When the revolution comes, perhaps NPR should be one of the first against the wall?
— with respect to cutting government spending, I mean. No killing fields or ovens need apply.
After all, we classical liberals aren’t the left, you know.
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related: NPR gets its man; “Juan Williams: NPR Fired Me for ‘Telling the Truth'”:
my comments on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ are being distorted by the self-righteous ideological, left-wing leadership at NPR. They are taking bits and pieces of what I said to go after me for daring to have a conversation with leading conservative thinkers. They loathe the fact that I appear on Fox News.”
–”Daniel Schorr, my fellow NPR commentator who died earlier this year, used to talk about the initial shock of finding himself on President Nixon’s enemies list. I can only imagine Dan’s revulsion to realize that today NPR treats a journalist who has worked for them for ten years with less regard, less respect for the value of independence of thought and embrace of real debate across political lines, than Nixon ever displayed.”
I love it when the veil slips.
(thanks to TerryH)
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update: It’s probably just well-timed bluster, but still:
House GOP Leader John Boehner comments exclusively on the Juan Williams firing to National Review Online: “We need to face facts — our government is broke,” Boehner tells us. “Washington is borrowing 37 cents of every dollar it spends from our kids and grandkids. Given that, I think it’s reasonable to ask why Congress is spending taxpayers’ money to support a left-wing radio network — and in the wake of Juan Williams’ firing, it’s clearer than ever that’s what NPR is.”
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intolerant step-son of update: Harsanyi chimes in.
I bet he could write a whole book of insightful NPR anecdotes
Mary Katherine Ham is on 850 KOA right now, talking about this.
I hope this makes Juan a little less of a knee-jerk partisan. Sometimes it seemed to me that he was just there to spout the left’s viewpoint so Brit Hume could slap him down. On the other hand, he is often on the mark.
I guess that the takeaway is that people rarely satisfy you completely. I have no idea how good he was at his job at NPR, but honest disagreement is not sufficient cause for what happened. I hope NPR loses all government funding. They can tough it out in the real world and see how far their policies get them, or get their funding locally.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/nprs-intolerant-firing-of-juan-williams-105483743.html
I liked Barone’s piece on this as well. Tolerant NPR listeners can’t take one of their own liberal commentators going on FOX to espouse liberal views, whereas intolerant FOX viewers have no problem with an opposing viewpoint.
The irony, it burns…
What, Allah and Patterico were busy?
From asf’s link:
Heh.
It’s only funny ’cause of we already knew it.
Allah and Patterico don’t have boobies.
Well, I assume they don’t, and if they do, I don’t want to know about it.
“I love it when the veil slips.”
I find it unsettling. I heard a lotta the reason for veils in those veil wearing type places is they hide inappropriate mustaches.
Juan exposed the ugly.
Allah and Patterico are boobies. duh.
Nor balls. What’s that leave them?
I demand proof.
Er, Ham’s, not the moobs’.
Gee, it’s almost like “tolerant” means something different to lefties.
Seems I’ve heard that before, somewhere…
NPR’s Tavis Smiley: More Christians Than Muslims Blow Up People Every Single Day*
tolerance.
link
Another big mistake by the Proggs, firing Juan, which points right back to their basic intolerance and abject fear of certain words per se, and to George Soros, Progg racism, infantilism, etc..
Juan has been around a long time and people know that he wouldn’t do that to them – a mechanism which looks to be the same thing the Proggs tried to derive as implied by Juan’s personal, private reaction to flying with garbed Muslims – a full blown phobia and threat of action against random Muslims, which it wasn’t.
It couldn’t have happened at a better time, or course barring Obama immediately taking his ~”rightful Victory Laps” hand and hand with NPR!
When I see Tavis Smiley at night, I cross to the other side of the street.
But only because I fear he’ll start talking.
“of” course
I have read Juan’s columns and listened to his commentary for more than 25 years. While I have often disagreed with his outlook or analysis, since he is an old-school liberal Democrat a la Tip O’Neil, he has always been consistent in his beliefs, and honest in his arguments.
That NPR has moved so far to the looney left of the nutroot-sphere that Williams is as much persona-non-grata as, say, Rush Limbaugh reveals in breathtaking fashion just how far out into left field the progressives have dragged the Democratic party. And the Democrats don’t seem to mind that developmemt either.
I contend that more than any political blather from either side, this episode will serve to underscore that fact for a great many low-information/low-involvement/low-interest citizens in our nation.
The veil didn’t slip, they took the entire mask off, tossed it in the trashcan, and went parading around the town. While I hope they pay and dearly for this (cause that’s just the kind of petty revenge minded guy I am – I didn’t agree with Williams’ positions, but he was always polite), I am also happy they did this so that everyone can see and hear who they actually are.
The comments on the Harsanyi piece make me laugh and laugh and then stop. And then laugh some more, because the other alternative is screaming and tearing my hair out.
The “I’m an atheist but I’m more Christ-like than Christians” guy particularly.
Comment by Pellegri on 10/22 @ 4:43 pm #
Comments like that deserve only a ‘Truly? Do tell.’ in response.
Oh. I was thinking you were talking about Guy Smiley.
They’re probably related, though.