NPR Should Have BOOTED WILLIAMS For His FRAUDULENT Liberalism

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" Former NPR analyst Juan Williams should been canned at NPR for his silly, bigoted crack about Muslims making him nervous. But NPR if it had the ounce of integrity and fairness that it incessantly brags about should have dumped Williams a long time ago for his equally great offense. And that's his two decade con job as a liberal, civil rights expert and even supporter.


Williams never missed a chance to boast about his two decades plus stint with the liberal Washington Post and tout his track record of authoring books on the civil rights movement. Williams sold himself as a man that backed even championed the civil rights struggles of the past and that his sworn mission was to accurately and instructively chronicle that struggle. Here are some of his titles that he used to sell his self-serving title as Mr. Civil Rights sold as Mr., civil rights expert, Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965.Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience, I'll Find a Way or Make One : A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience among others.


But Williams was a fraud. That was more than apparent in the clashes that I had with him on Fox when he instantly assumed the requisite attack dog role and jumped all over any criticism made of some of the dumbest inanities from black conservatives. That was a consistent pattern with Williams. Front himself off as a Dr. Jekyll moderate, thoughtful, and balanced commentator that strived for fair and accurate analysis of issues on NPR. And then quickly transform himself into a raving take-no-prisoner right leaning Mr. Hyde on Fox bashing Obama, civil rights leaders, and shilling the GOP line on race.


But Williams couldn't have gotten away with this con job without the wink and nod complicity of NPR, maybe the better word is disingenuousness. NPR officials certainly were not clueless about Williams two faced con. There he was for all to see shaking and nodding his head in agreement with every conservative flack that paraded across the stage on the O'Reilley show and other conservative gab fests on Fox. His confrontational hit style on Fox fit in neatly with the tone, temper and rabid right echo chamber sound box of the network.


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[Ken Burch]

1. Well, NPR is all about bringin' teh fradulent liberalism.

They fired all the ACTUAL progressive hosts, commentators, and even staffers back in the Reagancy. There's been no serious progressive voices on NPR since then.

NPR management thinks making NPR a left-free zone will save its funding. You'd think the fact that the right STILL wants to defund it would have proved how silly this strategy is. If appeasing the right hasn't worked for THIRTY FREAKING YEARS, why do they STILL refuse to accept that it's not worth doing anymore?

[RZM]

4. If you think NPR is a 'left free zone' you're not living in reality

Do you ever listen to Fresh Air? Are you seriously going to argue that Terry Gross is a right winger?

[Hannah Bell]

6. oh, brother.

[RZM]

7. Is there a point to that comment?

Because if there is I'm not getting it.

[Ken Burch]

8. Terry Gross is all about being "safe".

She never goes out on a limb on any political point, or challenges corporate power in any of her interviews. And her guests are almost all toadies of the mainstream power structure.

[RZM]

9. Just plain wrong

I'll start with your comment about her guests. Let's take a look at the last seven shows. Here's the guest list:

Harold McGee (chef)
Jason Schwartzman (actor)
Michael Arendt and Bob Unkrich (screenwriter and Pixar director)
Mike Birbiglia (comedian)
David Bianculli (TV critic)
Philip Roth (author)
Sean Willentz (historian)

Are these 'toadies of the mainstream power structure?' Not sure exactly what you mean by 'mainstream power structure,' but all but two are involved in entertainment. What's more, I'll bet every single one of them is left of center in their personal politics. Willentz certainly is -- his purpose in being on there was to criticize Glenn Beck (he also wrote the 2006 Rolling Stone cover story that dubbed George W. Bush the worst president in history).

If you listen to the show regularly, as I do, you'll note that conservatives rarely appear and when they do, she's noticeably colder to them than she is to other guests. As far as her going out on a limb, well, I'm not sure what you mean by that, but remember your argument was that NPR was a 'left-free zone,' not a 'going out on a limb free zone.' And as far as corporate power goes, she's had Elizabeth Warren on numerous times and also had the New Yorker writer who did the recent Koch brothers piece, which brought that story to a wider audience. It's possible to be on the left and not spend every waking moment challenging corporate power.

How about Diane Rehm? I know she's not on in all that many markets, but I don't see how you could construe her as a right-winger at all either.

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[oswaldactedalone]

3. Agree totally about Williams

Good riddance, right wing mouthpiece, wolf in sheep's clothing.

[Hannah Bell]

5. +100.