Juan Williams, it seems, really knows how to make conservatives happy:
"I think when it comes to NPR's decision to, without any reason, throw me out the door, I think that for them, especially for some of the people who created NPR, it's an all-white operation," Williams said. He added that he thought NPR "felt they had never had much success" with black or Hispanic journalists, and that they had had "more success with white women."
I have no idea what the racial makeup of the NPR staff is, although as it happens, of the five most visible (audible?) people on NPR -- the anchors of "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" -- two (Robert Siegel and Steve Inskeep) are white men, two (Renee Montagne and Melissa Block) are white women, and one (Michele Norris) is a black woman. But whatever. Does Williams really think the reason he got booted from NPR was racism? We don't have to rehash his firing again (for the record, I thought he should have been fired years before, not only for his Fox activities but for contributing so little to NPR, in what had to be the cushiest job in journalism), but this is certainly a new interpretation of that episode. It just makes so much sense -- I can see the NPR executives saying, "At last, we can get rid of that black guy!"
As I'm sure Williams knows well, it's hard to overestimate how much conservatives love being told by a black man that liberals are the real racists. That, and that the core of America's race problem is conservative white people being unfairly accused of racism. I'm sure Williams will have something to say on that before you know it. Looks like he's fitting in great over at Fox!
