Looking For a Reason to Fire Williams

AP – News analyst Juan Williams appears on the 'Fox & friends' television program in New York, Thursday, Oct.

That is what Juan Williams is now saying about his recent firing from NPR.

"I think they were looking for a reason to get rid of me," he said Friday. "They were uncomfortable with the idea that I was talking to the likes of Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity." Hannity hosts another Fox show.

Juan Williams was unceremoniously fired from NPR for making a remark on The O'Reilly Factor that was considered by them to be bigoted. The remark was simply one that most Americans feel - that he feels a little uncomfortable seeing Muslims in full garb while he was flying on a plane.

"I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country," Williams said Monday. "But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."

The tension between NPR and Williams is nothing new. NPR has gone so far as to ask when Williams appears on Fox, that the network not associate his name with their network.

Again, we have a situation where conservatives are backing a man who is actually liberal - he's not a conservative by any stretch. When it comes to free speech however, it's been made clear by the liberals that they are just NOT tolerant of anyone's views other than their own.

In response to the firing, South Carolina Republican U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint planned to introduce legislation to end federal funding for NPR, his spokesman Wesley Denton said Thursday night. Denton said the senator would expand upon his proposal in a statement on Friday.

Thank goodness someone is putting this motion forward. It has been a long time coming.

This issue here is just another reason why it's so important to get the Democrats out of office come November. Then, we will be able to stop funding for this pathetic network, NPR. They only allow for one view. Why do we even have a dime of tax payer money funding them? They want one view, like the other networks, that's perfectly fine. They can do that on their own, without the government.

Federal grants provide less than 2 percent — or $3.3 million — of NPR's $166 million annual budget. It is funded primarily by its affiliates, corporate sponsors and major donors. Federal funding of public media has long been questioned by some in Congress.

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Williams is now with Fox Network. He received a $2 million contract with them.