Jeri--
I agree with Bernie Shaw to this extent: when one is anchoring the news, one should let the news speak for itself. Away from the anchor desk, and away from the station it is a different matter.

Further, NPR, not Juan Williams, made him the news. Today, James Rainey, the LA Times media critic, rebuked NPR for its precipitative action.

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Yesterday afternoon, the overwhelming consensus in a current events discussion group (seniors aged 57-97) was that NPR blew it. The topic ended on the low note of one speaker saying, in essence, that we'd all know how harmful Williams' remarks were when we saw Muslim bodies swing from trees. A bit of a stretch, I thought (pun intended).