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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Juan Williams: NPR Fired Me Over The Phone Without Even Talking To Me About My Comments

(By Stephen Gutowski, The Blast) - The day after NPR fired Juan Williams for some controversial comments he made on The O’Reilly Factor regarding Muslims Juan spoke with Fox about how it all went down. He clearly wasn’t happy about what happened. Watch:



So, according to Juan Williams, NPR called him up on the phone. Called his remarks bigoted. Then fired him on the spot without letting him defend himself.

Wow.

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