National Public Radio is behaving as if it has a death wish, acting in ways that imperil its welfare. In this, it reflects a syndrome affecting the broader American left as the dream of shifting America permanently to the left crumbles in the face of a looming electoral rejection.As details of the situation gradually come to light, NPR's decision looks worse and worse. Yesterday on Fox News, it was revealed the Williams' contract with NPR was due to expire within the calendar year, so that the organization could have let him go with no fuss, merely by failing to renew it. Instead, the organization chose to humiliate a ten year employee by firing him on the phone with a call from an underling (who told Williams the decision was made higher-up), first releasing news to the public via Twitter, and then, in the most ham-handed way possible, impugning Williams' sanity in remarks by the organization's president to a group in Atlanta, caught on video.This chronicle of insults suggests an...(Read Full Post)