Somewhere, Juan Williams is chuckling to himself

After months of controversy, Vivian Schiller, the head of NPR, resigned after one of her colleagues got into a foaming anti-Tea Party tirade, thanks in part to conservative activist James O’Keefe, posing as a Muslim group carrying a $5 million donation to NPR and a hidden camera.  Ron Schiller not only offered his opinion, he offered the rope to strangle funding for public broadcasting.  (Not only that, one of the hoo-hahs chuckled that NPR is actually National Palestinian Radio.  She's on adminstrative leave.)

The clincher in all of this?  Upper class white people have maintained their facade of tolerance for many years, but their unadulterated spleen and contempt for others not like them - in other words, their real opinion about minorities, poverty, etc. - comes behind closed doors.  They are every bit as bigoted, ignorant, racist, and intolerant as they proclaim their bete noirs to be.  The upper white class lusts for power even more than the ones who "cling to their guns and religion," only their guns are mobs of professional agitators and their religion is socialism-lite.


NPR will only have itself to blame when federal funding is cut off from public broadcasting, and their only crime was being too candid.

Juan Williams, who was dismissed for exhibiting his opinion at NPR, is somewhere chuckling wryly to himself.

UPDATE: Juan Williams responds in the New York Post.  Compared to his former NPR bosses, Williams at least has his shoes tied while they tripped over themselves.