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This is the truth.
Wow.
Fired NPR news analyst Juan Williams should have kept his feeling about Muslims between himself and "his psychiatrist or his publicist," the network's CEO told an audience at the Atlanta Press Club earlier today.
So, not only is Juan a biggot, he also has mental problems. Good thing they fired him so he can go get his mind right.
This is the truth.
Hmmm. Did CAIR pressure NPR will a lawsuit?
I thinks it's good that NPR has taken a stand against muslim hating ###### biggots.
Did you read NPR's response I linked? This isn't a first time issue. The very act of him being on that show was actually a violation of their ethics policy.
Yeah, thats kinda the point. Before you call me full of , click on the link nI posted and save yourself playing the part of ignorant idiot.
Oh well, too late.
Newsflash...he aint the only one.
Journalistic ethics? Please. Nina Totenburg still has a gig with NPR after ripping Jessie Helms (not that he didn't deserve it.).
I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it."
Does Nina Totenburg have the same le and role that Juan Williams did? Does Nina Totenburg have the same history of violating the code as Juan Williams did?Newsflash...he aint the only one.
Journalistic ethics? Please. Nina Totenburg still has a gig with NPR after ripping Jessie Helms (not that he didn't deserve it.
I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it."
It's also kinda weird this comes immediately after Soros drops 1.8 million bones on NPR.
yeah! Everybody knows the whities response is the truth. That boy's accounting of what happened has got to be a lie. Can't trust any blackie who forgets who his master is and stops towing the line.
No, he's a news analyst. She's a correspondent. Is there a point here?
or was a news analyst.
The fact that there's even a history ought to give one pause.
Read the memo I linked.
Again, Marra Liasson is toast.
First, a critical distinction has been lost in this debate. NPR News analysts have a distinctive role and set of responsibilities. This is a very different role than that of a commentator or columnist.
So apparently going on those shows, while against code, is not a fireable offense. But saying something offensive and/or controversial while going on one of those shows, which is against code in the first place, is. That's the risk he took.
I don't know if he should have been fired, that's not up to me, but I do know that he should be more level headed than to get worried/nervous when he's on an airplane with someone dressed in "Muslim garb" and "identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims."
I did. I guess it's, ostensibly, taking part in a show that promotes "punditdry" (I didn't even know that was a word) that was the poison pill. If that's the case, as opposed to the content, I guess NPR has a case. It appears that the two issues are conflated here....which starts pushing this into a more subjective light.
I think he was told not to do this for quite some time and they got tired of it. Anything but knee jerk.
Yeah, upon further reflection, I can see it was for appearing on shows as opposed to what he was saying (I hope).
Who's next?
Exactly. Can you believe the nerve of this guy lying about what took place...
Williams said that he received a message from Ellen Weiss, NPR's senior vice president for news, telling him to call her. When he did, he said, she asked him to clarify his comments that he gets "nervous" when he sees Muslims on an airplane.
"I said, 'I said what I meant to say,'" Williams told Fox News, "which is that it is an honest experience that when I'm in an airport and I see people in Muslim garb who identify themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I do a double take. I have a moment of anxiety or fear given what happened on 9/11. That's just a reality."
Weiss, he said, told him that he had crossed the line. When he asked what line that was, she said that his statement had been bigoted. Williams said he had pointed out that he had gone on to tell O'Reilly that America had "an obligation to protect the cons utional rights of everyone in the country" and to prevent bigotry, but that "you cannot ignore what happened on 9/11 and you cannot ignore the connection to Islamic radicalism."
So is that explanation supposed to make what he said sound better?
snake is talking to himself
Sucks that he gave them a reason to fire him, doesn't it? If you have an ethics code that tells you not to go on those shows, you shouldn't go on those shows, should you? Even if they wanted to get rid of him then he has only himself to blame for giving them the easy out.
I don't know, I don't follow NPR analysts very closely. We should ask all the politicians who are planning to boycott NPR though. I'm sure they know.
Or Darrin!
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