Now we know what will get you fired at NPR. Just what won't get you fired? "What's this about wishing Jesse Helms would "get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it." Can you believe that? Expressing a wish that the grandchild of a U.S. Senator get AIDS? Totenberg is still working for NPR as the legal affairs correspondent. Wow. " Neal Boortz
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In wake of NPR controversy, Fox News gives Juan Williams an expanded role "The cable news network signs the analyst to a new three-year contract for nearly $2 million. Meanwhile, conservative figures blast the public radio network for its response to Williams' comments about Muslims."
Should NPR's CEO Fire Herself in the Juan Williams Debacle? "National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller has now apologized for a "thoughtless" remark about Juan Williams, whom she fired as an analyst for admitting that he gets "worried" when he's flying and sees people in "Muslim garb" on the plane. Schiller had told an Atlanta crowd that Williams should take his feelings up with "his psychiatrist or his publicist."" The word snarky has appeared in articles about Vivian Schiller lately.
"I have no doubt that Juan’s comments about Muslims were merely a pretext. There had been prior run-ins between NPR and Juan over his appearances on Fox. But fire him over remarks that most Americans would identify with? I didn’t think the loathing of Fox would cause NPR to do something so ideologically driven, unprofessional, and bigoted."
National Politically-correct Radio by William Kristol "No inconvenient truths here, please." Then this: "Muslims who wear Western clothing and speak English with Marxist-Islamist vocabulary are vastly more likely to be suicide bombers in the West than a devout Muslim in an abaya or thobe or Pakistani shalwar qameez. But while his manner may have been clumsy, Williams was right to suggest that there is a troubling nexus between the modern Islamic identity and the embrace of terrorism as a holy act."
Juan Williams, Welcome to Imusville "Williams carries the scars of battle -- those many rapier-like "now wait a minute Juan" moments he had to tolerate from Hume -- just before having his blather dissected and discarded by the senior Fox anchor for all to see. Williams faithfully carried the liberal torch in an environment that would have destroyed the Matthewses and Barnicles and Meachams of the world. (Can you imagine Olbermann trying to debate Hume?)"
Let NPR Pay Its Own Way "Liberals tend to prefer Thomas Jefferson’s vision of religious liberty to the one actually enshrined in the First Amendment to the Constitution, so here’s one for them, from his bill for religious freedom in Virginia: “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.” " Emphasis added.
Citizens should not be forced to fund NPR’s progressive propaganda. "Not one more red cent of public money should go to NPR, PBS, and CPB. Let the speech-squelching progressives and jihadi-whitewashing apologists pay for their own propaganda. Free the taxpayers!" Michelle Malkin
The Closing of NPR’s Mind "In its unwillingness to tolerate Juan Williams, NPR has shown how little regard it has for even the slightest dissent from approved orthodoxies, especially if broadcast on the hated Fox News network. Just because you speak in dulcet tones, it doesn’t make you any less close-minded." Rich Lowry
Proposal: The Juan Williams Law "Meanwhile, according to most predictions, a very different Congress will be taking their seats in the Capitol this January. The big question is what they will do with their new-found power. I have a humble suggestion for a piece of legislation that I think the public would appreciate seeing enacted as quickly as possible." ... Roger L Simon, Pajamas Media
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