Juan Williams Hits His Limit on Fox News Sunday: ‘Sometimes I Just Want To Scream’

[CatWoman]

After enduring years of posturing on Iraq by Fox’s Brit Hume and the National Review’s Bill Kristol on the Fox News Sunday roundtable, Jaun Williams reached his limit. This morning, Williams said, “Sometimes I just want to scream. You guys have been going on since this thing began.”

Williams noted that Hume and Kristol “don’t give credit to people…who said from the start this is a mistake.” Instead, “now it’s everybody’s a surrender monkey or impatient or squeamish or weak.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/10/juan-williams-scream/

[grasswire]

1. hooray

i hope he enjoys retirement.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. musta been that pink slip in with his Faux check.

rarely has he spoken truth to power.

[Kagemusha]

3. Well, Juan Williams describes the situation accurately

That's indeed what people who were right from the beginning are called, speaking as one. I don't expect to be thanked. I just wish people weren't doing their best to perpetuate the disaster.

[speedoo]

4. Just another media rat fleeing...

Juan has personally made me want to scream for years.

Fuck him.

[rodeodance]

5. umm..getting some backbone is he?

[Buzz Clik]

15. The old Juan was the real Juan. THIS is posturing.

He has no stones and no spine. Period.

[xchrom]

6. hmmmmph -- welcome to the light juan williams.

you should be this pissed off to the power of ten.

then maybe your outrage would match the outrage that is iraq.

yes, yes indeed, we told you so.

[OzarkDem]

7. Juan, if you lay down with dogs

don't complain about the fleas.

[rusty_parts2001]

8. He was content while they signed his paycheck to go along.

Just another whore, IMHO

[peacetalksforall]

38. Wouldn't be surprised if he upgraded his hime since joining

FOX - so is he going to move back to his old house or is this just a blip on the screen of his morph from the old NPR-old neutral to demonstrably right wing? I lost my respect for him after watching him ditto and nod to his compatriots at FOX and his boxx, Murdoch.

[npincus]

9. he also told Barnes that "rich people can afford to pay tax"

when barnes was bemoaning theat a Dem congress will "raise taxes".

Willliams was supportive of Steny Hoyer's 5-day work-week policy; Barnes was not.

[datavg]

18. Well...

...we ARE likely to have a tax increase. It's coming.

A good friend of mine who works in a dot-com learned the commodities business from his father. He says the price of gold plus the pricing of residential real estate say we're in for one hell of a recession, beginning in 2007. We're long overdue, given that Greenspan inflated the living shit out of the money supply in 2002 and 2003 to save Bush's bacon.

If that happens, the Republicans will throw it in our faces...and take the White House again.

Ben Bernanke, call your office.

[niceypoo]

22. Its the deficit stupid

If taxes arent raised to bring us back to fiscal sanity the dollar will collapse. Tax cuts for the rich are a failure.

[muntrv]

35. Why don't conservatives like working? Barnes is a hypocrite.

[w4rma]

10. Good for Juan Williams. (nt)

[here_is_to_hope]

11. He had a good show on

npr at one time, way back a few years. It was a good newshour type show. When I saw him on *Faux* a few years back, couldnt believe it was the same man.

[renate]

28. it was a wonderful show

Many was the time I sat in my car for 15 or more minutes because I just couldn't tear myself away.

When he became one of the talking heads at Fox I just could not believe it. I thought surely he must have done it to give Colmes a little backup. Boy, what a disappointment.

[etherealtruth]

32. Yes it was ...

I think I listened to him in the DC metro area in the 1990's. He had a very intelligent show.

[StrictlyRockers]

12. I still hate him. Juan Williams is a media whore sell out with no integrity. :P

[Buzz Clik]

17. Right on! He spent too much time sucking up. Now, the die is cast.

[Faygo Kid]

13. He ripped warmonger William Kristol to shreds a couple months ago

Just shut him up, finally, when Kristol was smugly advocating war with Iran, war with Syria, war with everybody. Juan Williams yelled at him about it. Good for Juan Williams. I am not so smug myself as to negate his voice, even if it does air on Fox. We need all such voices we can get.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

14. I welcome any cowardly media worm that speaks the truth these days

Every break from the party line in the broadcast media is welcomed by me.

Yeah, Juan Williams' background is complete media whoredom, but he spoke up on Faux. Good for him.

[eyepaddle]

16. Well, now I feel conflicted....

I'd written Huam WIlliams off YEARS ago--and now this. Maybe there's hope after all. Did anybody see the fall out from this? I can think of few things more immediately satisfying that seeing that condescending smirk fall off Bill Kristol's face.

[Brewman_Jax]

19. Wow, the lights are on

after being a RW lawn jockey for years, trotted out when the RW noise machine is feeling pressure, Juan Williams has finally decided he's had enough. Should've done it years ago when it would've mattered. :eyes:

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Well, Look Who Just Caught Up!

It's about time, Juan. Duh! Tired of whoring for the losing side, Juan?
The Professor

[IWantAChange]

21. I'll say it again - the election gave some in the press a dose of courage...

to say what they believe and not be afraid of criticism for being soft on terror or unpatriotic. Late in the game - but if enough of them come on board it will help the tidal wave continue to roll till 2008.

[tblue]

23. But I wish it would've wiped that s---eating grin off Kristol's face. Why is he always smiling?

[Bucky]

31. Because when this disasterous war is over, Kristol will be rich and his kids will be unharmed.

I'd smile, too, if it weren't for all the dead people.

[Radical Activist]

24. I'll be impressed when he finally calls someone honkey. n/t

[leeroysphitz]

25. He voluntarily signed up for the job at Faux. He knew what he was

getting into.

I say let him scream.

[Vexatious Ape]

26. Williams should be in line for a Nobel Peace prize

for not strangling those bastards a long time ago.

[Bucky]

30. I think he's in line right behind a lot of other spouses of violent substance abusers

The only difference here is that Williams is being well paid to endure this Fox shit and still he can't take it for very long.

[corkhead]

27. Hey Juan... NSS

No
Shit
Sherlock

[StrictlyRockers]

29. Back when he was on NPR he was particularly annoying. Now on Faux, he's much worse.

He'll have to champion progressive causes without fail for about five years before he makes up for the harm I have seen him wreaking with his biased propaganda. He has never been an adequate voice for the "Left", or for any faction other than the Uncle Tom, lawn jockey brigade. He's annoying. The fact that he has surrounded himself for years with people who make him "want to scream" and he is just now realzing it and vocalizing it is even more annoying.

Fuck you, Uncle Tom. Scream all you want. The inmates at the asylum would notice?

SR

[Lautremont]

33. I often wish these videos would go on a bit longer so we could see

the reactions of those complete assclowns on the other side of the desk. Though I'm sure they're easy to guess: denial, condescension, lies, stupidity. But it's often interesting to see how these things will manifest themselves this time.

[bridgit]

34. i like the way the rest of them just sat there stunned having to hear...

an opposing voice right there in their faces :thumbsup:

[The Stranger]

36. Why doesn't he pound that little Kristol shit into the stool behind him?

It would make good political theater.

[peacetalksforall]

40. It is kind of fun knowing he talked back to Uncle PNAC.

[ikojo]

37. Juan grew a pair and dared to

have a different opinion? He alone destroyed the wonderful show that Ray Suarez nurtured on NPR, Talk of the Nation.

[zulchzulu]

39. Watching Kristol and Hume ganging on Williams made me wanna smash my TV

That sniveling Kristol was girlishly sniffing that the Sunnis and the Shites should just kill themselves and "we'll watch them and fix the country". The PNAC founder doesn't have a goddamn clue. As for Hume, he's a caveman with a ugly dog's face.

[Anakin Skywalker]

41. So Juan, My Peep, What the Hell Then Are You Doing Still Sleeping with the Devil?

Do you need the money that badly, man?

[curiousdemo]

42. As the the late great Elvis Pressley would sing

....Let me clear my throat....Juan..Yourrrr, caught in a trap, and you can get out!!!!!:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: