Posted on 10/21/2010 11:05:50 AM PDT by WebFocus
NPR News has terminated the contract of longtime news analyst Juan Williams after remarks he made on the Fox News Channel about Muslims.Williams appeared Monday on The O'Reilly Factor, and host Bill O'Reilly asked him to comment on the idea that the U.S. is facing a dilemma with Muslims.
O'Reilly has been looking for support for his own remarks on a recent episode of ABC's The View in which he directly blamed Muslims for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walked off the set in the middle of his appearance.
"[P]olitical correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don't address reality. 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. Now, I remember also that when the Times Square bomber was at court, I think this was just last week. He said the war with Muslims, America's war is just beginning, first drop of blood. I don't think there's any way to get away from these facts."But I think there are people who want to somehow remind us all as President Bush did after 9/11, it's not a war against Islam. ... Bill, here's a caution point. The other day in New York, some guy cuts a Muslim cabby's neck and says he's attacking him or you think about the protest at the mosque near Ground Zero ... I don't know what is in that guy's head. But I'm saying, we don't want in America, people to have their rights violated to be attacked on the street because they heard a rhetoric from Bill O'Reilly and they act crazy. We've got to say to people as Bill was saying tonight, that guy is a nut."
Late Wednesday night, NPR issued a statement praising Williams as a valuable contributor but saying it had given him notice that it is severing his contract. "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.Williams' presence on the largely conservative and often contentious prime-time talk shows of Fox News has long been a sore point with NPR News executives.
His status was earlier shifted from staff correspondent to analyst after he took clear-cut positions about public policy on television and in newspaper opinion pieces.
As Steve Hayes reported previously in THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Bill Moyers was a "pioneer" in this field:
Moyers was a pioneer in deploying the conservatives-as-Taliban trope. Here's what he said in a speech last March 22: "When [producer] Sherry [Jones] and I reported the truth behind the news of the Iran-contra scandal for a Frontline documentary called 'High Crimes and Misdemeanors,' the right-wing Taliban in town went running to the ayatollahs in Congress, who decried the fact that public television was committing--horrors--journalism."
That is exactly what my first thought was.
Yes.
It is not what he said that got him fired, it was where he was speaking. Soros is targeting FOX and it is just a question of time before all the other MSM outlets boycott FOX in a similar fashion.
Notice that Soros donated to NPR at the same time.
0bama hates FOX and so the the libs.
Soros is in an all and all war with FOX and it will only get worse as the libs lose more power.
The Muzz know they are being watched on airline fights. That's why they have not succeeded in a terrorist attack involving a commercial flight since 2001.
What they did to Juan is just the beginning. By the time 2012 rolls around, the old liberal guard in all the media outlets will be stacked up like cordwood. Think about it. Their purpose has been to keep socialist or marxist ideology cloaked as progressive, or enlightened. They did so for about three decades once a 24/7 news cycle became real.Now that they captured every branch of government and won, their usefulness is over. Every time we see their face or hear their words we are reminded of the bull$*it and lies they sold us. The media elites need to flush the toilet and start over with a fresh bowl.
By george, you've got it!
Poor Juan made the mistake of noticing that all of the hijackers that attacked us on 911 were muslims, acted in the name of Islam, and that muslims have made multiple attempts to blow up airliners since 911. He also noticed that our enemies in Iraq and Afghanistan were muslim and that even innocent appearing muslims sometimes sudddenly try to kill helpless and innocent Americans in crowded places.
She walks out on O'Reilly because we were attacked by muslims, but Williams deserves some consideration for admitting that he feels threatened by all muslims...I must say, I do somewhat admire the liberal mind's ability to delude itself.
He lost his job at “[P]olitical correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don’t address reality.”
That's far right to Progressives and Communists.
Nope. Juan got caught straying from the plantation. He won't let it happen again.
She travels with what would seem to be ex-pro atheletes with machine pistols.
There are no "conservative Democrats" and there are no "Liberal Republicans". All Democrats are moderates and all Republicans are racist extremists.
Fox News allows both Liberals and Conservatives to make appearances -- therefore Fox is a far-rightwing outlet.
“..I don’t get it..is it that Muslims hate America has much as the left does so they feel a bond with them”
Muslims and leftists are both of their father....the DEVIL.
Nailed it in your post #55.
Ping
Juan Williams was not fired for what he said, he was fired for what he didn’t say.
And what he didn’t say was “YES MASSAH’”
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