[Carley]

The thing is that Juan spewed his socialist crap on FNC day in and day out. On rare, extremely rare, occasions he would say something logical and sensible but not often.

Nothing would be more fun that watching Brit Hume give Juan the crash dummy a smackdown.

[wideawake]

Any racial angle to this is purely a rhetorical invention, not a reality.

Juan Williams was not fired for the color of his skin but for daring to express a common sense opinion.

Playing the race card in this matter is beneath this forum.

[Texas Fossil]

NPR at times calls themselves “Public Radio International” (with a snob accent)

I totally despise these Commies.

[Gaffer]

Time for de-funding and a bill for misuse of public airwaves owned by real, tax paying Americans. Communists, Socialists, and psychologially impaired sub humans.

[rbosque]

We should go with this and use their own BS against them. Now WE can call them “RACIST”.

[MichaelCorleone]

Assuming they care, how does NPR know if they’ve lost, say, 20% of their audience? How can they know if I listen or fail to listen?

Just wondering if all or most of their listeners went elsewhere, would it make a real difference? Or is taking away taxpayer dollars the only way to make then squeal?

[stocksthatgoup]

http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/statements/fy2009/2009_LA_NPR_Cons.pdf
NPR’s Financials 2009

Total Revenue $153,000,000!! $62,000.000 plus from station programming fees........ 1-3%? yeah right!

[GeronL]

Not only should we defund NPR, PBS, Planned Parenthood, ACLU, ACORN but all those NGO’s too

[JoeProBono]

NPR, Juan Williams: Did firing put network smack in tea party's crosshairs?

[November 2010]

You’ve got it right. NPR isn’t driven by ratings or listeners. They are driven by corporate ‘giving’ . . . if we go after those corporations for the sponsorships, NPR will never forget that it was them that were so abusive to a regular reporter of thiers, and it was their lack of open mindeness and fairness that led to their rejection by donors. They supress free speech. Why have corporations reward them for that?

[Question Liberal Authority]

Joan Kroc, the deceased widow of Ray Kroc, who was founder of McDonald's, bequeathed something like $200 million to NPR in her will. (She died in 2003). So pressuring McDonald's to give less to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting isn't going to do much.

The Corporation For Public Broadcasting is mostly PBS television. PBS runs "PBS KIDS" which are commercial free TV shows suitable for toddlers. These are largely apolitical and have socially redeeming value.

They could also be done by a private corporation. For example, Disney runs something called "Playhouse Disney" on the Disney channel, which are also commercial free shows suitable for toddlers, and largely apolitical, except when they try to turn your kids into a flaming homosexual, an environmentalist wacko, or a supporter of open borders.

[agere_contra]

Oh heavens. Don’t do this.

Its not about him being black. It’s about a publicly funded organization kicking someone out for a commonsense opinion.

Don’t pick up the dirty weapons of the left.

[imskylark]

He wasn’t fired because he is black. He was fired because he is affiliated with Foxnews.