Juan Williams' Firing: Censorship or Partisan Games Between NPR and Fox News?

So if a fox reporter makes a statement regarding an African American person dressed in baggy pants and gangster garb "it makes me nervous to be around him/her since they identify them self's as thugs first and foremost " they will not fire that reporter?????????????

Cannon missed the summation of this article which is, conservatives gladly debate the falacies of liberalism whilst the liberals are afraid to debate conservatives. I am unaware of a conservative who has refused to appear on a liberal network, if invited, which doesn't happen. Many liberals refuse to appear on FOX.

The left is circling the wagons because they know what's next , The defunding of NPR just like Acorn who should have been disbanded years ago . MSNBC the left wing of the media networks darling commentators were quick to defend the firing of Juan Williams mainly because they Hate Fox with so much passion they are willing to discard one liberal commentator because he had the gaul to appear on the Fox network . Fox is killing MSNBC in ratings day in and day out , One MSNBC commentator even gave an answer to Fox stating that they fight back with the truth ! Oh really how would we know what the truth is on that network when it's only one sided left leaning stories 24/7 When do they ever have differing views on ? Never !

It's not the Muslims who dress in traditional garb that we have to worry about is it? It's the ones who disguise themselves and have an agenda of violence and death. We all need to calm down and think logically for a moment. I question the unexamined fears we all seem to be embracing at an accelerated and exponential rate. It wasn't too long ago that a Catholic couldn't get elected in this country. Fear just feeds on itself and creates phantoms we make real in our minds.

I feel that the firing was unwarranted and that most Americans feel that way when flying. I know that I do we no longer live in our safe haven environment where no one would dare trespass to hurt us. Having had a military career and having too live like this abroad it's natural for me. It's natural for them because these countries have been fighting and fighting there own. So why are they offended when they fled this way of life for a better way of life? I don't think that it was offensive. I was once in Egypt and had on shorts and had to cover my legs in 120 degree heat and heard offensive remarks but I adjusted and went on. We as Americans are two soft when it comes to how other countries treat us. You certainly couldn't go to a large Muslim city and build a Great Cathedral.

This is what happens when you speak truth to power. NPR's loss.

The good news about this incident is that it exposed NPR for what they really are; left-wing propaganda radio pretending to be a news organization. As such, all public funding they receive must be stopped.

The time has come for Congress to discontinue funding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and National Public Radio. Not because they fired Juan Williams, or because they might have a liberal slant. The need for these broadcasters simply no longer exists. Back before the rise of media technology, CPB and NPR provided a needed service to the country. Now with cable, satellite, internet, live streaming, podcasts, sirus/xm and everything else the need is no longer there. There are more than enough media outlets now available to the public to get news, information, entertainment and educational programming from. CPB and NPR are simply now the dinosaurs of the modern media age. Congress needs to pass legislation which can be signed into law to discontinue public tax payer funding or grants to CPB/NPR. At their web site, CPB is requesting from Congress an advance appropriation of $604 million dollars for FY 2013! They state this is a 14.7% increase over FY 2012 funding! This is just plain crazy! I don't know about you, but tell me what private, middle class citizen is going to get a 14.7% increase in their paycheck from year to year? And with the economy continuing to stagnate and record debt, it's just beyond rational understanding. Turn over CPB/NPR to full private ownership and funding. If they are truly worthwhile, investors and true public membership support drives will keep them in business. If not, they go out of business. This is no longer a question of "left vs. right" it's a question of wasted tax dollars that could be better used elsewhere.

If this is the standard of due process and freedom from bias NPR has chosen, I'd like to see it applied to the statements and actions of Ms.Weiss and Ms. Schiller. They might very quickly find themselves on the unemployment lines with millions of Americans who would rather be paying taxes, even if some of the taxes support tyrranical bureaucrats with insufficient control of their political biases to avoid abusing their power. I nominate them both for the Shirley Sherrod Award.

Remember that black woman in the south who got canned because she spoke about not helping American whites with their farms, then got rehired?? The NAACP spoke up, Rev. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, even the President. Funny none of them have come to the defense of Williams. If anyone takes the time to listen to the whole conversation instead of the part the left wing wants you to hear you will hear him say many times that we must be careful of stereotypes, etc.