“James O’Keefe” on The Daily Caller

National Public Radio released internal e-mails between now-ousted CEO Vivian Schiller, newly-appointed temporary CEO Joyce Slocum and other senior NPR officials in an attempt to push back on video released by conservative James O’Keefe suggesting that the organization was willing to take money from what it thought was a Muslim Brotherhood front group. (more)

New video released Thursday afternoon indicates National Public Radio intended to accept a $5 million donation from fictitious Muslim Brotherhood front group Muslim Education Action Center (MEAC) Trust – and that the publicly funded radio network might have helped MEAC make the donation anonymously to protect it from a federal government audit. (more)

TheDC’s Deputy Editor Jamie Weinstein discusses the NPR sting and the future of journalism on RT’s “The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann” (more)

Shaughn Adeleye, one of the men who acted as a representative of the fake Muslim Brotherhood front organization that spawned the National Public Radio (NPR) sting videos conservative James O’Keefe released Tuesday morning, told The Daily Caller “it’s unfortunate that they [Ron Schiller and Vivian Schiller] had to lose their jobs over expressing what they believe.” (more)

Have things finally reached a point where journalists’ views are susceptible to criticism, even if those views are “surreptitiously” obtained? (more)

Former NPR executive Ron Schiller, who was caught on tape this week making comments that cost him his job, wasn’t fired for holding personal biases against conservatives, but for being “unprofessional,” the network’s ombudsman said Wednesday in an online question-and-answer session. (more)

The Aspen Institute announced that soon-to-be-former National Public Radio’s Foundation nonprofit President Ron Schiller will not be joining their ranks. (more)

Several Tea Party movement figures have now responded to the distasteful remarks National Public Radio (NPR) Foundation’s nonprofit President Ron Schiller made about the conservatives, and them in particular. (more)

Vivian Schiller, the President and CEO of National Public Radio, announced her resignation on Wednesday after an undercover camera caught then-NPR Vice President Ron Schiller (no relation) calling the tea party ‘racist’ and disclosing that the organization could survive without government funds. According to NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik, the organization’s board “ousted” Vivian Schiller from her position. (more)

Despite previously denouncing the remarks and behavior of one of its senior executives, National Public Radio is now attempting to separate itself as much as possible from NPR foundation’s nonprofit President Ron Schiller. Conservative James O’Keefe’s associates captured Schiller making several disparaging remarks toward Tea Partiers and Jews in an undercover video released Tuesday morning. (more)

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, ripped National Public Radio (NPR) on Tuesday after NPR foundation’s nonprofit president Ron Schiller was caught on video saying the radio network and most of its member stations would survive without federal funding. (more)

National Public Radio spokeswoman Dana Davis Rehm responded to the remarks NPR foundation’s nonprofit president Ron Schiller made. (more)

For years we have heard the common refrain that “the people don’t get it,” or we’re “stupid,” or we “really don’t care.” Ignoring the Americans who serially vote Democrat because they have been bought off with welfare payments or some other benefit, I have always argued otherwise, and Reagan’s 1980 and 1984 landslide victories bore me out. Of course, as president, the senior Bush quickly smashed that resurgent national spirit with a “wicked political pivot” back to insipid mediocrity. (more)

Last year, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles made headlines and became heroes to conservative activists with their ACORN sting operation. O’Keefe (dressed as a pimp) and Giles (dressed as a hooker) found ACORN employees seemingly willing to facilitate shady dealings. The resulting uproar led to the demise of ACORN, at least as it then stood. (more)

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh famously said he hoped President Obama would “fail” in January, 2009. Almost a year later, when Limbaugh was rushed to the hospital with chest pains, Washington Post reporter David Weigel had a wish of his own. “I hope he fails,” Weigel cracked to fellow liberal reporters on the “Journolist” email list-serv. (more)

ACORN’s state chapter in Missouri is the latest to rebrand itself as part of ACORN’s national strategy to distance itself from its negative public image. (more)

Sean Hannity interviews James O’Keefe for the first time since his arrest in Louisiana. Although unable to comment about the ongoing criminal investigation, O’Keefe sought to clear his name with respect to widely reported stories that he was attempting to wiretap Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office. O’Keefe also said he thought many mainstream media organizations had committed “journalistic malpractice” in the course of “flat out slandering” him and he did not rule out legal action.
Sean Hannity interviews James O’Keefe
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James O’Keefe’s arrest at Sen. Landrieu’s office sent his boss through the roof. Lloyd Grove talked with the right’s hottest web honcho about his liberal past, Hollywood loathing, and his own arrest. (more)

Alleging a plot to tamper with phones in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in downtown New Orleans, the FBI arrested four people Monday, including James O’Keefe, a conservative filmmaker whose undercover videos at ACORN field offices severely damaged the advocacy group’s credibility. (more)