uneasy, that opinion is unacceptable in the npr field. her argument i m a bigot. bill: they said psychologically unbalanced whatever crazy stuff. so ellen weiss, she gets fired. she resigned but obviously we know what happened. is that a good thing? yes. let me tell you something. she was the enforcer of political correctness. it was her way or the highway in the stories were reported, voices. she basically en forced an inbred culture at that place which is why i think it s such a fearful place today. bill: they say that is going to be all in the past. that now they are going to bring on conservative people, people from all political perfect situations to show diversity,
still rules what it says, go. democracy is a messy thing. our system is the best but it s flawed. bill: a stunning turn of events, npr fired ellen weiss. in a prepared statement, they are revamping the operation and has accepted her resignation. vivian schiller keeps her job but it was was denied her bonus. joining us from washington with reaction is juan williams. first when you heard about this today, what came to your mind? i thought, i m amazed that anything good has come of this because i thought they were having an in-house investigation was going to further disparage me in order to make them look good and justify unjustifiable action they took against me which was full of venom. i m not going to be a bitter
still rules what it says, go. democracy is a messy thing. our system is the best but it s flawed. bill: a stunning turn of events, npr fired ellen weiss. in a prepared statement, they are revamping the operation and has accepted her resignation. vivian schiller keeps her job but it was was denied her bonus. joining us from washington with reaction is juan williams. first when you heard about this today, what came to your mind? i thought, i m amazed that anything good has come of this because i thought they were having an in-house investigation was going to further disparage me in order to make them look good and justify unjustifiable action they took against me which was full of venom. i m not going to be a bitter
in other knew the npr executive who ignited that controversy when she fired news analyst juan williams with last october has resigned. ellen weiss fired williams with after he appeared on fox news and made controversial comments about muslims. her resignation comes on the same day npr announced the results of an investigation into the incident and recommended updating its code of ethics. the state department is also looking into reports that an american woman is being detained on in iran on spying charges. an iranian news agency is reporting that a 55-year-old woman was with arrested trying to enter the country from armenia illegally. she allegedly was in possession of espionage devices such as a microphone implanted in her teeth. but some details are contradicted in other reports. and a state department spokesman says u.s. officials don t even know if she is, in fact, an american. a case of mistaken identification may have helped spark that shootout at an arizona mall. authorities
economic time. it is. remember when obama pooh-poohed the clinton as small ball and he wanted to be left wing reagan and now shazam, he is trying to take the entire clinton team on board. do a replay and saying he s not. bret: juan, we are talking staff changes so we d be remiss if we didn t ask you about the npr staff change today. ellen weiss, senior vice president for news announced her resignation after a review of the firing of you from npr. vivian is keeping your job. your announcement? it s good for npr. the constitution wants to go forward as news organization and huge audience has to have reform from the inside.