Has George Soros shown up for the office parties yet ? Does he have his own parking space ?

Damn!!
Prospects of Nina winning any Beauty Pageants anytime soon are very
slim indeed!

She should really be able to say what she wants, as should Juan, when they work for an organization that receive tax dollars.

There now that she’s admitted this I’m sure we won’t hear anymore about it,…..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Sorry I thought sure I could get through that with a straight face.

OK…. so where is the explenation about WHY she kept her job at NPR??? She “comments” on Inside Washington and makes a comment like that and kept her job??? Why??? So Dan… yes you will keep hearing about it till someone at NPR explains this. Who gives a $hit if she apologises. She kept her job and he didn’t… WHY? Was it politics? Was it a slap at FOX? Was is because he is black?

tatboy said:
She kept her job and he didn’t… WHY?

Well for starters, it was fifteen years ago and NPR was under different management at the time.

Magister said:
Well for starters, it was fifteen years ago and NPR was under different management at the time.

So NPR has much lower standards then??? Was it a hotbed of liberal bias and looking the other way 15 years ago… THAT’S your defence of NPR. “Hay it just had really low standards 15 years ago, but not now”. Wow. NPR’s new slogan… We don’t suck anymore!

In other news, conservatives’ “But-What-About-?!?” disease continues unabated.

tatboy said:
OK…. so where is the explenation about WHY she kept her job at NPR??? She “comments” on Inside Washington and makes a comment like that and kept her job??? Why??? So Dan… yes you will keep hearing about it till someone at NPR explains this. Who gives a $hit if she apologises. She kept her job and he didn’t… WHY? Was it politics? Was it a slap at FOX? Was is because he is black?

Juan Williams had been warned multiple times by NPR since early last year about appearing on Fox News and being identified as an NPR correspondent on Fox. That, in addition to his commentary on Muslims, led to his being fired. To blame race or politics goes against and sort of personal responsibility Williams had for his inability to keep to his agreement with NPR.

What’s shocking is the lack of congruency between this case and the conservative’s distaste for Helen Thomas’ anti-Semitic comments and the demand for retribution for ethnically insensitive sentiment. Had Thomas not retired, I’m pretty sure that the demand for her firing would have been just as loud as the current defense of Williams. Either media figures can live with the consequences of not only what they get paid to do but, as Thomas showed, spontaneous or amateur on-camera appearances or they can’t.

If Thomas wasn’t a victim of our soundbite media culture, then neither is Williams. If anything, they’re victims of their own making.

tatboy said:
So NPR has much lower standards then??? Was it a hotbed of liberal bias and looking the other way 15 years ago… THAT’S your defence of NPR. “Hay it just had really low standards 15 years ago, but not now”. Wow. NPR’s new slogan… We don’t suck anymore!

1995 was the year that Bill O’Reilly left “Inside Edition”. Is your argument that he’s the same man and had the same standards then, as he does now?

So, we now have proof positive of the dual standards in this bastion of liberalism. If you express an opinion not held favorable in liberal land, you’re banished; if you say something negative about a conservative–NO MATTER HOW UNTRUE, UGLY, OR LIBELOUS–you get off with saying “i made a stupid remark.”

How predictable.

JimBob said:
Damn!!Prospects of Nina winning any Beauty Pageants anytime soon are veryslim indeed!

Yeah, that broad has a face that would make a freight train take a dirt road.

“I haven’t said anything that stupid on the air in 15 years.”

Uhhh, not quite……

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/10/26/totenberg-regrets-helms-aids-remark-i-havent-said-anything-stupid-15-yea

Nahu Tuk said:
So, we now have proof positive of the dual standards in this bastion of liberalism. If you express an opinion not held favorable in liberal land, you’re banished; if you say something negative about a conservative–NO MATTER HOW UNTRUE, UGLY, OR LIBELOUS–you get off with saying “i made a stupid remark.”

How predictable.

What’s predictable is your use of a flawed analogy. On the grounds of your flawed analogy, though, Juan wasn’t fired expressly for his comments on Muslims. There were discussions in 2009 about Fox identifying him as an NPR anchor/correspondent, and that NPR did not approve. Bill O’Reilly made a point to juxtapose his opinion of the “Muslim problem” with Juan’s, qualifying it all by saying, “You actually work for NPR.”

Juan gambled, and he won a renewed contract with Fox. Good for him. But he wasn’t fired from NPR for anything more or less than his own inability to keep with or perhaps his willingness to disregard a previously established agreement with his other employer.

“It Was A Stupid Remark”

…from a STUPID person from a STUPID network reflecting her STUPID lunatic-left d-crat socialist extremism.

TeaPartyPatriot said:
“It Was A Stupid Remark”

…from a STUPID person from a STUPID network reflecting her STUPID lunatic-left d-crat socialist extremism.

My, you’ve got the brilliant wits of a rebellious tween.

JimBob said:
Damn!!
Prospects of Nina winning any Beauty Pageants anytime soon are very
slim indeed!

What a dumb sexist remark.

More Liberty said:
She should really be able to say what she wants, as should Juan, when they work for an organization that receive tax dollars.

Not so. NPR is modeled after the BBC which attempts to present stories in a neutral manner by presenting two sides to every story with the reporter remaining neutral. The obvious problem is that many times there are more than two sides to a story or you can elevate a ridiculous opinion by presenting it in this manner. All in all NPR does a very good job. Unlike most people on this forum I listen to Morning Edition and All Things Considered every day and have since 1984.

blurgh. said:
Juan Williams had been warned multiple times by NPR since early last year about appearing on Fox News and being identified as an NPR correspondent on Fox. That, in addition to his commentary on Muslims, led to his being fired. To blame race or politics goes against and sort of personal responsibility Williams had for his inability to keep to his agreement with NPR.

What’s shocking is the lack of congruency between this case and the conservative’s distaste for Helen Thomas’ anti-Semitic comments and the demand for retribution for ethnically insensitive sentiment. Had Thomas not retired, I’m pretty sure that the demand for her firing would have been just as loud as the current defense of Williams. Either media figures can live with the consequences of not only what they get paid to do but, as Thomas showed, spontaneous or amateur on-camera appearances or they can’t.

If Thomas wasn’t a victim of our soundbite media culture, then neither is Williams. If anything, they’re victims of their own making.

Well said!

blurgh. said:
What’s predictable is your use of a flawed analogy.

No, what’s truly predicable is the liberal inclination of denial and their affinity to apply dual standards. One set of standards apply when liberals say something utterly hateful–they get off with a half-assed apology. The other standards are applied–ZERO TOLERANCE, to anyone saying anything that doesn’t fit the liberal agenda.

Nahu Tuk said:
No, what’s truly predicable is the liberal inclination of denial and their affinity to apply dual standards. One set of standards apply when liberals say something utterly hateful–they get off with a half-assed apology. The other standards are applied–ZERO TOLERANCE, to anyone saying anything that doesn’t fit the liberal agenda.

There is no dual standard as you set into play because those two things you compared are not alike. In fact, Totenburg and Williams are incomparable because there was no pre-established conversation of Totenburg representing herself on PBS. You can make an argument that it’s hypocritical for NPR to not have had the same conversation it had with Williams a year ago with Totenburg 15 years ago, but I gather that’d be a pretty ridiculous thing to argue.

The best situational comparison would, though, be the case of Helen Thomas. Both Thomas and Williams were scrutinized for bigoted statements, but conservatives seem to only be bothered by the one that helps them make a political point.

Needless to say, despite the fact these remarks were made 15 years ago

Are Jesse Helms’ grandkids still alive? Does Nina Totenberg still have her job? Then why does it matter how long ago it was?

If you started with a blank sheet of paper and decided to draw the image of your typical Lib media hack, you’d end up with this shrew of a woman.

May I quote a mentor of mine. mr. george carlin….. “it’s all b.s. !!”

ChrisNH said:
If you started with a blank sheet of paper and decided to draw the image of your typical Lib media hack, you’d end up with this shrew of a woman.

You judge people by the way they look. The textbook definition of an ignorant bigot.

blurgh. said:
The best situational comparison would, though, be the case of Helen Thomas. Both Thomas and Williams were scrutinized for bigoted statements, but conservatives seem to only be bothered by the one that helps them make a political point.

While I’ve given you a thumbs-up, I’d argue that in addition to the political point, Williams has gotten so much defense from seemingly conservative commenters and commentators because he was disciplined for something, he said on Fox.

There’s a cadre of blog readers who live and breathe Fox and because it helps promote their brand, FNC has given the subject an inordinate and underserved amount of attention.

BTW: It was within hours of the Williams story breaking that something Nina said a decade and a half ago became an internet meme. Fox has since picked it up because it serves their needs, but who had it to put back into the blogosphere with such force, pretty much in the middle of the night?