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Taxpayer-funded NPR’s Nina Totenberg (emphasis added)

I want to say one thing about the budget that didn’t get passed, the omnibus bill. You know, we talk a lot about – we just passed this huge tax cut in part because business said, you know, we have to plan, we have to know what kind of tax cuts we have. Well, these agencies, including the Defense Department, don’t know how much money they’ve got and for what. And I was at – forgive the expression – a Christmas party at the Department of Justice and people actually were really worried about this. These are law enforcement people don’t know exactly what kind of money they can spend for what.

Totenberg says “we”; who does she mean “we”? It was Congress, and unless she’s a member of Congress, she’s not part of the “we”.

Congress, since Nina seems to forgot, still has a Democratic Party majority until the new session starts. Nina’s concern over the DoJ and DoD apparently didn’t move her to press for Congress to have approved a budget earlier this year.

The so-called “huge tax cut” exists only in her addled brain. Ed:

Congress didn’t pass a tax cut. They passed a bill that maintains the current tax rates in the same status they’ve been for seven years. In fact, taxes went up because of the renewed estate tax; it just didn’t go up as much as Democrats wanted. It’s only a tax cut if government feels that they were owed that tax increase and the money it would have taken out of the pockets of citizens above what they have already taken over the last decade.

Which wouldn’t surprise me if Nina believes.

And,
My response to the question, is “Christmas party” such a foul expression that it necessitates an apology? is
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NPR Fires Analyst Over Comments on Muslims
And what was it he said that got him fired?

The move came after Mr. Williams, who is also a Fox News political analyst, appeared on the “The O’Reilly Factor” on Monday. On the show, the host, Bill O’Reilly, asked him to respond to the notion that the United States was facing a “Muslim dilemma.” Mr. O’Reilly said, “The cold truth is that in the world today jihad, aided and abetted by some Muslim nations, is the biggest threat on the planet.”

Mr. Williams said he concurred with Mr. O’Reilly.

He continued: “I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. 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.”

Mr. Williams also made reference to the Pakistani immigrant who pleaded guilty this month to trying to plant a car bomb in Times Square. “He said the war with Muslims, America’s war is just beginning, first drop of blood. I don’t think there’s any way to get away from these facts,” Mr. Williams said.

Ed Morrissey has the video of Williams,

NPR had already more-or-less thrown Williams under the bus,

In February 2009, NPR said it had asked that he stop being identified on “The O’Reilly Factor” as a “senior correspondent for NPR,” even though that title was accurate.

Tammy Bruce:

Oh my gosh, look who just this week gave $1.8 million to…NPR? George Soros’ Millions Buying ‘Political Reporters’ for NPR

And golly gee, look who also just gave $1 million to Media Matters specifically to target Fox news and their hosts? Now George Soros Backs Media Matters; Beck Calls It a ‘Bounty’

NPR is also funded by your hard-earned taxpayer dollars.

Ed Driscoll has the photshop.

[Post re-edited to include missing paragraph]

UPDATE:
Turns out the handwriting is also on Mara Liasson’s wall.

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Nina, what Congress passed was – forgive the expression – a tax increase

Juan Williams fired from NPR VIDEO