Well, Genie, a lot of what has been said in this thread I FEEL is a condemnation of Mr. William, certainly not condemnation in the theological sense but in the sense that judgment has been passed upon the man. That's one point.

Where does race enter in? How about the fact that he was the only black journalist at NPR? If that is tokenism, what is? It has already been stated that he was Fox's token liberal (which is not true by a long shot, but...) what was his real function at NPR?

What I am saying is that regardless of anyone's political posiiton this man received shabby treatment at the hands of his former employer. That's all.

And BTW Mr. Williams filled in for O'Reilly tonight on the Factor and did an excellent job, fair, balanced and the rest.