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Ousted NPR pundit Juan Williams ripped his former employer - which is taking heat after an embarrassing sting - for showing the "worst of white condescension" when it fired him last year.
"I think when it comes to NPR's decision to, without any reason, throw me out the door, I think that for them, especially for some of the people who created NPR, it's an all-white operation," said Williams, who works for Fox News.
Williams said NPR "felt they had never had much success" with black or Hispanic journalists and did better with white women.
Williams made the comments to the Huffington Post before Tuesday's release of a sting video that showed an NPR exec calling Tea Partiers "racist."
The Website published the interview Thursday as part of a series that examines black journalists' experiences in the media industry.
NPR canned Williams, 56, in October after he told "The O'Reilly Factor" he gets "nervous" when he sees people in airplanes wearing "Muslim garb."
NPR has said Williams' comments about Muslims "undermined his credibility as a news analyst."
About the firing, Williams said: "I think they acted very unfairly, and largely in a condescending manner..."
Earlier this week, NPR executive Ron Schiller was caught on tape calling Tea Partiers "middle-America gun-toting" people... and "racists."
Schiller and NPR's CEO resigned, and many Republicans in Congress have called for stripping NPR's federal funding.
"These people are not only attacking the Tea Party ... they attack anybody who disagrees with their point of view. These folks are doing damage to real journalism at NPR."
Source: NY Daily News
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