Vivian Schiller, the CEO of National Public Radio, publicly questioned the sanity of former NPR news analyst Juan Williams one day after dismissing the Fox News contributor for comments inconsistent with NPR’s standards. Schiller said that Williams should have kept his views between himself and “his psychiatrist or his publicist” in an appearance in Atlanta today.

Schiller, who ended Williams’s contract yesterday, also said that Williams was terminated not because of his words on the O’Reilly Factor Monday night but because he shouldn’t have been taking such positions at all given his role as a “news analyst” on NPR.

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