Conservative activist mission is to produce a secret video, National Public Radio executives slamming the Tea Party as "racist" and "scary," says a lot about why he went to the organization.

And late Tuesday, NPR announced that it has put the leadership of Senior Vice President and Fundraising Ron Schiller administrative leave.

Filmmaker James O'Keefe said the idea came from the bite of an incident in October, when NPR analyst Juan Williams fired after he said he was afraid that the Muslim people with their costumes to the aircraft.

"My colleague Shaughn Adeleye who posed as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood was pretty shocked by what happened with Juan Williams, and he suggested looking at NPR after the incident to the fall," O'Keefe told CNN Correspondent Brian Todd, Tuesday.

"My other colleague Simon Templar had the idea to have an angle of Muslims, when Juan Williams was fired for his comments. So we decided to see if there was a greater truth or hiding the truth of these reporters and journalists and managers. "

Juan Williams has been hired full time by Fox News.

O'Keefe has gained notoriety for posing as a pimp and secretly record conversations with employees of the damage of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform (ACORN). He was also involved in a failed plot to embarrass a CNN correspondent on the hidden cameras.

Schiller and the executive appear on NPR the other video at lunch on NPR potential donors, who were actually working undercover O'Keefe. In the video, posing as representatives of Muslim organizations, is considering making a donation of $ 5,000,000 NPR.

"The comments included in the video was released today, contrary to everything we stand for, and we completely refute the point of view," the spokeswoman said Dana Davis Rehm NPR. "NPR is fair and open to persons reporting according to these values every single day -. And courtesy of our program, we consider different opinions and complexity of the stories we tell."

Schiller said last week his intention to leave in May, but Rehm said he would put on leave pending a review.

Rehm also stamped Schiller's assertion that the national team would be "better off without federal funding," the statement - the second report published after the undercover video to the surface.

"The assertion that NPR and public radio stations would be better off without the federal funding does not reflect reality. The elimination of federal funding will greatly affect the public broadcasting as a whole," said Rehm.

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