On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Mark J. <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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). > Of course, that doesn't matter. Any pretense will work to rally the party to defund NPR/PBS/Liberals. Hell, they don't need the pretense at all. This is essentially them forwarding press releases to each other. Maybe if the controversy bubbles from the incubator, and gets Fox to serve it up as an appitizer, the other news networks will have to "cover the controversy". That said, there's a funny coda here. Whether or not this story fools the press remains to be seen, but O'Keefe may have fooled Muslim-hater/paranoid lunatic Pam Geller. http://salon.com/a/sHSwfAA -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com -- 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
