Did NPR Use Taxpayer Money to Promote 'Teabagger' Bashing Video?
This is outrageous. It’s not only CNN and MSNBC who are attacking ordinary Americans who oppose the democrat’s record spending and massive expansion of government. National Public Radio is using your taxpayer dollars to bash teabaggers with their latest online video “Learn to Speak Teabag.”
The video bashes Republican Representatives who took donations from insurance or pharmaceutical companies but totally ignores the seedy Chicago style backroom deals made and bribes offered by democrats to get their massive takeover of the health care industry rammed through Congress. Read more here.
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Jim Hoft, who blogs at the popular http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com, said it was "outrageous" for NPR, which receives federal funding, to use "taxpayer dollars to bash teabaggers" by posting a video created by Mark Fiore titled "Learn to Speak Tea Bag" in November. The phrase "tea bag" has sexual connotations that many "tea party" protesters object to, and in the video, a narrator mocks tea party protesters by instructing a man to use words like "socialist" and "Nazi" to discuss health care reform, as well in other everyday interactions, like ordering French fries at a fast-food restaurant. The video was originally posted by NPR on Nov. 12, but didn't get much notice at the time. Most comments about the video, many critical, were left on the NPR Web site after Mr. Hoft linked it on his blog. Mr. Fiore, a well-known political cartoonist whose work occasionally appears on NPR's opinion pages, told The Washington Times in an e-mail, "To me, comments and allegations coming from various 'Tea Party' groups were ridiculously conspiratorial and ripe for satire. "Though sensible arguments can obviously be made questioning various cost controls, reimbursements, premiums, etc., the Tea Baggers quickly leap to accusations of 'socialism' and 'nazi,'" he wrote. "As a citizen, that infuriates me. As a cartoonist, that is the perfect recipe for political satire. In short, this cartoon is both my view and is a parody of what I feel are the shortcomings of the Tea Party mentality." Mr. Hoft says NPR was wrong to post it. "It is very upsetting to see NPR join with MSNBC and CNN in attacking the tea party protesters with vulgar sexual slurs," he told The Times. "The hundreds of thousands of conservative Americans who attended the hundreds of tea party protests across the country in 2009 do not consider themselves 'teabag' protesters. This was a sexual smear created by leftists to degrade those who oppose the current government's massive expansion and out of control spending." Source
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martmann
this adminstration has used the govt to pay for its election acorn was given 850,000 by obama for help in election for his change adm or should we say communist takeover of govt. and all the stooges on cap hill going along with this will find themselves out in next election now i have to go vomit again.
samdunaway
check this out !
the obama deception hq full length version
nice post. thanks.
DGHankins
I hope so....anything to show the nut for what and who they are.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! :-)
Quickdraw in AZ
Lefties are so smug because for decades, they've had the alphabet networks working for them, and they KNOW that millions of Americans STILL remain clueless BECAUSE they get their news from NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, CNN, et al. Their whole broadcast purpose is to KEEP them clueless. There are still millions of "non-political" Americans who do not watch Fox or listen to Sean or Rush who have not heard of Climategate, have not heard about the Communist Van Jones, or the fanatical Rev. Wright, Or the Cloward/Pivens strategy being practiced, simply because they get their news from the networks they've always trusted. Sorta makes you wonder, doesn't it, how many years the news has been shaped rather than reported?
For leftists, truth does not matter. All that matters is perception. It's a fact... lies work! That's why they tell 'em until all the mushrooms kept in the dark believe 'em. Many American lefties do not even know they are fascists and socialists... they think their leftist philosophy is home grown American, and they think we're just calling them names like they do to others.
Here's something for all you snorters and tokers out there to put in your pipe... your drug habits SUPPORT Taliban and many other Muslim terrorists to do their murderous works, not to mention the equally murderous drug cartels. You harmless pot smokers... YOU support terrorism directly by the drug choices you ingest. The blind leading the blind.
DGHankins
the right wing are bunch of back wood, let's interbred, red necks.
McNamara
and the lefties like yourself, cannot even use proper grammar or spell correctly. It's backwoods, in-bred, rednecks. Dumb@ss.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! :-)
McNamara
Then NPR needs to run this video! It speaks volumes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiyqvuTxaEs
Thigocia
They just bashed my Congressman... I don't think they really planned on that making me proud.
(NPR's own site, saying they are partially government funded: http://www.npr.org/about/privatesupport.html)
joeyblueyes
DA! DA!
tjkenny
I don't support NPR profiling and attacking Americans that have a right to protest against the direction of the Government. For that matter, NPR should and must do a similar pirce to profile and attack CODE PINK, ACLU, CHRIS DODD, NANCY PELOSI, ETC to keep a balance in their reporting.
dvtaz
National Public Radio doesn't need listeners as long as they get taxpayer money to stay on the air.
Debbie S.
That does it. NPR lost me forever as a listener. I doubt if they care.
jimmyoo9
the dem are baling out left and right lol ,cspann got egg in there face well cspan what do you and the rest of the media abc,cbs,msnbc cnn think now about oboma he more or less told them to go f$#k them selfs
Ken123
It is called PROPOGANDA and this administration is using it profusely to include indoctrinating (brainwashing) our children from the day they start school.
Sounds like the Nazis and Communists to me.
Citizen4USA
Bye!
Flusher
Then why are you here?
Flusher
This was attached to a BSTROLL comment. Where did it go?
LMAO! ROFL! We are in your HEAD now maggot troll!
Flusher
Do you sleep?
From Minnesota
Humorous cartoon about Obama using his veto pen on the Constitution instead of the budget at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/category/politics/
Recon
yes, reminds me of this....C_A_Journal: http://tinyurl.com/ykmdt4y ACORN Opens Branch in New York's City Hall
Thoughtful Liberal
Have you ever heard of DBT/ Choicepoint?
Proudly_American
I thought the TEA bag movement was bi-partisan and was against high taxes and all out of control government spending, starting with Reagan when our National deficit started to skyrocket. Yet the article states it is against the Democrats spending. Seems like someone let the cat out of the bag. You weren't really fooling anyone anyways.
HOT DEBBIE
YEAH..THEY THINK THIER SO FUNNY. WHEN THIER OUT OF POWER FOR THE NEXT 50 YEARS THEY WON'T BE LAUGHING SO HARD.
CONSERVATIVES ARE BIRTHER TEABAGGERS
I really doubt that you are so hot.
LEMMING...I know you're a liberal skank now. Petty.
roguetea
rogue, Taking Every Advantage
I doubt if you understand the heat.
tea party, Act 2010, ROGUE ON
Recon
yup wonder if these guys had a role?
corruption at SEIU, the third leg of the SEIU / ACORN / Soros Crime Syndicate http://is.gd/4fVro
Flusher
I guess reattaching missing fingers is not in any health care policies that all the characters in this cartoon have.
Rick " An Illinois Conservative "
Interpol to the rescue...
Can't trust Americans anymore...
Recon
It is time to recognize that the power of the American Presidency
is having the option to wage war.
This is the trump card against the Islamic Radicals.
History will prove that Bush was feared among our enemies,
and fear was the biggest deterrent we had.
CONSERVATIVES ARE BIRTHER TEABAGGERS
Congress wages war, fool. Not the President.
** Salute ** Enjoy your posts, Recon. Take a look at this video. It's Lieutenant Colonel Allen West describing how we defeat the enemy by defining the enemy. LTC West has 22 years experience in the US military and was deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan. He understands our enemy much better than Bush, even though I respect Bush's tough stance. Sard out.
The Enemy: http://tinyurl.com/DefineYourEnemyByLTCWest
LEMMING........STFU!
CONSERVATIVES ARE BIRTHER TEABAGGERS
Yeah, Bush had a real tough stance when he used his family influence to stay in the air guard and out of viet nam. Real gung ho.
No Spin
Good luck on whites being the minority, what sad shape this country would be!
spleen
"Brain" isn't spelled S-P-I-N fyi
1st CONFISCATORY CHURCH OF THE GLOW-BALL MYTH
You might want to rethink your own name.
Bill589
The Democratic party is shrinking, as the Republican party already has. The Tea Party is now bigger than both of them. With no official leaders yet, this is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people. Unless, you're a Big Government elite, or just happen to believe in communism, then this is good news. America survives.
Recon
'Transparency'
was never more than a promise,
which is often just a
'preemptive lie'.
~ Pat Dollard
Lourdes
@Early Music Fan - although I don't fit into any of the stereotypes you mentioned, I personally can't wait to become a minority. I so hope I live to mid-century when Caucasians will be the supposed minority. I've already told my Mexican hubby to enjoy his hispanic minority status while he can because in just 40 years - it will be MY turn.
united
I'm from Mass and how come ther isn't more support for Scott Brown, the republican running against Martha Coakley? You all want to bash the dems but how about some support for Scott who can stop the crazy spending and the health care idiots in DC? He would replace Ted Kennedy and make it so the dems can't pass anymore bills. He needs help so why don't the repubs back him up?
united
And why han't anyone replyed? Do you all want to have this country go bankrupt? Are you all winers?
Bill589
The Democratic party is shrinking, as the Republican party already has. The Tea Party is now bigger than both of them. With no official leaders yet, this is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people. Unless, you're a Big Government elite, or just happen to believe in communism, then this is good news. America survives.
I agree with you. I would like to see the GOP get its act together and return to its Constitutional roots, but if it does not I do believe that for the first time that a third party movement could indeed sweep them all aside and return government back to the people. So be it!
Jenney
IF you owe money to the IRS, wait until the very last day to pay it. Change your deductibles so that you don't over pay all year long, they get to keep your money all year and don't give you interest on it.
S-M-D
STANDARD "lonely" LIBERAL..............
I would like to thank you for providing information about how few of you there really are on this forum---I encourage you to continue your diatribe against all conservative values. Your bosses have no idea how much you contribute to the resolve of the conservative movement...Your ignorance as to the effect you have, is one of our best allies. We could show you proof positive that you are throwing fuel on the fire of your own demise and it would have absolutely no effect on your suicide mission. So carry on.!☺☺☺☺