PrintOctober 28, 2010
Focus on the Achilles Heel of Public Broadcasting
Efforts to defund public broadcasting have failed in the past because conservatives have been focusing on the wrong target. In the wake of the scandalous NPR firing, it is time for conservatives to switch targets.Almost everything that can be said about the disgusting termination of Juan Williams has been said. Williams was a member of that lonely, dying breed: an honest liberal. His firing was not ideological, exactly. It was rather totalitarian. The creepy people who run NPR showed all the consistent thinking of slavish Stalinist ciphers during the worst days of the Great Purge. What about the "due process" shown to Juan Williams, something that leftists always insist that terrorists and welfare queens must be granted? It was contemptuously ignored by NPR. How could these NPR bosses "know" that "nothing" Williams could produce would change their decision? What would NPR have said about an employment law case involving the termination of a black man by a...(Read Full Article)
