The following are excerpts from Charles Krauthammer‘s comments on Fox News regarding the Juan Williams firing by National Public Radio:
Well, I want to start by having people look at this quote from Jesse Jackson about 18 years ago in which he says, [“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery … then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”] Jesse Jackson is saying this. In other words, if the people he looked at were black, he would feel anxiety or fear.
Now, this – there’s nobody in his right mind who’s going to say that Jesse Jackson is a racist, [an] anti-black racist. He’s not.
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So [Williams] makes a statement that’s perfectly parallel with what Jackson said. Now, you explain to me why nobody would attribute hostility, bigotry, or racism in the Jackson statement, and yet NPR attributes it to the Juan Williams statement — and not only attributes it but does it with such certainty that it dismisses him without even a hearing.
I’d like to hear one executive at NPR defend that. If not, this is not just a case of political correctness. It’s a case of intellectual cowardice.
Amen!
Time to DEFUND NPR and PBS. Stop spending our $$ on their crap!
Hat tip to NRO.
who watches NPR anyway, now that there is a FOOD CHANEL?
Love Rachel Ray!
Wouldn’t it be grand if this was the wake-up call that Williams needed to come over to the other side, the conservative side. NPR sure has made itself look like what it truly is – a bunch of absolutely ultra leftist looney nannies.
Williams has always held his liberal viewpoint. Even to the point of making himself sound stupid from time to time. But he is just a simple ideologue and not a progressive/socialist from whom we need be truly afraid. Liberals in the media are the norm.