Obama: Socialist or anti-colonialist

[Steve]

Not wanting to start another thread so I'll use this as an umbrellla for US political related posts.

 

Juan Williams got fired from NPR for saying he gets nervous on planes when he sees a guy in muslim garb. Here's the actual clip and words:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/10/the-words-that-got-juan-williams-fired-from-npr-even-liberals-arent-safe-from-islamic-supremacism.html

 

NPR has no balls. I really don't see what the big deal is. He was being honest not a bigot and he qualified what he said.

 

When white people tell me they get nervous when they see a black guy or guys on a street late at night, I'm not offended in any way. Truth is a lot of muggings are done by young black males. Here's a dirty little secret, blacks are also nervouse seeing young black males late at night on the street. There is a line, there always is. If a white woman is clutching her purse when we are alone in a high rise office building elevator, broad daylight and I'm wearing a business suit and carrying a briefcase, then I tend to think that person is bigoted. But that's me. lol.

 

I got nervous in Alabama when I am at a convenience store late at night and some white guys come in with caps or shirts with a confederate flag on it. (fairly regular thing actually...lol). If its early morning and I'm alone, I am nervous, daytime, not nearly as much. Am I bigoted for feeling that way?

 

Looking at the Williams clip again, I wouldn't have gave it a second thought had I heard it. After I saw it I was waiting for the controversial stuff and left disappointed. I was thinking before he referred to them as 'towel heads' or something. Afterards I was disappointed...especially with NPR.

[chuckwoww]

I get the point about political correctness gone wild Steve but seriously Mr. Williams is a bag of nerves. Maybe he should travel more. Perhaps take an Emirates flight from Heathrow sometime.

 

Second thoughts it wouldn't surprise me if O'Reilly got him to say that.

[allistar]

I think that NPR has been looking for an excuse to fire him ever since he started to work for FOX. They consider FOX's night time lineup more propaganda than news (rightfully so, as that attracts viewers). The same thing happened at ABC, where John Stossel's contract wasn't renewed and he left for FOX Financial TV (he explained on O'Reilly that there were few people at ABC that agreed with him politically and that was his major reason for leaving). For NPR, William's loss isn't a big deal. He was on the morning news program once or twice a week and occasionally on the afternoon news program and not much else. Maura Liasson, NPR'S Capitol Hill correspondant and a contributer on FOX's Special Report, must be wondering if her time at NPR is numbered.

[chuckwoww]

Seems to me it's become a question of who can come up with controversial statement of the day. O'Reilly wins hands down.

[USVirgin]

I think that NPR has been looking for an excuse to fire him ever since he started to work for FOX.

 

That's the way I see it as well. There was nothing at all wrong with the lone comment, let alone it being a firing offense. I understand they asked him not to be linked with NPR while appearing on FOX (fair enough), and he complied in this case, which makes the firing even more outrageous in a fucked up passive aggressive way.

[Steve]

A book coming out by a general says Clinton lost the nuclear codes. This link http://news.yahoo.com/video/sports-15749645/did-bill-clinton-lose-nuclear-launch-code-22549284#video=22573504

 

also says that Carter lost it as well. The cold war is over so its not such a big deal even though in totality it is and always should be...if that makes sense.

 

HH, are you gonna say it wouldn't happen if a Repbulican was in the white house? lol...(how ya doing by the way?).