The problem with many of the politically correct media types out there is they REFUSE to understand what a person is saying and then in a BROAD BRUSH, paint the person either as racist, X-phobic (where X is Islam, Homosexual, or any minority group ), or biased.
Listen to what Juan Williams said IN CONTEXT (In other words, EVERYTHING HE SAID, NOT JUST THE PHRASE OR SENTENCE YOU WANT TO PICK ON ).
The offending (and fireable) remark was that he gets nervous when he sees identifiably Muslim people getting on a plane.
How different is that remark from what Jesse Jackson said years ago : “There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.... After all we have been through. Just to think we can’t walk down our own streets, how humiliating.”
Juan Williams is as about as anti-Muslim as Jesse Jackson is anti-black. Indeed, consider everything else he said. Williams went on to speak up in favor of those “people who want to somehow remind us all as President Bush did after 9/11, it’s not a war against Islam.”
He warned against painting with too broad a brush: “If you said Timothy McVeigh, the Atlanta bomber, these people who are protesting against homosexuality at military funerals, very obnoxious, you don’t say first and foremost, we got a problem with Christians. That’s crazy.”
He said that, in the German context, the problem is not Muslims, it’s “extremists.” And he cautioned against rhetoric that might incite anti-Muslim violence: “I don’t know what is in that guy’s head [the guy who slashed the New York City cabbie a few weeks ago]. 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.”
What NPR did to Juan Williams is TOTALLY SHAMEFUL.
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.