NPR’s Senior Vice President Ron Schiller was caught on an embarrassing videotape calling tea party members “seriously racist people” who have “hijacked” the Republican Party.
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Conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe had two associates pose as members of a Muslim Brotherhood group that wanted to give NPR a $5 million donation.
On the tape released Tuesday, they tell Schiller and Betsy Liley, senior director of institutional giving, that they are glad the taxpayer-funded network airs the views of Hamas and Hezbollah,
Politico reported.
Schiller has announced that he is leaving NPR to take a job at the Aspen Institute.
NPR media reporter David Folkenflik said: “We are appalled by the comments made by Ron Schiller in the video, which are contrary to what NPR stands for.”
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