But it's
becoming interesting now:
Cantor said in a statement that NPR’s decision to fire Williams was an example of "over-reaching political correctness."
"In light of their rash decision, we will include termination of federal funding for NPR as an option in the YouCut program so that Americans can let it be known whether they want their dollars going to that organization," he said.
Cantor's decision follows a chorus of Republican calls to defund NPR, which they believe leans too far to the left for a news organization that is partially dependent on federal dollars.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) said Thursday that he is introducing legislation to defund NPR in the upper chamber and Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) is renewing a push for his bill that he introduced in June to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which oversees NPR.
And
old accusations resurface:
"Seven women said in on-the-record interviews yesterday that Williams had repeatedly made hostile and sexually explicit comments to them, in some cases over a period of several years," the Post's Howard Kurtz wrote in a Nov. 2, 1991 piece. "All of them said they believed the comments were meant to embarrass them, not an attempt to date them, and most said that Williams persisted despite their protests."
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