Ron Schiller isn't a politician; he is (or was) a senior vice president for fundraising at NPR. He resigned this week after he appeared on a videotape telling two men who were posing as members of a fictitious Muslim group:
“The current Republican Party, particularly the Tea Party, is fanatically involved in people’s personal lives and very fundamental Christian – I wouldn’t even call it Christian. It’s this weird evangelical kind of move.”
And,
"Tea Party people" aren't "just Islamaphobic, but really xenophobic, I mean basically they are, they believe in sort of white, middle-America gun-toting. I mean, it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people."
Was that a gaffe? Or was Schiller, as Kinsley would say, just telling the truth?
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