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Worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd9OYJMX9t4

"Senior Executives at NPR meet with Muslim Brotherhood Front Group to solicit $5mm and discuss their federal funding, Fanatical Christians, Zionists in the media, Tea Partiers, Republicans, Uneducated Americans and Juan Williams."


Keep in mind that American taxpayers support this station, which is clearly run by elitist, out of touch, corrupt, liberal madmen.
 
Oh please. Like Tea-Partiers ever listened to NPR in the first place. :whatever:

I hate the persecution-complex that the "Tea Party" wallows in. They're not a minority. They're a fringe-group with too much time on their hands, too much anger, an abundance of sandwich-boards and terrible spelling skills. I miss 2009 when the media didn't feel it had to tread lightly around these clowns.

I don't really see how saying the Republican party has been hijacked by fringe elements is untrue. I thought this was generally accepted. Reagan couldn't win a Republican primary in today's GOP.
 
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Also I have found that in contemporary America those who use "elitist" as a slur are looking for an easy way to dismiss those who are more informed or better educated. :o
 
Your "findings" unfortunately are pretty subjective. Are you implying that the forces that run NPR aren't out of touch with the American mainstream? :huh:

This is big stuff that James O'Keefe uncovered. It would be wise not to be so quick to dismiss it.
 
The comments about Juan Williams were hypocritical, but I didn't see much else to make a big fuss about. The comments about the tea party, in particular, were pretty much spot on. I don't think it's a crime to believe that the Palestinian side of the conflict should be given a voice that the (OMG!!!) "mainstream media" rarely allows them. And they did speak in defense of Jewish organizations that are in favor of hearing both sides of the issue. The term "Zionist" was used by O'Keefe's thugs, not the NPR people.
 
JJJ's Ulcer said:
You mean the James O'Keefe that basically tried to rape a CNN reporter on a boat?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O'Keefe#CNN_correspondent_incident

Or the James O'Keefe that has been arrested for attempting to wiretap the phone of a US Senator?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O'Keefe#Arrest_in_federal_building


What exactly did James O'Keefe uncover with NPR? That the boss is liberal and thinks the Tea Party has hijacked the GOP? Wow. How shocking.
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"Basically tried to rape?" I hope you realize how loaded that statement is next time you consider repeating it. Rape is forced sexual conduct. O'Keefe was planning to embarrass a journalist with what was essentially a prank about as harmless as the average fraternity gag. If you are going to accuse someone of plotting a sexual assault you'd better have the papers to back it up, because such accusations should never be made lightly. I think the plans for the prank were in bad taste and were in poor judgment on O'Keefe's part, but I don't think any serious legal allegations would have come out of it if he'd gone through with it.

O'Keefe basically exposed that NPR is being willing to suck anyone's sausage to get funding, no matter how dangerous they are or how dirty the money is, as long as it doesn't give republicans a say in the programming. They are supposed to be a public, non-profit organization, and they are partially funded by the government. Keep watching the news over the next few days if you don't think this is big-- we could be looking at the end of federal funding for public broadcasting, which even the NPR guy admits would black out a lot of NPR stations. Although only about 10% of NPR as a whole is dependent on government money, this is going to be a huge embarrassment for the CPB and it is going to hurt them in the wallet. A lot of people who donate to NPR privately are already ending their memberships to the CPB's branches after this video came to light, and you'd better believe NPR is going to be hit hardest.

Some people thought his exposé of Acorn wouldn't amount to anything, but lo and behold Acorn no longer exists. That was just from walking into a local Acorn office with two actors playing a hooker and pimp. This time they caught the head of the ruddy NPR doing something that most Americans would find more than a little unsettling.
 
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Well if she quit then obviously something was up.
 
My tax money winds up going to many things. Some I approve of, others I don't, but you know what? I don't go *****ing when the waitress I tipped uses that money to do something stupid. It's not my money anymore once I use it.
 
JJJ's Ulcer said:
Oh please. Like Tea-Partiers ever listened to NPR in the first place. :whatever:
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That doesn't mean it should be a tax payer funded left leaning media outlet. You can't argue that NPR is a left leaning media outlet. That is fine, more power to them. However, they are tax payer funded so that immediately creates a problem.
 
Timstuff said:
"Basically tried to rape?" I hope you realize how loaded that statement is next time you consider repeating it. Rape is forced sexual conduct. O'Keefe was planning to embarrass a journalist with what was essentially a prank about as harmless as the average fraternity gag. If you are going to accuse someone of plotting a sexual assault you'd better have the papers to back it up, because such accusations should never be made lightly.
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From the Wiki article:

CNN later published a 13–page plan it had obtained, written by O'Keefe's mentor Ben Wetmore,[76] that listed the props as including pornography, sexual aids, condoms, a blindfold and "fuzzy" handcuffs

Ambush a married woman on a boat stranded at sea and expose her to pornography, sexual aids and.... what are the condoms for, do you suppose? :huh:

And the whole thing would have been filmed and O'Keefe had no qualms about destroying this poor woman's dignity, reputation and career.

I love the dismissive phrase "fraternity pranks." Didn't Limbaugh or Hannity call the Abu Gharib torture the same thing? Sexual assault is not a fraternity prank and that would have landed O'Keefe in jail if he went through with that.

O'Keefe basically exposed that NPR is being willing to suck anyone's sausage to get funding, no matter how dangerous they are or how dirty the money is, as long as it doesn't give republicans a say in the programming.
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Is that why the "5 million" was turned down? :whatever:

Also I wonder if O'Keefe's entrapment thugs knew Ronald Schilling is Jewish. The whole meeting probably made him uncomfortable and he was being a host and nothing more.
 
SuperFerret said:
My tax money winds up going to many things. Some I approve of, others I don't, but you know what? I don't go *****ing when the waitress I tipped uses that money to do something stupid. It's not my money anymore once I use it.
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That analogy would be correct if the waitress reaches down and grabs your wallet, gets what she wants out of it, and then goes and does what she wants with that money she just took.
 
Oh, right, I forgot, I get robbed. Whatever.
 
What chaseter said.

I don't work so illegal immigrants can feed their anchor babies, or people who abuse welfare can buy a new Cadillac.
 
I work because hunting and farming aren't in my skill set.

I'm aware that due to my being a member of a social species, sometimes I need to support those who are less fortunate. I'm also aware that due to the "people suck" law of reality, someone's going to take advantage of the system. But as a wise man must've said at one point or another "**** happens."
 
SuperFerret said:
Oh, right, I forgot, I get robbed. Whatever.
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You don't pay taxes that you are forced to pay, you go to jail. Taxes aren't donations.

I am fine with my taxes going to do great things like building roads, paying for cops, maintaining homeless shelters, etc. However, I am not for my taxes going to fund an arm of any political party. It's unfair and it is a colossal waste. There is a gigantic amount of waste in the system that needs to be resolved.
 
I don't pay rent, I get evicted. What's your point?
 
Ph my God, a journalist having opinions, how aweful.

Seriously, what's the problem here? They're voicing their personal views in what they believe to be a private conversation.

Besides, I've never understood why people cling to the idea of "objective journalism" that they do. It seems like it has no real benefit. The generally accepted idea of what is proper objective journalism seems to be never stating your opinion under any circumstances, and never saying things that are objectively true but might hurt people's feelings. That's not objective, that's corardace.

Proper objective journalism, in my mind, should be putting the truth above anything else. A journalist can give their opinions, they can give their interpretation of the data, and they can go for the throat, but they never misrespresent the facts, they never try to lie to or misdirect the citizens of the world to make their stance seem more credible, and when the facts don't support their opinions then they have to have the stones to admit it. This is the kind of journalism that has a positive impact on the world. The two kinds that are most accepted today, the softball fluff story stuff and the constant lying and misrepresentation of facts, are very very harmful.
 
I wish NPR had Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh on their payroll.

The CEO quit, something is obviously is wrong here. I don't know the whole story but you don't quit if you aren't doing anything wrong.
 
chaseter said:
I wish NPR had Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh on their payroll.
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Why?

chaseter said:
The CEO quit, something is obviously is wrong here. I don't know the whole story but you don't quit if you aren't doing anything wrong.
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That's not true. Maybe he got sick of people harassing him. Maybe, although he objectively did nothing wrong, he and whoever else runs NPR realized that people who didn't like them could turn this against them simply by virtue of how painfuly islamaphobic large parts of the US population are, so he decided to step down for the good of the company.

Really, I see nothing being done wrong here at all. A private conversation with potential donors where they were very polite with them and didn't start a debate because they wanted their money. Every company in the history of ever has done this to some extent.
 
SuperFerret said:
I don't pay rent, I get evicted. What's your point?
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To show you that your original analogy was a bit off. If you can't pay rent and get evicted but are forced to pay taxes that go to fund a left wing media outlet then of course something is wrong here. Just think of how much more money would be in all of our pockets if there was zero waste in the federal and state governments.
 
So I can buy more useless crap then?

:awesome:
 
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