Despite that Juan Williams is a staunch defender of all things liberal, including socialist President Obama, I do admire his candor, intellect, and principles. That NPR would fire him for his comments about Muslims is political correctness gone wild.
The facts are these: of any major religion, Islamic radicals (who are Muslims) is most likely to carry out attacks against civilian targets. Muslims did carry out 9/11 (not George W. Bush Michael Moore and not Israel Mr. Ahmadinejad). This does not mean that all Muslims are terrorists just like not all Democrats are blind defenders of abortion and infanticide (see partial birth abortion).
Are we really getting to the point that no one can say anything even remotely offensive or controversial? Of course, it's fine to target Christians, tea partiers (by lewdly calling them Tea Baggers as the left, including the President, so often do), conservatives, and others who are unlikely to lash out in violence and self-detonation.
Juan Williams is an honorable guy, and he should be able to say controversial things without being sacked from his publicly funded network-NPR. I mean, why is NPR getting tax dollars anyway? I guess NPR stands for "Not Publishing anything by Republicans".
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Wow, talk about the language police!
Soros has recently given NPR 1 million dollars to get Fox and Beck. Guess Juan got caught in the crossfire.
The good thing about his release is it is a wakeup message to all those defending non free speech. Bet he ends up with a show on Fox.
And, more people will turn off NPR and pay less attention to their reporters. Can't wait for Glenn Beck today.
Mary T
Charles Adler just discussing Juan Williams and the chill to journalism over Islamophobia.
This is the second time I’ve seen the liberal yo-yos take off on Juan Williams when he has “overstepped” his bounds and spoken a truth that was against the “party line”.
I have said more than once in the past that a government run co-opted media is but one step towards the Soviet style dictatorship that we witnessed with the old USSR. This is beyond Big Brother. This is not only the squashing of Free Speech, but is in fact taking away one of our most sacred rights. And he wasn’t even on an NPR show!
This Political Correctness, which is nothing more than a Gestapo style propaganda issue has to stop!
I for one do not agree with some of Mr. Williams stands. however, he has never been afraid to call it as he sees it and in this case he was correct! Whether I agree with him or not, I find him to be candid and honest in his views. To be fired for relating the truth is beyond everything we hold sacred in this country.
Kudos to Mr. Williams for daring to stand up to the kind of censorship that is so warmly welcome by leftist Soviet and NAZI style governments!
I wonder how many votes this firing might change, as people realize how they are being manipulated by a few very rich men. Can any democrat be believed to actually vote against Pelosi as speaker, or to vote against O's agenda.
Considering all the flak flying around about this incident, I was not surprised to read that the NPR chief has apologized for the hasty action.
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