National Public Radio has been under very close scrutiny the last several days, due to their very public firing of Juan Williams, a senior NPR correspondent and occasional Fox News contributor, over his expressing his viewpoint about Muslims on commercial airliners.
Williams was appearing on Bill O’Reilly’s show on Fox, and said that he was nervous about flying on commercial flights with Muslims in “full garb.”
Thank you, Juan Williams, for expressing the viewpoints that MANY others have felt since 9/11.
Think about this:
A couple of years ago, there was a man who went crazy on a Canadian Greyhound bus. He pulled out a knife and started stabbing the guy sitting next to him; the screaming caused the bus driver to pull over and the other passengers to scramble off the bus as the screaming continued. Minutes later, police boarded the bus and found the guy eating his victim.
A few days after that, I was on an overnight bus here in the U.S., and guess what my reaction was? “Don’t trust ANYBODY!” I sat right behind the driver and wouldn’t have allowed ANYONE to sit next to me. Fortunately, there were only about a dozen passengers on this large bus. Still, I didn’t sleep a wink. I was aware of the location of every single passenger on that bus at every moment of the 22 hour ride by looking through the driver’s inside mirror.
Was my reaction any different than Juan Williams’ reaction that he expressed on the O’Reilly Factor?
There’s no other explanation: NPR fired Williams for expressing his honest opinion. And this kind of intolerance of people expressing their views cannot be tolerated at a taxpayer funded operation.
Since NPR is partially taxpayer funded, NPR should have more of a balanced viewpoint. But instead, they present the liberal version of everything, are anti-American and go out of their way to discredit Fox News.
NPR’s funding should be scrutinized.
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