Wait a second, does Juan Williams really believe we should be afraid of “Muslim garb” when we see it on a plane? Greg Sargent seems to think so, based on Williams’ new statement on what happened. Well forget it. Maybe he is a bigot. If you want further, equally implicit evidence that Williams is a bigot, Fox News just handed him a $2 million contract for an “expanded role” on the network. “Juan has been a staunch defender of liberal viewpoints since his tenure began at Fox News in 1997,” Roger Ailes said. “He’s an honest man whose freedom of speech is protected by Fox News on a daily basis.” Jesus Christ. Fox News is Juan Williams’ personal ACLU.
Fox News Chief Executive Roger Ailes handed Williams a new three-year contract Thursday morning, in a deal that amounts to nearly $2 million, a considerable bump up from his previous salary, the Tribune Washington Bureau has learned. The Fox News contributor will now appear exclusively and more frequently on the cable news network and have a regular column on FoxNews.com.
Charles Krauthammer has been trying to do this for years! Why can’t he get the Washington Post to fire him for all the bigoted stuff he says and writes so he can get a permanent gig on Fox? Silly Krauthammer, printing hate speech is a very important part of how the Post keeps its objective balance.
Good luck at Fox News, Juan. We hear they love black people over there. [LAT]
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Will he get Helen Thomas' old seat at the White House?
He wouldn't be the first to do so — that blowsy biddy loves her some black dick backdoor action.
Only in Fox world could a center-right guy like Williams be "a staunch defender of liberal viewpoints", I guess because he's not an actual fascist or a birther.
Juan Williams's "expanded role" = tending bar at the Fox Confederate Day office party.
Will he do the double snap-and-finger-guns ala Isaac?
Now he gets to dress up like a house slave.
NPR's Mara Liasson, who's been a reliable, minor guest shill on Fox, is pissed. The best deal is always the first deal.
Look for her to go all Andy Rooney with stuff like "Did you ever sit next to Mexican and wonder if he's a terror baby?" until NPR kicks her to the golden curb.
Two million to Juan.
He earns every dollar, Juan by Juan.
Two millions dollars? According to the U.S. Supreme Court, Williams now has a helluva lot more free speech than he did just yesterday! THANX FOZZ NOOS!
Williams is Fox's in-house ACLU? More like NAACP…
I bet Juan will be talking about how seeing Muslims scares him everywhere now. " I saw a woman wearing a hijab at the Safeway- yikes"!
Well, well, well–color me surprised. Wait…did that sound racist??
The people at NPR are not amused.
And they would also like you to send some cash.
I'm not sure who'd win the Michael Douglas-Abby Lincoln debate, but I sure don't trust that Fibbie on the right
I know that the Douglas pictured would gladly kick Juan Williams' ass.
But remember: Frederick was a REPUBLICAN.
Sure Juan, Al Qaeda is going to send someone in a fucking burka to attack us because that's how subtle they are.
Rick Sanchez's camp must be outraged! OUTRAGED! Clearly the Jews love Juan more.
Or clearly Ailes doesn't feel that his network needs a token hispanic since no contract for Sanchez's services has been forthcoming.
We already have Geraldo Rivera & Julie Banderas on Fox News. Plenty of hot-blooded Latinos, I suppose.
Of course, going to Wikipedia, I see Julie's father was a Bidwell — of the Connecticut Bidwells — & she had his name at birth. Only later, professionally, did she find it wise to go full Latina. (Prolly in the wake of '99's Latin music explosion. Ricky Martin! Santana's Supernatural! Enrique Iglesias!)
Sanchez fucked up. Clearly he missed the memo that, if by his logic the Joos really do control the media, then they're NOT the ones to piss all over. If only he'd turned his rage on the Mulins, he'd be rolling in Joo money by now.
"Baby Palin" O'Donnell must be watching this rewarding of Fawx-pas' with either green witchy envy or anticipation of her next promising gig (if DWTS doesn't work out).
…Juan has been a staunch defender of liberal viewpoints since his tenure began at Fox News in 1997,” Roger Ailes said…
Uh-huh. With defenders like that, who needs critics?
The 1.38% of blacks who watch Föx just jumped to 1.38000001%. Awesome investment there Roger.
Hmmm, how very convenient for Juan. Of course, I would never, ever suspect that Fox and Williams might have engaged in any kind of collusion or other underhanded dealings in order to orchestrate something that would make NPR look horrible, make Fox look magnanimous, and make Juan a fuckton of easy cash. After all, Fox has always been above-board and honest in all its dealings, journalistic and otherwise, right?
My cynical mind immediately jumped to that very conclusion.
Geez dude, your tinfoil hat needs another layer. Guys get fired, start looking for new work, land a network gig, and get a 2mil contract hashed out and signed within an afternoon all the time.
That's the problem with you conspiracy theorists, you just twist the details to fit your theory.
I can't give Juan or Fox that much credit, but it would make a great short story.
How did it not pan out this way for Rick Sanchez?
Then they wouldn't have had to waste that fraction of an effort and a budget for the Fox News Hispanic website.
Yes, add some inept foreign agents, a score-settling back-bench vicious idiot congressman from the South, a smuggling operation investigated by whimsically polite RCMP officers, a witty, harried white male protagonist and his beautiful, snarky female sidekick with bodacious Ta-Ta's and you've got the outline for your next Christopher Buckley novel.
And it'd be pretty good!
This thing that you have said: it is true.
Actually, Fox is (are) a lying bunch of shitsacks. No worries. Easy mistake to make.
I'm sure that The Faux Noise Sunday Circle Jerk will be sure to spin it that way, this weekend.
Like I said, job interview.
They're going to expect something for that money. Dancing in a gorilla suit ain't going to cut it. Wait, that's what he actually looks like?
Charles Krauthammer has been trying to do this for years!
Every time I see someone get on a plane in a wheelchair, I have to admit I get a little nervous!
(Where's my $2 million? Better yet, where's my Xanax?)
They should make him ride in the luggage-hold.
Juan Williams is a liberal? That's unpossible!
–Ralph Wiggum
Good luck at Fox News, Juan. We hear they love black people over there.
Guys named Juan, not so much.
Yesterday. Juan Williams ever so slowly turns to the camera: "I see Muslim people"
Today. Juan Williams ever so slowly turns to the camera: "I see green people."
And tomorrow he'll remind us, "I am you."
Thanks Juan Williams and Roger Ailes, for making me respect the integrity of Johnny Knoxville — at least he has to wait a year between his stupid, painful stunt and the payoff. What's y'all's fucking excuse?
There's a back story here. And my sense is Juan played it very well.
Juan Williams: The Alan Colmes of Today's Generation.
I have a feeling that Hannity/Williams will be part of that "expanded role."
What an epitaph to be buried under.
Geez – it just doesn't seem all that long ago that Southern Congressperson ranted about people in airports with diapers held on their heads by fanbelts.
Now I know why Sheer "Am i An Idiot?" InSannity rushed to Mr. Williams' defense. Mr. Williams works for the GNoP Pac – ClusterFox.
Cha-ching!!!! (Is that racist?)
Freedom isn't free.
NO! freedom costs a buck oh five!
I'm just glad that someone saved the 1st Amendment. Whew. That was too close.
"This is evidence of one-party rule and one sided thinking at NPR that leads to enforced ideology, speech and writing. It leads to people, especially journalists, being sent to the gulag for raising the wrong questions and displaying independence of thought."
-Juan Williams
National Public Radio has their own gulag!? That is sooo cool! Why the Hell don't they mention it during pledge week??
I would have donated so much more if I had known about this. Why does NPR hate the First Amendment, and how can I get in on that sweet, sweet hatred/torture?
I volunteer to do time in the dungeon with Nina Tottenberg, just to see her Supremes re-enactments.
I would have given a much larger donation if I'd have known that my gift was an hour in the torture chamber with Kai Ryssdal. Green balloons!
This would all come together nicely for a big finish to the week if internet research indicated Juan Williams was a direct decendent of African-Americans who fought for the Confedercy.
Infact, after I hit "Submit Comment" the internet will say so. How great is that?
Until the interwebs were invented, we didn't know what freedomz were all about.
Sweet. Now Juan can go for broke. "Moolims on planes make me nervous, as do Chinamen petting my dog and Messicans looking at my obese white girlfriend. I hold my breath around the gays, also."
"Messicans looking at my obese white girlfriend"
I'm dying over here.
Well, once again, a Fellow Traveling, Card-Carrying Member of you Liberal Communist Pinko SCUM steps out of our studio audience:
Juan Williams! You can hit the Jew over the head with a bag of sugar, or beat out that rhythm on a drum. What’s it going to be?
But either way, welcome to “YOU’VE SOLD OUT!”
[Personally, I get nervous when black men walk behind me at night on the street.
Nervous that I'm going to have enough cleaning solution at home to rinse out the old Glock 27, that is . . . .]
Neilist
NRA's National Race Relations Desk- NPR/Wonkette Division
"This is a bag of shit!"
"Yes, but it's great shit!"
Now see…this is why I keep coming back to Wonkette. Oh sure, we can be a bunch of snarky asshats from time to time (mea culpa…mea maxima culpa), but I ask you…Where the fuck else will you find folks making awesome Firesign Theater riffs?
MORE SUGAR!
…writing out a check.
He is SUCH a Tio Juan.
Jell-O Pudding Pop!
NPR should replace Juan with Dr. Laura.
I would cringe at Juan's senior analysis of anything. I'd rather hear Hannah Montana let loose on the falling dollar, redistricting, gridlock in DC or even Bo Obama.
Genl. Butt Naked, of Liberia's Butt Naked Battalion!
It must be nice to toil in the field of journalism for so long and finally be invited into the Fox house.
Weird. NOBODY saw this coming.
Wait fucker gets 2mill to be a bit player on fox news? Jesus I'm in the wrong business. I can say stupid "I'm a real America" crap too for a tenth of that. Roger call me.
You get 2 million p points, deluxe Truck Nutz and all the butt secks you can stand (lube not included).
After the show, Bill O'Reilly asked Juan, "You wanna get muthafuckin iced tea with me?"
This is a total win/win for Fox. They get to come off looking like they are so shiny & magnanimous while, at the same time, they got a black man off the government teat. Fox wins the day–suck it Politico!
I like the womens, but that Frederick Douglas was the Sexiest Man Alive In The 19th Century. I didn't even know they had blowout combs back then.
That's naturally Good Hair, son.
You better blow that shit out
–Digable Planets, Blowin' Down
Juan Williams is a dolt. He was insufferable during his stint on "Talk of the Nation" way back when, and he is anything but a "staunch defender" of anything liberal now. Just 'cause the guy is brown and doesn't always agree with Bill Krystol or Chris Wallace or any of those other verbal rectums doesn't make him liberal.
Beat it, Juan. Go play a black man on TV somewhere.
Mod Squad 2010?
Solid.
Love & Kisses,
Linc
Krauthammer can't get a contract becauase he really is Howdy Doody and puppets don't need money. He changed his name after his show was canceled.
Congratulations, Juanito — that's one amendment to your contract down, and only thirteen to go!
But…but he just released a statement chastising NPR for its lack of diversity (ideas, opinions and people.) How many Black men have their own show on Fox News??
Tokenism pays well in some circles. See Malkin, et al.
Ailes just paid for a $2 million shoeshine. Roger, make sure you leave a tip.
"It ain't easy bein' white,
It ain't easy bein' brown,
So much pressure to be bright
I got children all over town…"
Goddammit. This Ailes quote should help promote the whole Winger meme that companies are required to let their employees utilize their "Freedom of Speech" at work.
On the other hand, hopefully when I finally tell my boss to go fuck herself, I'll be in good shape.
My boss has a "who is John Galt" sticker on the back of his Lexus SUV. This is not relevant to Juan, but it does make me want to club my boss over the head. Would Fox support my freedom of expression and give me a job?
Just make sure she is dressed in her Muslim garb when you tell her to go fuck herself. Then you will be sure to be hired by a competitor and get a big raise.
Juan has thanked Fox for hiring him instead of some lazy Mexican.
That $2 mil might take some of the pain out the weekly whippings Juan takes from Wallace and Hume, but he's going to have to get a special brand of tequila to take the taste of the weekly Ailes blow jobs out of his mouth. Remember Juan, if 5 shots doesn't take the taste out, don't bother with a sixth.
After an unfortunate crack about Pakistani cabdrivers, Car Talk will now follow Fox & Friends
Juan Williams should hand that sweet $2 million right over to the muslins who want to build a meditation pool at ground zero. The whole kit and kaboodle. Take that NPR.
But boy oh boy what an amazing news day. I was just reading about smashing pumpkins, the newest Halloween rage.
Anyway, Obama has invited Juan to the Maison Blanche for a couple of beers and some Kools. It'll all work out.
Because FOX isn't ESPN.
Seriously, could you imagine what would happen if Juan said that seeing blacks getting on planes wearing bling made him nervous? Roger Ailes would probably make him president of the network.
Two million?! You used to be able to get a good house slave for $20 dollars. Damn you Obama!
Well, the house nigger was always the highest paid, eh? Until progressive/liberals are ready to be as ruthless as this crowd, we deserve what we get. Mr Williams, you are a stinking piece of faithless shit.
Shit, I'm blacker than Juan Williams and I'm a Missouri shit-kicker with East European Ancestry. Two Mil is a lot more money than I'll ever see, buy I'd rather suck elephant dicks for a dime a herd than associate with any of those dickfaces at Faux, from Rupert to Roger on down to the lowliest house-nigger, and we all know who that is, now don't we?
"Expanded role" includes shining shoes for the "Fox and Friends" morning show and wiping up Glenn Beck's crocodile tears every evening.
Does this mean Juan can talk shit about conservatives all he wants and he won't get fired? What a lucky bastard.
Appropriate Muslim-fearing badge aside (he needed something to shore up his creds to up his standing at Fox) let's just hope he has the cajones to pull a John Paul Stevens against Gerald Ford.
For those that thought they were guaranteed a conservative Justice, Stevens became one of the most charismatic, liberal figures on the bench for 35 years.
But let's face it, the moment Juan colors his Fox News analysis in a Fair & Balanced way, he's axed [to leave.]
Oh for fucks' sake. I've said plenty of stupid shit, plenty, and nobody's ever given me 2 million dollars for it. What the Christ…okay…I'll do the stupid lot check. (Sorry, for some reason I always say that right after I say, "What the Christ.")
That is a ten-thumbs up comment if I ever read one, Esquire Hutz!
I like how Juan is now calling his firing a "chilling assault on free speech." Which I think underscores just how trivial it actually is. If he wants to see a chilling assault on free speech, he should talk to that Chinese writer who just won the Nobel Peace Prize, if the Chinese government will let Juan anywhere near the prison they're keeping him in because he, uh, spoke his mind.
Does he have to give a kick-back to the guy at National Petroleum Radio who fired him?
Go to BBC or Radio Netherlands, maybe Voice of Russia. For a *really* different point of view, Voice of Pyongyang has a daily broadcast.
With $2M dollars in his pocket, I daresay that groups of young black men are going to make him more nervous than ever.
NPR: We fired Williams because he is a racist moron.
FOX: We hired Williams because he is a racist moron.
$core one for Juan…
Turns out Mr. Williams was already working for Fox. Now, how someone can collect a paycheck from both NPR and ClusterFox is a fascinating question…
Meanwhile, according to the NYT (so I know if must be correct):
"Mr. Williams said in an essay published Thursday on FoxNews.com that he was fired “for telling the truth.”
He continued in the essay: “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). This is evidence of one-party rule and one-sided thinking at NPR that leads to enforced ideology, speech and writing. It leads to people, especially journalists, being sent to the gulag for raising the wrong questions and displaying independence of thought."
He didn't play the race card – he doubled down on it.
People forget that just last week NPR reminded its employees they couldn't attend the Jon Steward rally – http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/…
and the right wing nutz got all upset about it.
What?
They didn't get all upset about it?
Never mind…
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