NPR, The Muslim Brotherhood And A Reidstone Cowboy
With the country $14 trillion in debt, the hard-hitting hombre from Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, is fighting tooth and nail to save cowboy poetry, or something.
Meanwhile, back in reality, Senator Jim DeMint is continuing his push to cut funding for public broadcasting:
If NPR and PBS want to continue their programming, they should go ahead and do it, but not with our tax dollars.
Paying millions of dollars so NPR can cover things like cowboy poetry festivals while the nation is $14 trillion in debt is reckless. Yet, funding public broadcasting and cowboy poetry festivals is a priority for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Senate’s most powerful Democrat. He was on the floor yesterday saying it was “mean spirited” to cut funding for these items.
That’s right. While conservatives are fighting to save the country from bankruptcy, Democrats are fighting to save cowboy poetry.
We must have the courage to cut spending.
Ironically, one of NPR’s former top executives seems to agree that public broadcasting can do without taxpayer largesse.
NPR executive Ron Shiller was caught on tape opining that his [former] outfit would actually be better off without federal funding.
Oh, and Shiller also thinks Republicans, especially those evil tea partiers are, “just Islamaphobic, 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.”
This from The Daily Caller:
A man who appears to be a National Public Radio senior executive, Ron Schiller, has been captured on camera savaging conservatives and the Tea Party movement.
“The current Republican Party, particularly 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 move,” declared Schiller, the head of NPR’s nonprofit foundation, who last week announced his departure for the Aspen Institute.
In a new video released Tuesday morning by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, Schiller and Betsy Liley, NPR’s director of institutional giving, are seen meeting with two men who, unbeknownst to the NPR executives, are posing as members of a Muslim Brotherhood front group. The men, who identified themselves as Ibrahim Kasaam and Amir Malik from the fictitious Muslim Education Action Center (MEAC) Trust, met with Schiller and Liley at Café Milano, a well-known Georgetown restaurant, and explained their desire to give up to $5 million to NPR because, “the Zionist coverage is quite substantial elsewhere.”
Subsequent to the tape’s release, Shiller both resigned from NPR and bowed out of a job he was slated to take with The Aspen Institute. The tape’s release also claimed the resignation of NPR CEO Vivian Schiller.
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