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NPR on Expose Vid: We Didn’t Take the Money…and Exec Resigned a Week Ago

NPR has just issued a statement regarding James O‘Keefe’s undercover video featuring Senior Vice President of Development Ron Schiller.

(Read our original story and watch the video.)

In it, NPR spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm, senior vice president of marketing, communications and external relations, says the organization is appalled by Schiller’s words, and that he will be leaving the company due to an already-planned departure. However, NPR reiterates his leaving has nothing to do with the video, and the company never accepted the fake actors’ money

Read the statement below:

The fraudulent organization represented in this video repeatedly pressed us to accept a $5 million check, with no strings attached, which we repeatedly refused to accept.

We are appalled by the comments made by Ron Schiller in the video, which are contrary to what NPR stands for.

Mr. Schiller announced last week that he is leaving NPR for another job.

In a follow-up e-mail with NPR, the company told The Blaze, “Ron Schiller’s departure has nothing to do with this video – we weren’t aware there was a video until this morning.”

UPDATE:

NPR is covering its own controversy, and has a blog post that is being updated here. Author Mark Memmot offers additional details on Schiller’s new position: he will become director of the Aspen Institute Arts Program.

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  • kreese
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:51am

    Obama can’t find any place to save money? ELIMINATE the funding for NPR, Department of Education, Department of Energy, funding for the Arts—–just for starts!

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    • Ser Scot
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:56am

      That’s pennies compaired to the DOD budget and the budget for vairous individual entitlements. The Republicans need to get serious about cutting the Federal Budget. It ****** me off when people whine about how hard it is to cut the deficit. It’s really simple, don’t spend more than you take in in Tax revenue. Deficit gone. What‘s hard is having the political will to stay within the constraints that places upon the desire of politicians to spend other people’s money.

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    • psst
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:08pm

      Soetoro definately won’t cut the NEA.
      What?
      Ya thunk the Poseur is gonna cut out his Kash Kow. One of the most successful money laundering operation in the World. As Rush rightly pointed about the marxist party (aka dem party)and marxist controlled unions.

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    • PatriotComeLately
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 2:11pm

      @Ser Scot
      How about we first start with the easy stuff, once everyone sees we can that, then we can “get serious”, as you put it.

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  • kapnkd
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:50am

    Of course they (NPR) didn’ take the money – there wasn’t any to begin with and they found out it was a “sting”.

    That is also why good ol’ Ron resigned so quickly!! …trying to avoid the obvious damage caused by the light of Truth cast upon them!

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  • poster
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:44am

    I wonder where he’s working now? Stay on this story.

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  • donh2
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:38am

    I don’t see where a check was being offered as passing a bad check is a crime. Shiller didn’t take any money becuase there was no paper check on the table to take. This a real life “Dinner with Andre” movie . Watch the whole movie if you have time. The character Andre is an excellant example of the contemporary liberal with a mindset unaware of its own harboring of naziisms absorbed from dabbling in the occult eccentricities found in the secret bacchanal cults of left wing high society. ….http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXZMwcNNvrQ

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  • Midwest Blonde
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:33am

    Regardless of what you’re all saying about Tax $ funding NPR – it’s not quite what you think. MOST of the $$ comes from donations and marketing…. Sesame Street generates $220 MILLION a year.

    http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/publicradiofinances.html

    The government provides only 5.8% of NPRs funding. Defunding them won’t hurt NPR a bit.

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    • Teapartywoman
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:43am

      Good then, let them be defunded becouse as you said “ it wont hurt them a bit”.

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    • psst
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:56am

      @TeapartyWoman
      Right on.Couldn’t have said it better myself.

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    • WHITE LOTUS2x
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:58am

      midwest: Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of thereselves. Defund NPR!

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    • patriotteapress
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:31pm

      Since they are so smart, and conservatives are so dumb, let them figure out how to get along without taxpayer money. Consider it “social justice” or “redistributed wealth.” De-fund them now!

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    • royalstar
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:44pm

      MB
      You just added another justifiable reason that NPR shouldn’t get federal funding. I beg the question, Why are they getting federal money in the first place. If they are so fair and balanced they should be getting support from a cross section of our country and be the news dynamo of the world. In fact they wouldn’t need private donations and they could actually be bigger than Fox and the other networks combined. They in actuality are far leftist and in bed with Spooky dude types. That kind of propaganda doesn’t sell to common sense Americans that can see through their anti-social agenda. Narcicism on parade. National Propaganda Radio. By the way I have listened to NPR extensively. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Of course NPR is in the latter category.

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:50pm

      Fine, Midwest, all we are saying is that we don’t want them to get taxpayer money. I don’t care if they lean left, I don’t care if they are successful, I care that they are getting taxpayer money.; especially now when the treasury is empty.

      Sesame Street is PBS, who should also be defunded. They can sink or swim on their own.

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  • wianno94
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:33am

    Ok…This organization was fraudulent and therefore Schiller shouldn’t be held accountable, but the fake who called Governor Walker was a good guy and a hero.

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  • iwantmycountryback
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:31am

    I guess my take-away is that NPR would survive without taxpayer money. So there is no reason put good, hard-working taxpayer dollars where it is not needed. Defund now.

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  • psst
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:31am

    Now I wonder what Plum job this America hating Jew is gonna get.
    Like Van Jones, he will just move from the large sofa to the love seat.
    In the same room. Of course.
    Paychecks funded by CAIR, (aka the brother-HOOD)

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  • Unbelievable
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:29am

    I‘m sure he’ll be working right along side of Mr. Jones.

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:26am

    I love it! NPR is getting some real news for once. I bet they are just fuming mad! {:

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  • powhatan
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:25am

    Lovely….And all the kids reading alter-net think it is all the conservatives fault….pitiful lemmings

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  • Ser Scot
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:24am

    I’ve always liked NPR. I believe they have a selection bias but they do make an effort to be even handed in their reporting.

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:28pm

      For most it isn’t an issue of content so much as an issue of funding. Other news outlets get along just fine without gov support. NPR should be able to fail or succeed on its own merits, not expect tax payer funding.

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    • Ser Scot
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:40pm

      Kate,

      Perhaps. That said I’d hate to see NPR turn into Fox News or CNN. I like it the way it is. Heck, I support it with my non-tax dollars.

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  • dcwu
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:24am

    Zero CPB and NPR funding.
    No money, no problem.
    And it reduces the deficit.

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  • Brad Wesselmann
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:23am

    WHERE IN THE HELL IS HE GOING????? I will bet dollars to doughnuts that it is some kind of progressive organization or within our own government. Keep your eyes on this guy!!!

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  • JohnK144
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:21am

    Ha ha ha.

    “No. We’re not biased. We didn’t even know there was a video out there like this. We’re really too conservative for some people. We’re appalled by theses statements. Don’t stop giving us money. We’re smarter than all of you, and you need us……………..Umm, yeah, strike that last sentence.”

    Turn the lights out NPR. The party’s over.

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  • Country
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:20am

    Yeah, a planned departure my O’Keefe, ha ha ha ha.

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  • aarondav
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:16am

    National Procrustean Radio

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  • hersey10
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:13am

    What about the dame in the video ? Is she going to another job too or is she going to be promoted ?

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  • Gold Coin & Economic News
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:09am

    Sure, Schiller was just waiting to retire. NAILED!

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  • vg0va3
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:08am

    OK they were not aware of the video. When were they made aware of Mr. Schiller’s appalling comments? Last week maybe once they became aware they were dealing with a “fraudulent organization”???

    Did they consider the organization fraudulent because the money was to come from Muslim Brotherhood?

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  • sbenard
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:07am

    What‘s Schiller’s NEW job — Soros stooge?

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    • exdem
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:12am

      Van Jones revolution coordinator.

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:12am

      No, he’ll go on to head up the Heath departments media arm.

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  • SLARTIBARTFAST
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:07am

    Yeah, yeah, another job was waiting for him….. “Would you like to Supersize your meal?”

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  • James83940
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:05am

    And I’m glad that you were busted! Shows all of America how despicable NPR execs really are.

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    • BS61
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:57am

      Gosh, I hope it’s not another fund-raising week at NPR!

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  • NeoKong
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:05am

    HAHahaHHAahAHhAHAhahahhahahAHAHHAHA…(wipes tear)

    O’Keefe bags another trophy.
    I love that kid.

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:27am

      Yeah but NPR forgot to say that the video was taken out of context and it was edited. Isn‘t that always the story with these scumbags that O’Keefe busts with his undercover stings?

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    • chickenlittle
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:59am

      It would be interesting for somebody to track where this scum of an executive goes next… especially since he was already supposedly departing NPR.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:27pm

      @Untameable-kate
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:27am
      Yeah but NPR forgot to say that the video was taken out of context and it was edited. Isn‘t that always the story with these scumbags that O’Keefe busts with his undercover stings?
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      It’s okay for the liberal media to take videos and make a story out of context. Remember the one with Gates and his conversation about the size of his plane? Jump all over the truth and lie!

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    • tifosa
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 2:46pm

      Would be more credible if it flowed and was played unedited.

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  • James83940
    Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:05am

    Lies – saving face, that is what that comment was. NPR is corrupt!

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:10am

      I don’t suppose NPR will get any less Federal funding after this. We gotta keep the propaganda machine churning you know.

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:13am

      I sure hope Congress finds the truth in this video.
      CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT
      MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE
      $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:14am

      Does ACORN ring a bell?

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    • democratgirl
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:14am

      This is why I DO NOT GIVE VOLUNTARILY to NPR. They ARE funded by our tax dollars though and that irritates me to no end. This is another CORRUPT organization. STOP WATCHING NPR AND THEY WILL GO OUT OF BUSINESS.

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    • absolutely
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:18am

      They actually mean he moved up in the Soro’s organizations ladder. Absolutely

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    • abc
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:42am

      NPR is not corrupt. NPR lacks the inherent bias and conflict of interest of every other news organization that is operated for profit. While NPR does take some money from corporate media buyers, the amounts are small in comparison to corporate news organizations. There is no question that NPR is the most center-of-the-road news source out there. A study done last decade by the conservative Hoover Institute found that PBS and NPR were the most unbiased news outlets in America, which shouldn’t surprise anyone who looks at the inherent conflicts of interest that the rest of the news world, with eroded Chinese walls, now operate in.

      The criticisms on Schiller in the other page with video are overdone. Of course he has his own personal biases. But his belief that many in the Tea Party are racist on some level, and that conservatives are not as well educated as liberals, and that religion is used to intrude in personal lives even as evangelicals claim to want government out of theirs…these are beliefs widely held by most left of center, including myself–and we have much data to support those claims. To say that such beliefs automatically taint the news produced by such people is ridiculous, especially in light of the highly biased news that is presented on Fox by individuals who work hard to hide their own right-wing biases behind the “fair and balanced” moniker. Everyone has bias, but professionals work hard to present neutral fact based accounts, while profiteers seek to spin every story to appeal to their audience to bolster ratings. If you do not understand this game being played at Fox and MSNBC, as opposed to the professional work done at NPR and PBS, well either you don’t watch both sets to make the comparison, or you are ignoring the many studies that bear out the critical differences.

      I am saddened that NPR has to walk on egg shells to placate people who are attempting to shut down the venue because it doesn’t present exclusively the right-wing narrative in a blindly loyal manner. The budget concerns are a ruse, since those same Republicans calling for the end of its public funding have no problems handing out tax incentives to religious organizations that promote their message and values. This is not about integrity. It is about shutting down anything that doesn’t agree with your own partisan message. I think America deserves better than such narrow-minded thinking. Our democracy functions well when its news organizations function well. That isn’t happening on Fox, nor MSNBC, nor the Blaze. It is happening at NPR and PBS, which is why they should be left alone.

       
    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:47am

      We just need to cut all funding from NPR,PBS and all media outlets. One the countrty is in dire straits financially and two it’s contrary to the good of people to have government sponsered media outlets. AKA IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL

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    • Ser Scot
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:53am

      ABC,

      Very well said.

      SmithClar,

      Could you please explain why funding NPR/PBS with Federal Tax dollars is Unconstitutional?

       
    • mefree
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:53am

      Wow ABC seriously???? How much kool-aid do you drink a day? My gosh man! I always thought being trapped in a city full of zombies would be fun, but now I find myself trapped in a country full of zombies like ABC and it is NOT fun at all. Wow……. truly astounding.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:56am

      “…and that he will be leaving the company due to an already-planned departure.”

      Wow! A new way to say, “he is leaving to persue other endeavors/interests.”

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:57am

      ABC – If liberals appear to be more educated than conservatives it’s only because they have pieces of paper that are stamped by left leaning universities full of left leaning professors. That’s not an education I want or would recommend to anyone. More education doesn’t make one smarter. Many college grads don’t know what the 1st amendment says or means.

      Is NPR really part of the free press if it takes taxpayer money?

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    • pajamash
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:02pm

      “There is no question that NPR is the most center-of-the-road news source out there.”

      Center of the road to someone with views like yours ABC. To me the reports on NPR are very left leaning.

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    • colascguy
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:04pm

      Soros, through his Open Society Institute, provides support for the Aspen Institute,

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:05pm

      Let’s see so far:

      NPR – caught in the act….blame. shame. and complain about being framed, while absconding with the money anyhow. The books need to be investigated completely and without mercy.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:06pm

      “Our democracy functions well when its news organizations function well. That isn’t happening on Fox, nor MSNBC, nor the Blaze.”

      Again the question has to be raised to someone like you that thinks The Blaze is so terrible. Why are you here on a weekly basis?

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    • ablisterin
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:09pm

      ABC… I don’t want NPR shut down but they should not receive public funding. I’ll decide who gets my donations, not the Gov’t. The problem with the “center of the road” is that most people don‘t realize that it’s now on the other side of the left ditch and we’re fixing to run head on into an oak tree.

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    • ablisterin
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:15pm

      ser scott… prove that it‘s constitutional for the gov’t take my $ and give to a news organization. If they’re so great let them flourish in the free market.

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    • Untameable-kate
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:22pm

      ABC
      Defunding is not the same as shutting down. I don’t want them shut down, neither do many others, we just don’t want our tax dollars going to support it.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:35pm

      “The criticisms on Schiller in the other page with video are overdone. Of course he has his own personal biases. But his belief that many in the Tea Party are racist on some level, and that conservatives are not as well educated as liberals, and that religion is used to intrude in personal lives even as evangelicals claim to want government out of theirs…these are beliefs widely held by most left of center, including myself–and we have much data to support those claims. ”

      While I lean right ABC I would not let those viewpoints come to surface in a business meeting such as the one shown in the video. I would politely redirect the conversation to another topic.

      And PLEASE, enlighten us with your data O’ sage and wise one. What “data” is it that you can provide us “Homer Simpsons” on the points you listed?

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 12:51pm

      @ ABC
      Untameable-kate has your number.

      If I wanted to start a PUBLIC radio station, how much federal money could I expect to recieve? I am not talking about grants, I am talking about daily operating expense. Just because NPRs name has PUBLIC in it does not make it a publicly “accepted” or for the “good of the citizens.” Again this is government intruding into my pocket and my freedoms. I think if you would take a poll, you would be suprised the amount of citizens (taxpaying citizens) who would disagree with your philosophy.

      I looked on the Hoover Institute site and could not find any evidence of a study done in the 1990′s. Although the Mission Statement for the Hoover Institute is rather impressive. Check it out http://www.hoover.org/about/mission-statement#nogo
      Perhaps someone other than ABC can find the 1990′s adorning study of PBS and NPR

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    • pajamash
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:08pm

      …”But his belief that many in the Tea Party are racist on some level, and that conservatives are not as well educated as liberals, and that religion is used to intrude in personal lives even as evangelicals claim to want government out of theirs…these are beliefs widely held by most left of center, including myself–and we have much data to support those claims. ”

      C’mon ABC, you can’t just throw a statement out there like this and not back it up!!! That is, of course, if you are really as arrogant as I believe you to be.

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    • abc
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:15pm

      Ablisterin, Kate, Patriot–

      There are many who seek to defund because they want to weaken and eventually shut down. Just because you are not in that category doesn’t mean others are not. More importantly, I find it hard to understand arguments in which folks want to withold tax dollars from activities they don’t like but do not want others to enjoy the same right concerning government activities that they support. Example: no Republicans want to allow liberals to withold funding from the Iraq War. Our government doesn’t work this way. You either support the spending, which is constitutional or you don’t. You can pass laws to defund, but you can only do it on a content-blind basis, which hardly any conservatives support if they are honest. In any case, I have established why you need publicly funded news–since profit motive creates a conflict of interest–but no conservatives have even acknowledged this problem, much less provided an alternative solution to it. Until they do this, as well as explain why liberals cannot withold funds for the Iraq War, they really are being hypocritical making the argument made here.

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    • abc
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:21pm

      Mefree, if you go back and reread what you wrote, you will see that you have not made a substantive argument as to why I am wrong. You just call liberals zombies and assume everyone knows what you are talking about. This is hardly a rebuttal. Nice try.

      Gold Coin, unless you went to one of those schools, you really have no idea how left-wing or right-wing the curriculum is or the professors are. My experience is markedly different from what you describe.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:23pm

      @ABC ~
      “…But his belief that many in the Tea Party are racist on some level, and that conservatives are not as well educated as liberals, and that religion is used to intrude in personal lives even as evangelicals claim to want government out of theirs…these are beliefs widely held by most left of center, including myself–and we have much data to support those claims.”

      Well, duh! Of course “left of center” supports the belief that liberals are better educated than conservatives, etc. “Left of center” would rather take a shot than admit to ignorance.

      As you claim “we have much data to support those claims,” suppose you just give the sources for that data, how about it. Are those sources the likes of polls by the DNC, ABC, NBC, NPR, MSNBC, CBS, Al Sharpton, Charlie Rangel, Barbara “Call-Me-Senator” Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, or Harry Reid?

      If “left of center” were so well educated, “left of center” would not be trying to steal conservatives’ profits and life savings; “left of center” would be kicking back on the fruits of their own hard work.

      You can’t fix stupid. Liberalism is a mental disease designed to outsmart the Founders.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:31pm

      “In any case, I have established why you need publicly funded news–since profit motive creates a conflict of interest…”

      Call it anything you want ABC but funding from the government to public radio and TV IS a profit center for those entities. And public radio and TV has a conflict of interest from that profit center just as radio and television that is “for profit” can have a conflict of interest.

      Now as for the “conflict of interest” you speculate on. “For profits” have to sell air time to republicans and democrats alike so is that conflict you speak of the big “monster” you portray it to be?

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    • pajamash
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:46pm

      “…that many in the Tea Party are racist on some level…”

      ABC, just do a bit if research on the web and you will find that there have been some pretty high up democrats that held membership in racist groups.

      A few prime examples:

      Harry Truman
      Robert Byrd
      Hugo Black

      The fact that Bill Clinton minimized Byrd’s involvement with the Klan says a great deal about Clinton. It amazes me that Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others did not call him out for what he said in his eulogy of Byrd. It was shamefull!

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    • patriotwoman
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 1:47pm

      @ABC: You say, “But his belief that many in the Tea Party are racist on some level, and that conservatives are not as well educated as liberals, and that religion is used to intrude in personal lives even as evangelicals claim to want government out of theirs…these are beliefs widely held by most left of center, including myself–and we have much data to support those claims.”

      Bullsh*t. Prove it. Show us some proof. Back up your claims. Give us your “data”. And please make sure your biases don’t govern your choice in your sources and that your sources have absolute objectivity in their data collection techniques.

      As for the “objectivity of news” I worked for 2 years in a major market newsroom. You know who makes decisions on what stories are aired? 25-year old Know Nothings with zero credibility, that’s who. The cheapest, most inexperienced people they can find. That’s why we are seeing endless stories about Charlie Sheen, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, etc., ad nauseum. The endless Twitter feed/Facebook stories. Extra. Entertainment Tonight. Access Hollywood. TMZ. Real Housewives of {insert city here}. Because THAT’S ALL THE UNDER-30 CROWD KNOWS. They are the least qualified to work in news because they have no personal history of events, no critical thinking skills and no desire to do the work necessary to unearth the facts.

      That’s why the American public saw endless stories about how terrible the gas prices were during George W. Bush’s term and sees *next to nothing* about the record rise in gas prices under Obama. Because the under 30 crowd hated Bush and worships Obama. Those “reports” that do cover gas prices usually claim “unrest in the Middle East” as the cause of the price spike. It’s not. The US gets very little, if any, oil from Libya, Tunisia and/or Egypt.

      Just like ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN, PBS is a joke. But at least the public is (semi) aware of the whoring going on at the networks, it’s just now becoming apparent to the majority of America that the whores at PBS are being paid with taxpayer $$$.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 2:36pm

      “no Republicans want to allow liberals to withold funding from the Iraq War.”

      Please, admit it ABC, Obama has continued the same stance on the current military interventions that Bush had in place! Gitmo is still open and it sounds like the push for trials on US soil has all but vanished opting back toward military tribunals. We are still in Afghanistan with no clear end in site. While much was touted about the “end of combat operations” in Iraq we still have a heavy presence.

      All the more laughable is how Obama and his administration are hinting that we should create a “no fly” zone in Libya. That is the exact opposite of stance prior to becoming president. In Libya he calls for the ruler to leave (after 11 days of silence). In Egypt he waffled on what his message would be there; first supporting Mubarak to stay until elections: then demanding Mubarak leave. While a year ago he said little to nothing when uprisings in Iran sprang up.

      First of all there ARE republicans that want The US out of Afghanistan and Iraq. Secondly, it is becoming painfully obvious that President Obama is underwater when it comes to foreign affairs as well as his administration.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 2:40pm

      Another OKeefe edited vid? puhleez

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    • AKMIIKEUS
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 3:03pm

      Not to worry, I just got word that a tea party documentary will be coming out just in time for the 2012 election that will show America that, “The Tea Party is as racist and worst and are exactly who we thought they were”.

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 3:55pm

      @ABC
      “You either support the spending, which is constitutional or you don’t. ” Say you.
      How does this quote grab you from one year ago tomorrow.
      “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”
      Nancy P. March 9, 2010
      ABC How Constitutional is THAT?
      THAT is what the current Progressives have been doing.
      THAT is not serving the intrest of The People… and neither does NPR. Period!

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 4:12pm

      ABC,
      I do not know who reported your previous post, but they removed it. Sorry
      BUMMER, I had an excellent response!

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 4:17pm

      ABC
      Could let you go home without further comment:

      @ABC
      The current administration is afloat on an Iceberg, loaded with progressive socialists in the global sea of political misfits looking for a place to call home. They have found it in the media.

      Not in my lifetime have I witnessed such political correctness and submission by the MSM. To many of us, under educated, middle class, gun toting seniors, we abhor what we see occurring in our country at this time. ABHOR is pretty tough language. We are being forced against our will to buy a product that if approved would be provided by a government! I DETEST the loss of my freedom of choice so 30 M others can live off of my hard work. Nothing more nothing less. Clear and simple. Black and white… no grey area.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 4:43pm

      “Not in my lifetime have I witnessed such political correctness and submission by the MSM. To many of us, under educated, middle class, gun toting seniors, we abhor what we see occurring in our country at this time.”

      And saddly PA PATRIOT you would be viewed as an older, angry, tea partier that can’t handle change. Rather than a great citizen with a good work ethic that understands that hard work can get you ahead without requiring money from other citizens.

      Unfortunately, we are being driven to the edge of a cliff. Both sides have spent too much money and we are now in a vehicle that is overweight with inadequate breaks to slow us enough to stop before going over into the abyss. And you have individuals, like ABC, that are saying, “Step on the gas! Everything will be fine. It will be fun!!!”.

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 4:43pm

      @ AK M1
      Boo

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    • abc
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 5:30pm

      Since the Blaze apparently cannot handle the truth, they took down my last post, which had no factual inaccuracies in it. This website is a travesty.

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    • PA PATRIOT
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 5:38pm

      ABC
      I agree with you whole heartedly.

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on March 8, 2011 at 7:17pm

      ABC sounds as intolerant as Ron Shiller, but I agree that NPR should be left alone, as in they can pay their own bills without government help. NPR should stand or fall on their own merits.

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