Subj : NPR is collateral damage... To : SEAN DENNIS From : BOB KLAHN Date : Tue Mar 22 2011 05:53:44 SD> While I'm not involved with the Tea Party at all, I did SD> find this article interesting... SD> === Cut === SD> NPR Is Collateral Damage in Battle to Brand Tea Party SD> Posted By Andrew Breitbart On March 11, 2011 @ 9:59 am SD> This article first appeared at the Huffington Post [1]. Since O'Keefe's video has been shown to be fraudulent, why is that even an issue? SD> The latest James O’Keefe success story [2] against NPR has SD> taken a predictable pattern — panicked press releases and SD> firings, followed by denunciation of O’Keefe in a belated SD> attempt to discredit him. Naturally, conservatives are Esp since Glen Beck's people discredited O'Keefe definatively. ... SD> as racist. Remember the protests on Capitol Hill last March SD> against ObamaCare, and the media’s lie that members of the SD> Congressional Black Congress had awful racial slurs hurled SD> at them by Tea Party members that weekend? Did you know SD> that there’s video evidence that it isn’t true? How is there evidence it isn't true? Remember the right wing mantra, "Lack of evidence is not evidence of lack."? ... SD> But the mainstream media has allowed the lie to live on as SD> one of the central “proofs” of Tea Party racism. It’s been Only a true fool believes there is no racism at all in the Tea Party. SD> The mainstream media promotes the idea that the Tea Party SD> is racist because they want to delegitimize an authentic, SD> grassroots movement that stands up to big government. And And that is a lie from the git-go. The Mainstream media says little about the Tea Party, but practically nothing negative. SD> the “Tea Party N-word” story ties all the other lies about SD> the Tea Party together–that it’s violent, that it’s SD> extreme, that it’s a “mob.” If you want to see what a Which has not appeared in the MSM that I have seen at all. ... SD> James O’Keefe’s NPR tapes show what conservatives already SD> knew: that avowed radical religious extremist racists like SD> the Muslim Brotherhood get better treatment from SD> journalists than politically engaged Americans who believe SD> in limited government. Jihadist high-rollers or the Glen Beck showed what progressives already knew, that right wingers would believe any lie that paints the opposition badly. ... SD> guilty-until-proven-innocent Tea Party or people at town SD> hall meetings. The Tea Partyiers were proven guilty at town hall meetings. SD> But here’s the question that no one on the left–except Jon SD> Stewart [8]–is asking about the NPR sting: why did NPR roll SD> over so quickly? Why did they fire Ron Schiller that same SD> day, and why did NPR’s board fire Vivian Schiller the next? True. Why did they cave to O'keefe's fraud? SD> Ron Schiller could have fought back. He could have SD> emphasized that he was speaking in his personal capacity, SD> and that he had no input into NPR’s editorial process. But SD> he didn’t fight. Why not? Or, he could have argued that he did not say what he was accused of, and the O'Keefe faked up his videos. Which happens to be the truth. ... SD> Maybe NPR knows there’s more to come–that O’Keefe has more SD> evidence of high-level collusion with the radical left. Turns out O'Keefe didn't even have what he posted. ... BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn .... Freedom is more precious than peace. --- Via Silver Xpress V4.5/P [Reg] * Origin: Since 1991 And Were Still Here! DOCSPLACE.TZO.COM (1:123/140) .