Is NPR run by hateful, elitist Liberals?

Delise Williams, the wife of Fox News contributor Juan Williams, tells Newsmax
that “so-called liberals” at NPR treated her — a light-skinned African-American — as if she didn’t
exist.

“The NPR people were hypocrites because they are supposed to be
the liberals who are accepting of all kinds of people and inclusive, and they
were the most exclusive group in my experience of going to events related to
work that I have ever seen,” says Delise, a former social worker who is the
daughter of a doctor.

Juan Williams’ book “Muzzled: The Assault on Honest
Debate” hits bookstores next week. It reveals that for years before NPR fired
him, NPR executives harassed him over what he did or did not say on the
air.

NewsmaxTV interviewed Juan about the book, including how Fox News
President Roger Ailes expanded Juan's role at Fox and made sure he would not
suffer a pay cut because NPR had fired him over what he had said on
Fox.

In the meantime, Delise says that she and Juan were the only blacks
at NPR parties, a point confirmed by Juan. In general, both say,
African-Americans were found only in low level jobs such as security
guards.

Asked for comment, Anna Christopher, NPR’s director of media
relations, said, “We aren’t sure which parties Juan and his wife are referring
to, but all events we have sponsored in recent memory have included a mix of
guests. Diversity of opinions, ideas, sources, voices, and staff is very
important to NPR.”

A former Washington Post reporter, Juan is one of
Washington’s most respected journalists. He and Delise are invited to top
parties at the White House and elsewhere. But because she felt NPR personnel
treated her like a second-class citizen, she says she stopped going to NPR
social gatherings.

In contrast to NPR, “Even though politically I’m on
the other side, the Fox people, included me much more in the interactions and in
the gatherings, and I never felt like I was on the outside,” Delise says.