The Glade 4.0

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Some people think "fiscally conservative" means "responsible spending" while some think "fiscally conservative" means "low spending."

The only responsible spending is low spending.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

What is money, Lex?

Back to the original story:

Isn't this wiretapping and illegal? I thought you could go to jail for recording people without consent.

Yeah, I don't expect most folks here to agree with me. But seriously, you guys are so far right

The Hellfire portion of this board is HEAVILY slanted to the right.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

Soviet Russia

Compare with some of our more vocal posters on the right,
... Lenas (2900+ posts) ...

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

You don't have to like NPR—I don't—to come to the defense of Ronald Schiller, the NPR executive who just got stung by video guerilla James O'Keefe....The video establishes that Schiller and his associate, Betsy Liley, will say almost anything or ignore any provocation to put themselves into a position to nab the $5 million. I'm sure if O'Keefe's colleagues had asked Schiller and Liley to get on their hands and knees and bark like dogs they would have answered, "What breed?" But pardon me if I'm not outraged that 1) a pair of NPR officials hosting potential donors would merrily slag conservatives, Republicans, Tea Party members, and other non-liberals or 2) display temporary deafness when deep-pocketed potential funders say ugly and demented things.

How should Schiller have fielded the incitements? Praised the Tea Party or remained neutral? Spat on them when they revealed their Muslim Brotherhood connection? Lectured them when they said stupid things about Jewish-Zionist media control? I certainly would have, and I'll bet you would have, too. But we'd last about 15 seconds in the fundraising business if every time a potential donor said something crazy or offensive, we told them to shut their pie hole. When people donate money, they feel even more entitled than when they're sitting in their home bank-vaults running their fingers through their cash. Rich people love to give their money away, but they're always attaching strings, and one common string is "You agree with me, right?"

From what I can tell, Schiller worked hard to keep the potential giver happy while maintaining a modicum of face. Still, he shot his mouth off in directions that don't make him or his organization look very professional....I see less of a crime here than I do a misdemeanor. I've never been a big one for criminalizing or punishing speech. If we're going to defund NPR (and I think we should), let's do it for the right reasons—because government shouldn't be in the business of funding news collection, not because somebody on the money-raising side of the operation said supremely stupid things during a sting.

You just owned yourself with your own example. Indeed, I think I shall keep this post bookmarked, as proof that you've no concept of what constitutes Right, Left, or Center.

You just owned yourself with your own example. Indeed, I think I shall keep this post bookmarked, as proof that you've no concept of what constitutes Right, Left, or Center.