When asked who Stewart is bigoted against, Sanchez said "everybody else who's not like him."

Sanchez would eventually retract the "bigot" claim, settling instead on calling Stewart "prejudicial" and "uninformed."

But he made a larger point when Dominick suggested that Stewart could understand being part of an oppressed minority group because he is Jewish.

Sanchez scoffed at the claim, snickering and suggesting that CNN and the rest of the media is run by Jewish people

Very powerless people... [snickers] He's such a minority, I mean, you know [sarcastically]... Please, what are you kidding? ... I'm telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they -- the people in this country who are Jewish -- are an oppressed minority? Yeah. [sarcastically]

"I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot," Williams continued. "You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."

Williams did go on to tell O'Reilly that he had to be "careful" to stress that he was not talking about all Muslims when he criticized some and that America was not at war with Islam. He also compared blaming all Muslims for the actions of extremists to blaming all Christians for the actions of Timothy McVeigh.

These tempered statements were/are ignored. If journalists should be fired every time they say something wrong, with the plethora of opinion based news shows there will eventually be a regular turnover due to regular terminations, or free discourse will just cease to exist.

I don't like those comments either, but there should probably be a pattern before termination. Williams certainly hasn't shown any type of pattern for comments like that. The flip side is really boring or disingenuous commentary, or a flat out Olbermann kind of company line propoganda.

NPR's neutral stance.

Oh, you're serious.
I listen to NPR every day...they have some good stuff on there but neutral they aint.

oh...and Williams was on Fox in a "commentator" capacity, not a journalistic one.

He's a citizen with a right to an opinion.

It's almost impossible to get any facts from the news media without their being a slant one way or another.

Although, to be fair, each NPR station differs somewhat in it's content, so perhaps you've got the granola crunchers out there on the left coast.

No denying that.

However, on Fox, he was a commentator. On NPR, he was a contractor in a journalistic role. NPR decided that his comments on Fox undermined his credibility as journalist, and therefore he could no longer fulfill that role with NPR.

That's perfectly normal.

oh...and Williams was on Fox in a "commentator" capacity, not a journalistic one.

He's a citizen with a right to an opinion.

I thought this was about Mad Libs so here's one I did...