NPR Investigation

Media bias is aggravating. Taxpayer-funded media bias is unconscionable. National Public Radio has a long history of left-leaning bias towards its stories. Project Veritas sought to prove it. Posing as a representatives from the “Muslim Education Action Center,” two citizen journalists secured a meeting with NPR executives and presented an offer of a $5 million donation from the fictitious Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated group. The videos proved that the media bias is real. With cameras rolling, the high-level NPR executive called Republicans and the Tea Party as "white, middle-America gun-toting" and “seriously racist, racist people.” As a result of this video, the most senior of executives were forced to resign and Congress voted to eliminate any public funding of NPR. James O'Keefe explains in the video below.

Project Veritas sent two undercover journalists, posing a members of a Muslim Brotherhood front group, to meet with two high-ranking National Public Radio (“NPR”) executives. The journalists explained to the executives that they were interested in making a $5 million dollar donation. The executives – Ron Schiller, President of the NPR Foundation and Senior VP for Development of NPR and Betsy Liley, Senior Director of Institutional Giving for NPR – were quick to display their distaste towards Zionists, Christians, Tea Party members, and uneducated Americans. Schiller in particular was quite outspoken in his support for Muslims and Palestine and critical of Jews, Zionists, and Jewish organizations. Schiller went on to call the Republican party xenophobic, “white, middle-America, gun-toting,” going as far as to say “they’re seriously racist, racist people.”

In Part I of Project Veritas’ sting of high-ranking NPR officials, our undercover journalists caught Ron Schiller, President of the NPR Foundation and Senior VP for Development of NPR and Betsy Liley, Senior Director of Institutional Giving for NPR on hidden camera saying horrendous things aboutZionists, Christians, Tea Party members. In Part II of Project Veritas’ NPR sting, our journalists followed up with a phone call Ms. Liley about how to keep their donation anonymous. When asked about government oversight and auditing of contributions made to NPR, Liley recommended the group make the donation anonymously to avoid any issues. In order to be as thorough as possible our journalist asked Liley if what she was saying was in fact that NPR would be able to shield them from a government audit to which Liley responded: “I think that is the case, especially if you were anonymous and I can inquire about that.” A follow up email was sent to the alleged Muslim group soon after the phone call that stated “Anonymous donation: NPR can list MEAC as an anonymous donor in our database, which would mean we would not disclose the organization’s name. We do not publish a list of gifts, so it would not be an issue there.”

In Part I of Project Veritas’ sting of high-ranking NPR officials, our undercover journalists caught Ron Schiller, President of the NPR Foundation and Senior VP for Development of NPR and Betsy Liley, Senior Director of Institutional Giving for NPR on hidden camera saying horrendous things aboutZionists, Christians, Tea Party members. In Part II of Project Veritas’ NPR sting, our journalists followed up with a phone call Ms. Liley about how to keep their donation anonymous. When asked about government oversight and auditing of contributions made to NPR, Liley recommended the group make the donation anonymously to avoid any issues. In order to be as thorough as possible our journalist asked Liley if what she was saying was in fact that NPR would be able to shield them from a government audit to which Liley responded: “I think that is the case, especially if you were anonymous and I can inquire about that.” A follow up email was sent to the alleged Muslim group soon after the phone call that stated “Anonymous donation: NPR can list MEAC as an anonymous donor in our database, which would mean we would not disclose the organization’s name. We do not publish a list of gifts, so it would not be an issue there.”