Update: Recorded NPR Exec Makes Resignation Immediate (With Juan Williams Reax)
- Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:38pm by
Meredith Jessup
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After conservative activist James O‘Keefe’s Project Veritas released footage of a staged meeting with two executives from National Public Radio early Monday, NPR released statements Monday confirming the immediate resignation of Ron Schiller, NPR’s senior vice president for development and president of the NPR Foundation.
“While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR’s values and also not reflective of my own beliefs. I offer my sincere apology to those I offended,” Schiller announced in a statement. “I resigned from NPR, previously effective May 6th, to accept another job. In an effort to put this unfortunate matter behind us, NPR and I have agreed that my resignation is effective today.”
In addition, Vivian Schiller, NPR president and CEO, echoed Ron Schiller’s comments. “Ron Schiller’s remarks are contrary to what NPR stands for and deeply distressing to reporters, editors and others who bring fairness, civility and respect for a wide variety of viewpoints to their work everyday,” she said.
Vivian Schiller made national headlines last fall after announcing NPR had fired Fox News contributor Juan Williams over comments he made during an FNC opinion segment. O‘Keefe acknowledged Tuesday that the undercover NPR sting stemmed from Williams’ dismissal.
“My colleague Shaughn Adeleye who posed as one of the members of the Muslim Brotherhood was pretty offended with what happened with Juan Williams and he suggested looking into NPR after that incident back in the fall,” O’Keefe told CNN. “My other colleague, Simon Templar, came up with the idea to have a Muslim angle since Juan Williams was fired due to his comments. So we decided to see if there was a greater truth or hidden truth amongst these reporters and journalists and executives.”
Williams himself responded to O‘Keefe’s investigation, the candid comments made by Ron Schiller and NPR’s standards of balanced journalism.
“This was an act of incredible condescension,” Williams told Fox News Tuesday. “The rank hypocrisy of [Ron Schiller's] remarks was telling for me. They will say things to your face about how there’s no liberal orthodoxy at NPR, how they play it straight, but now you see it for what it is. They prostitute themselves for money.”
In addition, Williams called Schiller’s remarks about Jews dominating the newspaper industry “outright anti-Semitism,” and considered his anti-tea party bias as revealing NPR’s “real feelings.” This is how they talk behind the scenes, Williams says. “This is how they really feel.”
Tuesday evening, Williams appeared on FNC’s Hannity to discuss the matter further:
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Comments (124)
walkwithme1966
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:16pmI don‘t believe anything O’Keefer produces – he is a con artist who does selected editing just to keep his name in the news! I don’t trust him about anything! http://wp.me/pYLB7-IH
Report Post »Margaret Thatcher
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:22pmWhat, you don’t believe your own eyes? Your posts always crack me up; they are so lame and ridiculous.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 12:20amWalkwithme1966=William Ayers
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:01amhahahahahahaha……you’re killing me, WALK! ohohohhahaha, oh WALK, please stop it, I can’t take any more. Oh..Oh, Please, no more!
I mean, WALK, can you actually believe anyone at NPR would say those things? I agree totally with your doubt about O’Keefe. He must have paid Schiller to say those things. It’s clear, no one at NPR could be that elitist, or stupid, to say those things without being paid.
O’Keefe did, uh, pay Sc..Sc..Schiller….di…di…didn’t he, WALK? I……I mean…..yea, he must’ve. O’Keefe is terrible….yea, that’s it. Right! It‘s O’Keefe, not Schiller. Don’t you think so, WALK? I’m with you, WALKMAN, or WALKWOMAN.
Report Post »Sgt.Murph
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:13pmTheir arrogance will be their undoing.
Report Post »sodizzy
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 4:35amThis is the kind of thing we have been praying when we Pray USA every week at our church, and that their plans cannot succeed.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:07pmwill the sgt, madcow. chris or larry get npr’s case ???????
Report Post »ans. no way
SilentReader
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:06pmSchiller is everything I despise. He’s an elitist hypocrite who condemns the Tea Party and courts the Muslim Brotherhood.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:06pmNPR is not part of the government at any level. It and ALL other Non Governmental Agencies should receive no future monies from any level of gov’t; and return any unspent monies they have.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:05pmIt’s real simple: NO MORE PUBLIC MONEY for NPR!
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:03pmDoes this surprise anybody? Really think about it.
To me it feels like a lead balloon. Cut the string and it thumps on the floor like a dead fish (hey, I was able to tie Rahm into it). This administration and the current state of affairs make me wish for the Carter days.
I just got done listening to Reagan’s speech in 1961. All I feel is “We can‘t say we haven’t been warned”
Report Post »Marine4ever
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:02pmThis story is so telling about the liberal elitist ruling class bias that we and Beck have been talking about for what? 2 years. Kudos to O’Keefe. Great undercover journalism. Too bad we don’t have more of journalists like him. Time to find stuff on Obama and Reid and get them impeached.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:57pmPLEASE lets DEFUND NPR and PBS stop the insanity
Report Post »psst
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:57pmI caught Hannity tonight.He had Williams on.
Report Post »Hannity said in his opinion, what Schiller said about the Tea Party peopleswere nothing but white racists w/ guns was akin to what Soetoro said about bitter white people holding on to guns and bibles w/ dislike of people who did not look like them.
Williams refused to bite on that. But I thought Hannity made his point.
Lets see how much cojones the republicans have on defunding BPS.
PBS helps to fund NPR. w/ our tax dollars that Stiller insisted NPR does not need taxpayers $$
I may add,PBS does not need it either.
PBS should be illegal anyway. Government have no business getting into/ owning the news business.
It’s enough that the government (Soetoro and comrades) owns CNN-ABC-CBS-NBC-PMSNBC-NYT-WAPO and other communist rags across the country.
Diane TX
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:56pmIt would be so great if Mr. Schiller’s new place of employment rescinds their offer after seeing this nasty tape.
Report Post »Margaret Thatcher
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:18pmThe Aspen Institute will up his pay. I live in Colorado and I’m saddened this creep will be here now.
Report Post »DAGNY
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:56pmI like Juan but I don’t trust his judgment. He was a part of that rotten organization, and part of the liberal left his whole life.
Funny thing about liberals, they only “see the light” after their own destructive idealogies come back to bite them. Then they wake up but not until AFTER they’ve done considerable damage.
Report Post »jdawg
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:53pmNot one red cent for NPR or PBS.
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/npr-exec-ron-schilling-resigns-over-shocking-video
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:53amAbsolutely….they can say what they want to say……but taxpayers should not be funding them.
Report Post »StewardshipSafety
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:52pmThere’s this song coming to mind…it has a bash beat then “Another one bites the dust…” The prophet Beck has said something like the truth has no agenda but lies will always be revealed.
Thumbs up The Blaze!
Report Post »chickenlittle
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:51pmOne little sign, one comment, one disputed action and the liberals are ready to froth at the mouth with condemnation of tea partyers or conservatives. Yet with proof after proof, tape after tape, constant incidents they still do nothing but minimize and deny any corruption of their precious corrupt institutions and organizations and beliefs. Letting fly in the face of a lie, I believe it’s called.
We should be surprised? Look who’s setting the standards at the top.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:51pm“While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR’s values and also not reflective of my own beliefs. I offer my sincere apology to those I offended,” Schiller announced in a statement. “I resigned from NPR, previously effective May 6th, to accept another job. In an effort to put this unfortunate matter behind us, NPR and I have agreed that my resignation is effective today.”
I don’t understand. He didn’t say what be believed? So he lied then, or now. Why do I not believe he previously tendered his resignation. No one said where is going = another lie. How long did/will it take to find another appropriate position for him.
Report Post »OneFunR6
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:33pm“So he lied then, or now.”
umm, yes! Exactly!
He lied THEN and he’s lying NOW.
I mean,… Right now!
See?
Just watch… see his lips moving?
LYING!
Report Post »commonsenseguy
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:50pmturn about is fair game, i bet soros and his commie buddies are pissed off,that they got suckered the same way they have suckered the rest of the world,set ups and b s . so come on george, what is your next move????? he never would have believed that conservatives would pull such a scam. old george will just have to spend some more of that evil money to help clean this one up, better yet pay off n p r. i can’t wait for the next show,man i really bet he is mad, now that is funny,
Report Post »CURMUDGEON
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:50pmWhatever it is it will involve heavy doses of, ” look that way.” NPR has been in denial so long I can’t imagine there was a question about bias, it seemed engineered.. Wonder if a small step to the “fair and balanced,” center is in order and how to salvage the public money they had better be about to lose, strategy..
Report Post »StewardshipSafety
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:46pmAdd your comments
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:45pmThey should all resign then they won’t be caught and embarrassed because we know it is an agency of the Progressive Democrat Party and has been since its beginning.
Report Post »sodizzy
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 4:33amBlatantly so.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:44pmI am pleased with Juan Williams for his response but am also surprised by his candor.
Report Post »psst
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:03pmActually, if Williams had not gotten canned at NPR, he would still be collecting his $$ and keeping mum about what is going on there.
Report Post »As long as he was getting paid at NPR, he did not give a sheet about what the upper echelons were doing.
Juan was having his cake and eating it too at that time.Being a hard core leftist at NPR and a soft core leftist at FOX ,who must have token libs to keep the government off their backs.
Showtime
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:13pm@Pssst ~
Report Post »I believe Juan is beginning to see the light, but he still has a bit more to go yet. Actually, I think he saw the light long ago but had a house payment to make and mouths to feed while at NPR. He is ANGRY!
Templar Knight
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 12:01am@SHOWTIME
I think your right. I believe Juan is beginning to see the light and has come to a point where anyone can really have a good honest debate without feeling like your talking to a brick wall as most liberal progressives make you feel.
He is an awesome guy and I believe he has already started to see progressives for what they are. Back stabbing dirt bag liars who would do and say anything to get what they want. Soros funded organizations are prime examples of this and NPR is no exception. They need to be defended by our tax dollars immediately!
Report Post »sweetscience
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 12:19amNope…Juan may sound reasonable when he’s specifically being attacked, but check him out on Brett Baire or Chris Wallace’s panel any day of the week…he carries Obama’s water with a consistancy that would make Alan Colmbs proud. Juan is determined to NEVER be called Uncle Tom again, and in my opinion, soiled himself as an objective journalist long ago.
Report Post »kreese
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:01amPSST:
Exactly!
Report Post »James83940
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:44pmWe love you Juan. NPR are a bunch of shameful Libs. Fin me one conservative over there who has any clout or upper management please. Just one.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:10pmWould you settle for half of one?
Report Post »Buck Bagaw
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:32pmJuan can be objective (for a lib) until the subject turns to Obama, then he starts selling Kool-Aid by the truckload. No longer a fan.
Report Post »Templar Knight
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:55pmJuan is my favorite liberal. He is a man who wants to have a discussion with you and will listen to your side of the story. He is not out for Government take over and can be very reasonable. Your the man Juan! Keep up the good work. :)
Report Post »AmeriWoman
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:43pmHAHAAHAA!! RUN!!!
I can imagine the wild damage control taking place at NPR right now!!!
AW
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:42pmAs if we didn’t know NPR had a liberal bias. How long will it be before libs start crying foul on this one?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:48pmDoes this mean no funds from government?
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:48pmNPR= NO PLACE for REPUBLICANS
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:11pmNPR =
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restorehope
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:33pmOf course they will be whining and screaming that they are being treated unfairly. Just like in Wisconsin where they scream “Shame Shame Shame” at Republican lawmakers who are trying to follow the rules of their state to pass legislation. That the majority rules is a concept libs just don’t get if they are not the majority. NPR will just jump on the Democratic Whine Wagon with the rest of them.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:41pmI’m sorry I prostituted NPR, and without Tigers Blood. Juan, dude, I’M SORRY. Oh, wait, I am going to go to another high paying job. See you later suckers….what is this sopenea for?
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:46pmHas Soros already contacted him for his communist party?
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:48pm“I resigned from NPR, previously effective May 6th, to accept another job…”
…in the Obama administration.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:54pmThis Schiller dude, he is going to work with one of the Koch brothers, I hope the libidiots know that
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randy
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:59pm“While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR’s values and also not reflective of my own beliefs.
WHAT? Does this make any sense other than he is lying through his teeth?
TYPICAL Radical Liberal!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:08pm“While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR’s values and also not reflective of my own beliefs.
Report Post »————-
You mean THESE values , which are so in sync with your own beliefs
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120344047
right moocher ?
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:10pmDear world at large, I got canned today by my bosses who told me to resign effective May 6th and be fired at the same time due to the fact of liberalism running amok among the entire NPR facility and spreading like a plague of uttermost stupidity and getting caught in the simplest of traps.
Report Post »Templar Knight
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 11:36pmHe will become the new VP for Soros Inc. where the scandals are plenty and world domination of Communism is absolute. So yeah, he’ll be making more money and gets what he wanted, a chance to be a minion for an evil dictator.
Report Post »leftylemn
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 12:03amThe Aspen Institute where Ron Schiller will soon be working. Contact Sandy Blair at 410-820-5427 with inquiries about the Board of Trustees.
Report Post »calebgs83
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 12:41amHe wins here, he wins there…WINNING.
Report Post »Great job James O’keefe, you are a hero!
FlatFoot
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 2:04amGreat. So now The Aspen Institute is going to employ this hack Ron Schiller after this fiasco?
What does that say about The Aspen Institute then that they would employ him after what we all saw and heard on that video tape? There goes their credibility… right out the window.
Report Post »Jackers
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 5:37amGotta‘ hand it to James O’Keefe… He’s a regular sleuth!
As for Ron Schiller’s uncivilized rant against the Tea Party movement and the white middle class… This not only shows the utter contempt some of these people on the far left have against those on the right, but demonstrates an even bigger problem – sheer frustration felt by those on the left due to the fact that, after decades of deliberate “misrepresentation,” more and more Americans are catching on, tuning out, and swinging back to the right.
Progressives are finally losing their message and, therefore, losing their agenda…
Report Post »Doc Farmer
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:09amShakah, When The Walls Fell…
Sendat! His face black, his eyes red! What a Jerk that (thankfully former) NPR bozo is. Hell, even Juan Williams (with whom I disagree strongly, but still hold in respect) is finally yelling, “Su-kath! His Eyes Uncovered!” (Hey, you started the ST:TNG “Darmok” references…)
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:10amI don’t think Vivian Schiller has control of her company. If anyone needs to go, it’s her. What’s that old saying, “The tail is wagging the dog”? Of course, on the other hand, I am not complaining that they are self-destructing. DEFUND HERE AND NOW.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 7:44amI was sickened with NPR 20 YEARS ago. It only takes seconds of listening to them interview someone to see what they are about.
They probe and ask Conservatives questions from a perspective of doubt, always making them prove they are either not racist, not against education, not against affordable housing, anything, really that is part of the multicultural, leftist agenda. YET……..
They will never ask even an obvious racist like Jeremiah Wright tough questions like ‘why shouldn’t whites think you are a racist’…..even when he has said those things, AND, we have it on video. I hope anyone who has listened to NPR takes a long shower to cleanse themselves from NPR’s socialist disease. Never listen to that station.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:23am“This was an act of incredible condescension,” Williams told Fox News Tuesday. “The rank hypocrisy of [Ron Schiller's] remarks was telling for me. They will say things to your face about how there’s no liberal orthodoxy at NPR, how they play it straight, but now you see it for what it is. They prostitute themselves for money.”
Says Juan Williams, who currently prostitutes himself for paychecks from Fox News.
I guess nobody learned from O‘Keefe’s previous editing jobs and this has all the atrributes of having been edited to create the false impression O’Keefe wants to create – this is yet another case in which we need to see the UNEDITED RAW VIDEO to know what actually took place here.
He is a professional liar and you all fall for it everytime.
Taquoshi
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:33amWhile the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR’s values and also not reflective of my own beliefs.
Then why did you say them?
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 8:57am@ KAPTAINKOOK
“Says Juan Williams, who currently prostitutes himself for paychecks from Fox News.”
Let us be the judge of that.
Report Post »Your comments are riddled with the “inconvenient truth.”
Sounds like sour grapes to me.
CaptainKook
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:05amRemember: O’Keefe is the guy who created the FAKE VIDEOS “at” ACORN offices [O'Keefe never once walked into any ACORN office dressed like a pimp] and who recently tried to lure a female CNN reporter to a rented boat with the intent of staging a fake video of himself “suducing” her.
watch her describe it:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201009290018
This guy O’Keefe is a sick-o and a FRAUD.
Uncle Crusty
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:35amNPR is the ruse! Ever listened to that garbage on air? Liberalism is a desease that we have to find a cure for! Bust unions and send them on their way…as for progressives, ya’ll can KMLWA!
Report Post »LogicalMadman
Posted on March 9, 2011 at 9:50amHis eyes open!!!!
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