Firing offense: NPR axes Juan Williams for opinions on Muslims & post-9/11 travel
Un-freaking-believable.
Cable news blogger Johnny Dollar red-flagged NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik’s Twitter feed, which announced tonight that liberal NPR analyst/Fox News contributor Juan Williams’ contract was terminated — over comments Williams made about Muslims on The O’Reilly Factor. He gave his honest opinion: “[W]hen I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”
Guess who stirred up the pot to get Williams fired?
Think Progress and the Huffington Post:
That’s right. Government-funded NPR has apparently caved into left-wing attack dogs on the Internet.
Also in the lynch mob: CAIR, of course.
And here’s excitable Andrew Sullivan giving Williams his “Malkin Award” nomination. Yeah, kiss of death.
As I’ve said many times before: Political correctness is the handmaiden of terror.
Condolences to Juan Williams, whom I’ve debated –vigorously, but always with respect and cordiality — many times over the years.
Hope this accelerates his journey on the ideological learning curve. And I hope he doesn’t back down.
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More from Brian Stelter at the NYTimes:
NPR has terminated its contract with Juan Williams, one of its senior news analysts, after he made comments about Muslims on the Fox News Channel.
NPR said in a statement that it gave Mr. Williams notice of his termination on Wednesday night.
The move came after Mr. Williams, who is also a Fox News political analyst, appeared on the “The O’Reilly Factor” on Monday. On the show, the host, Bill O’Reilly, asked him to respond to the notion that the United States was facing a “Muslim dilemma.” Mr. O’Reilly said, “The cold truth is that in the world today jihad, aided and abetted by some Muslim nations, is the biggest threat on the planet.”
Mr. Williams said he concurred with Mr. O’Reilly.
He continued: “I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”
Mr. Williams also made reference to the Pakistani immigrant who pleaded guilty this month to trying to plant a car bomb in Times Square. “He said the war with Muslims, America’s war is just beginning, first drop of blood. I don’t think there’s any way to get away from these facts,” Mr. Williams said.
NPR said in its statement that the remarks “were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR.”
NPR has undermined whatever credibility it had left with this boneheaded capitulation.
Your tax dollars at work.
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Worth noting: NPR affiliate employee Sarah Spitz at public radio station KCRW wishes death on Rush Limbaugh…not a firing offense.
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Reminder of George Soros’s NPR cash infusion this week:
NPR has received a $1.8 million grant from the Open Society Foundations to begin a project called Impact of Government that is intended to add at least 100 journalists at NPR member radio stations in all 50 states over the next three years.
The reporters, editors and analysts will cover state governments and how their actions affect people.
The project “creates capacity for local stations to hire reporters and to cover issues that matter that other places aren’t doing,” said Vivian Schiller, NPR’s president and chief executive. “Everything that we’re doing as relates to member stations comes down to two things: building local news capacity and making sure the content we create is available to all people across all platforms.”
Ms. Schiller said the journalists would not be part of typical statehouse coverage, but instead would work on enterprise journalism that looks at how state government decisions play out over years, and extend beyond a single state’s borders.
The program, one of a number of new public media reporting projects meant to counter some of the cutbacks in profit-making journalism, will begin with an eight-state pilot phase in March 2011. Eventually, NPR and local stations hope to raise about $17 million to expand the program, and $18 million to $19 million annually to sustain it, said Ron Schiller, president of the NPR Foundation and NPR’s senior vice president for development (and no relation to Ms. Schiller.)
The project is also intended to help the public radio network raise more money. Although NPR stations attract millions of small donors, and NPR itself received a $230 million grant from the Joan B. Kroc estate in 2003, NPR and its stations want to attract more major philanthropists, Mr. Schiller said.
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Just wondering: Why is Urban Outfitters selling NPR t-shirts?
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More questions from Jimmie Bise at Sundries Shack:
Did NPR fire Williams because of what he said or because of who he said it to? If Williams had gone on whatever passes for a news program on an NPR station, or fought his way through the cobwebs and sat down with radio-corpse Diane Rehm, there is no doubt that whatever he said would have met with some sort of rebuttal, after which Williams could have made his apologies and recited the standard boilerplate about “extremists” in Islam. However, in front of Bill O’Reilly no such admonishment would ever take place. In fact, O’Reilly would likely agree with him and who knows if that meeting of right and left minds on the matter wouldn’t have served as the long-dreaded Bat Signal that would light up the sky and signal us crazed Tea Partiers to begin our pogrom against everything even remotely Muslim.
So perhaps Williams was cashiered not for his comments, but for the venue in which he chose to haltingly air them.
No doubt.
Let CAIR and Soros pay for prog-tested, jihadi-approved propaganda: DE-FUND NPR.
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This is directly from rules for radicals: Isolate your enemy. They want to make it clear that associating with Fox News is the liberal kiss of death.
Question: How can NPR get federal funding AND be broadcast on Sirius pay-to-listen satellite radio? Defund NOW! They obviously no longer need public funds to be heard.
Fox should replace Colmes with Williams; That is one guy I just can’t stomach.
Recalling that NPR gave Mara Liason an admonition to have a period of thought review last year for appearing on FOX, this isn’t at all surprising.
Juan Williams has some odd ideas, but at least he explains himself and has his moments of great insight. NPR has demonstrated it’s true nature and needs to, at last suffer the consequences.
In China, our financial nanny, both Juan and Mara might be sent for a summer in a thought reeducation camp picking rice while they contemplate their wrong thoughts. Are we far behind?
I know George Soros pays NPR money, but I also pay the bills there against my will via the income tax.
If we get a GOP House, not a penny for NPR. I’ll send faxes and e-mails.
If they are one of the media arms of the Soros-Marxist axis, let the Soros-Marxists pay for it.
I suspect (and hope) Juan Williams will do just fine. I don’t agree with him very often but respect his opinions and his presentaion of those opinions. Best wishes Juan!
What do you expect? NPR is so far to the left that Juan Williams is a right wing extremist and Bret Hume is sounds like Art Bell.
It would be cool if Mara Liason told NPR to go shove it.
Although theocratic muslims do make me nervous, it’s the Pathology of Liberalism that is really frightening.
err…Bret Hume sounds like Art Bell.
Damn my clumsy fingers.
Actually, it’s “Brit Hume” (and “Bret Baier”), but we know what you mean!
By the way, Juan, congrats on the upgrade!
The First Amendment doesn’t apply to TV stations or radio stations or blogs or newspapers, because of private ownership.
NPR wouldn’t seem to qualify.
From Wiki…
Alan Colmes is truly impossible to watch or listen to. That was why I stopped watching Hannity and Colmes. Hannity was smart to ditch that liberal wacko.
As for Mara Liason…Have you seen her lately? Me either.
Here’s an idea for driving the media nuts.
Purchase two adjacent billboards in downtown Manhattan. Have one say “Jesus fondles the penis of donkeys”, and have the other say “Allah fondles the penis of donkeys”.
Watch as their neurons erupt into spasms of self-destruction as they pretend to be equally indignant of both.
Free speech, after all, right Lefties?
That’s the same guy-George Noory. He’s on hundreds of stations at night. I can get him on as many as five stations at once, some as far as Denver (I live in Palm Springs Area). If you’re at home you should try internet radio. There’s lots of good stuff overnight.
As far as Juan, others have pointed out it was the forum that he made these comments that got him fired. But I bet it’s been pissing off NPR for years that he dares associate with the enemy, so this was just a good excuse to sack him.
Juan Williams, congratualations. You have just been mugged by reality.
What’s really behind this is Soros’s war on Fox. Oh sure, there’s CAIR’s bellyachin’ too, but NPR is essentially Dr. Evil’s baby now. This was an excuse to get rid of a “traitor” who engages with the “enemy.”
The GOP needs to be serious this time about defunding both NPR and PBS.
Buried in the center of Ms. Schiller’s comments:
Hmmm … Would this provide ‘proof’ of the need for expand Inter-State Commerce control based on bad effects of State’s independent actions? Maybe this would provide evidence for a Surpreme Court case dealing with the Commerce Clause?
NPR message “Conform or Else” No Liberals need a Apply “Leftys” only.
George Soros is purging Liberals – wow that’s a real smart move, alienate everyone but the small sliver of the tiny Progressive demographic. That the majority of the American population has already rejected…Soros: Doubling Down On Dumb.
I know Soros is getting old, but really he’s making some dumb moves, but it’s a free country, and it’s his money. What does he think he is getting out of this purge of any dissent that differs with his own? He wants to collapse our currency, but it’s not a secret and people are on to him Big Time. His actions are just punctuating what everyone already doesn’t like about him, and his open society….going by Juan Williams firing by Soros Co – opted NPR, it’s not so open after all.
Can’t stand the guy personally, I don’t have a very high opinion of Juan, his opinions and his reporting if that’s what it is…I find it ironic with all his racist, biased opinions talking about black/white relationship, he gets dumped on by a tax taking employer. Life is so unfair…oh well.
NPR should become an all donor supported entity. It is no longer deserving, nor eligible, for public funding. It is liberal supported public radio and I’m sick of it.
Juan Williams is the only liberal I’ve been able to stomach on any issue/on any program. He thinks, responds, and tries very hard to give an intelligent reasoned answer. It will be most interesting to see what Mr. Williams does now? I wish him great success in whatever turn life takes him.
Unnamed sources at the DNC and Moveon.org have hinted that NPR will soon announce that the Juan Williams’ time slot will be filled by Malik Zulu Shabazz, charismatic leader of the moderate, mainstream organization, The New Black Panthers. A spokesman at NPR is purported to have said:
“We want an African American commentator who more clearly represents his community and reflects the values and principles held by NPR and minister Shabazz can fulfill this role much better than Williams.” “NPR wishes Juan all the best with his racist friends at FOX NEWS.”
Please could someone share my infuriation with…
Whoppin Toadberg was on some TV show attempting to ‘splain her lame walkout by saying
“Bill Oreilly said The Muslims kileled us on 911″
Ummmm (channeling Gwen “Way Less Tahn an Eyeful”)
He Poopi, Bill said “Muslims killed us” not “The Muslims killed us.”
Do you not know what the meaning of the word “the” is? Because it matters in this case you moron.
We have been on terrorism alerts for nearly a decade now. What is Williams supposed to do, ignore the obvious?
I think if we look carefully into this situation, there is some type of quid pro quo going on that involves the radical left.
NPR should be defunded by the government. If they can make it on their own as a radical liberal network, then good for them. But don’t force American citizens to pay for them.
Hey Poopi, not He poopi.
He still needs gold taps in his stable of unicorns.
I hate every iota of a crackah!
#120 Cheapseat said:
That eliminates most, if not all, of the liberals. No common Sense.
Saw a clip from one of Hannity’s shows where they had an audience to respond to the usage of Terrorists vs. Muslims (which is what the dust-up of Bill O’Reilly was all about). One female person was being very cautious and saying “terrorists” committed 9/11, not Muslims; there was a guy who rebutted her and said that it was MUSLIMS who were the terrorists who committed 9/11.
Juan Williams is right: we should all be wary of who is on a flight – I had a pilot once tell us all to look around and if anyone looked the least bit suspicious, to call an attendant immediately before we left the gate.
If we can’t get the nomenclature right, how are we supposed to know who to be indignant toward? I guess that’s where NPR and PBS come into play… they can tell us. Yeah, right.
George Soros is old. And he won’t live forever. May God have mercy on his soul.
Spooky Man Soros can purge all the wing bat Liberals he wishes; NPR can appoint Malik Zulu Shabazz to TWO time slots and Rev. Pflger to three if the Left wishes and I hope they do. Let them get ever more strident, more radical, more bellicose. Let Whoppi Goldberg and Joy BigMouth become prime time anchors. That should chase more and more people away from NPR and the Lame Stream Media.
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When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house,
his possessions are undisturbed.
Wow! I got up one hour ago and cannot believe it. Not that NPR would fire Mr. Williams, they were looking for a reason for some time, but the reaction to their doing it. BIG mistake on their part. With luck taxpayer funding will soon end because of it. They are also likely to see donations to local affiliates drop off as well. Good. Let’s see how they like competing in the real world. I predict…… Air America II.
Thanks Michelle, this is an important story as it exposes the politically correct corruption of the Left.
National Propaganda Radio’s treatment of Juan Williams is disgusting, unethical, morally reprehensible, intellectually dishonest and unacceptable in America. In other words, completely typical of liberals.
Why does NPR hate Black People?
Libs fail to realize that ideology is not like eye or hair color. A terrorist is not going to spare any of them because of their liberalism. By not associating islam/muslim with terrorism will not save any lib from being treated as an infidel.
they are just counting on getting their heads sawn off slowly, or blown up with a nail bomb, or stoned last.
Frankly I never heard of NPR, and won’t be listening any time soon. But the Left keeps marginalizing itself. You have the dingbats on the View who think it is OK to say the Tea Party is racist (without saying “some” are racist), yet start swearing at O’Reilly and walking off the set because O’Reilly says Muslims are terrorists (without saying “some” are terrorist).
They not only have PC rules, but generally exclude themselves.
I bought a copy of “Enough!” when it came out. Like “Culture of Corruption”, it’s not autographed.
On October 21st, 2010 at 12:49 am, DelCon said:
Yes. I haven’t seen this myself, but commenters who use the Droid app say that they see the trackbacks as comments with their own comment number. For us viewing in a web browser, the trackbacks are separated out and shown in a separate section above the comments, but without the comment number. That’s why the comment number appears to be missing in the comment section.
You’ve got that right! I saw where Huckabee was challenging Congress to defund NPR. NPR stated that only 2% of their funds come from the Federal gov’t. (Essentially they were responding with, “So there! Nyah!!”)
I pulled up their 2009 annual report, and it states that 5.8% comes from federal, state, local gov’ts. The vast majority comes from their “member stations.” I’d bet my next paycheck that the “member stations” also receive gov’t funding, but there are literally hundreds of them! If someone has the time and inclination to dig through all of this, I bet we would find out that a majority of their funding comes from gov’t — but cutting off the “federal funding of NPR” won’t hurt them much.
Honestly, the longer I was digging through, the more I thought, “This must be what Acorn’s structure looks like!”
So does anybody with more than a single digit IQ, including most liberals but they wont admit it. I hope that Juan now sees his fellow liberals for what they are: hypocrites of the highest order. F NPR, and F liberals, all useless.
Agree. Juan, I can listen too, whether I agree or not. Colmes makes me change the channel. He starts hemming and hawing and making odd faces, throwing his arms around, but saying NOTHING cogent. Instead he deflects and confuses.
Michelle said:
Mike Huckabee agrees:
A CAIR rep will be on fox this afternoon. Good time to go after CAIR. Nothing like actually rallying around a liberal. Fox is already suggesting Juan sue NPR. We will see him for a week explaining his side. Time we see a head on assault against these weenies.
On October 21st, 2010 at 12:53 pm, Lan Astaslem said:
I didn’t see your comment until after I had submitted mine.
I hear he’s being considered for an assistant secretary position over at the Department of Agriculture.
Good to see Red State show his true colors. Who is the BIGOT here? We are defending Juan’s freedom to express his honest feelings and trepidations. You apparently prefer labeling us bigots for defending his right to say it. Juan Defamed no one. Yet, you defame all of us on this site.
Thanks for providing the link!
Just like Whoopi told Greta that Bill Oreilly can’t lump all Muslims together in 9/11 (maybe Whoopi didn’t see the massive celebrations in Muslim countries like Egypt), I was waiting for Greta to point out that Whoopi and Joy Behar lumped all Tea Party activists with racists and all Republicans with child haters who want poor people to suffer, or Christians all being violent abortion doctor killers.
Greta did not make the point and Whoopi was left to hold onto her warped indignation.
What goes around comes around.
My laugh for the day!!
The mob bosses at National Progressive Radio could be heard in unison, after hearing Juan’s comment on Muslims when he travels…..
“BLASPHEMY! BLAS-PHEM-Y-Y-Y-Y! Off with his head! What? We can’t do that yet…okay, then fire his ass, and begin the destruction of his reputation. He’ll pay for airing his ‘un-unified’ opinion on this!”
The masks are coming off. Finally, after all those years of claiming support for the First Amendment, the Progressive/Regressive left’s true belief’s are coming to light. Sadly, apologists will defend the decision to fire Juan, and the charade will continue.
Come November I hope sane minds start defunding these sites that are anti-American, and put the people’s money to better use. We’ll se if the new crop has the stones to do something about this…if they don’t, then we’ll fire them too!
Shouldn’t CNN be firing its commentator for calling people at tea parties “Tea baggers”?
You do realize this is not a matter of freedom, right? No one is saying he should be thrown in jail for saying something offensive. He is entitled to his feelings, which obviously many people share, but as a public figure, he can’t be running around saying offensive things. Period. If you think he should not be fired for saying things that are offensive to two million Americans, I guess you would have no problem with a TV host saying these (hypothetical) things, just expressing how they feel.
“I don’t go to Six Flags anymore because all I see is black people, and they make me feel unsafe.”
“It bothers me that Jews control such a large share of the media and have more influence on the debate on Israel than they should.”
RSS, do you get nervous when a priest or other cleric sits next to you in a public men’s room?
Odd example; what ‘debate’ should there be on Israel?
Maybe Juan can host a new show on Fox Radio called “Czar Talk”.
NPR fired a black guy? Uh oh, the defecation just hit the rotary oscillator. This is a guy who earns a living stating his opinion. Speech that is protected by the first amendment. You know, the one that separates media and state.
A publically funded entity that denies freedom of speech. Hmm. The Obama administration is in full attack mode. They must be worried about something to lash out so vehemently to stomp on a black guys rights.
http://help.npr.org/npr/includes/customer/npr/custforms/contactus.aspx
I never give up. LOL.
I think you crashed their servers!
This is no surprise.
The left has made FOX News and their personnel, and anyone who watches them, public enemy number one, the dumbest people on earth, and the most mean, nastry racists, bigots, xenophobic, Islamophobic, Homophobic, hate filled, violent NAZI White Supremacists who ever lived.
The fact that Juan Williams even appeared on FOX News likely irritated thye leftists at NPR, as if they had a picked, prickly heated rod up their rectum. Ouch!
I am certain that all leftists, all the haters at NPR and throughout the USA, Europe, and the world, are giddy with glee, happy as a pig in mud over Juan Williams’ caning.
Of course, if he attends a reeducation camp, is reindoctrinated into the proper mindset that a “black” person, or a “person of color” must adhere to, and if he repents for his sin, renounces FOX News, apologizes to all good people (grin) everywhere for his misstep, and vows never to stray from the Plantation again, he will likely be readmitted into the leftist world of ignorant, bigoted, hate filled, intolerant bliss.
What kind of penance must he now perform?
When will FOX News drop Al “The Racist hate monger” Sharpton, and Geraldo “The HAte and Race Mongerer” Rivera from their ranks?
I can smell the stench of those two, bigoted perpetrators of violence, malevolence, faux outrage, race and hate perpetrators, Geraldo Rivera and Al Sharpton, coming out of my television every time they are on FOX News.
What a stench!
Has anyone taught Rivera manners yet, after his misogynistic attack, threat, racism, and disrespect shown toward Michelle Malkin, and the gonadless sissy response, or lack thereof from Bill O’Reilly and the rest of FOX News?
Juan’s firing is so entertaining. Wouldn’t Juan be considered a racist for his views about the mooslims? (I spell phonetically).
Spacey, you’re trying to inject logic into a liberal post. There is no logic or intelligence in the RSS.
Did everyone see Glenn Beck last night? Wow!! He is taking on Soros? Seriously, I think he is the bravest person I have ever known!! I pray he has the best security money can buy. If anything happens to Beck, I do think that would start a civil war. I’m sure they would make it look like an accident, but it would not be an accident.
Pray for Glenn Beck.
Keep trying, Phil. You just never know!
I saw Beck last night and was intrigued. Talk about foreign money in our elections. I am sure Axelrod and Obama will get right on that.
Really. How about the CNN host calling those in the tea party TEABAGGERS? How about you calling us BIGOTS? You don’t mind these “offensive things”. Meanwhile nothing Juan said was offensive. He stated that he would get nervous seeing people in the Muslim garb. Many people do. This is not being offensive, but rather being honest.
But NPR get just a ton of money from Soros. Now this man is truly offensive. He still brags about turning a Jewish neighbor over to the Nazis when he was 15. Yet the NPR is willing to take money from this man.
Exactly what is everyone getting so indignant about here???
After all, the LameStreamMedia stopped fawning over Jesse Jackass (years ago) after he stated he “… was relieved to discover that the people walking behind (him) where white”.
Oh, wait, no. That must’ve been a dream that they did that.
To state that Leftwingers are Nutjobs is not only redundant, it’s an affront to Nutjobs everywhere.
Locally in LA, KCET recently announced that it was ending its affiliation with PBS at the end of this year. It was also reported elsewhere that the reason was that because of the 40% cut PBS insists on for all corporate sponsorship, KCET was about to lose BP as a major sponsor.
Long ago, I worked for an NPR affiliate and the issue of how much is left after overhead and NPR’s cut was always a very important consideration by sponsors. But 40% is eye-popping. That’s like making charitable contributions to anything run by Dion Warwick.
silly me. My innate curiousity got the better of me.
Yes, and don’t forget that Obama’s grandmother was a “typical white woman” when she would encounter a black stranger. Where was Red State blasting Obama for being a BIGOT?
That’s the real reason NPR fired Juan. The Muslim issue just gives them cover to fire a black man. Their real purpose is to send a message that appearing on Fox News has consequences and can damage your career. They want to create a de facto boycott against Fox and they’re willing to attack one of their own to sent that message. Make no mistake, Obama and Soros are pushing this. NPR, like ACORN, is another arm of the democratic party paid for with your tax dollars.
NPR’s federal funds should have been eliminated LONG ago – hell, they never should have received them in the first place.
Last time I checked, they still employ the woman who said she wishes she could watch Rush Limbaugh die of a heart attack
Their idea of debate on Israel is whether to let the Sunnis or Shiites destroy them.
That’s the “liberal” left for you: say the equivalent of “Ni!” (“Muslim!”) to them like on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and they either stomp off in a huff like Behar and “Kiss my Whoopi” Goldberg, or they force you off the stage.
There’s no way you can defeat an enemy the name of which you can’t even mention in “polite” company, just like the first thing a man wanting to get over his drinking problem has to do is stand up and say out loud that he’s an alcoholic.
Until then, it’s all self-delusion and deceit.
This is exactly what Mark Steyn has been warning the US about. His experience with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal was instigated by the Canadian Islamic Congress, with the sole object being to prevent anyone criticizing anything to do with Muslims and Islam. It is logical to me that any Islamic organization that uses these tactics are, by definition, extremists themselves. Why? Because a moderate Muslim would welcome an honest and open discussion of their religion.
Exactly right. Would Juan have been fired for saying that he gets nervous around white people wearing white clothes, Christians wearing crosses, or Jews wearing yarmulkes? Not a chance. Would a rape victim be fired for saying that she feels nervous when entering an elevator full of men? Not a chance.
Soros bought it, I see no reason why my taxes should continue to fund it.
I am especially amused by Slate trying to compare the left firing Williams with the right firing Shirley Sherrod. That fascist Obama government, always keeping the woman… You can’t tell me Obama’s a Democrat and not a racist.
It is too funny for words watching these idiots contort themselves into knots trying to deny facts.
Pulling all govt funding to NPR is a necessary first step, but it is not sufficient.
My own, local NPR affiliate is deeply embedded within our state university and their locally-produced news and programs are just as biased and political as NPR.
All public support should be pulled from NPR and its left-wing affiliate network, including their use of studios and other facilities that belong to state universities.
What is this NPR of which you speak?
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Juan Williams is a liberal–but he also seems to be a decent and fair minded person. I wish him good luck in finding future employment.
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As for the Gubmint (read taxpayer) funded NPR–I never listen to them. And I want them defunded so that they can “compete” without having their hand in my wallet. They will be out of business soon if this ever happens.
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Like they say, “A conservative is a liberal with experience!”. Welcome aboard, Juan!
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John Bibb
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But you must know he will not even understand of what you speak and is only able to parrot liberal talking points. He’s no match for your quick wit and conservative thinking.
I’m askeered of wimmen, how’s that for profiling?
Depends on who’s doing the foot tapping init tho’!
Wait till our soldiers get court marshaled for being nervous about gay soldiers having sex in the community shower.
Soros pays NPR… tick tock tick tock…
Politically correct lackey Juan Williams gets fired for not being ‘Politically correct’ enough.
Hhmmmmm…
Rush is right. The MSM seem to be tamping down pre-election stories potentially embarrassing to the regime.
Isn’t it interesting that political correctness has now reached the point that being Muslim trumps being a black liberal? That’s an eye opener. I thought being black and liberal trumped everything else. I suppose democrats will run an unknown Muslim for president next time around. Oh wait, never mind…
This is an interesting case. A liberal gets fired, and it’s conservatives who are pissed. The progressives are pleased. Liberals, think seriously about this. Your friends aren’t who you think they are…
giggle
Why is the left so anxious to defend Muslims? It can’t be that they identify with their religious beliefs. Is it because they believe that Muslims were the real victims of 9-11? Or is it because they believe that the enemy of my christian enemy is my friend?
Whatever the reason, they want us to believe that Muslims were not behind the terrorism of 9-11. Those were not Muslims, they were just “extremists”. The left has no problem calling people rightwing extremists, Christian extremists, or tea party extremists. But they will never allow the use of the term “Muslim extremists”.
The left wants us to believe that it’s just a coincidence that all 19 hijackers were Muslim and committed their murders in the name of Allah. It’s just a coincidence that the Muslim cleric, Anwar Al-Awlaki, who was held up by reporters to be THE example of a moderate Muslim, turned out to be the “spiritual adviser” to three of the hijackers on 9-11, the Fort Hood shooter, and the underwear bomber.
This same Awlaki was also invited to lunch at the Pentagon because “the secretary of the Army was eager to have a presentation from a moderate Muslim”. Of all the billions of “moderate” Muslims in the world, how did they managed to pick this one? If the vast majority of Muslims are peace-loving moderates, how is it that when they went looking for a moderate they just happened to pick out an extremist as dangerous as Osama? Just coincidence?
I wonder if they would’ve fired him if’n his name was Malik Ali Shazzbat?
What is the difference between a moderate Muslim and an extreme Muslim with terrorist intent? With the recent of terrorist, it seems that the difference is as little as what mood they may be in that day. The Fort Hood shooter, the Time Square bomber, and the underpants guy all look like they were regular Muslims that decided to follow the creed of the religion and take up violence aganist innocent people.
I don’t know about you people but I have had enough of the phoney security at the airports and everywhere else and feel that we need to beging profiling Muslims. It that had occured over the last few years then it would not have been necessary for passengers and bystanders saving the day. Instead, maybe our “great” law enforment heros could actually have done something other than harrassing innocent people.
As to Williams, it couldn’t have happened to a better liberal. He has called us names for years. About time he got his.
BREAKING NEWS…
Juan Williams fired from government-funded NPR for excercising his First Amendment rights. Government officials strangely silent.
NPR: Gee whiz, Juan, you let the cat out of the bag. Now most people will know what most people were was already thinking. You weren’t actually supposed to say it out loud. We’ll have no more of that.
Enjoy your newfound freedom, Juan. You can do it your way now.
I NEVER get nervous when I see people wearing Muslim garb.
Why should I?
Janet Napolitano is the head of Homeland Security.
Attorney General Holder is the head of the JUustice Depatrment.
President Barack Hussein Obama (Peace be unto Him. Praise His Holy Name. Let every head bow in adoration and kiss His Holy Feet. Let everyone worship Him, Surrender to Him in all ways and serve Him with every thought, word, deed, and with all resources, belongings, hopes and dreams. Praise be Unto our Lord, our Savior, our Messiah, The One) is all powerful and He is our President.
TSA is protecting us from those mean Christians, pro-lifers, and White Republicans and Tea Party persons, those racists, etc.
Also Islam is THE Religion of Peace, Love, Tolerance, Understanding, Mercy, and Compassion. Muslims never harm anyone. They are the nicest, most loving, charibable, caring people on earth and respect everyone.
It is Christians, Jews, Israel, Conservatives, Republicans, White People, Asians-Orientals who are the bane of society, the scourge of the earth. They are the violent, mean, racist, hate fillede, bigoted, xenophobic, Islamophobic ones, the bitter clingers who cling to their religion, their Bibles, or Torah, or whatever, and who think the USA is a great place, the fools!
We are safe.
No. Islam is Peaceful and Loving. Obama is our loving, all powerful President. Janet Napolitano is our wonderful and loving head of Homeland Security. Holder is head of the Justice Depatrment. Hollywood is leftist. The Main Stream Media supports Obama and Muslims, trashing the USA. They are looking out for us.
The TSA is also looking out for us.
No harm can come to us.
I feel perfectly safe.
(sarcasm = off)
yes.
Apparently, NPR gets little federal money in any direct way. BUT, NPR is a creature of its affiliate network of stations created with public money in their own states, although their dependence on public money now varies from state to state and station to station. But — I emphasize — NPR is entirely the creature of these local affiliates. They created it to supply them with news from the slant that NPR reliably provides.
NPR must be attacked by attacking the local-affiliates that created it and which it serves. Many of those affiliate ~are~ dependent on public funds.
CO2 ProducerNPR said:Obviously.
I am just amazed at how stupid are the “intelligentsia.” How could they not know this would be a problem? It’s as if they didn’t even think, just reacted. Oh wait …
This is what happens when you have never had anyone test, question, or oppose you previously. I have to admit, I am enjoying the collapse of the Liberal Empire.
I feel badly for Juan, however he chose to side with Liberals. This is what happens when you refuse to appease the Liberal gods by towing the line. He should have known this would happen. Then again, being a Liberal means never having to leave your Utopian fantasy world.
Liberal motto: Do as I say, not as I do.
Replaces: I don like one iota of a crackah
Goal: Good morning Comrade. Have you dispatched the undesirables to the reeducation camps today. Dissent will hurt the party.
extra credit hint: back door of the reeducation center opens to the mass grave area. See Mao, Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, et al for how communism deals with its detractors.
Juan is anything but politically correct. He’s defended Clarence Thomas, Rush Limbaugh, and Bill O’Reilly, all targets of the PC police. He’s taken on the modern-day civil rights “leaders.”
He thinks for himself. I’m sure he gets far more hate mail from the left than he’d ever get from the right.
Yes, he says some dopey things (calling protesters during the Fla. recount “angry white men in their natural state”), but on balance, he’s a reasonably fair analyst – you don’t get regurgitated talking points from him.
(The heads of NAALCP members have to be exploding, as they try to figure out why people they think are racist are coming to the defense of a black man.)
Errah as much as I dislike liberals at least Williams is rational, Alan Colmes on the other hand needs his meds adjusted and is only watchable with Monica Crowley mopping the floor with his corpse. O’Realy’s constant pimping his book or the hags on the Spew; is no longer watchable because you can’t see him behind his big ego! It’s not about issues its all about him.
Here is the story from NPR with an amazing gaffe by their CEO, Vivian Schiller.
Now, if Mr. Williams is seeing a psychiatrist, shouldn’t Schiller be fired for released privledged medical information? She already offended millions by firing an honest person…maybe she would like to see how it feels.
If I were Juan Williams, I would gear up the biggest lawsuit, especially if his former employer released said information.
NPR never had any credibility. It’s taxpayer funded so their ratings are meaningless. They don’t have to duke it out to win market share by offering a format that sells to stay on the air. I would never listen to their Barbra Streisand.
I don’t pay much attention to Juan Williams; he’s way too liberal for my tastes, but I will admit that he has more grace in presenting his views than the typical crapweasel marxist in the dinosaur media.
I’m glad he said what he said. It’s way past time someone said it and there are millions of people who feel exactly as he does. Me for one. If I were ever queing up to get on an airplane and I saw a group of people whose appearance screamed Muslim, I’d eat the cost of the flight and take another plane. Luckily for me, I don’t have to fly much anymore and there is no place I have to be that fast to put up with flying with Islamic wackos.