James O'Keefe's merry pranksters posed as members of a "Muslim education foundation funded by the Muslim Brotherhood" and with the tape rolling, NPR Foundation Senior VP Ron Schiller made several statements about teabaggers, federal funding of NPR and the net's firing of Juan Williams that were exactly what O'Keefe wanted to hear-- but NPR turned down the $5M check from the phony group (and Schiller jumped before he got pushed--he left NPR last week for the Aspen Institute):
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/03/08/james-o-keefe-versus-npr.aspx As David Weigel states, Schiller did nothing unusual for a fund- raiser--he gave the group what he thought they wanted to hear (and I'm sure that if the Heritage Foundation was meeting with him, he'd make his pitch a little more to the right). -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
