NPR employees Vivian Schiller, Ronald Schiller, bite the liberal media dust

Latest casualties in de-funding debate: Ronald Schiller (left) and Vivian Schiller (right).

NPR is rapidly gaining a reputation for being one of the most cowardly media outlets on the face of the planet; which is completely understandable. After all, government dependency has a way of emasculating its prey.

First, NPR fired news analyst, Juan Williams, for initiating an honest discussion about Americans' fears of Muslim extremists - and now, the yellowbellied news source is bowing and scraping, because a NPR fund-raising executive made disparaging remarks about the Tea Party and so-called anti-intellectual republicans.

Ronald Schiller, the former President of the NPR Foundation, was caught on camera during an undercover James O'Keefe sting. O'Keefe is the same character who brought ACORN to its knees.

On May 8, 2011, video of Schiller calling the Tea Party racist and uneducated, and declaring NPR would be better off without funding from the federal government, was released to the public.

Hours later, Ronald Schiller and Vivian Schiller, the former CEO of NPR, were both gone. Vivian Schiller, who has no familial ties to Ronald Schiller, resigned.

At the heart of NPR's abrupt dismissals are boat loads of federal dollars. The GOP wants to snatch the government's tit from liberal media sources like NPR and PBS. The de-funding political debate has pushed NPR into such a state of panic - the entire organization needs to be placed on suicide watch.