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Juan Williams Planned His Move to Fox News For $2 Million

As we know now, Juan Williams made controversial remarks about Muslims on “The O’Reilly Factor” this Monday. Also, we know now that NPR has cancelled his contract due to the remarks he made on the show. This is big news BUT did we know that Juan Williams has signed a new contract with Fox News this week for $2 million the same show that Bill O’Reilly’s “The O’Reilly Factor” show? That’s right! It was planned.

Former NPR Analyst Juan Williams Ousted for More Than Muslim Remarks

Courtesy of sodahead.com

NRP analyst Juan Williams was fired today for remarks he made about Muslims on Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show “The O’Reilly Factor”  this Monday. He told O’Reilly that he gets “nervous” on the airplane with Muslims. But we found out that he was on the brink of being fired from other issues with NPR.

Williams has run into other issues with NPR in the past when in 2009 that asked him to stop calling himself a “senior correspondent for NPR” on “The O’Reilly Factor”.  Also, an ombudswoman for NPR, Alicia C. Shepard labelled Williams as a ”lightning rod”. She said this because he ”tends to speak one way on NPR and another on Fox.” She added that NPR has received nearly 400 emails from listener complaints about Mr. Williams.

CNN Anchor Rick Sanchez Fired For Bigot Remarks

Rick Sanchez, daytime anchor at CNN, was fired this Friday. His dismissal was a day after stating to a radio interviewer that Jon Stewart was a bigot and he said “everyone that runs CNN is like Stewart. Apparently Jon Stewart faith in Judaism was mentioned is what sparked former CNN anchor Sanchez’s remarks. CNN made a statement about Rick Sanchez Friday:

“Rick Sanchez is no longer with the company. We thank Rick for his years of service and we wish him well.”

In Sanchez’s conversation about Stewart, he made remarks that as a Cuban American he experienced some subtle forms of discrimination in his career with CNN.