"Stokely Carmichael in a designer dress"

While it's fine that NPR has asked Wan Williams to stop identifying himself as "NPR News Analyst" when he appears on fine, informative Fox News programs such as "The O'Reilly Factor," it would be far better if NPR disassociated themselves from him and his Villager's perspective altogether..



Christ, even O'Reilly seems to discount Williams' comments at the end.

Via Prof. DeLong.

White like me

Limbaugh and Imus must really be pissed. I mean, those two crackers were made to pay for attacking individuals. Imus made "a funny" about a few young women who'd just won the NCAA women's basketball tournament, while Limbaugh used his mad football analysis skillz to perform a hit job on a professional quarterback. And what happens? Imus loses his job (temporarily), and Limbaugh his MNF gig. O'Reilly thinks big. He doesn't go after individuals who might fight back; instead, he takes on an entire group of people.

And I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship. It was the same, and that's really what this society's all about now here in the U.S.A. There's no difference. There's no difference. There may be a cultural entertainment -- people may gravitate toward different cultural entertainment, but you go down to Little Italy, and you're gonna have that. It has nothing to do with the color of anybody's skin. (...)

That's right. That's right. There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, "M-Fer, I want more iced tea."

Meltdown

Dodd leaves O'R sputtering.

Note, he does not give Sen. Dodd the "last word."

First they came for Marcos, and I said nothing...

Colbert bravely defends Papa Bear.

OReilly: “It’s like the Ku Klux Klan. It’s like the Nazi party.”

Colbert: “Exactly! The Ku Klux Klan and the Nazis were both notorious for allowing people to express unpopular views in an open and free forum.”