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I watched the entire video this morning, it provides some valuable context to that quote.
While I do think NPR might have over reacted by firing him, I did find Williams comments to be really strange. He wasn't just showing some personal candor (i.e. Muslims make me nervous) but he linked the entire thing to terrorism in context of a question from O'Riley on if there's a problem with Islam.
So someone who was supposed to be behaving as an "impartial" journalist was seen to be condemning all Muslims for the actions of radicals.
NPR obviously felt this was a breech of professionalism based on their standards. I'd note they don't have a business model built on provocative punditry like FOX News or MSNBC.
Perhaps Juan will be able to keep his slot as the token Lib on FOX. I'm sure he likes having Brit Hume piss all over him day after day.
-spence
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