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2010-10-21 Home Front: Culture Wars
NPR Fires Juan William for Common-Sense Muslim Remarks
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Posted by Beavis 2010-10-21 08:36|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Mods can you fix my headline? I combined 2. NPR shouldn't be possessive, sorry
Posted by Beavis 2010-10-21 09:34||   2010-10-21 09:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like Juan just needed to get out of his contract so he could go to work for Fox full time.

And shame on him for having personal opinions. Everyone knows that only people without agendas or opinions work for NPR. [spit]
Posted by gorb 2010-10-21 10:07||   2010-10-21 10:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Interesting. I've heard NPR 'Reporters" call Tea Partiers Insurgents, rascists, and bigots. I very seldom listen to NPR. Even the local station has stopped playing music and runs re-runs of Democracy Now, Fresh Air, and the BBC all day.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-10-21 10:11||   2010-10-21 10:11|| Front Page Top

#4 NPR shouldn't be possessive

They should not be publicly funded doctrinaire dickheads, either.
Posted by SteveS 2010-10-21 10:16||   2010-10-21 10:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Soros also just used a front organization, the Open Society Foundations, to give 100 reporters, bought and paid for, to NPR, to report news at the State level.

"...the journalists would not be part of typical statehouse coverage, but instead would work on enterprise journalism that looks at how state government decisions play out over years, and extend beyond a single state’s borders."

"Enterprise Journalism" aka "Investigative Journalism" aka "Muckraking" aka "Yellow Journalism".

Techniques may include exaggeration of news events, scandal-mongering, imaginary sources and sensationalism. Often is it politically oriented attack journalism sponsored by one organization against another.
Posted by  Anonymoose 2010-10-21 10:18||   2010-10-21 10:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Heh, more calls to de-fund NPR, this time from Huckabee.

Ain't ever gonna happen, but it is interesting to see more calls for it.
Posted by DarthVader 2010-10-21 11:35||   2010-10-21 11:35|| Front Page Top

#7 NPR applies Political Correctness Shariah. Similar to Islamic Shariah but no restrictions on pork.
Posted by lord garth 2010-10-21 11:41||   2010-10-21 11:41|| Front Page Top

#8 "His remarks on The O'Reilly Factor this past Monday were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR,"

Yeah right. They were looking for any little thing to give him the hook. Williams was an “analyst” for NPR – not a correspondent. That status was specifically created to allow news organizations great latitude in distancing themselves from controversial comments made by staff. Does the name Daniel Schorr ring a bell? And then there’s NPR contributors Bruce Kluger and David Slavin who are currently on the NPR payroll. They used to write a satirical piece in Salon spoofing to be internal memos of the Bush Administration. In one of their bits they muse about something called "Operation We Have to Get Black People to Like Us."
One can’t help but wonder how does the following quote from that piece gell with NPR’s high “standards”?

I opened the papers to see a shot of our esteemed secretary of state, Colin "Dove Bar" Powell, singing karaoke to the Japanese foreign minister.

Oh sure, they were calling the highest ranking African American official in America’s history an “Uncle Tom”. But hey…that’s satire. And besides he's a Republican.
Posted by DepotGuy 2010-10-21 12:23||   2010-10-21 12:23|| Front Page Top

#9 NPR acted stupidly.
Posted by Swamp Blondie 2010-10-21 12:29||   2010-10-21 12:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh sure, they were calling the highest ranking African American official in America's history an "Uncle Tom". But hey...that's satire. And besides he's a Republican.

He is?
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-10-21 12:52||   2010-10-21 12:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Maybe Powell was just not democratic enough, Thing.
Posted by Bobby 2010-10-21 13:01||   2010-10-21 13:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Williams is not a parrot; wonder how long they have been looking for a reason.
Posted by swksvolFF 2010-10-21 14:53||   2010-10-21 14:53|| Front Page Top

#13 CAIR's Ibrahim Pooper Hooper was just on Fox and said Juan has drifted right and no longer fit NPR philosophically. Now that "Spooky Dude" Soros owns NPR only left wing purist need apply.
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-10-21 15:33||   2010-10-21 15:33|| Front Page Top

#14 NPR CEO: Williams' Views Should Stay Between Himself And 'His Psychiatrist'
Posted by Beavis 2010-10-21 15:35||   2010-10-21 15:35|| Front Page Top

#15 "If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."
General George S. Patton Jr.

"All glory is fleeting."
General George S. Patton Jr.
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-10-21 15:48||   2010-10-21 15:48|| Front Page Top

#16 Remember, it's Pledge Week. Be sure to call in to your local NPR station and support "free" socialist public radio, with the information you can't get anywhere else, with you after tax pledge. Tonight. Tell 'em Juan sent you.
Posted by Your Local NPR Station 2010-10-21 16:06||   2010-10-21 16:06|| Front Page Top

#17 All Things Considered.... Except That
Posted by Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2010-10-21 16:10||   2010-10-21 16:10|| Front Page Top

#18 The Thomas Jefferson Cower.
Posted by swksvolFF 2010-10-21 16:18||   2010-10-21 16:18|| Front Page Top

#19 Fresh Error.
Posted by swksvolFF 2010-10-21 16:24||   2010-10-21 16:24|| Front Page Top

#20 Whoopie and the women of 'The View' will send Juan an invite?
Posted by wr 2010-10-21 17:17|| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdKx7CC-9RM  2010-10-21 17:17|| Front Page Top

#21 On top of the delicious irony list...

William agreed to a 3 year, $2 million dollar contract with Fox News, which is a substantial bump from his former salary.

Please don't throw him into the brier patch NPR!!!
Posted by DarthVader 2010-10-21 18:08||   2010-10-21 18:08|| Front Page Top

#22 As I recall, Mr. Williams is no saint. He's said some pretty insulting things about the right side of the spectrum in the fairly recent past. I look forward to discovering whether this was the moment he discovered his inner classical liberal/neocon, or if he just had a single moment of clarity.
Posted by trailing wife 2010-10-21 23:30||   2010-10-21 23:30|| Front Page Top

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