NPR advocates censorship with this act

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Context:

• "I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it." -- National Public Radio and ABC News reporter Nina Totenberg reacting to Senator Jesse Helms' claim that the government spends too much on AIDS research, July 8, 1995 Inside Washington.

• "The Rapture, and I quote, `is the immediate departure from this Earth of over four million people in less than a fifth of a second,' unquote. This happily-volatilized mass of the saved were born again in Jesus Christ....The evaporation of four million people who believe this crap would leave the world an instantly better place." -- New Orleans-based National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu, December 19, 1995 All Things Considered.

• MARGARET CARLSON: And wouldn’t it be a great thing if they moved it a few blocks? And Muslims and Americans who still worry would be talking to each other. Let’s compromise.

MICHEL MARTIN (NPR): Why should they move it?

CARLSON: Well, why don’t we compromise?

MARTIN (NPR): Did anybody move a Catholic church? Did anybody move a Christian church after Timothy McVeigh – who adhered to a cultic, white supremacist cultic version of Christianity – bombed the Murrah building in Oklahoma? – CNN's Reliable Sources, August 22, 2010. Martin is host of NPR’s “Tell Me More.”

 

[Gabfly1]

Quote from Lucrum:

...How DO you do it?

Perhaps a better question would be, how do you manage to suppress your humanity for extended periods without the risk of physical consequences of a psychosomatic nature?

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from Gabfly1:

Perhaps a better question would be, how do you manage to suppress your humanity for extended periods without the risk of physical consequences of a psychosomatic nature?

Humanity? I don't know who is spreading such malicious rumors about me have humanity, but if I find out who it is I'll beat the shit out of them.

 

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What did Juan Williams say to get him fired from NPR?
Rick Moran
October 21, 2010

Fox News analyst Juan Williams is one of the resident liberals at that network but has occasionally demonstrated a stubborn independent streak when it comes to War on Terror issues.

But the statement he made on O'Reilly's show that got him canned from NPR is so innocuous and beyond that, so true of most Americans, that you have to figure that either the liberal Public Radio network was looking for an excuse to get rid of Williams, or they are so drenched in political correctness that every other factor takes a back seat to their slavish devotion to that ideology.

From the NPR website:

NPR News has terminated the contract of longtime news analyst Juan Williams after remarks he made on the Fox News Channel about Muslims. Williams appeared Monday on The O'Reilly Factor, and host Bill O'Reilly asked him to comment on the idea that the U.S. is facing a dilemma with Muslims.

O'Reilly has been looking for support for his own remarks on a recent episode of ABC's The View in which he directly blamed Muslims for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Co-hosts Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg walked off the set in the middle of his appearance.

So what is it that he said?

"[P]olitical correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don't address reality. I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, 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. Now, I remember also that when the Times Square bomber was at court, I think this was just last week. He said the war with Muslims, America's war is just beginning, first drop of blood. I don't think there's any way to get away from these facts.
"But I think there are people who want to somehow remind us all as President Bush did after 9/11, it's not a war against Islam. ... Bill, here's a caution point. The other day in New York, some guy cuts a Muslim cabby's neck and says he's attacking him or you think about the protest at the mosque near Ground Zero ... I don't know what is in that guy's head. But I'm saying, we don't want in America, people to have their rights violated to be attacked on the street because they heard a rhetoric from Bill O'Reilly and they act crazy. We've got to say to people as Bill was saying tonight, that guy is a nut."

To admit the obvious truth about Muslims on airplanes and be fired for it is outrageous. What is NPR's excuse?

Late Wednesday night, NPR issued a statement praising Williams as a valuable contributor but saying it had given him notice that it is severing his contract. "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," the statement read.
Williams' presence on the largely conservative and often contentious prime-time talk shows of Fox News has long been a sore point with NPR News executives.

His status was earlier shifted from staff correspondent to analyst after he took clear-cut positions about public policy on television and in newspaper opinion pieces.

It appears to me that NPR was indeed just looking for an excuse - any excuse - to fire Williams. You certainly can't construe bigotry from what Williams said on O'Reilly - especially after reading his clarifying remarks. All Williams did was relate his feelings, shared by millions of Americans, about being aware that radical Muslims perpetrated 9/11 and that seeing a Muslim on an airplane (without knowing how moderate or radical they are), it just makes sense to be wary.

Politically correct liberals would rather see you die in a terrorist attack than admit the truth about the enemy we are fighting. NPR has made that abundantly clear with their shameful treatment of Williams.

 

[jem]

gabfly - what is your opinion of NPR?

are they a neutral news reporting org
are the biased a little left
are the baised very left
are they about as left as you could be?

are they to the right?

I want to understand you position? Cause frankly I do not see your point?

Do you listen to NPR, do you hear their coverage and their commentators?

Do you understand that if you pick a subject that is way left and present it in a neutral manner that is a very biased editorial selection?

For instance our topic for the next minutes.
The complete re distribution of wealth in america.

Here we have jo stalin an npr contributor
and here we have the junior senator from minn.

Mr. Senator why would be be so hard to accomplish the re distribution of all the wealth in America.


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Do you see the bias gabby?

 

[CaptainObvious]

Quote from Gabfly1:

I've been sitting back, watching how a biased viewpoint coupled with selective perception can seemingly create alternate universes. I think that "other planet" is yours. Check the name tag.

P.S. Do you realize that you and peilthetraveler are in general agreement on just about everything? Does that not give you pause?

Seems you've put that biased viewpoint and selctive perception into action. What gives me pause is that sometimes I agree with you.:eek:

 

[ChkitOut]

Juan will probably make out like a bandit from all this.

Who knows, maybe his own show on fox.

NPR is dumb.

 

[Eight]

"People" [aren't they really demonic?] on the Left are very ruthless in their acquisition of power and weak in the face of evil.... NPR's version of free speech is similar to the ACLU's version of privacy.. they never say a word about all the private info the IRS demands every year...

 

[Trader666]

Glad you finally pulled your fist out and are back for our amusement. You're a special kind of loser to be as obsessed as you are about our politics (as a Canadian).

Quote from Gayfly:

I've been sitting back...

 

[Tsing Tao]

Quote from Gabfly1:

Speaking about yourself in the third person is cause for concern. Seek help.

I don't watch the factor, so I cannot comment. However, I do know from this thread alone that you lack basic objectivity. Therefore, any observation on your part is immediately and correctly suspect. Perhaps Williams was giving an assessment of facts in the exchanges to which you refer: analysis and interpretation. Such opinions are of a different order than the one he expressed which got him in trouble. If you cannot discern the difference then perhaps you are not yet ready for adulthood. These things take time. More so for some than others.

doh hoho ho! witless comeback there in the first sentence. what's next? I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I?

if you don't watch the factor, then your entire conclusion on any of this is irrelevant, bozo! stick to canadian politics - they're much more your speed.

juan has made all sorts of opinions in support of the left and obama both on the factor and on hannity's great american panel, where he is invited on the show SPECIFICALLY because he offers the left view. that never did jack to his NPR status.