Political correctness strikes again

[AUTailgatingRules]

Juan Williams fired from NPR ove Muslim comments.  Try to tell me NPR is not a liberal bastion of left wing thought.  All public funding for NPR should be ended once and for all.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/national-politically-correct-radio_511450.html


National Politically-correct Radio
No inconvenient truths here, please.
7:45 AM, Oct 21, 2010 • By WILLIAM KRISTOLSingle Page
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 Breaking Commentary Your e-mail address:      Please sign me up for The Weekly Standard weekly newsletter. My Fox News Sunday colleague Juan Williams has been fired by NPR for telling an inconvenient truth.


Juan was appearing on Bill O'Reilly's show Monday night, when O'Reilly asserted, “The cold truth is that in the world today jihad, aided and abetted by some Muslim nations, is the biggest threat on the planet.” Juan didn't disagree with this claim.

Would President Obama, for example, disagree? I don't think so. Isn't this why, for example, we are fighting a war to prevent jihadists from re-establishing a terror base in Afghanistan? (It's a war, by the way, that Juan happens to oppose.) But do the powers-that-be at NPR really think that jihadists, especially if aided by state sponsors, are not a serious threat? Do the powers-that-be at NPR think their analysts shouldn't be allowed to say they are?

Juan cited the words of the Times Square bomber: “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." Do the powers-that-be at NPR deny that jihadists have made countless comments of this sort? Are NPR analysts not allowed to cite them?

Juan also commented, “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've 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.”

[Tarheel]

Juan Williams fired from NPR ove Muslim comments.  Try to tell me NPR is not a liberal bastion of left wing thought.  All public funding for NPR should be ended once and for all.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/national-politically-correct-radio_511450.html
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I heard about this news earlier this morning and I was appalled.  I know that Juan Williams is a liberal but he can be reasonable at times too.  I've watched him on the Fox News Sunday panel for years, he never fails to provide a good debate against Brit Hume or Bill Kristol* and for years longer even listened to his NPR radio show which was not too bad (he's no Rush of course).  Step outside of the lines of lefty ideology into the real world of reason on NPR and you get fired.

*forgot to add Bill Kristol, the resident neo-Con at FNS.

[Snaggletiger]

The man was simply giving an honest perspective on how he, and virtually every other non-Muslim in America feels in the same situation. I was reading that going, "Yeah, you can't help but feel that way."  It's not an attack or an insult on Muslims and you've got to stretch pretty far to turn those comments racist. It's an honest expression of his feelings and no one can convince me that 99% of Americans don't have the very same thought running through their head.  You board a plane and someone is adorned in full Muslim garb, you WILL cast a wary eye their way.  It's called human nature.

If I see a pit bull, my first reaction is to wonder if that bad azz mofo is going to naw a hole in my rectum or not.

[Tarheel]

The man was simply giving an honest perspective on how he, and virtually every other non-Muslim in America feels in the same situation. I was reading that going, "Yeah, you can't help but feel that way."  It's not an attack or an insult on Muslims and you've got to stretch pretty far to turn those comments racist. It's an honest expression of his feelings and no one can convince me that 99% of Americans don't have the very same thought running through their head.  You board a plane and someone is adorned in full Muslim garb, you WILL cast a wary eye their way.  It's called human nature.

If I see a pit bull, my first reaction is to wonder if that bad azz mofo is going to naw a hole in my rectum or not.

YOU RACIST BIGOT!  How dare you try to rationalize racism in that manner!

 



Seriously, I do agree with you on this one.

[Snaggletiger]

YOU RACIST BIGOT!  How dare you try to rationalize racism in that manner!

 



Seriously, I do agree with you on this one.

Oh fuck it.  I hate Muslims.

[Tarheel]

Juan Williams fired from NPR ove Muslim comments.  Try to tell me NPR is not a liberal bastion of left wing thought.  All public funding for NPR should be ended once and for all.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/national-politically-correct-radio_511450.html
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I just happened to read about this incident on NPR's website and ran across the following tidbit of information in the article:

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Williams' presence on the largely conservative and often contentious prime-time talk shows of Fox News has long been a sore point with NPR News executives.
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This is the real reason he was fired.  If it was not obvious earlier his comments were used as a pretext.

If anyone wants to read the rest of the article:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130712737&ps=cprs

[GH2001]

Seems to me here that Foxnews is the one who is willing to listen to the other side's view point by having Juan on the air and it is NPR who wants to shun out the other side.

FNC also has: Alan Colmes, Greta Van Susteren, Bob Beckel,  Lanny Davis, Tamara Holder, Kristen Powers, Leslie Marshall, the aforementioned Juan Williams, Susan Estrich, Pat Cadell, Doug Schoen - all registered democrats. Even Krauthammer was a democrat until recently. They allow the "other side" and their personalities more air time than CNN and MSNBC combined.

Not saying FNC doesn't lean a little to the right as a network, just saying they at least will put the other side's perspective on the air. Something Ive rarely seen the other networks EVER do. Olbermann is a disgrace to television. Guy has no intention of hearing the other side. His show is nothing but a hack job on the side he personally hates - which is the right.