{"id":20917,"date":"2010-10-21T06:48:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T10:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20917"},"modified":"2010-10-21T06:48:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T10:48:36","slug":"juan-williams-fired-at-npr-because-muslims-on-planes-make-him-nervous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20917","title":{"rendered":"Juan Williams fired at NPR because Muslims on planes make him nervous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up at <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/307142.php\">Ace of Spades<\/a> this morning written by DrewM. Apparently, Juan Williams admitted to Bill O&#8217;Reilly that Muslims on planes make him nervous and NPR fired him for saying that out loud because it doesn&#8217;t fit their &#8220;editorial standards and practices&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You can search this blog for things I&#8217;ve said about Juan Williams. He I met one day and had a short conversation in the middle of Union Station in DC. He and my wife were both born in Panama, although on different sides of the isthmus, and we talked about that, but he was a real nice guy. One of his books, &#8220;Eye on the Prize&#8221; was a text in my History of Civil Rights class was the one bright spot of the semester, since the rest of class was about bashing white males (I was the only one in the class) and listening to a bunch of over-stimulated, post-menopausal hippies discuss which of them wanted to boink Bobby Seal most.<\/p>\n<p>But anyway, I don&#8217;t think anyone can call into question Juan Williams&#8217; standards and practices. Both sides have their problems with him which pretty much tells me that he&#8217;s pretty fair. I think NPR needs to take a look at themselves &#8211; I&#8217;m sure we can all find reasons to question their &#8220;standards and practices&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up at Ace of Spades this morning written by DrewM. Apparently, Juan Williams &hellip; <a title=\"Juan Williams fired at NPR because Muslims on planes make him nervous\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20917\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Juan Williams fired at NPR because Muslims on planes make him nervous<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}