So says Steve Inskeep in the wake of James O'Keefe's damning video of NPR fundraising executives discussing a potential $5 million gift from phony donors who posed as wealthy Arabs with connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.
I congratulate Mr. O'Keefe for upholding his values: faith in the power of video to mislead. As columnist Michael Gerson noted in the Washington Post, by selectively misquoting the executive's words, rearranging events, and other devices, Mr. O'Keefe made him sound sympathetic to Islamic radicals and unfairly tarnished NPR with "an elaborate, alluring lie."
The video tape clearly captures former NPR executive Ron Schiller accusing the Tea Party of being "seriously racist, racist people."
On the tapes, Schiller wastes little time before attacking conservatives. The Republican Party, Schiller says, has been “hijacked by this group.” The man posing as Malik finishes the sentence by adding, “the radical, racist, Islamaphobic, Tea Party people.” Schiller agrees and intensifies the criticism, saying that the Tea Party people aren’t “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.”
Inskeep doesn't say what's misleading about that, but as co-host of NPR's "Morning Edition" he speaks with some degree of authority. Or maybe that would be bias. Whatever it is, NPR should not receive any more tax dollars. If it's the professional, well run news organization that Inskeep claims, it will stand on its own. They can fund their bigotry without my help.
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