Posted on 10/22/2010 8:25:50 AM PDT by Qbert
And the award for the dumbest and most revealing comment from a prominent left-wing blog regarding the firing of Juan Williams goes to "DougJ" at Balloon-Juice:
"Juan Williams’ firing did not happen in a vacuum. It happened in the context of him having been the official Fox News
lawn jockeystooge for years."
Oh, he did a strike-through, so he didn't really mean it and it's not a firing offense, right?
Note: Based on the comments over there, it appears the strike-through was added only after people complained, so yes, the author did intend to call Juan Williams a "lawn jockey," and yes, as one of my readers commented, the folks who run Balloon-Juice also are the first to call conservatives racist.
See my prior post Saturday Night Card Game (Balloon Juice) quoting John Cole, lead blogger at Balloon-Juice (emphasis mine):
"The funny thing about all of this is that no matter how bad all their ideas are, no matter how disastrous their governance has been, no matter how many horrible things they have done to the economy and this country, what really is killing the Republican party is that deep down, they are just complete assholes. You see it in the way they treat women, you see it in the way they treat minorities, you see it in the way they treat homosexuals, you see it in the way they treat anyone who is not a white Christian, and you see it in the way they treat anyone who disagrees with them slightly about anything. They just have no respect for anyone, and it shows."
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/10/21/juan-williams-should-have-been-fired-a-long-time-ago/
npr PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take juan back!!!!!!!!! At best he is annoying and unwatchable! Now he will be all over stupid fox news MORE than ever.
Wow I cant believe how fast the Dem’s are distancing themselves from...themselves. What’s the old saying “divide and conquer”? They seem to be dividing themselves.
Now WE need to stick TOGETHER more than ever!
I realize the phrase “lawn jockey” is meant to be a racial pejorative. I don’t think Juan is racist, nor does he deserve to be subjected to such racists attacks, but from what I can tell his IQ is roughly equivalent to that of an inanimate landscape statue. He has matured a bit during his long stint with FNC, and my hope is that this week’s events will help shock him into a saner reality. I miss the days when Britt Hume looked like he just wanted to slap him silly for being so stupid.
Many conservatives are liberals who have been mugged. A knock on the head can actualy clarify things. Watch as Juan starts to question the assumptions of the groupthink of the LEFT.
I’ve seen Brit slap him up quite quickly, then Juan acts like a dog caught in the garbage.
Jaun is a decent man and he has proven he is fair... That is a low blow babs...
Easy solution: If he is annoying and unwatchable and fox news is “stupid” why in the world are you wasting your time watching either one? Turn the channel...
Correct me if I am wrong, but when someone on the right uses the term lawn jockey doesn’t the left go apoplectic and call for their immediate lynching?
Juan Williams is on Glenn Beck radio show right now.
“As a matter of fact, that policy is threaded through the democrat party - anyone who is black and wants to try and reach out is called an “uncle tom”. If a black wants to improve his speaking skills or make all A’s in school, s/he get accused of “acting white”... In pure UNION style, they are not allowed to strive to better themselves or to try an better race relations...”
—Exactly. What we have here is bunch of rich white (establishment) liberals who want to retain permanent power by cutting off all potential paths to self-betterment for non-whites. They stir up the pot, feed non-whites with daily, highly-charged images of “racism and hatred” from “the right” to make non-whites feel that it’s completely futile to try to rely upon anyone except for the “benevolent” white liberals. But the rich white, narcissistic liberals will never have to suffer the pains of what they create, nor will they ever sacrifice their personal fortunes and positions of power...
For the life of me, I don’t know why the right doesn’t demand some real sacrifice from the white Libs, and why they continue to fall for this “benevolent, but misguided liberal” claptrap. Once they finally do this, the facade will rapidly crumble.
This is pure evil how lives are destroyed...
So by their way of thinking, Zero is America’s “lawn jockey”. Interesting.
In the past, Juan has formed his opinions based on his liberal mindset, probably not thinking things all the way through. Let's hope this incident will serve to make him start questioning some of his old ideas, in light of what he's gone through, at the hands of his supposed liberal comrades.
It is so gratifying to see the true nature of these people come out.
The left is militantly intolerant; and many of them are racists deep down.
People of color need to see that conservatism is their best hope for real progress and freedom.
We judge as MLK asked us to; the content of the character is much more important than skin color.
This is the opposite of the left. They want to group us all by skin color, or what unnatural places we place our reproductive parts.
And the award for the dumbest and most revealing comment from a prominent left-wing blog regarding the firing of Juan Williams goes to "DougJ" at Balloon-Juice:Sez "DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice." Thanks Qbert."Juan Williams' firing did not happen in a vacuum. It happened in the context of him having been the official Fox News...Based on the comments over there, it appears the strike-through was added only after people complained, so yes, the author did intend to call Juan Williams a "lawn jockey," and yes, as one of my readers commented, the folks who run Balloon-Juice also are the first to call conservatives racist.lawn jockeystooge for years."
I realize the phrase “lawn jockey” is meant to be a racial pejorative. I don’t think Juan is racist, nor does he deserve to be subjected to such racists attacks, but from what I can tell his IQ is roughly equivalent to that of an inanimate landscape statue. He has matured a bit during his long stint with FNC, and my hope is that this week’s events will help shock him into a saner reality. I miss the days when Britt Hume looked like he just wanted to slap him silly for being so stupid.
Brit is awesome; I wish he was still anchoring FNC’s hard news hour. Brett’s okay, but he stepped into some big shoes. Brit used to look like he was going to devour Juan alive, but he never crossed the line. If it had been me, I couldn’t of helped but spout, “Juan, you ignorant slut!”
I miss Brit Hume. I think he was one of the best, if not THE best, talking head on TV. Brett is an OK sucessor, but Brit was in a class by himself.
Juan Williams was beginning to question the groupthink orthodoxy and for that he needed to be broken on the wheel.
The lefties look more like the Inquisition every day.
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