazy.

Absolutely – and then the Tealiban hates NPR but loves the Cartoon Network.

Wallycrawler said:
So what did David Folkenflik say that was untrue? Tea Party members ARE “xenophobic” and “gun-toting”!

Are those the ones who elected Allen West and Nikki Haley and Susana Martinez?

Bill Adkins said:
Absolutely – and then the Tealiban hates NPR but loves the Cartoon Network.

Wait, who gets their news from Comedy Central? It isn’t conservatives.

Pablo said:
Wait, who gets their news from Comedy Central? It isn’t conservatives.

That’s why you’re idiots….

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=410

Blammo!

Pablo said:
Are those the ones who elected Allen West and Nikki Haley and Susana Martinez?

No, the ones who spit on black congressmen actually. Also, the ones who hate Muslims, like yourself.

Jackie_Treehorn said:
That’s why you’re idiots….

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=410

Blammo!

And boom goes the dynamite.

I confused. What did he say that wasn’t true?

ModerateMan said:
Real pride swallowing would be just admitting they have an extreme liberal bias. They have to be tired of pretending.

Worth repeating…so I did it.

Ben Pratt said:
not like the moderate reporting of foxnews.

Every evening Fox presents diverse views. O’Reilly has guests on every evening who disagree with him. Same for Hannity. NPR, in contrast, fired Juan Williams for not following the party line.

So be honest. You hate Fox precisely because it allows expression of diverse views, and you love NPR because it only parrots your own liberal biases.

I like the part where he spouts off on the elites and Liberals. That is just how the Liberals talk. Condesending, higher gods that are so hard done by. I really feel for the Liberals, because they are so super duper smart and all. Really, if everyone could just be as smart as these super fantastic smart Liberals,
Like Rachel baby!!!

This guy is no Rachel, but he is really really smart.

So smart in fact that he bought this crap, ate it up and didn’t flinch. Now, that my friends is one super smart Liberal. Yea!!!! I tip my hat to all the great unbelievably smart Liberals. Don’t stop Believing…

Has any of you seen or heard VOA, the TV side is pure crap and radio is not much better. and they are 100% funded by US tax payer money talk about pissing into the wind. at least NPR talk about news and the rest of the world. I listen all the time and never hear about bullshit like Carly Sheen. I guess that is the “free Market’s” version of the “news”.

ModerateMan says:
“Real pride swallowing would be just admitting they have an extreme liberal bias.”

Yeah, just like we see Fox explain their extreme conservative/reactionary bias.

Oh, wait, they don’t admit to being reactionary or biased.

kvon said:
No, the ones who spit on black congressmen actually. Also, the ones who hate Muslims, like yourself.

Evidence? C’mon kvon, lie to me.

Hopefully our congresspeople will take a good look at this interview and realize that our tax dollars are being wasted in funding this anti-American cesspool.

I wish you rightwingers would all take your guns and seeds and retire to your bombshelters while the rest of us get on with our lives. Every civilized country has universal health care and a subsidized or partially subsidized radio and television network which they take great pride in like the BBC, etc. All you want to do is continue the Balkanization and privatization of everything including, probably, turning our armed forces into a mercenary army. All it indicates is a poverty of imagination and a lack of pride in your country. Also, most of you rightwingers don’t listen to NPR. If you did you’d have some understanding of what a civil society is all about. Imagine Glenn Beck on NPR selling gold futures. You’re nothing but a bunch of barbarians.

Laker says:

Hopefully our congresspeople will take a good look at this interview and realize that our tax dollars are being wasted in funding this anti-American cesspool.
……………………………………………………….
Anti-American, so anyone who doesn’t follow the “fascist fake christian hate train” is anti-American,…….ok! Schiller was wrong for what he said, (however factually correct) but you don’t hear that in NPR reporting, you may want to lie about it, but you don’t hear it! This is just this guy’s opinion, much like Hannity or Beck does on their network, then they lie and still say fair and balance, when it’s hate and lies all the way, yet no tax dollars! Keep the hate alive! Long live the teas!

“Liberals getting on with their lives” as stated by ganymede means lying about Obamacare, rewarding lay abouts to have children and live on welfare, attend prestiguous universities so they can demean members of the unwashed proletariat because they’re ignorant, and complain about America defending itself because war is so gauche. For many of these liberals, if hadn’t been for the brave men of WWII, their mother’s would have been humping a German or Jap and they would be speaking a different language. Man up punks!

But this is what they all think – Now There’s EVIDENCE!!
LOL!!!

NORBIT Jr. says:

But this is what they all think – Now There’s EVIDENCE!!
LOL!!!
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Point taken, however if this had been another of many “Fox” caught in lie trap clips, the teas would have come to the aid of “it never happened, that’s not what he said, that’s not what he ment, you didn’t see the whole clip”! True, you have evidence of what they think, (just like hours of evidence of Fox lies) but this is not what they report, NPR is fair and balanced! (at least more so than Fox) Enjoy life in the bubble! Keep the hate alive!

As I was reading the article this morning on the Blaze about this video, I thought, here’s a perfect example of why Glenn Beck gets hit from the right, he doesn’t tow the line for EITHER side and it pisses off the establishment republicans-

Part of the article on the Blaze concerning this video sting from O’Keefe:

……..
But the video also falls short of its intended goal: to catch NPR execs kowtowing to a fake Muslim Brotherhood front group. Schiller, as well as his companion, do not say anything shocking about glorifying the group per se, and it must be remembered that this is a donor meeting with $5 million on the line, not a policy debate.

That is not to say that Schiller is absolved from everything he said, but rather to give context. See and decide for yourself. I’ll update with some more thoughts in a bit:

Again, there is some shocking stuff there. But some things should be noted, including concerns…….

and then it goes on to list 5 issues/concerns about this video

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/caught-on-video-npr-exec-bashes-racist-tea-party-and-anti-intellectual-gop/

felixw said:
Every evening Fox presents diverse views. O’Reilly has guests on every evening who disagree with him. Same for Hannity. NPR, in contrast, fired Juan Williams for not following the party line.

So be honest. You hate Fox precisely because it allows expression of diverse views, and you love NPR because it only parrots your own liberal biases.

I’m convinced that you have never listened to NPR. You just rattled off a couple FoxNews names, how about you name a program or regular reporter on NPR. If you could do that, I’m guessing you can’t, but if you can, explain their liberal bias reporting.

tgk said:
As I was reading the article this morning on the Blaze about this video, I thought, here’s a perfect example of why Glenn Beck gets hit from the right, he doesn’t tow the line for EITHER side and it pisses off the establishment republicans-

Part of the article on the Blaze concerning this video sting from O’Keefe:

……..
But the video also falls short of its intended goal: to catch NPR execs kowtowing to a fake Muslim Brotherhood front group. Schiller, as well as his companion, do not say anything shocking about glorifying the group per se, and it must be remembered that this is a donor meeting with $5 million on the line, not a policy debate.

We’ll have to wait and see how he spins it on his show.

I don’t think Beck has ever been a fan of O’keefe. Ever since he made a complete fool of him…
http://www.mediaite.com/online/james-okeefe-and-fox-news-promote-fake-acorn-murder-confession/

Don’t fear the Muslim Brotherhood
Those stoking fears that the Islamic group will take power in Egypt don’t know much about it.

actually we need to read more about Muslim brotherhood in egypt and every where, this is their english website its called “ikhwanweb”, read every thing about them and about what they claim to be in Egypt after the egyptian revolution

http://ikhwanweb.com

Joseph Glackin said:
F#X News is stealing my airwaves. They own two stations in my area. They control 50% of the broadcast content. They are in violation of every rule regarding monopolies I learned in school. Some activist right wing judges gave them a waiver of MY rights. So, yes, F#X is supported by the fed. govt.

It’s called “competition.” ANY other organization is free to compete with Fox; the fact they cannot is not the fault of Fox, but of their own doing. As for being in “violation” of some perceived “rule” is concerned, you would have no problem if the situation were reversed; your anger stems from the fact that any would-be competitor just can’t hack it in the free market economy. No matter how communists, socialists, fascists, and the so-called “progressives” stir the jug, the cream will always eventually rise to the top. Fox is an astounding example of this truth.

I think Okeefe should get someone to go underground and pose as a liberal.. find out where they take these liberals and pump them full of the same of crap! I read the exact same verbiage on other sites from different users! Polly wanta cracker?

Ayman Fawzi said:
Don’t fear the Muslim BrotherhoodThose stoking fears that the Islamic group will take power in Egypt don’t know much about it. actually we need to read more about Muslim brotherhood in egypt and every where, this is their english website its called “ikhwanweb”, read every thing about them and about what they claim to be in Egypt after the egyptian revolution http://ikhwanweb.com

It would be far more interesting to read the Arabic version of their website wherein everything they say in their English propaganda version is opposite to the bilge they’re trying to sell to the English speaking world. The Muslim Brotherhood are controlled by the twelvers, who are trying to establish a global caliphate.