From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. What a week.

Fox News Alert, a Tea Party group is now demanding that Congress pull funding from NPR after a soon-to-be ex-fundraising executive is caught on tape, slamming conservatives and the Tea Party.

We know this is video from February 22nd, apparently shot by two people posing as members

of a fictitious Muslim organization that was trying to give NPR National Public Radio executives

$5 million. One of those NPR execs, Ron Schiller, was telling the...

He was caught on tape trying to ingratiate himself to the donors by disparaging Jews, the Tea Party, and Republicans.

It was a sting set up by the controversial conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe, better known for videos targeting the community organizers at ACORN.

The timing could not be worse.

The House just voted to stop all funding of public broadcasting $430 million this year.

All right, the other shoe has now dropped at NPR moments ago.

NPR announcing to his president, CEO Vivian Schiller, has resigned.

It was a rough week and a tough season for NPR, starting five months ago with the

mishandled firing of NPR news analyst Juan Williams, and ending with the sting of NPR fundraiser

Ron Schiller for saying the darnedest things. The current Republican Party, the particularly

the Tea Party, is fanatically involved with people's personal lives

and very fundamental Christian.

And I wouldn't even call it Christian.

It's this weird evangelical.

Now a great yawning vacuum has opened at NPR.

No chief news executive with the earlier departure of Ellen Weiss,

no top fundraiser as Ron Schiller was already slated to leave, and now no president.

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