{"id":24875,"date":"2011-03-08T20:43:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T20:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/03\/08\/acorn-killers-target-npr\/"},"modified":"2011-03-08T20:43:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T20:43:02","slug":"acorn-killers-target-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/08\/acorn-killers-target-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Acorn Killers Target NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The video comes from Project Veritas, and is another in political activist James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s undercover exposes (he most prominently took on ACORN &#8212; the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). In the video, Schiller and NPR institutional giving director Betsy Liley are at lunch in Washington with two Project Veritas &#8220;investigative reporters&#8221; identified as Shaughn Adeleye and Simon Templar, who posed as &#8220;Ibrahim Kasaam and Amir Malik.&#8221; They were allegedly interested in having their organization donate $5 million to NPR. O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s organization says the recording was made on Feb. 22.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xd9OYJMX9t4&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Huge steaming piles of commentary on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2011\/03\/08\/134358398\/in-video-npr-exec-slams-tea-party-questions-need-for-federal-funds\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video comes from Project Veritas, and is another in political activist James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s undercover exposes (he most prominently took on ACORN &#8212; the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). In the video, Schiller and NPR institutional giving director Betsy Liley are at lunch in Washington with two Project Veritas &#8220;investigative reporters&#8221; identified as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/08\/acorn-killers-target-npr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Acorn Killers Target NPR<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6td","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}