Juan Williams Fired from NPR

I'll bet you this: after next Monday, we won't hear a peep about defunding NPR. Not a sound.

It's manufactured outrage to stir up a base of voters two weeks before an election. Nothing more. Nothing less.

 

And, for the record, I'm not trying to start a political debate with that last post. I just don't think anyone is all that serious about defunding NPR (anyone who's potentially in the position to do so, anyway).

 

QFT.

Today's politicians (on both sides) never miss a chance to gin up a non-existent controversy to score points.

 

Just asking - anybody think Juan Williams is worth $2 mil over three years for part-time work?
I wonder where he goes from here - another disgruntled lefty (Schoen, Caddell, "Morris") who agrees with the righty talking points or does he figure he needs to restore his liberal cred.

 

Everywhere I go I see a lot of Beck, Hannity and O'Reilly bashing for their right-wing views (not so much O'Reilly), but rarely see anything close to equivalent in terms of bashing the likes of Olbermann and Matthews, who are just as extreme Left in their views. Olbermann, especially.

Jon Stewart and Bill Maher can lean far left and be genuinely funny and informative in their own way, but Olbermann is just grating. Not fun to watch. Ditto Matthews. I get the impression each really believes about half of what they are saying.

 

Oh, I'm 100 percent sure Olbermann does. Matthews? Not so sure.

 

Maybe Mitch McConnell can run an NPR Unfund Drive. For a week, people can call and ask for their money back. (They'd have to return a tote bag, though, for every unpledge over $50.)

 

Nah. Olbermann is an absolute true believer.

And Matthews is about 1/10th as extreme as Hannity or Beck or any of those cartoon characters they parade out on Fox. He's a buffoon, too, but in a different way. He talks over people and so forth and so on, or breaks off non-sequiters. I honestly had no idea that he was considered a liberal until I happened upon some right-wing screeching about him (much like NPR).

 

Diane Rehm's voice is altered because of a medical condition that afflicts her.
She should get a ton of credit for continuing to do an excellent show in spite of that handicap.
Instead, she gets this.

 

Look, NPR is not Rush Limbaugh Left.
But it's not unbiased, either.
NPR is definitely left-leaning, as is most of the American print media.
The difference between NPR/print and Limbaugh is that Limbaugh will ignore any points that contradict his own, and in many cases will twist/tweak/distort information or circumstances to back up his point. NPR/print can't and won't ignore obvious contradictions to their basic leanings, and in many cases will attack their own "side" if developments warrant.

 

This story had the beginnings of the Penthouse Forum, and you dropped "talk radio" on her.
For shame.

 

Prove it. This is one of those "if we repeat it often enough, people will believe it" nonsense.