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MICHAEL BARONE: NPR?s Intolerant Firing of Juan Williams. ?Reading between the lines of Juan?s sta?

By Glenn Reynolds

MICHAEL BARONE: NPR’s Intolerant Firing of Juan Williams. “Reading between the lines of Juan’s statement and those of NPR officials, it’s apparent that NPR was moved to fire Juan because he irritates so many people in its audience. An interesting contrast: many NPR listeners apparently could not stomach that Williams also appeared on Fox News. But it doesn’t seem that any perceptible number of Fox News viewers had any complaints that Williams also worked for NPR. The Fox audience seems to be more tolerant of diversity than the NPR audience.” Well, Fox viewers are the open-minded, tolerant type.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 22, 2010 (boomark / email).