Seriously. He's a lib, but occasionally exhibits signs of advanced intelligence.:-D
Posted on 09/26/2007 5:02:30 PM PDT by woofie
Radio Network Wanted To Choose Its Interviewer
The White House reached out to National Public Radio over the weekend, offering analyst Juan Williams a presidential interview to mark yesterday's 50th anniversary of school desegregation in Little Rock.
But NPR turned down the interview, and Williams's talk with Bush wound up in a very different media venue: Fox News.
Williams said yesterday he was "stunned" by NPR's decision. "It makes no sense to me. President Bush has never given an interview in which he focused on race. . . . I was stunned by the decision to turn their backs on him and to turn their backs on me."
Ellen Weiss, NPR's vice president for news, said she "felt strongly" that "the White House shouldn't be selecting the person." She said NPR told Bush's press secretary, Dana Perino, that "we're grateful for the opportunity to talk to the president but we wanted to determine who did the interview." When the White House said the offer could not be transferred to one of NPR's program hosts, Weiss took a pass.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
NPR...thy name is media
NPR .. thy name is pink media.
Out of the NPR house, Juan, and back out to the plantation.
I hope NPR will not rebuff Ahmadinejad
Yeah, I’m sure these jackals never allow Clintonistas and other Demagogues to choose an interviewer.....
LLS
And all this time I thought it was National Palestinian Radio.
Juan left the plantation. Can’t have that at NPR.
But NPR is no biased right?
Juan Williams, moderate lefty, is stunned at NPR blatant bias? Where has he been? I’d love for someone to uncover the manipulation of NPR during the Clinton years. THAT would be a great story!
They probably checked with Dr. Dean and Soros, and both vetoed the idea. Our tax dollars at work.
Juan Williams, a died in the wool liberal, is also a very intelligent man. How in the hell can he remain a liberal? His son is a conservative. He can see how the libs are so biased and unfair, yet he still marches to their drum beat. WTF?
During the Bush administration, the political discourse, especially on the left, has become so vituperative, so hate-filled and illogical that opposition rather than progress seems to be the end.
And those who glory in Bush-hating and Bush-bashing need to consider that the political atmosphere that they establish will continue into a future Democrat administration. What is that old saw? You can’t unring the bell.
Name-calling is a logical fallacy.
Actually--and I don't know of Juan's entire career--but didn't he do a stint at NPR for some time, perhaps while he was still "cutting his teeth as a journalist?"
Every 15 years he has a moment of clarity. During the Clarence Thomas hearings he was shocked to learn that the left was out to trash Thomas at any cost. This year he has written a book on black education which, in large part, parrots Bill Cosby's views.
Even that dumbass Williams may FINALLY understand what a Republican is up against!! They don’t want Williams because Bush RECOMMENDED him!!
I guess I'm color-blind -- I thought it was RED!
By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 4, 2005; Page C01
Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, who sparked controversy by asserting that programs carried by public broadcasters have a liberal bias, resigned yesterday from the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting a day after the agency's inspector general delivered a report apparently critical of his leadership.
Tomlinson, a staunch conservative who was CPB's chairman until September, brought unprecedented attention to his agency by publicly criticizing the alleged political favoritism of news programs, primarily those carried by the Public Broadcasting Service. CPB wields great influence over public radio and TV stations through its distribution of about $400 million in federal funding each year.
Excerpt.
Bush intrviewed by Block and Bird.
Blatent illegal partisanship from a publicly funded DemoGenerate propaganda network.
All Govt. funding should be immediately stripped from PBS.
It just acts as a Pusher of the Poisoned Pablum of Pravda Peonism.
NPR only believes in freedom of speech for the Iranian President, not the U.S. President.
Mist it is a matter of BTS (Bush Tourette's Syndrome).
Sounds to me like "White House Rebuffs NPR, Makes It Eat Excrement Sandwich" should be the headline.
I’m glad to hear about his book. Bill Cosby is a good role model at this point is his life and should be given more visibility. Juan just drives me crazy sometimes on Brit’s show with his liberal whining.
Please clarify.
Seriously. He's a lib, but occasionally exhibits signs of advanced intelligence.:-D
>>”It makes no sense to me. President Bush has never given an interview in which he focused on race. . . . I was stunned by the decision to turn their backs on him and to turn their backs on me.”<<
Why is it stunning that the Stalinists who run Nationalized Public Radio behave like Stalinists?
Dear Juan: Where the heck have you been??
NPR only gets $300,000,000 a year in our tax money. Wait until Hillary gets elected...
Joel Block and Deborah Bird have done a piece on NPR about “Earth & Sky” for about 16 years, Block has been on NPR almost 30 years. A small nature news bit and the most enjoyable thing about NPR other than the classical music.
“NPR only gets $300,000,000 a year in our tax money. Wait until Hillary gets elected...”
So we pay NPR 300 mil a year to operate and they don’t want to interview the President, who we put in office?
Pull funding.
Well, DUH, Juan! NPR is, and always has been, about supporting Democrats and Democrat Presidents. They would never consciously do ANYTHING that would redound to the credit of a Republican President.
How interesting!
No is “not biased right” that is for sure. Its, as you know, biased to the left ;-)
I was listening to NPR while driving through Vermont one night, years ago. They had some tech geek program that was talking about types of screws. According to them, you could get a slotted screw, a Phillips head screw, and the ultimate in ulra tech super advanced scientific secrets: the Robertson screw. The Robertson screw is the one with the square hole in it. I actually knew what they were because I had some old furniture that had them.
And they expounded on the these three types of screw drivers, and how these were the only fasteners in the year 2000. I waited for them to mention that something they owned had an Allen screw in it, or that they had bought an automobile in the past ten years and it was full of Torx screws.
Nope.
The sum total of human fastener technology, according to NPR, was a design that was largely abandoned in 1980, not the ones used for decades in your furniture and your car.
Ignorance is not an avocation at NPR, it is a profession.
[Juan] Williams said yesterday he was "stunned" by NPR's decision. "It makes no sense to me. President Bush has never given an interview in which he focused on race. . . . I was stunned by the decision to turn their backs on him and to turn their backs on me."Me? Not stunned.
Okay, the idea that Juan Williams would sit there and serve up softball questions to Dubya is just delusional. The folks at NPR need to put...the crackpipe...down.
No problem. Just cut off NPR’s taxpayer money. Sink or swim, you snotty left-wing yuppies.
Juan has been learning some hard lessons about his liberal masters. He took a load of sh*t for his last book critcizing the poverty pimps.
Oh yeah! Well, I’m going to watch NPR and not make a donation!
If Juan strays from the political correctness required at NPR, he will render himself “inauthentic.” He chooses to remain on a plantation, of sorts, in order to retain his street cred. He has a lot of company.
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