Did NPR Use Taxpayer Money to Promote 'Teabagger' Bashing Video?

This is outrageous. It’s not only CNN and MSNBC who are attacking ordinary Americans who oppose the democrat’s record spending and massive expansion of government. National Public Radio is using your taxpayer dollars to bash teabaggers with their latest online video “Learn to Speak Teabag.”

The video bashes Republican Representatives who took donations from insurance or pharmaceutical companies but totally ignores the seedy Chicago style backroom deals made and bribes offered by democrats to get their massive takeover of the health care industry rammed through Congress. Read more here.

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Jim Hoft, who blogs at the popular http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com, said it was "outrageous" for NPR, which receives federal funding, to use "taxpayer dollars to bash teabaggers" by posting a video created by Mark Fiore titled "Learn to Speak Tea Bag" in November. The phrase "tea bag" has sexual connotations that many "tea party" protesters object to, and in the video, a narrator mocks tea party protesters by instructing a man to use words like "socialist" and "Nazi" to discuss health care reform, as well in other everyday interactions, like ordering French fries at a fast-food restaurant. The video was originally posted by NPR on Nov. 12, but didn't get much notice at the time. Most comments about the video, many critical, were left on the NPR Web site after Mr. Hoft linked it on his blog. Mr. Fiore, a well-known political cartoonist whose work occasionally appears on NPR's opinion pages, told The Washington Times in an e-mail, "To me, comments and allegations coming from various 'Tea Party' groups were ridiculously conspiratorial and ripe for satire. "Though sensible arguments can obviously be made questioning various cost controls, reimbursements, premiums, etc., the Tea Baggers quickly leap to accusations of 'socialism' and 'nazi,'" he wrote. "As a citizen, that infuriates me. As a cartoonist, that is the perfect recipe for political satire. In short, this cartoon is both my view and is a parody of what I feel are the shortcomings of the Tea Party mentality." Mr. Hoft says NPR was wrong to post it. "It is very upsetting to see NPR join with MSNBC and CNN in attacking the tea party protesters with vulgar sexual slurs," he told The Times. "The hundreds of thousands of conservative Americans who attended the hundreds of tea party protests across the country in 2009 do not consider themselves 'teabag' protesters. This was a sexual smear created by leftists to degrade those who oppose the current government's massive expansion and out of control spending." Source