Jesse Jackson criticizes NPR for firing Juan Wiliams

[Anonymous]

http://www.tbd.com/articles/2010/10/jesse-jackson-slams-national-public-radio-for-firing-juan-wiliams-25980.html

[jsteele]

Well, when I see black men who have an uncontrollable urge to stick their faces in front of TV cameras, I get nervous.

Edit: I should add that men and woman of all races with that same uncontrollable urge also make me nervous.

[Anonymous]

Meh, I guess that's important if you give a fig what Jesse Jackson thinks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meh, I guess that's important if you give a fig what Jesse Jackson thinks.

I don't give a fig what JJ or JJ, Jr. think. Juan Williams ia a horse's patoot. It does concern me, however, that NPR president said that firing Williams may not have been the wrong thing to do.

Now, Jeff, I didn't actually read this article but saw something about it on Yahoo. Feel free, as you will, to correct me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meh, I guess that's important if you give a fig what Jesse Jackson thinks.

I don't give a fig what JJ or JJ, Jr. think. Juan Williams ia a horse's patoot. It does concern me, however, that NPR president said that firing Williams may not have been the wrong thing to do.

I agree with you on the first part. I disagree with you on the second part, in that the "NPR president" is an ass-covering, cowardly, bureaucratic shit-whistle. I don't give a fig what he thinks about it. This is not some kind of internal NPR matter. Anyone with a brain and ears to listen can see that Williams is an idiot, and not worth the precious airtime. He'll be much happier as one of the stable of brain-dead imbeciles over at Faux News.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meh, I guess that's important if you give a fig what Jesse Jackson thinks.

I don't give a fig what JJ or JJ, Jr. think. Juan Williams ia a horse's patoot. It does concern me, however, that NPR president said that firing Williams may not have been the wrong thing to do.

I agree with you on the first part. I disagree with you on the second part, in that the "NPR president" is an ass-covering, cowardly, bureaucratic shit-whistle. I don't give a fig what he thinks about it. This is not some kind of internal NPR matter. Anyone with a brain and ears to listen can see that Williams is an idiot, and not worth the precious airtime. He'll be much happier as one of the stable of brain-dead imbeciles over at Faux News.

We agree on everything. It may be an internal NPR matter but it makes me angry that NPR President doesn't have the courage of his/her convictions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We agree on everything. It may be an internal NPR matter but it makes me angry that NPR President doesn't have the courage of his/her convictions.

Ah, right. If it were out of character, I might be able to work up more anger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:... It may be an internal NPR matter but it makes me angry that NPR President doesn't have the courage of his/her convictions.

I don't see that she lacks the courage of her convictions. She apologized not for the decision, but for the way it was communicated to Williams. Look at this from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/25/npr-president-apologizes-_n_773286.html:

Schiller also wrote, however, that the decision the network took was the right one. Reiterating a statement she released last Thursday, she called Williams' comments "the latest in a series of deeply troubling incidents over several years," and said that he had been repeatedly asked to "avoid expressing strong personal opinions on controversial subjects in public settings...after this latest incident, we felt compelled to act."