Juan Williams fired from NPR

When he was fired I actually agreed with bill O'Reilly for the 2nd time in one week; god help us if there would of been a 3rd.

The who fired from the what?

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

I suspect there's a lot more to this little incident than meets the eye.

I'll just leave it at that.

Maybe he pulled a Rick Sanchez and went off on Jews?

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet, but after NPR canned him, he was hired in short order by Fox News, at a salary of $2,000,000 per year.

Given that he admitted himself that his fear of being on a plane with Muslims was not a rational one, I'm skeptical that he's conservative enough for Fox News. I think they're liable to regret their choice on this, since it'll look bad if they fire him after such a high profile hiring process.

I looked it up, and NPR currently receives no direct funding from the federal government, and only 1.5% of their funding indirectly from the government through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Having that funding cut off would probably not pose more than a trivial inconvenience.

...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.

Probably another few hours of fund-raiser time. They finally finished their six-month challenge thing here in Hawaii. Irritating how they would simply cut off in the middle of something to chat about how awesome their fund-raiser was going.

Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.

Well that's sort of the idea.

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It wasn't just cutting an article or news report short, it was cutting the thing off mid-sentence to blab about the fund-raiser. Or in the middle of a delicious piece of classical music. Then, after finishing their sales pitch, they would go back into a bit of news or music or whatever, and not always the same thing it had been before.

I understand the whole point, though.

Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.

He'll be fine as their Token Colored Guy, just like how Alan Colmes did fine as their token Straw Liberal.

—R.J.

^ \*cough* Uma Pemmuraju *cough*

I'm sorry I seem to be catching a bug.

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."

Fair point. Incidentally, this is similar to the reason I was happy about Rick Sanchez's firing from CNN before even reading what he'd said; Sanchez should have been fired much sooner.

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Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.

Token.

Something interesting happened in the editors' meeting for my college newspaper this week. My boss (the editor-in-chief), who is very conservative, actually said that NPR made the right choice. Basically, since this was a third or fourth-time thing, he said they really had to fire him to show that yeah, when we give you a warning, we mean it.

What did Williams do to get the first two warnings?

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