Faux 'News' Juan Williams admits: "He Misses Working For NPR 'Big Time"

[hlthe2b]

Ok, this is a bit of schadenfruede that I admittedly am enjoying

Fox News analyst Juan Williams revealed that he misses working for NPR "big time" on Thursday night.

"Because that’s such an informed and influential audience," he told Capital New York at an event. "
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Williams was fired from the public radio network in 2010 after making controversial remarks about Muslims on Fox News. He had said that he gets "nervous" when he sees people in Muslim garb on airplanes.

Williams has excoriated NPR on numerous times since his firing — even using the incident as the basis for a book about the national "assault" on free speech.

link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/juan-williams-misses-npr_n_1477567.html?ref=media


Ok, I'm enjoying this LOL

[enough]

1. No shit. (nt)

[DJ13]

2. "Because that’s such an informed and influential audience"

Compared to the idiot viewers on Fox?

[zbdent]

3. must be humiliating putting that mental clown makeup on every day ...

and knowing that you're the "liberal stooge" for Faux ...

[tularetom]

4. "excoriated"?

I'd bet anything that word was not used by anybody on Fox.

"I knew that Williams was in bed with NPR, Sean. Says here he was excoriatin' them."

[Ron Obvious]

5. He was a lousy Talk of the Nation host

Talk of the Nation went massively downhill after he took over from Ray Suarez. He often came across as unprepared, never ask the obvious follow-up questions from guests and didn't appear to have read their books (which Ray Suarez always did). As an occasional guest on other shows I never once detected a non-obvious contribution from him to the discussion or even an original thought.

Once TOTN went from 1 to 3 subjects per hour (can't remember if that was under Neil Conan or Juan Williams), I stopped listening altogether, even to my beloved Science Friday

NPR dumbed down a lot in the last 10 years but is still the best thing on the air to in my opinion.

[Iris]

11. Last sentence - so true. I just hope we aren't saying the same thing in another 10 years

[Ron Obvious]

12. You and me both

Even our beloved local NPR affiliate, KUOW has gone down that route with their morning shows a few months ago.

[Ikonoklast]

6. You lie in the bed you make, Juan, you tool.

Too bad you took a crap in yours first, but, hey, it's work, amiright?

[Carolina]

14. well said!

He is getting his just desserts

[riderinthestorm]

7. Good. Sounds like justice to me nt

[pscot]

8. I have never understood all the hating on Juan Williams

He's not a bad fellow, and he does actually try to push back occasionally against the troglodites he works with at Faux, which is more than can be said for Mara Eliason, who, if I'm not mistaken, still has a job at NPR. His firing was a case of PC run amok. He was canned because he expressed an emotional response that is no doubt shared by many. I don't wonder that he's still sore about it.

[hlthe2b]

16. It is cumulative... Even his progressive sister has issues with him.

Now, that he has assumed his role as a liberal pundit of color at Faux news he is free to voice opinions that run contrary to the "party line" at Faux-- so I can see why you would feel like his current punditry is not so bad. But when he was in the biz of ingratiating himself to the troglodites over there, his opportunism knew few bounds. Many of us remember his Allan West-like comments targeted at the Left. The Muslim comments are not even a blip on the screen for most of us who recall those years, when he would put on his "moderate intellectual" cap for NPR and then pop over to appear on Faux news panels where he would "froth like the best of them" at Obama, the Democrats in Congress and Liberal/Progressives in general.

I don't hate him at all. He saddens me with his wasted potential and willingness to "sell out" dating back to his WAPO columnist days when he defended Clarence Thomas against Anita Hill’s charges in a particularly disgusting attack on Hill. I think the Muslim thing was an unfortunate "last straw"--since there were many many reasons to have fired him before then.

[pscot]

17. That's fair

I think Williams made a bargain with the Devil. Now he's caught, and can't go back. I still can't hate the guy.

[KG]

9. piss on Juan Williams

[Iris]

10. Hey, ya'll! I can't even remember what he did. Can someone refresh my memory?

[hlthe2b]

13. well, NPR's take...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130712737

NPR Ends Juan Williams' Contract After Muslim Remarks : NPR

You can google Juan Williams fired from NPR to get the Faux news/RW hullabaloo reaction and the final impact on NPR

[KharmaTrain]

15. He's Tired Of Being A Token...

His role at faux is not only being a "librul" foil but also the "token" who is trotted out to justify anything and everything racial. Just as Geraldo represents Hispanics, Juan is there to get beat up about such controversial matters as the "New" black panthers and how MLK was actually a rushpublican. At NPR he dealt with real world topics and was treated as a peer where on faux he's a cartoon character and prop...and no matter of money seems to make the sting go away. Juan...you made this bed...sleep well my friend...