Posted on 08/08/2006 12:44:18 PM PDT by presidio9
NPR and Fox News commentator Juan Williams is a certified liberal — so liberal some have called him the black Alan Colmes, the liberal half of Fox’s Hannity and Colmes. When he writes a book you’d expect the liberal media to fall all over each other to be the first to review his book and have him as a guest on network radio and TV.
That hasn’t happened, however, because his book “Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America — and What We Can Do About It,” has crossed the boundary of what is — and what is not — permitted by the high priests of liberal orthodoxy.
For this grievous offense he has been cast into the outer darkness reserved for conservatives and other patriotic Americans.
On my radio show the other night Juan told me how he has been silenced by the very liberals who have always clasped him to their bosoms. When I asked him if he’s been put on the "back burner" he said: “It’s not the back burner, but the burner itself that has disappeared. You just don’t get covered when you try to talk about what I consider to be central issues in terms of not just black America but all America. It’s part of American history, it’s part of the reality of the way we live, especially with increasing numbers of minorities in the American population, racial politics, drop-outs in schools, the fact that people talk about what’s going on with jails and all that.
“People just don’t want to talk about why we are in a grievous situation even now in the 21st century with regard to race and the kind of leadership we have on race.”
This is a tragedy. It is important that Juan Williams be heard loud and clear, and that his book should have the largest readership possible. Like Bill Cosby before him, Juan has looked his fellow blacks in the eye and told them the truth – a truth they must face if they are to overcome the obstacles that hold them back.
He deplores the incredible rate of illegitimate births among blacks — a staggering 70 percent of all black children are born out of wedlock. These children are deprived of a normal upbringing, of a family with the father present in the home.
So-called black leaders such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton draw his scorn. Williams notes: “If you attack anybody who is designated by the white media as a black leader you are therefore attacking black America and blaming the victim and you’re not seeing the larger picture while you have real problems afoot in terms of educating black kids, in terms of watching black kids born out of wedlock into poverty in this country, in terms of watching what I consider a culture of failure where people don’t call to account ... violence and sadistic rap music.”
“Nobody says let’s have a march against these drug dealers, let’s have a march against bad schools. You never hear that kind of talk.”
So Juan Williams sets out to tell the truth, writes a book about it, and he can’t get on liberal television, he can’t get on ABC, NBC or CBS because they have sold out to these leaders of the black community picked by guilt-ridden white liberals. White liberals refuse to allow blacks to be individuals. They look at them only as a group. They have put them on their liberal white plantation where their hand-picked black taskmasters such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton rule the roost.
As Juan Williams has learned, anybody who shines the light of truth on this sordid arrangement will be barred from speaking about it. He is learning that you cannot go against the liberal left agenda even if you are a member of the liberal left.
It is said that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. Juan Williams is being mugged. He has important things to say to fellow blacks and to the America he loves. If the left wants to silence him, it’s up to conservatives to give him a platform where he can speak truth to liberal power.
Buy his book and mug a liberal.
Juan has taken the first step on the road to becoming a rabid conservative. In five years from now he'll be laughing/crying at himself for ever having been an obnoxious moonbat.
My kids call Alan Colmes, "The Cryptkeeper". He looks like the talking skeleton form Tales from the Crypt.
I have to admit, I am surprised. Juan has been solid-left forever, and this... unvarnished tome of truth and rationality is just amazing!
What next? Michael Moore doing a film promoting personal responsibility and spiritual growth?
Another poster referred to Juan as the crash test dummie for liberal talking points a few weeks ago.
Sounds like it offers some sober insights.
Buy Juan's book, burn the liberal msm.
Flattery for naught in the face of duplicate thread persecution...
Anyone who regards Juan as anything less than a far left wing nut ought to watch the old Crossfire episodes with him against Pat Buchanan. I've never seen such vitrolic liberal rhetoric.
Alan is a Sleestack:
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That's you with the blond hair Slim.
Well I did say, "< |:)~"
...black children are born out of wedlock. These children are deprived of a normal upbringing, of a family with the father present in the home.So-called black leaders such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson...
Jesse Jackson is a part of the problem all around. He's fathered a child out of wedlock (and embezzled money to pay child support).
lolz
I'm not sure what Juan's future holds, but he seems to be dead on target with this book. I haven't read it yet, but I am going out of my way to purchase a copy. As conservatives, we should support folks when they are right. It would be a shame if a good book didn't receive wide distribution.
Prediction: in two years some will be calling him the black Shawn Hannity.
Neo-con = new convert = a socialist who has seen the errors of his ways.
yitbos
" let’s have a march against bad schools"
Don't give 'em any ideas. Education is too federalized as it is.
He wandered off The Demokratz Plantation, so he must be silenced...........
The DTP, Duplicate Thread Police, are hiding inside your monitors...........
Neo-con = new convert = a socialist who has been mugged........
His son is the upcoming Republican politican Antonio (Tony) Williams.
From Juan or Pat?
It might be his first step... but look how long it's taken! Juan's time for change has past... I see him pulling his book from the shelves before becoming a rabid conservative.
Dang - I thought I came up with that!
You're kidding....Juan spawned a GOP'er?
i just hope juan sees libs for what they really are and changes political parties.let me be the first to welcome juan to the big tent party.
Jesse Jackson is the problem....they don't know what a
solution is...like his son in Congress who runs his mouth off and was aainst President Bush from the get-go.
Illinois..you can have both of them...also Senator
Durbin and Obama mymama or whatever the hell his name is..
because he's black..he's the party's newest star...
Are they still voting the Cemetary gravestones in the
state? Jake
I wouldn't go that far.
He is seeing the light a bit, but I doubt he'll ever admit that conservatives are right.
He's running for DC city council...good luck with that.
No, I don't think so. Juan's liberalism is just too deep and too fundamental. This little excursion into "reality" is an outlier -- I haven't read it yet, but I seriously doubt his prescriptions to address these various "pathologies" of the ghetto or race-based politics really cut against the traditional liberal formulae.
Juan's roots in NPR are just too mature -- you know he knows he's wrong, but he just can't help himself. While I shake my head at him, he tees the ball up for Brit to hit it out of the park time and again, so I enjoy watching that theater.
Juan should know better but he doesn't -- or he refuses to.
I know. His win is likely a 'maybe' at best.
Sad, huh?
You never know. People can change, no matter how entrenched in their beliefs. There's hope for everybody.
We've long questioned why blacks would stay on the Democrats' plantation, but the wider, over-arching question was always, "Why would anyone willingly stay on the oppressive, lock-step, jack-booted thugs' (Democrats') plantation?"
What's your answer to that, Joe LIEberman?
HF
Because Juan's a friend of Justice Thomas, I've long wondered whether that influence might've contributed to a parallel to the crazy-like-a-fox game that played out several years ago in the Chicago radio talk-show market. Roe Conn used to be a flaming liberal, but got bashed left, right and upside de haid for it day-in, day-out. If you're a thinking, quasi-honest indivittle, liberalism is downright tough to maintain, and Roe Conn actually gave up on liberalism. He's still no conservative, but he's distanced himself from the idiots, that's for sure.
I wonder if Juan didn't determine a few years ago to represent-to-the-hilt liberalism to let its absurdity be mocked, just as he successfully does on Sunday after Sunday.
It might just be some kind of mildly perverted bet he's held in confidence for a long while, as he continued to draw his paycheck for PBS/NPR.
Only such conjecture allows these strangely-shaped puzzle pieces to fit together.
HF
People change.
I know I have.
Jusn seems to have a different tone when I've seen him lately on Fox Sunday Morning.
I think I know why.
I saw a newsclip of Condi Rice a few years ago. Following her at a respectful distance was Juan Williams.
I think he and Condi spent some time together......
Indeed it has: The title is WAY too long. That's a crime in the biz.
Oder, wie Der Lieberman, abschaffen .
yitbos
Not that I would doubt Juan but maybe he just took a look at book sales and wrote for the market. I'm sure he'd like 10% of Ann Coulter's book sales and at least half of them aren't to Soros.
I can hear Brit Hume: "Now Juan..." LOL!
Even leftist's swerve over the line now and again.......
Juan has definitely crossed the Rubicon...
.but Juan still spouts whole pages from the liberal playbook whenever he's on Brit's show.....
..I see no change in the man.
Colmes talks as though he has no original thought.
One night I heard him say something about how American soldiers had to clean blood off dead Iraqi victims. He was whining like a girl. That's when I knew he would be someone's _____ were he ever to actually go to Iraq, or, if he were called on to actually defend himself or me and mine. Alan may be a nice guy, but he just needs a petticoat.
He's not the vicious liberal on Brit's show, like he was on Crossfire.
..I would call him combative, argumentative, politically uninformed with a very liberal bent.
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