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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (124849)	10/21/2010 10:47:55 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

The firing of Juan Williams from Power Line by Scott (Scott) Mara Liasson is National Public Radio's top political correspondent. She also helps hold down the left flank on panels where she appears as a FOX News contributor such as Special Report with Bret Baier. Last year Josh Gerstein reported that NPR management has asked Liasson to reconsider her appearances on Fox News because of what they perceive -- in accord with the teaching of the Obama administration -- as the network's political bias. NPR executives said they had concerns that Fox's programming had grown more partisan, and they asked Liasson to spend 30 days watching the network. At the end of the 30 days, Liasson was undoubtedly expected to engage in rigorous self-criticism, but it didn't work out that way: "At a follow-up meeting last month, Liasson reported that she'd seen no significant change in Fox's programming and planned to continue appearing on the network, the source said." Now NPR has gone a step beyond the summoning of Mara Liasson. Big Journalism reports that NPR has fired commentator Juan Williams for thought crime committed on Fox News. Williams concurred with Bill O'Reilly on "the Muslim dilemma" posed by O'Reilly. Williams admitted that, despite his prolific admiration of the civil rights movement, "when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous." link Williams also referred to the Pakistani immigrant who pleaded guilty this month to trying to plant a car bomb in Times Square. Williams noted: "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 knowingly prefaced his remarks with the observation: "Political correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis..." NPR proves that the point is precisely to induce the paralysis of which Williams spoke. Via Instapundit. UPDATE: Bill Kristol makes the same point, calling NPR National Politically-correct Radio.

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (124849)	10/21/2010 11:19:13 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

NAACP BULLIES AND LIES TO CITIZEN REPORTER AT PRESS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING RACE REPORT At a sparsely attended press conference announcing their highly dubious report on racism within the Tea Party, leaders of the St. Louis NAACP chapter can't take the heat when a citizen journalist asks questions about the NAACP's own problems with racist remarks at their events. Eventually, they ask for all cameras to be turned off - at a press conference - so they can "talk honestly". breitbart.tv

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (124849)	10/21/2010 12:27:38 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

President Bill Clinton Lost Nuclear Codes While in Office, New Book Claims Former Chairman of Joint Chiefs Says Nuclear 'Biscuit' Went Missing for Months Oct. 20, 2010 PrintRSSFONT SIZE:SHARE:EmailTwitterFacebookMore When you're President of the United States, you can lose a vote, you can lose popular support, and you can lose a round of golf. But you're never, ever supposed to lose the biscuit. That's what they call the card the president is meant to keep close at hand, bearing the codes that he has to have in order to launch a nuclear attack. And for several months during the Clinton administration, a former top military officer says they lost the biscuit. Watch "World News with Diane Sawyer" for more on this story tonight on ABC. Gen. Hugh Shelton, who served under Clinton as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells the story in his just-published memoir, "Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior." Related Timeline: Bill Clinton's Life and PresidencyWATCH: Bill Clinton Hospitalized for Heart IssueBill Clinton Out of Hospital, Prognosis 'Excellent' "At one point during the Clinton administration," Shelton writes, "the codes were actually missing for months. [...] That's a big deal -- a gargantuan deal." Similar Story Told By Air Force Man Shelton claims the story has never been released before, but Ret. Air Force Lt. Col Robert Patterson told a very similar account in his own book, published seven years ago. Patterson was one of the men who carried the football, and he says it was literally the morning after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke that he made a routine request of the president to present the card so that he could swap it out for an updated version. "He thought he just placed them upstairs," Patterson recalled. "We called upstairs, we started a search around the White House for the codes, and he finally confessed that he in fact misplaced them. He couldn't recall when he had last seen them." abcnews.go.com