Originally posted by: shira
Related to the Rush controversy, Warren Ballentine, during a heated discussion with Juan Williams on The O'Reilly Factor Wednesday evening, ended the exchange with, "You can go back to the porch, Juan." Which is "code" for, "Uncle Tom" or "house negro."
The Fox effect?
There's also a follow-up video of when Williams was co-host of The O'Reilly Factor Thursday Evening:
Hmmmmm
The point I want to make is that I think Ballentine was correct. Whenever I've heard Juan Williams on the Sunday talk shows and NPR, he's been a "reliable," somewhat left-of-center liberal. He's consistently been thoughtful and persuasive in his statements, but they've been consistently liberal statements.
Yet now, on Fox News, I see a totally different personal - a left-bashing, right-wing commentator (especially in that second video). I hardly recognize the man. It's spooky. What could account for the transformation? Could it be that because he receives a nice paycheck from Fox, he doesn't want to say anything too "liberal" and mess up the deal? And if that's true, then "house negro" is EXACTLY the role Williams is playing on Fox.