Some NPR footnotes: Tuesday night, Vivian Schiller, president and chief executive of NPR, released this statement: “Ron Schiller’s remarks are contrary to what NPR stands for and are deeply distressing to reporters, editors and others who bring fairness, civility and respect for a wide variety of viewpoints to their work everyday.” The video, released by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe, shows Mr. Schiller and a colleague in a meeting at a

Of course, they think they’re doing something else entirely — Jeb Bush, for instance, thought that by helping Obama in Florida, he was appealing to “moderates” and paving the way for his 2016 presidential run, which I can already tell you from my perspective is dead in the water — but regardless of what they think they’re doing, what they are actually doing is help portray the TEA Party as