SD> While I'm not involved with the Tea Party at all, I did   
    SD> find this article interesting...   
      
    SD> === Cut ===   
    SD> NPR Is Collateral Damage in Battle to Brand Tea Party   
      
    SD> Posted By Andrew Breitbart On March 11, 2011 @ 9:59 am   
      
    SD> This article first appeared at the Huffington Post [1].   
      
    Since O'Keefe's video has been shown to be fraudulent, why is   
    that even an issue?   
      
    SD> The latest James O’Keefe success story [2] against NPR has   
    SD> taken a predictable pattern — panicked press releases and   
    SD> firings, followed by denunciation of O’Keefe in a belated   
    SD> attempt to discredit him. Naturally, conservatives are   
      
    Esp since Glen Beck's people discredited O'Keefe definatively.   
      
    ...   
      
    SD> as racist. Remember the protests on Capitol Hill last March   
    SD> against ObamaCare, and the media’s lie that members of the   
    SD> Congressional Black Congress had awful racial slurs hurled   
    SD> at them by Tea Party members that weekend? Did you know   
    SD> that there’s video evidence that it isn’t true?   
      
    How is there evidence it isn't true?   
      
    Remember the right wing mantra, "Lack of evidence is not   
    evidence of lack."?   
      
    ...   
      
    SD> But the mainstream media has allowed the lie to live on as   
    SD> one of the central “proofs” of Tea Party racism. It’s been   
      
    Only a true fool believes there is no racism at all in the Tea   
    Party.   
      
    SD> The mainstream media promotes the idea that the Tea Party   
    SD> is racist because they want to delegitimize an authentic,   
    SD> grassroots movement that stands up to big government. And   
      
    And that is a lie from the git-go. The Mainstream media says   
    little about the Tea Party, but practically nothing negative.   
      
    SD> the “Tea Party N-word” story ties all the other lies about   
    SD> the Tea Party together–that it’s violent, that it’s   
    SD> extreme, that it’s a “mob.” If you want to see what a   
      
    Which has not appeared in the MSM that I have seen at all.   
      
    ...   
      
    SD> James O’Keefe’s NPR tapes show what conservatives already   
    SD> knew: that avowed radical religious extremist racists like   
    SD> the Muslim Brotherhood get better treatment from   
    SD> journalists than politically engaged Americans who believe   
    SD> in limited government. Jihadist high-rollers or the   
      
    Glen Beck showed what progressives already knew, that right   
    wingers would believe any lie that paints the opposition badly.   
      
    ...   
      
    SD> guilty-until-proven-innocent Tea Party or people at town   
    SD> hall meetings.   
      
    The Tea Partyiers were proven guilty at town hall meetings.   
      
    SD> But here’s the question that no one on the left–except Jon   
    SD> Stewart [8]–is asking about the NPR sting: why did NPR roll   
    SD> over so quickly? Why did they fire Ron Schiller that same   
    SD> day, and why did NPR’s board fire Vivian Schiller the next?   
      
    True. Why did they cave to O'keefe's fraud?   
      
    SD> Ron Schiller could have fought back. He could have   
    SD> emphasized that he was speaking in his personal capacity,   
    SD> and that he had no input into NPR’s editorial process. But   
    SD> he didn’t fight. Why not?   
      
    Or, he could have argued that he did not say what he was accused   
    of, and the O'Keefe faked up his videos. Which happens to be the   
    truth.   
      
    ...   
      
    SD> Maybe NPR knows there’s more to come–that O’Keefe has more   
    SD> evidence of high-level collusion with the radical left.   
      
    Turns out O'Keefe didn't even have what he posted.   
      
    ...   
      
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