But isn't that what they were paying him to do? It appears to OS that the champions of All Things Obama were unhappy with Mr. Williams for daring to appear on The Network That Dare Not Speak Its Name anyway. Remember the first few months of Himself's administration, when they studiously pretended Fox News didn't exist.
They found that approach, well, didn't work.
But NPR's brass likely never forgave Mr. Williams for being realistic, and for exhibiting an entreprenurial tendency to enjoy making money at what he does well, in the private sector. Some sins are unforgivable.
So, his comments on O'Reilly gave them the pretext they needed to vote him off the island.
They are (hold yer' breath, ever'body, 'cuz theeeze iz inflammmmmatory wordz!):
"I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country," Williams told host Bill O'Reilly during a discussion on the dilemma between fighting jihadists and fears about average Muslims.
"But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they're identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous," Williams said.
Williams also commented on remarks by Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad warning Americans that the fight is coming to the U.S.
"He said the war with Muslims, America's war is just beginning, first drop of blood. I don't think there's any way to get away from these facts," Williams said.
Hell-bells, Mr. Williams! OS gets nervous about that too! Matter of fact, he was at Heathrow that strange day in August 2006 when the plot was foiled to put a bomber on a plane to America with the explosive hidden in a bottle of baby formula. The plane OS and one of his kids was on was one of the targets, it appears. OS spent the hours waiting, knowing something was terribly rotten in Denmark, and deliberately steering himself and the kid away from the many women dressed in full purdah, away from the nervous crowds, and towards emergency exit doors that appeared to head out to the tarmac. If the crowd began to panic, OS figured it would be better to be alive and under arrest with lots of 'splainin-to-do-Lucy than dead or 'splainin to Mrs. OS why our child had died.
OS gets nervous and avoids people who wear the Confederate flag as a shirt, or large tattoo. Or stupid Christian religious slogans. Or anything that indicates that they have some agenda to impose upon the rest of us.
That's not bigotry--that's a healthy sense of self-preservation, ya'll!
But, the good new is: NPR gets some tax money, yes, but they get a heapin' helpin' of their operating revenue from the local affiliates, who depend upon small donors to fund their operations.
Don't take a genius to figure this one out. After the local affiliate went to 'All-Obama-All-The-Time' and quit broadcasting classical music, OS's checkbook shut tight. Nothing sez you gotta' give these people money, or even honor your pledge to them. They sure as hell haven't honored their pledge to you! Check and make sure they're not sucking at the public teat via the state or local budget.
Take their money away, and they go away.
Go git' em, Mr. Williams! Speak yoh' mind! Illegitimi non carborundum!
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