Williams' firing: the intolerance of the liberal left

  The Daily Beast has an article by Howard Kurtz that is a MUST READ regarding the firing of Juan Williams. Kurtz, media analyst, points out that Williams was fired for saying the truth about the way he and many Americans feel when getting on a plane on THE SAME DAY that NPR also accepted $1.8 million from Soros, a very slanted, biased and left wing ideologue. And the purpose of the grant? To train journalists in the "way they should go." 
  Why did they accept this money? 
  How dare they? 
  And how much worse did Schiller make the situation when she suggested Williams needed to discuss these kinds of things with his "psychiatrist"?
  Now how long before Howard Kurtz is fired?
  And what about the other NPR commentators who express personal opinions (ha! Don't they ALL?)? Will they be fired too? Read here:

So, will the NPR news analysts not associated with Fox News be handled the same way Juan Williams has been? Has management at NPR had a sit-down discussion about how Koppel and Roberts frequently editorialize and comment in other venues to the point where [the] conservative NPR reader[s] and listener[s] undermine their credibility as a news analyst with NPR?

Juan Williams gives his first commentary here. If you saw him on O'Reilly last night, you saw a much more emotional Juan Williams than usual. Say what you will about Juan Williams, whether you agree with him or not, he's a reasonable person who clearly states his opposition to conservative views without vituperation or ridicule. He is a liberal in the classic sense, not the loonies we must deal with today. The picture of NPR that he paints is quite unflattering, left-wing and mean. Read it here:

And now they have used an honest statement of feeling as the basis for a charge of bigotry to create a basis for firing me. Well, 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.

Juan, the only black male journalist on NPR, is fired, yet the white female Totenberg stays, even after saying this. Bias, anyone?

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