Whether the firing of Juan Williams was justified or not, NPR must NOT....

[scheming daemons]

...allow pressure from right-wing nutjobs to affect its next actions.

NPR has the right to fire its correspondents and pundits for any reason it sees fit.

If it buckles under the unrelenting criticism of the right, then it loses its autonomy.



Fuck 'em. I think that firing Williams was a little excessive for what he said, but I have no say in the matter..

Juan Williams was NOT a union employee. NPR has the legal right to terminate his employment for any reason they see fit.


If Williams wants to hire a lawyer and fight it, let him.


It's nobody else's business.

[blue sky at night]

1. you are correct sir......

in every way this is a brilliant post...except you knew he is a repeat offender, he was warned repeatedly.

Fuck him anyway, and you know what, the right calling out NPR is the kettle calling the pot black x 1000!

so fuck NPR too, the right wing tools.

[OHdem10]

2. Agree. These Rightie Government Officials(Legislators) telling

a Radio Station what to do.-----May I remind them especially
NPR is not Pravda. I am going to Defund ---whoeee. Please
stop complaining about Socialism and Marxism if you are going
to use their tactics. Legislators should stay away from Media
especially.

I did not hear the human cry when good journalist were being
fired across this country for criticising GWB and or the Iraq
War.

[sabrina 1]

3. Where were they when Helen Thomas was forced to resign?

Hypocrites. If you are going to defend free speech, you will defend it even when you do not agree with it.

But THEY fully supported what happened to Helen Thomas, claiming we cannot support bigotry. I would have expected to see those same hypocrites defend NPR and slam Williams for bigotry since they were so concerned about it just a short time ago.

They are bigots. And in the U.S. today it is okay to be bigoted towards Muslims.

[Control-Z]

4. With the big contract

he got with Fox, what's to complain about?

[Scruffy1]

5. It's the ultimate hypocrisy

This right to work anti union goons who thing they should have the right to fire anyone anytime for any reason bitching about a man who has violated his contract repeatedly.

[BlueMTexpat]

6. Read what Michael Moore has to say.

He nails it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/juan-williams-is-right-po_b_772766.html

Juan has forgotten any bit of empathy he may have had at one time.

[tsuki]

11. Wow. Thanks. nt

[jillan]

7. It's not that NPR is going to allow pressure, it's the whack jobs in congress that are trying to

defund NPR, and PBS - because they don't feel taxpayers should pay for liberal radio. They've got it rolling in Congress already.
Let the investigations begin.

Why is it that every little thing that happens, the rightwingwackos overreact, but when big things happen - the dems do nothing????

[scheming daemons]

8. I read that NPR only gets 3% of its funding from the government....

If I'm NPR, I tell the government to go fuck itself too.

[jillan]

9. It's more than that - it's like 15% - they get money from the Center for Public Broadcasting which

we fund, combined with gov't grants making the 15%. It's enough to hurt them.

[Tesha]

10. Actually, I think it would be a very educational experience for NPR if the...

...Republicans were to cause the removal of 15% of their budget.

Nuthin' but Propaganda for Republicans might finally stop pandering
to the Right and return to being fair and balanced, as they used to be
prior to, oh, 1990 or so.

Tesha

[tsuki]

12. I saw a chart recently on fark, 5.8%. nt

[elias7]

13. If someone said this on NPR, is it bigoted?

And should they be fired?

"But I got to tell you, when I went to Great Falls Park the other day, and I saw a woman in an full-face veil and her husband had a little leather bag that wasn't looking like a picnic basket, I felt a little nervous."