I think that this whole situation with Juan Williams being fired by National Public Radio has caused some (not all, but some) liberals to be mugged by reality. It has opened their eyes and now they can see.
How can you possibly claim to be tolerant if you fire a guy for honestly speaking his mind and saying that he sometimes feels fear if he sees Muslims getting on a plane with him.
How can you possibly claim to watch out for minorities when you FIRE the only Black reporter at NPR just because he spoke his mind? Williams didn’t lie. He did not bend the truth. All he did was tell his innermost feelings about terrorism, and how the 9/11 attacks have made him feel.
How can you fire Williams and still claim to be open-minded?
You can not, and you are not being tolerant, or looking out for minorities. The AGENDA is the most important thing. More important than any silly little Black man and any fears that he might have over sitting on a plane with Muslims.
“Let’s talk about racism, let’s talk about terrorism, we need a dialogue”, the progressives are fond of saying. Yet, when Juan Williams tries to do just that, he is clubbed in the knees and taken down. Relegated to the likes of the evil Fox News, nevermore to be seen on traditional mainstream media.
What REALLY did Juan say..?? Juan didn’t say that he hates Muslims, or that he fears Muslims being near him, everywhere. He said that the image of outward looking Muslims on a plane with him, gives him fear.
You have got to take color and race out of the equation, (which is hard to do for democrats who are obsessed with race and skin color). Everyone has been walking down a city street, and had a group of scary looking people coming towards you. This group of people are loud, rowdy, and clearly up to no good. It doesn’t matter what color their skin is, they could be Mexican, or Black, or White looking Italians; it doesn’t freaking matter what race they are. The fact that these people are in a “gang”, and they are causing problems, puts fear in your heart until you have passed them by, safely.
This situation with Juan Williams is the same thing: because radicals, who believe in Islam, and dress like Muslims, keep attacking America and blowing shit up; this causes folks like Juan Williams (and myself) to fear people who dress like the terrorists, because they might blow shit up.
You shouldn’t be mad at Juan Williams, you should be mad at the radicals who dress like Muslims, blow shit up in the name of Allah and kill people, and are giving other Muslims a bad name. The radical members of Islam are who you should be mad at, not Williams for being honest.
For the liberal / progressive; let me put this another way: if you went to an Arab country, I am sure that you would find Muslims who fear the American soldier (because the American soldier is blowing shit up.) However, not all American soldiers ARE blowing shit up. Some US soldiers are there for the rebuilding of the country and the feeding of the people. Wouldn’t it be racist for Muslims to fear ALL of the American soldiers..?? (Aaah haaa, my liberal friend, you have just been mugged by reality.)
The sad truth is that Juan Williams has been fighting for liberal causes on Fox News for YEARS. Williams, by himself, has been surrounded by 3 or 4 conservatives at a time; trying to debate the relevance of some liberal program, all the while being outnumbered by conservatives on Fox.
Juan Williams has probably done MORE to promote liberal causes than NPR, Media Matters, and Move On- combined. Because Williams doesn’t “preach to the choir”, safely talking only to people who share his ideology, he goes directly into enemy territory: Fox News.
It should also be noted that Fox News, to my knowledge, has never shut down Juan Williams, for anything that he has said.
NPR’s response to this debacle, is: “Hey, well, it is too bad that this happened during our fund raising event. We need your money to keep quality programming on the air, so send in those donations. However, we cannot have some silly little man claim that he fears Muslims. We MUST think about journalistic integrity. Why, Muslims are the best bunch of people ever, far better than those evil Christians who caused the Spanish Inquisition (about a thousand years ago). So what if a few buildings got knocked down by Muslims and some people died, or the fact that the underwear bomber, or the shoe bomber, or the Times Square bomber, or the USS Cole bomber, or the US Embassy bombers, were all Muslims. That doesn’t mean a thing.”
Yep, that’s public radio. All dressed up in “politically correct” clothes, with no place to go.
I am going to let my fellow conservative colleagues talk about the other NPR reporters and the comments that they may have made in the past, who were NOT fired by NPR. I, personally, do not listen to NPR. I have tried, but listening to NPR reminds me of listening to someone trying to read the assembly instructions to an entertainment center purchased from IKEA. (“Take pin C and place it into hole B, using a slight turning motion. Then take bracket F and use screws marked L and attach bracket F to plank R as shown.”)
However, I do want to talk about the actions of a past- “respected journalist”, and the hypocrisy of the “tolerant” liberal.
If you asked someone today who is the most trusted man in the news business, they may give you a blank-stare, then reply: “I dunno, maybe Jerry Springer.”
But if you asked that question 30 years ago, the answer would be “Walter Cronkite.”
I do not want to condemn Walter Cronkite here; anyone who reaches the pinnacle of their game should be commended.
However, Cronkite was far from being a “non-bias journalist.” In fact, Cronkite was very, very bias.
Cronkite didn’t just report the news, Cronkite helped shape the news; and we are finding more on that today.
It has been said that without President JFK and Walter Cronkite, we never would have made it to the moon. JFK’s contribution goes without saying; however, Cronkite was there reporting for CBS all of the events that went into the building of the American space program. JFK set the moon mission up and Cronkite got Americans interested in it.
I do not think that we can condemn Cronkite for showing a bias in favor of the space program. Hey, we were all into it.
It is when we dive into the reporting on the Vietnam War that the lines between “reporting” and “shaping” the news become cloudy. Documents have surfaced which allegedly show how Cronkite not only reported on anti-war protests, Cronkite showed the protesters HOW to preform their rallies, what to say, which democrat politicians to get in touch with, and what time CBS News would be there, so the anti-war protesters could put their “best face on” for the cameras.
This is a photo-grab of one such document, allegedly showing Cronkite directing a war protest rally, (the protesters name has been removed.)
This is when many hippies realized that they too, could shape the news. This is when many hippies went into journalism to “change the world.” I speak about this connection between 1960’s hippies and the “revolution by way of the pen” in my editorial on “The freedom hippies”, which you can find on “Angry Republic Radio”, at this LINK. (Right column, half way down.)
Cronkite directing an anti-war protest rally? Folks, this is not reporting the news.
The funny thing is, this is exactly what liberals claim that Fox News does today: stage Tea Party rallies and then report on them. BUT, this has all been done before, about 40 years ago; by liberals, CBS News, the democrats, and Walter Cronkite.
So, for NPR to fire Juan Williams because: “NPR needs to uphold journalistic standards” is laughable. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A NON-BIAS REPORTER, EVER.
(Did I just say that..??)
I have never found a non-bias reporter. As Benjamin Franklin once said: “There is freedom of the press, as long as you own the printing press.”
Let’s face it, even what you DO NOT report, shows a bias. All news stories are important to- someone. Yet, when you are putting together your newspaper, or your TV show, you MUST choose which stories to cover, because you do not have room for all of them. You must “guess” what stories that you think people will be interested in. In dong so, you are showing a bias.
Bias has been there, always. We could go back to the Roman Empire; to the days when “scribes” wrote out each book by hand, because there was no printing press. These scribes didn’t always copy each book, word for word; and were known to do a little “re-writing” of history themselves. Since many of the books about the Roman Empire were written a hundreds years after the empire fell, written by people from nations whom the Roman Empire had conquered earlier, these books do not always show the Roman Empire in a good light. Even today, we are still trying to figure out what was real, and what was fiction, from the Roman Empire.
So I get a little pissed off when I hear liberals talking about protecting their journalistic integrity. There never has been any, and we would be better off if people would just admit this. TELL ME WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU STAND FOR, don’t lie to me and claim that you have no bias; when clearly you do.
Just be honest, that is all we ask.
Which is what Juan Williams was doing.
And he was fired by the “tolerant” people at public radio.
Written by AR Babonie for The Angry Republic
ThinkAsTheyDoOrElse
Oct 27, 2010 @ 20:49:47
Mugged by reality, yeah that reminds me of a cliche: definition: conservative, a liberal who has been mugged.
It’s Juan Williams who has been mugged, but some say this incident was part of a Fox News plot.
see here: hxxp://markadelphia.blogspot.com/2010/10/did-fox-news-engineer-whole-juan.html
When your done laughing, you can laugh some more at the video below:
What NPR did to Juan Williams
Dark humor: a bird, a wind turbine, Pop Goes the Weasel music, introduced by News Hour sound alike music
theangryrepublican
Oct 28, 2010 @ 10:38:58
I will have to check out your comment when I get home from work, but I do not believe that this was a “plot” by Fox. Juan was speaking his mind.
ThinkAsTheyDoOrElse
Oct 28, 2010 @ 14:29:05
I’ll save you a little work, here is the punchline
“You couldn’t blame anyone who thought that FOX cooked up the whole Juan Williams affair in order to discredit the last news organization that actually produces hard, no-nonsense news, could you?”
Near the beginning he says:
“So isn’t it curious that last week Bill O’Reilly asked Juan Williams a leading question about Muslims? One that Williams answered two parts: the first part making himself sound bigoted, and then going on to make himself sound reasonable? And then isn’t it odd that some shadowy “liberal group” circulated a carefully edited video of his comments?
Doesn’t this have all the shades of the Shirley Sherrod charade? And we all know who arranged that video, don’t we?
And isn’t it interesting that two days after Williams was fired from NPR he received what some people consider a two million dollar payoff from FOX News?”
theangryrepublican
Oct 29, 2010 @ 00:15:47
Well, I thank you for the comment. However, I see no reason to believe your theory. O’Reilly has asked Juan Williams about terrorism dozens of times. Juan does a weekly segment on O’Reilly’s show with Mary Katherine Ham. Been doing that for a least a year. I’m guessing that you probably do not watch the show on a regular basis, and didn’t know that.
This is not the first time that liberals went after Juan for being on Fox News. One Black journalist called Juan an uncle tom, and told Juan to “get back up on the porch.” (For some reason, liberal / progressives HATE anyone who visits Fox.) Why are liberals scared of free speech?
What I find more interesting is the fact that progressive billionaire George Soros gives NPR 1 MILLION bucks, and a week later Juan is fired, for being honest.
BTW, you said that NPR is the “last news service that provides HARD news.”
Which NPR show do you listen to. Let me know and I will check it out. What I will do, if you are willing, is I will take a sound grab from your favorite NPR show, and I will show you the liberal bias.
All news today is bias. Fox is bias right, and NPR is bias left.
But sometimes, people will not see it, or will not admit it.
Again, thanks for the comment..!!
theangryrepublican
Oct 29, 2010 @ 00:26:49
Hey, nice video. Great “cheesy” music. However, I can’t help feeling sorry for the bird. (Dam, evil windmills.)
Nice editing, though..!! Good job.
ThinkAsTheyDoOrElse
Oct 29, 2010 @ 09:33:49
Thanks, I’m fairly new at making videos so I’m attracted to simple ideas for a film. The first effort with the windmill or wind turbine is called the Skeptic’s eleventh commandment, in that one there’s a close up of the bird at the end. It looks dead, but is not yet as can be seen in the original.
The video previous to that was called “No Pressure-gate and the Juan Williams Firing”. That uses music that sounds like it’s from a cartoon. People complain about excessive use of the word gate, but I like it because it rhymes with “investigate”. (as opposed to “nothing to see here”)
Next I’m thinking of simply combing a montage that was made of the Behar blasting Angle on the View followed by the campaign spot she complained about. It might be tough to figure out what music ought to go with the campaign spot. 🙂
Here is the montage by TheNewWaveSlave:
ThinkAsTheyDoOrElse
Oct 29, 2010 @ 14:05:32
Here’s what I managed to put together:
An Antic from The View
An anti-illegal immigration ad from the Sharron Angle campaign is tacked onto a montage of clips from “The View” to the tune of Beethoven’s fifth symphony. Dot Dot Dot Dash.
ThinkAsTheyDoOrElse
Oct 29, 2010 @ 16:22:32
Whoops, there’s something about that video I don’t like, I’ve made a new one, let me know if you want to see.
theangryrepublican
Oct 30, 2010 @ 02:01:21
I tried to play the last video but it said that the video was set as “private.” Let me know if you post it for everyone, or I do have a youtube account under the name- ar babonie.
ThinkAsTheyDoOrElse
Oct 30, 2010 @ 05:13:43
This should work