You knew this was coming…
NPR today reported that the O’Keefe tapes were highly edited. The far left taxpayer-funded news organization admitted that their former executive said some hateful things about conservatives, tea party members and Christians… but the tapes were edited anyway.
NPR didn’t say anything about their executives admitting on tape that they would hide the donations from the government.

James O’Keefe III released the entire video at Project Veritas last week.

But NPR is trying to save face today by claiming the videos were highly edited.

An update on our post from Sunday about the questions that have been raised regarding conservative political activist James O’Keefe’s editing of his secretly recorded video of then-NPR chief fundraiser Ron Schiller slamming conservatives.

NPR’s David Folkenflik has done more reporting on the differences between the 11 1/2 minute video that O’Keefe’s Project Veritas produced and the two hours worth of video that O’Keefe says is the largely unedited account of a lunch that Schiller and another NPR fundraising executive had with two men posing as representatives of a Muslim group that wanted to donate $5 million to NPR.

Al Tompkins, a senior faculty member for broadcasting and online at the Poynter Institute, says to David that he tells his children there are “two ways to lie. One is to tell me something that didn’t happen. And the other is not to tell me something that did happen.” After comparing O’Keefe’s edited tape to the longer version, “I think that they employed both techniques in this,” Tompkins says.

One “big warning flag” Tompkins saw in the shorter tape was the way it made it appear that Schiller had laughed and commented “really, that’s what they said?” after being told that the fake Muslim group advocates for sharia law. In fact, the longer tape shows that Schiller made that comment during an “innocuous exchange” that had nothing to do with the supposed group’s position on sharia law, David reports.

Tompkins also says that O’Keefe’s edited tape ignores the fact that Schiller said “six times … over and over and over again” that donors cannot buy the kind of coverage they want on NPR.

Scott Baker, editor in chief of the conservative news site The Blaze, tells David that after watching the two-hour video he came away with the impression that the NPR executives “seem to be fairly balanced people.”

NPR spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm told David late yesterday that O’Keefe “inappropriately edited the videos with an intent to discredit” NPR. Still, she added, Schiller made some “egregious statements.”

As we said yesterday, those included Schiller calling the Tea Party a “weird evangelical” movement that has helped push the “current Republican Party” to become “fanatically involved in people’s personal lives.”

 

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  1. #1 March 14, 2011 at 5:22 pm

    Opaobie commented:

    Did they forget to mention that the full, unedited videos were posted on Breitbart for the world to see?

  2. #2 March 14, 2011 at 5:22 pm

    Andreas K. commented:

    Yeah, you can clearly see that those movies are done completely in CGI.

    OIVECH!!!!

  3. #3 March 14, 2011 at 5:25 pm

    Neo commented:

    So let me get this straight, Schiller says there were these two “top” Republicans who voted for Obama because they feared the “Tea Party” .. a group that did not exist in 2008 at the time of the Presidential election ?

    Do these “top” Republicans have a time machine or something ?

  4. #4 March 14, 2011 at 5:27 pm

    JimmyT commented:

    Schiller likes fiscal responsibility and Lily is against fairness doctrine (btw, NPR would have to hire conservatives) and this means their “fair and balanced”? Mr Scott must be easily swayed. I believe there is another reason Mr. Scott made this statement. It’s called “views”. He gets more hits by making this inane statement. Anybody with ANY commonsense knows how left leaning NPR is and recognizes the fact. This is much to do about nothing. Everything I read on TB I can find somewhere else. And, I think I will. We don’t need anymore neocons trying to destroy the conservative movement. Good bye!

  5. #5 March 14, 2011 at 5:28 pm

    Ipso Facto commented:

    When CBS 60 Minutes is edited they are all in favor of it.
    When ABC News is edited they are all in favor of it.
    When MSNBC is edited they are all in favor of it.
    When CNN is edited they are all in favor of it.

    But god forbid any news video that shows them in a poor light is edited – they aren’t in favor of it.

    Isn’t that rich?

  6. #6 March 14, 2011 at 5:29 pm

    John Fembup commented:

    Just 2 questions:

    1. Did the “doctored” tape make the NPR jacknapes say something they did not, in fact, say?

    2. Is there any plausible context in which “doctoring” altered the meaning of these jacknapes’ actual statements?

    I think the answer to both Qs is “no”.

  7. #7 March 14, 2011 at 5:29 pm

    forest commented:

    “…there are ‘two ways to lie. One is to tell me something that didn’t happen. And the other is not to tell me something that did happen.’”

    Has anybody seen an NPR story on the scores of death threats against Wisconsin Republicans?

  8. #8 March 14, 2011 at 5:31 pm

    Taqiyyotomist commented:

    As we said yesterday, those included Schiller calling the Tea Party a “weird evangelical” movement that has helped push the “current Republican Party” to become “fanatically involved in people’s personal lives.”

    As if telling us what kind of toilets and lightbulbs and cars we must purchase, telling us what we can and cannot say, telling us what we can and cannot build, and TEACHING FISTING TO OUR CHILDREN AGAINST OUR WILL isn’t “fanatical” involvement in our personal lives.

    OMG, the projection has reached ludicrous-speed. These folks are lightyears beyond parody.

  9. #9 March 14, 2011 at 5:32 pm

    NeoKong commented:

    All news is edited but a continuous 11 minute video is not an edit. It is a clip or a segment.
    To imply that it was edited would mean that it jumps from segment to segment while skipping over what is in the middle.

  10. #10 March 14, 2011 at 5:33 pm

    Joe's Garage commented:

    OK, that’s all nice, NPR. Now it’s time to defund you from the taxpayer because you are slanted Liberal and we’re out of money.

  11. #11 March 14, 2011 at 5:34 pm

    Insufficiently Sensitive commented:

    Al Tompkins, a senior faculty member for broadcasting and online at the Poynter Institute, says to David that he tells his children there are “two ways to lie. One is to tell me something that didn’t happen. And the other is not to tell me something that did happen.”

    ‘The other’, called ‘lying by omission’, is precisely the technique that NPR has used for thirty years to shove public opinion leftward. It minimizes, or omits altogether, coverage of situations that might cheer their ‘enemies’ or re-educate their leftist ‘friends’.

    Their Federally-subsidized stations out in the hinterlands are particularly useful as beacons of leftist propaganda among non-urban populations, where AM radio and all its politically incorrect notions do profit, but NPR would wither and die without subsidies.

  12. #12 March 14, 2011 at 5:35 pm

    Militant Conservative commented:

    While the NPR cries foul this means you hit the bullseye.

    Powder is dry

  13. #13 March 14, 2011 at 5:38 pm

    Buffalobob commented:

    NPR exec. don’t get, they never will. Progs are unteachable.

  15. #15 March 14, 2011 at 5:48 pm

    donh commented:

    What concerns me is the role Glenn Beck has played in ” spell checking ” O’Keefe’s outstanding work…….this on the heels of backpeddling on being critical of Eric Holder’s ” my people ” comment. Beck is selling out conservatives to his wannabe friends in leftist journalism hired in wholesale for his web page editing. Every time lately we move the ball up field Glenn blows his wistle tossing a yellow flag trying to take back the play. The find a way to lose crowd.

  16. #17 March 14, 2011 at 6:05 pm

    american patriot commented:

    The left is despicable.

    “And the other is not to tell me something that did happen.”

    All good news stories about the conservative movement and all bad news stories concerning the big government, leftist side are censored by being spike.

    In particular avoiding these sorts of news stories is how PBS, NPR lie.

  17. #19 March 14, 2011 at 6:47 pm

    Finncrisp commented:

    I find it interesting that no one on the left is ever guilty of anything – such as “I did not have @#$ with that woman”, to I did not participate in CIA briefings, to I never heard any of those sermons, even though I have attended there for 20 years, to I don’t have rent controlled apartements in NYC I am not eligiable for even though I have two, and who could forget the 60K in the freezer is none of your business.

    But we know the real truth.

  18. #20 March 14, 2011 at 6:49 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    oh yeah, and i’m sure they’ll be com9ng out
    with their own edited version to prove it..

    ROTFLMBO!!

    ==

  19. #21 March 14, 2011 at 6:50 pm

    donabernathy commented:

    who ya gonna believe … NPR or ya lie’n eyes

    roflmao

  20. #22 March 14, 2011 at 6:51 pm

    Finncrisp commented:

    Public trust be dammed! NPR should stand for NO Polluting Rhetoric. But it doesn’t.

  21. #23 March 14, 2011 at 6:53 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Buffalobob #13

    re: [Progs are unteachable.]

    [But communists could not be wrong. After all, their knowledge was scientific, based on historical materialism, an understanding of the dialectical process in nature and human society, and a materialist (and thus realistic) view of nature. Marx has shown empirically where society has been and why, and he and his interpreters proved that it was destined for a communist end. No one could prevent this, but only stand in the way and delay it at the cost of more human misery. Those who disagreed with this world view and even with some of the proper interpretations of Marx and Lenin were, without a scintilla of doubt, wrong. After all, did not Marx or Lenin or Stalin or Mao say that. . . . In other words, communism was like a fanatical religion. It had its revealed text and chief interpreters. It had its priests and their ritualistic prose with all the answers. It had a heaven, and the proper behavior to reach it. It had its appeal to faith. And it had its crusade against nonbelievers.

    What made this secular religion so utterly lethal was its seizure of all the state's instrument of force and coercion and their immediate use to destroy or control all independent sources of power, such as the church, the professions, private businesses, schools, and, of course, the family.]

    ==

  22. #24 March 14, 2011 at 7:14 pm

    Daniel commented:

    NPR is highly suspect and should be edited for content.

  23. #25 March 14, 2011 at 7:23 pm

    pst314 commented:

    “two ways to lie. One is to tell me something that didn’t happen. And the other is not to tell me something that did happen.”

    NPR should know: They have LOTS of practice.

  24. #26 March 14, 2011 at 7:33 pm

    kansas commented:

    So is the liberal it was edited talking point going to work again?

  25. #27 March 14, 2011 at 7:48 pm

    eaglewingz08 commented:

    I have never heard NPR or liberal media complaints about 60 Minutes, the liberal news shows, Dateline, 20/20, Nightline, or any of a thousand of liberal video reportage, state that the public should not believe the liberal media videos cause they were ‘heavily edited’. In fact the video in this case was not ‘heavily edited’ and certainly not edited to make it appear that these liberal socialists were more heinous than their actual comments (contrary to the modus operandi of those same liberal socialist reporters). So congrats O’Keefe, you’re making a lot of liberal pigs squeal. In a better world you’d get kudos and journalistic prizes for your videos, but the left could never get beyond its bias to award you the honors you deserve.

  26. #28 March 14, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    MrGoodWench commented:

    Scott Baker, editor in chief of the conservative news site The Blaze, tells David that after watching the two-hour video he came away with the impression that the NPR executives “seem to be fairly balanced people.”
    —————————————
    Really ?
    Which video did he watch ? Certainly not the one the rest of us bitter clingers unedumacated masses watched on O’Keefe’s website.
    BTW , has NPR outsourced its propaganda and hit jobs now to The Blaze ?

  27. #29 March 14, 2011 at 8:29 pm

    RickS commented:

    NPR’s funding must be cut. To make excuses like this is just despicable. No conservative should ever even consider donating to NPR or PBS, no matter how nice that coffee mug is or how much you make enjoy Celtic Woman.

  28. #30 March 14, 2011 at 8:43 pm

    Taqiyyotomist commented:

    Neokong nails it, in #9. Succinct and to the point.

    And these NPR folks know this. They also know that they can lie, and that the lion’s share of their listenership will swallow the lies whole, and ask for more.

    Don’t ever assume that they are stupid. They are devious, and they have full knowledge that most of their audience IS stupid. They are of their father: the Devil, the Father of Lies. They say what they say to advance their agenda, even knowing that it is an inversion of truth, and they know that their audience will believe it.

  29. #31 March 14, 2011 at 9:01 pm

    aprilnovember811 commented:

    Sure they were.

  30. #32 March 14, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    gus commented:

    JUST A REMINDER. IT’S NATIONAL PALESTINE RADIO!!

    I wonder if they mentioned the horriific MUZZTARD PALLIE SLAUGHTER of weekend past??

    Oh, and if the tape was edited does that mean both Schillers have been apologized to and UN-FIRED?

  31. #33 March 14, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    BurmaShave commented:

    Inability to accept responsibility – “It’s Bush’s fault” – is a chronic problem for Liberals.

    NPR’s refusal to accept the onus of their own Liberalism is a reflection of their systemic Liberalism.

    They cannot accept what they cannot escape; and they cannot escape what they cannot accept.

    Man, are they pathetic!

  32. #34 March 14, 2011 at 9:54 pm

    archer52 commented:

    Beck gets a little high handed has he tries to show he is “above the fray” with a higher calling. Thus he’ll bend over backwards if there is any sign of trouble to make sure nobody can attach blame to him.

    The videos stand on their own. The statements stand on their own. Their wish to appease Islamic donors so they can get 5 million stands on its own. NPR’s history of bias stands on its own.

    Enough said. They’re liberal, we always yearn to shoot ourselves in the foot.

  33. #36 March 15, 2011 at 2:57 am

    RickZ commented:

    #34 archer52,

    Enough said. They’re liberal, we always yearn to shoot ourselves in the foot.
    ——-

    Not enough gun control.

  34. #37 March 15, 2011 at 3:00 am

    RickZ commented:

    So what happened to comment # 35? Is this like the missing 13th floor on skyscrapers?

  35. #38 March 15, 2011 at 7:49 am

    bg commented:

    “It is NPR policy.”

    ALI ABUNIMAH

    [In the late 1990s, Abunimah met Barack Obama when the latter was a representative in the Illinois state senate. “He [Obama] impressed me as progressive, intelligent and charismatic,” says Abunimah. “I distinctly remember thinking, ‘if only a man of this caliber could become president one day.’”]

    more @ links..

    ==

  36. #40 March 16, 2011 at 6:49 pm

    Steve Johnson commented:

    Figures…..conservative “news story” hacks like Breitbart & O’Keefe’s project veritas are getting caught with their pants down time & time again. I guess these idiots seem to think that this information isn’t available on the net, so they edit things to make people seem to say things they never did out of context.

    Watch how Cenk Uygur takes this apart & shows EXACTLY how O’Keefe the liar created this B.S.
    http://revision3.com/theyoungturks/beck3

    Funny how conservatives call this stuff “left wing”, when they’re just disseminating the truth. But when conservative “news blogs” tell lies & edit footage, conservatives will point to 60 minutes or something else instead of just saying…..yeah, they lied….they edited the footage that made it sound like one thing was said, but it was the exact opposite. Conservatives will never take responsibility when they’ve been outed.

    The only way conservatives can get their agenda out there is they have to lie about everything. Basically, if its right wing “news”, its full of crap. Anybody with a brain knows this. But then….conservatives don’t have a skeptical neuron in their brains.

  37. #41 March 16, 2011 at 6:57 pm

    Chisum commented:

    No Vindication for Ex-NPR Exec: On the Blaze’s Accusations of Misleading Editing by O’Keefe

    http://patterico.com/2011/03/14/on-the-blazes-accusations-of-misleading-editing-by-okeefe/

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