NPR Fires Liberal News Analyst For Non-PC Nervousness

[cubby1223]

Why is it surprising that those on the right will take any opportunity to bash NPR?

Have you never reflected on your own post history?

 

[trenchfoot]

What seems to have been ignored to score political points for the righties in this thread is the fact that Williams is a long-time personal friend of O'Rielly (as I previously mentioned) and that Williams has a history of commenting on Fox in such a way that advances Fox's agenda.

Fox would not have Williams on their payroll nor would they allow Williams a second of air time if Fox didn't think they could use him to their advantage one way or another.

Fox has a single purpose and that is to push the far right agenda. They will use any means to do it, and Williams is just another cog in their propaganda machine. No more, no less.

Fox is using Williams the exact same way the rightie posters are using him in this thread.

The emphasis has been on the political implications of Williams' firing and not on the man himself. Especially since he is now wholly owned by Fox and an integral part of their agenda, which the righties would surely like to downplay. Watch how Fox will exploit him in the coming months. Williams will now play the fine line that will attempt to make him seem unbiased, yet insidiously right leaning, more so now than when he was still employed at NPR.

Williams' credibility as an unbiased commentator is now history, and Williams conciously followed the money to do it. He is now and forever more an insider with a far right leaning bias. He made his choice.

Williams' firing is NOT about a single incident. He created a long right leaning history at Fox that NPR could no longer ignore. The firing was the end result of Williams ignoring the continuous warnings he must have been given by NPR.

NPR's only mistake was to not make those warnings public before terminating Williams' employment there.

I can see where it's fun for the righties to hammer NPR on this, but it's pretty obvious the only reason this is going on is to further the righties agenda by sensationalizing the firing and attempting to drag NPR down into the sewers where Fox operates out of and destroy the integrity that NPR, in my opinion, still holds intact.

It's so obvious from following this very interesting thread how the righties are attempting to kill the beast that exposes the truth about them in UNBIASED fashion. I just didn't know how much they loathe and fear NPR and for what NPR stands for. This thread quite plainly shows it.

 

[Corn]

Have you never reflected on your own post history?

Of course not, that would imply the ability to actually think instead of parrot.

 

[Corn]

What seems to have been ignored to score political points for the righties in this thread is the fact that Williams is a long-time personal friend of O'Rielly (as I previously mentioned) and that Williams has a history of commenting on Fox in such a way that advances Fox's agenda.

Fox would not have Williams on their payroll nor would they allow Williams a second of air time if Fox didn't think they could use him to their advantage one way or another.

Fox has a single purpose and that is to push the far right agenda. They will use any means to do it, and Williams is just another cog in their propaganda machine. No more, no less.

Fox is using Williams the exact same way the rightie posters are using him in this thread.

The emphasis has been on the political implications of Williams' firing and not on the man himself. Especially since he is now wholly owned by Fox and an integral part of their agenda, which the righties would surely like to downplay. Watch how Fox will exploit him in the coming months. Williams will now play the fine line that will attempt to make him seem unbiased, yet insidiously right leaning, more so now than when he was still employed at NPR.

Williams' credibility as an unbiased commentator is now history, and Williams conciously followed the money to do it. He is now and forever more an insider with a far right leaning bias. He made his choice.

Williams' firing is NOT about a single incident. He created a long right leaning history at Fox that NPR could no longer ignore. The firing was the end result of Williams ignoring the continuous warnings he must have been given by NPR.

NPR's only mistake was to not make those warnings public before terminating Williams' employment there.

I can see where it's fun for the righties to hammer NPR on this, but it's pretty obvious the only reason this is going on is to further the righties agenda by sensationalizing the firing and attempting to drag NPR down into the sewers where Fox operates out of and destroy the integrity that NPR, in my opinion, still holds intact.

It's so obvious from following this very interesting thread how the righties are attempting to kill the beast that exposes the truth about them in UNBIASED fashion. I just didn't know how much they loathe and fear NPR and for what NPR stands for. This thread quite plainly shows it.

Ooooooo, "insidiously" right leaning. LOL, look at the skeert lefty!

......and oh my, the audacity of that man to be friends with O'Reilly, he's obviously a rightie in disguise! But wait, my best friend is a union card carrying lefty, does that mean I must be one too?

Silly liberals.

 

[LongTimePCUser]

So, it seems that seeing people dressed like arab / muslims on a plane scares him.

Lets be real here. Anyone who was a muslim terrorist who intended to bomb a plane would not be dressed in traditional arab clothing that might identify them as being a terrorist. That would just get them extra screening at check-in.

If he was being rational and smart, he would realize that a person who was dressed like an arab muslim on a plane was the last person he should worry about. The real terrorist would be dressed like a college age American male of female.

If he is that confused about facts, then he really should not be a journalist and NPR should fire him for being incompetent.

 

[Infohawk]

bla bla bla

Wow that was some hard-core partisan garbage. I'm a long-time listener of NPR and I'm still going to listen, but they made a mistake on this issue. You are just as bad as the right-wingers who take any chance to take pot-shots at NPR. You're a partisan hack like they are. Hopefully you see that.

 

[Infohawk]

So, it seems that seeing people dressed like arab / muslims on a plane scares him.

Do you want to admit you haven't really heard all of what he said? He doesn't really think all Muslims are terrorists. That's just his initial gut reaction when he's at an airport. It's his emotion, not his reasoned-out thought process. You don't understand what he was saying if you think his position is that people dressed in traditional garb are likely to be terrorists.

 

[zinfamous]

Not reading back through this thread, but I assume someone has mentioned it:


I hear this late last night, but apparently Juan has signed a deal with Fox news. This, reported by a Marketplace correspondent (broadcast on NPR, for all you unread tea-bagging troglodytes), is an annual deal worth more than the average yearly operating budget of the majority of NPR affiliate stations.

 

[DucatiMonster696]

...snips nonsense...

Who is this guy married too?

Hint it ain't a liberal leaning woman.

 

[LongTimePCUser]

I think that you need to re-read what I wrote. I did not say that he thinks that all Muslims are terrorists.

I wrote: " it seems that seeing people dressed like arab / muslims on a plane scares him"

Do you want to admit you haven't really heard all of what he said? He doesn't really think all Muslims are terrorists. That's just his initial gut reaction when he's at an airport. It's his emotion, not his reasoned-out thought process. You don't understand what he was saying if you think his position is that people dressed in traditional garb are likely to be terrorists.

 

[trenchfoot]

LOL The more you righties attack the message or the messenger the more you prove my point.

Thanks!

 

[Londo_Jowo]

LOL The more you righties attack the message or the messenger the more you prove my point.

Thanks!

So the left is really scared of Palin and the Tea Party otherwise they wouldn't attack them so much?

 

[BoberFett]

LOL The more you righties attack the message or the messenger the more you prove my point.

Thanks!

The more you nutjobs flap your gums, the more apparent it is that Democrats are the party of nothing. You have nothing. No idea. No use. There is not point to you existing.

Republicans are crooked, Democrats are useless.

 

[JSt0rm]

Republicans are crooked, Democrats are useless.

So if you feel that way I can put you down for voting democrat across the board?

 

[BoberFett]

So if you feel that way I can put you down for voting democrat across the board?

Not a chance.

 

[JSt0rm]

Not a chance.

So you prefer a crooked government to a useless one?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

So you prefer a crooked government to a useless one?

Given a choice between the two I'd say neither was worth wasting a ballot or the gas to get to the poll.

When all possible choices are given by Hobson, none are good.

 

[bfdd]

So you prefer a crooked government to a useless one?

When the options are a kick in the balls, a punch to the nose or none of the above. I'm choosing none of the above.

 

[her209]

Fear is a bias. If a journalist said "I fear the conservatives are going to ruin this country if elected," you'd say he's biased.

If a judge said, "Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O'Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."

That's clearly bias.

 

[Lanyap]

I think that you need to re-read what I wrote. I did not say that he thinks that all Muslims are terrorists.

I wrote: " it seems that seeing people dressed like arab / muslims on a plane scares him"

He feels a brief moment of fear in that situation because it reminds him of 9/11. It's a normal human reaction that almost every American would feel until reality kicks in and tells us that is irrational.

 

[Throckmorton]

Blog post from the NPR ombudsman http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/...r-terminates-contract-with-juan-williams#more

 

[Tom]

He feels a brief moment of fear in that situation because it reminds him of 9/11. It's a normal human reaction that almost every American would feel until reality kicks in and tells us that is irrational.

Precisely. I've long been a fan of NPR and Juan Williams. I consider him a reliable and thoughtful commentator, and his comments on O'Reilly are not only not a mistake, but an example of his reasoned and honest exposition of the truth in America today.

Someone at NPR has made an error.

 

[trenchfoot]

Blog post from the NPR ombudsman http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/...r-terminates-contract-with-juan-williams#more

Well, if I use the standards by which some righties in this thread use, this ombudsman is nothing but a flaming ultra-leftist bent on keeping NPR the quintessential bastion of the ultra-leftist leaning stations, because I've been mentioning most of the same stuff this ombudsman has and look at how much fun some righties here have had with that. LOL

The truth is just so inconvenient sometimes that it's so much easier to ignore or dismiss or make it turn on itself with Rovian aplomb.

 

[Thump553]

It seems like the vast majority of people claiming to be upset over NPR letting Williams go are people who never ever listen to NPR. Frankly why should NPR care-those people never were going to listen to the station anyway. This seems like one more Fox "war on Christmas" broohaha.

 

[Craig234]

It seems like the vast majority of people claiming to be upset over NPR letting Williams go are people who never ever listen to NPR. Frankly why should NPR care-those people never were going to listen to the station anyway. This seems like one more Fox "war on Christmas" broohaha.

Seems more to me that their anti-Muslim bigotry makes them invent the conclusion that this is 'fire anyone who tells the truth about the Muslims' and ignore the facts.

They're enraged because they're trained to be enraged day after day by right-wing media, over their false opinion of what happened here.

They think 'Muslims are treated special above ordinary Americans' and such things that get them red-faced. So, Williams is an instant hero victim against the evil NPR.