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O'Keefe represents dishonest, destructive, smash-mouth Repug dirty-tricks politics at its very worst.
Schiller wasn't politically correct, but he spoke the truth.
NPR: O'Keefe 'Inappropriately Edited' Video; Exec's Words Still 'Egregious'
NPR's David Folkenflik has done more reporting on the differences between the 11 1/2 minute video that O'Keefe's Project Veritas produced and the two hours worth of video that O'Keefe says is the largely unedited account of a lunch that Schiller and another NPR fundraising executive had with two men posing as representatives of a Muslim group that wanted to donate $5 million to NPR.
Al Tompkins, a senior faculty member for broadcasting and online at the Poynter Ins ute, says to David that he tells his children there are "two ways to lie. One is to tell me something that didn't happen. And the other is not to tell me something that did happen." After comparing O'Keefe's edited tape to the longer version, "I think that they employed both techniques in this," Tompkins says.
One "big warning flag" Tompkins saw in the shorter tape was the way it made it appear that Schiller had laughed and commented "really, that's what they said?" after being told that the fake Muslim group advocates for sharia law. In fact, the longer tape shows that Schiller made that comment during an "innocuous exchange" that had nothing to do with the supposed group's position on sharia law, David reports.
Tompkins also says that O'Keefe's edited tape ignores the fact that Schiller said "six times ... over and over and over again" that donors cannot buy the kind of coverage they want on NPR.
Scott Baker, editor in chief of the conservative news site The Blaze, tells David that after watching the two-hour video he came away with the impression that the NPR executives "seem to be fairly balanced people."
NPR spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm told David late yesterday that O'Keefe "inappropriately edited the videos with an intent to discredit" NPR. Still, she added, Schiller made some "egregious statements."
As we said yesterday, those included Schiller calling the Tea Party a "weird evangelical" movement that has helped push the "current Republican Party" to become "fanatically involved in people's personal lives."
As Time magazine's James Poniewozik writes at his Tuned In blog, "the close-up look [at the longer tape] doesn't let the executive, Ron Schiller, off the hook. But it shows O'Keefe edited the short version of his video to fit his anti-NPR agenda. Explaining why both things can be true at once requires, well, a lot of context."
Before the videos were released last Tuesday, Schiller had already announced he was leaving NPR. After their release, he apologized for his statements and said he was resigning immediately. The next day, NPR's board ousted CEO/President Vivian Schiller (no relation to Ron) because it felt she could no longer effectively lead the organization due to the distractions of this controversy and last year's dismissal of news analyst Juan Williams.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...till-egregious
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I get the feeling Okeefe will be hoisted by his own pe at some point.--RG
O'Keefe represents dishonest, destructive, smash-mouth Repug dirty-tricks politics at its very worst.
Schiller wasn't politically correct, but he spoke the truth.
Indeed. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already.
Breitbart and O'Keefe are teflon heroes for Repugs and conservatives.
Nah, you can't troll a top troll.
If that's true, he's only being the balance to what the liberal media does...
liberal media? just another VRWC lie.
ACORN, Sherrods, NPR, where is the mythical liberal media matching those Repug slanders?
The "ends justify the means"?
"If everybody else is doing it, that makes it ok for me to do it."
You are rationalizing moral rot because you sympathize with him.
Congratulations on supporting immoral behavior for self-serving reasons.
Liberal's don't like getting Michael Moored by Conservatives?
Who would have thunk it...
Michael Moore wins Oscars for doing the exact same thing.
I don't think Moore ever did anything quite as aggregiously misleading.
Stilted, yes.
Outright knowingly lying? No.
That aside, it wouldn't be right if he had done so either.
Rationalizing fail. Go stand in the corner with Wile E. Cobra.
It's an easy trap to fall into. Et tu, Brute?The "ends justify the means"?
"If everybody else is doing it, that makes it ok for me to do it."
You are rationalizing moral rot because you sympathize with him.
Congratulations on supporting immoral behavior for self-serving reasons.
Oh yes, Moore has been every bit as misleading as O'keefe. The difference being, O'keefe went to the media whoring his out. Moore went to Hollywood.
Nice to see you being non partisan. Way to support a liar.
MMoore pulls slanderous like Breitbart and O'Keefe? any specific examples?
NPR Scandal Reversal: The Raw Footage Shows Something Else
http://www.truth-out.org/print/68450
O'Keefe is like Moore in that both are generally tolerated by their respective political sides, but not fully embraced. This provides the flexibility to disavow, and serves to enable greater hijinks.
Sure there are, Go google his 9/11 film. Of course, you won't find anything about it on truth-out.borg.
lol @ codependents O'keefe and Moore with the myopic politico as the enablers.
Michael Moore has done it far more often and far worse. And yes, these same people complaining about O'Keefe, love Moore.
Did I say I support him?
lol balance
Indeed it is.It's an easy trap to fall into. Et tu, Brute?
As much as I might wish for some balance to Fox "news" and its obvious 24/7 editorializing, to me it says volumes that the Fox business model doesn't play well with the left, so far.
I might wish for a counter, but it would be just as bad as Fox for the same reasons. sigh.
Exactly. Good on ya.
Rationalizing his behavior pretty much counts as "support", in my opinion.
If the situation were reversed, you would probably say the same, yes?
Or is it instead slamming the liberals who do the same?
Eye's of the beholder. You are applying your prejudice of me, assuming what you want.
Bad form...
Relying on the "They did it WORSE" line of playground reasoning is also bad form, IMO.
"Michael Moore has done it far more often and far worse."
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