Posted on 10/23/2010 7:57:04 PM PDT by tobyhill
He’s too much of a mensch to mention her most notorious bon mot, about Jesse Helms — or one of his grandkids — maybe deserving a little AIDS in the ol’ bloodstream as a matter of divine justice. I think they both have that quote in mind here, though, which explains why Totenberg is palpably uncomfortable with NPR’s sudden sticklerism about “analysts” offering controversial opinions in public. In fact, near as I can tell, not a single member of NPR thus far has been willing to call Williams’s firing an unvarnished triumph. And that includes the dummy responsible for the now infamous line about him maybe needing to consult with his shrink: Even NPR’s own staff expressed exasperation at the decision during a meeting Friday with NPR’s president, Vivian Schiller. Several of those who attended said Schiller told employees that she regretted how she handled the episode… In a meeting with employees that had been scheduled before the Williams story broke, Schiller acknowledged that NPR didn’t manage the firing well, but offered no specifics. She said NPR would conduct a “post-mortem” next week to review how the firing was handled, according to employees who attended the meeting, which was closed to the news media. Schiller didn’t say who would handle the review or what the consequences of it might be… “There wasn’t anger” among NPR employees at the meeting, “but I did get a sense of despair and disappointment,” said one NPR journalist, who asked not to be named because employees are not authorized to speak on the record about the matter. “I got the impression that [management] felt they had acted rashly and without deliberation. When [Schiller] made the psychiatrist crack, it just made matters much, much worse.”
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
The Jig is up...
Watch your P’s and Q’s children...
(It’ll be a new segment on Sesame Street)
Kraut lowered the Hammer on teenie weenie Nina...beauty! HA!
Let me help you, Tobyhill.
He’s too much of a mensch to mention her most notorious bon mot, about Jesse Helms — or one of his grandkids — maybe deserving a little AIDS in the ol’ bloodstream as a matter of divine justice.
I think they both have that quote in mind here, though, which explains why Totenberg is palpably uncomfortable with NPR’s sudden sticklerism about “analysts” offering controversial opinions in public.
In fact, near as I can tell, not a single member of NPR thus far has been willing to call Williams’s firing an unvarnished triumph. And that includes the dummy responsible for the now infamous line about him maybe needing to consult with his shrink: Even NPR’s own staff expressed exasperation at the decision during a meeting Friday with NPR’s president, Vivian Schiller.
Several of those who attended said Schiller told employees that she regretted how she handled the episode…
In a meeting with employees that had been scheduled before the Williams story broke, Schiller acknowledged that NPR didn’t manage the firing well, but offered no specifics.
She said NPR would conduct a “post-mortem” next week to review how the firing was handled, according to employees who attended the meeting, which was closed to the news media.
Schiller didn’t say who would handle the review or what the consequences of it might be…
“There wasn’t anger” among NPR employees at the meeting, “but I did get a sense of despair and disappointment,” said one NPR journalist, who asked not to be named because employees are not authorized to speak on the record about the matter.
“I got the impression that [management] felt they had acted rashly and without deliberation. When [Schiller] made the psychiatrist crack, it just made matters much, much worse.”
NPR is run by a bunch of friggin’ Liberal, b****es.
Pardon copying and pasting, I hit the “post” button right before I realized the spacing wasn’t quite right.
Sorry to go off the Williams story, but wasn’t Totenberg the one who brought up Anita Hill as a last-ditch attempt to stop Clarence Thomas’ confirmation?
Nina Totenberg also covered the Clarence Thomas hearings for NPR, and provided some of the most biased commentary and coverage I have ever heard in my life.
If one were able to go back and listen to that coverage and her “sense of outrage” at ANY criticism of Anita Hill, ( without wanting to put a bullet in your head ) they would see what I mean.
Accordingly, she was given accolades by the liberal media and presented numerous awards.
An HONEST, (Fair and Balanced?) press or broadcaster would have given Her the boot for obvious hatred for Thomas back then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Totenberg
Looks like Liberal Juan became a threat to the Liberal Establishment at NPR.
Hello Jesse..Hello Sharpton!
NAACP..WTF!
NPR is run by a bunch of friggin’ Liberal, b****es.
There are no words to describe these scum. I’d like to meet that Totenberg bitch and tell her what she is.
NPR sounds like a very bad place to work.
Liberals always ruin everything. Aside from assaulting our culture, our way of life, our good spirit of giving and working hard for what we earn, they trash our military and promote all that takes everyone EVERYONE down.
They ruin what they govern. Take our cities, Chicago or LA or New Orleans, in particular, or take our country. Take corporations (like GE or GM). Take what the unions have done to our schools and the institutions of higher learning that are amass with liberal professors who need to be 'in' so they take on the line that furthers their careers.
They are totalitarian by ANY measure. And mean. And unhappy and want to share this defect. Sad.
They corrupt what they touch with their horrific ideas of what makes life better.
M. Savage is right. Liberalism really is a mental disease. And I know the meaning of IS.
There is something deeply immature and unrealistic about people who are unable to learn from the experience of others. History, on any level is never a lesson for them to integrate into their psyches; it is simply some kind of remote story. They live in a constant state la-la land.
Off topic, but close. Let’s not forget this doozy, hoping that Clarence Thomas eats bacon and eggs so he’ll have a heart attack. The third one down.
http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/dishonor1999/welcomeaward6.asp
I’m old enough to remember Totenburg as a nasty woman being paid by taxpayers as far back as the Justice Thomas hearings. I even remember then, why do I have to subsidize this crap?
Liberal Juan Williams is not liberal enough for NPR.
Think about that.
NPR has moved into Stalinist territory
One thing is for sure - the folks at Fox don’t really give a damn what the people at NPR think and the folks at NPR don’t really give a damn what the people at Fox think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Totenberg
More proof that Juan was fired just for appearing on Fox News.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Totenberg
More proof that Juan was fired just for appearing on Fox News.
Yeah maybe because people like me who were willing to contribute are going to have to see some real knee-pad action before they give another cent? As libs go, Juan was one of my favorites.
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