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Juan Williams misses NPR
Capital ^ | May 5, 2012 | GLYNNIS MACNICOL

Posted on 05/05/2012 5:41:35 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Fox News political analyst Juan Williams misses working for NPR “big time.”

“Because that’s such an informed and influential audience,” he told me last night at the swanky Industria Studios, a big loft and event space in the far West Village. “And the thing is that audience really liked me and I would often times help raise money for NPR.”

Williams, you may recall, was rather spectacularly (and controversially) fired from NPR in 2010 after telling Fox News host Bill O’Reilly that he sometimes “gets nervous” when he sees people in “Muslim garb” boarding a plane he is traveling on.

Williams was participating in one of those countless "future-of-media" panel discussions, this one sponsored by The Guardian and titled “Commercial Pressures versus Journalistic Standards.”

(Excerpt) Read more at capitalnewyork.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: npr
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To: SuzyQue

Well, if you were a “black” guy named “Juan” all your life in the racially/ethnically/SIG nuanced (by leftyists) country you might be internally conflicted too.


21 posted on 05/05/2012 6:10:10 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: oh8eleven

I put up with Juan to enjoy the lovely Mary Katherine.


22 posted on 05/05/2012 6:20:50 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Pigsley
He rarely adds anything to the panel. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure he's a “nice” guy...But can't they get a smart liberal in there? Is there such a thing in the media now?

I agree...pretty much a zero. Juan makes an effort but it amounts to nothing. No new insights.

23 posted on 05/05/2012 6:23:20 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: Paladin2
Juan seems schizophrenic to me.

He is. If you read his book "Enough!" it is clear he leads his life as a Conservative but endorses Liberal public policies.

24 posted on 05/05/2012 6:23:25 AM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President.)
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To: Hojczyk

Tired of being body slammed and Bammy slapped, by little Michell Malkin no doubt!


25 posted on 05/05/2012 6:33:29 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: Hojczyk

He misses his audience and co-workers agreeing and hanging on to his every word. He actually has to think now, and the new group makes him look like the fool he is.


26 posted on 05/05/2012 6:45:58 AM PDT by Jaidyn
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To: Paladin2

No, I don’t see that as a problem. He wants to be a feel-good leftist, but it just never works quite like he thinks it should. The world is full of these guys.


27 posted on 05/05/2012 6:47:43 AM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: Hojczyk
“And the thing is that audience really liked me ..."


28 posted on 05/05/2012 6:49:56 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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To: SuzyQue
"He wants to be a feel-good leftist"

Yabut, as someone pointed out above, he doesn't live his personal life that way.

29 posted on 05/05/2012 6:52:35 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Hojczyk

Williams or Beckel come on Fox, off goes Fox.


30 posted on 05/05/2012 6:57:24 AM PDT by duckman (Go Newt...)
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To: Hojczyk

A bit uncomfortable outside of the echo chamber, Juan?

Where you actually have to consider perspectives outside of group think? And respond (somewhat intelligently) to them?

Heh.

Welcome to OUR world.


31 posted on 05/05/2012 7:09:15 AM PDT by Tigerized ("..and whack 'em, and whack 'em, and whack 'em!' cried the Toad in ecstasy." (also my 2012 strategy))
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To: Hojczyk
He misses working for thought police?

His work was furthering the "progress" of people who fired him for expressing a thought, a simple human reaction to the events of the day following 9/11.

Perhaps he just misses a hypnotized and adoring audience?

32 posted on 05/05/2012 7:13:02 AM PDT by GBA (Isaiah 9:10)
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To: PghBaldy

This Freeper was interviewed by NPR last week and my comments will be aired on “All Things Considered” early next week. The liberal NPR audience will get to hear my Conservative viewpoint....well, as much as they will air...


33 posted on 05/05/2012 7:43:29 AM PDT by jch10
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To: GBA

Have given up on fox..get most of my news from London


34 posted on 05/05/2012 8:09:01 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Paladin2

I am sure Juan does miss NPR, after the ass whoopen he got from Michelle Malkin on Fox couple days ago.


35 posted on 05/05/2012 8:16:37 AM PDT by Sea Parrot (Nations are only truly great when it's people are struggling against all odds, growing and expanding)
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To: Hojczyk

It’s always nice for lefties like Juan to stay in a bubble where all the thoughts and voices are the same and reinforce built-in bias for left wing issues.

He’s clearly uncomfortable sometimes on Fox when he is confronted with irrefutable logic from the conservative side.

As NYT columnist Pauline Kael once said, “How did Nixon get elected? No one I know voted for him.”


36 posted on 05/05/2012 8:42:22 AM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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To: Hojczyk
Have given up on fox..get most of my news from London.
The BBC and the tabloids? Oh yeah, much better than FOX.
LOL ...
37 posted on 05/05/2012 8:47:07 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

BOR is not independent and he is nowhere near as smart as he thinks he is. He is the typical useful idiot for obama who just cannot keep his mouth shut grrrrrr


38 posted on 05/05/2012 12:15:45 PM PDT by jesseam
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