Blogs Oct 22, 2010 at 2:47 pm

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More false indignation from FUX News. Why would he say what he said if he were a reponsible journalist? Does he really believe all muslims are out to kill all Americans or is this more right wing hate mongering? I say hate mongering.
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If he said he felt uncomfortable traveling with Catholics, or Jews, nobody would be feigning outrage over his dismissal. He's an on-air journalist and he's answerable for the public statements he makes whether or not his remarks are being broadcast on NPR.

NPR is completely within their rights here.
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Yeah, I've got that one. It's a keeper.
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are you unaware of what he actually said or are you intentionally distorting it?
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NPR is hiring new people with the money of George Sorors. Soros admits he's doing it to combat the right. So we have radio that is publicly funded by taxpayers, being given money by a billionaire to establish an agenda, as if NPR wasn't already leftist garbage. This sounds just like Communism, oh yeah, Soros and the modern left love Mao, Stalin, and Lenin, they think Communism is wonderful.
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George Soros made literally a fuck-ton of money by playing the capitalist game. You think he's a communist?
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@5: are you fucking delusional? Why yes you are.

Soros is a Hungarian refugee who strongly supported pro-democracy, anti-communist movements in his native Hungary and throughout eastern Europe. As various Soviet bloc countries fell, Soros created Open Society Institutes throughout eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Soros has quite probably spent more of his own money promoting democracy and freedom than all other entities combined. Vladimir Putin hates him way worse than the tea baggers do.
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anyone care to tell me wtf is going on?
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U were in Bloomington the other day asshole and u didn't tell me?
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Buzzing, buzzing, that's all I hear
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@7 Don't be silly. He doesn't agree with the tea party, therefore he must be a gay commie jewish islamofascist, just like the president.
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Can someone explain why we have government-supported radio and TV stations in this country? The amount of taxpayer money that goes to them is tiny, but still. Why? In fact, if I were the CEO of NPR, I'd quit suckling at the taxpayer's teat just to get rightwingers off my ideological back.
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@8: The man in the closeup is Juan Williams and he was just fired from NPR. Now go use the google.
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you re wise.

Juan said nothing negative about muslims, only shared his fears.
He never claimed they were rational or justified, just his fears...

NPR was stupid as well as unfair.
This will come back to bite a gaping chunk out of their ass after the midterms....
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this is also a shrewd move by Fox.

you couldn't have written a better narrative to illustrate Real America's concern and disgust about PC tyranny and public radio.
Juan is a nice guy and a very sympathetic victim.
Fox swoops in and saves the day with a nice happy ending.

(Williams related how, when he was a new and uber junior White House reporter (for WaPo(?)...) during Regean's term, Roger Ailes was the only guy who would return his calls. Ailes is the guy who hired him at Fox. Juan choked up a little when he told it.
So did Real America.....
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that's a pretty white crowd on the poster.

so much for "diversity"

Juan probably makes more now than the whole pasty putrid pack of them combined....
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@16: I guess you don't realize that to a skeptical, critical mind, the instant the phrase "Real America" is used non-ironically, the rest of your "argument" might as well be written in Martian. In this postmodern world, what you say is just as important as how you say it.

To spell it out for you: The parts of America that you detest and the parts that you idolize are equally real. Tim McVeigh and Richard Reid are just as real as, say, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. The sooner you realize this, the sooner you can begin to have a relationship with reality.
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Juan Williams has been making a habit of going on Fox and talking about stuff like this for quite a while now. NPR likely just had enough.

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