In Defense of NPR

When Gov. Scott Walker was caught on tape musing about how he wanted to let troublemakers mingle among the Wisconsin protesters; it made the news for about five minutes. When James O'Keefe and Andrew Breitbart manipulate tape to show their point of view, think Shirley Sherrod and acorn, it makes headlines. For those who still think there is a liberal bias to the news I say you are delusional.

NPR is the only real news let and if you think it's liberal it's only because it challenges the status quo, as news should. News should challenge not reflect.

As far as the Schiller and Schiller debacle... fuck it... What did Schiller actually say?

"The current Republican Party is not really the Republican Party. It's been hijacked by this group that is ... not just Islamophobic but, really, xenophobic," Schiller said in the video, referring to the tea party movement. "They believe in sort of white, middle America, gun-toting — it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people."

It's true! "We've just exposed the true hearts and minds of NPR and their executives," O'Keefe said in a letter posted on the site. What is interesting and what's not getting reported is The heavily edited video shows Schiller and another NPR executive, Betsy Liley, meeting at a pricey restaurant in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood with two men claiming to be part of a Muslim organization. The men offer NPR a $5 million donation. NPR said Tuesday it was "repeatedly pressured" to accept a $5 million check, which the organization "repeatedly refused."

What is interesting is the O'Keefe claims to stand for truthiness but heavily edits his videos, just like Andrew Breitbart, to tell his story..

As far as Juan Williams is concerned, he should have been let go a long time ago. He obviously loved working for Fox more than he loved working for NPR. If you value NPR let your voice be hear http://www.170millionamericans.org/