NPR’s firing of Juan Williams tells you more about NPR than it does about Juan. What a stupid thing to do! You’d think the folks at NPR would be delighted: He’s a strong, mostly liberal voice on the most popular cable news channel in the country. But I suspect that was outweighed by their hatred of Fox News in particular and the conservative media in general.

I have no doubt that Juan’s comments about Muslims were merely a pretext.  There had been prior run-ins between NPR and Juan over his appearances on Fox.  But fire him over remarks that most Americans would identify with?  I didn’t think the loathing of Fox would cause NPR to do something so ideologically driven, unprofessional, and bigoted.