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NPR's Schiller & Schiller: Many Political Missteps on the Road to Resigning
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyIn retrospect it seems inevitable. Take a hostile political environment, a red-hot spotlight and relatively inexperienced leadership, mix well, and you get tumult at NPR. Political naivete and tin ears are the threads running through the saga of Vivian Schiller, forced out as NPR's CEO on Wednesday, and Ron Schiller, no relation, who quit as NPR's top fundraiser on Tuesday. Vivian Schiller is widely credited for dramatic improvements in NPR's web presence and mobile applications, and she is a strong defender of NPR's journalism. But there's no ignoring the multiple embarrassments that are ...
Stung: NPR Execs Caught in Candid Chat With Would-be Muslim Donors
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyA video made surreptitiously by a conservative sting artist shows phony, would-be Muslim donors meeting with two NPR fundraisers who are caught on the tape making candid, awkward comments about the Republican Party -- and also talking bluntly about the ouster of commentator Juan Williams. The sting operation, produced by conservative activist James O'Keefe, shows NPR fundraisers Ron Schiller (who has since announced his departure from NPR) and Betsy Liley at lunch with two men masquerading as wealthy Muslim donors. That the NPR people appear to tell the supposed contributors what they want to ...
Opinion: Planned Parenthood and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
By not in system - AOL NewsThe first time I visited New York City as a high-schooler, I saw a teenage boy carrying a rusty machete and chasing another through the street in a rough-looking part of the Bronx. A version of the story in which I witnessed "gang warfare" still circulates through my hometown. It was probably nothing of the sort, but it confirmed what I and others had imagined about the city: It was a dirty, crime-ridden metropolis where one was likely to witness gang fights in broad daylight. It's an example of confirmation bias: Everyone believed the story because it confirmed their ...
Lila Rose: 5 Facts on the Woman Behind the Planned Parenthood Hoax [VIDEOS]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsWho orchestrated the latest Planned Parenthood hoax, in which people pretending to be sex traffickers sought advice from clinic staff? Her name is Lila Rose, and she's well known on both sides of the abortion debate. Although she's only 22 years old, she's been a high-profile member of anti-abortion circles for at least seven years. Surge Desk has the facts about the young woman who founded Live Action, the group that made the Planned Parenthood video. 1. She thinks abortions "should be performed in public" Rose voiced this opinion at the 2009 Values Voter Summit, where she was an invited ...
Planned Parenthood Hoax [VIDEO]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsLast month a Planned Parenthood in New Jersey called the FBI to report its hunch that anti-abortion operatives were visiting the clinic and posing as sex traffickers in order to entrap clinic staff. Today that hunch was proved correct. An anti-abortion group called Live Action has posted video of its scam, in which group members pretend to be a prostitute and a pimp seeking information about STD testing for underage Asian girls. Watch: If posing as a pimp while shooting undercover video sounds familiar, that's because it's the same technique conservative activist James O'Keefe used in ...
For Conservatives, Soros Is the New ACORN
By David Knowles - AOL News
(Nov. 12) -- With ACORN now officially out of business, conservative ire has found a new focal point: billionaire George Soros. As the one-man bank behind a plethora of liberal causes, seemingly lefty nonprofits, reviled media outlets like NPR, Democratic candidates and agitating websites like Media Matters, Soros has received an awful lot of attention in the past year, much of it from the commentators at Fox News. In fact, at Fox, Soros' name has replaced ACORN as the new synonym for all that is wrong with the world. The past week alone two rather significant Soros stories have made news: ...
ACORN Filing for Bankruptcy
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 2) -- Talk about timing. As millions of Americans headed to the polls to vote today, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, aka ACORN, announced that it was filing for bankruptcy. The news came in the form of a letter written by Bertha Lewis, ACORN's CEO, that was posted to the group's website. "We have seen this coming for some time," Lewis wrote. "Our chapters closed in the first quarter of the year. We have spent our remaining resources trying to dissolve the organization with integrity, while continuing to respond to the extremist attacks. Allegations and reports ...
Today in Voter Fraud: Hysteria or Imminent Threat?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 27) -- As another election draws near, it's worth asking: Which is the larger problem in America, voter fraud or voter intimidation? On Tuesday, 47 people in Minnesota were charged with voter fraud stemming from the 2008 general election, Minnesota Public Radio reported. That location is significant, as conservative activists have long alleged that Sen. Al Franken was only elected because of voter fraud. Unfortunately for the groups trying to prove that Norm Coleman was the real winner of the contest, initial claims that some 1,250 people had acted to throw the election Franken's way ...
Fake ACORN Pimp Tries to 'Punk' CNN's Abbie Boudreau
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyJames O'Keefe, the conservative activist famous for making the ACORN "pimp" videos, is back in the news. According to CNN: James O'Keefe, best known for hitting the community organizing group ACORN with an undercover video sting, hoped to get CNN Investigative Correspondent Abbie Boudreau onto a boat filled with sexually explicit props and then record the session . . . documents show. The plan was thwarted, CNN says, when Boudreau was tipped off. Assuming the story is accurate (some early reporting regarding an attempted caper at Sen. Mary Landrieu's office was inaccurate), it seems to me ...
Congress Can Withhold Funds from ACORN, Federal Court Rules
By not in system - AOL NewsCongress can continue to withhold federal money from ACORN following a federal appeals panel decision Friday that rejected a lower court's ruling about funding for the community activist group. ...
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