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Fox News "Protects" Juan Williams, Hands Him $2 Million

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Media
Posted on Thu Oct 21, 2010 at 04:17:18 PM EST
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Fox News Chief Executive Roger Ailes handed Williams a new three-year contract Thursday morning, in a deal that amounts to nearly $2 million, a considerable bump up from his previous salary, the Tribune Washington Bureau has learned. "Juan has been a staunch defender of liberal viewpoints since his tenure began at Fox News in 1997," Ailes said in a statement, adding a jab at NPR: “He’s an honest man whose freedom of speech is protected by Fox News on a daily basis.”

Heh. Maybe Fox News can "protect" me too. What does it take to get that kind of protection? Who do I have to offend?

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    How I hate this type of spin (5.00 / 3) (#1)
    by MO Blue on Thu Oct 21, 2010 at 04:23:40 PM EST
    Juan has been a staunch defender of liberal viewpoints.....

    Please save us from a Fox news version of "a staunch defender of liberal viewpoints." They are hired to distort rather than defend liberal viewpoints.

    Give him $4 million for all I care, just stop calling him a liberal.

    I suppose that by today's (5.00 / 1) (<