National Public Radio has axed commentator Juan Williams for having impure thoughts about Muslims.
No, not that kind of impure thought. What got him in trouble was telling Fox News talker Bill O'Reilly that "when I get on a plane … if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they're identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."
NPR issued a statement to the effect that the words violated NPR standards, but we wanted to look deeper, and our investigation led to an interview with NPR Director of Orthodoxy Howard Bashford.
He agreed to meet us in his office in a dingy Washington, D.C., storefront. There we found him seated at a simple, steel desk on which lay two stacks of manila file folders. On the walls were posters of Che Guevara and scenes of revolutionary socialist realism.
Taking the severe, straight chair he offered, we said, "Mr. Bashford, some might argue that in light of 9/11, the shoe bomber and the boxers-or-briefs bomber, Juan Williams was expressing a rational anxiety. Why should this get him in trouble?"
"It didn't, really," he replied.
Confused, we asked him to explain, and he continued, "Some might argue that Mr. Williams was fired for going public with his trepidation, but his is not the case. Williams' public expression was merely the symptom of the deeper problem. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=219333
No, not that kind of impure thought. What got him in trouble was telling Fox News talker Bill O'Reilly that "when I get on a plane … if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they're identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."
NPR issued a statement to the effect that the words violated NPR standards, but we wanted to look deeper, and our investigation led to an interview with NPR Director of Orthodoxy Howard Bashford.
He agreed to meet us in his office in a dingy Washington, D.C., storefront. There we found him seated at a simple, steel desk on which lay two stacks of manila file folders. On the walls were posters of Che Guevara and scenes of revolutionary socialist realism.
Taking the severe, straight chair he offered, we said, "Mr. Bashford, some might argue that in light of 9/11, the shoe bomber and the boxers-or-briefs bomber, Juan Williams was expressing a rational anxiety. Why should this get him in trouble?"
"It didn't, really," he replied.
Confused, we asked him to explain, and he continued, "Some might argue that Mr. Williams was fired for going public with his trepidation, but his is not the case. Williams' public expression was merely the symptom of the deeper problem. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=219333
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