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Juan Williams Responds to the Resignation of NPR Executive Who Fired Him (VIDEO)

by Jeremy Taylor, posted Jan 7th 2011 3:50PM
Last year, Juan Williams was fired by NPR in the wake of remarks he made on 'The O'Reilly Factor' about how he gets nervous when he sees men in Muslim garb on a airplane.

An external investigation of Williams' firing has now resulted in the resignation of NPR senior vice president Ellen Weiss, who Williams says not only fired him, but called him a bigot and denied him the opportunity to explain his comments further.

Back on 'The O'Reilly Factor' (weekdays, 8PM ET on Fox News,) Williams told Bill O'Reilly that Weiss leaving NPR was a "good thing."

"She was the enforcer of political correctness of liberal orthodoxy at (NPR)" Williams argued. "It was her way or the highway ... she basically enforced an inbred culture at (NPR.) Which is why I think it's such a fearful place, even today."

After being fired by NPR, Williams signed a multi-million dollar contract with Fox News, and got a deal to write a book about "the growing difficulty in America of speaking out on sensitive topics."

So while Williams still appears to be hurt by his dismissal from NPR, things have gone pretty well for him since.

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smrweim

I totally agree with Juan Williams! Bravo! Americans are way too weird about what they can say and can't say. It's a weird form of fascism.

It probably would have been good for Juan to have spent more time overseas and had more experiences, then he wouldn't be so fearful; however, how ironic is this! The media he works for creates fear and he is a product of this fear!

I live in Singapore, which has the rep of being censored (which I'm not saying it's not), but it's such a multi-cultural place with several religions, people don't get bent out of shape if we call someone Muslim, Christian, White, whatever... We are not being rude, we are just describing for efficiency's sake. Frankly, the U.S. has lost it's edge because it spends so much time focusing on the wrong things. Certainly discrimination is alive and well here and everywhere, but there is a freedom about not having to be PC with all of your words, when your heart is in a good place anyway.

January 07 2011 at 6:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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