NPR exec caught on tape saying he would hide donation from Muslim Brotherhood from government

Lenin was reported to have said that "Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." I got that feeling reading this story in the Daily Caller about another NPR executive saying something outrageous.

This time, Betsy Liley, a senior vice president for Institutional Giving promised a fictitious front group for the Muslim Brotherhood that NPR could shield their $5 million donation from a government audit, thus making the donation invisible:

When a man posing as Ibrahim Kasaam asked, "It sounded like you were saying NPR would be able to shield us from a government audit, is that correct?" NPR's senior director of institutional giving, Betsy Liley, responded, "I think that is the case, especially if you are anonymous. I can inquire about that." According to conservative James O'Keefe, whose Project Veritas organization conducted the NPR sting organization, the man posing as Kasaam made two follow-up phone calls to Liley after their lunch.
Liley said a $5 million donation would amount to about "10 years of support."
Kasaam follows up by asking: "The fact that NPR is not only a tax-exempt organization, but also receives direct contributions from the government - does that invite some sort of government oversight or government examination of contributions, et cetera?"
Liley answered: "They have audited our programs at times and, I think, as part of that, they can look at our audited financials. If you are concerned in any way about that, that's one reason you might want to be an anonymous donor. And, we would certainly, if that was your interest, want to shield you from that."
Liley mentioned a precedent at NPR - in more than $80 million in donations from universities.

NPR released a statement saying that Liley was not following procedure and that the organization didn't work this way. I call baloney on that. They obviously don't have a clue how their senior executives raise money or if they shield it from the prying eyes of government.

Maybe someone should look into taking away their tax payer subsidy. Oh, wait...

-——What Universities donated 80 million dollars,-——

This is an interesting question. Were the funds actually donations or payments for programming?

The fact is, many state universities actually run the public broadcasting stations, both radio and TV. That is the actual stations are owned and operated by the states. With the exception of some western states that utilize Pacifica, I think all public broadcasting stations are operated by the states. Rather than have a free standing state broadcasting bureaucracy, that task was delegated to the state run universities.

The University of Florida was one of the first and is emulated by Tennessee and North Carolina and others.

The fact is that many Republican governors could bring about change in NPR/PBS by simply not carrying their programming or insisting that the programming be for all people and certainly eliminate the propaganda content. Also, Conservative content could be broadcast at a governor’s insistence if there was someone like NPR/PBS to develop and provide the programming.

I hate to say it, but after reading this article from Glen Beck’s The Blaze website

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/does-raw-video-of-npr-expose-reveal-questionable-editing-tactics/

I no longer trust anything from O’Keefe. In fact, based on real investigative reporting from The Blaze, it looks more like O’Keefe is willing to fabricate and manipulate his videos to say anything he wants them to say - true or not. I don’t care what point you’re trying to make - I don’t like being manipulated by anyone, thank you very much.

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