NPR fired Juan Williams and it’s such a disgrace/ The man’s done more than many liberals for the cause of race/ He said something that many of us occasionally feel/ He was fired by cowards for not sharing their zeal.
A few days ago NPR (National Public Radio) fired liberal commentator Juan Williams for things he said on The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News.
Juan mentioned that sometimes he feels uneasy when he sees people wearing ‘traditional Muslim garb’ on airplanes. He prefaced this personal sharing of feelings by mentioning his work for civil rights, and later clarified that he wished he didn’t feel this way, and that it was not a comment towards Muslims in general.
Of course, the far-left media (fyi- I dislike the far-left and the far-right equally) took what he said out of context to make him seem like a bigot. Juan Williams! One of the best champions of civil rights and equality. A fine man, and a fine liberal.
Granted it wasn’t the best sound-bite he’s uttered. He could have said what he said more gracefully. But we all say things poorly sometimes, especially when speaking about personal feelings.
NPR fired him two days later, via phone call.
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The reason? “For stating personal opinion as a news-analyst.” Uh, don’t 85% of ‘jouranlists’ do this on a daily basis across all mediums of information in nearly every country? Isn’t that what NRP does to make a buck (and fails,) what most ‘news’ outlets do?
This has absolutely NOTHING to do with Juan being a center-Left analyst. NOTHING to do with his long association with Fox News, offering a (well-informed) liberal opinion on shows where sometimes the liberal view isn’t taken up. NOTHING to do with how Juan doesn’t fall into line with the far-left hypocritical open-mindedness-unless-you-don’t-agree-with-what-we-say dogma. (Hahaha, I sound like an angry blogger, but I’m not. I just don’t like idiotic moves based on ideology which is covered up by further idiotic and useless excuses.) NOTHING to do with NPR telling Juan to quit mentiong their name on the O’Reilly Factor when he made appearances.
Should we say that NPR fired Juan for not keeping in line? No, that would be too conspiratorial…
To further NPR’s amazingly graceful display of professionalism, one of their highest ranking officials said Juan should have consulted his ‘pyschiatrist or publicisit’ before making those comments. Talk about slapping a man for no reason, and then kicking him while he’s down.
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But this is already working out well for Juan.
People on the Left and the Right are sticking up for him, from Whoopie Goldberg to Karl Rove. He’s getting a lot of publicity for something that should have never happened. I know he’s probably sad (and perhaps outraged) but in the end Juan wins and NPR continues to lose. Who listens to NPR anyway? I mean, honestly?
Why are we, the American people, partially funding a major news organization anyway? Big Brother anyone?
