Juan (who's had the quickest most lucrative firing in the history of broadcasting) claims that his firing by NPR was censorship. Shouldn't a journalist know what censorship is? Saying things that piss of your employer causing them to fire you is THE FREE MARKET, it's not censorship. His words weren't censored by a government he was fired for saying something stupid "I think all Muslims are terrorists". That's dumb and probably not something a person should say if they want to keep their journalism job.
But the Fox Right Wing Nuts are having a field day, but I wonder why when they were screaming for Helen Thomas to be fired for commenting on the foreign policy of a country (remember she never said "Jews scare me", she spoke about Israel's foreign policy) they didn't care about free speech then? Why silent when Rick Sanchez was fired? When Peter Arnett was fired for speaking out against the Iraq war...they didn't care then.
It seems to me that the Fox/Right Wing/GOP stance is Free Speech only applies to saying shitty things about Muslims. But you damn well not say anything bad about Israel or a Republican politician.
Freakin hypocrites.
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