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Off With Their Heads
What about Ron Schiller’s low estimate of America itself? How did everyone miss that?
WASHINGTON — It is a bloodbath over at National Public Radio. First this pinhead, Ron Schiller, resigns after initially being defended by NPR then by the end of the day Tuesday being given the Shuffalo to Buffalo. Then Vivian Schiller, no relation to Ron Schiller, resigns the next day as chief executive officer and president of NPR. Ron Schiller was caught on tape saying NPR did not need its subsidy from the federal government to survive, but I guess the Board of Directors of NPR is taking no chances. Off with both of the Schillers’ heads.
Actually NPR and its affiliates are among the most overstaffed and extravagant operations in media. In the 1990s, when I did “The Editors,” a television show from Montreal that appeared on public televisions stations (because of my presence one had to be an insomniac to catch the show in Washington on WETA, a lamentable situation insisted on by Sharon Percy Rockefeller, the president of WETA and a Public Broadcasting Service board member), the Montreal production company did the show for a pittance of what public television paid. I believe a Washington production would have outspent us ten to one. National Public Radio is no different. Schiller, the fired NPR fundraiser, said they would survive the cuts and doubtless they could. I say cut their subsidy. They have been in more scandals of late than Charlie Sheen. Off with all their heads.
Schiller was taped surreptitiously in Georgetown’s Café Milano talking, he thought, with members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Apparently by his lights the Brotherhood is a group of sophisticates, and so he divulged his urbane views of the world. Caught on tape were his views of the Tea Party: “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 movement.” In truth, the Tea Party movement is interested in budgetary issues preeminently.
After being goaded by his Muslim Brotherhood interlocutor, “The radical, racist, Islamophobic, Tea Party people?” Schiller proceeds. “And not just Islamophobic 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.” All of this Schiller says to indict the Republican Party: “The current Republican Party is not really the Republican Party,” says Schiller. “It’s been hijacked by this group….” He is speaking of the Tea Party.
Rather oddly, none of the commentary I read this week caught Schiller’s low estimate of America as a whole. Quite hilariously, one of his new friends in the Muslim Brotherhood baited him, “…and so what is your opinion of that whole situation that is going on in Egypt.” To which Schiller responded insanely, “I guess I am most disturbed by and disappointed by in this country, which is that the educated, so-called elite, in this country is too small a percentage of the population so that you have this very huge uneducated part of the population that carries these ideas. It is much more about anti-intellectualism than it is about politics.” America in this poor sap’s imagination is Egypt or maybe Iran.
It is not clear to me where Schiller got such a high opinion of his own intellect. Certainly the two fun-loving guys who played the roles of members of the Muslim Brotherhood made him look the fool on this tape. They were working for the conservative filmmaker, James O’Keefe, whose sting of ACORN put that group of hustlers out of business. Now he bids fare with his NPR sting to put it, if not out of business, at least off the public payroll. Yet where did Schiller get the idea that he was so sophisticated and free of prejudice? Elsewhere in his conversation with the phony Muslim Brotherhood, one of the brothers starts talking about Zionist control of our media. Now let us see, Schiller thinks he is talking to Muslim fundamentalists and they start talking about Zionist control of the media and he does not even object, much less leave the table. Schiller is not only stupid, he is a bigot too.
About the Author
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.
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Ken (Old Texican)| 3.10.11 @ 6:21AM
Mr. Tyrrell,
I think TAS should take up a collection of $$$ for Mr. OKeefe.
Heck, I would pay to see THAT movie.
Now we need to sneak him into a Democrat fundraiser. heh
Kitty| 3.10.11 @ 6:33AM
You can always contribute to O'Keefe's site: http://theprojectveritas.com/
Deborah D | 3.10.11 @ 6:59AM
It's just really nice to see the liberal ox being gored. First NPR, then last night public unions in Madison, Wisc. Quite a day!!
Alan Brooks| 3.10.11 @ 11:22AM
Wowie, you are shrinking the govt just like you did after the Contract For America, and during the two Bush presidencies.
How nice.
Quite a day.
JRGierlach| 3.10.11 @ 11:39AM
Nice little dhimmi.
Kace| 3.10.11 @ 12:28PM
Uhhhh, The second Bush grew government by 33%................
Deborah D | 3.10.11 @ 12:32PM
Way to change the subject.
Frisbee| 3.10.11 @ 3:04PM
I think Mr Brooks was being sarcastic. That's the problem with mild sarcasm on the web: it's difficult to tell it apart from sincerity. In the future, I recommend everyone dispense with sarcasm on web posts entirely, and simply say what you mean. (And when I read Deborah's comment I LOL'ed, because I think she was pointing out exactly what I'm talking about.)
Mr Brooks, if you really want to employ sarcasm in the future, please make it really really intense sarcasm with a lot of elooooongated vowels, so we can detect your tone. (Or correct me if your comment was sincere.)
blackknights1802| 3.10.11 @ 9:07PM
Get your facts straight Brooks. It was the Contract with America.
Prudence| 3.10.11 @ 7:05AM
Yes -- Bigotry - is the right word ! This hubris deserves what it gets - - a jobless future. At least the
the street sweeper has a job and knows better than to spit derision in the face of those who pay his wages! That's smarts! Sorry Mr. Shiller -- lesson learned; narcissism will land you with the dogs.
Prudence| 3.10.11 @ 7:05AM
Yes -- Bigotry - is the right word ! This hubris deserves what it gets - - a jobless future. At least the
the street sweeper has a job and knows better than to spit derision in the face of those who pay his wages! That's smarts! Sorry Mr. Shiller -- lesson learned; narcissism will land you with the dogs.
Teaghan| 3.10.11 @ 8:11AM
Hey, don't insult man's best friend! This scum isn't worthy to lie down with my dogs.
RAMIII| 3.10.11 @ 2:15PM
Right you are -- I wouldn't let him near my dogs.
Heh!
WRTolkas| 3.10.11 @ 9:36AM
Excellent comment (Miss?) Prudence. And let us all learn from this unfortunate experience.
Occam's Tool| 3.10.11 @ 6:01PM
Yes, let us learn that Dennis Kucinich, and all those who side/vote with him on foreign policy issues, are scummy, anti-American vermin---like Schiller and some others I could easily name.
John | 3.11.11 @ 9:15AM
"A jobless future." Don't count on that. Please follow Schiller's career. I will give you odds that within months he will be receiving his paycheck from the American taxpayer. Perhaps as a college professor or Obama's ambassador to the Muslim Brotherhood.
FastJohnny| 3.10.11 @ 7:19AM
I didn't realize I was a member of a Christian Fundamentalist group, I mean the Tea Party. Heck, I better get to the prayer meetin' and catch up with everything I missed all my 47 year secular life.
I also didn't know I was part of that "very huge uneducated part of the population", I better get my money back from those top rate private colleges, I went to (and just finished paying off btw).
Too bad we can't bring about some sort of a class action suit against this kind of slander. He just crapped on everyone in America that doesn't live in San Fran and NYC, which probably harbor NPR's biggest audiences.
This is what I run into everyday in academia. What kind of bubble do these people live inside?
Chalkdust| 3.10.11 @ 9:35AM
I sometimes ponder the last conscious moment of people when they see life as they know it slipping away. For instants, when did Schiller know he was taking a huge swig from a flagon of hemlock when he pronounced, 'The Zionist controlled the print media"? I mean was it boldness or arrogance that prevented him from seeing the mote in someone else's eye because of the Boulder in his own eye?
Warrior | 3.10.11 @ 11:29AM
Arrogance.
Frisbee| 3.10.11 @ 3:06PM
I second arrogance, and suggest also hate.
SandMan| 3.12.11 @ 12:17AM
Possibly stupidity.
The Bruce| 3.10.11 @ 10:18PM
The bubble goes like this: There's NYC, DC, and San Fran... everything and everyone else is just flyover country.
LaneyB| 3.10.11 @ 7:19AM
Schiller is the apotheosis of the huckster: willing to say anything to coax you out of your money. He would have called the moon the sun if a check was forthcoming. Maybe that's how NPR has lasted this long; dispensing with truth to flatter the fools in Congress who see themselves as the elite of the nation. Just goes to show you how government employees at all levels are not the best and the brightest, but the dumb and the dull.
Ken in Tyler| 3.10.11 @ 10:30AM
Hmmm....if they are the "dumb and dull" what does that say about the voters who keep returning the same dolts to office? Just wonderin'
Ned| 3.10.11 @ 11:20AM
It says exactly what you think it does. Recall the video of voters waiting in line to cast their ballots for Barry Bullsh*t. None of them could identify photos of prominent officials, name any Supreme Court Justices, or identify the party that held the Congress for the preceeding two years. But they were all standing in line to vote, so they could get "... somma that Obama money..."
Schilller (both of them actually) is just another grasping, would-be intellectual betrayed by his (their) own ignorance.
Kace| 3.10.11 @ 12:30PM
Sorta like the Koch brothers........
V8| 3.10.11 @ 1:07PM
Funny, I was thinking "Sorta like George Soros"
Jim from Maine| 3.10.11 @ 4:24PM
Carefull, your envy is showing.
SandMan| 3.12.11 @ 12:20AM
Bingo, LaneyB! The beauty of liberal "intelligence" is that it is a totally self-assumed state of circular reasoning. First, you convince yourself that only smart people see things the way you do. From there it is but a simple leap to assume that anyone who agrees with the position is therefore smart.
coal carrier| 3.10.11 @ 7:24AM
The lefties are always scheming. Don’t be surprised if NPR will get funding through the back door from some other government subsidized special interest group, like the Muslim Brotherhood.
EverMore| 3.10.11 @ 7:41AM
WHAT is NPR doing meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood??? So glad to see these radio JournoListers exposed. About time.
Habu| 3.10.11 @ 7:50AM
Defunding this leftest propaganda machine will be sweet justice.
I don't listen but this one Nina Totenburg comment is dispicable and it's her fortee..not facts...insults.
http://tinyurl.com/4c5kv4x
Strudwick Wickerwire| 3.10.11 @ 12:07PM
An actual HABU? Are you a snake traveling at MACH 3+? If so, a dramatic footnote in someones life!!!
Intelligent Design| 3.10.11 @ 8:02AM
NPR is cut from the same cloth as academia. They preach "diversity" but insist on liberal orthodoxy. In fact, they get very angry, even using four letter words, if anyone challenges their dogma. This is typical of collectivists of all stripes.
martin j smith| 3.10.11 @ 8:05AM
Time also to investigate what is actually"taught" in all levels of education. What exactly do they "young heads full of mush " getting ? That is another area for O'Keefe.
Brian Mc| 3.10.11 @ 9:42AM
Yes, a sting during Parent/Teacher Conferences is in order here: let the elitists explain the text books filled with assumptions and such that is passed off as better than the Bible. The corruption of our school system should be next on the list of stings so that we have a fighting chance of stopping what they are doing to our children...and passing it off as education.
Len| 3.10.11 @ 8:35AM
Anyone who has bothered to spend time at HuffPo or DailyKos, knows the claim of intellectual superiority is false.
The Bruce| 3.10.11 @ 10:24PM
Agreed. I like to go there just for the entertainment value.
The Bishop| 3.10.11 @ 8:41AM
O'Keefe is doing the kind of journalism that once was a hallmark of "60 Minutes," but, alas, no more. My father was certainly not an intellectual elite, but when he and I visited DC for the first and only time together in 1979 (when I was a naive 30-years-old), my high school-educated WWII veteran father surveyed the city and remarked, "They don't produce nothin'. They only take." I miss my dad.
WRTolkas| 3.10.11 @ 9:42AM
Dear The Bishop,
I just added your father's statement to my list of notable quotes. His words are nestled with remarks from Churchill, Adams, Jefferson.... What Mr. Schiller did not learn from his years attending university was you do not have to be formally educated to be intelligent.
The Big E| 3.10.11 @ 2:14PM
He also seems to have missed the point that you do not have to be the least bit intelligent to obtain a formal education.
Nancy in NC| 3.10.11 @ 2:41PM
Your comment made me think of Jesse Watters interview over at Columbia. Some piece of garbage that looked like something the cut threw up was spouting off about all his degrees and intellect. Unfortunately, he hasn't figured out how to bath or comb his hair. Thank God I am so stupid that I don't have to look stupid to prove to others that I'm smart!!!
Nancy in NC| 3.10.11 @ 2:42PM
that was cat...
The Bruce| 3.10.11 @ 10:26PM
I saw that interview also. While spouting off about his "multiple graduated degrees" he couldn't answer the basic question.
Brian Mc| 3.10.11 @ 9:44AM
Beautiful T.B.
Thanks for sharing that.
Chalkdust| 3.10.11 @ 10:00AM
Bishop...While I am closer to your age than your fathers, Your post brings back memories. The time I told my three sons that Washington, DC was built and maintained entirely with taxpayer dollars and did not produce one usable item, not even a paper-clip. They looked at me like I had two heads. Years later when they see what a bite government of all strips take from their paycheck and what is remaining is all they have left to support their families. Hopefully, when they cast a ballot, they'll remember and connect the dots.
Dan Hirsch| 3.10.11 @ 9:11AM
Emmett,
C'mon! You missed NPR's firings yesterday of Cyril Schiller, IT tech; Jose Schiller, Lawn Maintenance; and Lakeesha Schiller, Customer Service Communications Coordination Team Leader Aide.
It's just a bad week to be named Schiller at NPR!
Hee Haw!!!
JohnD| 3.10.11 @ 9:33AM
Shiller: "The Tea Party is fanatically involved in people's personal lives. . ."
Really Mr. Shiller? Does the Tea Party want to tell me what kind of health insurance I can have? Does the Tea Party want to take over my health care? Does the Tea Party want to tell me what I can and cannot eat? Does the Tea Party raise the taxes on my cigarettes to force me to not smoke? Does the Tea Party threaten me if they think I make too much money?
I could go on. . .
Brian Mc| 3.10.11 @ 9:48AM
Most possibly one of the most preposterous statements ever uttered by a socialist...! He is oh, so smart, yet has hoodwinked himself. What an idiot, ignoramus. I missed that nugget while grazing so, thanks JohnD!
Sandra| 3.10.11 @ 11:42AM
Does the TEA party tell me what type of light bulbs I must use? And outlaw others so there is no choice in the matter?
JohnD| 3.10.11 @ 11:53AM
Does the Tea Party tell me what type of toilet I must have in my home, or what type of toilet paper I must use?
Does the Tea Party raise my utility bills by insisting my electric company use a certain percentage of green (i.e. "more expensive, less efficient") energy sources to generate power?
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 4:11PM
Does the Tea Party tell me to get rid of dishwashing detergent that actually WASHES DISHES?
megapotamus| 3.10.11 @ 1:14PM
Yes, this was the most mysterious bit. Actually I wouldn't write this guy out of humanity for his views; they are the norm, I would wager, in certain precincts even of YOUR town. Whatever, I have pretty dire views of certain Lefties. But this burp of his is just a flat inversion of the facts, even the most unfair application of the facts. It is the TEA crowd outlawing lightbulbs etc? No, of course not. This could only really be a reference to abortion. This is what the Left always means by "privacy" and such. Now I'm sure Schiller would describe my own views on abortion as improperly intrusive on a medical decision, and that is fine, but there is NO display of any sort of abortion position that I can see at any TEA related event. None. Or statistically none. I have seen perhaps two signs addressing abortion at any of these things and if you were at any Leftwing event you could see the same on those lonely Lefty Lifers, who do exist. The only way Schillers assertion is at all based in reality is that he is refering to himself and his colleagues. Of course any talk of defunding or such IS an intrusion into HIS life. A most unwelcome one.
Dave | 3.10.11 @ 9:52AM
This just in from NPR headquarters:
"uhhm, well ... we... err ... ahhh ...(opps!)"
Meanwhile at the home of Smothers Brother, Tommy: "uhhm, well ... they ... err ... ahh ...y-y-you. OH, YEAH??"
And finally, this late breaking comment from Wisconsin's Senate Minority Leader, Mark Miller on getting blind sided by a smarter group of politicians: "Tonight, 18 Republicans conspired to take government away from the people."
Really, Mark? Really?? Seems to me your boy Obama and his collection of "we won, you lost" lefties in D.C. didn't have aaaany problems at all with stealing the rights from a clear majority of Americans who were (and still are) solidly against his "jammed through the mill" healthcare scam; ram-rodded through a grinning senate by his goon squad of Reid, Pelosi their 60 vote majority
I think another "Oppsie" might be in order here.
Maybe it's just me, Markie, but I seem to recall seeing a political thumbing of the noses at the rest of this country when the Obamanites shoved their plan for socialized healthcontrol down our collective throats last year. Or did I miss something?
And did Republicans get a chance to even READ the bill? Before you open your partisan pie hole, you might want to check the Nancy quote when she blitered: "We have to pass this bill in order to find out what's in it."
Yeh, Marko ... that's clearly the way to do business. At least in Wisconsin the door was always open for your 14 MIA senators to came back to Mayberry and take a peek.
Do you get it now, Markum? If not, probably a better idea to just go sit in a corner and suck your thumb. Sure, in some circles what just happened to the stranglehold your union buddies held over the state of Wisconsin for decades might (in some eyes) seem unfair, but then there's a sliver of truth in that simple, old adage -- "payback's a bit-ch." And in this case, the payback's on YOU, Bubba."
Have a nice reunion.
Now, about that thumb ...
megapotamus| 3.10.11 @ 1:28PM
Here is a true crisis in that Dave has to pull in a public Dem to thrash as the trolls seem to have abandoned the field today. At least so far. There is poor morale in the Lefty tents, it seems. That perks up mine.
gearjammer| 3.10.11 @ 10:00AM
If, those Jews hunted by Nazis depended on Schiller's List they would have perished in the death camps.
martin j smith| 3.10.11 @ 10:10AM
If I were involved in any Left organization including the NYT I would be quite paranoid right now. Who is next. Can we trust any source ? Is this for real or is this a ruse ?
But, we are at war and we already know that the LEFT has hacked and tried to use "actors" as a ruse against our side. This will be a never ending battle which will require greater and greater levels of "creativity" to fight back. There is a need for a Department of Counter Political terrorism.
This sounds like it is right out of a movie does it not. Yet, it is for real or is it reel ? Lest we not forget the Left is big into Media,Movies,and Maliscious behavior. Never underestimate them. Never. You can bet that in smoke filled rooms ( its pot not tobacco ) there is a crowd already scheming. If I were O'Keefe, i would be especially careful. But he is hardly the only one.
jolizoom| 3.10.11 @ 3:59PM
No, not creativity--INTEGRITY! If our team says in private the same things we say in public, we cut the legs out from under them when they try these things.
In the meantime, they are all compassion and righteous indignation in public, but in private we learn that they hate Jews and patriotic Americans and are willing sell anyone out to get their way.
Conservative View| 3.10.11 @ 5:53PM
One might wonder whos movies have had greater impact on American thinking, M. Mores, or J O'keefes. I suspect the underfunded, doing it all on his own, not blowing his own horn O'keefe is making more points on home made movies than Michael More has made making all his millions.
Wait, I can't say that. More a millionare? That would make him evil in the eyes of Michael More. Does anyone but me see some really bad logic running around here?
Petronius| 3.10.11 @ 10:10AM
Taking away their subsidies is a start. I will not be satisfied until these weenies have to line up at the local food pantry and complain that there isn't any Brie.
Ned| 3.10.11 @ 11:27AM
Mr. O'Keefe - write this down, please:
"National Endowment for the Arts."
I think you know what to do. In the meantime, I'm starting a list for you.
Occam's Tool| 3.10.11 @ 5:59PM
Bravissimo!
Anthony| 3.10.11 @ 12:06PM
If this entire NPR implosion and the resulting expose into the vile mindset of the elite Left, along with the bravery of Gov. Walker and the Rs in Wisconsin and other states, isn't enough for the cowardly Rs in Congress to do the right thing, I don't know what will man them up.
The perfect storm has been handed to us by the NPR leftist elites and the Public Sector Unions. The left has been exposed for all of its ugly blight on America and our way of life.
Bohner and his D.C. gaggle of insiders had best wake the hell up, man up, and cut the damn budget big time!!! Shut the damn government down, NOW!!!
At least Mike Pence has told Bohner to stop crying in his corner and act like a leader. I know it would be asking too much for Bohner to act like Sarah Palin, she's way too much man for him and his neutered team of losers.
Oh, I forgot, there are those who post on this site that don't think Palin has the proper credentials to lead. I guess they must love the manly Bohner and see him as a true R, i.e (LOSER)
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.10.11 @ 12:30PM
Anthony,
the R drones just need a leader. Sarah
just tickles me to death as leader.
Anthony| 3.10.11 @ 1:52PM
Ken, You're been one of the few who blog at TAS who have the guts not to be intimidated by the Palin derangment crowd.
She and Bachmann have more balls than all of R presidential field and congressional leadership combined. While Bohner crys, Palin drives!!!
RAMIII| 3.10.11 @ 2:21PM
Agreed! Btw both women are conservative Christians. I "wonder" where they get their strength from, 'cause they are fearless!! Hmmm?!
Bill| 3.10.11 @ 12:31PM
Need to get rid of Nina Totenberg. She makes Michael Moore and Obama bin Lyin look like arch conservatves.
joyce| 3.10.11 @ 12:32PM
I cannot believe the arrogance of this man and many others - The way he feels about himself , being so much higher and better than anyone else!! It saddens me because I feel that a lot of our representitives feel the same way towards us!
Scott| 3.10.11 @ 12:33PM
He was correct on one topic, the media is controlled by the Zionists. Cut the funding, no more public tax dollars for a propoganda machine.
Dan Feldman| 3.10.11 @ 4:48PM
Name me, specifically, the very Zionists who control the media. I can't think of any off-hand, so I'd like to hear some names. Thank you.
Occam's Tool| 3.10.11 @ 6:03PM
Really. Like the head of NPR, the head of CNN (Ted Turner, who hates Israel)? Murdock's son and heir hates Israel, too.
stmichrick| 3.10.11 @ 1:22PM
Kudos to O'Keefe and Jesse Watters (O'Reilly Factor) for engaging leftists 'off the record' and displaying for all what they are about.
I have no doubt that leftists will try and adopt the same tactic on conservatives but the difference is that we don't need subterfuge to pursue our goals.
Who was that famous Socialist who said that America would eventually vote in his agenda but it won't be called socialism?
Jamieos| 3.10.11 @ 2:05PM
I well remember when a dear friend, gentleman, Republican, conservative and all things good told me about his middle daughter, who had gone to work for NPR. The employees were told that NPR employees were never to fly coach but only First or Business class. My friend's disgust was palpable. I will never forget that piece of information - it says it all. Defund - defund - defund!
Sabastian| 3.10.11 @ 2:16PM
Shiller has some free time now. Time to pack up the Volvo with brie, arugula and chardonnay and head for the great wilderness outside the Washington beltway to observe the savages in their native environment.
Pat Hickey | 3.10.11 @ 2:16PM
Now, that is an old school Chicago Catholic League 'tune-up' worthy of a Fenwick Man, Bob!
You gave the 'smarter than God' CPB a greatkick in the slats.
The Big E| 3.10.11 @ 2:28PM
One of the great ironies of this situation, which I think has thus far been overlooked, is the fact that this neo-socialist lefty was kowtowing to two people claiming to be members of a known terrorist organization because he wanted their five million dollar donation.
I thought lefties were above such things as, oh, kissing butt for mere filthy lucre? Aren't they the ones always wanting to boycott some business or industry because they don't like the way the business or industry treats, oh, I don't know, the cockroaches in their walls? Aren't they the ones who try to shut down progress in the name of protecting an owl, or a fish, or a rat?
They're all for boycotting someone or something on "principle" until they're the ones who would be losing money. Or is it that care more about the owls and fish and rats (and maybe cockroaches) than they do about the people murdered by thugs like the Muslim Brotherhood?
lpr| 3.10.11 @ 2:37PM
So 2 people lie and misrepresent who they are, and because Schiller doesn't get up and leave he is the bigot? I guess that's consistent with everything else spouted on this site.
Occam's Tool| 3.10.11 @ 6:07PM
Let me use small words for you, lpr. If two people said they were Nazis and started singing the Horst Wessel song at lunch, and you joined in, the fact that they misrepresented themselves would not clear you from having sung the "Horst Wessel Song." Does that make this clear for you?
kingsmill| 3.10.11 @ 3:20PM
The following is from the NPR press release announcing Mr. Schiller's appointment to NPR in 2009.
"He will maintain his residence in Aspen, Colorado with his partner Alan Fletcher, an accomplished composer and President of the Aspen Music Festival and School, and will commute regularly to Washington DC."
It's pretty clear where his anti-Christian animus is coming from. Sharia's demand to stone homosexuals doesn't bug him at all.
sans| 3.10.11 @ 3:31PM
Oddly, a video surfaced just when the NPR issue is on the table. I am sure if NPR was as dishonest and fascist like you bunch of losers, that there would be hundreds of videos brought out in the open of overheard conversations at right wing meetings where plans to overthrow the govt. are in progress. You pigs are treading on dangerous ground.
Dan Feldman| 3.10.11 @ 4:43PM
Bunch of losers? We WON the November election in a LANDSLIDE, Jack! You guys are the ones who lost! And why should a penny of my tax dollars go to support slimy, one-sided Left-Wing propaganda? Where is that in the constitution?
jstwndring| 3.11.11 @ 3:22AM
We are trying to preserve the free Republic, not overthrow it. If anyone is trying to overthrow the Republic, it's those of you on the left. President Obama has, on more than one occasion, identified our Constitution and Bill of Rights as obstacles to progress. That is an exceedingly dangerous thing for any public official to say, much more so for the President of the United States. In other words, Obama believes that the documents that establish the basis for our freedom and independence from governmental tyranny are getting in his way. Someone should tell that moron that that's what they are supposed to do. If anyone's on dangerous ground here, it's all you collectivists on the left that are being exposed for being the enemies to freedom that you are. We're on to you little man!
sans| 3.10.11 @ 3:32PM
P.S. I have knowledge of such a video of right wing treason by the way.
Jim from Maine| 3.10.11 @ 4:36PM
I would love to see that video, but I won't hold my breath ....just another left-wing lie.
jstwndring| 3.11.11 @ 3:23AM
Liar.
jstwndring| 3.11.11 @ 3:49AM
By the way, I must also add one more thing, since you Dims seem to be oblivious to this simple truth. And that is, as an American, if that's what you are, you should swear allegiance to the Constitution, not to a political party. So, when we here talk about traitors, we are talking about enemies to the document that guarantees our continued freedom, and not to some generalized statement about 'country' in a generic sense. Collectivism is, by default, an enemy to our Constitution as it promotes the never-ending expansionist power, size and scope of the federal government, making the Democrat party, and all who belong to it, traitors.
Louis Jenkins| 3.10.11 @ 4:19PM
The NPR crowd! What a bunch of morons! Apparently they have elevated themselves to God like creatures and are willing to pronounce judgement on just about everyone who doesn't bend to their will. So the Schillers got a little of what they've been dishing out. Personally, if NPR was taken off the air I wouldn't miss a beat. Yes, they have a low opinion of America, but we have a low opinion of him too. He spoke his mind, and we speak ours.
Dan Feldman| 3.10.11 @ 4:39PM
I'm a Tea Party member and I''m JEWISH. I've never had anything to do with Christianity, fundemental or otherwise! I wonder what this nitwit Schiller would think about this.
Occam's Tool| 3.10.11 @ 6:04PM
As am I, as am I. I have, however, known many fundamentalist Christians---I went to TCU.
VBMax| 3.10.11 @ 7:38PM
You didn't by chance go to Fairfax High in L.A., class of '64
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 4:15PM
Thanks, I'm sure it would have been great to be a classmate of yours. No, I went to the High School where Harrison Ford, when he was there (many years earlier) was a member of the radio station.
That High School is actually listed on his wiki site. And I know it's true, because I've seen the yearbook photo.
Bill| 3.10.11 @ 6:50PM
Bwah hahahahahahah! And this isn't the first time O'Keefe caught a libbie with his pants down!
charles| 3.10.11 @ 6:57PM
Schiller is a class act schmuck who thinks his doodoo doesn't stink. His accusations about Tea Partiers, Jews, Republicans, etc. is about pointing the finger at his own bigotry and biases. I am really glad this expose came out and more importantly, I agree with Schiller that NPR does not need the money.
It is amazing, a sycophant like Schiller will sell his soul to the devil for $5 million while throwing everybody under the bus. The guy has no morals, and he is not even a bleeding liberal and it goes to show he will sell his daughter, wife or mother as prostitutes to gain a few dollars. He is evil.
Anthony| 3.10.11 @ 7:09PM
This NPR video is a seminal moment in the history of America. If we conservatives haven't figured it out by now, let me say it.
The left is our enemy. THIS is how they view us and America. There is no compromise with fanatic leftist elites such as those found at NPR. They ARE the left in all their perverted elitist glory!! What they stand for is the destruction of America as a Constitutional republic.
If we don't defeat all of them and tear down their bastions of leftist control, America is doomed.
We need our leaders to man up!!! Jessie Jackson and the hard left are calling for violence in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is ground zero for the future of America.
We've got two way to do this, it's either peaceful or, if the left insists, it gets rough.
We need to be prepared for either.
steveB| 3.10.11 @ 8:16PM
Anthony: I think you've nailed it even better than I did a minute ago. WTG. Let's keep going to Tea Party meetings to show the media we're a force, not just voting!
DonBaltimore| 3.10.11 @ 11:12PM
I agree, there is a war to be waged for the future of this country. The Left is our number one enemy, the underground spring that is the source of this is Communism coming from the USSR, long dead in theory only. That ideology could still bury us, look at our near bankrupt states. I hope this Nation wakes up, American Spectator is one of the largest alarm clocks!
jstwndring| 3.11.11 @ 3:36AM
Exactly! The collectivism embraced by the Democrat Party is the single biggest threat to our continued existence as a true republic. The rest of our enemies are fairly obvious. Although, muslims love political intrigue as well. Still, it's the Marxists that have infected every fabric of our society and are trying to destroy our way of life. Far too many people are still oblivious to that fact. FDR put a big 'ol smiley face on Marxism. Damn it!
WhiskeyJim | 3.10.11 @ 7:12PM
NPR might well survive without the cash subsidy.
They would fold tomorrow if they had to bid on FDA licenses like everyone else. That is the subsidy that needs to end.
steveB| 3.10.11 @ 8:13PM
I guess for $5M to the cess-pool NPR, Schiller wouldn't mind if Israel was wiped off the map. And if a few million Tea Party activists could be wiped out, that'd be a bonus for Schiller. How can he think he's such an 'intellectual' ? I don't get it. Well, I don't really get radical Leftists.
jstwndring| 3.11.11 @ 3:40AM
The National Socialist Party of Germany had plenty of 'intellectuals' as well. No God = Intellectual barbarians. It never ends.....well, one day it will.
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 4:16PM
Thanks for thinking my comments ad-worthy. I do not, however, condone your website. Sorry, but you have not paid me.
"gunner"| 3.10.11 @ 8:57PM
i wonder what schiller would think of me? i'm a conservative, right wing gun toting pagan, well read in classical literature from the greeks and romans up to our modern era, though i own no degrees and want none.
as for n.p.r., they remind me of the homely girl at the dance in the too tight, too short skirt, and too low cut blouse, with one button too many left open nd her knickers left in the ladies room wastebasket.
Dacron Mather| 3.12.11 @ 12:34AM
No sight is more pleasing to Whig historians than RET beating the conservative brow ever further below knuckle level .
Is he gunning for reincarnation as chief fund raiser for PBS?
DL| 3.13.11 @ 11:10AM
O'keefe is nothing but a hack tabloid propagandist. He's a criminal. He edits his videos to support his lies. Even Glenn Beck took issue takes issue with his editing of the NPR piece (see The Blaze). So while we all look deeper to find the truth are rightly criticize what Schiller did, you all pat youselves on the back and look around, wild eyed, for the next glass of Kool-Aid to drink.
Read this:
http://www.truth-out.org/in-defense-npr68389
Occam's Tool| 3.14.11 @ 4:17PM
If it had been false, a lawsuit for Libel would have been an appropriate response. Didn't happen. Hmmm....
DL| 3.14.11 @ 6:01PM
There are plenty of situations where a law suit might be appropriate but one is not pursued. No point in further clogging the legal system with this idiocy. Schiller was duped. Duped by a shyster. Some of his true personal beliefs spewed onto the ground. Who cares? He made it clear he was speaking for himself. Pretty stupid to do it in front of a stranger and at a "company" lunch. He was leaving anyway and now he's out of here sooner. Whopeee. Given the doctoring of O'keefe's video, maybe he should be sued. Missed in all of the talk here is that the money wasn't accepted. Sued or not, O'keefe is a hack. Let him be your hero though.
Ultrasound Scanner | 4.10.11 @ 12:05AM
They would folding tomorrow if they had to bid on FDA licenses like everyone else.
weddingdress | 7.15.11 @ 5:27AM
No sight is more pleasing to Whig historians than RET beating the conservative brow ever further below knuckle level .
Creative Recreation | 8.11.11 @ 1:59AM
is good