George Soros Funded NPR in October 2000 -- For a Documentary on the 'Texas Death Machine' Under George W. Bush

Again, the NPR does not have a liberal agenda, no sirree, none whatsoever:

Matthew Boyle at the Daily Caller offered more Thursday on how NPR director of institutional giving Betsy Liley discussed with the fake Muslim front group MEAC how George Soros decided to obscure his large donation to NPR by opting against on-air announcements of his $1.8 million gift to place reporters in every state capital (perhaps complete with medical-marijuana information brochures).


But then Liley suggested to the MEAC impersonators this was not the first time Soros donated to NPR. In a classic example of Soros-enabled liberal bias, he funded a documentary about executions in the state of Texas -- on October 12, 2000! -- just as Texas Gov. George W. Bush was running for president. This was the day after Bush was questioned on the death penalty in Texas in a presidential debate. (Salon.com interviewed the documentarians under the headline "Inside the Texas Death Machine.")


This attempt at a public execution of the Bush for President campaign had multiple funders, according to the press release: "Witness to an Execution was funded in part by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Soros Foundation."


Certainly a press release is public notice of a Soros grant. But it's not as much notice as announcing the grant on NPR's air from coast to coast. From Boyle's account:


Liley brought up Soros and his nonprofit organization, the Open Society Institute, while discussing what kind of on-air publicity the Muslim Education Action Center (MEAC) Trust would want in exchange for its donation. Liley mentioned that Soros and his organization decided they didn't want on-air publicity for their donation to avoid conservatives' scrutiny.


"George Soros and the Open Society Institute gave us $1.8 million, and they have decided not to use on-air credits because of what's happening in Congress," Liley said. When the man she thought represented the fictitious Muslim Brotherhood front group asked her how Soros's donation and "what's happening in Congress," relate, Liley said conservatives tried to link Soros's donation to Williams's firing.

NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Ousted By NPR Board Of Directors

Liberals love to claim that there isn't such thing as a liberal bias in the media, but something conservatives like to refer to as "facts" keep telling a different story. Rich, smug, pompous, snobby and white liberal elites like Vivian Schiller dominate the upper branch of the mainstream media landscape, therefore they're the ones controlling what you see and read on NPR as well as CBS, NBC, ABC and any other member of the MSM. Thus, FOX isn't an "arm of the GOP" so much as it just makes up for huge liberal bias. That and when you take into account that only 20% of America consider themselves to be "liberal" is why FOX dominates the ratings time and time again:

Well it is officially a bad week for individuals named Schiller who used to work for NPR. First there was Ron Schiller, who was caught in a hidden camera video sting making negative comments about conservatives and Tea Partiers, and now NPR’s Media Reporter David Folkenflik has revealed via Twitter that CEO Vivian Schiller (no relation to Ron) has been forced out by the board at NPR because of this controversy.


NPR released the following statement:


“It is with deep regret that I tell you that the NPR Board of Directors has accepted the resignation of Vivian Schiller as President and CEO of NPR, effective immediately.


“The Board accepted her resignation with understanding, genuine regret, and great respect for her leadership of NPR these past two years.


“Vivian brought vision and energy to this organization. She led NPR back from the enormous economic challenges of the previous two years. She was passionately committed to NPR’s mission, and to stations and NPR working collaboratively as a local-national news network.


“According to a CEO succession plan adopted by the Board in 2009, Joyce Slocum, SVP of Legal Affairs and General Counsel, has been appointed to the position of Interim CEO. The Board will immediately establish an Executive Transition Committee that will develop a timeframe and process for the recruitment and selection of new leadership.


“I recognize the magnitude of this news – and that it comes on top of what has been a traumatic period for NPR and the larger public radio community. The Board is committed to supporting NPR through this interim period and has confidence in NPR’s leadership team.”


Schiller has had a rough few months given the numerous controversies that have surrounded NPR under her watch. Last year Schiller received criticism for her handling of former NPR commentator Juan Williams, who was fired from the public radio outlet after making candid comments about Muslims at airports. Since then, Williams has become a very vocal critic of his former employer and seemed to fan the flames of anger towards the federally funded outlet that had for a long time flown under the radar of public opinion media.


The most recent controversy, which appears to have been her undoing, was a hidden camera sting produced by James O’Keefe, the controversial independent filmmaker, that arranged a lunch between Ron Schiller, a former development executive, and two actors hired to act like Islamic philanthropists. The video reveals Schiller dismissing an uneducated conservative base, and while he had no hand in editorial matters at NPR, the video revealed to many an elitist point-of-view that seemed impolitic for an ostensibly unbiased media outlet that receives Federal funding.

RELATED: Juan Williams Responds

Undercover Video Leads Tea Party To Call For An End To Government Funding Of NPR

Now that this is out can NPR stop pretending like they're not biased?:

According to Fox News’ report on the undercover video organized by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, some Tea Party groups are calling for an end to government funding of NPR. The video footage shows former NPR senior executive Ron Schiller (who announced last week that he would be leaving NPR to act as director of the Aspen Institute Arts Program and Harman-Eisner Artist-in-Residence Program) and Betsy Liley, NPR’s director of institutional giving, at a meeting with two men from a fictitious, supposedly Muslim Brotherhood-backed organization. During the meeting, Schiller makes several negative remarks about Tea Party members, referring to them as “xenophobic,” “racist” and “gun-toting,” as well as saying that liberals are generally more “fair and balanced” than conservatives.


USA Today is also reporting that Mark Meckler, the national coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots (one of the largest groups within the Tea Party movement) points out that, in the video, Schiller “candidly admits” that NPR does not need federal funding before calling NPR a “clearly biased news organization that is out of touch with Americans.”


NPR has since released a statement saying they are appalled by Schiller’s comments, “which are contrary to what NPR stands for.”

RELATED: NPR Plays Damage Control, Distances Itself From Ron Schiller

NPR's Nina Totenberg Expresses Regret for Using Term 'Christmas Party'

Yeah, don't ever equate NPR with promoting leftwing propaganda:

Eggnog tasting. Red-and-green theme party. Holiday get-together.


Perhaps these would be acceptable terms. But "Christmas Party"? Put it on the naughty list.


NPR's Nina Totenberg suggests that using the word "Christmas" to describe all those winter-weather parties is somehow inappropriate, as she excused herself over the weekend for using it during an on-air discussion.


The peculiar remark came as Totenberg was making a point about the budget. She asked her fellow panelists to "forgive the expression" when she mentioned a Christmas party she attended.


"I want to say one thing about the budget that didn't get passed, the omnibus bill. You know, we talk a lot about -- we just passed this huge tax cut in part because business said, you know, we have to plan, we have to know what kind of tax cuts we have. Well, these agencies, including the Defense Department, don't know how much money they've got and for what," she said. "And I was at -- forgive the expression -- a Christmas party at the Department of Justice and people actually (were) really worried about this."


Totenberg, the legal affairs correspondent for NPR, was participating in a roundtable on "Inside Washington," a show produced by ABC's Washington affiliate and distributed to PBS stations. Sunday's airing of the show did not include the discussion in question. But a representative with the Media Research Center, which originally posted the clip online, said the version of the show which aired Friday on PBS' Washington affiliate WETA included the uncut section.