TEA PARTY EXPRESS RESPONDS TO NPR'S RON SCHILLER

TEA PARTY EXPRESS RESPONDS TO SMEARS MADE BY NPR'S RON SCHILLER

Tea Party Express Chairman Amy Kremer issued the following statement in response to comments made by NPR executive Ron Schiller that smeared the tea party movement:


We were extremely disturbed to hear Ron Schiller, the Senior Vice President for Development of National Public Radio, spew baseless, hateful fiction about the tea party movement today, calling us weird, Evangelical, Islamaphobic, and gun-toting racists.


“The tea party is composed of hardworking American citizens of every race, creed, and religion, whose taxes help fund NPR and pay Schiller’s salary. I can’t think of a time in recent history when a group of Americans have been so vilified and denigrated by a person who is supposedly serving the public’s interest. Schiller’s ignorant comments lend overwhelming evidence for the need to stop all federal funding of NPR.


“Even more outrageous was Mr. Schiller’s fact-challenged claim regarding the education and intelligence of tea partiers: “In my personal opinion, liberals today might be more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives.” This sweeping, unenlightened generalization is abjectly false, according to a New York Times poll conducted last year, in which tea partiers were found to be better educated than the general public.


“Mr. Schiller shows blatant disrespect bordering on contempt for a constitutionally-based political movement. It is untenable that he would express such ignorant views in public or in private. We at the Tea Party Express demand an immediate apology from Mr. Schiller, and will gladly welcome his departure from NPR. Regardless of Mr. Schiller’s future employment prospects, we highly recommend he undergo sensitivity training to discover why he is prone to express such unenlightened rhetoric.

(via an email from Tea Party Express sent to me)

kresspin wrote: TEA PARTY EXPRESS RESPONDS TO SMEARS MADE BY NPR'S RON SCHILLER

Tea Party Express Chairman Amy Kremer issued the following statement in response to comments made by NPR executive Ron Schiller that smeared the tea party movement:


We were extremely disturbed to hear Ron Schiller, the Senior Vice President for Development of National Public Radio, spew baseless, hateful fiction about the tea party movement today, calling us weird, Evangelical, Islamaphobic, and gun-toting racists.


“The tea party is composed of hardworking American citizens of every race, creed, and religion, whose taxes help fund NPR and pay Schiller’s salary. I can’t think of a time in recent history when a group of Americans have been so vilified and denigrated by a person who is supposedly serving the public’s interest. Schiller’s ignorant comments lend overwhelming evidence for the need to stop all federal funding of NPR.


“Even more outrageous was Mr. Schiller’s fact-challenged claim regarding the education and intelligence of tea partiers: “In my personal opinion, liberals today might be more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives.” This sweeping, unenlightened generalization is abjectly false, according to a New York Times poll conducted last year, in which tea partiers were found to be better educated than the general public.


“Mr. Schiller shows blatant disrespect bordering on contempt for a constitutionally-based political movement. It is untenable that he would express such ignorant views in public or in private. We at the Tea Party Express demand an immediate apology from Mr. Schiller, and will gladly welcome his departure from NPR. Regardless of Mr. Schiller’s future employment prospects, we highly recommend he undergo sensitivity training to discover why he is prone to express such unenlightened rhetoric.

(via an email from Tea Party Express sent to me)

He owes no damn apology to the tea party. Lets see the so called party of the United States, freedom of speech etc. Some of the things I have heard come out of the tea party, think maybe they need to rethink thier little email. PRACTICE WHAT THEY WHINNNNNNNEEEEE ABOUT.

The problem with defining the TEA party is that it is a large organzation with all different types of members. Some only want to decrease Federal debt and taxes, others have joined who believe Obama was born in Kenya or 9/11 was an inside job. And the press likes to use quotes from the radical ones.

SS109 wrote: The problem with defining the TEA party is that it is a large organzation with all different types of members. Some only want to decrease Federal debt and taxes, others have joined who believe Obama was born in Kenya or 9/11 was an inside job. And the press likes to use quotes from the radical ones.

And there are so many of them to quote....

NPR CEO Vivian Schiller has resigned, the radio network announced Wednesday.

The announcement comes a day after a hidden-camera video was released showing a senior NPR executive criticizing the Tea Party as "racist."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03 ... z1G7Hy6OTR

It is wonderful how modern technology in the hands of the common man is changing the public landscape in the last couple of decades.
I first awoke to this whenever the video camera gave us Rodney King. Cell phone cameras. The internet is choking the newspapers (and good old boy systems) to death. Political parties are being shaken by the internet. Public radio is being compared with the "public" portion of their name.

It is wonderful!

They call it citizen journalism. But there's a dark side to it. Video and audio can be manipulated, as we've seen many times. Gullible people can and do, fall for Internet stories with unfounded "facts."

Just look at Obama's "Kenyan" birth certificate or Bush's "National Guard" records...

There's a sucker born every minute.

It's a double-edge sword.

And the same technology debunks it and spreads the word. It is wonderful!

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NPR Going down quicker than a Colfax street walker.

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