National Public Radio (NPR) Fires Juan Williams
For Muslim Comments he made on Fox News “The O'Reilly Factor”
Thursday, October 21, 2010
I’ll start today’s post off by simply saying I cannot believe that the folks at NPR fired our friend Juan Williams for his comments made about Muslims during an open discussion with O’Reilly and other guest on “The O'Reilly Factor” the other night.
What jackasses the heads of the National Public Radio must be and what chicken Sh^%*Ts they are to go and fire the man, over the phone... and not to his face or by even giving him a chance to defend his statements!
Juan Williams' firing should be a wake-up for all of us and it comes just in time for the mid-term elections too. I agree with Richard Grenell and his take in an article he wrote today in the Huffington Post...
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I also enjoyed Newt’s take on all of this in an article I found HERE at FOXNews.com which goes in part like this... "I think the U.S. Congress should investigate NPR and consider cutting off their money," said Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is also a Fox News contributor... Gingrich called the firing "an act of total censorship."... "I think the whole idea that if you honestly say how you feel about Islam -- what he said was very balanced, people should read what he actually said -- the idea that that's the excuse for National Public Radio to censor Juan Williams is an outrage and every listeners of NPR should be enraged that there's this kind of bias against an American," Gingrich said...
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Here’s more on Juan’s firing below...
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* FOXNews.com also has this great read posted up on their website this Thursday afternoon and it starts off like this... From calling Tea Party members “Tea Baggers,” to saying that "the evaporation of 4 million" Christians would leave the world a better place, to suggesting that God could give former Sen. Jesse Helms or his family AIDS from a blood transfusion, NPR's personalities have said some pretty un-PC things in the past. A look at the record reveals no shortage of intolerant statements and unbalanced segments on the publicly sponsored network's airwaves... Here's an incomplete list of questionable and controversial content that has aired on NPR or has been uttered by its employees: Click it out at link below...
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* NPR.org reports their SCREW-UP this way, if you can even stand to even click on their link... Since we first put this post up at 8:38 a.m. ET, the story of the termination of news analyst Juan Williams' contract with NPR over remarks he made on Fox News Channel about Muslims has only gotten hotter...
Read the rest at link below...
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* Another good read today at FOXNews.com is this article written by Juan Williams himself. It starts off like this... Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims... This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. In a debate with Bill O’Reilly I revealed my fears to set up the case for not making rash judgments about people of any faith. I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber -- as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals -- are Christians but we journalists don’t identify them by their religion... And I made it clear that all Americans have to be careful not to let fears lead to violation of anyone’s constitutional rights, be it to build a mosque, carry the Koran or drive a New York cab without fear having your throat slashed...
Read the rest of Juan’s article at link below...
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Only thing Juan Williams is guilty of is saying, out loud, what almost all Americans are thinking...
You GO Juan!!!
AubreyJ.........
Party heroine Sarah Palin exhorted tens of thousands of fans and activists gathered on the National Mall in Washington to embrace the nation’s tradition of religion as part of their decision-making and daily life... “Something beyond imagination is happening,” Beck said. “America today begins to turn back to God.”...
