This Reeks of Ripe Old Laundry

Even moreso because it can be juxtaposed against the Google News headline (from whence it also came) of : Newt Gingrich Cheated on His Wives for America New York Magazine

Can there be irony in hypocracy?

V. Schiller Forced Out as NPR President Following Hidden-Camera Sting
Published March 09, 2011
| FoxNews.com

Embattled NPR CEO Vivian Schiller resigned Wednesday at the request of the board after a hidden-camera video was released...

NPR Board of Directors Chairman Dave Edwards, in a statement on NPR's website, said the board accepted Schiller's resignation, which is "effective immediately," with regret.

According to The Associated Press, the board asked Schiller to step down, and she complied.

The announcement was made one day after a conservative activist released an undercover video showing an NPR senior executive criticizing conservatives. NPR swiftly condemned the comments by Ron Schiller, who is not related to Vivian Schiller. Ron Schiller later apologized and, though he was already planning to leave NPR, said his resignation as a senior vice president and president of the NPR Foundation would be effective immediately....


The activist who released the footage, James O'Keefe is the same conservative activist best known for producing undercover videos that showed employees with the community advocacy group ACORN helping a couple posing as a pimp and prostitute.

The controversial comments from Ron Schiller were made during a meeting with two people posing as members of a fictitious Muslim organization. The two activists, who recorded the February meeting on hidden camera, were trying to convince NPR executives to accept a $5 million donation -- money NPR apparently refused.

During the meeting, Ron Schiller talked about how the Republican Party had been "hijacked" by the Tea Party.
"The current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, is fanatically involved with people's personal lives," he said.
Schiller described that movement as "white, middle America, gun-toting," and added: "They're seriously racist people."
Ron Schiller went on to lament what he called an "anti-intellectual" component of the Republican Party.
"Liberals today might be more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives," he said.


Finally he said, "Ye might be a redneck if..." And thats when the only reasonable response was for the townsfolk to go on a witchhunt.
WTF
Mati


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