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Originally posted by ProfEmeritus
Your response is about as partisan as a response can be. You know as well as I do, that if Juan Williams had said that, HE still would have been fired.
Originally posted by pavil
Does it make rational sense, no. Do I still do it? Yes. It's one of those chances that I'm not willing to take being oblivious to where a threat might come from.
I'm saying there's a difference between what she said against one person and what Juan said about an entire religion.
"But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they're identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."
Originally posted by Skid Mark
And so goes our freedom of speech. If speaking your mind can get you fired, where are we?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
But if you were a news analyst, would you reveal this piece of information on national TV? I don't fault Juan for having these feelings. Hell, I am prejudiced against certain segments of our society, too. But as a public figure, I wouldn't announce it on national TV, knowing what a controversial situation might result - KNOWING I might lose my job (he had previous warnings).
Originally posted by pavil
I would make the assertion that his "job" on fox was not to be a news analyst but a commentator. As such, shouldn't he speak his mind, not be PC about things?
Are you contending he should have self-censored himself, to please his employer?
If he had said those comments on NPR, then they would have had cause/reason to fire him. They are basically firing him for a job he does outside of NPR.
“I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. But I’m not going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through education.”
-Ibrahim Hooper, cofounder of CAIR.
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.”
-CAIR chairman Omar Ahmad
Although much has been made of millions being given by George Soros to Media Matters, Huffington Post, and NPR, there is another side to this, much less reported. Just as if the song, You’re So Vain, were written to them, Glenn Beck and Fox think it is all about them.
In the next few days, Gulag Bound will reveal a very evil plot to dominate the message of the media including the Internet. This is being done in concert with attacks on Patriots to make examples of them and to silence them. See a very good breakdown of Saul D. Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, for a preface.
Originally posted by Skid Mark
And so goes our freedom of speech. If speaking your mind can get you fired, where are we?
Originally posted by babybunnies
Well,. it's official. He now appears to be working for FOX.
I wonder if this was all a ruse designed to give him massive press time just before he pulled the switch?
He doesn't appear to have his own show YET (I would imagine coming soon though) but was standing in for Bill O'Reilly's Comedy Hour (my name for 'The Factor') the other night.
Originally posted by Skid Mark
And so goes our freedom of speech. If speaking your mind can get you fired, where are we?
NPR radio stations are independently owned and operated and, like the nation's public TV stations, receive government funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which got about $420 million this year from Washington.
As for NPR's headquarters operation, federal grants account for less than 2 percent - or $3.3 million - of its $166 million annual budget. It is funded primarily by its affiliates, corporate sponsors and major donors.
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said he will introduce legislation to end federal funding for public radio and television.
In June, Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., introduced similar legislation in the House. He said the Williams firing will help his bill.
This isn't the first time public broadcasting has been in the crosshairs of conservative politicians. In 1994, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich called for an end to all federal funding for public broadcasters.
NPR's Rehm warned that if Congress cut off funding, "stations across the country would be hurt by that and would have to make up that balance elsewhere. In many places that would be difficult to do."
Originally posted by laiguana
Free speech doesn't exist in our MSM...