Reponse today from the “Public” radio people at NPR whose ombudman admits the “Learn to Speak Tea Bag” HERE cartoon video didn’t comport with their values (and they also admit to not knowing what it meant. Sure):

Chief among them is it doesn’t fit with NPR values, one of which is a belief in civility and civil discourse.
Fiore is talented, but this cartoon is just a mean-spirited attack on people who think differently than he does and doesn’t broaden the debate. It engages in the same kind of name-calling the cartoon supposedly mocks.

BUT

There will be no apology and Fiore’s cartoon is staying up, said Ellen Weiss, senior vice president for news. “Opinion and satire are going to sting some members of the audience and soothe others,” she said, noting NPR has received some positive feedback. “This one satire is not the only coverage on the topic and while it offends some members of the audience, I see no reason to remove it.”

More ombudsman:

Political cartoons are new to NPR. Fiore’s syndicated cartoon began appearing weekly on NPR’s opinion page in early October, with little fanfare and not a lot of hits. He told me he leans left.

Those NPR types are really smart! She really HAD. TO. ASK? 
Tim Graham of the Media Research Center says the cartoon/video gives the lefties who call NPR home a snuggly partisan hug at the expense of the folks who have gone to Tea Parties

“The cartoon is a perfect caricature of what NPR looks like to conservatives: liberals snidely imagining conservatives to be monosyllabic clods who can’t make an argument beyond name-calling. Conservatism is ‘satirized’ into a form of political retardation.”

The Libs certainly do underestimate us. And they do so at their peril.