QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 8:16 A.M. ET:  The Washington Post once again proves that a liberal editorial page can be mature and discerning, unlike that of a certain paper in New York.  The Post comments on the firing of Juan Williams:

Mr. Williams was attempting to do exactly what a responsible commentator should do: speak honestly without being inflammatory. His reward was to lose his job, just as Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod lost hers over purportedly racist remarks that turned out to be anything but. NPR management appears to have learned nothing from that rush to judgment. "Political correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don't address reality," Mr. Williams told Mr. O'Reilly. NPR, alas, has proved his point.

COMMENTS:  Exactly.  Let's see if any heads roll at NPR over the mess they've made of the Williams case.   I doubt if they will.  The revolutionaries will stick together.

Of course, the incident makes Juan Williams's career.  Most Americans probably never heard of him before yesterday, and, in response to his dismissal from NPR, Fox gave him a multi-million-dollar contract.  Not bad for a guy eligible to collect unemployment insurance.   His literary agent must be counting blessings.

Williams hosts "The O'Reilly Factor" tonight at Fox.  Watch the ratings soar. 

October 22, 2010