NPR Fires Juan Williams FOX Hires Him

NPR CEO Vivian Schiller should be fired for insulting and offending those with mental challenges.

On the Juan Wiliams firing here and here, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller said,

whatever feelings Williams has about Muslims should be between him and "his psychiatrist or his publicist — take your pick." (here.)

Juan Williams, "I am not a bigot"

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Williams stood by his remarks Thursday. He told Fox News his statement was not bigoted, as he said NPR news executive Ellen Weiss implied Wednesday when she fired him by phone.

"I said, 'You mean I don't even get the chance to come in and we do this eyeball-to-eyeball, person-to-person, have a conversation? I've been there more than 10 years," Williams said. He said Weiss responded that "there's nothing you can say that would change my mind."

Your taxpayer dollars: Federal grants provide $3.3 million — of NPR's $166 million annual budget.

Leftwing billionaire George Soros’ recent $1.8 million donation to the organization have reignited calls to end NPR’s taxpayer subsidies (more).

In June, Colorado Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn introduced legislation that would end government funding
for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (the entity through which subsidies to NPR flow) after 2012. The bill’s passage did not stand a chance in the Democratic-controlled Congress, but the measure could gain momentum in a Republican-led House next year.

Lamborn told The Daily Caller that there is no reason taxpayers should continue to subsidize an already-flush media company.

“This is an organization that can stand on its own. Why in the world, in the era of trillion dollar deficits, should the taxpayer have to subsidize it? It doesn’t make sense,” Lamborn said. “Under Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats just throw money at anything that’s moving. But if we have the honor of retaking Congress, we’re going to have to do things differently. I would love to defund NPR completely. Not because I don’t like it – actually there are things on NPR I do like – but because it can stand on its own.”

NPR receives grants from the quasi-governmental Corporation for Public Broadcasting and dues from local member stations, which are largely government
-funded. In an environment in which traditional news media outlets are heavily cutting back and even closing down, public radio is enjoying tremendous growth and adding new reporters to member stations across the country. Open Society Foundations, a Soros-funded organization that donates to liberal causes, announced this week an initiative to fund 100 new NPR reporters.

Where are the right-of-center news orgs? Basta!

Meanwhile, Williams snagged a two million dollar contract from Roger Ailes at FOX today.