NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
Rob Long ·
Mar 8, 2011 at 9:37am
I know Claire has posted on this below -- feel free to continue the discussion there -- but here's the video.
It's....awesome.
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May '10
Re: NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
SMILE, you're on Leftist Camera...
(rich song parody ground--if you're old enough to know to what I refer)
Jun '10
Re: NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
These people could make Vidkun Quisling blush.
Jun '10
Re: NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
I am astounded. Pulitzer time.
Nov '10
Re: NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
The Shiller guy quit last week. I wonder why...
Nov '10
Re: NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
The Schiller guy quit last week. I wonder why...
Sep '10
Re: NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
I fail to see how on a moral level either of the two NPR people could have any expectation of privacy in such a situation. It's a public place. No formal negotiations are going on. They're just conversing. Anyone could overhear. If I was in the company of a controversial group I was hoping to get money from and was not absolutely certain of who they were, I would definitely not say anything that might be construed as going against my organization's public face. (I bet you anything that the woman was a little uncomfortable with Shiller's loose talk and that's why she was much more reticent.)
My only criticism is that the filmmakers should add a note at the end of the film saying that Shiller has since left NPR.
May '10
Re: NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
The contempt these grandees display for their fellow countrymen is breathtaking but, not surprising. Give a mere mortal a little power and he will stride atop you like a colossus every time.
Are those two self-satisfied nitwits so much better informed than the rest of us ignoramuses that they can pass judgement on our character? I'd put my library up against theirs any day. Uneducated and anti-intellectual, indeed.
Jun '10
Re: NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
They truly are nit wits...he can barely form a sentence! She's a real dud.....mostly sat there with a goofy grin on her face and then became animated about the oh-so-clever National Palestinian Radio joke.
Jul '10
Re: NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
The irony of these two expressing their dismay at the educational level of the opposition when 1) the statistics skew very much in the opposite and, 2) they are blithely chatting up a terrorist front organization with no recognition whatsoever thanks to their own cultural bigotries.
The ignorance and prejudice just seeps from the screen. My MacBook Pro lost 3 IQ points just playing this.
Oct '10
Re: NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
Well-placed suggestions and confidence in the facade can go a long way. I once was able to schedule a lunch appointment with Stan Lee that way. It's more heartening therefore to see similar means being used toward much greater ends by modern day muckrakers.
"Those who exalt themselves shall be humbled..."
"No man has good enough memory to make a successful liar." - A. Lincoln
Jun '10
Re: NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
Well, this video is sure to help the cause of defunding NPR & PBS. The money can then be spent on more worthwhile programs, like a Cowboy Poetry Slam.
Dec '10
Re: NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
This almost beats Charlie Sheen's crazy antics...
Dec '10
Re: NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
Wow - So let me get this straight. This individual believes that NO ONE on the right has an advanced degree or appreciates the arts, literature or music -- at least not to his liking. Pompous ass.
Go ahead NPR ask me to renew..please! PLEASE!
Nov '10
Re: NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
Apparently, Muslims are not "fanatically involved in people's personal lives."
Jun '10
Re: NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
Apparently, Muslims are not "fanatically involved in people's personal lives."
Oh Lord.....I missed that one.....HaHa !!
Sep '10
Re: NPR Loves the Muslim Brotherhood. Does it Love You? Not So Much. (Except Your Money....)
NPR loves having “National” in its name. To them, and many others, the name means that they are the record-of-state, the official version of current events. They know that public funding (taxpayer dollars) isn’t really necessary from a strictly budgetary perspective, but it is critically important philosophically. Without federal government support, most of their credibility and much of their private contributions would fall away.
From my perspective, news reporting is simply not a valid use of public funds – period. Even if Shiller had said better things (like: “NPR doesn’t hold political positions,” or “we can’t take a donation if there is an expectation that your money will influence news coverage,” or “you’re the Muslim Brotherhood!, I’m outta here!”), I would still want NPR defunded.