So some NPR executives got caught by conservative darling douche bag James O'Keefe, who rose to teabagger rock star status (which is kind of like being an actual rock star, only more ignorant, untalented, and a big no-no to the sex/drugs because it upsets Jesus) from his purposeful misleadingly edited videos of ACORN employees and his attempt to illegally wiretap a Democratic senator that unsurprisingly resulted in him receiving no punishment. Dressed as a Muslim radical (which, if his costume was anything like his pimp costume, had to be hilarious), he baited NPR executive Ron Schiller into opining on his views of the tea party. Schiller's crime? Stating the plainly obvious truth:
SCHILLER: The current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, is fanatically involved in people's personal lives and very fundamental Christian -- and I wouldn't even call it Christian. It's this weird evangelical kind of move... it's been hijacked by this group that...
"MUSLIM": The radical, racist, Islamophobic, Tea Party people?
SCHILLER: It's not just Islamophobic, but really xenophobic. Basically, they believe in white, middle America, gun-toting -- it's pretty scary. They're seriously racist, racist people
The immediate result is that Schiller has now resigned his position (voluntarily, I'm sure) and has been blacklisted of sorts in relevant media circles.
If you watch this video closely, you will notice that you do not see any Islamophobic, racist, gun-toting stupid fucks white people. None whatsoever. Schiller is a lying fucking asshole and deserved to be fired.
And this guy isn't white, paranoid, or alluding to being a gun-toting tough guy either:
Also these fellows seem like perfectly reasonable individuals:
And all the rest:
They can't be bothered to spell their racial slurs correctly. I'm sure if Schiller got caught saying shit like this, he'd really be screwed:
This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy — over and over again — who has a deep-seeded hatred for white people, or the white culture. I don’t know what it is. I’m not saying that he doesn’t like white people. I’m saying he has a problem. He has a, this guy is, I believe, a racist.
And I'm sure this would be beyond the pale:
"He chose to use his name, Barack, for a reason. To identify, not with America -- you don't take the name Barack to identify with America. You take the name Barack to identify with what? Your heritage? The heritage, maybe, of your father in Kenya, who is a radical?"
And any media figure going on the record with this would have definitely been facing down a career ender:
Everything that is getting pushed through Congress, including this health care bill, are transforming America. And they are all driven by President Obama's thinking on one idea: reparations. ... These massive programs are Obama brand reparations -- or in presidential speak, leveling out the playing field. But, just in case the universalness of the program doesn't somehow or another quench his reparation appetite, he is making sure to do his part to pay the debt in the other areas."
Except the speaker of these ignorant, racist invectives has a multi-million dollar contract with Fox News, and boasts a significant (albeit declining) viewership, and spews this bile nightly. Spoiler alert: it's Glenn Beck.
Schiller termed white, gun-toting, racist assholes as white, gun-toting, racist assholes, so he had to go. But making constant references to slavery and reparations in regards to the the nation's first black president and implying he's out to get whitey is just a coincidence, there's really nothing wrong with it, and we should continue to reward this guy for his completely normal and not-at-all controversial behavior.
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