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Among the Intellectualoids
Who Are These Suckers?
After all, the people at NPR define themselves as intelligent.
James O’Keefe’s NPR sting has to be one of the most beautifully orchestrated deceptions in the annals of journalism. I think the academy award for performance in a documentary should go to that bushy-bearded “Arab” who, on hearing NPR executive Richard Schiller say, “Let me take off my NPR hat” and launching into his Tea Party rant, intones in a marvelously phony North African accent, “I like it when you take off your NPR hat.” That was the laugh line of the year.
So now everybody will be talking about how embarrassing it was and how NPR has put its neck in the noose and how they will soon be losing their federal funding — which they say they don’t need anyway. All that scurrilous badmouthing of the American public will be reverberating around the political arena for quite some time.
The question that hangs in my mind, though, is this: How could people who think of themselves as so intelligent be such suckers? How could they be taken in by an American black and a bushy-bearded “Muslim” talking in a grade-B Hollywood accent and really believe they were being offered $5 million? After all, these are people who define themselves as being intelligent. They’re the “educated elite” of whom we supposedly don’t have enough of in this country. And yet they were no more alert than a bunch of high school dropouts sitting around a shabby ACORN office in Baltimore. How do you explain that?
Well, I think it is possible to offer an explanation. Here’s an attempt.
First, liberals can be suckered precisely because they think they are the only intelligent people in America. This smug confidence insulates them from having to pay attention to what anybody else is saying. The conventional wisdom among liberals is that people disagree with them only because they are stupid, uneducated, or have been bought off by the sinister forces of American capitalism. (The New York Times’current obsession with the Koch brothers is a case in point. Conservatives have the same mania over George Soros but they only resent Soros’s funding of liberal projects; they do not dismiss any liberal intellectual working in one of his organizations as being “bought off” by his money.)
You cannot find a liberal intellectual anywhere who can give you an honest, objective accounting of conservative positions on major issues. All they know is that conservatives are “stupid,” racist” and “scary” — boilerplate terms but unfortunately the exact words employed by Schiller on the tape. Practically the only liberal around who has ever been able to give a recognizable presentation of a conservative position is Barack Obama, who was always very good at repeating everybody’s argument before choosing the most liberal point of view. For that we elected him President.
By assuming they are smarter than everybody else, liberals leave themselves utterly vulnerable to anyone who plays on their sense of superiority. It’s a classic Italian Renaissance comedy — the wily servant who, with cajoling and flattery, outwits his master. It’s been going on for centuries. Liberal intellectuals could write you an unintelligible paper on the subject for the Modern Language Association, but they can never see it happening to themselves!
Second, for liberal intellectuals, race is the key to everything (alright, the holy trinity of race, class and gender, I’m abbreviating). If you get on the right side of the fence on race, everything else falls into place. It was an absolute stroke of genius for O’Keefe to send in an American black to tell Schiller he could have $5 million if only he could be a little more balanced in his coverage of Hamas and Hezbollah. Could it have possibly crossed Schiller’s mind, “I wonder if this guy is putting me on?” Never! His whole body would rise up in anguish to banish the thought. That would be racist! Besides, blacks are on our side! All American blacks are beholden to liberals because they support affirmative action and genuflect to Kwanzaa and therefore how could a good-hearted African American possibly be deceiving? Instead, one must only assume the proper patronizing tone, as Schiller did throughout.
Then there is the bushy-bearded fellow passing for a Muslim. I won’t even go into that. All I can say is it reminds me of one of the Hardy Boys mysteries where a bushy-bearded pirate named Bluebeard appears on the scene shouting “I tattoo ye!” and then disappears again without explanation.
So how could the nation’s “educated elite” possibly be played for such suckers? The answer is simple. They live in a bubble. Everybody says the same things and thinks the same things and anybody who is any different is to be marveled at as an exotic flower rather than engaged in serious conversation. Last Sunday’s New York Times ran a long profile, for instance, on Wayne Barrett, the longtime Village Voice investigative reporter who after 37 years has been unceremoniously fired, apparently for budget reasons. During the decade of the 1980s, according to the Times, Barrett’s greatest scoop was to reveal Cardinal John J. Conner, head of the New York Archdioceses, was…are you ready for this?… a Republican!
It’s the same with all the riffraff out there. Tea Party people are easy to identify. They are the industrial parts salesman you meet on an airplane in the Midwest or the local real estate agent who’ll give you the rundown on what people are buying these days. They know nothing about semiology and wouldn’t be able to discuss the hockey stick graph but they are intelligent people nonetheless who understand business and know how the world works. I recall one outspoken realtor I covered years ago as a suburban reporter who had become the local “gadfly” for opposing a teachers’ strike. Watching the teachers parade around with picket signs reading “Millions for basketball players, pennies for teachers,” she commented, “They have to compare themselves to basketball players. They’ve already passed everyone else.” Sure enough, I checked the numbers and found that public school teachers had just passed the median wage earner in the district. Tea Party people have always been around. They are just now finding their voice.
So where do NPR intellectuals get the idea they are the only smart people around? Only by ignoring the opposition. Tune in to Fox News any night and listen to Charles Krauthammer, Bill Kristol, Steve Hayes or Fred Barnes discussing complex issues. Could anybody say that they are not intelligent? Would it be correct to say that they understand the opposing liberal position but just don’t happen to agree with it? Now, try this. Can you imagine Charles Krauthammer being taken in by a bunch of bushy-bearded strangers claiming to be Orthodox rabbis ready hand him $5 million for taking a more balanced view on their effort to move the Dome of the Rock off the Temple Mount?
As a fellow human being, I have to feel sorry for Ron Schiller. Only a few weeks ago he was sitting on top of the world, discussing seven-figure donations, ready to move on to a cushy job at the Aspen Institute. Now, because of one luncheon, he’ll probably never make more than $80,000 the rest of his life. It’s a cruel fate. Maybe he can take this opportunity to learn a little more about the world. “Be nice to everybody on your way up because you’re gong to meet them on your way down,” as they say in show business. It might make a nice memoir — “The Education of Ron Schiller.” For now, though, all I can think to say is, “Ron, try to be a little smarter next time.”
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.10.11 @ 6:15AM
Mr. Tucker,
That was painfully funny, and your title cracked me up.
Alan Brooks| 3.10.11 @ 9:27AM
"First... think they are the only intelligent people in America."
I live in 'flyover' country and the people are more ignorant here, rednecks here are FAR worse, far more aggressive and in trouble with the law, than in New England- which is the most liberal region in the nation.
Not that the people at the top are worse here in Middle America, but those at the bottom are; the reason I am no Marxist: if those at the bottom are worse than at the top, it is hopeless.
Dustoff| 3.10.11 @ 9:41AM
I bet you think John Kerry is the smartest man of all too.
LOL
Clint| 3.10.11 @ 10:04AM
ObamaBoy negative attention craver Brooks is lookin' for a problem.
Redneck, originally used in reference to poor, white farmers, is a historically derogatory slang term to refer to working class Southerners in the United States. It is similar in meaning to "cracker" (especially regarding Georgia and Florida), "hillbilly" (especially regarding Appalachia and the Ozarks)and "white trash".
vtwin| 3.10.11 @ 12:37PM
Isn’t the term “Boy” when referring to a black man also a “historically derogatory slang?”
Clint| 3.10.11 @ 12:59PM
Isn’t the term “Boy” when referring to a white man also a “historically derogatory slang?”,vtwin girl.
vtwin| 3.10.11 @ 1:56PM
Calling a white man “Boy” might be considered “derogatory slang” but I wouldn’t say “historically.” However, calling a black man a “Boy” could be consider “historically derogatory slang” because it was the term used “historically” by white southerners when referencing a black man because white southerners “historically” considered black men to be only 3/5 of a man, so a black man was never to be addressed as a man, else he might think himself equal to a white man.
But I’m sure you knew that why else you would have used the term “ObamaBoy?”
Clint| 3.10.11 @ 2:21PM
Because, most ObamaBoy's on this site are boys, not men, except you, vtwin girl.
Mohunch| 3.10.11 @ 4:26PM
Actually, it was the Northerners that wanted the 3/5ths clause in the Constitution, not the Southerners.
Better learn some history.
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 4:49PM
just last week, vtwin was calling it the 2/3's clause (otherwise known as the 3/5's compromise).
He's foolish. His thoughts are a mile wide but only an inch deep.
vtwin| 3.10.11 @ 5:42PM
Mr Pig, unless you’re blowing it out of your ass you should have no trouble providing us with a link to my “last week 2/3” comment.
kai| 3.10.11 @ 6:14PM
True. That's becaue Southerners wanted to have the largest population count based on their property "holdings"; to wit, their non-voting African-American slaves. How noble.
Better provide a full accounting of history.
NegroX| 3.10.11 @ 5:51PM
What's your point whiteboy?
Frisbee| 3.10.11 @ 7:25PM
"negative attention craver" Ha! LOL.
Thanks Clint - you diagnosed it.
Mark James| 3.12.11 @ 2:28PM
vtwin... read a book! The 3/5 of a man had NOTHING to do with how southerners viewed blacks. The south wanted all blacks counted as a whole person for the purpose of having more congressmen allocated even though the blacks weren't allowed to vote. They reasoned this would give them enough power in Congress to prevent the abolition of slavery. ANti- slave leaders didn't want the blacks to be counted at all because they wanted to reduce the South's Congressional power so they could vote out slavery.
Missouri David| 3.12.11 @ 7:56PM
Wow what incisiveness! Having a liberal, need I say democrat sister, who refuses to argue Rel. or Pol. with a fundamentalist, See I prefer attending Bible thumpin' So. Baptist to Roman Catholic whence I was raised... but I digress. Well written, and ascerbic to the point of sweetness! How did we elect that Socialist destructo Obamma? Oh yeah! He is the most Liberal, more than Kerry???
Thankjs, and Merry Christmas!
gearjammer| 3.10.11 @ 10:11AM
In New England, we refer to rednecks as blacks and latinos. Now, Boston,Providence, Hartford,New Haven, too name a few , are places in New England you'd best walk about quietly, and just not at night. It is not all Vermont, where the only problems are Daryl and Daryl and Daryl. And, by the way those rednecks are your first line of defense when the commies come for you-learn to love and respect them.
Kishego| 3.10.11 @ 3:48PM
I don't think any Rednecks will be very quick to come to allens defence. In fact they'll likely hand him over to them as one of their own.
Ammo Guy| 3.10.11 @ 10:22AM
Hmmm….normally when persons of your ilk are feeling hopeless, they know what to do next – so please, do us all a favor and look into an early checkout from Hotel America.
Alan Brooks| 3.10.11 @ 10:50AM
(Look at the semantics Clint went into!)
Call them what you like. I told you I live in flyover country, and the on-probation, party animal brawlers are 95 percent white.
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 10:54AM
That's because you live in a community that is 95% white.
loulou| 3.10.11 @ 12:45PM
Bingo.
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 10:56AM
Did they pick on you in school? Did those "uneducated rednecks" always take the women you adored?
It must suck to be inferior on so many levels, beyond intellect.
Anthony| 3.10.11 @ 3:57PM
Hey, Hey, Hey!!!! Let's not have any more bullying of little Brooksie, didn't you all hear what Michelle Antoinette had to say today about bullying?
We must be nice to "fly over" Brooksie, after all, we don't want him ending up in a jail cell full of red necks, or do we?
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 4:14PM
LOL!
Doorgunner| 3.10.11 @ 11:42AM
"First, liberals can be suckered precisely because they think they are the only intelligent people in America. This smug confidence..."
It is truly stunning how swiftly you've offered yourself up as the paradigm of self-hoisting petard operators, Alan.
Excuse me, I must now go look for something with which to clean the monitor.
Alan Brooks| 3.10.11 @ 12:11PM
"Did those 'uneducated rednecks' always take the women you adored?"
How do you know I'm not gay? wouldn't you think lib'ral anti-DOMA guys would be homosekshuels?
Clint| 3.10.11 @ 1:07PM
Brooks' Indian name is, "Dances & Sleeps with Sheeps"
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 1:53PM
LOL
Anthony| 3.10.11 @ 4:02PM
He and vtwin are from the wherethefurkowie tribe.
NegroX| 3.11.11 @ 12:33AM
Gay and a transvestite, your sense of self-imporatnce reminds me of Norma Desmond.
" Mr. Obama, I'm ready to give you a close up now".
Clint| 3.10.11 @ 1:04PM
Brooks is an anti-semanticite .
Brooks lives in "fly" country, because he's the perpetual turd in the punchbowl.
Killerman| 3.10.11 @ 4:55PM
God, I love you guys!!!
It's so much fun here!
Mitch Angoop| 3.10.11 @ 12:16PM
Alan,
Just when it appeared that you were actually learning something you had to go and prove your complete stupidity loudly for all to read. If you were unable to grasp the harsh reality of this article, you are truly beyond hope.
I actually lived in the bubble of academia for 10 years, listening to the absolute bulls**t spewing from the least intelligent members of the academic club: the sociologists, english profs, historians, essentially those who took the easiest path that did not require learning a foreign language (I speak 5) or science. (I have a BSEE, an MSEE, and a PhD in Signal Theory which is one of the bases of the internet functionality.)
Since I was a Conservative, they looked down their noses at me and insulted me behind my back. However, when any political discussion started, their usual riposte included telling me I was too stupid to understand and then they raised their voices. I decided it wasn't worth dealing with obviously inferior morons, so I reluctantly left and scraped out a living (At $100,000 plus in 1985) designing advanced memory devices and peripherals for a company that eventually went public and made me millions. I guess they showed me!
The American pseudo-intellectual isn't just an amusing dolt. He/she is among the most dangerous life forms on our planet because they think they know so much; and they control the dem party and the media. Frankly, they are so incredibly stupid that they don't even realize how stupid they are. But, in their stupidity, they are leading the dem party off the cliff and dragging our Country with them.
Doctor Right| 3.10.11 @ 4:55PM
I hope you've made a point to rub your success in their smug, pseudo-intellectual faces.
Post-cards from faraway, exotic locales, maybe? Trips by the University Club in your Bentley?
Well done!
MikeD| 3.10.11 @ 7:26PM
Doc,
He sold the Bently. the clock lost a second and it ticked too loud.
westie| 3.11.11 @ 4:02PM
Mitch Angoop, great reply and congrats for your success.
RN in Houston| 3.10.11 @ 1:11PM
I propose a simple solution for you Alan babe: Move to Cuba where I am sure everyone will suit your superior standards.
LiveFreeOrDie| 3.10.11 @ 1:32PM
You forgot to call them racist and bigoted. Oh wait, the hypocrisy would have been too obvious, even for you!
Jim| 3.10.11 @ 1:57PM
Perhaps you ought to "flyover" other parts of the country than Appalachia. My 13 year old daughter would not have fallen for this one!
jamie w.| 3.10.11 @ 2:26PM
Are you KIDDING me? I grew up in "flyover" country in a redneck family - and I never saw real crime til I lived with my husband in Connecticut for three years when the Navy stationed him there.
Rednecks get in trouble with the law for drinking and for hunting out of season, or for bs firearms violations. The thugs up in Connecticut and Rhode Island got in trouble with the law for hard drugs, fighting with knives, and running scams. Give me a redneck any day, pal.
Anthony| 3.10.11 @ 4:11PM
And to think, New London is 30 miles from the real epicenter of Connecticut crime, Hartford.
MikeD| 3.10.11 @ 7:32PM
If barry the muslim ever gets his way we'll all be praying that the rednecks shoot straight and often; because we'll be in a real revolution up to our necks; thrust on us courtesy of the democratic party and the criminals that compose it.
The crux of the problem is that barry and his gang THINK AND ACT JUST LIKE OUR TWO LITTLE TROLLS infecting our site with their stupidity. Just imagine a whole government full of them. Wait! We have that! They're called democrats!
Check out their unmitigated gall in Wisconsin. THEY slither out of town in a temper tantrum because they simply cannot believe the voters booted them out! Then, when the GOP does exactly what they promised to do during the campaign, the dems scream and cry and pretend the election never happened. AND THEY HAVE THE GALL TO CALL THE GOP UNDEMOCRATIC!!! That's how their alleged brains work. Just think of that when our two little trolls come on pretending to keep up with the adults.
Kishego| 3.10.11 @ 3:22PM
I live in 'flyover country' as well, and, I have lived in New England. Your observations are absolute B.S. You sir are a Horses A$$.
idalily| 3.10.11 @ 6:47PM
Eloquent, to the point, and right on. +1
Tomas| 3.10.11 @ 3:25PM
Come on, Alan.
I moved to Indiana from the Northeast. The first thing I noticed was how much nicer the people here are than the people I left.
The further south you go, the nicer they become.
But don't let that niceness obscure their wit. And their intelligence. Very smart people. Maybe not smart in the way the intellectuals like to think as smart (and therefore NOT smart at all because regular folks don't think like THEM).
These people are smart in different ways. They are not ignorant of things that matter; of things that impact their world. From issues at the top of the intellectual food chain, to why is that stupid man ruining his marriage for that floozy?
I'll take the fly-over folks any day. They are kinder, more honest, supportive people. They can spot a con artist a mile away.
I'd rather hold the hand of a friendly person in my deathbed, than have an intellectual pace the far end of the room and rage about how my dying is such an injustice.
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PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 4:17PM
Very kind of you, sir. And I have to agree.
Anthony| 3.10.11 @ 4:22PM
I went to school in Indiana. The nicest, most decent folks I've ever met!!!
Oh well, what can I say, I'm still a Bronx boy at heart, but if Indiana had the Yankees and the Metropolitan Opera, I'd be there in a heart beat!!!
Mohunch| 3.10.11 @ 4:30PM
@Anthony: Don't forget, Indianapolis has THE 500!
Anthony| 3.10.11 @ 4:55PM
I've been to both the 500,( I even got a tour), and the Kentucky Derby. Ah the memories!!!
I love KY also, it's true what they say, the home of fast women and beautiful horses!!
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.14.11 @ 11:17AM
Love it! I live on the border with kentucky. I will be using that one ASAP!
Occam's Tool| 3.10.11 @ 7:55PM
Highest average state SAT scores are North and South Dakota, Alan. Flyover country. UND and NDSU are beautiful campuses, too.
Beth| 3.11.11 @ 3:59AM
Alan,
Clearly you aren't aware that Wall Street is located on the East Coast. And just in case you haven't been plugged in...there is a disproportionate number of psychopaths and narcissistic criminals who operate there. It has something to do with high class hookers, cocaine and the financial risk inherent with that lifestyle. Maybe the reason you think they're so great is because they are almost never held accountable for their criminal behavior.
But yeah, people at the bottom are the problem...
Achilles Toejam| 3.11.11 @ 2:57PM
Geez Brooks, how ironic you are thoroughly making Mr. Tucker's point for everyone here to see.
Nancy in NC| 3.10.11 @ 2:46PM
I don't claim to be intelligent...in fact, the older I get the more I realize how much I don't know. But I know enough to keep my opinions to myself around strangers!
Robbins Mitchell| 3.10.11 @ 6:21AM
And what was it his fellow Schiller Vivian was saying just recently about there not being any bias at NPR?...that it was simply a "perception problem"?...ain't karma a bitch !!
USSAlabama| 3.10.11 @ 9:35AM
Just wait till O'Keefe's PBS videos come out next!
Perception problems are not limited to NPR.
Kitty| 3.10.11 @ 6:24AM
You'd think the left would pat people down for wires and check for cameras before they spill their guts.
Teaghan| 3.10.11 @ 7:59AM
Ahhh, but that would be "RACIST!!!!!!!!!" And NOT politcally correct!
I find this whole thing to be a Godsend but funny beyond belief :-) And ain't Robbins right! Karma is a bitch.
vtwin| 3.10.11 @ 4:25PM
“Karma is a bitch”
No, I think you mean Anthony.
Spartanfan| 3.12.11 @ 3:22PM
Karma is an Anthony?
Deborah D | 3.10.11 @ 6:54AM
They do truly live in a bubble. They believe everyone thinks like they do, and if they don't -- they must be stoooopid! But, if you suggest that they might want to read something other than the NY Times or the Washington Post because they might not be getting the full story -- whooo -- they get mad, mad, mad. I know, been there, done that! Hair on fire was the result!
Mike D.| 3.10.11 @ 8:10AM
Leftist intellectualoids have always lived in some kind of self-inflicted flux, completely and comfortably detached from reality. They have always believed that somehow nature endowed them with a natural cornered market on intelligence. As the article states, its so easy to pull these pinheads chains that its almost not sporting. Engaged in orgies of mental masturbation as this bunch regularily plunges into
really makes them easy marks for reality truthers who are really smart. Some of the stupidist people I have met in this life fit the description of the NPR elites. Lifes bowling pins. Just stroke their egos and they are playdough in your hands.
idalily| 3.10.11 @ 6:50PM
You mean the world WOULDN'T be all rainbows and unicorns if it weren't for Faux News, racist Rush, and the evil Booooosh? I'm so confused.
Deborah D | 3.11.11 @ 6:04AM
Yes, you are confused. Sadly so.
PaulyD| 3.10.11 @ 7:16AM
Oh so true. So very, very true.
FastJohnny| 3.10.11 @ 7:30AM
I would surmise, in my non-intellectual Tea Party way, that Shiller is probably sitting there reading all the liberal blog sites and saying to himself that he is being strung up for speaking the truth. I'll bet that what he said represents his and his peers view of the world and no matter how much NPR and those soy latte sipping liberals disown him, they will not shake this image for a long time to come.
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 11:09AM
In as much as the left hasn't spoken out against what he has said, they have also admitted that these ideas are acceptable in liberal circles.
Appleby| 3.10.11 @ 7:34AM
Just because you are paranoid doesnt mean they are NOT out to get you. In these days when everybody and his dog has a video camera, it is always prudent to act as if you will find your face and voice on YouTube within five minutes of the goodbye handshake.
Also there is due diligence. People who have that kind of money to give away usually have their lawyers with them or instead of them when they contact you -- and you CAN check them out.
jamie w.| 3.10.11 @ 3:55PM
That was kind of the punchline to the whole thing: despite NPR's constant denials that they took the offer seriously, they were trying up to last week to find out the nonprofit status of the "organization" they were dealing with. If it's a 501(c)3, you see, it's perfectly okay to take their money - no matter that they might preach chopping off little Israeli childrens' heads. The nonprofit world has transformed over the last couple decades from true do-gooders into people out to rack up every penny they can so they can justify increasing their own salaries.
For a timely example, see the story today on the drug Makena, which prevents preterm labor especially in high-risk African-American mothers. Up til this month, it was $10 a dose for generics. Well, a company named KV Pharmaceutical wanted to make a standardized form, but they also wanted to hold a 7-year drug patent if they did. They started throwing cash at Easter Seals. Easter Seals took the bait - hundreds of thousands of dollars - and spoke out in support of KV.
So the FDA gives their approval to KV, partly due to Easter Seals' support. KV immediately sends out cease-and-desist letters to all other pharmaceutical companies that had been compounding Makena - and then hiked the price from $10 per weekly dose to $1500 per weekly dose, of a drug that is taken throughout most of the last two trimesters of pregnancy.
Easter Seals is outraged. But I also don't see them giving back KV's money. In essence, KV used Easter Seals' good name as a trusted charity to whitewash their sneaky takeover of a drug that protects mothers and children - especially minority mothers and children.
The worst part: there was not an iota of evidence that it will benefit anyone to have standardized compounds of Makena. The generics were working just fine.
Folks, most of the non-religious nonprofits are in on this too. It's not just NPR and Planned Parenthood; this is now a systemic issue.
Frisbee| 3.10.11 @ 9:46PM
jamie w: Did you know G. K. Chesterton discussed the problem of "false charities" in the 1920's?
Deborah D | 3.11.11 @ 6:08AM
Wow. Thanks for this info. The whole idea of "non-profits" is rather suspect. They can't show a profit so they must pay themselves whatever profit they make. Bunch of crapola.
oldfart| 3.10.11 @ 7:43AM
I think the point here is that the NPR types are measuring their intelligence to the average Decmoratic staffer on the hill who lives in the same 'bubble'. Kind of reminds you of a Cheech and Chong movie where everyone is high, someone says something totally stupid and everyone starts moving their heads up and down like a bunch of bobble dolls.
idalily| 3.10.11 @ 6:50PM
LOL.
scythe| 3.10.11 @ 7:58AM
Don't fret about the gainful employment of Mr. Schiller. He's probably in contract discussions with George Soros. To be a liberal one has either to be stupid and greedy or delusional, attributes which are a constraint on intelligence. What is so wonderful about the political theater of today is that so many of their icons and their BS are unraveling every day. Schiller who made a pile of money posing as an above-it-all cosmopolitan whose intellectual prowess was indisputable has just been unmasked as another gullible fool by a snarky kid barely out of his teens and a couple of guys having the time of their lives pulling a prank. The more I think about it, the more hilarious it becomes. Think about all the years Schiller occupied his perch of authority and influence and how fast it was kicked out from under him. And by a racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, bigoted, sexist! And a xenophobe on top of it all. Does it get any better than this????
Deborah D | 3.10.11 @ 8:08AM
Hey, scythe -- add one word in front of your "racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, bigoted, sexist" -- the word "black" -- and then it's really hilarious. Talk about head-exploding! Schiller's world must be crashing in on him about now.
Kishego| 3.10.11 @ 3:56PM
Maybe he can take Parkers place on PMSNBC.
They can call it "The Schill Spitzer Show", or "The Schiller Spitz Show", or "The Schitz Spiller Show", or something like that.
oldfart| 3.10.11 @ 8:01AM
NOPE
martin j smith| 3.10.11 @ 8:03AM
Here are some other arenas to do investigative journalism with: The NYT,SEIU,J Street,ACLU,the UFT and AFT,CBS,NBC, Rev Al Sharpton,Louis Farrakhan etc etc.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 3.10.11 @ 8:07AM
"Liberals can be suckered precisely because they think they are the only intelligent people in America. This smug confidence insulates them from having to pay attention to what anybody else is saying".
Which is the exact reason why, they'll be the first ones put to the sword if Sharia Law were ever to be implemented across America. They would be totally surprised to find out that Islam is truly a repressive religion, that really adheres to two main philosophies, convert or die. What? Really? You actually meant all that stuff? I thought it was a joke!!
The "Tea Party people have always been around. They are just now finding their voice", and Liberals can't understand that either. That "We" really believe in things, in principles, in our Country, in fiscal responsibility, in the Constitution. What? Really? They aren't just talking points to you guys? I thought you guys were joking!!
They'll never get it, and I'm happy that they don't, and never will get it. After suffering my entire life watching the Democrats/Liberals/Commies try to destroy America, my New Years Resolution for the last few years has been, to destroy the Democratic Party in America instead, thus destroying all Liberals at the same time too, but recently, they're making this resolution too easy for me, they're eating their own, and shooting themselves in the foot every other day. It sure is fun to watch them!!
Richard Baker| 3.10.11 @ 8:19AM
Funny stuff. Vanity, thy name is liberal.
JimH| 3.10.11 @ 8:27AM
It’s kind of odd that while most lefties consider themselves the smartest guys in the room, though when questioned it seems that caring and motivation are more important than the intellectual rigor behind a position.
LiveFreeOrDie| 3.10.11 @ 1:44PM
Yes! The touchy-feely attitude is the go-to position when confronted with any legitimate argument to their insanity.
idalily| 3.10.11 @ 6:54PM
Yet they are the "intellectual" elite. How deliciously ironic. The intellectual elite can't seem to manage an intellectual argument on any issue. Hence the constant hate stream of snarling invective hurled at every perceived threat to their beliefs. They have no sound, intellectual basis for what is really an emotional guilt-ridden naivete about the world and how it works.
Au Contraire| 3.10.11 @ 8:29AM
"Then there is the bushy-bearded fellow passing for a Muslim. I won't even go into that. All I can say is it reminds me of one of the Hardy Boys mysteries where a bushy-bearded pirate named Bluebeard appears on the scene shouting 'I tattoo ye!' and then disappears again without explanation."
I'm in pain from laughing.
Stefan Kristen| 3.10.11 @ 8:33AM
They never did understand how those dolts, Reagan and Bush, got the best of them either.
joellen| 3.10.11 @ 8:38AM
The one thing that we can count on with these elitist liberal/marxist is they will continue to LIE about everything they stand for even as those like the courageous O'Keefe continues to expose them.
Hillel| 3.10.11 @ 8:39AM
Years ago a siding and roofing salesman told me that "Joe Lunch-bucket" had been pitched to too often and was wising up.He said he'd be going for the "middle class". I wouldn't laugh to hard lest some left-winger cons one of us. The secret of a gaffe is to tell the Mark what he wants to hear. HEY RUBE....
Michael L. Hauschild| 3.10.11 @ 8:44AM
Charles Krauthammer, Bill Kristol, Steve Hayes and Fred Barnes are not intellegent. Sorry Steve, really do not know you, but you were in the quote.
Tom Osterman| 3.10.11 @ 9:27AM
I'll bet they can spell "intelligent." Or at least run the spell checker.
Michael L. Hauschild| 3.10.11 @ 9:50AM
Sorry Tom, I was in a hurry, my error should not have occurred. But to “eliborate” (again, except for Steve who I am not familiar with) they are the same type of “NPR” intillectualoids, just from another elitist faction. They represent the Romney/McCain entitlement cabal that has decimated conservatism. They sneer at the Tea Party, they scoff at the great unwashed grassroots movement which to them somehow remains simply a component of “their” faction that strayed from the fold. Their cerebral guidance has led us to Obama, and that my spell checking friend is a path that we do not want to go down again.
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 10:28AM
I'm sorry, but if you don't see Krauthammer's genius, then I doubt your level of intelligence.
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 10:31AM
In fact, I think all 4 of these men are intelligent and thoughtful. Very sober analysis for the most part on their behalf. Krauthammer, especially, is always very objective and deep in his thoughts and analyses.
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 8:50AM
Great read. Laughed all the way through. too much truth in this piece.
Handy| 3.10.11 @ 8:52AM
Having lived in Washington, DC throughout the 80's, it is so true that about 80% of the people are libs. They just assume that you automatically agree with them. When you fail to bow to their superiority, they get a "deer in the headlights" look on their faces. Shining the light of truth.
May I offer a couple of amusing anecdotes? Here they come anyway.
I was on active duty in the Army, but lived in the District, proper. I didn't often go out after work in my uniform, but people saw me on my way to the Safeway and subway. Now, the Army had recently changed its uniforms from what Maj. Healy wore in "I Dream of Jeanie" to roughly what they are now. Civilians were not familiar with the do-over, and for about two years, they just assumed I was in the Canadian or Australian armed forces. When they finally found out I was in the US Army, lots of the formerly friendly libs at the local pub gave me a distinctly cold shoulder.
Second. Election day 1984. We all gathered at the aforementioned pub to watch the election returns. The place was packed. The libs were so optimistic that they started to celebrate early.
A few of them were so confident in Mondale-Ferraro, that they wanted to wager with me on the outcome. Even offered me odds. Naturally, I was happy to take their money.
When the map flashed up, there were no cheers, but quite a few real tears. One had to feel a little sorry for those fools. But, not too sorry.
I grabbed my cash and made a dash for the door. The mood was getting ugly.
Living in a bubble does not quite describe these folks. More like a lead balloon.
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 10:38AM
I bet not too many of those libs ever make it up to WRAMC to visit those guys who gave too much for these arrogant bastards to sit around and scoff at these "gun-toting rednecks" that allow them to sleep well at night.
When we win the revolution, and we have "De-Liberalization Camps", we should send all the libs to WRAMC to be medical assistants to those guys. And the troops, in the name of de-liberalization, will reserve the right to put that $10,000 prosthetic leg right where the sun don't shine on these libs, if need be.
Ammo Guy| 3.10.11 @ 10:45AM
By coincidence, I was there this week and saw a young man fiddling with his IPOD. Eventually he dropped it and I helped him retrieve it. Then I thanked him for his service and he told me that “it was my honor.” BTW, this young soldier had no legs…it was all I could do to hold back the tears – where do we find such men? And where will we find them in the future?
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 11:02AM
One thing I noticed, is over where they have the PT/Rehab area, there is a trophy case, of sorts, with different things from different famous people. And there is a letter from George Bush that was very touching to read. I didn't notice anything in that case from Obama thanking them.
However, a good friend of mine who is still there in D.C., just happened to be wearing his "Zig-Zags" t-shirt one of the days Michelle Obama visited them, and so he went to get a picture with her, and the look on her face is PRICELESS!
You can tell she can't decide whether to take the picture or not. On one hand, he is a purple heart vet, you don't turn down these guys. BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, he's wearing a zig-zag t-shirt!
LOL
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 11:06AM
To answer your question, the military is one of the few areas of our society with some honor & dignity. Where will we find these men in the future? If they can find them in the first decade of the 21st Century, then I'm confident we'll continue to produce such fine young men in the future.
Sometimes you just have to look outside of the ivy-league liberal crowd. There's plenty of men in this country that still believe in principle and doing what is right. And ironically, today, most of them are also on the "right" politically.
Kishego| 3.10.11 @ 4:11PM
Out here, in fly over country.
Anthony| 3.10.11 @ 4:45PM
You have got to be kidding! In '84 the D.C. pub crowd was optimistic that Mondale was gonna beat the great Ronald Reagan??
They were obviously doing something more than drinking, I hope you checked the cash you won from them, did you notice that the bills were curled up and had white powder traces on them?
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 4:52PM
LMFAO!
OldSeabee| 3.10.11 @ 8:52AM
The plaintive cry, "Why can't we all get along?", resonates from the liberals all the time. But their definition of bi-partisanship means agreeing with them and their position. These people do live in a bubble which echoes only with what they say; any conflicting statement just bounces off the shell. Because I only have an Associates Degree, I am not smart enough to be included in their discourse. The attitude of these elites impedes any dialouge with anyone outside their clique. The Book of Proverbs says something about the wise man keeping his silence while the fool runs his mouth annoyingly.
Kishego| 3.10.11 @ 4:16PM
Love your nom de plume! From an alumn of NMCB 1 (CE1)
wukong| 3.10.11 @ 8:58AM
A perfect example of progressive profiling.
Sean| 3.10.11 @ 9:09AM
Where are all the James O'Keefe detractors on the right? Last I heard the cowards were throwing him overboard when his last pleasure boat stunt failed.
Stephanie| 3.10.11 @ 10:38AM
Hey Sean, everyone makes mistakes. I mean look who you voted into the White House!
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 10:38AM
LOL
Sean| 3.10.11 @ 10:34PM
voted for chuck Baldwin here. Who did you vote for McLame?
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 10:44AM
Hey Sean, what problem do you have with somebody exposing a particular person's ideology?
Are you saying you don't want to see reality? Are you saying its not fair to show what people say at their most candid moments? That we should only get to see what they say when everything is scripted and white-washed so people can be deceived?
Wake up, dude. The country is burning.
Sean| 3.10.11 @ 1:16PM
Hey learn to read. I don't have a problem with him at all. All the neocons threw him under the bus during his last attempt. I am asking where are all his critics on the right now?
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 1:55PM
Sorry, couldn't detect the sarcasm.
froglegs| 3.10.11 @ 9:12AM
I call this current performance of the two Schillers "Schillers' Ode To Joy" -- a duet!
I am happier now than I have been for weeks!
Brian Mc| 3.10.11 @ 9:28AM
What a great day. The "Hail Mary" Walker threw in Wisconsin yesterday, and now this!
Let the defunding begin and once the huge flow of tax money is cut off to the Dems, the market of ideas will blossom as never before. As PBS will now be forced to sink or swim like the rest, so the same for the party that counted on them to keep the propoganda flowing, whether in reference to Darwin, Global Warming, Capitalism, Palestinians, Socialist Reforms, Abortion, Gay Rights, Imperialist Exploitation. The rays of truth will finally have their day and the weeds of liberalism will find no more shade.
Yes, there is hope anew and I can't wait to watch the wilting to come. Let "TRUE" freedom ring.
Mitch Angoop| 3.10.11 @ 12:34PM
While we're reading these posts, about 12:30; dems and their teacher buddies and public employee union thugs have broken into the halls of the Wisconsin State Capitol and are threatening bodily harm to the Republicans who are now barricaded in their offices. And the p.o.s. dems have the GALL to tell their thugs and criminal members that the GOP has "stolen democracy from the people of Wisconsin!" Yeah, and given the state anarchy and lawlessness.
The dems are showing their true colors; that of RED (For Communism) Black (For the most ignorant among them and the color of the bruises..yes, start screaming "racist!" at me) and Green. (For all the cash they're stealing from the taxpayers and handing over to the dem party so they can brankrupt OUR country!)
Obama and his fellow thugs have finally ripped off their own masks for all to see. Ask the fools who voted for him and the rest of his criminals what they think now! Whether we'll admit it or not, we're in a full scale civil war that the dems and lefties have forced upon us. The GOP had better make sure they stick to their guns...this is a total war for the very existence of our Country.
A.M. Mallett| 3.10.11 @ 9:37AM
I think the poor shmuck will be right at home given the following about the "Aspen Institute".
The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1950 as the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies. Today, the organization is dedicated to "fostering enlightened leadership, the appreciation of timeless ideas and values, and open-minded dialogue on contemporary issues." The institute and its international partners seek to promote the pursuit of common ground and deeper understanding in a nonpartisan and nonideological setting through regular seminars, policy programs, conferences, and leadership development initiatives.
Stephanie| 3.10.11 @ 10:39AM
I tried to get on their website yesterday. It seemed to either be shut down or it crashed when the proverbial poop hit the fan!
gearjammer| 3.10.11 @ 9:45AM
These people do not wake up " curious". They believe they already have the answers to everything. Example, they have not budged an inch on global warming-the Gore movie is still truth to them. The late Michael Crichton was in many ways a member of their club or could have joined any time he wanted. His disqualification was an honest mind that was that of a scientist and thus he always asked questions. He labeled himself a political agnostic. This way you always question yourself and your beliefs. Conservatives should not be to smug. Too many of you and them do not ask questions of yourselves and your beliefs, though not to the degree these clowns are guilty. Anyhow, was this guy drinking wine at the table ? I wonder what vintage ? I wonder who picked up the tab ? Also, how much the left just loves money and is greedy for it. He'd have offered up a weekend with his wife as a sex slave to these guys for the 5 million.
Jack Olson| 3.10.11 @ 9:51AM
Tucker is perfectly right. You cannot find a liberal intellectual anywhere who can give an honest, objective explanation of the conservative position on any major issue. To take but one example, look at their use of the adjective "smart", as in "smart growth" and "smart diplomacy." If you disagree with what "smart growth" means, forcing people to live in high density housing, why, then you are dumb. Or if you notice that "smart diplomacy" has failed to secure any diplomatic success, then you are too dumb to call failure success. Either way, the message is, "I am smarter than you and the fact that you disagree illustrates how dumb you are."
idalily| 3.10.11 @ 7:00PM
Um, they can't even give an honest, objective opinion about their own LIBERAL position, much less the conservative one. Yet they are the intellectual giants.
Petronius| 3.10.11 @ 9:56AM
If these twinkies are so damned smart, let's have a new edition of Survivor. Take them anywhere in the District above O St. North and leave them on a corner. I'd bet none of them could make it back to the Mall in one piece.
idalily| 3.10.11 @ 7:02PM
Put 'em in my part of flyover country, though, and they'd be perfectly safe. But then, conservative bastions tend to have low crime rates, too. How about that?
martin j smith| 3.10.11 @ 10:18AM
The elitism or snobbery is not the worst of it. The Left which I believe must be viewed as basically Marxist-Leninist in nature be viewed as a"politically terrorist" in nature with some level of violence thrown in. See the Union Thuggury of late for evidence. Tea Partiers,Conservatives and others who oppose Socialism need to do a lot of catch up with Left tactics. Progress has been made but there is too much defensiveness . Socialists may believe that they are geniuses but we must believe we are right--that the facts and morality are on our side.We must believe in ourselves not in an arrogant way based on hot air but on the notion that defending our American Way of life is without any doubt at all the right thing to do.
David| 3.10.11 @ 10:28AM
For crying out loud! One of O'Keefes guys was using the alias 'Simon Templar'!
That proves to me that this guy truly lived in a bubble.
Ammo Guy| 3.10.11 @ 10:47AM
Saints be praised!
jolizoom| 3.10.11 @ 1:36PM
Not quite--the credits say Simon Templar AS "Ibrahim Kasaam".
Kevin Compton| 3.10.11 @ 10:30AM
I only wish I was making $80,000/year.
Griff| 3.10.11 @ 11:00AM
"...How could people who think of themselves as so intelligent be such suckers?"
Does the term pseudo-intellectual ring a bell? I, a state college grad, once had a Harvard grad who reported to me and he told me that the hardest part of a Harvard education is getting admitted. Since then, I've encountered several "Ivy League" business graduates who evidently weren't exposed to any of the practical material I learned in my MBA program. As a result, I'm never impressed by any of the East coast "intelligencia".
Doctor Right| 3.10.11 @ 11:09AM
Liberalism is steeped in narcissism, and narcissists lack that sense of self-awareness that enables others to check themselves through introspection, and make the necessary adjustments.
Ever been in a conflict with a genuine narcissist? Ever seen the fierce way they protect their POV, and demonize you as "the opposition"? Ever seen a narcissist be introspective, and reconsider his/her position? Ever seen how the genuine narcissist considers himself/herself to be the smartest person in any room?
OK. Now, apply ALL that to Liberalism.
Liberalism is the inevitable end-result of mass, unchecked narcissism.
Notice the way Liberals fiercely cling to their ideas, EVEN when those ideas have been exposed as demonstrably false.
Notice how Liberals demonize the opposition to their outmoded ideas.
Notice how Liberals NEVER (well, rarely) change their minds on philosophical points-of-view.
Notice how Liberals consider themselves to be smarter than other people, without the support of credible evidence?
This fool at NPR (Schilling) is the class Lib-Narc. Full of opinions, secure in his own superiority, secure in his own invincibility, smarter than everyone else...yet utterly un-self-aware, and wrong about nearly everything.
WHY do we Conservatives have such trouble dealing with these people?
Brian Mc| 3.10.11 @ 1:39PM
Very quotable. Thanks, Dr. Right!
Renaissance Nerd | 3.10.11 @ 7:29PM
It's a leftover from years gone by. Once upon a time a college education was not just admired but revered by folks who couldn't have one. The educated class even deserved many of their plaudits long ago. Like all oligarchies it atrophied and now what was once important (like a Harvard degree) is just a status symbol. Instead of free thinkers they are closed minds, even imprisoned minds, incapable of leaving a predefined area. And because they've lost their flexibility they're losing the fight, but slowly because the reverence and respect lingers, as it always does. Conservatives have to be careful not to buy into the central fallacy of the whole romanticist movement, that people are naturally good. Poor and ignorant is not equal to virtuous.
The big advantage of the conservative movement (in its present incarnation) is that it requires study and thought to learn to be an actual conservative. We don't get alone all the time, we have some fundamental disagreements, even insoluble differences, and it requires us to keep learning, adapting, and thinking.
Still inertia is king. I think it's hilarious that they proclaim all the institutions racist/sexist etc. They ought to know, they control all the institutions except the military. Yet they still claim to be the anti-racists. PUH-lease!!
Renaissance Nerd | 3.10.11 @ 7:31PM
Please forgive the (many) typos.
Sandra| 3.10.11 @ 11:25AM
Screw them with humor done well! I've watched the tape, and only lacking a laugh track or live audience, it could have been a SNL set-up. *Schweedy Balls" anyone?
The real reason the Lefists are so mad, they are being PUBLICLY HUMILIATED!
Oh the humanity!
MikeN| 3.10.11 @ 11:36AM
I do think some of these smart liberals are being bought off by Soros's money. Case in point: Joe Romm at ClimateProgress. After spending so much time complaining about 'rip-offsets', he ended up supporting the cap and trade bill and saying it was better(from his global warming is happening perspective) than EPA regulation of CO2.
Anthony| 3.10.11 @ 11:40AM
You notice how the leftist morons in the LSM (redundant) tried to make hay with the phony phone call to Gov. Walker. They were besides themselves with glee. Oh yea!!! one of their own managed to pull the wool over Gov. Walker.
Only one problem with the delusions of the leftists; Gov. Walker said nothing that embarrassed him, he merely told the phony conservative what he had been saying in the media for weeks. Yet apparently, Mr. Ed over at MSLSD had an entire show dedicated to it. Oh well, he and his delusional 200 viewers got a thrill over it.
No big thrill coming from the LSM about this real faux pax from one of their own. Oh no, the left circled the wagons quicker than Ward Bond. Well, once again the best and brightest among us Americans have shown their true nature.
The leftists are vile, vulger, hateful, arrogant, dangerous and just plain stupid. It's not only time to defund NPR, we need to put the entire left out of business before they do it to America.
Anneke9| 3.10.11 @ 11:43AM
I'd like to add another perspective, since I work at a major university. Liberal intellectual elites always ASSUME that everyone agrees with them. They just cannot fathom that anyone would disagree with their brilliant views.
I used to be afraid that I might say something that would "out" myself as a conservative. I learned not to worry. Even if I question the comments of an intellectualoid, they never make the intellectual leap to the idea that I might not also be a liberal. Their supposedly brilliant minds can't grasp that there are other values and opinions outside their righteous liberal bubble.
davelnaf| 3.10.11 @ 11:47AM
The fake interview of Schiller is another example of the rather obvious fact that libs do not have a clue that they are not and never were the smartest people in the room.
DEIN| 3.10.11 @ 12:08PM
Better yet was his response to his debacle/paraphrase-these are not the my feelings or those of CPB.I wonder whose thoughts he was channeling thru his voice?Anyway, it's a good thing they don't need gov't money.
Cuffs| 3.10.11 @ 12:35PM
Do not, I repeat, do not worry about
Mr. Schiller. Weeds don't die.
idalily| 3.10.11 @ 7:04PM
Really? I think we conservatives just need to apply more Round-Up.
loulou| 3.10.11 @ 12:50PM
Isn't there some sort of prize James O'Keefe can be awarded? Pulitzer of something? The kid's a genius. I love that kid.
Emma| 3.10.11 @ 10:22PM
To me O'Keefe has the same delightful enjoyment of life as Opie Taylor did (before he turned into Ron Howard).
Seek| 3.10.11 @ 12:59PM
James O'Keefe is a merry prankster. He's the Dick Tuck of the Right.
Steve A| 3.10.11 @ 1:28PM
I grew up in New England & ended up at a very liberal University. I had zero interest in politics. All I wanted to do was get the minnimum grades to keep my sports schloarship & eventually play pro sports, which I did.
I was forced to take a course on the History of Union Labor. Ths was my introductory to the world of liberal insanity. About 3 weeks into the class, the topic was affirmative action. The prof. & all of the students were in total agreement that it was just & effective. Meanwhile, I used to listen to my Dad complain that it was flat out ruining his Employer (GM). He used to tell me how 4 of his secretaries with zero college & zero experience were promoted to management & were absolutely shredding the dynamics & morale of the workforce. (This is back in 1988.)
I finally raised my hand & offered up this nugget for the class to consider. The anger, outrage & downright nastiness that resulted from this observation caused the lightbulb to go off for me & I have always since looked at these people as egoists. This NPR CEO would have fit right in the mix perfectly.
kingsmill| 3.10.11 @ 1:34PM
There is more going on here Mr Tucker.
Ron Schiller, Leftist elitist dupe (or dope), who according to his appointment at NPR press release:
" will maintain his residence in Aspen, Colorado with his partner Alan Fletcher, an accomplished composer and President of the Aspen Music Festival and School".
Mr. Schiller is rabid in his denunciations of the Tea Party and their meddling in personal lives. However, he has no difficulty in coddling the Muslim Brotherhood and exchanging pleasantries about Sharia. Not to mention his anti-Semitic slurs.
This elitist clown is massaging representatives of sharia who line up homosexuals against walls and bulldoze the walls on top of them.
His hatred of Christianity and mainstream America is such that he would gladly welcome Sharia.
Seek| 3.10.11 @ 2:16PM
Wait a minute. This guy is a buttstabber?
loulou| 3.10.11 @ 4:01PM
Who knew??
Doctor Right| 3.10.11 @ 5:00PM
Worse...an atheist.
idalily| 3.10.11 @ 7:06PM
Way worse...a liberal nutjob.
Emma| 3.10.11 @ 10:20PM
Does he know that when his Sharia buddies take over that he will be on their list for killing? They kill homosexuals in Islam. I've been at a couple of Tea Party gatherins, but I've never heard any discussions about killing homosexuals. Maybe I just missed them....y'know, arrived too late or something.
jolizoom| 3.10.11 @ 1:35PM
The video credited Simon Templar as "Ibrahim Kasaam". Is that our own Simon Templar?
Steve| 3.10.11 @ 1:46PM
The irony in all this for me is that Schiller thought the people he was talking to were members of the Muslim Brotherhood and he was ranting on and on about tea party racists. The Muslim Brotherhood makes the KKK at it's worst seem tame in terms of racism and religious bigotry and yet he was willing to make NPR subservient to their desires for $5 million. NPR needs to be dissolved.
Who Knows?| 3.10.11 @ 2:22PM
Two old jokes seem to me to entirely capture the essence of the fools on the left---
1. You may look like a fool, but why remove all doubt by opening your mouth.
2. We all know a fool when we see one, but never when we are one.
marcia| 3.10.11 @ 2:26PM
I agree with the article however, wish Walker would not have taken that phony call from Koch
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 4:23PM
That's his job though. He's doing what he's supposed to be doing. Not ducking his responsibilities.
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 4:24PM
Not to mention he said nothing during the phone call that was shameful. He said the exact same things he had been saying in public.
GENE HAUBER| 3.10.11 @ 3:14PM
THAT PIECE OF SHIT RON SCHILLER PROBABLY CHARGED THAT VIDEOED LUNCH TO THE TAXPAYERS.
HE IS SUCH AN EGREGIOUS EXEMPLAR OF UN-AMERICANISM THAT HE SHOULD BE BITCH SLAPPED AROUND THE OFFICES OF NPR BY A COUPLE OF GUYS IN BIB OVERALLS.
Emma| 3.10.11 @ 10:17PM
I like your suggestion, Gene. There's a lot of merit to it. In fact, just thinking about the potential gives me a certain satisfaction.
Penfire| 3.10.11 @ 3:32PM
I hope there is no "next time". People like him don't need a second chance to ruin America.
Penfire| 3.10.11 @ 3:34PM
Very, very good !!
Mike D.| 3.10.11 @ 4:50PM
The only thing better than sex to an intellectual is being told how intelligent they are by another intellectual. Kind of like mental ego sex with each other, ala jacking each others ego off.
PhilTheCapitalistPig| 3.10.11 @ 4:53PM
LOL!
Doctor Right| 3.10.11 @ 5:01PM
It would have been even funnier if O'Keefe had introduced himself as "I'bin Fahrteen"...
general summerall| 3.10.11 @ 5:15PM
Mr. Schiller, the superior intellect, gets done in by a fake middleeast person. Apparently Mr. S. with all his knowledge and DC connections forgot that all those congressmen in the early 80s got done in by an FBI agent with dark tint on his face and a bag full of cash, in the Abscam sting. Yes, Alan, I may be a flyoverland yahoo, but I remember Abscam. Do you?
Marty| 3.10.11 @ 5:33PM
I think this article gets it half right--that they think they are the only smart people around and get overconfident...
BUT, I question whether they are, in fact, very intelligent. Certainly, they are ignorant, and seem to glory in it. Can such a person, in fact, be very intelligent? They strike me as credentialed but not educated, and not intelligent or self-aware enough to understand their own limitations.
I guess we could quibble about how to define "intelligence," so let's just say that they are surely incompetent and leave it at that?
Tony in Central PA| 3.10.11 @ 6:32PM
" The devil, proude spirite cannot endure to be mocked ".
Occam's Tool| 3.10.11 @ 7:52PM
Schiller will move to the Aspen Institute and make large sums of money. Liberals protect their own.
beebop| 3.10.11 @ 9:14PM
Nope. The Aspen Institute said "no thanks."
proreason| 3.10.11 @ 8:27PM
You're wrong about Ron Schiller's future income.
He just made himself a multi-gazillionaire.
Emma| 3.10.11 @ 10:15PM
I'm a stupid, racist, fundamentalist Christian myself.....but my very first thought when I heard how NPR was snookered on this was...."for cryin' out loud, did it ever occur to anyone in the organization to verify the bonafides of someone who requested a lunch date, who was promising $5 million, who apparently was previously an unknown to them....???" Apparently not.
westie| 3.11.11 @ 4:09PM
But, but the NPR genius's did know how to use google to find the most excellent website. I wonder how many times these NPR'ers have sent money to the po Nigerians?
Marc Jeric| 3.11.11 @ 1:46AM
I find it extremely funny when I hear our new marxists/intellectuals talking and writing positively about that 150-year old philosophy that started with the Communist Manifesto back in 1848. Especially so when one considers the actual history of marxism that over the last 93 years has produced utter poverty, terror, and mass murder as the inevitable result of the marxist practice. Not only that but the results can be still studied in North Korea, Cuba, and sevral other such places.
There can be no other conclusion - today's "liberals", "progressives" and other subhuman garbage are extremely stupid - if one tends to be charitable.
Robert Perry | 3.11.11 @ 9:53AM
One minor, fun correction; a lot of Tea Partiers from middle America can and do discuss things like the hockey stick graph, and intelligently so. So the presumed superiority of the left in these areas is even more hilarious, methinks.
Bill| 3.11.11 @ 2:34PM
There are probably more right-wing Mormons who have drunk deeply from the civilizations of all sorts of other cultures from living in the society while on mission than there are left-wing types who have sampled other cultures by going on a wanderjahr to some other country.
Amy| 3.21.11 @ 9:42AM
This is true. I find the Missionary aspect of the Mormons dubious, but they have to engage the local culture in way that a tourist will not because they literally have mission. You will not be successful unless you thoroughly understand the other person's POV first. Honestly, I've never been impressed with travel as a way of "opening" the mind. I like Rick Steves travel videos but I don't find his point of view particularly "open". He's seen alot of cool stuff, but it appears that he's only seeking to reaffirm what he understands.
brooklynsblessed1 | 3.12.11 @ 2:44AM
Of all people Glenn Beck’s THE BLAZE has picked apart O’Keefe’s video:
Does Raw Video of NPR Expose Reveal Questionable Editing & Tactics?
http://www.theblaze.com/storie.....g-tactics/
Hmmm..maybe someone should examine them all….
dinky di| 3.13.11 @ 3:06AM
Way over here in Australia we have just had a mini-O'Keefe moment. A parody leftist blog "Verdant Hopes" published an absurd item about an embattled Labor state premier (think governor) and how the conservatives have been calling her "moose", which was supposed to be a sexual slur. It was nonsense on stilts, but the taxpayer-funded ABC network (even more left-dominated than the BBC) picked up the line and published it as serious commentary.
Mooses, genital warts, evil conservatives, gullible liberals -- this hoax has it all, including leftists abusing right wing "ringwormy jackals".
http://verdanthopes.blogspot.c.....ts-it.html
Dee See| 3.13.11 @ 5:44AM
NPR's a Rockefeller Foundation funded, founded
front ----not unlike most of the NEO-CON-job
franchises.
IN FACT listening to any of our news sources
you'd never even hear a peep about those
sterilizing, carcinogenic, respiratory problems
inciting CHEM-trails (loaded with deadly Cadmium, Barium and Aluminum oxides).
This is done to facilitate HAARP 'projects'
amongother things.
MEANWHILE, Alan Watt is about the only one
dealing with the informed speculation concerning
the use of HAARP technology to evoke the
Japan disaster.
ANYTHING to get that Global agenda through.
"Understand what we're dealing with at the top
are inter-bred, inter-generational, international
genocidal psychopaths." (i.e. GLOBAL elites)
-ALAN WATT
-------------------------ANYTHING!
HUAC meets NUREMBERG. --Can't wait!
drudge ette obama| 3.14.11 @ 6:04AM
I spent almost an hour watching this luncheon tape and it was fascinating. The dull-witted NPR lady constantly wiping her bangs out from her face, the NPR guy who never stopped shoveling spinach in his mouth, eating bread and washing it down with water. I wasn't even there and I was in on the game, and I still was struck with how dully-smug the NPR people were. Everytime NPR man took off his NPR hat, I thought, o.k., here we go - some Jon Stewart-style comments are coming..get ready... What a hoot. NPR man need to work on his table manners and I think he now has the time.
Christian Louboutin | 6.23.11 @ 4:13AM
James O'Keefe's NPR sting has to be one of the most beautifully orchestrated deceptions in the annals of journalism. I think the academy award for performance in a documentary should go to that bushy-bearded "Arab" who, on hearing NPR executive Richard Schiller say, "Let me take off my NPR hat" and launching into his Tea Party rant, intones in a marvelously phony North African accent, "I like it when you take off your NPR hat." That was the laugh line of the year.
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