Posted on 10/20/2010 11:28:33 PM PDT by T Christopher
Notice the title of his book here!!!
Perhaps a more accurate title would have read - Juan Williams Canned by NPR "National Public Radio" for "Anti-Muslim" Remarks... ON FOX NEWS
Liberal commentator, Juan Williams, has been terminated by NPR for remarks made on Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor. The Dem-apologist - who has made great strides in recent years toward a permanent move to the Right - made comments regarding post-911 travel and was unceremoniously bounced from publicly funded radio. Tax payer dollars at work right? Free Speech in action?
You can see the comments at the center of the firing below.
Via BreitbartTV: Via Memeorandum:
In watching the clip, I have to say that it seems rather off-the-cuff and unrehearsed to me - certainly not reflective of some deep-rooted hatred or discriminatory tendencies. While I wish he could have left out the obligatory - "you know I'm not a bigot but...." disclaimer, Williams was simply sharing a feeling of reservation felt by many every time they board a flight in the post-911 world. That's not racist; that's not insensitive; that's not even counterintuitive. Okay, it may technically be the first two, but its certainly not the latter. While it may have been extremists who carried out those horrific acts that day, it was in fact still a group of Muslim extremists - and they weren't wearing special "terror gear" that told their fellow passengers the wild ride they had in store for them.
The reality is simple. In the post-911 world that we now live in, we are told on a daily basis that we are supposed to; that we have a duty to; remain aware of suspicious activity and to alert the authorities when something seems out of the norm - to remain "vigilant." Forgive me for being close-minded, but when someone tells me to "be on the lookout" for a someone fitting fill-in-the-blank description, I either contact authorities or get the hell out of there. If someone has all the tell-tale signs of airborne Jihad, forgive me for sleeping with one eye open. I really don't care if feelings get hurt. While traditional Muslim garb may hardly even garner a reaction from me on an elevator or in line at the deli, similar attire on a Delta Flight will certainly get my attention, so if that makes Juan Williams a racist or even insensitive, lump me in and start the social reconditioning immediately because I need help.
New York Times: NPR has terminated its contract with Juan Williams, one of its senior news analysts, after he made comments about Muslims on the Fox News Channel.
NPR said in a statement that it gave Mr. Williams notice of his termination on Wednesday night.
The move came after Mr. Williams, who is also a Fox News political analyst, appeared on the “The O’Reilly Factor” on Monday. On the show, the host, Bill O’Reilly, asked him to respond to the notion that the United States was facing a “Muslim dilemma.” Mr. O’Reilly said, “The cold truth is that in the world today jihad, aided and abetted by some Muslim nations, is the biggest threat on the planet.”
Mr. Williams said he concurred with Mr. O’Reilly.
He continued: “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 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."
NPR said in its statement that the remarks “were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR.”
Alicia C. Shepard, the NPR ombudswoman, said at the time that Mr. Williams was a “lightning rod” for the public radio organization in part because he “tends to speak one way on NPR and another on Fox.”
Ms. Shepard said she had received 378 listener e-mails in 2008 listing complaints and frustrations about Mr. Williams.
How bout we all send an email a day complaining about one of their Lefty commentators and see if we can clean house with all of them by this time next year. Take my 365, and all 13 or so of you depending on my traffic today, and maybe just maybe NPR can do some actual reporting of the news in latter months of 2011.
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From Michelle Malkin - Guess who stirred up the pot to get Williams fired?
Think Progress and the Huffington Post:
Another point worth thinking about here... Isn't this the same crowd that always tells us that minorities can't be racists?
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A comment at Big Journalism asks this question
Are Juan Williams’ statements worse that Obama’s regarding his grandmother?
“My grandmother… is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know, there’s a reaction in her that doesn’t go away and it comes out in the wrong way.”
I wonder if this will be Juan’s “David Horowitz” moment when he sees liberals for what they are, with their total intolerance for ideological nonconformity. I wonder if he sees now that what conservatives have been saying all along about liberals is true. It’s going to be really interesting to see what Juan Williams does after this.
FoxNews should drop Mara and call it a fair trade.
How does NPR firing an NPR employee marginalize Fox?
I'll bet you a steak dinner the suits at NPR wanted Williams fired a long time ago. They just didn't have enough conclusive evidence until now. It's a lame reason to fire him (free speech). He was simply fired for saying something the suits disagreed with, because liberals don't believe a word of what Juan said on Fox News, because they're guided by political correctness.
"Eat dog food for NPR and DNC. (OK statement to NPR)
"Beware Moslems blowing up planes (Bad statement to NPR)"
The very first move by the new GOP Congress should be to completely de-fund that waste of taxpayer money, NPR.
Just disband the thing.
People are fed up with PC.
Give them a taste of their own medicine.
Juan Williams was fired because he is a regular on Fox. Another NPR reporter was threatened for working for
Fox a few months ago. I guess she’s next up. NPR just took a hundred million bucks or so from George Soros to hire more reporters. Guess which way they’ll tilt? I believe our government still contributes funding to this monstrosity known as NPR. How do you spell “federal budget cut”?
Williams is a racail POS but this shows you don’t upset the masters. Americans are under the illusion they have free speech, freedom of association and many other freedoms they don’t.
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Since when did NPR have any credibility in news analysis?
As an aside, I flew home from Italy last week and there was a muslim couple with very young children on our flight, seated 2 rows in front of us. She had on a hijab and he was definitely middle-eastern looking. From the time the plane took off, the man was up and down the aisles constantly. The stewardesses chased him out of business class several times and told him he was not allowed to be in that area of the cabin. At one point he just stood in the kitchen area for over an hour. When our plane landed at JFK, he removed his seatbelt and started milling about again and a stewardess ran up the aisle, screaming at him that it was against the law for him to be out of his seat and if he didn't return to it immediately, he'd be greated at the door by the police. The whole thing was unnerving and I will probably not fly again.
Juan is a likeable guy when he's not pushing liberal perspectives. It's a hard lesson that's he's learned on political correctness.
Another Freeper posted a brilliant comment just this week that made me laugh at the time, but holds a very real warning:
I think NPR should review its policies.
You backed right in to the problem. NPR doesn’t care what Juan Williams thinks about muslims flying on airplanes. NPR simply hates the fact that any accomplished black journalist, Juan Williams in this case, appears on Fox News in any form. One sentence taken out of context was all they needed to fire Juan. It aint about muslims. It’s about blacks straying off the liberal plantation and appearing on Fox News. JMHO.
Spooky Dude Soros probably called NPR and gave the order.
Do people actually listen to NPR? I think I turned it on once to fall asleep.
378?? That’s all it took for them to react? 378 email-ins? If that was a high % of their total listeners, then I could understand! But that is a pretty lame excuse for Ms. Perfect. Some tolerance from the left!
Viewed on a continuum -On the View - O’Reilly is “so radical” that hosts walk off.
Juan is “so radical” that NPR must fire him to protect their “journalistic integrity” - which is known to be a farce.
Media is shunning Fox - trying to present the network itself as radical.
This is a step up over their usual ridiculous anti-Fox attacks, from the likes of NYT. My guess is these are the first steps in an increase in media/Democrat attacks on Fox.
Put it another way - what other opportunity has NPR had to contribute to the anti-Fox attacks? All will take their best shots over the upcoming months. The attacks may make no sense to a conservative - like this one - but to a liberal this was a “big thing” that Juan said.
RE: “I am wondering if there has been. offensive anti-christian remarks and if so can we write anyone?”
Well... How about NPR banning stations which carry “religious” (code word for “Christian”) programming?
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Cheers
I know what you mean about finding it harder to be friendly to liberal friends/neighbors. The stakes are so high now that we have no wiggle room for people who don’t get it. I have a friend who buys into whatever ads run touting the leftist or environmentalist viewpoint with respect to our state propositions for this election, and she is totally uninformed. Whatever the ad says is gospel, no need to check out the claims.
Thanks so much Doc. ...guess that just about answers my question.
Cheers backatcha!
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