I understand your point of view. It’s just that you haven’t posted any facts to support it and you’re blindly speculating, undeterred by information, so I have zero reason to believe you. I’m not impressed by your "I’m just saying"s and your "I’m guessing"s and insinuations about what you would do in this situation and that. Alas, your sarcasm isn’t rescuing the argument either. NPR is using the money from the Open Society Foundations to hire journalists to cover state governments. Ooh, suspicious. I don’t know what “wishes” you believe Soros made (you haven’t posted evidence for that either), how you think NPR will fulfill them, or anything else.
There is so much fear in this post, it somewhat amazes me. You’re “waiting for the next big strike”, worried about “danger which may be afoot” and “one of the greatest threats that liberalism poses”. You honestly think there are millions of terrorists trying to attack the United States (at its peak Al Qada had maybe 5,000 commanders). Hell, even if there were 1 million terrorist Muslims (which there aren’t), there are 1.6 billion in total.
It’s irrational to be afraid of random Muslims on airplanes. It’s especially irrational to be afraid of ones dressed in traditional Muslim clothing. (Quiz: Who has committed more acts of terrorist: Muslims in headscarves or in US Army uniforms?).
The line about “members of the religion that gave birth to that ideology, especially on an airplane” is particularly hysterical (not in the funny sense). One could just as easily be concerned about members of the religion that gave birth to the Crusades. 9/11 is no more a devout Muslim’s fault than priest child abuses were a devout Catholic’s.
It’s also highly irrational to be concerned about the inability of conservatives to express their opinions, when all of the highest-rated and most-watched and -listened-to commentators are conservative. Trust me, Juan will have plenty of places to air his opinions, be they bigoted or no.
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So it’s ok to be nervous about all Muslims? Is it ok to be nervous about all Christians or Boy Scouts? There are an awful lot of them, and they totally could be plotting against me. What about white, brunette, 33 year old, gun loving, military trained security guards from New York? Should we be nervous about them? According to you, we should. One did it, maybe even a few did it, therefore all of them could do it! Doesn’t that huge paintbrush get heavy?
Oh noes! They’re arguing against our position! They don’t automatically agree with everything we say! They give evidence to support their views, and demand we do the same! They’re point out our bigotry to us! They’re obviously destroying our rights, and this entire country all at the same time! They having a special on martyr complexes at K-Mart or something?
You said that NPR should not have to pay him for his bigotry. I don’t see where they were.
NPR didn’t do any of those things - they just fired him because they didn’t like that he didn’t toe the ideological line.
I wonder how much of this has to do with the fact that it appears the GOP will regain control of at least one house of Congress. NPR is circling the wagons, or purging themselves of those whose loyalty to the Great Goddess Liberalism is suspect.
Regards,
Shodan
I’ll take Nothing for $200, Alex.
Williams has landed on Fox, and published his side of things:
Even if the firing was abrupt and unfair, he’s adapting quite well to Fox’s whiney, self-righteous style.
I’ll raise your six eye rolls with seven.
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
I must say, Williams’ take does change my mind somewhat, except when he goes off on martyr tangents like this:
Of course the silly thing about William’s comment is that if Al-qaeda or some other Islamist terror group decides to blow up an airline, they will instruct their operatives to act as inconspicuously as possible. This means dressing in western garb and not displaying any signs of their faith, even acting in un-islamic ways like having a beer or ogling women. This was the instruction given to the 9/11 hijackers. Ideally the operatives won’t even be arabs.
Thus the passengers in islamic garb praying towards mecca are the least likely to blow up the plane.
Wrong again. He was not making any assumption about people who dress in muslim garb. He was stating his own irrational fear. He didn’t suggest that they should be scrutinized more closely or feared by others. He didn’t say that he assumed that anyone wearing muslim garb was a terrorist. He was expressing a basic fear that, I would wager, the majority of Americans have.
He was one of their public faces. Once his bigotry was exposed, that became part of his person. He would not have been able to wash it off while on the clock for NPR. They do not have to pay a bigot to do commentary for them.
His irrational fear is ipso facto bigotry. I doubt the majority of Americans piss down their legs at the sight of Muslims, but if they do, then that just means the majority of Americans are Islamophobic morons.
The answer is zero. I will repeat once again that NPR is non-partisan. Accusations that the organization is “liberal” are factually false.
You mean not being a bigot? That’s what you mean right, not being a bigot? Cuz that’s what he failed to do, not be a bigot. I mean, I can see why they wouldn’t want a bigot representing them.
If their ideology included ‘no pedophiles’, and I hope it does, and they fired someone for publicly announcing they were a pedophile cuz they didn’t want a pedophile representing them publicly, would you argue against that too? Or is it just because he’s a bigot? Is that it? The bigot thing?
Well that would explain why they’re firing all those other non-uber-liberal reports. How many are they up to now?
I called it!
Oh who am I kidding, that was an easy one.
Interesting. Apparently part of the reason he was fired was because of complaints from NPR employees who wear Muslim garb to work.
I was disappointed to see him resort to the “this is an attack on free speech” line, though, because he’s smart enough to know that’s bullshit.
Wrong again. But you do seem to have a flair for misrepresenting my posts. Keep on misrepresenting and spinning away…you lose more and more credibility, if there was any left, with each additional post.
No way. I watch a lot of cable news in the background while I do other things. I’ve probably seen 50 hours of the guy’s work on Fox, and I’ve not once heard him say something interesting or intelligent. Same goes for Mara.
I think maybe we need a national seminar on the First Amendment after the last six months of mindless dialogue on the topic.