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Juan Williams Discusses Firing With Beck: ‘They’re Suggesting I‘m Coo Coo’

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  • BobParker2003
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:53pm

    Personally I do not like this gentleman’s ideas but I must say this event shows that Fox is truly fair and balanced. Roger should get a lot of pats on the backs and it will keep FOX #1. This also shows NPR and its buddies are only interested in limited speech and limited liberty. Limited in NO LIBERTY AT ALL! These guys are NAZI’s in MARXIST clothing! IF you approve and follow their line you are fine. This is like the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany or Cuba or VietNam or China. Maybe we will soon have to put up a statue of liberty in the center of Washington DC to see it knocked over by tanks and those surrounding it shot. That is what I think they want, to kill all those that disagree. Maybe we will soon see reeducation camps where they blast NPR into our ears until we either die or agree. No wonder George Soros likes them so much. This is his type of action. Stop funding NPR, YES! Better still, take away their tax exempt status!

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on October 23, 2010 at 12:41am

      Oooooh, I like the idea of pulling their tax exempt status. I like it, I like it. Apparently, public funding only makes up about 5% of their income. And if they stopped getting tax payer dollars, well, they probably wouldn’t miss it in the overall scheme of things.

      But, if they lose their tax exempt status, that will hurt – ALOT. Then they have to pay tax on all their beg-a-thons – oops, I mean Tele-a-thons. Oh yeah, that would put a twist in their knickers for sure.

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  • glenng2
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:10pm

    Juan rails about NPR after being fired where was he before? he’s just one of the same old ********

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  • grandmaof5
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 8:50pm

    Juan, you are now seeing what we on the right have known for a long time. The left will throw you under the bus, off the cliff or any other dastardly thing that suits their agenda. They say they are tolerant, Juan, but to the contrary. There are many good people on the “left” and many are your friends and colleagues, I would hope they are looking over their shoulders because they may be next on the chopping block. The ends justifiy the means! As the only black reporter at NPR I think you are a victim of racism. If they had fired the other women that associate with FOX I would not be of that ilk but since they dudn’t become an issue it makes me wonder….You have left with your honesty and integrity and those are invaluable. Keep up the good fight! God bless you, Juan Williams, never look back.

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  • NOTWGal
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 8:09pm

    Wow, I am sort of glad that this happened. I used to listen to CPR for the classical music not the news. I just left messages for my senators and congressman (I actually voted for all of them…ahem, I used to be a democrat), for the end of government funding for NPR, can you believe how much government money they recieved-Juan Williams was getting paid on our dime? Now where am I gonna get my classical hour fix from(?)….guess that‘s why they make cd’s.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on October 23, 2010 at 12:34am

      Like you, we used to listen to “Sunday Morning Baroque” on the way to church. It was broadcast by an affiliate station, a local Roman Catholic University. One day, I got into the car and listened with stunned amazement as the NPR announcer proceeded to lambast the people who attend Tea Party rallies. Fortunately, I was still in my parking space when he started talking.

      After that, I wrote to the local station manager, the NPR regular headquarters, which I believe are in D.C. and the sponsors for Sunday Morning Baroque. We now have a collection of CDs in the car for the drive to church.

      Also, may I recommend many of the Internet broadcast stations that are now available? At work, we have a fondness for Green Mist Radio (Celtic/American Folk) out of Spokane, WA. I also like a few other classical broadcasts stations, but can’t remember what they are off hand.

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  • SilentReader
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 7:40pm

    What NPR really means is that they are the ones who are “coo coo.”

    NPR, you did us a favor. You outed yourself to be the hypocritical and far Left organization that you have always been! Hey, I bet that $1M donation from Nazi-collaborator and open-borders George Soros is going to help you, now that the Congress is going to investigate you and stop our taxpayer monies from funding your corrupt and disgusting enterprise of deceit and betrayal.

    NPR, if you are reading this, and I’m sure one of your paid-for-by-Soros cronies are, I hope Juan Williams sues the pants off of you and wins big time, and your benefactor Georgie Porgie gets knocked down a peg or two from his imaginary messianic pedestal in the sky.

    Good luck in your law suit, Juan. I don’t agree with most of what you say but I definitely support your right to say it, brother. Onward and upward.

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  • CommonCentsPlease
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 6:59pm

    It amazes me how often an illustrative comment such as the one Juan made is used by the liberal media as a weapon, by only simply playing the race card. It reminds me of lynching mentality.

    I also ran across a fun little blog that also made some good points regarding this insanity.

    http://drclarkjensen.com/

    The funny thing is that a rarely agree with Juan. But this is just absurd.

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  • cotuit
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 6:09pm

    Were are the justice brothers?

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  • PhoenixThunder
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 6:02pm

    This is what fair and balanced is all about Fox employs liberals… and NPR fires liberals who do not employ the party line

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  • Masamune
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:57pm

    I’m glad they discussed how important it is to have a good honest debate where people disagree with one another. I think it‘s a good thing that we have honest people like Glenn and Juan who don’t agree with each other, but can still be civil when talking to one another. What they did to Juan was completely unjustifiable and wrong and hopefully NPR will come crashing down soon beecause of it.

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  • drclarkjensen
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:43pm

    You think Soros had anything to do with Juan getting canned? How much did he donate to NPR? Something looks really funny here. I do not think like Juan, but at least he can listen to both sides of an issue.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:59pm

      I believe Soros donated 1 million…..and he got some of his reporters hired.

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  • Sako 338
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:26pm

    Where is the ACLU? Oh yeah, in Soros back pocket like NPR. Wake Up America!

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    • OneRepublic4us
      Posted on October 23, 2010 at 8:20am

      I was wondering the same…where is the ACLU? Where is NAACP? I think they’re just showing their irrelevance. Do they get government money too? Why?

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  • Exercise the Demons
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:26pm

    I say we Boycott all of the Companies who are participating in the Boycott of Fox News…

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  • Kilkee
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:24pm

    When the left doesnt like you.. they must SHUT YOU UP.

    Welcome to our world, Juan.

    Hardly ever agree with Juan… but this was wrong.

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  • Greg the Great
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:20pm

    Juan’s contract at NPR was ending in April. Also his Foxnews contract was up. I wish NPR would have not fired Juan. Now I have to look at this ASS for the next three years. When I met him twenty years ago he was a creep. Now he is a rich creep.

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    • Bob_R_OathKeeper
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:28pm

      Yeah, we know you met him 20 years ago, hooray for you.

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    • Greg the Great
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 6:36pm

      People are suffering under Obama’s policies. I do not need fakes like Juan Williams to tell me how to think.
      They fired Juan Williams because he was on FoxNews.

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    • Contrarianthinker
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 10:30pm

      Greg, I take it that Juan has a gun to your head making you listen to him? No. Then don’t listen. Did I sense some antiBlack sentiment here? Nope couldn’t be the motivation for your post.

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  • Bob_R_OathKeeper
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:10pm

    It was wrong, as wrong as anything I’ve ever seen.

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  • BACarbaugh
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:04pm

    I am so tired of PC – I could choke – It is the way we feel – we get edgy when we see Muslims around us – we just don’t know and with all the threats and if you read their “korhan” – they are under instruction to kill us. The poster who said he gets edgy at stop lights – you don’t know. And we are not getting the proper protection from the Goverment like we should – their to busy spending money flying around trying to get re elected – NOT PROTECTING ALL OUR BORDERS! – PC or not this is how most of us fells.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:18pm

      I spent 24 years working for the Fed Govt. I was NOT politically correct-I told it like it was. Politically correct is a term for a coward who will say and do anything for a purpose (and I did NOT pay union dues-my choice). By the way,,,I earned every dollar and am now retired.

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  • unionrockstar
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:01pm

    Juan Williams; as much as I have disagreed with him , did not deserve this type of treatment

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    • MaestroDaae
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:40pm

      Very succinct – bravo!

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    • JohnLocke
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 9:56pm

      My Letter to Spokane Public Radio:

      I would no longer like to receive solicitations from Spokane Public Radio, due to its affiliations with National Public Radio and the recent firing of Juan Williams. Please save your paper and discontinue sending invitations to donate.

      Peace, liberty, and free speech.

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    • neverending
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 10:44pm

      That is so true – he is always decent and a gentleman. Disagree with him on everything but he did not deserve this treatment just as I don’t think Pastor Broden deserved the treatment Beck gave to him. I am still stunned

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  • N5DVC
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:59pm

    What sets Juan apart from so many other liberals? Integrity.
    And in a related note, amidst all the outrage over this incident (which I share), at no time did Juan (or ANYONE) imply that this decision was racially motivated. I’m am not either, just observing the refreshing absence of the disingenuous race card in a situation that too frequently has prompted that in the past.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 6:44pm

      Admittedly, I have only heard Juan Williams speak a few times, but every time I have heard him speak, he has been calm, collected and rational. Even in the audio with Glenn, he is calm and collected, unlike others I could name who walk off shows when someone says something they don’t like.

      I love it when groups self destruct and I suspect that’s what we are seeing here. Wait a minute. I think I hear the Red Queen screaming “Off with their heads!! Off with their heads!!!

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  • usualsuspect
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:47pm

    Juan Williams as Sad as it is that the far left liberals had tossed you under the bus you are not the first. I watched the far left treat senator Moynihan in the same way after he made his speech on the Senate floor regarding partial birth abo…rtion being nothing more than feticide.
    1990s, Moynihan was one of the Democrats to support the ban on the procedure known as partial-birth abortion. He said of the procedure: “I think this is just too close to infanticide. A child has been born and it has exited the uterus. What on Earth is this procedure?” Earlier in his career in the Senate, Moynihan had expressed his annoyance with the adamantly pro-choice interest groups petitioning him and others on the issue. He challenged them saying, “you women are ruining the Democratic Party with your insistence on abortion.”[18][19]
    Moynihan broke with orthodox liberal positions of his party on numerous occasions. As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, in the 1990s, he strongly opposed President Bill Clinton’s proposal to expand health care coverage to all Americans. Seeking to focus the debate over health insurance on the financing of health care

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    • Jezreel
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:49pm

      I know it is kind of scarey to realize that the female of the human species can be more evil than the man in directing the murder of the unborn. Women wanted it, not men. The most wicked and cruel of the human species is the female lesbian. I am a woman and I am ashamed of those types of women who battle and fight for killing of the unborn and unnatural sex. Queen Jezebel was a type like that. You know what happened to her. She got thrown down and the dogs ate her and licked her blood up and all that was left was the palms of her hands. We need that kind of justice again to pay back the blood of all the unborn children who have been sacrificed to the demon God of women’s rights.

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    • Contrarianthinker
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 10:32pm

      Great you know your history Like Juan, Moynihan’s positions on most issues was NOT mine BUT I respected his integrity.

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  • cheezwhiz
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:42pm

    Why is no one investigating the influence of CAIR on NPR ?

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:54pm

      Because it‘s not only ’not polically correct’,,,,but also because lady liberty is leaning too much to the left.

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  • NoStar
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:39pm

    It is time to boycott the fund drives on NPR and PBS. Or better yet, call in and pledge $0.

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    • Anonimouse
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:46pm

      One would need to listen to NPR or watch PBS in the first place in order to boycott.

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    • Danglinbags
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 6:48pm

      Are you serious!? And miss out on getting the 25th Anniversary Commemorative “Evening at Pops” throw blanket, or the Degrassi High mug? No way dude. That’s redonkulous!

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    • Bluegill
      Posted on October 23, 2010 at 7:47am

      Kind of funny that my wife listens to NPR and this may have opened her eyes even more than I ever could.

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  • john seven eighteen
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:39pm

    Those scum bags would turn on their own mothers if they thought it would further their agenda.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:04pm

      absolutely,,,,they are eating their own…

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    • USAFVet
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 6:27pm

      I just wish that the rest of the kool-aid drinkers would wake up and fulfill their duties as americans.

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    • DonMill
      Posted on October 24, 2010 at 12:28pm

      I am starting to see taxation without true representation. I feel the country I was raised in has been hijacked and I am know an immigrant in my homeland. I hope we have a peaceful revolution to bring us back to the morals that our country was founded by

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  • HKS
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:38pm

    This should scare the hell out of any journalist, say something that the establishment disagrees with or maybe you just didn’t hold your mouth right and your out of here. Obama‘s Gestapo at it’s finest.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:56pm

      It scares a lot more than just journalists…….

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    • Restored One
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:57pm

      Actually this could work out good in a bizarre way though. They could all get hired by FOX. Power in numbers!

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    • Max jones
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:06pm

      This can tell us why Obama is like he is….he is as expendable as williams was. Is Soros the devil or just a powerfully wealthy homosexual with an axe to grind? Time will tell.

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    • Mary M. Tebbe
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 8:18pm

      hks: You are oh so right about the gestapo tactics. I keep saying, and I’m probably sounding like a broken record here, but these people that are the progressives are the descendants of the Assyrian/Goth of the SWASTIKA, of East Germany, that took the Northern Kingdom of Israel captive long ago. They have followed us and our brother tribes through the pages of history and now they mean to rule over us. Our brother tribes in Europe and Scandinavia have succumbed to their wicked devices, and now they have come after us…THE LAST FREE NATION ON EARTH. Oh, don’t get me wrong…they have been waiting for this among us for a long time, and now they feel this is their moment in time. Thankfully God has given you Glenn Beck to enlighten you about the progressives and about all the intricate workings of these people and the plans that they have set to trap you. Right after 9/11 God instructed me to put his Whole House of Israel back together, and although I looked for a publisher for two years and almost gave up hope, I see now that what I learned over 7 years of writing a 6,300 page book I need to share with you now too. God always sees ahead and prepares for what is going to happen to his people Israel. He ALWAYS makes a way of escape, but he leaves it up to his people to decide if they are going to heed His words/warnings or not. Now that George Soros has inserted himself firmly into the press, we see that Juan Williams is the first casualty in this war on America that the progressives are waging against us. They want us to rise up and be violent, but DO NOT. They are counting on that on the left, but be ever PEACEFUL in what we do so they can’t force their will upon us. Remember that we are ever so close to voting and that is where our power is…at the voting booth, and this time we will exercise it to save our REPUBLIC.
      This mainstream media of the National Public Radio that came against Juan is now being pressured by Mr. Soros and his money, because they feel that Juan has been disloyal to their leftist agenda. It is a sign of things to come if we don’t wake up. These people are playing for keeps, and so should we.
      I do not always agree with Juan, but I have always welcomed his opinions, because in America we have always had the freedom to speak our minds. The left as well as the right, though I believe the left hates that and would love to silence us permanently. In my research I found that our ancient ancestors were completely silenced by their enemies, even to the point of not allowing us to tell our children who we were, and eventually our ancestors FORGOT their heritage and their way home to the land of their inheritance…Israel, the Promised Land. That is why my Welsh Grandfather passed on to me an ancient family SECRET, so that I would never forget who I was. I have not forgotten, and I write about that in my book. Today I can go backwards in the history of the ancient Israelites and tell you exactly who I am, and I want to tell all of you and our brother tribes too. You can go on line and learn much about the Lost Tribes of Israel, but not my story, because what I write has never been told before. God has saved this part of our history until this time in history. It will eventually come out, and you will be able to read it. I will tell you that our history is sooooo rich. Our ancient forefathers repented when they went into captivity to Assyria, and they began IMMEDIATELY to leave behind information about who they were, right under the noses of our enemies, and our enemies never guessed. If you only understood who you are and whose you are, you would never let another enemy harm you or take away your country. It completely saddens me that George Soros, a Jew of the tribe of Judah, is now working against us vehemently on the side of our ancient Assyrian/Gothic enemies. In fact it amazes me. But God is not working against us.
      It is a good thing that what happened to Juan has come out now, because just before the election even a LIBERAL is discarded. I know this hurts Juan, and I am sad for that, but sometimes the things that our enemies mean as harm to us, God turns that evil around for our good, and that is what will happen in this case. If that did not wake up America and wake up the black race especially, then what will?!
      You just hang in their Juan. You are very welcome on our side, and we’d be more than glad to have you. No one deserves the way that you have been treated, and I think we all agree on that. I would not waste another minute if I were you worrying about what your enemies did to you. I would focus on those that have embraced you and welcomed you to their side. You can’t change your opinions over night, and I understand that, but at least you can see that those who you embraced and thought were your friends were not.

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    • Bluegill
      Posted on October 23, 2010 at 7:43am

      In one respect your right, this is the way the left can silence speech via the media when in reality it is the government behind the scenes. A point many miss is that the left wants/ pressures all liberals NOT to appear on FOX in a ailinsky tactic of polarizing, they already picked the target. So if there are no liberal opinions on FOX it is easier to discredit them as an arm of the GOP.

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  • FreedomOfSpeech
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:34pm

    The lady who made the psychiatrist comments should be fired, not because of what she said but because she doesn’t shave her legs.

    Obama is now burning books like the Nazis.

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    • halfbrain
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:06pm

      LOL, i get nervous when i see unshaven women at the airport.

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    • 5000YRLEAPER
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 6:32pm

      Aren’t her comments a violation of HR policy, saying he may have a physiatrist.

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    • TRUTHLADY
      Posted on October 23, 2010 at 10:49pm

      I don’t dislike Juan, but I find it odd that he just realized after he got fired, that the organization he worked for, for such a long time was biased? and their standard did not promote ethics in journalism? Was he asleep for 10 years, or did it only matter to him when he lost his job? I guess ethics and bias didn’t matter before.

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  • Anonimouse
    Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:33pm

    Welcome to our world Juan.

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    • snowleopard3200
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:39pm

      Welcome to the opposite side of the mirror Juan, now that you have spoken the truth they will not just shout “You cannot handle the Truth” they will say that “You are nuts” or “You are a fanatic, zealot, race-hating…(insert favored series of lies and slander here).”

      Been there done that enough times in my own part of the world.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:52pm

      Deny and counter-accuse,,,,typical behavior from the pro’s. Seems to be escalating.

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    • 911
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:53pm

      The revolution has begun..

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    • unionrockstar
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:53pm

      This will possibly reveal the true nature of Liberals to a guy who truly believed in their “I feel your pain” line of B/S.

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    • Max jones
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 4:59pm

      I have many liberal friends and can talk to most of them honestly. Some I can’t, but that’s par for the course. Honesty is the issue. Juan is honest and I listen to him. I don’t agree with him often, but I do listen…because i see him as ‘honest’. NPR may have saved Juan’s integrity. Now, he has more in common with the right….he is hated by the far left.
      It’s easy to tell he was truly hurt by the insensitivity of the progressives at NPR.
      O’reilly IS a stand up guy.

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    • drclarkjensen
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 5:34pm

      Wow, Juan is not really a conservative. How could he get fired? I wonder is Soros didn’t want Juan taking to Fox News. I guess Juan didn’t drink the Koolaid.

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    • USAFVet
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 6:23pm

      Juan seems to be a good person (for a Lib), he should be proud to be rid of that used toilet paper (NPR) that has been wiping the backside of the liberal establisment for many years. Hang in there Juan.

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    • solaveritas
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 7:07pm

      The NPR exec who made the “psychiatrist” remark later apologized, but she still has the character that said it! I mean, if she farted, she could apologize too, but she would still have indigestion!

      More importantly, 70% of those who had an opinion felt Juan was unfairly fired. This was across ALL age, sex, and party lines (the minorities were actually more upset). However, in the single group of 18-24 year olds, it was 50/50 for and against firing!!!! We need to talk to those kids!!!

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    • CatB
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 7:41pm

      EXACTLY … I heard he was still dissing TEA Party people in the morning before he got the new FOX job … Will he now appologize as someone who has falsely been called a bigot ?… JUST like the TEA Party members! I invite Juan to a TEA Party anywhere in the country ..!

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    • ron the veteran
      Posted on October 22, 2010 at 8:37pm

      juan the left screwed you just like they do everyone else they dont like. but look at it this way your way ahead now you got a better job and a bigger audience. say it juan GOOD REDDENCE NPR! you helped to expose them for the crap can they are. welcome to fox. and no i dont agree with you most of the time. but what NPR did was dirty and its only going to hurt them.

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    • JKN
      Posted on October 23, 2010 at 9:14am

      Political Correction is like a cancer spreading across our nation… It’s a form of “polite” censorship forcing all of us to not speak the obvious… I’d much rather be politically direct than politically correct; and if certain people don’t like it, they can leave… This is what freedom is all about.

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    • Jamestown
      Posted on October 23, 2010 at 10:15am

      I will never trust williams ….NEVER THIS IS AN ATTEMPT to blurr our vision…a hardline re take America…sorts is not the only member of that elitist group bent on a one world market …even that owner of OX CORP…this blending is less direct….its like a religion claiming to be Christian…but don’t understand the trinity….watch from this day forward….who blames democrats for things we have known for years….looks like a setup….if so as it continues …millions more to pay for left wing commentators I will never stand with….williams is not a good addition to any group !…by by fox…sit it next to the phony Irish pay off…

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