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Schiller, then-president of the NPR Foundation and senior vice president for development, calls the Tea Party "xenophobic," "seriously racist people," who are "fanatically involved in people's personal lives."

He goes on to say that the Republican party has been hijacked by the Tea Party and laments the demise of intellectualism, particularly in the GOP.

This a truly ironic statement from O'Keefe.

I don't see why anyone should get into an uproar about this - he's entitled to his opinion just like the rest of us. I don't think NPR has ever hidden what it thinks politically.

There are many who'd argue that the Democrat Party was hijacked by the liberals and has been for a couple of decades; it hasn't been good for them either.

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I live in an area that is crawling with tea party types. In my experience, he's absolutely right. Even if he's wrong, big deal. That O'Keefe character's videos have been widely shown to be made up for the most part anyhow.

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Seems like another of these ginned-up Right-wing-o-verse news stories. I agree, why is this supposed to be important? That the guy has opinions? BFD.

Mah god .... NPR is run by LEFTIES!

I'm definitely shocked. Oh, the humanity.

Important Enough to Sack NPR's CEO

I don't think she'll get the same deal as Juan Williams.

Maybe she'll get lonely, go to a bar and really tie Juan on.

Crying about " its only his opinion" misses the mark.
NPR is PUBLICLY funded; they represent ALL of us. They are not to program with an agenda.Clearly, they do have an agenda.
As a side point, how does one measure intolerance? If you took his comments, and put them in a Tea Party person's mouth, you guys would all be upset about the lack of tolerance.
His opinion that TP is stupid is the same ole same ole liberal playbook. Liberals always call conservatives "stupid" and never apologize. Must be because the intellectually superior liberals KNOW they are right.
Play by the same rules.

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NPR, PBS or the CPB, do not "speak for all of us" as a result of public funds. There are no such limitations on the grants. Many organizations get grants, but they do not represent "all of us."

However, NPR has often prided itself on being neutral in their programming. While the comments of one executive does not make it NPR policy, it is still contrary to the stated policy of the network.

De-fund it now

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If it is important people wil support it without the need for coercive government intervention on its behalf.

I give about $100/year to my local NPR station because I like their programming. In the car I listen to Sirius/XM Radio, often turned to the NPR channels. I pay for that use, too. To me it is worth it.

If it isn't worth it to you (all) why should you pay for what I like?

There is no other station on my radio dial that delivers the quality of NPR. If NPR goes away, I don't think the market will replace it. I don't know why that would be the case, but I believe that it is.

I'm told, but can't verify, that the United States spends a paltry amount on public radio compared to other countries, for what that's worth.

$90M to CPB. CPB sends money to affiliates to pay for programming. Affiliates buy feed from NPR. I read that affiliates are about 70% locally funded. What would it take to get the other 30%? Here locally, they do a lot of local programming that generates a lot of money through annual pledges. I don't know what the proportion is at my local community. I'd like to know the answer. Hmmm.

I agree with you concerning local programming and that's why I pledge every year. I get value for my pledge.

Do you pledge?

Why or why not?