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Wow!
Like I said earlier, I believe the firing of Juan Williams will have far-reaching implications, and it seems Mr. Williams recognizes this as well.
He is going for the throat here, isn't he?
From Juan Williams Blog:
- O'reilly Interviews Panetta, Panetta Says Of Benghazi, "we Told The President That There Is An Attack By Terrorists"
Wow, this is an odd interview. Bill O'Reilly talks all over Panetta, almost not letting him get a word in edgewise. He berates him, telling him, "You're part of the problem." He interrupts him, badgering him as if he were a schoolboy who got caught...
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Dick Morris: Obama May Not Run in 2012 From Will at The Other News: Another political pundit is joining the "Obama May Not Run in 2012" bandwagon. You'll remember that I wrote this on September 14, 2011: Obama won't run so he can avoid becoming...
- You Know How I Wrote Yesterday That The Juan Williams Firing Would Backfire On Cair And Have "far-reaching Implications"
The CAIR Observatory: Center alerts NPR, Fox News, CPB: CAIR's role in Juan Williams firing may be violation of Foreign Agents Registration Act WASHINGTON, DC: On October 21, 2010, the Center for Security Policy sent urgent alert notices to Juan...
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CBS: Juan Williams Firing Prompts Jim DeMint Bill to Defund NPR Posted by Brian Montopoli Conservative Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina today announced plans to introduce legislation stripping federal funding from National Public Radio...
- Npr Fires Liberal Juan Williams For Saying Muslims Make Him Nervous On Flights
From Yahoo News: NPR terminated the contract of Juan Williams on Wednesday after comments the veteran journalist and news analyst made about Muslims on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor." Fox News host Bill O'Reilly stirred up controversy last...
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Juan Williams: NPR Lacks Diversity of Ideas and Skin-Color ("I was the only black male on the air") - "This is evidence of One-Party Rule at NPR"
Wow!
Like I said earlier, I believe the firing of Juan Williams will have far-reaching implications, and it seems Mr. Williams recognizes this as well.
He is going for the throat here, isn't he?
From Juan Williams Blog:
I say an ideological battle because my comments on "The O’Reilly Factor" are being distorted by the self-righteous ideological, left-wing leadership at NPR. They are taking bits and pieces of what I said to go after me for daring to have a conversation with leading conservative thinkers. They loathe the fact that I appear on Fox News. They don’t notice that I am challenging Bill O’Reilly and trading ideas with Sean Hannity. In their hubris they think by talking with O’Reilly or Hannity I am lending them legitimacy. Believe me, Bill O’Reilly (and Sean, too) is a major force in American culture and politics whether or not I appear on his show.
Years ago NPR tried to stop me from going on "The Factor." When I refused they insisted that I not identify myself as an NPR journalist. I asked them if they thought people did not know where I appeared on the air as a daily talk show host, national correspondent and news analyst. They refused to budge.
This self-reverential attitude was on display several years ago when NPR asked me to help them get an interview with President George W. Bush. I have longstanding relationships with some of the key players in his White House due to my years as a political writer at The Washington Post. When I got the interview some in management expressed anger that in the course of the interview I said to the president that Americans pray for him but don’t understand some of his actions. They said it was wrong to say Americans pray for him.
Later on the 50th anniversary of the Little Rock crisis President Bush offered to do an NPR interview with me about race relations in America. NPR management refused to take the interview on the grounds that the White House offered it to me and not their other correspondents and hosts.
...And now they have used an honest statement of feeling as the basis for a charge of bigotry to create a basis for firing me. Well, now that I no longer work for NPR let me give you my opinion. This is an outrageous violation of journalistic standards and ethics by management that has no use for a diversity of opinion, ideas or a diversity of staff (I was the only black male on the air). This is evidence of one-party rule and one sided thinking at NPR that leads to enforced ideology, speech and writing. It leads to people, especially journalists, being sent to the gulag for raising the wrong questions and displaying independence of thought.
Daniel Schorr, my fellow NPR commentator who died earlier this year, used to talk about the initial shock of finding himself on President Nixon’s enemies list. I can only imagine Dan’s revulsion to realize that today NPR treats a journalist who has worked for them for ten years with less regard, less respect for the value of independence of thought and embrace of real debate across political lines, than Nixon ever displayed.
- O'reilly Interviews Panetta, Panetta Says Of Benghazi, "we Told The President That There Is An Attack By Terrorists"
Wow, this is an odd interview. Bill O'Reilly talks all over Panetta, almost not letting him get a word in edgewise. He berates him, telling him, "You're part of the problem." He interrupts him, badgering him as if he were a schoolboy who got caught...
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Dick Morris: Obama May Not Run in 2012 From Will at The Other News: Another political pundit is joining the "Obama May Not Run in 2012" bandwagon. You'll remember that I wrote this on September 14, 2011: Obama won't run so he can avoid becoming...
- You Know How I Wrote Yesterday That The Juan Williams Firing Would Backfire On Cair And Have "far-reaching Implications"
The CAIR Observatory: Center alerts NPR, Fox News, CPB: CAIR's role in Juan Williams firing may be violation of Foreign Agents Registration Act WASHINGTON, DC: On October 21, 2010, the Center for Security Policy sent urgent alert notices to Juan...
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CBS: Juan Williams Firing Prompts Jim DeMint Bill to Defund NPR Posted by Brian Montopoli Conservative Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina today announced plans to introduce legislation stripping federal funding from National Public Radio...
- Npr Fires Liberal Juan Williams For Saying Muslims Make Him Nervous On Flights
From Yahoo News: NPR terminated the contract of Juan Williams on Wednesday after comments the veteran journalist and news analyst made about Muslims on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor." Fox News host Bill O'Reilly stirred up controversy last...