First interview with NPR’s Vivian Schiller on Juan Williams firing

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | October 21, 2010 | Rodney Ho

[cotton1706]

So Bill Moyers can compare the GOP to the taliban but Juan Williams can’t compare Michelle Obama with Stokely Carmichael??

[Thebaddog]

Q: Have you done this before with other analysts or reporters?

A: It’s impossible to answer that. Every circumstance is different and would create false parallel.

Anybody care to guess who else has been fired for crossing a mythical editorial content line? Did Nina Totenberg get herself in any trouble at all for wishing AIDS on Jesse Helms?

[Spok]

To the left, the definition of a moderate is someone who calls himself a Republican and agrees with them. Black people, on the other hand, are expected to toe the line and stay within the ideological plantation boundaries where they belong. NPR is racist.

[Carl LaFong]

Whore.
(That’s OK now, right?)

[livius]

Interesting! Particularly when one compares it with the rants they normally permit from liberal “commentators” or the programs they broadcast (thinking of Garrison Keillor’s insane ravings about Republicans and Bush).

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

“Q: So this is obviously not an isolated incident.

A: There’s so much misinformation on the blogosphere, it’s nuts.”

Great answer......

[Question Liberal Authority]

He famously said last year something about Michelle Obama and Stokely Carmichael.

What's wrong with Stokely Carmichael? If he was alive today and working at NPR, you'd call him a moderate.

[crosshairs]

Translation: NPR kowtowed to the headchoppers.

[Redleg Duke]

Bottom line, NPR decided that Juan had wandered off the plantation and got too uppity.

He is lucky they didn't cat-haul him!

[Batman11]

“Michelle Obama “has this Stokely-Carmichael-in-a-designer-dress thing going”

This really is not accurate. She is Patrick Ewing in a designer dress!

[NeverForgetBataan]

Thanks for the song and dance Viv..... Can you juggle too?

[Leisler]

"A: Let’s state a couple of facts. Juan is not an employee of NPR. He’s an independent contractor. He’s not NPR staff. He’s an NPR analyst. We have a contract with him for analyst opinions to provide news analysis. He is not a columnist or commentator. He also has an on-going relationship with Fox News. Mara Liasson is also on Fox News and is a full-time staffer. We accept that’s a whole other issue. However, we expect our journalists, whether they are news analysts or reporters to behave like journalists. "

So NPR which wouldn't let Juan use the water fountain, calls him 'our', like they own a slave, and now kicks him off the taxpayer paid plantation.

Lib think. No one can figure them out.

[ontap]

I’m confused: If they receive no federal money why do they call themselves National Public Radio?

[Lorianne]

Seems to me Williams as making the same point that Shirley Sherrod was making ... that he had these feelings and he struggles to set them aside.

[Mr. Wright]

Only Hussein Obama appears to immune from any penalties for what he says in public. Of course, Sharpton and Jackson have always been given a pass; along with Louie Farrakhan.

[nuconvert]

From what I understand, Williams was an NPR commentator until earlier this year. Since they’d been unhappy with things he’d said, they made him an independent contractor /analyst. So, this has been coming for a while.

[maggief]

According to the National Organization of Whores it’s okay.

[nuconvert]

“Michelle Obama “has this Stokely-Carmichael-in-a-designer-dress thing going”

“This really is not accurate. She is Patrick Ewing in a designer dress!”

More like the Grinch in a dress

[ontap]

How about when Julianne Malveaux wished death on Clarence Thomas?