QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 7:06 P.M. ET:  The Juan Williams/NPR scandal continues to boil, with no indication from NPR, of course, that it did anything wrong other than disrupt its fundraising week with the firing of Williams. 

Brit Hume, at Fox, hits on an issue that some have been reluctant to discuss:

Fox News commentator Brit Hume asserts that race played a role in National Public Radio's decision to fire Juan Williams last week after he made a comment on a Fox show about being concerned when he saw airline passengers in "Muslim garb."

"In the culture of NPR, appearing on Fox is a sin," Hume said on "Fox News Sunday," with regular panelist Williams sitting a few seats away. "And in the culture of NPR, for an African-American man like Juan, regardless of his personal stature, to be there and be kind of a Bill Cosby liberal, not a down-the-line liberal, is a sin as well. They’ve been gunning for him for years."

COMMENT:  So true, so true.  In the eyes of the left, and using the phrase that is so stinging to minorities, Juan Williams didn't know his place. 

NPR has had a bad week.  Good.  It's about time.  Its public "unmasking" (an old Marxist term, hah, hah) as a left-wing propaganda front has now taken place before an audience larger than it has ever gotten on its own.

Will it make a difference?

The building of truth occurs bit by bit.  The Chinese speak of "a thousand cuts."  This was a big cut this week.

October 24, 2010