Comments on: Juan Williams responds to NPR firing

By: Ertugrul

Ertugrul — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:44:26 +0000

I am a member of a simialr committee for our local public library and also a school committee that is studying the future of high schools in a “flat world”. I’d love to hear the specific ideas you presented to your committee.Thank you for pointing out the “The Future of Libraries” article. I just posted a summary on my blog for our school committee to read.

By: ziontruth

ziontruth — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:19:37 +0000

nyomythus:

“Bosnia would have been ethnically cleansed, and along with Kosovo would be a part of a Greater Serbia.”

Yeah, good thing Clinton stood up for the right of the Islamic imperialists to set up a jihadist base on European soil. “Greater Serbia” would have been such a menace if that course of action hadn’t been taken. Why, it could have been used a sanctuary from which Christian Serb terrorists would have hatched their plot to crash planes into New York office buildings. Oh, wait…

Sorry, peeps, but the MSM was no more reliable in the early 1990s than it is now.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 05:05:11 +0000

The Emperor has no clothes. Something Neo and her readers have always known. It isn’t news at all.

By: Hong

Hong — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:11:42 +0000

As expected, this story has become a mini-tsunami the liberal media would sooner see forgotten. If it continues beyond this weekend it could spread and implicate other lefty news outlets. We can hope…

By: SteveH

SteveH — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:57:56 +0000

I find myself torn when thinking about Juan possibly winning a lawsuit and tax dollars basically being used to pay him. Hmmmm

By: RickZ

RickZ — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:33:41 +0000

Curtis Says: I hope Juan sues as well, but what are his damages?

With that psychiatrist crack, Schiller violated employment law in an extremely egregious and actionable manner. One can never, ever say something like that about a former employee, even were it true. Heck, most times, the only thing a former job reference may state is that so and so worked at comany A during X period of time. That’s it. Salary, write-ups, being fired for cause, all that is off limits.

Off with Schiller’s head!

By: Curtis

Curtis — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:50:05 +0000

I hope Juan sues as well, but what are his damages? He got a better job, was existentially enlightened as to PC (I say existentially because he already had the philosophical enlightenment), and more fame, hence fortune. NPR may also be defunded by a new Congress–certainly in a real sense NPR will lose funds as this event occured during a fund drive.

Thanks NPR. You won’t be missed.

By: itchy

itchy — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:12:36 +0000

Thomass —
I understand your point and don’t disagree to the extent that those who craft the context of politically correct speech definitely have an agenda of shaping thought and action around some ideology. That these individuals or organizations are able to manipulate sympathetic demographics through various measures shows a high degree of thought and planning for the long term, and that they are able to use these segments of people to harass and intimidate others not of similar thought reinforces the notion of a predatory, often malicious, intelligence initiating it.

However, for those who follow the script blindly and who usually are more than happy to employ intimidation in the name of the PC mantra du jour, it isn’t a matter of thought. It is a mob mentality more than eager to repulse and destroy those being perceived as outside the mob. It is in that sense that I refer to politically correct thought as being an oxymoron.

By: Adrian Day

Adrian Day — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:06:18 +0000

While I support Mr. Williams in this instance and feel he would do a great diservice to Americans everywhere if he failed to sue Ellen Weiss and NPR over this, I have to take exception to his statement that “the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals — are Christians but we journalists don’t identify them by their religion.” That simply isn’t true and is part of the hypocrisy of tiptoeing around Muslims when Christianity is subject to the harshest offense in the media on a daily basis.

By: SteveH

SteveH — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:19:38 +0000

Expat, i’m like you in distinguishing differences of liberals. I see leftist who know the plans being hatched are meant to kill freedom and there are useful idiots who just latch onto the groupthink ideas of what is said to be compassionate.

The latter tend to see some aspects of PC as just common courtesy without any sinister motives. I don’t hold both groups in the same regard. Because theres a difference in intent.