Joe, public figures are allowed feelings; it is how they deal with them that matters. He owned up to his. Juan Williams did not incite or inflame against Muslims, nor blame or demean Muslims. It is the rest of us (generically) who demand perfection in thought and deed in others, who have interpreted his remarks so. Where is a Voltaire when he is sore needed?

I believe American society, as it becomes more and more liberal since the mid-1960s, has lost its ability to think and respond coherently. Mainly we are emotive rather than rational, and the worse for it.