Source: Kevin Liptak / CNN
National Public Radio says it is “appalled” with a senior executive at the organization after he was caught on undercover video slamming the Tea Party movement as “racist” and “scary,” and saying that NPR would be better off without federal funding.
NPR spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm singles out Senior Vice President for Fundraising Ron Schiller in a statement: “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.”
The videos were produced by conservative activist and filmmaker James O’Keefe, who gained notoriety for posing as a pimp and secretly taping damaging conversations with employees at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform (ACORN). He was also involved in a failed plot to embarrass a CNN correspondent on hidden cameras.
There are two NPR executives in the video, identified as Schiller and Director of Institutional Giving Betsy Liley. Neither executive works in NPR’s news division. They are shown having lunch with potential NPR donors, who were really working for O’Keefe undercover. In the video, they pose as representatives of a Muslim organization that is considering making a $5 million donation to NPR.
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