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NPR executives caught on tape bashing conservatives and Tea Party, touting liberals — A man who appears to be a senior National Public Radio senior executive, Ron Schiller, has been captured on camera savaging conservatives and the Tea Party movement. — “The current Republican Party …
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James O'Keefe Versus NPR — The video sting artiste publishes the latest work from his shop — a covertly taped interview with then-NPR Foundation senior VP for development Ron Schiller and current senior director of institutional giving Betsy Liley. Shaughn Adeleye and Simon Templar posed …
Mark Memmott / NPR:
In Video: NPR Exec Slams Tea Party, Questions Need For Federal Funds — NPR's then-senior vice president for fundraising Ron Schiller is seen and heard on a videotape released this morning telling two men who were posing as members of a fictitious Muslim Action Education Center that:
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James O'Keefe's Project Veritas:
Project Veritas Investigates: NPR — Project Veritas' latest investigation focuses on the publically-funded media organization, National Public Radio. PV investigative reporters, Shaughn Adeleye and Simon Templar posed as members of the Muslim Action Education Center, a non-existent group with a goal to …
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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
NPR responds to executive's comments — National Public Radio spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm responded to the remarks NPR foundation's nonprofit president Ron Schiller made. — “The fraudulent organization represented in this video repeatedly pressed us to accept a $5 million check …
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Ron Schiller exiting NPR for Aspen Institute
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
NPR Executive Caught Calling Tea Partiers ‘Racist’
NPR Executive Caught Calling Tea Partiers ‘Racist’
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
NPR CEO: We're a lot more seriously racist, xenophobic conservative than you think
NPR CEO: We're a lot more seriously racist, xenophobic conservative than you think
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David Mastio / Washington Times:
NPR seeks funding from Sharia backers
NPR seeks funding from Sharia backers
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Freshman Democrat Joe Manchin: Obama has ‘failed to lead’ on budget — West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is planning to rip President Barack Obama on his budget proposals in a Senate floor speech Tuesday, a rare rebuke from a freshman Democrat who's clearly worried about the politics …
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Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Reid: Save federal funding for the cowboy poets! — File this under: Did Harry Reid just say that? — In the middle of his tirade against House Republicans' “mean-spirited” budget bill on the Senate floor Tuesday, the Senate Majority Leader lamented that the GOP's proposed budget cuts …
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Blaming Democrats' ‘lack of action,’ House GOP prepares a second stopgap
Blaming Democrats' ‘lack of action,’ House GOP prepares a second stopgap
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Drive to recall Wisconsin GOP senators gaining steam, Dems say — So how's the drive to recall Wisconsin GOP state senators going? If these new numbers the Wisconsin Democratic Party shares with me are accurate, it's already exceeding expectations in a big way.
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Ezra Klein:
Senate Democrats weigh making big mistake on health-care reform — I'm getting some worried e-mails from Hill staffers who think Senate Democrats might rubberstamp a policy House Republicans passed to undermine the Affordable Care Act. It's the sort of policy decision that won't get much attention …
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The Politico:
Republicans divided over Muslim hearings — The top two House Republican leaders are divided over how to handle the bubbling controversy surrounding Homeland Security Chairman Peter King's hearing into “radicalization” in the American Muslim community. — Majority Leader Eric Cantor …
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Rep. Pete King is right, say feds and cops: We don't get many tips from Muslim community
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Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn:
The left wigs out about hearings on Islamic radicalization
The left wigs out about hearings on Islamic radicalization
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Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Rep. King on hearing critics: ‘Why are they attacking me in such a rabid way?’
Rep. King on hearing critics: ‘Why are they attacking me in such a rabid way?’
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP Sen. Lugar says he'll support House Republican spending cuts — Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.), who faces a Tea Party-backed challenge in his 2012 primary, has withdrawn his stated opposition to House-passed spending cuts. — Lugar said Tuesday afternoon that he made a mistake …
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Intruder calls 911, afraid homeowner may have gun — (CNN) — This time it was the intruder who called 911. — A man who broke into a house in Portland, Oregon, called police — afraid the homeowner may have a gun. — The suspect, Timothy James Chapek, was in the bathroom taking a shower …
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After Praising 2009 Town Hall ‘Outrage,’ Sensenbrenner Overwhelmed By Progressive Town Hall Protesters — against Democrats who supported the health care overhaul, raucously disrupting the town hall meetings of these members of Congress. — One of the Republican members of Congress …
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Can Any One Of These People Beat President Obama? — To do so, one of these candidates has to win the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. What follows is a cheat sheet of the strengths and weaknesses of each of the GOP presidential candidates and a quick assessment of where they stand now.
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Florida Republicans Are at Odds With Their Leader — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Rick Scott, the conservative Republican billionaire who plucked the governor's job from the party establishment in November with $73 million of his own money and the backing of the Tea Party, vowed during his campaign …
Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Gingrich: U.S. Military Should Go To War With Libya ‘This Evening,’ NATO 'Won't Bring Much To The Fight' — Like clockwork, conservatives have been attacking President Obama for not intervening fast enough in the crisis unfolding in Libya. Hearkening back to language Dick Cheney directed …
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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Obama Administration Official Splashes Cold Water on No Fly Zone Proposal Over Libya
Obama Administration Official Splashes Cold Water on No Fly Zone Proposal Over Libya
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
‘Gang of 6’ senators launch public campaign to support deficit reduction — RICHMOND - While Washington bickers noisily over cutting a small slice of the federal budget, Sens. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, and Saxby Chambliss, a Georgia Republican, launched a campaign Monday to convince …
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James Schneider / Fox News:
Trump Fires Back and Puts Senator in his Place — Real estate magnate Donald Trump fired back at Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.,Tuesday after the senator said the entrepreneur has no business being president. — “There's always someone like Donald Trump who runs who has absolutely no chance of winning,” Alexander said over the weekend.
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Wall Street Journal:
Israel Considers Military ‘Upgrade’ — JERUSALEM—Israel will need to boost military spending and may seek an additional $20 billion in U.S. security assistance to help it manage potential threats stemming from popular upheavals in the Arab world, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Monday.
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Drawing U.S. Crowds With Anti-Islam Message — FORT WORTH — Brigitte Gabriel bounced to the stage at a Tea Party convention last fall. She greeted the crowd with a loud Texas “Yee-HAW,” then launched into the same gripping personal story she has told in hundreds of churches, synagogues and conference rooms across the United States:
Washington Times:
NPR, PBS campaigns to keep federal funds called unlawful — NPR and PBS stations nationwide are rallying their audiences to contact Congress to fight against Republicans' proposed spending cuts, but some affiliates' pleas may violate laws preventing nonprofits or government-funded groups from lobbying.
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