Juan Williams used to have an --excellent---column in the Washington Post. I always looked forward to reading it.   He has however been drifting rightward for a while--probably (possibly unconsciously) to curry favor with his employers at Fox.

I think he should have not been summarily fired. I'm not convinced anything else he said was anything beyond the usual controversy-mongering found on "news shows" these days. But there should have been a program scheduled--say about an hour--where it would be pointed out to him clearly--over and over-- that by this comment he was playing into the hands of anti-Moslem bigots.   Which, with the "mosque" controversy, we don't need--to put it mildly.

If he refused to see this and to apologize, then fine, can him. Who knows, he might have resigned.   And it would have been his decision.    Which would have made it not quite so easy for the Right to make a credible claim of censorship..