NPR has asked Juan Williams that he no longer be identified as affiliated with NPR

[burythehatchet]

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NPR embarrassed by Juan Williams after he compared Michelle Obama to Stokely Carmichael.»

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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/12/npr-embarassed-by-juan-williams/

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“I regret that in the fast-paced, argumentative format my tone and tenor seems to have led people to see me as attacking instead of explaining my informed point of view.”

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[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. They must put something in the water cooler at fox that reduces

one's ability to say intelligent things.... that's my guess.

[K Gardner]

2. Perfect.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. “Some of my verbal conduct was wrong."

In 1991, Williams was disciplined by the Washington Post after several female employees at the paper claimed he directed “sexually explicit and hostile comments” towards them.<2> Williams’ letter of apology read, in part: “Some of my verbal conduct was wrong. I now know that, and I extend my sincerest apology to those whom I offended.”

Somebody wrote this at thinkprogress:

Hey for everybody who was outraged at what Juan Williams said please go over to NPR and have your voice heard. It took me less than 2 minutes to sign up for their site and comment. The reason for my request is to my surprise many of the comments over there are supportive of Williams AND FauxNooz. It seems NPR is either attracting a lot of wingnuts now or the fix is in and Williams/FoxNews are sending commenters over there to support him and make it seem like its no big deal. So like I said if you want NPR to get a handle on how the public really feels about Juan Williams take two minutes out and go tell them how you really feel. Thanks.


Juan Williams is an Ass. I think the we should tell NPR how we feel.

[burythehatchet]

6. Wow. Thanks for the heads up. I would encourage you to start a thread on this action item.

cheers

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[Ichingcarpenter]

8. I can't find the area on NPR where you comment on Williams

See if you can find a link, I've got to walk the dog and will be back soon.

[burythehatchet]

10. I just left my comment. I'll go get the link

http://www.npr.org/ombudsman/2009/02/juan_williams_npr_and_fox_news_1.html#commentBlock

[Malikshah]

14. IOW -- I don't know my ass from a hole in the ground .

[Enrique]

4. Juan Williams excommunicated

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[Doremus]

5. Love it.

DH was channel surfing this AM and stopped for a minute on Faux. I couldn't believe the sensationalized garbage they were spewing. The female host was basically calling Democrats evil and vile socialists.

Amazing that people are transfixed by this stuff.

[Captain Hilts]

7. His history of sexual harassment wasn't enough. Surprise, surprise.

Now, if only MSNBC would clean up its act.

[mitchum]

9. Good...and I will donate money when they fire that goddamn tool Kai Ryssdal

[burythehatchet]

11. HAH! I always thought it was "Guy"

[glitch]

23. What about Mara Liasson, is she still on NPR?

I used to love them until 2000 when I stopped listening, so I am really asking.

[navarth]

12. K & R Seems to me PBS and NPR both were slightly compromised during

Tomlinson's tenure there. (Did I get his name right? The guy that was buddies with Rove?)

[burythehatchet]

13. Yup. Ken Tomlinson. Worked without board approval in undermining Moyers

a total POS, i.e. a typical Republickan

[LaurenG]

15. oxymoron

Juan Williams and "informed point of view.”

[terisan]

16. There is nothing insulting about being compared to Stokely Carmichael-the bad rap he got

on his supposed sexist comment was a careless joke and media jumped on it to sell advertising.

NPR rarely does news . They have a point of view or bias woven through their commentary and Juan Williams doesn't toe the line.

[burythehatchet]

17. well call him up and tell him to retract his faux-apology!!

NEW WORD ALERT: Fauxpology

[rurallib]

19. Nothing insulting to compare Michelle Obama to Stokely Carmichael?

Could you explain that in a bit more detail?

[terisan]

26. Try Wikipedia, Call Jesse Jackson, Contact Mary King-she is living in London. nt

[rurallib]

32. thanks for the non-answer. I have no idea what all that means.

I was serious. I am probably about the same age as Carmichael would be. I remember much of what he did.

[terisan]

33. My original point was that it was not an insult to M. Obama to be compared to Carmichael

Mary King was a young SNCC worker in the 60s. She co-wrote the first position paper in SNCC on sexism in the Civil rights Movement.

<http://www.maryking.info/> She is still active in the peace movement, is based in London, and does much work in Africa. She has stated recently that the most exciting advances for women today are taking place in Africa.

My post stated that it was no insult to be compared to Stokely Carmichael. The press tried to undercut Carmichael in the early days of Second Wave feminism when he made a joking answer to the question: what is the position of women in SNCC. He answered "prone" The press then tried to turn women in the movement agaist Carmichael (divide and conquer technique).

Mary King has pointed out that Carmichael was always a strong supporter of women and that his off the cuff joking remark was typical of him.

Not knowing that you were familiar with Carmichael's work I had included the reference to Stokely Carmichael's Wikipedia entry in my previous post. I think he is widely credited with minting the phrase "Black Power."

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokely_Carmichael>

Excerpt from Wikipedia:

Carmichael participated in the Mississippi Freedom Summer, serving as a regional director for SNCC workers and helping to organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). He was deeply disillusioned with the national Democratic Party when the party refused to seat the multi-racial MFDP delegation in place of the official all-white, pro-segregation Mississippi Democratic Party during the 1964 Democratic Party National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.<2> This incident led him to seek alternative means for the political empowerment of African-Americans and to become increasingly influenced by the ideologies of Malcolm X and Kwame Nkrumah.

[rurallib]

37. your perceptionand my perception of Stokely Carmichael are vastly

different than the view held probably 90% of the US that goes no deeper than the 6:30 half hour news. Let's be honest most people think of Carmichael as a violent terrorist etc, etc. And given an opening and opportunity I am sure FUX would love to do anything it could to fan the flames of guilt by association just as they did with Wright and Ayers.
Therefore while you and I know Carmichael was far from the personna painted in the (forever) right wing press, I would just rather not see another chance for FUX to go off on a crazy witch hunt again.
And for Juan Williams to say crap like that! Oy Vey, I wish NPR would throw his ass out.
I have a hard time listening to and believing NPR when they have the likes of Williams and Liason double dipping.

[noiretextatique]

40. i don't think of him as a violent terriorist

and if you knew anything about him you probably would'nt either. he was definitely a black nationalist, and that's the insulting rw meme williams' was spouting.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

29. Say weren't you the champion of Sarah Palin on another thread?

The point of the Stokely Carmichael comment was to play up a "angry radical" stereotype of Michelle Obama that the right wing promotes.

But... you already knew that, didn't you? :eyes:

[terisan]

34. I champion women who are not afraid to stand up for their beliefs. Carmichael as a director of SNCC

also championed women but had been unfairly accused of being sexist by the press in the 1960s in an attempt to divide and conquer actors in the Civil rights movement

There is nothing wrong with righteous anger and it can be quite confounding when combined with Non Violence.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

35. Do you think that Michelle Obama is an angry person?

[terisan]

36. I don't define any individual as "angry person" -neither M Obama nor anyone else.

[noiretextatique]

39. he's implying the obama is a black nationalist

and since she isn't, i think she would find the comparison insulting.

[populistdriven]

18. self delete

[rurallib]

20. Goodbye Juan! Tata!. Take Mara and Cokie with you please.

[marmar]

21. I'm a black male and I'm asking that Juan Williams no longer be identified with me....

:P

[burythehatchet]

24. poor Juan, he left home and still does not realize he can never actually move into their home.

I love how Britt Hume talks down to him. Frickin circus.

[glitch]

22. What an ASSHOLE. He fits in at FOX perfectly. "my informed point of view" jokes on him.

He's been an idiot for decades.

[BlooInBloo]

25. What a bunch of deceitful fucks NPR is.

[terisan]

27. Government funding corrupts a Free Press! nt

[burythehatchet]

28. NPR had a really good run, but in the long run your statement holds true.

[Festivito]

30. He was a RW jerk when he was at NPR.

I hope NPR will change back to honesty.

[AndrewP]

31. Williams sold out.

[Brewman_Jax]

38. He's been masquerading for too long

he's a lawn jockey and faux news enabler when they get caught being racists--which is most of the time. :grr:

[Occam Bandage]

41. "my informed point of view"

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