NPR Fires Juan Williams PC Run Amock
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As proof, look at this vid. Now, this Megyn Kelly broad is obviously quite silly. But look at what the CAIR spokesman starts trying to do about halfway through -- basically interrogating her to get her to admit to a similar thoughtcrime, knowing full well what the consequences have been for Williams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyxehqPB ... r_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyxehqPB ... r_embedded
Last edited by HB3 on 10-22-2010 03:21 PM, edited 1 time in total.
HB3 wrote: Williams is refusing to grovel. He can't be written off as a crazy racist. He will not suffer financially.
Bad, unforced error from NPR and CAIR.
And well he shouldn't. He did nothing wrong, and NPR will be feeling the financial fallout as contributors refuse to renew pledges. They really shot themselves in the head this time.
HB3 wrote: That doesn't matter. It's not a soundbites issue. It's a ThoughtCrime issue. Once you have expressed the wrong thought, it's too late to go back. Apologies are never accepted unless there is a politically expedient reason.
What's happening now is the few stragglers are being shaken out from the pure adherents. Williams got caught in the schism between the Two Americas. Like I've been saying, people will have to pick sides.
Unfortunately Williams wasn't even asked to pick, his hand was forced for him but an unyielding, increasingly hostile elite on the Left. The NPR CEOs flipant remark in Atlanta, attempting to draw a link between William's feelings and a condition that should be discussed with his psychiatrist was classic Marxism at it's worst. Williams doesn't fit her worldview, therefore he must be mentally sick and deserving of being seen by a psychiatrist. Rather than get him help, she fires him. Such caring......
kbot wrote: Unfortunately Williams wasn't even asked to pick, his hand was forced for him but an unyielding, increasingly hostile elite on the Left. The NPR CEOs flipant remark in Atlanta, attempting to draw a link between William's feelings and a condition that should be discussed with his psychiatrist was classic Marxism at it's worst. Williams doesn't fit her worldview, therefore he must be mentally sick and deserving of being seen by a psychiatrist. Rather than get him help, she fires him. Such caring......
Yeah, you're so right. Calling someone's sanity into question like this is indeed "classic." And the proof is in the way she is aggressive, rather than compassionate, in making this accusation. Lol...what happened to sensitivity?
HB3 wrote: I find the pushback encouraging; don't you?
I do. On many levels, I think that people from across the political spectrum can see that this was just wrong and obviously a case of carrying political correctness to an obscene extreme. A couple of elitists got busted and, unfortunately, an entire media outlet will suffer. I can't honestly seeing NPR sacking their CEO and VP over this, so I think that both sides (NPR and the public) will continue to dig-in their heels with NPR affiliates unfortunately being the biggest loser, which is sad because the affiliates really do put on some great programming.....
HB3 wrote: Only someone who is mentally ill could possibly be counter-revolutionary....
From Aldous Huxley's Brave New World:
""Don't you want to be free and men? Don't you even understand what manhood and freedom are?" Rage was making him fluent; the words came easily, in a rush. "Don't you?" he repeated, but got no answer to his question. "Very well then," he went on grimly. "I'll teach you; I'll make you be free whether you want to or not." And pushing open a window that looked on to the inner court of the Hospital, he began to throw the little pill-boxes of soma tablets in handfuls out into the area."
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