Yet unlike most of the punditry out there, Mr. Williams gets no dispensation from me. That is not to say NPR's firing of him was remotely justified, nor do I think what he had to say could be remotely construed as bigoted. If American leftists wants to close their eyes, stick their fingers in their ears and sing nah, nah, nah, in order to obscure the reality of radical Islam that is their choice, myopic as it may be.??
Nothing epitomized that particular mindset any better than intellectual "giants" Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar storming off the set of "The View" when Fox commentator Bill O'Reilly had the "indecency" to remind them that Muslims perpetrated the attacks of 9/11, and that the public was still 70% against building a mosque near Ground Zero. Behar and Goldberg are not the first, nor will they be the last, leftists to engage in childish behavior as a substitute for cogent rebuttal.??
The reason Mr. Williams gets no pass from me is because of what he wrote in the above excerpt. It is quite apparent that he was well aware of the ideological bias at NPR, and had been for years. It is not as if he suddenly discovered the management there "has no use for a diversity of opinion, ideas or a diversity of staff." Yet this is the first time Juan Williams has gone public with his feelings regarding his former employer. What does that mean???It means Juan Williams was, at the very least, an enabler.
It means he was willing to abide the bias at NPR, as long as that bias accrued to his best interest. And his best interest may have been little more than cashing a paycheck.??
