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The left is doing to Juan Williams what the right did to Shirley Sherrod

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Shirley Sherrod, meet Juan Williams.

Three months ago, right-wingers clipped a video of Sherrod to make her look like a racist. They circulated the video on the Internet, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture fired her.

Now it’s happening again. This time, left-wingers have done the editing. They clipped a video of Juan Williams, a commentator for Fox News and NPR, to make him look like an anti-Muslim bigot. They circulated the video on the Internet, and last night, NPR fired him.

According to NPR and the New York Times, the termination of Williams’ contract was based on the following comments, delivered by Williams on The O’Reilly Factor Monday night

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