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I’ve got little use for Mara Liasson, but I hope she’s scheduled for the Fox “Special Report” panel every day for the next two weeks running.
“an honest, decent man” ... who made his living by calling anyone who disagreed with him a ‘’bigot’’
Hoisted on his own petard... sweet.
Just remember that the most evil totalitarian governments in history have been hard left. Four that come to mind without any thought at all:
#4: Khmer Rouge
#3: NAZI Germany
#2: Soviet Union
#1: Communist China
The intolerance of the left has no bounds, as can be seen in the actions, words, and writings of the black panthers and Bill Ayres and the like.
Mark
Just depends on if he hit bottom.
From what I have heard, NPR has not been able to say or show precisely what "journalistic standards" he violated.
I'm the first person to say it -- Williams seems like a genuinely nice guy to have as a neighbor, a party guest, or someone to chat with at the kids' soccer game. But professionally speaking, he's nothing more than an affirmative action success story. He parrots the liberal lines, no matter how painfully obvious it is that the lines are crap. This "mugging" isn't going to teach him a damn thing. And when all is said and done, he's coming out of this fine and dandy thanks to Fox -- and thanks to the very people he's helped malign for decades.
So really. The wailing and gnashing of teeth by FReepers should stop now. JMHO
While I’m glad the left’s hypocricy got exposed, I’m not happy that Juan Williams got his own show on Fox. At the end of the day, he is still a liberal who has been quite content accusing conservatives of racism and bigotry. Did he learn his lesson at NPR? He’d have to prove it.
You should see what liberal columnist Earl Ofari Hutchinson has to say about this on the opinion page of the LA Daily News:
“Former NPR analyst Juan Williams should been canned at NPR for his silly, bigoted crack about Muslims making him nervous. But NPR, if it had the ounce of integrity and fairness that it incessantly brags about, should have dumped Williams a long time ago for his equally great offense: his two decade con job as a liberal, civil rights expert and supporter.
Williams sold himself as a man that backed, even championed, the civil rights struggles of the past and that his sworn mission was to accurately and instructively chronicle that struggle.
But Williams was a fraud. That was more than apparent in the clashes that I had with him on Fox when he instantly assumed the attack dog role and jumped all over any criticism made of some of the dumbest inanities from black conservatives. That was a consistent pattern with Williams. Front himself off as a moderate, thoughtful, and balanced commentator And then quickly transform himself into a raving take-no-prisoner right-leaning commentator on Fox bashing Obama, civil rights leaders and shilling the GOP line on race.
Williams couldn’t have gotten away with this con job without the complicity of NPR officials who certainly were not clueless about William’s two-faced con. Williams, though, served a purpose for NPR. The network has sweated for years under scrutiny by the conservative hit pack that’s had the network squarely in its sights for any hint of a “liberal bias.”
NPR needed Williams far more than he needed them. He was their perfect cover. That is until he became a liability. The hard truth though is that Williams’ phony liberal front was and should have been a liability from the start. The pity is it took an outrageous, bigoted crack by him for NPR to do what it should have done a long time ago.”
Hutchinson like Williams is an African-American. Hutchinson’s bio is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Ofari_Hutchinson
Just another example of what happens to an African-American if they are considered uppity by the progressive left and what happens if it’s perceived by the left that the African-American, woman, Hispanic or gay isn’t towing the party line and has strayed from the plantation.
“FOX NEWS: We have more black male correspondents than NPR!”