Late last week, National Public Radio came under scrutiny for the controversial firing of their longtime analyst, Juan Williams, over remarks he had made while guesting on Fox News. While political pundits and personalities on both the right and the left seemed to find common ground on the issue (both Whoopie Goldberg and Bill O’ Reilly called the firing “ridiculous”) a few rightwing bloggers—recalling that NPR had last year “suggested” to correspondent Mara Liasson that she reconsider her association with the cable news network—wondered if the publicly-funded radio outlet was conducting a covert “purge” of Fox-affiliated employees.
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