-Violent oppression of religion
--Shooting meditators and Falun Dafa/Falun Gong practitioners on sight plus massive propaganda campaign against it
-Oppression of dissent
-Censorship of the internet
-Kill vans and questionable organ donations
-Forced one-child only law
-The fact the the "People's Republic" IS a dictatorship

...Yep, would seem to to point to him being a dictator alright.

Forgive me if I remind you of a republican right now, but, God, I'm proud to be a citizen of a country that can call him or anyone else out on their bullshit, even if corporate and political America is willing to sell their souls for some cheap electronics (though hypocritically I write this on a Chinese-made HP).

I don't have an opinion of her, but it sounds like conservatives want her out and moderates are willing to bend over, take it and throw her under the bus to appease them.

On the night of September 16th of this year Jon Stewart announced that he would soon have an announcement of epic proportions on his late night show "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart", not to be outdone Stephen Colbert, Stewart's self-described "Best frienemy" announced on his show "The Colbert Report" (both Colbert and Report are pronounced as though French with the 'T' silent) immediately after that he would have an even greater announcement to announce. The announcement: A rally, a rally on October 30th, the Saturday before Halloween for those who are moderate in voice and thought, of people who consider themselves reasonable, which, it turns out, is an idea the terrifies Colbert. His announcement: A march to keep fear alive.

Later Colbert apparently had trouble with permits, so he tricked Stewart into nicely allowing his demonstration of wholly opposite nature to piggy-back on Stewarts, thus what was originally the "Rally to Restore Sanity" and the "March to Keep Fear Alive" became the "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear".

The rally was huge success drawing in about a quarter million people and picking up endorsements from many celebrities, including Oprah, but at least one thing happened that has caused some controversy among democrats: Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz were shown on a video montage along with clips of Glenn Beck, tea party members and other pop culture video clips depicting disgruntled, angered people whom were casted as having a negative impact on society.

Two days later, today Olbermann responded by saying his angry comments were in defense of the little guy: "Standing up for the powerless is not the same as standing up for the powerful," a statement aimed at FOXNEWS. This statement followed with Olbermann's announcement that he was considering ending his "Worst Person in the World" segment, as the clips used by Stewart and Colbert were from this segment, which shows him describing recent actions done by people or companies and an explanation of why they were horrible and deserving of the title. Sometimes it was in jest, for example the president of the US Postal service resigning because of loss of revenue due to expansion of web-based deliveries and mail by email or very serious, such as corrupt actions of politician, companies and individuals.

For causing Keith Olbermann to cancel the epic mini-countdown of people who suck, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, DFA, you are tonight's Worst persons.... In the world!

October 22, 2010, By Arsalan Iftikhar, Special to CNN -

Imagine for a moment that there was a prominent American conservative journalist who ignorantly disparaged an entire minority group on national television, got fired for it by the nation's largest public radio media organization and then still managed to pull down a $2 million payday with the television network where he made the remarks.

Man, it must be nice to be Juan Williams.

A quick recap: Williams, a National Public Radio "news analyst," appeared on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" on Monday to talk about Bill O'Reilly's recent remarks about Muslims on ABC's "The View;" the latter' shows co-hosts, Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, had walked off the television set in protest.
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When asked what he thought about the incident, Williams responded: "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."

When someone begins with the weak disclaimer that he is "not a bigot," you can probably bet the farm that he is about to say something pretty bigoted.

Soon after, Williams was terminated as an NPR news analyst -- a position he had held for 10 years -- for reasons that included his repeated opinion statements that have teetered on the brink of bigoted nonsense in the past.

For example, many African-Americans were rightfully shocked in January 2009 when Williams, who is black, said on Fox that the first lady "Michelle Obama, you know. ... She's got this Stokely Carmichael in a designer dress thing going. ..."

In her first interview after the firing, National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "There have been several instances over the last couple of years where we have felt Juan has stepped over the line," she said, citing the Michelle Obama remark and others. "This isn't a case of one strike and you're out. ..."

Additionally, during this week's Fox appearance, Williams kept referring back to the September 11 attacks in describing his uneasiness about people in "Muslim garb."

Sadly, this is where he should lose any objective argument with any reasonable observer out there.

As a historical fact, neither the 19 hijackers from September 11 nor the failed "shoe bomber" nor the failed "underwear bomber" ever wore any "Muslim garb" when committing their criminal acts of terrorism on an airplane.

Once Williams made that factually wrong statement, he then no longer continued being a "news analyst"; he had crossed over the line into simply voicing his paranoid and irrational fears to the general public.

"Juan Williams is a news analyst; he is not a commentator and he is not a columnist," Schiller told an Atlanta Press Club luncheon Thursday. "We have relied on him over the years to give us perspective on the news, not to talk about his opinions."
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She added, "NPR news analysts have a distinctive role and set of responsibilities. This is a very different role than that of a commentator or columnist. News analysts may not take personal public positions on controversial issues; doing so undermines their credibility as analysts, and that's what's happened in this situation. As you all well know, we offer views of all kinds on our air every day, but those views are expressed by those we interview -- not our reporters and analysts."

As someone who has been an on-air NPR commentator for more than three years now, I can understand the difference between a news analyst and a commentator.

Just as I support NPR's firing of Williams, I also publicly supported both the firing of CNN's Rick Sanchez and Helen Thomas' forced retirement from Hearst Newspapers for their own bizarrely bigoted statements about Jews and Israelis. Both crossed any reasonable line for an objective journalist.

Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com correctly points out: "The Helen Thomas/Rick Sanchez incidents -- and countless others -- demonstrate how unequal and imbalanced our standards have become in determining which group-based comments are acceptable and which ones are not. ... If we're going to fire or otherwise punish people for expressing prohibited ideas against various groups, it's long overdue that those standards be applied equally to anti-Muslim animus, now easily one of the most -- if not the single most -- pervasive, tolerated and dangerous forms of blatant bigotry in America."

The First Amendment of our beloved Constitution allows all people to express racist or bigoted thoughts. However, it does not mean that a reputable, mainstream media organization (such as NPR) must give these people a continued platform for those xenophobic views.

Fox News is a different story.

As prominent right-wing figures such as Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee publicly called for Congress officially to cut funding for NPR, Fox News Chief Executive Roger Ailes "handed Williams a new three-year contract Thursday morning," said the Los Angeles Times, "in a deal that amounts to nearly $2 million, a considerable bump up from his previous salary." He'll have a steady gig on the cable news network and a regular column on its website.

The sad moral of this story is that if you take a bigoted potshot against Muslims in the public media today, no need to worry. There is probably a certain "fair and balanced" news network that might have a $2 million check waiting for you.

Source: http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-22/opinion...

I'm a black man myself, and I say he got what he deserved.

I'm disgusted with everyone defending him because they let themselves take in the same hatred and ignorance into their heart, especially FoxNews who gave this fool 2 million dollars effectively funding ignorance one more time, surely in the name of the all-loving God of Abraham and Constitution and Declaration of Independence guaranteeing fair treatment for all and the belief that God believes all men are created equal that all of those phonies claim to believe in.

I'm a black man, I've known what it feels like to walk into a store and get weird looks like "what's he going to steal?", I know what it feels like to walk down the street and make the mistake of walking in the same direction as some pretty white girl and get weird looks from her like I'm going to rape her!

Juan Williams, FoxNews, everyone blasting NPR, everyone defending what he said, they all make me SICK! And you know what else? I'm not a bigot or anything, but I get nervous when millions stupid people participate elections.

This peeves me so much.

Under the Bush years, prior to that and apparently still to this day in the mind of Jon Stewart "Liberal" was a bad word here in America. It was just like a curse word: Everyone knew it as a "bad word" but didn't even know what hell it meant.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lib... (not that you guys don't already know)
Oh no! They're gonna make me not be afraid of things that are a little bit different than I'm use to, save me, mommy!

But now, anti-liberalism seems to have somewhat decreased, but now EVERYBODY is calling themselves "libertarian." People whose views are to the extreme right like Glenn Beck and almost the entirety of the tea party, a rebranding and even more radical downgrade of the conservative movement, and even people whose views are more to the left like Jon Stewart and the guy I wanted to vote for in the last election Mike Gravel.

WTF? This hodgepodge seems to kind of negate whatever meaning "libertarian" had, which BTW was very close to liberal:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lib...

So now we have people like Beck using a word that almost groups people who actually follow it with phonies like him because they know it's a likeable concept and lets them dodge the terrible things they did under their actual political doctrine conservatism. Argh! FML