re: #230 Sergey Romanov

One thing that bothers me and that is not addressed by the fact the it was a fundraising event. They presented themselves as basically an MB outlet. 5 million or 10, I don’t think NPR should be sponsored by MB-linked groups, n’est-ce pas? Was Schiller so stupid as not to understand this?

He may not have wanted to process that on the fly. It was an event, his job was to be charming, not to assess the advisability of taking money from a Muslim-Brotherhood linked group. I can only assume that if they hadn’t turned out to be the O’Keefe Brigade, he would have written up some sort of report, and they would have examined the group before taking millions from them.

At least I hope so—having dealt with non-profit development and gifts people in the past, I know that they can be reasonably stupid.