One Mans Opinion 10/22/2010
By Dewaine Shoulders

The Day After

Yesterday, in what created a firestorm at NPR, Juan Williams was summarily fired after saying that Muslims, dressed in Muslim attire getting on a plane with him, makes him nervous. He was being honest in his assessment. It wasn't a bigoted statement... It is the new normal. I honestly can say that if I were sitting on a plane and a group of Muslims, dressed in their Muslim attire, boarded the plane, I would be getting off of it in a hurry! It's not a bigoted statement I'm making; it's reality!

Considering the amount of terrorists acts committed by Muslim extremists in the past 20 years or so, it would be rather stupid of me to want to continue sitting on a plane with potential terrorists. Political Correctness be damned! I'm looking out for my life.

So, when NPR decided to sever ties with Juan Williams, it got me to thinking that NPR is a liberal radio network, and they threw a fellow liberal under the bus in the name of Political Correctness. I believe his First Amendment rights were violated by NPR, and they should be investigated for discrimination and a violation of his right to free speech.

And I think it's time that NPR and PBS were cut off from the public funds they get from Washington D.C. Why is our tax dollars being spent on their liberal agenda anyway? It's time for the government to cut them loose and let them compete in the marketplace of ideas. But since NPR is a liberal/progressive broadcasting network, I fear that they are anti-capitalism as well, thus they couldn't make it in the real world without help from Uncle Sam. They would go down in flames just like Air America did; only faster.

Juan Williams is yet another victim of Political Correctness run amok.

A couple of weeks ago, Rick Sanchez was fired from CNN after calling Jon Stewart a bigot. Now, considering that Rick Sanchez had been Jew-bashing, and actually accusing CNN of being owned and operated by Jews, CNN officially fired him for calling John Stewart a bigot? It seems the bigot there was Mr. Sanchez. Was CNN justified for firing Rick Sanchez? Maybe? After all, he was openly being a bigot and demeaning people of the Jewish faith.

But I don't believe that Juan Williams deserved to be terminated by NPR for speaking the truth. We live in a very unsafe world, and Mr. Williams spoke aloud what many of us think. Was he wrong for saying it? In my opinion, no!

And so you know, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin came to his defense. Considering what Juan Williams has said about conservatives and Sarah Palin in the past, they were gracious and defended his right to free speech. Apparently NPR doesn't afford their employees the same right.

So, later Wednesday afternoon, Roger Ailes of Fox News, extended and expanded Juan Williams contract with Fox News. He will be on the air a great deal more, and will be doing a column for the Fox News website. And he'll be making $2 million dollars a year doing so. Much more than he made at NPR.

In closing, I believe that NPR violated Juan Willimas right to free speech and discriminated against him accordingly. NPR should be investigated by Congress, and the FCC as well. They should lose more than listeners because of what they did...They should lose their funding and their broadcast license as well!

But that's just my opinion, I could be right!