NPR Fires Liberal News Analyst For Non-PC Nervousness

[PJABBER]

You remind me of a bottom feeder. There's just nothing on the bottom you can't turn into a treat.

I wonder if there is a union for that?

 

[Budmantom]

As many of us know the socialist dimocratic party is all about diversity of skin color and ethnicity but not of thought... once again this is proof.

Not too long ago I remember seeing a thread talking about NPR being non-partisan, perhaps this and George Soros running the show might change their minds.

 

[trenchfoot]

As many of us know the socialist dimocratic party is all about diversity of skin color and ethnicity but not of thought... once again this is proof.

Not too long ago I remember seeing a thread talking about NPR being non-partisan, perhaps this and George Soros running the show might change their minds.

Perhaps at the very least to keep NPR NON-PARTISAN, they had to let go an employee that also worked at a TOTALLY PARTISAN "News" Network, and Williams crossing the line that his employers drew in the sand was the trigger they needed to do it? Just throwing it out there...

 

[Corn]

I am channeling my inner liberal. Don't make me cry.


:awe:

Heh, snork!

 

[Budmantom]

Perhaps at the very least to keep NPR NON-PARTISAN, they had to let go an employee that also worked at a TOTALLY PARTISAN "News" Network, and Williams crossing the line that his employers drew in the sand was the trigger they needed to do it? Just throwing it out there...

Must be good to be so non-partisan that the non partisan George Soros decided he will use them as his blow horn.


I think the line in the sand that Williams crossed was independent thought, that's off limits in the socialist dimocratic party and it won't be tolerated.

 

[Moonbeam]

I am channeling my inner liberal. Don't make me cry.


:awe:

Oh Dear, another victim.

 

[Craig234]

Doesn't matter. Progressives literally cannot tolerate any independent thinking in women and minorities* because without heavy votes from those groups the progressive agenda is dead. Having feelings or opinions not on the approved list is sufficient for a woman or minority to be targeted for destruction, and while Williams is too well known to be professionally destroyed by the likes of NPR and the mainstream media, they can restrict him to media like FoxNews, where they can paint him as a mouth-breathing conservative. That way at least the spread of his contagion (thinking for himself) can be limited.

* Except Asians. Progressives seem to find Asians difficult to control and tend to treat them like whites.

95% of the attacks I see on liberals here are wrong or lies. I can't remember the other 5%.

 

[trenchfoot]

Must be good to be so non-partisan that the non partisan George Soros decided he will use them as his blow horn.


I think the line in the sand that Williams crossed was independent thought, that's off limits in the socialist dimocratic party and it won't be tolerated.

It strikes me odd that you would sympathize for William's "independent thought" that just so happens to align with the underlying message of fear that Fox likes to push, yet your partisan rhetoric---> "socialist dimocratic party" is anything but independent thought.

I'm getting a conflicting message from that.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Yessss the mysogonists and the bigots party together!

This thread died when you labeled Juan Williams a liberal.

Mr Williams, when I walk down the street and I see a black man dressed up in hip hop/gangsta clothing, I fear for my wallet and life.

But hey, I'm just being honest, not racist.

Good day sir.

No you aren't a racist, you just support Peace on Earth and Purity of Essence.

I haven't time for Fox, and unfortunately I now have to assume a similar journalistic bias from NPR. I knew they were left leaning to a degree, but not so they would fire someone for expressing what is a common reaction which is not commonly acted on. I certainly hope they don't have or express any emotion whatsoever on any topic. Big Sister might not like that. Then again perhaps expressing the "correct" one will have them on the rapid track for promotion.

Oh, I sent my local NPR station an email stating why I'm sending my money elsewhere. There are people who can use it more than Viv.

If there's retributive justice then perhaps she or her grandchildren will get AIDS from a transfusion.

Oh, that last bit wasn't mine. You can google it. NPR- Fair and balanced.

 

[Red Dawn]

Never watched or listened to NPR and after this I have no intention of doing so. Of course I don't watch Faux Noise, MSNBC or CNN is I can help it. It's all partisan bullshit spewed by red assed douchebags catering to their douchebag audience whether Right or Left Leaning.

 

[dawp]

I do like some of the shows on NPR, like car talk and wait, wait, don't tell me.

 

[cubby1223]

The fact is NPR has a really low threshold for offensiveness. They go far far out of their way to avoid insulting any group. I've even noticed that their obsession with fairness and not wanting to create any perception of bias leads them to avoid hardball questions in interviews with politicians (at least on the big shows like All Things Considered).

You take a jab at others who say Williams was fired for not being PC, claiming this to not be so - while you turn around and describe NPR as a PC-freak network just not using that label.

 

[ayabe]

Amazingly not a single one of you water boys would defend Helen Thomas and were without exception:

 

[Craig234]

Never watched or listened to NPR and after this I have no intention of doing so. Of course I don't watch Faux Noise, MSNBC or CNN is I can help it. It's all partisan bullshit spewed by red assed douchebags catering to their douchebag audience whether Right or Left Leaning.

No, it's not. But that's a nice simple view. Wrong, but simple.

 

[Craig234]

No you aren't a racist, you just support Peace on Earth and Purity of Essence.

I haven't time for Fox, and unfortunately I now have to assume a similar journalistic bias from NPR. I knew they were left leaning to a degree, but not so they would fire someone for expressing what is a common reaction which is not commonly acted on. I certainly hope they don't have or express any emotion whatsoever on any topic. Big Sister might not like that. Then again perhaps expressing the "correct" one will have them on the rapid track for promotion.

Oh, I sent my local NPR station an email stating why I'm sending my money elsewhere. There are people who can use it more than Viv.

If there's retributive justice then perhaps she or her grandchildren will get AIDS from a transfusion.

Oh, that last bit wasn't mine. You can google it. NPR- Fair and balanced.

No, you are coming across as highly irrational. You can link the statement - no doubt it applies to someone enforcing standards for journalists, right?

People like you are the enemy of quality, rational journalism - just not all the time if you would have donated, but close enough in your irrational blindly furious hatred here.

You're like the 'good defender of rights ACLU members' who cut off donations and trashed the ACLU when they defended the Nazis' right to march.

You can't even get right what the reasons were - which included repeated violations of their rule against 'appearing on shows that contain more punditry and less facts'.

Which Bill O'Reilly's show clearly fits.

 

[Brigandier]

I am quite disappointed to see NPR fire Juan Williams. I think Juan Williams has a level head and a good number of sensible opinions, more than can be said about most other commentators in the political arena.

What he said was mildly offensive at best, and stupid at worst. I doubt it's the muslims in traditional African or middle-eastern garb on planes we really have to worry about.

 

[Red Dawn]

No, it's not. But that's a nice simple view. Wrong, but simple.

So you don't think Faux, MSNBC and CNN is partisan BS?

 

[PokerGuy]

So you don't think Faux, MSNBC and CNN is partisan BS?

This is Craig we're talking about. The only outlets that isn't biased to him are the Pravda and People's Republic daily, they represent a nice unbiased source

 

[Craig234]

I am quite disappointed to see NPR fire Juan Williams. I think Juan Williams has a level head and a good number of sensible opinions, more than can be said about most other commentators in the political arena.

What he said was mildly offensive at best, and stupid at worst. I doubt it's the muslims in traditional African or middle-eastern garb on planes we really have to worry about.

You should be proud of NPR for its standards. Williams had a history of violating their rules, such as by appearing on 'punditry' shows with more opinion than fact. There was also the issue that after Bush refused any interview by NPR - while granting them to the other networks - except one, where they named the interview, they'd only accept Juan Williams, NPR refused because they were not willing to allow the White House to select the interviewer - and the Fox promptly had Williams do the interview for them.

The result was considered a journalistic farce, where Williams was more 'worshipping' the President than asking any harder questions. This did not help his journalistic credibility.

Check Williams on www.mediamatters.com, this goes back years.

You clearly haven't checked into the reasons for NPR doing this, by citing just the one comment that 'broke the camel's back'.

 

[Brigandier]

You should be proud of NPR for its standards. Williams had a history of violating their rules, such as by appearing on 'punditry' shows with more opinion than fact. There was also the issue that after Bush refused any interview by NPR - while granting them to the other networks - except one, where they named the interview, they'd only accept Juan Williams, NPR refused because they were not willing to allow the White House to select the interviewer - and the Fox promptly had Williams do the interview for them.

The result was considered a journalistic farce, where Williams was more 'worshipping' the President than asking any harder questions. This did not help his journalistic credibility.

Check Williams on www.mediamatters.com, this goes back years.

You clearly haven't checked into the reasons for NPR doing this, by citing just the one comment that 'broke the camel's back'.

I am proud of NPR's standards: boring the pants off America since 1970.

The only thing I can stand on local NPR is the sweet classical music they play from time to time.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

So you don't think Faux, MSNBC and CNN is partisan BS?

You can look up the Totenberg incident if you like. Heaven knows that Jesse had a lot coming but if Williams stating his personal concerns was a serious violation then hers was certainly was worse. More than likely she got a pat on the back.

Juan? He said what most people feel and that's he is a bit nervous. I understand he did not accept the "all muslims are terrorists" line.

Williams sin wasn't that he expressed an opinion, but the wrong one.

You might want to check out the comments over at NPR. The look to see how many supported of his firing because he wasn't liberal enough. Objective journalism my ass.

 

[alphatarget1]

Whatever they do, please don't get rid of CarTalk... lol

 

[Corn]

You should be proud of NPR for its standards. Williams had a history of violating their rules, such as by appearing on 'punditry' shows with more opinion than fact. There was also the issue that after Bush refused any interview by NPR - while granting them to the other networks - except one, where they named the interview, they'd only accept Juan Williams, NPR refused because they were not willing to allow the White House to select the interviewer - and the Fox promptly had Williams do the interview for them.

The result was considered a journalistic farce, where Williams was more 'worshipping' the President than asking any harder questions. This did not help his journalistic credibility.

Check Williams on www.mediamatters.com, this goes back years.

You clearly haven't checked into the reasons for NPR doing this, by citing just the one comment that 'broke the camel's back'.

LOl, media matters.

 

[trenchfoot]

Well, I rummaged through a bunch of youtube clips on Williams' commentaries. His being a personal long-time friend of O'Reilly and the consistent underlying themes that was broadcast any time those two got together on Fox clearly shows how Williams either got exploited by Fox in propagandizing their agenda or Williams knowingly participated in advancing Fox's agenda.

Isn't it obvious that Fox will not waste any air time and expense (William's wages and benefits) if Williams, for whatever reason, cannot be manipulated into pushing Fox's agenda?

Wether he lent Fox a false air of legitimacy in forwarding their agenda, or wether William's sold his soul out of greed like O'Reilly, Hannity and Beck, Fox's message rings loud and clear no matter what talking face they put up on the screen, including Williams.

Williams sold out his integrity. He cashed in. He whored himself to Fox just like so many others that appear on their network, and now he's got a nice hefty raise in pay to show for it.

 

[her209]

I haven't time for Fox, and unfortunately I now have to assume a similar journalistic bias from NPR. I knew they were left leaning to a degree, but not so they would fire someone for expressing what is a common reaction which is not commonly acted on. I certainly hope they don't have or express any emotion whatsoever on any topic. Big Sister might not like that. Then again perhaps expressing the "correct" one will have them on the rapid track for promotion.

Oh, I sent my local NPR station an email stating why I'm sending my money elsewhere. There are people who can use it more than Viv.

If there's retributive justice then perhaps she or her grandchildren will get AIDS from a transfusion.

Oh, that last bit wasn't mine. You can google it. NPR- Fair and balanced.

What if Juan Williams said "The Jews control the media."?