the history channel has now caved, pulling the plug on the controversial project that, in my view, threatened to tarnish his image as place in real history. showtime has also passed on the project. you may have heard the other shoe has dropped over national public radio's decision to fire juan williams over those comments about muslims he made on fox news. after an internal review of how this was bungled, ellen weis, the top news executive at npr and the woman who dumped juan over the phone resigned under pressure. weis defended the decision that ended her nearly three-decade career at npr. williams treated the development as good news . >> i'm amazed that anything good has come of this, because i thought they were having an in-house investigation that was just going to further disparage me in order to make them look good and justify that, you know, unjustifiable action they took against me. which was just full of venom and bitterness. >> npr's board penalized vivian schuyler who approved the