NPR executive Ron Schiller caught on tape slamming Americans, exposes liberal elitism.
Another undercover sting job from James O'Keefe, the guy who infiltrated ACORN, this time catching a NPR executive admitting some rather harsh truths on tape. Although much of what Ron Schiller said is not a big surprise given what we already know about NPR I wanted to mention a particular segment as it is indicative of the cultural and societal divide that exists in this country and then focus on the faulty logic behind it.
I recommend you watch the whole thing, but at around the 3 minute mark one sees what I believe is the core of the problem. Schiller states unequivocally that the problem with this country is the lack of intellectuals and the dominance of the stupid gun-toting American. His belief is that our problems stem from the fact that the intellectual elite is shrinking and the stupid middle class is growing. Of course we want as many intelligent people as possible, the problem is that Schiller's view of intelligence is confined to his liberal viewpoint. At 3:41 he says "liberals might be more balanced and educated than conservatives". If a high executive believes that liberals are in aggregate more intelligent than the logical assumption is that the growth of conservatism implies a growth of stupidity among the general population. A feeling and an opinion that probably resulted in much angst around November of 2010 when a large red wave of "stupidity" swept through the country.
Why is this important? Because the correlation between intelligence and modern day liberalism or extensive federal expansion and control is as old as time. Modern day liberals are Statists who view capitalism with disdain, believe the free market is responsible for our woes and are constantly looking to distribute resources in the name of "fairness". A hallmark of central planners, socialists and liberals is intelligence. Why? Because if you are a central planner and are trying to convince a population that certain solutions mixed with enough power can result in improvement you better be intelligent or at the very least come off as such. As a perfect historical example examine the New Deal and specifically the New Dealers. Virtually everyone in the FDR administration hailed from Ivy League universities and in fact the objective was to recruit the crem de la crem of society to fix America's fiscal ruin. By 1939, a good eight years later, it was dawning on some people that even the smartest of society failed to centrally plan out of the mess.
“We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...We have never made good on our promises...I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started...And an enormous debt to boot!” -- Secretary of the Treasury during the New Deal, Henry Morgenthau Jr.
Although this Cornell graduate finally understood, it took another depression and an inordinate amount of money for him to realize that no matter how big or how many brains you have, some things are beyond human control.
Incidentally, many Americans swooned over Obama's educational past focusing on his tenure at Columbia and Harvard (never mind that we still have no idea what his grades were, but minor detail, right?). Many folks proudly announced that finally we got rid of the idiot Bush (Yale) and replaced him with a really smart and intelligent president. Obama's team replicated the New Deal not only in terms of policy, but in intellectual purity as well. A few examples that deal with our economy:
Gary Locke, Commerce - Yale
Arne Duncan, Education - Harvard
Shaun Donovan, HUD - Harvard
Tim Geithner, Treasury - Dartmouth
Peter Orszag, Budget Director - Princeton (resigned)
Larry Summers, National Economic Council - Harvard, MIT
Christina Romer, Council of Economic Advisors - MIT (resigned, famous for Porkulus flop)
Austan Goolsbee, Economic Recovery - MIT
Jason Furman, Deputy Director of Economic Council - Harvard
Eric Holder, Attorney General - Columbia
There you have it. I also realize the irony of what I am doing, a list this impressive should be celebrated and applauded, we should technically be relieved to see such smart men and women in charge of our fragile economy. The problem of course is that the smarter and more intelligent the politicians become the more and more they want to manage and control. This is inevitable. Especially career academics who really have no practical experience in real life often itch at the opportunity to finally apply some of their theories and ideas - and what better way to experiment with theories and ideas than in Government?
In theory I have no problem with experimenting in Government, but as long as it happens on a local level and can be contained in case the experiment goes awry. Unfortunately as America consolidates power in the Federal Government any experiment that goes wrong can and will have devastating results on an entire population with no way to escape. This is precisely the reason why education and health should be removed from Federal hands all together. Similarly the legacy of New Deal's housing and mortgage meddling, agriculture subsidies, public spending, social security continue to wreak havoc on sections of the American economy to this day.
Yet this mentality that academics and intellectual elitists should and must dominate the political strata continues, not only among a large swath of the American public, but in the media as well. Our NPR executive spells it out quite clearly, liberals are more intelligent and we need more of them. This mentality permeates NPR's philosophy and bleeds through their reporting exposing their bias and penchant for education funding, unions, wealth distribution and non-stop examples of how great our Government is.
Ron Schiller's most damaging comment in the video however is not his views on "stupid" and racist Tea Partiers, or his view of the Zionist controlled media, but rather his insistence that NPR does not need and would be better off without federal funding. Most of what he said probably resonates heavily with his colleagues at NPR, but his stance on 100 million dollars of tax money will prove to be problematic. Oh well, makes it that much easier to cut off their funding - something the Federal Government has no business in anyway.
Why is this important? Because the correlation between intelligence and modern day liberalism or extensive federal expansion and control is as old as time. Modern day liberals are Statists who view capitalism with disdain, believe the free market is responsible for our woes and are constantly looking to distribute resources in the name of "fairness". A hallmark of central planners, socialists and liberals is intelligence. Why? Because if you are a central planner and are trying to convince a population that certain solutions mixed with enough power can result in improvement you better be intelligent or at the very least come off as such. As a perfect historical example examine the New Deal and specifically the New Dealers. Virtually everyone in the FDR administration hailed from Ivy League universities and in fact the objective was to recruit the crem de la crem of society to fix America's fiscal ruin. By 1939, a good eight years later, it was dawning on some people that even the smartest of society failed to centrally plan out of the mess.
“We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...We have never made good on our promises...I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started...And an enormous debt to boot!” -- Secretary of the Treasury during the New Deal, Henry Morgenthau Jr.
Although this Cornell graduate finally understood, it took another depression and an inordinate amount of money for him to realize that no matter how big or how many brains you have, some things are beyond human control.
Incidentally, many Americans swooned over Obama's educational past focusing on his tenure at Columbia and Harvard (never mind that we still have no idea what his grades were, but minor detail, right?). Many folks proudly announced that finally we got rid of the idiot Bush (Yale) and replaced him with a really smart and intelligent president. Obama's team replicated the New Deal not only in terms of policy, but in intellectual purity as well. A few examples that deal with our economy:
Gary Locke, Commerce - Yale
Arne Duncan, Education - Harvard
Shaun Donovan, HUD - Harvard
Tim Geithner, Treasury - Dartmouth
Peter Orszag, Budget Director - Princeton (resigned)
Larry Summers, National Economic Council - Harvard, MIT
Christina Romer, Council of Economic Advisors - MIT (resigned, famous for Porkulus flop)
Austan Goolsbee, Economic Recovery - MIT
Jason Furman, Deputy Director of Economic Council - Harvard
Eric Holder, Attorney General - Columbia
There you have it. I also realize the irony of what I am doing, a list this impressive should be celebrated and applauded, we should technically be relieved to see such smart men and women in charge of our fragile economy. The problem of course is that the smarter and more intelligent the politicians become the more and more they want to manage and control. This is inevitable. Especially career academics who really have no practical experience in real life often itch at the opportunity to finally apply some of their theories and ideas - and what better way to experiment with theories and ideas than in Government?
In theory I have no problem with experimenting in Government, but as long as it happens on a local level and can be contained in case the experiment goes awry. Unfortunately as America consolidates power in the Federal Government any experiment that goes wrong can and will have devastating results on an entire population with no way to escape. This is precisely the reason why education and health should be removed from Federal hands all together. Similarly the legacy of New Deal's housing and mortgage meddling, agriculture subsidies, public spending, social security continue to wreak havoc on sections of the American economy to this day.
Yet this mentality that academics and intellectual elitists should and must dominate the political strata continues, not only among a large swath of the American public, but in the media as well. Our NPR executive spells it out quite clearly, liberals are more intelligent and we need more of them. This mentality permeates NPR's philosophy and bleeds through their reporting exposing their bias and penchant for education funding, unions, wealth distribution and non-stop examples of how great our Government is.
Ron Schiller's most damaging comment in the video however is not his views on "stupid" and racist Tea Partiers, or his view of the Zionist controlled media, but rather his insistence that NPR does not need and would be better off without federal funding. Most of what he said probably resonates heavily with his colleagues at NPR, but his stance on 100 million dollars of tax money will prove to be problematic. Oh well, makes it that much easier to cut off their funding - something the Federal Government has no business in anyway.
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