NPR Correspondent Fired for Talking About Muslims on Fox


Williams, a black (sorta) conservative [Edit.: I mean sorta conservative, not sorta black!] who has written some smart books but has also managed to be a desiccated, unimaginative hack analyst for public radio, appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show on Monday night. The conversation turned, as it often does in situations where two blowhards are in a room together, toward Islam, a religion with over a billion adherents worldwide. "I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot," he told O'Reilly, and you knew it was going to be good, because who says that unless they are about to say something racist:


Muslim garb! This is, unfortunately, as these kinds of bigoted statements go, sort of mild—the kind of thing a lot of people in this country probably say and think (again, unfortunately)—but NPR has been fighting with Williams for a while now over his appearances on Fox and they way they tend to go (last year, also on The O'Reilly Factor, he called Michelle Obama "Stokely Carmichael in a dress"; they forbade him from using his NPR title when on the network). So, it's maybe not that surprising.

Update: Fox News has given Williams an expanded role and a new $2 million contract.

[NPR; image via Getty]