Tough on You, Juan Williams!

Tough on You, Juan Williams!

Boo hoo, Juan Williams! So, you finally came face to face with reality, with a truth that every conservative in America has known for decades, that the ultimately politically correct National Public Radio, NPR, is not much better than Air America, that it is an ideologically-biased not simply slanted to the left but unabashedly, if unadmittedly, leftist in its programming and editorial policies.

Poor Juan must not have received the National Public Radio memo that Muslims and Islam must not in any way be criticized, disparaged, or even feared by its employees either on NPR or while off the clock. That freedom of speech thing doesn’t apply there, even if NPR is heavily subsidized by the American taxpayer.

Williams’ failure to get that memo got him fired, canned, discharged by NPR.

Hollywood and the always irreverent “South Park” have gotten the message that Muslims and Islam are off limits. Why hadn’t Mr. Williams?

Maybe in his appearance on Bill O’Reilly’s “The O’Reilly Factor” (Fox News Channel, 8-9 p.m EDT) on Monday, Williams felt he wasn’t dissing Muslims. The closest he came was agreeing with O’Reilly that “jihad, aided and abetted by some Muslim nations, is the biggest threat on the planet,” a threat recognized by most rational people on that planet.

That reference to a threat led directly to his defensive statement that, “Look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country.” Had he stopped there, Williams might still be drawing an NPR check, but he didn’t.

“But when I get on the plane,” he continued, “I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”

Uh, oh, Juan, that must have done it. . .
(Read more at Boo hoo, Juan Williams! So, you finally came face to face with reality, with a truth that every conservative in America has known for decades, that the ultimately politically correct National Public Radio, NPR, is not much better than Air America, that it is an ideologically-biased not simply slanted to the left but unabashedly, if unadmittedly, leftist in its programming and editorial policies.

Poor Juan must not have received the National Public Radio memo that Muslims and Islam must not in any way be criticized, disparaged, or even feared by its employees either on NPR or while off the clock. That freedom of speech thing doesn’t apply there, even if NPR is heavily subsidized by the American taxpayer.

Williams’ failure to get that memo got him fired, canned, discharged by NPR.

Hollywood and the always irreverent “South Park” have gotten the message that Muslims and Islam are off limits. Why hadn’t Mr. Williams?

Maybe in his appearance on Bill O’Reilly’s “The O’Reilly Factor” (Fox News Channel, 8-9 p.m EDT) on Monday, Williams felt he wasn’t dissing Muslims. The closest he came was agreeing with O’Reilly that “jihad, aided and abetted by some Muslim nations, is the biggest threat on the planet,” a threat recognized by most rational people on that planet.

That reference to a threat led directly to his defensive statement that, “Look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country.” Had he stopped there, Williams might still be drawing an NPR check, but he didn’t.

“But when I get on the plane,” he continued, “I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”

Uh, oh, Juan, that must have done it. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2321)