Juan Williams is a hero! Conservatives love their Fox News more than anything, and when you mess with a member of that family, you will pay, even if that member is black and liberal. To be fair, what Juan Williams admitted is probably the nicest thing anyone has ever said about Muslims on Fox News, and he actually said he was against people hating Muslims based on their fear of terrorists, so commentators have a point when they say he was wrongfully terminated! And if NPR had simply fired Juan Williams because he appears on Fox News, and not for a single comment he said on there, this wouldn’t have been such a big issue. But the right has found its Muslim-hate martyr or whatever, and they are tripping over each other to say the most extreme thing about his firing. So who wins? How about Mike Huckabee, who says NPR should stop receiving public funding? Or how about Michelle Malkin, who says we should shoot mean glances at people who wear “Muslim garb” on planes and feel uncomfortable around them?
Former Arkansas governor and Fox talk show host Mike Huckabee’s HuckPAC released a statement blasting NPR for violating Williams’ First Amendment rights and called on Congress to defund the public radio organization. (The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides some money to NPR, receives approximately 15 percent of its funds from the federal government.)
Haha, HuckPAC RELEASED A STATEMENT. Mike Huckabee is a VERY IMPORTANT part of this story and will be ON CALL for all of the millions of reporters who want to ask him questions about his role in this matter. MIKE HUCKABEE SPEAKS ON BEHALF OF JUAN WILLIAMS, because Mike Huckabee says so.
Here’s Sarah Palin, of course:
Yes, NPR will fire you if you exercise your First Amendment rights. That’s why every other employee at that radio network is a mute who is not allowed to use sign language in the office. NO COMMUNICATING ANY FORM OF SPEECH AT THAT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY.
And here’s Malkin:
As I’ve said many times before: Political correctness is the handmaiden of terror.
Condolences to Juan Williams, whom I’ve debated –vigorously, but always with respect and cordiality — many times over the years.
Hope this accelerates his journey on the ideological learning curve. And I hope he doesn’t back down.
If we don’t let the Muslims know they scare us when we see them on planes, they will destroy us all with their terrorism. We have to be bigoted towards Muslims and talk about this at every opportunity! It’s the only way to save liberty!
But why is everyone avoiding the real truth here? FINE, we’ll say it. Juan Williams is a secret Al Qaeda Muslim who actually did 9/11 himself on contract from the U.S. government, and he’s just trying to cover it up. [WP/Malkin]
{ 122 comments }
I trust they're just as angry over what happened to Helen Thomas.
Right?
Am I right?
Hello?
Anybody?
i hear crickets.
Wow, that audience sat there like they were an oil painting….
You are forgetting the inversal relationaltionship vis a vis the transactional accountability quotient that states that adversarial positions that marginalize the arcane and possible adroit boxer v briefs argument substantially explains that IOKIYAR.
Understand now?
Good. You are welcome.
"I hope he doesn’t back down" Back down from what, exactly? It's not like Juan Williams leaped on O'Reilly's desk calling on all of us to wrestle would-be flying Muslims to the floor at the airport.
Back down from what, exactly?
From being a giant, bigoted pansy. Juan must defend his terrified honor!
These people really don't understand what freedom of speech is, do they?
That was going to be my post. I went another way.
not even close
Sure they do. They just have a very different definition of it than our founding fathers intended.
no, they do not understand that while you have the right given by the government to say bigoted, stupid things- your boss does not have to allow it – or let his company be sued because you , an employee of said company, said these things. You will not be arrested for saying that all Muslins are terrorists – that is the frfeedom of speech part. . I have tried to explain that to various commenters on various blogs/comment sections but if brilliant thinkers like Snowbilly and Huck don't get it- how can the average teabagger(who is average- if an IQ of 85 is average- Huck and Snowbilly are about 95) get it.
i allways tells teh folks what come inna Burger King on mah shift that Wendy's burgers is better and juicier an mah boss he herd me and fired me and im like hey i got rites i kno the first ammenmint and i wuz hopin one of you here is maybe a lawyer and can help me sue i can pay good in whoppers ifn i get mah jerb back
No. No they do not. And by God they're proud of it!
Nope. It's "political correctness," as they understood it in the 90s.
Why, it's like they saying that NPR owes Juan a job.
Jeez, Sarah. STFU!!!!!
I like the way you went instead. Much more succinct.
Why are these brown people so goddmned sensitive. You can't say the n-word. You can't tell the muzzies you're afraid of them. You can't hire a messican to do the shit you don't want to do…Brown people are ruining this country. The country is going to hell in a handcart.
Honestly. After all we've done for you people.
It's the ingratitude that hurts the most.
I'm so glad I don't work in an office. I follow the Snowbilly's Twatter feed (it's the New Media equivalent of wearing a hair shirt), and she is off the HOOK sending missives today. Every time I see one of her messages, I yell "CUNT!" at the top of my lungs. My cats and dog are in a different part of the house.
It's a good thing you didn't name your cat or dog, grifter or cunt. That would confuse them.
Now THAT is free speech!
I have alarmed my household many times doing the very same thing and it is not really in my nature to do so. I even scared myself during her nomination acceptance speech.
Oh that was when I first started calling her a cunt.
Funny! Usually, 'cunt' is more or less uttered in a dismissive way, but with Palin, it erupts from the gut, as if there was the intention that she will actually hear it (which, let's face it, you know she has!).
She can see cunt from her front porch.
I have never called any other woman a cunt, but she is the single cuntiest thing I have ever seen or heard.
But Sarah Palin says that your employer would be wrong to fire you for exercising your First Amendment right to yell "cunt".
Does everyone have a First Amendment right to be a commentator on NPR ("Nancy Pelosi Radio")? What time will mine be on? I've got some scores to settle! And if we have to take anyone's NPR rights away, could it be Ol' Cokie? Or that other Fox sellout, Mara LIaiaiaiason?
I'm only a Green Card holder and I also do not have an NPR slot. Perhaps they're only handed out in the naturalization ceremony?
I look forward to Palin's America, where I can tell my boss to shove my job up his ass, then sue him for firing me, under the 1st Amendment.
Cokie and Mara. Visions of snatch. Snatch that hangs down like a wet Peacoat Sleeve. and Juan, too.
Muttering morans of Muslimophobia.
You just don't see enough Spiro Agnew references these days.
I get nervous whenever I'm on a plane with white people dressed like Christians. I fear they will jump up and start yelling homophobic slurs suggesting their God kills American soldiers because of buttsecks. And that distracts me from the video replays of GREAT television drama. So what about my First Amendment right to watch an uniterupted last season episode of Friday Night Lights?
I was so hoping that after NPR fired him for the first part of his statement, that FOX would fire him for the second part where he said we must rise above our prejudices. It would make the finger-pointing and name-calling just so much more fun.
How does ACORN's demise and the Shirley Sherrod debacle actually precede this madness but not draw parallel conclusions for the right-wing spin on this move?
Why is a black man allowed to be named Juan???? Can't these people keep their races separate. No mixing. The MASTER race says no mixing!
Only marry within your own species. Huckabee and Palin would never marry out of their species… They will keep it pure.
These idiots really piss me off
Political correctness is the handmaiden of terror? I thought political correctness was butch.
Can't Williams just tweet sweet nothings and old Cherokee proverbs to his friends, talk about his jogging, etc. etc., and say "Nite nite" like any decently contrite, inappropriately loose-mouthed anchor would do?
Wasn't it the right wingers who went nuts and made Obamar fire that poor woman from USDA for being a muslin?
It was for her saying she treated a white farmer differently. Except, she didn't say that — the wingers edited that phrase out of her broader remarks which were something like "…because of how he behaved toward my father, I wanted to treat the white farmer differently but I knew that would be wrong."
No, they wanted Sherrod fired for being the most racist gummint employee since Lester Maddox (who may have just been misunderstood, really). Totally different from Williams, who simply stated a fact: Muslins are scary.
I forget. Where did the righttards come down on "nappy headed ho's"?
They don't want to hire them, but will fap to 'em on Redtube.
The best way to defend ourselves against terrorists is to vigilantly watch for shit that actual terrorists never do, i.e. wear a thawb while hijacking. Way to get worked up about the one dude on the plane who's definitely NOT trying to blow it up.
It's nice to see teabaggers invoking an amendment other than the second or the tenth.
Too bad they do it incorrectly. Despite the minuscule amount of public financing it gets, NPR is not a govt. entity. Kind of like how churches that receive faith based funding can be as discriminatory as they want to be.
What kills me about Sarah Palin's twitter feed is that people thought about, deliberated over it and edited this stuff for for HOURS…and this is what poops out.
Why can't her fucking writers learn to insert spaces after a comma? Jesus Christ on a Motherfucking Pogostick, it's just not that goddamned hard.
Bummer for Rick Sanchez. If he just picked on a slightly different group of semetic followers of an Abrahamic faith, he too could have gotten a supportive Tweet from Sarah PAC and Red State.
"Don't back down, Sanchez, reload! Reload and shoot! Shower us with your bullets of geographical wisdon. Good Muslims will refudiate the firing of @SanchezBookNook!"
Michelle Malkin creeps me out a little bit less when I contemplate her as a handmaiden of terror who debates with a wand vigotously.
Wait a goddamned minute! It was a corporate decision to can him. Are they now telling us the government has the right, nay the responsibility to dictate executive decisions? What a bunch of f'ing commies this lot are! And this has fuck-all to do with Juan's 1st Amendment rights.
And you, M'chelle, you look, uh, like I should be giving you mean glances, if you catch my drift. You like it when I mistreat you, huh? Well, you've been a bad, bad girl. Now get over here and take your medicine… Wha? Uh, no, Ann, I wasn't talking to you, man. At ease.
Of course they are commies, they go on about "taking out the elites", how much they hate the$billions of Bill Gates and Soros (always Soros) and revolution.
The difference between the American Right and Marxist Commies is the Beckkkers want to hand all the wealth over to the Koch brothers.
They get to act all indignant while looking high-minded and throw stones at NPR as well. It's a wingnut twofer issue.
NPR reports NPRs firing of NPR's Juan Williams and does it fairly fair.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/10/21/13...
That seems to partly confirm what I recall reading awhile ago: that Williams had been butting heads with NPR brass for a long time over his appearances on Fox. Seems like maybe they were just looking for an excuse and this was the last straw.
His error, aside from saying something stupid, was to give the perfect clip for liberals to take out of context in order to scream "NPR should not be employing this bigot!" And conservatives can take it out of context to scream "See, Muslims scare NPR liberals too and no one calls THEM bigots!" And in our unfortunately soundbite-controlled media culture, no one would stop to ask if maybe we should look at the entire context of what he was saying, because no one ever does that anymore.
So NPR was damned if they did, damned if they didn't. They probably figured fuck it, let's cut him loose, weather the 24-hour-news-cycle on this, and by Friday Christine O'Donnell will have said something dumb and everyone will go back to screaming about that.
There is common sense in those penguin drawers. I hope the smell is pleasant.
Um, thanks?
From the NPR Omsbudman's desk:
"But in the end, NPR must decide — as it apparently already has — whether giving its listeners the benefit of Williams' voice is worth the cost of annoying some listeners for his work on Fox."
"Well, now that I no longer work for NPR let me give you my opinion.This is an outrageous violation of journalistic standards and ethics by management that has no use for a diversity of opinion, ideas or a diversity of staff (I was the only black male on the air)."
A modicum of diversity in air travel is cause for alarm though, right? And where was the fucking Eldridge Cleaver-shtick when he was still collecting that non-diverse NPR paycheck?
Juan must be psyched that all these moutbreathers who he has fundamentally disagreed with his whole life are now leaping to his defence.
Now he gets to be one of the "good ones".
I've never bothered to read any of Williams' writing but if he wrote a piece about how it feels to have morons and anger bears flocking to your defense I'd read that cause that would be some tasty schadenfreude.
I hope this 1st Amendment babble embarrasses the hell out of him.
He's got the whole scary clown bus cheering him on.
Remember all the right wing free speech love Bill Maher got after he got canned at ABC? Yeah me neither.
Conservatives want a group they disagree with "defunded"? James O'Keefe is on the case, gangly frame clothed in only a speedo in order to seduce and embarrass Ari Shapiro. Siempre como culebra.
They've always hated PBS and NPR, maybe because of that horrible Sesame Street and its' promotion of sharing, which is communism.
Let's defund NPR. Right after we pull the tax exempt status on these so-called churches that tell their parishioners that Obama and the liberals have declared War on Christianity.
What The Fuck is with TP'ers and the First Amendment? The plain language of the Constitution says "fucking Congress shall make no fucking law abridging freedom of speech". Private and non-governmental groups can abridge speech all they want. And do. Imagine standing up at a project planning meeting to expound on the failures of Repubican governance during the Bush Eon.
And — does it go without saying? — that if Williams had said something like "gun owners should get additional screening before boarding", these First Amendment experts would be calling for his head — literally.
I'd love a copy of "The Fucking Constitution" by the Founding Fathers / JustPixelz.
I guess they've forgotten all about those "Free Speech Zones". You have the right to free speech, as long as you're somewhere, where no one can hear you.
I trust they will respect NPR's right to hire and fire employees — they're always going off about that whenever any issue about labor unions comes up.
If NPR was an union shop, Juan Williams could file an appeal.
I have this secret crush on Malkin. I want to have some horrible hate sex with her. Or I'll just try syphilis like the other commenter suggested.
I am made nervous in the presence of filipino harpies. Aren't they all prone to firing ping pong balls from their pink secrets?
Pink Secret is a deliciouus term.
I am imagining a particularly horrifying remake of "Jason And The Argonauts."
Umm. It's not spread by the hands, y'know.
See Juan, they really always liked you. They never made jokes about you. That was the OTHER token black on the payroll. But me, Juan, I was always afraid that you would spray paint 'honkey lips' on my two toned wood decorated green station wagon. While I was expericening the urban blight… which is you Juan
There's a "hucklebucking bass player" joke here somewhere. I just can't string it together.
Via Billo:
He called NPR a "left-wing outfit that wants one opinion."
GODDAMN!! That projection makes my loofah damp.
Honestly, I am just surprised at the forbearance they all showed, by not instantly claiming that this was proof -proof, once and for all- that liberals are racist against the black man.
OK, when I see Sarah Palin on TV, it makes me want to throw up.
Now fire me!
Well I guess Sarah now thinks Rahm can say retard without some crackpot 1/2-governor demanding his resignation.
Well of course he's a terrorist. He's ain't white and that's all the proof we should need
I wish they would have just fired him for being an irritating moron. It would have been more than justified.
They'd have to fire half their staff if they used "irritating moron" as criteria.
the most blatant hypocrisy of Palin's tweet is…….
…..remember when she was stumping for McCain's re-election in Arizona, and some Libertarian heckler shouted out abuse and they hauled his butt out and beat him up, all while Sarah hypocritically screeched "John McCain fought for your right to disagree!"
That's far worse than Juan Williams firing; although I think it's dumb he was fired because let's face it, if you're boarding a plane and some guy shouts out "Allahu akhbar" the first thing to pop in your head isn't "oh this Muslim is giving us a blessing before take-off."
Umm…that second paragraph…is that meant to be serious? Because if the answer is yes you're going to get crushed.
Malkin: "Political correctness is the handmaiden of terror."
That's a specious argument. Everything in modern society can be characterized as the "handmaiden of terror". Ubiquitous television coverage, concentrated populations, electronic money, dual use devices, encryption technology, press freedom, global economy that mixes cultures. In short, the kind of things that let a Filipino woman write a blog in America are "handmaidens of terror".
The 9/11 hijackers did not depend on "political correctness" to carry out their plot. In fact they acted sooner than planned because the normal apolitical diligence of the FBI was drawing closer to them. The only arguable PC angle to their eventual success was the FBI's inability to search Zacarias Moussaoui's laptop without a warrant. But was that really "political correctness"? In the plain language of the Fourth Amendment,
Malkin would have us believe that following the Constitution is the "handmaiden of terror".
We value our liberties and — until recently — have accepted certain physical and social risks to keep them. Guns are the most prominent example of a liberty that costs lives. About 30,000 deaths (half were suicides which could have occurred by other means) and 200,000 injuries in 2006. Disharmony over social policies is part of democratic debate; resentments and dislocations are part of a multicultural economy. Layoffs and welfare are the costs of entrepreneurship. We can avoid those consequences, but value the underlying freedom more.
Should we be politically incorrect? Ban Muslims. Use racial profiling. Allow detention without charges or habeas corpus. Search without a warrant. Tap phones. Open mail. Hold relatives accountable for their family members. Cut off the hands of thieves. These things will make us safer.
Michelle Malkin and her comrades would like America to be more like nations we (currently) scorn. In doing so, we will no longer be the "land of the free and home of the brave". Because to be free we must all be brave.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
Whatever, nerd.
Look, it's kind of disorienting when I'm hearing various Wonkette voices as stars from Hollywood Squares and assorted Dean Martin and Comedy Central Roasts, and then you get all Dennis Haysbert on me.
Malkin and her comrades would do well to remember March 10, 1945 in Tokyo. Who is whose handmaiden in terror when 100.000 people are eradicated in one night? Was that politically correct sanitized terrorism because we were at "war" — one of our endless wars? Or was it just spreading all that is good about America?
Buttsecks for Michelle Malkin with a Long Dong Silver model, Made in China dildo.
Those right-wingers say the cutest things… There should be a teevee show. . . Oh, nevermind.
$^!7 My Anchorman Says?
Juan Williams is a liberal? How did I miss that? My ears just cannot be trusted.
Well, he's black. Ergo, he must be a liberal.
Great work finding a screen capture of Williams that shows him resembling Michelle Malkin. Crazy.
When was the last time Michelle Malkin ever did anything with "respect and cordiality?"
Well said, Sir!
I was thinking along the same lines. This is a sensitive area, but I can remember back in the day when I had to overcome my fear of young black men. At times, it was hard not cross to the other side of the street when approached, but most of the time, I realized my fear was unreasonable. Of course, it helped to realize that I was just as nervous when I met a group of young white men on the stree. They were as likely to harass me as anyone, maybe even more so. I also found that many black men went out of their way to be friendly. Sometimes they crossed the street to avoid passing me.
I just don't walk as much as I used to. When I was without a car, younger and better looking, I was more likely to be harassed than Juan is likely to be blown up by someone wearing a turban or a veil. Would Juan think that was bigotry if a white person crossed the street to keep from passing him?
How many of these winger douches are subscribers to their local stations? Huh? I am, and so are a lot of other people, who put more money into NPR and PBS than the guvment does. Please, take that bitch Moira LIaiaiaiiason next.
Shit, according to dickface Rattigan, even Stewart is weighing in on Juan's side. Is it just me, or can no one else think of any NPR reporters who routinely appear on any news station, except for Faux News? What's up with that? It's bullshit. It's always struck me as a conflict.
Juan was annoying long ago and I'm happy he's out, because, unlike these morons, when I listen to radio, it's NPR exclusively. Oh, with an occasional and very brief stop by Hate Talk radio, just to confirm they are as horrible as I think. And they never disappoint.
I wanted Juan gone. He's just so infuriating, but I don't think he should have been fired over what he said. He should have been ridiculed and shamed, but not fired.
Is he black? I thought he was from Panama?
More importantly, am I the only one imagining a hot, sweaty, Palin and Malkin sandwich with some Juan meat in the middle?
Take that terrorists.
Is he black? I thought he was from Panama?
That's Juan McCain you're thinking of.
Oh the horror! While we've all been so busy fretting over the muzzling of Juan Williams we failed to notice the carnage going on at Christine Odonnell's website! Are we just going to stand by silent while this commie witch is crushing Pamela Gellar's First Amendment rights?
We know Huckabee's game. He's angling to get Juan on His Teevee Show, sitting next to him giving HIM the under-the-table hand jobs instead of Little Billy Krystol. Clever boy!
Annnnnd it's gone mainstream and we're a terrible country:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/juan-williams-thin...
"Did Juan Williams say what most people are thinking?"
Political correctness is the handpuppet of low "p" values.
The firing is 100% justified. What JW said is offensive to a portion of NPRs listenership since only white bigots listen to Fox, what he said fits right in and was comparatively benign. Since Muslims and some non-bigots listen to NPR, their management did the right thing. P.S. Fuck you Fox News and Juan Williams.
My sense is that NPR has been waiting for some time to fire Williams as I have noticed him less and less since his Fox News gig.
I think if he was just a commenter on both networks, it wouldn't be such an issue. His conscious choice to be a commenter on Fox tarnished his image as a reporter/newsreader on a network that twists itself up into a pretzel to be fair and balanced. By having his job at Fox News, his image is now in the same league as Colmes and Geraldo Rivera. Being a token liberal in such a den of disservice in news delivery in service of evil, makes him not much of a liberal or newsman.
i'm glad we're having this national conversation right now.
I'd rather be having a discussion about how the official 9/11 story is a joke and so it's fucking ridiculous to be so freaked out about muslims on planes. People should be freaked out about the military-industrial-media complex, etc
Honestly, I'm actually rather impressed at the forbearance the right has shown this time, as they didn't instantly claim that this proves, once and for all, that liberals are the ones who are racist against the black man, and especially any black man that isn't reverse-racist against whites.
Hahaha, just kidding, a bunch of them said that exact thing, basically immediately.
I'm almost tempted to get a job with Sarah Palin just so I can blab to everyone how much of a stupid bimbo she is and dare them to fire me for exercising my First Amendment rights.
Ha! HA HA HA! The rightnuts will use anything at all as a club to wail on their "opponents" with, won't they?
One only needs to fear the label of hypocrisy if you are someone whose convictions are NOT just weapons of convenience. So FOX and the rightnuts don't need to fear being called hypocrites.
If I thought for a minute it would wake a wingnut from his parrot-echo-deadbrain-syndrome, I might be inclined to look for how many times O'Reilly called for the firing of various media people, like, let's say, Rosie O'Donnell… But instead, I have not one single tiny rat sphincter to give.
I finally figured out how Obama can win over his Republican brothers! Finally, the fulfillment of a presidency's purpose! All he has to do is express an ignorant and bigoted unease towards muslims! Then we can all have gay healthcare!
Bernie Goldberg thinks it's nice to have someone to share the kids's table with.
Podunk, USA sure loves its some Bob and The Oink In The Morning on RAD108FM!
If it didn't already exist, the term would have to be invented just for her.
Comments on this entry are closed.