Juan Williams: "I Always Thought the Right Wing Were the Ones That Were Inflexible, Intolerant" (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, October 22, 2010, 5:40 AM
Juan Williams was a guest on Good Morning America today. Williams talked about NPR firing him and attacking him. The leftiist commentator told the GMA hosts,
“Now, all of the sudden I’m a bigot? …This is one of the things in my life that is just so shocking. I grew up basically on the left, I grew up here in New York City. And I always thought the right wing were the ones that were inflexible, intolerant.”
Guess not. Huh, Juan?
CBS reported on his GMA interview:
Juan Williams said comments that chief executive of National Public Radio made after his firing amount to a personal attack, and said NPR’s “current crew was really getting vicious” in its antagonism towards him for appearing as an analyst on Fox News.
The journalist told ABC’s “Good Morning America” Friday he thinks NPR CEO Vivian Schiller attacked him because she had a weak argument to justify his firing.
Williams was discharged by NPR after saying Monday he gets nervous at airports when he sees people in Muslim dress preparing to board his plane.
Schiller said yesterday controversial opinions should not come from NPR reporters or news analysts.
She also said that whatever feelings Williams has about Muslims should be between him and “his psychiatrist or his publicist – take your pick.” She later apologized for that comment on NPR’s website.
Williams said he was taking Schiller’s comments personally.
“I don’t understand why she has to get that low,” Williams said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
…“This is one of the things in my life that is just so shocking,” Williams said. “I grew up basically on the left, I grew up here in New York City. And I always thought the right wing were the ones that were inflexible, intolerant.”
Live and learn, Juan.
Live and learn.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 91 Comments
Sickofobama commented:
What a better spokesman for the intolerant left?
A black liberal.
Keep it up, Juan, and you’ll a conservative in no time.
Hopefully by November 2nd.
Chisum commented:
Juan Williams and the Preference Cascade
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/10/22/juan-williams-and-the-preference-cascade/
Ruth commented:
The true nature of the left comes to light. Ugly, angry, violent, and destructive. They accuse others to deflect attention from what they really are.
Pray more can see the left as they really are and speak out LOUDLY so the nation can hear.
jainphx commented:
Thus a new almost conservative is born. The left are conservatives that haven’t been mugged by reality yet.
Granny commented:
We’ve been telling you for a long, long time Juan -while you called us crazy, teabaggers, ignorant. . . how does it feel to know that it is US fighting for YOUR right to Free Speech?
I’ll fight for your right to the death, but know this: I hope you choke on it.
antilbr commented:
Welcome aboard Juan,you’re a smart guy,what the heck took you so long to figure this out?
Dave-O commented:
Amen Jainphx #4 -
perhaps Juan woke up this morning and finally smelled the coffee!
Hugely ironic situation that NPR – the flagship beacon of the so-called oh-so-tolerant and open-minded LEFT has censored their one and only (token?) black news analyst for a comment he made about THE most INTOLERANT group of people on the entire planet –
(We now know that The Thought Police have now officially arrived!!)
and to top it off – CEO Vivian Schiller defamed him in the process –
Schiller Memo to the World: Watch out for da black man – he be craaaaaazzzzy !!!
Way to go NPR – you’ve really done it this time!!
unknown jane commented:
One bit of quibble with Jasser: why should Williams have to apologize? Apologize for speaking the truth? Since when?
RickZ commented:
I’ll wait and see just how much introspection Juan gives to this incident. It was plainly evident the psychiatrist crack really hurt him and pissed him off, you could see it in his eyes when he saw the clip on O’Really last night.
But will this incident alter his worldview? Only time will tell. But the fact that he acknowledged how he always viewed the right as the intolerant ones when in fact it is the left wo are so incredibly intolerant is a good start for him. Baby steps are over, Juan, time to start taking longer strides in big boys’ pants.
David Spence commented:
I think this travesty will bite the Dems on 11/2. This is the “Wellstone funeral moment” of 2010. Remember how furious all civil people were when Trent Lott, simply showing up to pay his respects for a colleague, got booed at the funeral? Remember the insane rant of Wellstone’s son who turned the solemn occasion of his dad’s service into a political rally? Again the left has shown its true colors to all who forget how utterly classless and vicious they are.
Auntie Em commented:
I have always seen the left as intolerant and inflexible, liars, purposefully hurtful and mean spirited, immature, and immoral.
I knew Soros was going to shoot himself in the foot. His eyes are probably rolled back in his head because of the backlash on this issue.
You guessed wrong Mr. Potter. In America, it’s a wonderful life!
kato commented:
The word “public” in a name is a virtual guarantee of bad performance.
The number of minutes that I’ve listened to NPR in the last 10 years is zero. As a source of information and intelligent discussion, NPR is utterly worthless.
The network that probably spends more air time talking about “diversity” than any ten commercial stations combined is the least diverse network in the country. The P may as well stand for Pravda.
donh commented:
This is an offensive interview watching George StepSoros give Juan the Shrink on the couch treatment. He projected the abuse of Schiller onto Juan . George opens with a belittling joke that make light of what his clique just did to Juan. Then with notepad in hand George starts his freudian probe exploring Juans mental fears, phobias and anguish. Did George hand Juan a prescription after the interview was over?
Chisum commented:
Yep, Fox News is more tolerant than NPR!
Ponder that liberals.
(Paging the degenerates at Media Matters.)
Martine commented:
The leftys are the one who practice groupthink.
Someone ought to send Juan a copy of Jonah Goldberg’s book “Liberal Fascism.” He nails it.
kansas commented:
If he never noticed how inflexible and intolerant the left and Muslims are, then he is not as smart as I have been giving him credit for being.
regularguy commented:
Hopefully, more people, particularly blacks, will finally begin to believe the left is all about betrayal, slaverly and payback rather than freeing them from the plantation.
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
Juan thought that the intolerance always came from the Right? And all the while he made excuses for the repeated acts of intolerance from the Left? You’re an idiot, Juan!
Dave-O commented:
As Michael Barone notes this morning – it seems as if a primary reason that NPR was, in Juan’s words, “looking for a way to get rid of him” was the fact that Juan Williams upset a large number of NPR member/listeners by virtue of the fact that he worked for Fox News. Yet, Fox News will report that there was really no segment of the Fox News viewership that was upset by virtue of Williams employment with NPR.
so what does THAT tell you about the listenership of both networks?
Mainly, that the Fox viewers are a vastly more tolerant bunch than the listeners at NPR.
Tell that to a libtard and watch their heads explode!!
Ed commented:
As a Republican I disagreed with Juan a lot.
But I always had respect for him and was interested what (his) the left views were thru Juan.
Juan is a stand-up guy and should have not been treated that way.
Congress MUST cut funding to NPR.
patman commented:
Juan Williams: Public Enemy #1.
StrangernFiction commented:
“And I always thought the right wing were the ones that were inflexible, intolerant.”
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahaahahahahaha…..breathe…….aaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
unknown jane commented:
NPR should have been cut a long time ago, but hopefully it will now get its just rewards.
I used to listen to the local NPR station because it played classical music — well, now I have a CD player in my car, so I can listen to the music I like without the vapid commentary of psuedo intellectuals (using a horrid rendition of an Oxford accent…to make themselves appear smart); I used to watch the local NPR station because it was one of only three tv stations we could get; now I have cable — and I’m sure I can get as good or better history and nature shows on other channels (or the good programs from NPR will be picked up by some other station)…without having to deal with vapid, biased commentary shows (or fundraising drives) featuring obnoxious psuedo intellectuals feigning horrid renditions of an Oxford accent to make themselves appear smart…or programs about the history of sorghum (yeah, who provided the cash to have that one produced? it was a real winner).
No longer will my tax dollars go to funding that! Or funding insufferable, elitist lefty bigots. Hooray!
Skandia commented:
Does a former Marine Drill Instructor make a really poor therapist?
Tissue?
Mark commented:
It is ironic Juan Williams gets fired for making the only intelligent comment he’s ever made.
donh commented:
Yes Skandia…George StepSoros gave Juan a softer tissue version of this Geiko commercial. Is Juan smart enough to realize George was rubbing it in, and doing sophisticated damage mangement for Scilling? …. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhlWddAXSRA
Formerly known as Skeptic commented:
There may be hope for Juan yet. May he take this eye-opening experience and start questioning the many other things that he has “always thought” to be true.
Chisum commented:
What’s interesting is that Juan had a job the next day.
Rick Sanchez is still twisting in the wind.
bg commented:
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re: “Intolerant”
NPR’s Taxpayer-Funded Intolerance
All Americans, particularly those of Arab or Muslim
descent, should protest the firing of Juan Williams.
By EMILIO KARIM DABUL
[It was not Muslims in traditional garb who hijacked those planes on
9/11, and it certainly was not Muslim women in veils and wheelchairs.
If anything, an Islamist terrorist wants to blend in, not stand out.
However, it was not a traditional sort of terrorist attack I feared in this case, but perhaps something unexpected: a traditional Muslim woman
in a veil, confined to a wheelchair, who was loaded with explosives.
That may make me guilty of an overactive imagination, but perhaps not. Not that many years later, a young Muslim on an international flight into Detroit tried to light explosives in his underwear.
I mention all this for one main reason. I grew up surrounded by Islamic culture, went to Islamic events, and was used to seeing women in traditional Muslim clothing, and yet when that woman appeared at the Berlin airport, I was scared.]
re: “Inflexible”
Muslims speak out against NPR’s political correctness
Indeed, the threat is real enough even for Fatah, a liberal Muslim,
who looks at women in burkas with skepticism. “I am scared when
I see women in burkas, how do I know what is behind that?” Fatah
said, noting that many Muslims share his concerns.
“We are victims of these guys. A number of suicide bombers who have attacked have killed people [while] wearing the burka,” Fatah said. “This is the truth, we should be speaking the truth rather than what people expect us to say.”
[..]
“Mr. Williams spoke to this reality in an understated, candid way. He did not express hatred or incite violence against Muslims. He should not have been dismissed.”]
as was the case with numerous MUSLIMS speaking out against the GZM.. so too are these MUSLIM VOICES being SILENCED via the IslaMarxist media, just as they were during the SH years via CNN..
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Ginger commented:
Juan is Juan…. He will never change. He just know how to play the game and he plays it well! Don’t forget he is a LIBERAL!
PCM commented:
Welcome to reality, Juan.
aprilnovember811 commented:
We all learn the hard way Juan. I have to admit, I was not a fan of Juan, because I viewed him as a liberal. I used to be a liberal, not the extreme that we see today, mind you. They say though, if you’re not a conservative by the time you’re forty you have no brain. That is so true. This so called Democratic party, is no more. It is Marxist/Leninist. This woman had no problem when NPR referred to the “teabaggers,” did she? I didn’t even know the phrase until the left started using it. You were fired Juan because Soros is trying to bring down America. He is Obama’s puppetmaster, the true president of the US. He donated big money to them the other day to hire leftist people. NPR=defund, asap, along with VISTA, Dept. of No Energy, EPA, and Department of Education or Communist Propaganda.
czekmark commented:
This is so ironic but typical. Williams should be grateful that he has experienced the great awakening and realization that the liberalism of the left is one big lie.
bg commented:
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mixed (opinion/fact) view:
Juan Williams, NPR and journalism’s new Sharia law
[But I'm not surprised this happened. NPR's rash and ill-considered actions did not take a place in a vacuum. Increasingly, the public radio entity has become a leader (along with the Washington Post, which makes me think this is more of problem the closer one gets to or inside the Beltway) in an almost Taliban-like drive to enforce a brand of unrealistic-to-the-point-of-insane journalistic purity. By that I mean that NPR -- like a number of other big-name journalistic outfits -- is reacting to an age of modernity, in which new media and a new playing field have allowed for a broader and more open discussion of issues with more potential for transparency, by retreating deeper into a dank temple of objectivity when journalists are stripped of opinions and the ability to discuss things in ways that most normal people would recognize as...being human.
[..]
After three decades in journalism, I certainly recognize the sentiments behind Schiller’s memo — but I have come to strongly disagree. In the Internet age, I think transparency and openness completely trumps the forced and ultimately phony version of objectivity that Schiller and NPR want to enforce. What I mean by that is this: If I’m going to listen to Juan Williams “analyze” the news, I’d like to know as much about where he’s coming from — the values and, yes, opinions that are informing his judgments — as is possible to know. If Williams is analyzing the new wave of Islamophobia in this country, frankly I’d rather know that Muslim garb on a plane makes him nervous than not know that.]
just the facts..
NPR fires Juan Williams. Is NPR following
Sharia Law and the bidding of George Soros?
re: I – S – L – A – M – O – P – H – O – B – I – A
Jasser: I’ll first tell you what it is not- it’s not Islamophobia. If anyone
is to blame for the existence of the concept of Islamophobia, if it even exists, it is Muslims who have been unable to articulate a manifestation of Islam which is free of a political state which threatens the sovereignty of the states in which Muslims reside. I don’t subscribe to the existence
of the notion of Islamophobia because I believe that we are in just the beginning of a global conflict of political ideologies (Islamism vs. Americanism), and the conflation of “Islamophobia” is intentional by Islamists to deflect Americans and the free world from the necessary debate of political ideologies.
i cannot Imagine what our future generations (especially children, women & homosexuals) are in for if Islam is, as it is now being, forced upon US to blindly accept without reformation.. are we that suicidal?? *sigh*
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gus commented:
One thing I haven’t seen JUAN acknowledge yet.
THAT NPR IS COMPLETELY LIBTARD.
Someone needs to ask him about that.
DANEgerus commented:
A conservative is just a Liberal who got mugged. Enjoy it the lesson Juan. You have been a tool for a very long time.
bg commented:
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gus @ 11:06 am #39
you forgot your /s/ tag..
at any rate, you’re not going to.. and irrespective of my
deeming it a moot question, why don’t you ask him gus..
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John Fembup commented:
Many a conservative or libertarian is a liberal mugged by reality.
Good on him.
gus commented:
bg. I have no idea what you were saying to me.
Can you explain?
Buffalobob commented:
Juan, we have been offering you a flashlight to shine the light on the liberal cockroaches for years. They not as warm and understanding as they would like to portray themselves are they?
ata girl commented:
I understand the call’ for defunding tax payers
money to NPR. They are considered ‘non profit’
Donations are tax deductible. Shouldn’t their
non profit status be revoked????????????
bg commented:
++
gus..
short version.. moot question that will
never “literally” be asked or answered..
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bill commented:
if that headline is true, then Juan be a clueless cool aid drinker
Veryconcerned commented:
Juan saying that “blacks” can’t say anything racist or bigoted is a bigot statement! I’ve never liked this guy and what he has done as a hardcore lib but at least he can see who is RIGHT and who is wrong when it comes to freedoms but all in all this was the best thing that happened to his career but his insinuation that blacks can’t say or do anything bigoted shows his true self and just means Fox news will be on less in my home the more he is on it.
Peggy R commented:
Welcome to the Rebel Alliance, Juan!
I hope he continues down the path paved by David Horowitz, who became ostracized for speaking the Truth.
MGB commented:
What Juan Williams said is very similar to what Ms. Sherrod said, but with a big difference. Mr. Williams doesn’t work for the taxpayers when he’s at FOX News. Ms. Sherrod did work for us and she admitted that she used the power of her office in a discriminatory manner–to help or to withhold help from a citizen based upon race. However, she was defended by the very same liberals who now excoriate Juan Williams simply for admitting that he has “feelings” that most of us do–feelings that are natural after seeing what ensued on 9/11/2001. Fear is irrational sometimes. Sometimes not. In any case, fear is a normal human reaction to situations where one’s life may hang in the balance. They complain that Sherrod’s words were taken out of context (which they were not), but they take out of context what Williams said. This is like with what Bill O’Reilly said. Whoopi Goldberg put one particular word into O’Reilly’s mouth in order to change the context of what he said. He said, “Muslims killed us on 9/11.” A true statement, just as it’s true that “Catholic priests molested boys.” True statement. But Whoopi quoted O’Reilly as saying, “THE Muslims killed us on 9/11.” The addition of that one word is what is unfair and served only to inflame certain segments, perhaps by design. Maybe Whoopi is so conditioned to find prejudice that this is what she HEARD. What she PERCEIVED. But she heard wrong.
I’m simply glad to hear Williams admit that it’s the left, not the right, who want to censor free speech and shut up anybody with whom they disagree. It’s long past time that he noticed that.
This was done in response to pressure from CAIR and possibly (I’m guessing) Soros and others supportive of this WH, which has its own jihad going against FOX News. Why? Because they dare to tell both sides of a story (most of the time) and let the viewers decide for themselves. Unlike the liberal media, they don’t seem to believe that we are all so stupid (compared to them) that we have to be spoonfed what they want us to know or protected from what they don’t want us to learn about.
Ms. Schilling gave herself away when she used that same old Alinsky tactic that’s popping up everywhere: Attack the person. Ridicule him. Debase him. “It’s between him and his psychiatrist?” That’s beyond the pale. But of course we already know that these liberal elites truly do believe that conservatism is a mental illness. That’s something else your tax money goes towards–grants to the so-called unbiased scientists, most of them hiding out in the APA, who “study” conservatives in order to prove they’re simply crazy nutjobs. DEFUND them all.
Gman commented:
Just like a lot of others here, Juan is one of the very few liberals I can stomach. I don’t agree with him on probably 99% of his views but I respect him. I guess that was what got him fired. He wasn’t crazy/moonbatty enough for the left and when he no longer served a purpose for them they discarded him like a piece of trash.
I hope he can now see what HIS fellow liberals are all about. It will be interesting to see how this impacts his ideology in the future.
Practical Jane commented:
Juan grew up – Good for him!
John commented:
Juan welcome to FoxNews and freedom of speech.
Deeka commented:
JMuan, Buddie…Come on over to the Dark Side….We have cookies.
Chris commented:
Hey Juan:
Welcome to the Matrix!
barbedwhyer commented:
Juan….how does it feel to be kicked off the
porch on the old Liberal plantation? Waving
the old palmetto fan for the massas on a hot
day was a peachy job…..but it’s gone, gone
with the wind…..
donh commented:
The silence of Obama …master of racial sanctimony and virtue …is deafening. He should at least jump in and say Schiller acted stupedly.
whoframedrudy commented:
“Hopefully, more people, particularly blacks, will finally begin to believe the left is all about betrayal, slaverly and payback …”
Far more already do than you’d imagine. We know white leftists want to co-opt ‘Black Power’ for their vile Marxist agenda. And guess what? Obama knows it too. And Michelle. And Spike Lee. And Jesse Jackson Jr. Obama played the radical left for suckers — he took their money and their votes, now he’s C-in-C and he can barely contain his contempt for them. The ultra-left is under attack from all directions: the Tea Party, the White House, Clinton supporters, mainstream media, mainstream Republicans. That explains the vicious NPR spokesperson – she feels cornered.
And they are being cornered. They don’t fool anybody but themselves. We won’t let NPR and its like plant the seed of what Churchill called ‘the foul baboonery of Bolshevism’ in American soil.
barbedwhyer commented:
whoframedrudy:
Triple down on THAT!
barbedwhyer commented:
Our oleaginous C-in-C can’t respond in any
meaningful way to an “aware” populace.
Dropping the the “g” on teleprompter words
shows his impotence to connect with anyone
but the “down for the cause” groups. The
Bammy “stash” went to BIG MONEY, not
the welfare crowd. But now, of course, he’s
lookin’ after the little people…and doin’
all he can to push that damned car outta
the ditch, just as soon as he finishes one
of those “vacations”.
Hangtown Bob commented:
Sometimes, there’s a lot of truth in old jokes.
Question: What’s the definition of a conservative?
Answer: A liberal who’s been mugged.
Juan just got mugged.