Sympathetic Fox News Hands Juan Williams a Bunch of Money
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 ]
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&#039;t attend the Jon Steward rally - <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/p..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/...">http://www.salon.com/news/p...
and the right wing nutz got all upset about it.
What?
They didn&#039;t get all upset about it?
Never mind...