Posted on 10/21/2010 10:38:26 AM PDT by jessduntno
(Oct. 21) -- NPR has fired longtime news analyst Juan Williams after he told the Fox News Channel that he gets nervous when he sees Muslims on airplanes.
Williams appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor" on Monday, and host Bill O'Reilly asked him what he thought about the idea that America is facing a "Muslim dilemma." The Fox News personality caused a stir recently on ABC's "The View," when co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walked off the set to protest his comments blaming Muslims for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Williams said Monday he agreed with O'Reilly's statement that "jihad, aided and abetted by some Muslim nations, is the biggest threat on the planet." The two also discussed political correctness, which Williams said could "lead to some kind of paralysis, where you don't address reality."
"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," Williams said.
Late Wednesday, NPR issued a statement saying it had given Williams notice that his contract was being severed. "His remarks on 'The O'Reilly Factor' this past Monday were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR," the statement read, according to a story on NPR's website;
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130712737&ps=cprs
(Excerpt) Read more at aolnews.com ...
Not long ago I heard Tavis Smiley say that Christian terrorists kill people in America every day. He had on a middle eastern female guest who was relaying her accounts of being victimized by Muslim terrorists. Tavis interrupted her, all in a huff, claiming “Christians do that here every day. With all the school shootings, post offices, Oklahoma City. Every day.”
He's being Fox's house smarmy butt-kissing weasel.
Yep. Williams just said what the rest of us think.
Doesn’t hurt to think occasionally. FOX can get really boring when everyone agrees on everything. Hannity, for example.
Stretch your brain. It’s wise to hear what your opposition is saying and thinking.
Williams is more moderate than left. I rarely agree with what he says, but I find him polite and interesting.
“Counterproductive in this case, since it’s NPR who is eliminating the lefties, not Fox News.”
Exactly my point. The left keeps threatening journos with consequences, they will start leaving Fox. How is that counterproductive? It is productive as hell for them. Once they have intimidated the journo-leftists from appearing on Fox they can then say “Fox has no balance.” Am I not explaining my point clearly?
See post #25
But not if NPR is receiving federal tax dollars. Actually I don't think National Public Radio, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting or the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) should receive any tax dollars anyway.
Time has long since passed when we should have stopped federal funding of these biased media outlets.
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Typical AOL headline writing. What he said was, that when he gets on an airplane and he sees someone who presents themselves as muslim, he gets nervous.
Gee thanks, doctor, I'll try that sometime.
FOX can get really boring when everyone agrees on everything.
So can anybody else.
Williams is more moderate than left.
Well, that's certainly a change from when I last saw him. But smarmy butt-kissing weasels are a drag no matter which side of the fence they're on.
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