roachboy

but juan williams was not prosecuted for anything. he violated the professional code of conduct he signed when he took the job at npr. period.

there's no violation of freedom of speech in this.

so far as i can see, mostly what's happened is what you'd support, cimmaron.

ace is arguing a different "point" and isn't having a terribly good time of it because the premise is really very strange. however it is an aspect of the tea-party/palin right defense of williams---which is really about increasing fox news market-share (are all the main players in the tea party pundit space also on fox/s payroll?)---and to use it as yet another instanciation of the far right's Problem with npr.

which is about red-baiting, nothing more nothing less.


but the only reason i (speaking for myself) have been bothering with ace's "argument" is that it's a repeat of a talking point. he can't defend it. i don't think it's defensible. i don't think it's even supposed to be defensible. it was meant to last a news cycle or 3 and disappear. it didn't have to be logical. it just had to get traction for a little while. that's how conservative media strategy has worked for a long time. get traction. nothing else matters.

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