In the wake of NPR's firing of contributor Juan Williams over comments about Muslims, Mike Huckabee is calling on the next Congress to cut the radio network's funding when it convenes next year.
"NPR has discredited itself as a forum for free speech and a protection of the First Amendment rights of all and has solidified itself as the purveyor of politically correct pabulum and protector of views that lean left," Huckabee said in a statement provided to CNN.
Williams told Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Monday that he gets "worried" and "nervous" on flights when he sees people wearing "Muslim garb." NPR terminated Williams' contract on Wednesday evening because of that statement.
"It is time for the taxpayers to start making cuts to federal spending, and I encourage the new Congress to start with NPR," he said.
NPR says federal funding comprises less than 2 percent of its budget.
[Then they won't miss the taxpayers' money very much, will they? -- Editor]
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2 comments:
In view of some truly outraegous statements that FAR exceed the Williams' statement, I am surprised that half the executives at NPR haven't resigned. And WHERE is the NAACP and Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton on this?? Believe it when I say --- if ANY other organization fired the ONLY BLACK person on the news staff, they would be calling for the dismantling of the entire racist organization.
10:44 I agree full-heartedly.
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