Editorial
by Jann Scott
First let me say I love NPR and support their federal funding, but that’s about all the good I can say about them this week.
Their terrible mishandling of Juan Williams has brought the wrath of the entire country upon them. Williams , their only black on air news person was summarily dismissed for disusing his nervousness about being on a plane with Muslims. That is a natural honest reaction that many Americans including me feel. So what? And he gets fired for that? albeit 7 days before the midterm elections?
Williams was singled out first by a radical Islamic group with ties to Alcaida who complained to NPR , then by NPRs management who then fired him. What has since come to light is that NPR fired another female black reporter in 2007 leaving Williams the only person of color on staff. NPR now looks to be a racist all white organization.
What has also come to light is that Nina Tottenberg made a scandalous statement about the late senator Jesse Helms grandchildren wishing that they died from Aids. Terri Gross also so attacked Bill O’Reilly on air that O’Reilly walked off the set of her talk show. Neither Tottenberg nor Gross received as much as a mention let alone a reprimand. Clearly NPR has a double standard and has proven to tolerate reverse sexism. Feminism gone a-rie; a good ole girls network has emerged at NPR and it is time for “regime change”
In light of all of this Whoopie Goldberg has called Williams firing a racist injustice. Michael Moore defended Williams in blog yesterday calling NPRs action out of line. Alec Baldwin has gone further and started a DO NOT PLEDGE campaign. 3 days into this fiasco NPR has lost it’s radical left Hollywood support and most of America.
What were they thinking? They had their guy Juan Williams implanted in Fox News holding up their liberal view. Now Williams has turned against NPR and is now calling for their defunding by congress. What a mess.
Republicans have now introduced a bill to defund NPR and with the election just days away, this scandal at NPR will surely turn the balance toward Republican candidates nationwide.. My sense is NPR is too dumb to capitulate for the sake of the Democrat party and will ride this nuclear bomb straight to hell….and so goes the country ….to hell in a hand basket. I think it would be fair to call the all white female management at NPR a bunch of racist Ideologue hand maidens of Satan.
Twitter and the internet has been abuzz with Williams firing with posts 3 to 1 against NPR. The NPR scandal is being fueled each day by NPR’s idiotic statements demeaning Williams character and professionalism. It has turned into a crisis so damaging that NPRs own staff has turned against management. They are about to lose their own jobs. NPRs handling of this situation is as bad if not worse than BP’s handling of the oil spill.
And where is Barack Obama in all of this? Will he come to the defense of a brother? Not yet, but I bet he will…if anything just to try to save some votes before we lose the congress and the senate.
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