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No Magic Left in This Juan 0

On the Media looks at the Juan Williams kerfuffle.

I haven’t paid a lot of attention to it (so much outrage, so little time), but this seems to be one of the more level-headed analyses I’ve heard.

This capsule description from the website is not quite accurate:

NPR analyst Juan Williams was fired this week after he told Bill O’Reilly that he feels nervous when he sees religiously attired Muslims on planes. Slate’s William Saletan says Williams shouldn’t have been fired, partly because he was a victim of selective editing.

Left out is that Satetan thought that NPR might have been fully justified in letting Williams go for other reasons, but that they chose was wrong one, for the full transcript shows Williams’s statements to be more nuanced and tolerant than the edited clip that led to his moving to Fox full-time.

Follow the link above to listen or to read the transcript, due to be posted this afternoon, or listen here.

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