If the same standard was applied to all "on air" personalities as was applied to Juan Williams ... then most of the news and talking head shows on TV would have empty chairs.
Our Constitution provides for Freedom of Speech. And it doesn't even matter if one agrees or disagrees with what Mr. Williams said -- although I don't think what he said was even remotely offensive -- the fact is that he had a right to say it.
For the record, I get worried and nervous just stepping on an airplane since 9/11 -- regardless of how anyone is dressed.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
Juan is a liberal who got the shaft from the liberals. This really isn't all about Juan. I see it as trying to take a baseball bat to FOX! That will clearly be a hard sell since it is the NUMBER #1 cable news network out there. Combine that with conservative talk radio, which has a huge audience, and the liberal socialists will have their hands full!
And I watched the Factor tonight and came away with your same assumptions.
I just want to re-emphasize exactly how boring he normally is as host. He just seems out of place.
And that dude was on fire last night.
REALLY made it worth watching.
As I said, it will be interesting to see how this moderates his views.
pathetic......that the hippies from the past have now made it sooooooo PC that their kids have become the result of their PC communes....
shame shame shame.....sham sham sham.......
let's all love and live together but not speak 'the truth'......civility is the ability to speak the truth and deal with it....not covering it up in some fluffy a** words so 'no one's feelings get hurt'..........
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
NPR Executive Schiller Active in Crafting New Journalism Roadmap Published October 26, 2010 | FoxNews.com
The NPR executive under fire for canning Juan Williams has been intimately involved in federal brainstorming sessions on the "reinvention of journalism," a controversial exercise that so far has produced suggestions ranging from taxpayer-funded subsidies for news organizations to an AmeriCorps "journalism" division.
Vivian Schiller has become somewhat of a pioneer in the field of public media since taking the helm of NPR in January 2009. Though previously an executive with private-sector media giants like NYTimes.com, she's since overseen new projects to expand the reach of public radio and TV. On the side, she's participated in panels sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission as they try to draw up possible policy proposals for fixing journalism.
This movement, though, has generated controversy as some worry about what kind of role government and taxpayers could play and whether the new media landscape could be objective. Schiller has openly talked about public media filling the void left by "dying newspapers" while pushing for nonprofit media companies to band together. ....................>>>>.............................>>>>................http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....map/?test=latestnews
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
That honor goes to Niskayuna's own SS Savage. For her infamous whitewash of Downtown. We are still laughing at that political masterpiece.
Put a fork in SS Savage-she's done!
Oh she is done alright. Her and Santabarbara. But like said before...............SHE WILL COME BACK WITH A VENGENCE IMHO
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Re article, “News analyst’s fi ring for Muslim remarks stirs hornet’s nest”: National Public Radio (NPR) consistently crosses the line between reporting the news and preaching their far-left political agenda. When they go too far, and the American public gets get infuriated, NPR’s arrogance is as bad as their transgression. Last week, NPR fired Juan Williams — a brilliant, longtime spokesman of liberal causes. (I’m a Republican who almost never agreed with Williams until now.) NPR is apparently unaware that the silly era of political correctness was laughed out of American culture years ago. Still, they fired Williams (a black, liberal commentator) for saying, on a different network, that American Muslims shouldn’t be confused with the extreme views of other Muslims, like the ones who killed 3,000 people on 9/11. He went on to say that even he has had a hard time separating the reality of 9/11 from the reality of everyday life, adding that he sometimes gets nervous when Muslims board his plane. That’s the part that annoyed the thought police at NPR. People use the word “censorship” without any regard for its actual defi - nition. But NPR is guilty of censorship in its purest form: They accept public funds, while flagrantly violating a man’s First Amendment rights. Ironically, news organizations like Al Jazeera and Tass have now surpassed NPR in terms of journalistic integrity.
JOHN C. WOLFE Chestertown The writer is a former speech writer for Gov. George E. Patatki.
There is going to be some legislation introduced that will prevent NPR from receiving taxpayer funding over their actions. Let Soros give them the money they need.
Hey.....no different than OSM/PROCTORS/MORRIS! That is a taxpaid government news tv station now!!
It's called 'socialist government media'!
This is what Chavez does in cuba!!
Wake up people!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
We Bolsheviki have always said that when we reached a position of power we would close the bourgeois press. To tolerate the bourgeois newspapers would mean to cease being a socialist. When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward, or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course toward Socialism.
On 17 November 1917, the All-Russia Central Executive Committee voted by a majority of 34 to 24, with one abstention, in favour of a Bolshevik resolution voicing unconditional support for the government’s policy suppressing the ‘bourgeois press’.
Both Lenin and Trotsky spoke in support of the resolution. According to Trotsky: ‘The victory over our adversaries is not yet achieved, and the newspapers are arms in their hands. In these conditions, the closing of the newspapers is a legitimate measure of defence.’
And according to Lenin: ‘We Bolsheviki have always said that when we reached a position of power we would close the bourgeois press. To tolerate the bourgeois newspapers would mean to cease being a socialist. When one makes a revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the “freedom of the press” goes backward, and halts our headlong course toward socialism …
‘It is impossible to separate the question of the freedom of the press from the other questions of the class struggle. We have promised to close these newspapers, and we shall do it. The immense majority of the people is with us!
‘Now that the insurrection is over, we have absolutely no desire to suppress the papers of the other socialist parties, except inasmuch as they appeal to armed insurrection, or to disobedience to the Soviet government. However, we shall not permit them, under the pretence of freedom of the socialist press, to obtain, through the secret support of the bourgeoisie, a monopoly of printing presses, ink and paper … These essentials must become the property of the Soviet government, and be apportioned, first of all, to the socialist parties in strict proportion to their voting strength.’
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Hey.....no different than OSM/PROCTORS/MORRIS! That is a tax paid government news tv station now!!
It's called 'socialist government media'!
This is what Chavez does in cuba!!
Wake up people!!!
You mean Fidel Castro but great point! OSM/Proctors/Mercury Morris is a complete scam. They let that idiot Morris {salary undisclosed} destroy Channel 16. The DEMS don't want you to watch the sausage making. Control the media-they have the rag Gazetto in the bag-they made Channel 16 unwatchable-who's next?
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That honor goes to Niskayuna's own SS Savage. For her infamous whitewash of Downtown. We are still laughing at that political masterpiece.
