memeorandum: NPR fires Juan Williams for anti-Muslim bigotry (Glenn Greenwald/Salon)

11:50 AM ET, October 21, 2010

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NPR Ends Analyst's Contract After Comments on Muslims — NPR has terminated its contract with Juan Williams, one of its senior news analysts, after he made comments about Muslims on the Fox News Channel. — NPR said in a statement that it gave Mr. Williams notice of his termination on Wednesday night.

David Folkenflik / NPR:

NPR Ends Williams' Contract After Muslim Remarks — NPR News has terminated the contract of longtime news analyst Juan Williams after remarks he made on the Fox News Channel about Muslims. — Williams appeared on “The O'Reilly Factor,” Monday and host Bill O'Reilly asked him to comment …

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Michelle Malkin:

Firing offense: NPR axes Juan Williams for opinions on Muslims & post-9/11 travel — Un-freaking-believable. — Cable news blogger Johnny Dollar red-flagged NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik's Twitter feed, which announced tonight that liberal NPR analyst/Fox News contributor Juan Williams' contract …

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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

NPR fires Juan Williams for anti-Muslim bigotry — On Monday, I documented the glaring double standard in our political discourse generally and in the world of journalism specifically, whereby anti-Muslim bigotry is widely tolerated, while those perceived as expressing similar (or even more mild) …

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Aharding / CNN:

Huckabee calls on Congress to cut NPR funding — “NPR has discredited itself as a forum for free speech and a protection of the First Amendment rights of all and has solidified itself as the purveyor of politically correct pabulum and protector of views that lean left,” Huckabee said in a statement provided to CNN.

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Washington Post:

NPR fires Juan Williams over anti-Muslim remarks — Veteran journalist Juan Williams was fired from his job as senior news analyst for National Public Radio late Wednesday because of comments he made about Muslims and terrorism on “The O'Reilly Factor” on Fox News Channel.

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P.J. Salvatore / Big Journalism:

Screw Free Speech, NPR Fires Juan Williams for Muslim Remarks — NPR terminated its contract this evening with Juan Williams, who worked with them as a senior political analyst, after Williams appeared on Bill O'Reilly and spoke of a “Muslim dilemma:” … A taxpaying-funded organization fired someone over their free speech?

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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:

National Politically-correct Radio — No inconvenient truths here, please. — My Fox News Sunday colleague Juan Williams has been fired by NPR for telling an inconvenient truth. — Would President Obama, for example, disagree? I don't think so. Isn't this why, for example …

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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:

Juan Williams Fired by NPR For No Particular Reason (UPDATED) — National Public Radio has fired the political analyst Juan Williams for comments he made about Muslims on Bill O'Reilly's Fox show. These are two of the controversial comments in question, according to The New York Times:

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Mark Memmott / NPR:
After Comments About Muslims, NPR Terminates Juan Williams' Contract

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