NPR's Schiller caught in a sting--slams the Tea Party

Poor NPR. They just can't catch a break these days. I think they'd be much better off defunded by the government, then they could say what they please about the Tea Party, about race quotas, about Republicans, well, about anything. So, has NPR seen the "heavily edited tape," or are the executives taking Schiller's word for it? Has Ron Schiller ever been in the same room with a conservative, let alone heard them say all the awful things he spouts?

The NPR Vice President for Fund Raising (not sure of actual title) Ron Schiller told two men he thought were from a group like the Muslim Brotherhood some pretty nasty things about the Tea Party, which as we know, isn't really a party at all, but a grass roots movement of millions, unlike the Obama-Pelosi astroturf of unions and chains. Why he was getting so chummy with a group that wants to bring the world Sharia Law (he would definitely not be working under them), and even chuckled at their jokes, is beyond me. And as for "fundamental Christian," what would he call the group he thought he was talking to or the run of the mill environmentalist who worships the earth and wants us to return to the 7th century with the Muslims? Where are the videos of the "race baiting" Tea Partier carrying signs anywhere near as horrifying as what we've seen recently at the pro-union, pro-one world government demonstrations in Madison and Columbus?

— "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

In Video: NPR Exec Slams Tea Party, Questions Need For Federal Funds : The Two-Way : NPR

Mr. Schiller, who has a partner Alan Fletcher, is not married to or related to Vivian Schiller, who made a mess of the Juan Williams firing. His track record for fund raising brought him to NPR from University of Chicago.

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