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House Republicans announced Wednesday they plan to force a floor vote on defunding NPR in response to the firing of analyst Juan Williams last month. (more)

Wyoming Republican Cynthia Lummis is calling for the resignation of National Public Radio Chief Executive Vivian Schiller. (more)

Among the $200 billion in spending cuts recommended — when the co-chairs of President Obama’s deficit commission dropped their draft proposal out of nowhere into an unsuspecting post-election political scene on Wednesday — are some very politically charged items. (more)

The National Public Radio Board of Directors held a public meeting Thursday in part to discuss the company’s decision to fire news analyst Juan Williams, giving listeners a chance to voice their concerns directly to board members. (more)

After NPR fired Juan Williams in late October for comments he made about Muslims on Fox News’ “O’Reilly Factor,”  NPR saw supporters come out of the woodwork to decry right-leaning calls for the radio company to be stripped of government financial support. Interestingly, many of those who voiced their opinion that NPR should keep its government provided cash happen to receive funds from the same source: liberal financier George Soros and his Open Society Institute. (more)

Speaking at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington Sunday on the “Future of Journalism,” National Public Radio President and CEO Vivian Schiller said she takes calls for defunding NPR “very seriously,” while stressing how important government funding is for public broadcasting, especially for NPR’s member stations. She also recognized there’s a possibility that, with the new GOP majority in the House, those calls for defunding might be renewed. (more)

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On Election Night, ABC News grabbed headlines by hiring (and later dismissing) conservative Andrew Breitbart, MSNBC stacked its Election-Night panel with opinion hosts, and CNN was busy trying to find chairs for all of its 24— yes, 24!— in-studio experts. Meanwhile, Fox’s more low-key newscast garnered the biggest ratings of the night, and praise for its balance. (more)

NPR should be funded, in part, by Fox News. (more)

Most folks fifty or older fondly remember the ritual of the family dinner. They remember them because, what with working late and rushing kids to and from school events, they rarely have family dinners themselves. (more)

“Political correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don’t address reality….I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the Civil Rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.” — Juan Williams on “The O’Reilly Factor” (more)

National Public Radio (NPR) fired Juan Williams for admitting on FOX News that he gets nervous when he sees airline passengers in Muslim dress. Vivian Schiller, president of NPR, explained, “Juan Williams should have kept his feelings about Muslims between himself and his psychiatrist or his publicist.” (more)

A week ago, minutes before Juan Williams and I went on “The O’Reilly Factor” to tape the segment that got him fired by NPR, we had a rather prescient conversation. (more)

Juan Williams’ dismissal by NPR because of supposedly inappropriate remarks he made on Bill O’Reilly’s TV program once again exposes the radio network’s hypocrisy and bias.  The real reason is clearly that NPR officials disliked Williams’ ongoing association with Fox News; they regularly permit other correspondents and analysts to get away with murder — but on other TV networks. (more)

In the wake of the firing of former National Public Radio news analyst Juan Williams over public comments made about Muslims, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would support a bill that ends federal funding for public broadcasting media outlets. (more)

Shirley Sherrod, meet Juan Williams. (more)

Dear Mr. Williams, (more)

Calls for Congress to defund National Public Radio went into overdrive Friday, with commentators and congressmen alike criticizing the broadcast network of improperly firing one of its reporters. Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina acted on those calls by introducing legislation Friday to defund NPR as well as the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). (more)

America, we have a problem.  The problem is plain and simple: political correctness and “gotcha” journalism run amok. (more)

I have a way for National Public Radio to get their reputation back: they can give me a job. (more)