NPR: Time for action

10/22/2010 | LowNslow

[LowNslow]

Why does the consumer trade with corporations that support the "Lilly White Elitist” organization that found great joy in firing their only national known person of color? Because Juan Williams refused to place his nose up their lilly white elitist butt cracks, crank out their socialist pabulum, and dare to appear on the FOX network he was fired. Why would anyone do business with a corporation which financially supports such racist elitist conduct? Which corporations like McDonalds are still funding NPR- National Public Radio or CPB - Corporation for Public Broadcasting? Contact your friends in the corporate world and tell them what you think of NPR.

[Carley]

The thing is that Juan spewed his socialist crap on FNC day in and day out. On rare, extremely rare, occasions he would say something logical and sensible but not often.

Nothing would be more fun that watching Brit Hume give Juan the crash dummy a smackdown.

[wideawake]

Any racial angle to this is purely a rhetorical invention, not a reality.

Juan Williams was not fired for the color of his skin but for daring to express a common sense opinion.

Playing the race card in this matter is beneath this forum.

[Texas Fossil]

NPR at times calls themselves “Public Radio International” (with a snob accent)

I totally despise these Commies.

[Gaffer]

Time for de-funding and a bill for misuse of public airwaves owned by real, tax paying Americans. Communists, Socialists, and psychologially impaired sub humans.

[rbosque]

We should go with this and use their own BS against them. Now WE can call them “RACIST”.

[RC2]

I don’t believe that race had anything to do with it. He spoke out against muslims and that is why he was fired. I don’t agree with Juan on much but this time he was right on. Over 90% of Americans agree with Juan.

[Pessimist]

I think you have the correct angle in your post.

Now why can’t we get someone with “legs” to push this in the Media?

Rush? Malkin?

Firing him was racist. Pure and simple.

[TribalPrincess2U]

On rare, extremely rare, occasions he would say something logical and sensible but not often.

This may be true up to a point but Juan was not your average vengeful, talk-over people elitist like most of the leftist are.

He is a decent man who is unfortunately a mislead Democrat. IMHO

[Netz]

Correct, Juan represented NPR for a long time and I always found him disagreeable yet flexible, sometimes he did listen, digest and speak well but suddenly, when he did not tow the “Party” line, he was expunged from the Politburo at NPR. It’s kind of sweet justice to see NPR implode,taking all the apparatchik with them - hopefully it will be massive and fatal. It’s a long time coming and well deserved.

[MichaelCorleone]

Assuming they care, how does NPR know if they’ve lost, say, 20% of their audience? How can they know if I listen or fail to listen?

Just wondering if all or most of their listeners went elsewhere, would it make a real difference? Or is taking away taxpayer dollars the only way to make then squeal?

[stocksthatgoup]

http://www.npr.org/about/aboutnpr/statements/fy2009/2009_LA_NPR_Cons.pdf
NPR’s Financials 2009

Total Revenue $153,000,000!! $62,000.000 plus from station programming fees........ 1-3%? yeah right!

[GeronL]

Not only should we defund NPR, PBS, Planned Parenthood, ACLU, ACORN but all those NGO’s too

[JoeProBono]

NPR, Juan Williams: Did firing put network smack in tea party's crosshairs?

[November 2010]

You’ve got it right. NPR isn’t driven by ratings or listeners. They are driven by corporate ‘giving’ . . . if we go after those corporations for the sponsorships, NPR will never forget that it was them that were so abusive to a regular reporter of thiers, and it was their lack of open mindeness and fairness that led to their rejection by donors. They supress free speech. Why have corporations reward them for that?

[Pharmboy]

Yep...and at any rate, blacks cease being black whenever they speak a sentence or two that exists outside the demonrat/liberal/progressive playbook. They become useless to the movement since they've shown that they can think for themselves (at least, on occasion).

Juan did two bad things: he sometime did think for himself and appeared on the hated FoxNews network.

The libs continue to hurt themselves...this Schiller woamn is beyond clueless.

[Alas Babylon!]

You mean nothing IS more fun....

We see it on the Sunday Morning Talk Show thread every time Brit and Juan are on!

Seriously, you are right. I laugh when I hear liberals go on about the evils of “Faux” News. Fox News has a lot of liberals/leftists on it, including: Juan, Maura Liasson, Greta Van Sustern, Geraldo Rivera, Alan Colmes, Bob Betchel, Kristen Powers, and Ellis WhatsHisName.

I like to ask liberals who spout off about Fox News to name the conservatives on MSNBC. I hear Pat Buchanan and Joe Scarborough , and that's it. CNN? Can't think of any since Robert Novack passed.

Then I ask them, if they can have ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC and PBS, what is it to them if we (the Right) have Fox News?

I believe they simply want us to sit down and shut up. We do not, in their eyes, have a right to dialog with them. If they had their way, they'd oppress us as much as any dictatorship of the mind (Fascism, Communism, Marxism, Maoism) would. Our deaths wouldn't bother them because we are criminals of the mind.

Guess we should all talk to our psychiatrists?

[Fred Hayek]

Juan Williams is indeed a liberal, however, he keeps it civil. He impresses me as an “old school” type, willing to consider some common ground on some issues (today’s typical “liberal” has the view that all conservatives must die - I exagerate but not by much). Let’s give Juan some time for the Kool-Aid to completely wear off and the scales fall from his eyes. I must gove him some credit for questioning the Kool Aid.

[HIDEK6]

Now why can’t we get someone with “legs” to push this in the Media?

Sarah?

[Question Liberal Authority]

Joan Kroc, the deceased widow of Ray Kroc, who was founder of McDonald's, bequeathed something like $200 million to NPR in her will. (She died in 2003). So pressuring McDonald's to give less to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting isn't going to do much.

The Corporation For Public Broadcasting is mostly PBS television. PBS runs "PBS KIDS" which are commercial free TV shows suitable for toddlers. These are largely apolitical and have socially redeeming value.

They could also be done by a private corporation. For example, Disney runs something called "Playhouse Disney" on the Disney channel, which are also commercial free shows suitable for toddlers, and largely apolitical, except when they try to turn your kids into a flaming homosexual, an environmentalist wacko, or a supporter of open borders.