# "Gotcha ya!" video from the conservative noise machine seeks to make NPR look bad **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 8, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960 "2011-03-08T19:47:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/1 "2011-03-08T19:47:42Z")
[Lovely.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110308/ts_yblog_thecutline/npr-appalled-by-former-execs-comments). An NPR executive, now a **former** executive, made some foolish remarks. I know how extremely difficult it must be to endure these vicious conservative attacks and remain respectfully silent, but NPR needs to maintain the moral high ground here. Never wrestle with a pig; you’ll just get muddy, and the pig will enjoy it. Those who officially represent NPR must comport themselves accordingly. I applaud NPR for firing this man. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/2 "2011-03-08T19:55:56Z")
[nitpick]What is gotcha ya? Please say it aloud as it is written. Have you ever in your life heard this?[/nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/3 "2011-03-08T19:58:44Z")
Jeff, check [here…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-429701.html) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/4 "2011-03-08T19:59:42Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](#): > > [nitpick]What is gotcha ya? Please say it aloud as it is written. Have you ever in your life heard this?[/nitpick] Obviously, you haven’t been around here long enough to remember poster **Wildest Bill** , ya wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper, ya. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/5 "2011-03-08T20:00:48Z")
“Gotcha ya!” is an old inside joke around here. Meanwhile, O’Keefe is a shitstain media whore trying to get yet more attention. Too bad it’s working. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/6 "2011-03-08T20:04:51Z")
Anyway, regarding the OP, Double-U Tee Eff? This mook fell for yet another of James O’Keefe’s idiotic hatchet jobs? He should have been fired just for that bit of stupidity alone. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/7 "2011-03-08T20:12:45Z")
Well, as far as I can see, the only thing he did wrong was say the teabaggers are bunch of racists. > **[Gawker | The Website](https://gawker.com/)** > > Gawker. It's a website on the internet. > [@](#): > > O’Keefe set up a fake Mooslim group called the Muslim Education Action Center and hired actors to set up a lunch meeting with Ron Schiller, NPR’s chief fundraiser. MEAC claimed on its web site to receive funds from the Muslim Brotherhood, and the two fake Mooslims who met with Schiller and another NPR executive repeated that claim to him in person. They wanted to give NPR $5 million, no strings attached. Schiller refused to take the money, which is scandalous! > > Anyway, O’Keefe “caught” Schiller expressing many views common to pointy-headed liberal elitists, like “we need Muslim voices on the air,” and “we believe in nonracist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.” Schiller also—after explicitly “taking off [his] NPR hat” and making abundantly clear that he was speaking personally—said the Republican Party has been hijacked by anti-intellectual reactionaries and that liberals are better educated than conservatives. These are political views, and some people in America hold them! Keep in mind that Schiller is a fundraiser—he’s basically the NPR equivalent of an ad sales guy. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/8 "2011-03-08T20:30:27Z")
Thanks, everybody!! Ig’nance fought. And yes, O’Keefe is a squirrelly little worm who deserves to be somebody’s bitch in one of those federal rape me in the ass prisons. ---
**Author:** ![Sully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/48db29/32.png) [@Sully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sully)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/9 "2011-03-08T20:48:18Z")
Schiller’s right. More people should call the teabaggers out. I hope he doesn’t apologize. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/10 "2011-03-08T20:57:52Z")
You can’t fool me - this “Ron Schiller” looks exactly like Glenn Beck! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/11 "2011-03-08T21:08:46Z")
Simon Templar… wasn’t that “The Saint”? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/12 "2011-03-08T21:18:58Z")
Let me guess. NPR fired this guy without even bothering to request a full, unedited video of the incident. Why do people keep falling for O’Keefe again and again and again? All this kid does is make 30 second clips, splicing together scenes taken from a two hour meeting and yet it keeps making headlines as if what he’s released has any resemblance to reality. the first time I could chalk it up to lazy journalism. But once his schtick became known, I have to change my vote to malicious. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/13 "2011-03-08T21:22:25Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Let me guess. NPR fired this guy without even bothering to request a full, unedited video of the incident. No, it looks like he’d already accepted a position elsewhere and was leaving (had left) NPR voluntarily before he was filmed. ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/14 "2011-03-08T21:23:26Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > No, it looks like he’d already accepted a position elsewhere and was leaving (had left) NPR voluntarily before he was filmed. Yep. So says [this article](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20040683-503544.html). ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/15 "2011-03-08T21:57:12Z")
I’ll have to retract part of my OP: The comments seemed relatively innocuous, and Ron Schiller wasn’t fired. O’Keefe is a liar and a pathetic excuse for a human being. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/16 "2011-03-08T22:13:24Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Let me guess. NPR fired this guy without even bothering to request a full, unedited video of the incident. Why do people keep falling for O’Keefe again and again and again? > All this kid does is make 30 second clips, splicing together scenes taken from a two hour meeting and yet it keeps making headlines as if what he’s released has any resemblance to reality. > the first time I could chalk it up to lazy journalism. But once his schtick became known, I have to change my vote to malicious. [According to the Washington Post,](http://voices.washingtonpost.com/blog-post/2011/03/james_okeefe_records_npr_vp_on.html) the full video is available. So guess again. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/17 "2011-03-08T22:24:31Z")
Hoodwinked him into admitting the truth, eh? Well, I suppose that’s… something. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/18 "2011-03-08T22:48:06Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](#): > > Thanks, everybody!! Ig’nance fought. > And yes, O’Keefe is a squirrelly little worm who deserves to be somebody’s bitch in one of those federal rape me in the ass prisons. Rape isn’t funny. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/19 "2011-03-08T23:07:45Z")
I didn’t mean to imply that it’s funny, **miss elizabeth** , and I apologize if I offended you. I have nothing but utter contempt for this human paraquat and I believe that he should be held accountable for the lives that he has ruined through his “reporting”, preferably in a 9x12 room. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960/20 "2011-03-08T23:18:12Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](#): > > I didn’t mean to imply that it’s funny, **miss elizabeth** , and I apologize if I offended you. I have nothing but utter contempt for this human paraquat and I believe that he should be held accountable for the lives that he has ruined through his “reporting”, preferably in a 9x12 room. How many lives has he ruined? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gotcha-ya-video-from-the-conservative-noise-machine-seeks-to-make-npr-look-bad/573960.md?page=2)