The Firing of Juan Williams From NPR

[morethanpretty]

Wouldn't whores be the ultimate capitalists? I mean, they don't give anything away for free when they can charge for it. They make a profit off of sex...

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes, you're absolutely right. Capitalist and whore are interchangeable these days.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by spudcon

Drug use and freedom of speech are not comparable. Everyone trashes Fox news for being biased, but NPR is not just left biased, it is bigoted.

They are comparable in that an employer should not be involved with what you do when you are not being paid by them, regardless of legality.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Griff

That is as it should be. On any job if your after hours activities make you ineffective you should be let go. NPR listeners, of which I am one, want reporters we find credible. If you appear on a Fox entertainment program your credibility with me is gone. That goes for all their reporters. They shouldn't be appearing on the talking head Sunday shows regardless of network either. They are either serious journalists or they are not. It is time for NPR to draw a bright line between journalism and pop entertainment. NPR has a chance to turn this in their favor. Make some good minority hires and acknowledge that their liberal world view does skew their reporting in as much as they always look first for a government role when a problem presents itself and they could gain from this.These problems don't make them Fox though. NPR doesn't invent controversy and manage and build it over days and weeks. They actually report what happens.

Do you feel the same about Mara Liasson and Nina Totenberg?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

I'm glad to see consistency in the calling of the whores. That words {sic} lends as much credence to your statements as it does to mercs.{sic} You bastard.

Well, Shawnee, consider this. Merc and I, we have, or at least pursue, virtue, and you despise us. What would that make you? A precious daughter of God?

And for the general reading pleasure, something Tw will never exhibit the courage to click on: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...102104856.html. May cause ratiocination.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Do you feel the same about Mara Liasson and Nina Totenberg?

Yes.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Well, Shawnee, consider this. Merc and I, we have, or at least pursue, virtue, and you despise us. What would that make you? A precious daughter of God?

And for the general reading pleasure, something Tw will never exhibit the courage to click on: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...102104856.html. May cause ratiocination.

You, pursue, virtue. For your own means. That quality isn't virtue, that's egocentricity.

However, it's not you I despise. You're at least an intelligent person. Watch your bedmates, they are not always as virtuous as you.

[spudcon]

I had read Krauthammer's article earlier today. Sometimes I don't agree with him, but he nailed it today.

[Griff]

The Dems are getting kookie with the paranoid talk. It is just like the GOP Soros talk. The SC did ruin campaign finance but, the real problem is a lot of us voted for Obama in hopes that he'd work across the aisle. Now he'll have to but, the GOP primaries may have given us a bunch who can't work with people of different beliefs. Now we are staring at 2 years of full on asshattery.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Griff

the real problem is a lot of us voted for Obama in hopes that he'd work across the aisle.

He tried, far longer than was reasonable. I have no doubt that he'll keep trying, with the same or less effect.

[classicman]

When the R's take over tomorrow, the onus will be on BOTH parties to work together. More so on the R's - IMO.

[tw]

Originally Posted by classicman

When the R's take over tomorrow, the onus will be on BOTH parties to work together. More so on the R's - IMO.

Nonsense. Their agenda was bluntly and publically stated. They want Obama (and America) to fail. Obstructionist rhetoric will continue. Why not? Even with a recession that is over, they still got so many Americans to believe there has been no recovery, that taxes have increased, and that government will never see that $700 billion Tarp. They even got Americans to forget who subverts science, created the destruction of NASA’s manned space program, encouraged wacko Likud to run rampant over Palestinians, invented Mission Accomplished to massacre 4,400 good Americans, surrendered to the Taliban, and let bin Laden run free. How many will apologize for even claiming bin Laden is dead? Why should they. Lying and obstructionism works.

Why should they change? They even got the recession created by Republicans to be blamed on the Democrats. Why change anything? Lying works.

[classicman]

Maher noted the news that Mohammed (when its various spellings are combined) is the year's most popular baby name in the United Kingdom.

Originally Posted by Bill Maher

Am I a racist to feel alarmed by that? Because I am. And it’s not because of the race, it’s because of the religion. I don’t have to apologize, do I, for not wanting the Western world to be taken over by Islam in 300 years? ... I should be alarmed, and I don't apologize for it.

One guest, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell, responded that Maher's statement was "worse" than Juan Williams' admission of his fears of people wearing Muslim clothes on airplanes.
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I'm not sure how this can be justified any other way. No, Maher doesn't work for NPR and probably doesn't have the same restrictions on opinions, but this is still worse than what Juan said.

[Flint]

You only mean "worse" in the way that neither one of them was bad to begin with, right?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yes.