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Krauthammer Directly Challenges NPR's Totenberg
Things you can’t say on TV as an employee of NPR without getting fired? Expressing a normal human emotion about boarding an airplane in the Post-9/11 world and seeing a gaggle of Muslims in their religious garb and the noting that you quickly overcome it and get on with your flight. Things you can say on TV as an employee of NPR without fear of reprisal ? I think [Jesse Helms] ought to be worried about what’s going on in the Good Lord’s mind, because if there is...

Krauthammer Slams NPR's Hypocrisy Over Williams And Totenberg
Fox News : "I don't understand the inconsistency here," Dr. Charles Krauthammer said on PBS's "Inside Washington" Friday night. Another guest on the panel was NPR's Nina Totenberg, whom Krauthammer targeted for her consistent liberal bias. "Why is it okay for Nina to express opinions as she has tartly, sharply, unashamedly and openly? And she's an honored correspondent there; in fact, they mention your status here on ["Inside Washington"] in your biography at NPR. And Juan, because he...

Will NPR fire Nina Totenberg for wishing Jesse Helms would get AIDS?
10/21/10 11:55 AM EDT Figuring out what’s inconsistent with NPR’s editorial standards can be awful difficult. The network terminated the contract for Fox News contributor Juan Williams because of a comment about Muslims, but apparently has yet to take a similar action against Nina Totenberg. From Reason’s Michael Moynihan : Check out this clip, from way back in 1995, of NPR’s Nina Totenberg telling the host of PBS’s Inside Washington that if there was...

JAMES TARANTO: Standards And Practices: Why Does NPR Still Employ Nina Totenberg?...
James Taranto: Standards And Practices: Why Does NPR Still Employ Nina Totenberg?

Is Nina Totenberg Next?
Juan Williams, now a former contract news analyst for NPR, was fired Wednesday for publicly taking a Controversial position. A statement from NPR CEO Vivian Schiller said: His remarks on The O'Reilly Factor this past Monday were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR. On Thursday, however, Schiller revised her position on Williamss termination. According to the Associated Press, Schiller told the Atlanta Press Club...

Moynihan: Will NPR Fire Totenberg?
Michael C. Moynihan writes: What Won’t Get You Fired From NPR: Wishing AIDS on your political enemies and their Children. Check out this clip, from way back in 1995, of NPR’s Nina Totenberg telling the host of PBS’s Inside Washington that if there was “retributive justice” in the world the (admittedly loathsome) Jesse Helms would “get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his Grandchildren will get it.” Totenberg is still NPR’s legal affairs...

Awesome: Krauthammer Confronts NPR's Nina Totenberg on Juan Williams Firing...
Remember, Totenberg is the woman who wished Jesse Helms and his grandkids got AIDS… Via EyeBlastTV Tweet

NPR's Nina Totenberg: Jesse Helms or His Grandkids Should Get AIDS (Video)
We are assured from NPR mouth pieces that Juan Williams was fired for expressing a personal opinion, which is against NPR rules. If those are the rules, they seem to be selectively enforced as this old footage of Nina  Totenberg shows. Could it be that Juan Williams was fired for expressing a politically incorrect opinion on a conservative friendly news network while being African American? Could it be that NPR allows its reporters to wish that Republican Senators or their innocent...

Krauthammer to Nina Totenberg: Why did NPR fire Juan Williams but not you?
He’s too much of a mensch to mention her most notorious bon mot, about Jesse Helms — or one of his grandkids — maybe deserving a little AIDS in the ol’ bloodstream as a matter of divine justice. I think they both have that quote in mind here, though, which explains why Totenberg is palpably uncomfortable with NPR’s sudden sticklerism about “analysts” offering Controversial opinions in Public. In fact, near as I can tell, not a single Member of NPR...

CEO's say the darndest things
The CEO of NPR said this about the firing of Juan Williams during her talk to the Atlanta press club : The feelings that he expressed on Fox News are really between him and, you know, his Psychiatrist” It is revealing that the CEO of NPR would feel free to say such a thing in a public forum. But NPR is a peculiar and, it seems, insular organization. The cases of the blackballing of Steve Emerson and the continued employment of Nina Totenberg make that clear enough. Will someone...

Williams criticizes NPR as guest host of Fox show
Washington (AP) - Fired NPR analyst Juan Williams is keeping up his criticism of his former employer. As the guest host Friday night of "The O'Reilly Factor" on the Fox News Channel, Williams mentioned several remarks made by other NPR commentators he thought were questionable. Williams says commentator Nina Totenberg said 15 years ago that if there is "retributive justice," former Republican North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms or his family might get AIDS from a transfusion. Helms was a...

Dancing on the grave of Jesse Helms
NPR's Nina Totenberg said in 1995 , "because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion. Or one of his Grandchildren will get it." What the left despised most about Helms varied with the seasons. There was his unyielding anticommunism. His visceral opposition to Homosexuality. His war on government funding of obscene art. His blackball of William Weld's nomination as ambassador to Mexico. His staunch support of the Tobacco Industry. And, of course, his segregationist...

NPR's History of Controversial Positions
In 2002, NPR jumped to the conclusion that a Christian organization was behind the Anthrax attacks. In 1995, NPR news analyst Nina Totenberg said that Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) would “get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his Grandchildren will get it” if there was any “retributive justice” in the world. Totenberg was allowed to keep her job. So let’s cut this crap about NPR having a problem with its non-editorial employees taking Controversial stances. NPR had a...

What Won't Get You Fired From NPR
Wishing AIDS on your political enemies and their Children. Check out this clip, from way back in 1995, of NPR's Nina Totenberg telling the host of PBS's Inside Washington  that if there was "retributive justice" in the world the (admittedly loathsome) Jesse Helms would "get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his Grandchildren will get it." Totenberg is still NPR's legal affairs correspondent . Matt Welch on the Juantroversy here . Video of Williams' comments here .

Why NPR Should Be Denied Public Funding
National Public Radio’s jettisoning of Veteran news analyst Juan Williams over “insensitive remarks about people on planes in Muslim garb” is yesterday’s news. Ditto for arguments on why Nina Totenberg, a correspondent for the network, has made comments at least as offensive as anything Williams said. (She has, but you can read about the accusationsand defenses against sameelsewhere.) What is today’s news is what happens to NPR now. Personally, I think ...

2 ways of looking at Michelle Obama.
1. She's "an incredibly graceful surrogate” for the President and inspires “warm and fuzzy” feelings. 2. "She's got this Stokely Carmichael-in-a-designer-dress thing going. If she starts talking... her instinct is to start with this blame America, you know, I'm the Victim. If that stuff starts to coming out, people will go bananas and she'll go from being the new Jackie O. to being something of an albatross." #1 is from Nina Totenberg , who still works for NPR. And # 2 is...

Internal Dissension at NPR over Williams
A high-profile NPR reporter well known for expressing her opinions says Wednesday's firing of Juan Williams has caused internal friction at the radio network, and managers who made the decision were hardly guided by objective reasoning. Nina Totenberg, NPR's legal affairs correspondent, says Williams's dismissal "wasn't a terribly popular decision on the news floor." While not explicitly saying so, Totenberg's comments on the television political affairs show "Inside Washington" suggest her...

Firing Juan Williams.
NPR's ombudswoman, Alicia Shephard , says the firing of News analyst Juan Williams over his anti-Muslim remarks on Fox News was poorly handled but right. He did, after all, break a clear ethics code in stating his opinion on another network and had probably been dancing around violating that ethics code during his FOX appearances for some time. What's surprising to me about this is the uproar. Shephard says it generated a record number of e-mails and comments. But I can't help but think...

Chris Wallace Tells Juan Williams: 'You're Among Friends, Buddy'
It was rally around Juan Williams this morning on Fox News Sunday . Williams, who is a regular panelist on the Fox Sunday show (where he often crosses swords with Bill Kristol ) appeared this morning along with Kristol, Brit Hume , Nina Easton , and host Chris Wallace , and was the recipient of much love, support and indignation. I’ll post the video of the segment when it becomes available, in the meantime, here is a short rush transcript, as they say. Said an indignant Hume:...

Dr Obama's diagnosis? OUS [Darleen Click]
Charles Krauthammer explains Here Obama has spent two years bestowing upon the peasantry the “ New Foundation ” of a more regulated, socially engineered and therefore more Humane Society, and they repay him with recalcitrance and outright opposition. Here he gave them ObamaCare, the stimulus, Financial Regulation and a shot at cap-and-trade — and the electorate remains not just unmoved but ungrateful. Faced with this truly puzzling conundrum, Dr. Obama diagnoses a...

Obama Underappreciation Syndrome
Posted by Scott at 6:51 AM Below I sketch the case that Juan Williams has been subjected to punitive psychiatry at Democrat State Radio. Charles Krauthammer finds President Obama making his own discoveries in liberal Psychology, applicable to the electorate as a whole: Opening a whole new branch of cognitive science -- liberal Psychology -- Obama has discovered a new principle: The fearful brain is hard-wired to act befuddled, i.e., vote Republican. But of course. Here Obama has spent two...

Krauthammer Directly Challenges Totenberg on NPR's 'Hypocrisy' in Firing Juan Williams While Letting Her Opine Freely
“Why is it okay for Nina to express opinions, as she has tartly, sharply, unashamedly and openly” while serving as “an honored correspondent” for NPR, while Juan Williams, “because he expresses his opinions, gets canned from NPR?” So Charles Krauthammer demanded while sitting Friday with Totenberg on the same Inside Washington set. “In fact, the standard ought to be lower in the case of Juan because he’s an analyst, whereas Nina is a...

Fear Can Affect Thinking, But Not This Time
In his Washington Post op-ed this morning, “ Obama Underappreciation Syndrome ,” Charles Krauthammer mocks President Obama’s latest explanation for his, and his party’s, low popularity. “[W]e’re hard-wired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country is scared,” explains the president. This is rich loam for derision. “Opening a whole new branch of cognitive science — liberal Psychology — Obama has discovered a...

Everything the president knows he learned in newsweek
Perhaps you've heard of Bush Derangment Syndrome? That was the tendency of leftists to become totally unhinged when discussing the immediate past president of the United States. Now Psychiatrist, Charles Krauthammer writes about a new disorder, Obama Underappreciation Syndrome . But after trotting out some of these charges with a noticeable lack of success, President Obama has come up with something new, something less common, something more befitting his stature and intellect. He's now...

The Exciting Journey of Juan Williams
"If you're not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart; if you're not a conservative, at forty you have no brain."   - Winston Churchill Unlike my esteemed colleague C. Edmund Wright , I commend Roger Ailes for his decision to immediately offer a three-year, two-million-dollar contract to Juan Williams in the wake of NPR's indefensible firing of the Veteran Journalist. As a regular FNC viewer, I have always enjoyed  Juan's appearances. He has the rare ability to project his...