My Opinion: NPR Shouldn't Have Hired Juan Williams in the First Place

bravo Bonnie Erbe.... Christine Craft

Another example of the usual Democratic tactic of attacking the victim to deflect attention away from the perpetrators, who are in this case the always-liberal executives known as NPR. I rarely agree with Juan, but at least he presents his views in such a way that he makes you think about and at least consider his thoughts, unlike Ms. Erbe's diatribe above. Her elitist and deflective comments show, like Cutie has posted below, that Erbe's dismissive attitude reveals the typical liberal double standard: "your freedom of speech stops when it disagrees with mine". Her comments reaffirm that it is time to stop funding NPR with taxpayer dollars!!

What the media on the left and right has failed to mention was that during the conversation between Williams snd O'Reilly he had said several times to be careful of stereotypes. That you can't just look at people his comment that he couldn't help it when he saw people in muslim garb at an airport he became nervous. He's been made to look like a bigot when he was expressing what happens to him. Are we suppose to tell Mr. Williams not to have feelings??? Any woman walking the street in the evening is nervous. Who isn't afraid of MS13 members?? Gangs of kids?? Skinheads?? but don't say it out loud you could get fired.

The left is circling the wagons to protect the firing of Juan WIlliams by NPR . MSNBC the left wing medias darling commentators are quick to defend the firing knowing full well that there will be a move to defund NPR as of now . They saw what happened to Acorn so they are working to try and keep this to happing to NPR . Well I hope that NPR is defunded because the tax payers should not be funding a leftist organization like NPR .

I noticed Bonnie, YOU were entitled to your opinion but Williams was not. That's the left for you, they can have opinions but fire people like Williams, Rick Sanchez, Lou Dobbs, Chris Core, Chris Plante, Andy Parks, Michael Graham, the crazy lady from Lebanon who told the Jews to go back to Poland (they had an award for her but it wasn't open to journalists, go figure). et al. Americans have become neurotic. Whatever happened to say what you want but be prepared to defend yourself??????????

This article is a personal attack on Juan Williams. If comments cannot be personal attacks how can a story that is no more than a personal attack be posted on PD? A simple answer would be fine.

Like Joe Lieberman, Juan Williams stepped off the plantation of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. I think this may open Mr. Williams eyes to the viciousness of the political correct democrat party and possibly envious, politically correct reporters that are not as successful. By all accounts Williams is first and foremost a gentleman.

Juan is with his own now. Get over it. I'm sure he is making much more than he was at NPR so perhaps it is really a win win situation.. The only bigger story about media personnel moving was the Leno/Letterman moves of almost a generation ago and that was really news. Moving a guest reporter out isn't big news. I think NPR announcing that Juan was fired (more or less) was a cold turkey approach that got more news than it deserved. That said, move on. I'll survive just fine without Juan on my radio, really. Hey, I still miss Red Barber. But he was a something guy. Juan leaves me with nothing. More like a pebble tossed into the water. His ripple wave is all ready fading.

Frankly, after this npr fiasco, the station will die a quick death due to lack of support and funding. And rightfully so. The same holds true for PBS TV stations. There is NO REASON why the gov't should be subsidizing these liberal stations with OUR tax dollars. It must end.

Here we go again .. You have made several charges against Williams and also O'Raily..Can you prove anything?.. Can you publish facts?.. Smears, simply smears. Really sad when we, as a society allow someone with a pencil or a computer attack and destroys one's reputation because they think different.