Juan Williams : He's toast @ NPR

[busybody..]

Mara Liasson is National Public Radio's top political correspondent. She also helps hold down the left flank on panels where she appears as a FOX News contributor such as Special Report with Bret Baier. Last year Josh Gerstein reported that NPR management has asked Liasson to reconsider her appearances on Fox News because of what they perceive -- in accord with the teaching of the Obama administration -- as the network's political bias. NPR executives said they had concerns that Fox's programming had grown more partisan, and they asked Liasson to spend 30 days watching the network.

At the end of the 30 days, Liasson was undoubtedly expected to engage in rigorous self-criticism, but it didn't work out that way: "At a follow-up meeting last month, Liasson reported that she'd seen no significant change in Fox's programming and planned to continue appearing on the network, the source said." Now NPR has gone a step beyond the summoning of Mara Liasson.

Big Journalism reports that NPR has fired commentator Juan Williams for thought crime committed on Fox News. Williams concurred with Bill O'Reilly on "the Muslim dilemma" posed by O'Reilly. Williams admitted that, despite his prolific admiration of the civil rights movement, "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."


Williams also referred to the Pakistani immigrant who pleaded guilty this month to trying to plant a car bomb in Times Square. Williams noted: "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."

Williams knowingly prefaced his remarks with the observation: "Political correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis..." NPR proves that the point is precisely to induce the paralysis of which Williams spoke.

 

[hogjack]

On planes I get very nervous sitting next to fat Christian women wearing World's Best Grandma sweatshirts who assume I want to hold their yarn while they crochet "Jesus Loves You" scarves.

Flights over 4 hours are hell under those conditions.

 

[unregistered]

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

NPR is a government propaganda mill that simply cannot tolerate independent individual thought, or free speech; especially under the purview of an Obama administration.

CPB, NPR, and NEA need to fund themselves. They get lotsa money that could be used for scholarships or almost anything.

 

[Wok]

Liberal commentator is fired after saying he gets nervous when he sees Muslims on a plane .
He didn't say that on NPR . He said it on O'Reilly .
OFF WITH HIS HEAD !

http://minx.cc/?post=307142

Aww.

Maybe he can work full time for FOX now.

Oh wait, he is too liberal.

 

[unregistered]

 

[off2bed]

Last year Josh Gerstein reported that NPR management has asked Liasson to reconsider her appearances on Fox News because of what they perceive -- in accord with the teaching of the Obama administration -- as the network's political bias.

Wait, they said having a liberal on Fox made Fox too conservative, so they want the liberal to stop appearing, and that's supposed to make Fox less conservative? Only in a schizophrenic's mind does that make sense.

Aww.

Maybe he can work full time for FOX now.

Oh wait, he is too liberal.

Dumbass, he's already on Fox.

 

[berry juice]

Liberal commentator is fired after saying he gets nervous when he sees Muslims on a plane .
He didn't say that on NPR . He said it on O'Reilly .
OFF WITH HIS HEAD !

He may decide to turn republican now. They treat him well on Fox

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Nonetheless, to my thinking, the First Amendment applies to a government entity as it does anyone else. I think Williams has a case if he can find a good attorney. Assuming he wants his job back.

No. Its already been tried. A government employee sued for freedom of speech, and Oliver Wendell Holmes told him....YOU GOTTA A RIGHT TO SAY WHAT YOU WANT BUT YOU AINT GOTTA RIGHT TO A JOB.

 

[Luk]

Wait, they said having a liberal on Fox made Fox too conservative, so they want the liberal to stop appearing, and that's supposed to make Fox less conservative? Only in a schizophrenic's mind does that make sense.


Dumbass, he's already on Fox.

Dumbass, Wok said, "FULL TIME."

 

[koalabear]

Aww.

Maybe he can work full time for FOX now.

Oh wait, he is too liberal.

FOX has many libs, it fills the government handicapped employee quota.

 

[phrodeau]

NPR is a government propaganda mill that simply cannot tolerate independent individual thought, or free speech; especially under the purview of an Obama administration.

And if NPR had taken no action, you'd be casting even more unfounded accusations.

 

[unregistered]

 

[phrodeau]

FOX has many libs, it fills the government handicapped employee quota.

Not to mention the Republican agenda of more jobs for racists.

 

[unregistered]

 

[koalabear]

Not to mention the Republican agenda of more jobs for racists.

Well it keeps you bigots at bay.

 

[phrodeau]

I wouldn't have said a word.

Why then, you lack imagination.

A baldly bigoted statement broadcast, and a liberal boss taking no action, and you would just let it slide by without a word?

 

[koalabear]

Why then, you lack imagination.

A baldly bigoted statement broadcast, and a liberal boss taking no action, and you would just let it slide by without a word?

So you are against free speech.

 

[Spider Rand]

Dumbass, Wok said, "FULL TIME."

I think the point was, why would he be considered too liberal for full time, but not too liberal for part time?

 

[toubab]

Why then, you lack imagination.

A baldly bigoted statement broadcast, and a liberal boss taking no action, and you would just let it slide by without a word?

Baldly bigoted? You're just yanking chains for fun, right?

 

[Karen Kraft]

Liberal commentator is fired after saying he gets nervous when he sees Muslims on a plane .
He didn't say that on NPR . He said it on O'Reilly .
OFF WITH HIS HEAD !

http://minx.cc/?post=307142

JUAN WILLIAMS NO LONGER A BLACK MAN !!!!​

Whenever a female, black person, or Hispanic wonders off the plantation owned and operated by the Liberal Hate Machine (Democrat Party), they are no longer considered perfect. Thus, with current events draw Juan Williams centerward politically, he joins Condoleezza Rice, Justice Thomas, Star Parker, Larry Elder and Roy Innis in the "no-longer-to-be-gushed-over bin. Stripped of their Pro-Terrorist Party Pethood credentials, they are now fair game! Did you know that the next door neighbor of Juan William's third cousin was once married to a woman whose landlord wrote in "Hitler" on her Mayoral ballot in 1936? When it comes to selecting Pets of the Party, character matters!

To wit:

[from AOL News]:

(Oct. 21) -- NPR has fired longtime news analyst Juan Williams after he told the Fox News Channel that he gets nervous when he sees Muslims on airplanes.

Williams appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor" on Monday, and host Bill O'Reilly asked him what he thought about the idea that America is facing a "Muslim dilemma." The Fox News personality caused a stir recently on ABC's "The View," when co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walked off the set to protest his comments blaming Muslims for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Longtime NPR news analyst Juan Williams was fired because comments he made on Fox News "were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices," NPR said in a statement.

Williams said Monday he agreed with O'Reilly's statement that "jihad, aided and abetted by some Muslim nations, is the biggest threat on the planet." The two also discussed political correctness, which Williams said could "lead to some kind of paralysis, where you don't address reality."

"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," Williams said.

Late Wednesday, NPR issued a statement saying it had given Williams notice that his contract was being severed. "His remarks on 'The O'Reilly Factor' this past Monday were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR," the statement read, according to a story on NPR's website.

Williams told NPR that he's conferring with his wife about what's happened and that he's not ready to comment publicly.

Before working for NPR, Williams spent 21 years at The Washington Post as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist and White House reporter. He is the author of several books on civil rights in America and hosted NPR's flagship news call-in show, "Talk of the Nation," according to his bio on NPR's website.

Whoopi would walk out mumbling UncleTom- isms.

Party Pets are not allowed to think for themselves. If they do, they are morally bankrupt and fair game for slander.

If you are not Pro-Terrorist, you are a bigot!

 

[unregistered]

 

[Karen Kraft]

He'd a been ok if he said Christians instead.

As the man is born-again, I suspect he answers to even a higher authority than state-controlled radio.

27.5 million people (NPR 2008 average listenership) cannot be exposed to opinions not specifically approved by the Feds and George Soros. National security depends on a well-informed public not being misled by renegades polluting the airwaves with non-compliant thoughts.

 

[Karen Kraft]

I don't see it as a baldly bigoted statement. I see it for what it was, an honest comment on his own personal fear, nothing more.

There is no place for "honesty" in state-controlled media!

Long Live Skinny Sister!
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[koalabear]

If he chooses to sue them for censorship, he will win.