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NPR exec: tea party is ‘scary,’ ‘racist’
March 08, 2011

James O’Keefe, master of the video sting, targets NPR this time, in a pretty damaging interview with Ron Schiller, NPR’s senior vice president for development, and Betsy Liley, senior director of institutional giving.

O’Keefe’s compatriots, Shaughn Adeleye and Simon Templar, posed as members of a Muslim group with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood that wants to give NPR $5 million in light of the recent Republican threats to defund public broadcasting.

In the course of a lunch at Café Milano, Schiller presents himself as a liberal who thinks the tea party is “scaryâ€

Watch the Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd9OYJMX9t4

Republicans tee off on NPR after latest O’Keefe video
By Matthew Boyle - The Daily Caller
Published: 1:13 PM 03/08/2011
Updated: 1:40 PM 03/08/2011


House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, ripped National Public Radio (NPR) on Tuesday after NPR foundation’s nonprofit president Ron Schiller was caught on video saying the radio network and most of its member stations would survive without federal funding.

“As we continue to identify ways to cut spending and save valuable resources, this disturbing video makes clear that taxpayer dollars should no longer be appropriated to NPR,â€