Fox is agenda driven and partisan and NPR has strict rules on neutrality.
lexhamfox on October 22, 2010 at 3:47 PM

Auditioning your comedy act?

rrpjr on October 22, 2010 at 3:51 PM

Uh, Lex? Don’t quit your day job.

Maybe Fox viewers ought to demand that Mara Liasson leave NPR or get fired from Fox! Like that would have any effect.

Having said that, they handled Juan’s termination terribly and it reflects badly on the organization.

lexhamfox on October 22, 2010 at 3:47 PM

Heh. So how does Fox rank now that they’ve hired Williams?

I replied, “Well, he just got mugged.”

Owen Glendower on October 22, 2010 at 1:26 PM

Not quite. It was more like a high tech lynching.

I love it.

I’ve felt for a long time that liberal philosophy uses projection, accusing others of what they themselves are guilty of.

Turning a standard liberal weapon back against them, and doing it truthfully unlike their “ends justifies the means mentality” is truly sweet.

Until FOX News covers the likes of Michael Savage, NO. Fox is not more “tolerant” than NPR. It isn’t as if Juan Williams wasn’t already working for Fox. It isn’t as if Juan Williams ever discredited Fox as a reliably “balanced” news source, challenging Fox to views not already espoused in the Fox political complexion. This new contract is purely opportunistic on Fox’s part. Fox is not going to suffer any loss of viewers by giving Williams a larger role and larger pay check. And they look so “nice” with the gesture.

Morons need not argue that I discredit Fox for taking advantage of this situation for their own profit. It is what it is; that’s all.
maverick muse on October 22, 2010 at 10:18 AM

Oh, this is something you can prove, right? :roll: Cynics like you obviously lead unhappy lives, and can’t understand normal humans very well.

Fox is more tolerant than NPR by the very definition of “tolerant”; Fox isn’t afraid to let Leftists freely express their points of view on it’s network, unlike NPR, NBC, ABC, CBS, etc.

Just because Fox doesn’t often have every toxic, incivil egomaniac who wants to be on it whenever they want, like Savage, Schlussel, Olberwomann, or Fred Phelps, doesn’t mean it’s intolerant at all; it just shows they have discriminating taste, which is a good thing.

Fox is agenda driven and partisan and NPR has strict rules on neutrality.
lexhamfox on October 22, 2010 at 3:47 PM

Auditioning your comedy act?

Having said that, they handled Juan’s termination terribly and it reflects badly on the organization.

It wasn’t because of his comments about his feelings when getting on an airplane. They won’t tell you the real reason for firing him, because the rules forbid it. Like Fight Club, the first rule is “you don’t talk about it”.

He was fired because of what he said about political correctness. That is the statement that is completely inconsistent with the editorial positions of NPR. It isn’t the first time that he has done so, but this time he provided an additional “scapegoat” reason that they could hang the firing on.

NPR and their ilk cannot countenance anyone in their fold running down political correctness. It is their equivalent of a religion. Juan’s statements make him the equivalent of a heretic… an apostate. That cannot be tolerated.

Read the NPR statement regarding his firing with that notion in mind, and it all makes sense, without any inconsistencies having to be invoked.

I watch Juan Williams regularily on FOX News. I don’t often agree with his positions on the issues but I regard him as a man of integrity and knowledge. I am happy that he will continue to be a fixture on FOX news.

Meanwhile Geraldo is saying “hey what am I, chopped liver?”

slickwillie2001 on October 22, 2010 at 2:02 PM

Geraldo gets to work with Kimberly Guilfoyle… payment enough!!

canopfor on October 22, 2010 at 10:33 AM

Informative. Checking the donor list FY2008 and comparing the federal grants for 2010, I have to wonder–and these examples are for NPR directly, not counting all the assorted grants to the “member stations” from which they get much of their funding :
National Telecommunications and Information Administration (U.S. Department of Commerce)
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (U.S. Department of Education)
National Endowment for the Arts (naturally)

I’ve noted some corporate sponsors that need a piece of my mind, too…turn about being fair play and all.

NPR insists that it hosts the most diverse forums for political debate, but based on their own actions, they’re not interested in diversity or even debate. Rather than relish having a liberal point of view presented in what they see as a conservative forum, they prefer to keep their liberal point of view within the compound — and so do their listeners.

I will refrain from making any comments about “going off the reservation plantation,” as they would be inappropriate, though accurate, especially in light of NPR’s “crossing the line” comment.

Point being, if they think Juan is too conservative…where the hell are their heads at?! Scary.

Baxter Greene on October 22, 2010 at 12:13 PM

Baxter Greene: Now thats a great point,btw,that was said,
the Afro comment,earlier this morning with
Bill Hemmer talking to Juan!!:)

Is Fox News more tolerant than NPR?

Obviously.

From the ABC News story:

Williams – who just got a $2 million deal for three years with Fox News – said it is making him rethink his previous beliefs about the left wing.

“I’ve always thought the right wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant and now I’m coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it’s representing the left,” he said.

We are broke. defund all nonessential government programs NOW!

In 2008, I received 378 emails complaining about remarks Williams made on Fox…

That’s because MediaMatters or some other anti-Fox News hack site made an attack post on Juan. You’d think the sophisticates at NPR would be smart enough to have figured that out.

Next time NPR tries to raise money through a phone bank would be a good time to call in and politely tell NPR what you think about them, effectively tying up their phone lines so they get less contributions.