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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Does Juan Williams Still Have a Job at Fox News After Ann Romney Quip?

     You got to wonder. He really had the line of the night and exactly not the kind of line Fox News wanted any part of. Doesn't Juan Williams know that a reality check is not what Fox is all about?

     “Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann Romney, on the other hand looked to me like a corporate wife,” Williams said, speaking on a panel after the Republican National Convention’s speeches wrapped for the night. “And you know the stories she told about struggle, eh, it’s hard for me to believe. She’s a very rich woman and I know that and America knows that.”

     "Fox News hosts Bret Baier replied, “Wow, OK,” and Megyn Kelly asked Williams, “What does that mean, corporate wife?”

    “What does it mean?” Williams replied. “It looks like a woman whose husband takes care of her and she’s been very lucky and blessed in this life. She’s not speaking, I think, for the tremendous number of single women in this country, or married women or separated — actually she did not convince me that you know what, ‘I understand the struggles of American women in general.’

     http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/80330.html?hp=l7

    http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2012/08/juan-williams-ann-romney-is-corporate.html

     You don't expect to get the truth on Fox News. So is Juan's job safe? They say yes, but it's notable he wasn't back on the next segment:

     "Later, the panel reconvened — but without Williams. Wall Street Journal columnist and former presidential speechwriter Peggy Noonan joined to offer commentary in Williams’s place."

     “I want to point out that we did not kick Juan off the panel because of the corporate wife comment, we wanted to get a speechwriter’s perspective,” Baier said, to laughter.

   “Although we considered it,” Kelly said.

   "And as Baier and Kelly wrapped the show, Kelly offered a last take on Williams’s remark.
   “My final thought is, [Ann Romney] may have improved Mitt Romney’s standing with women,” Kelly said. “You know whose standing did not improve with women tonight?”

    “Whose?” Baier asked.

    “Juan Williams,” Kelly replied, as the duo laughed.

    “He’ll be back tomorrow,” Baier said.

    “We love Juan,” Kelly added.

     I'm waiting to see him back tonight. Surely he can't afford a repeat of this sudden honesty. This is how a Fox news person is supposed to answer the question of Ann Romney's speech:
     “Is that the same speech you heard Brit?” Baier asked Fox News commentator Brit Hume.

     “Uh no. I think that was the single most effective political speech I’ve ever heard given by a political wife,” Hume said.

     Juan really stepped in it. He gave us the best line of the night, one which if they're smart, the Democrats will repeat.

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