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Prize-winning Washington journalist Juan Williams was unceremoniously dismissed by NPR for speaking his head and saying what many People in the usa feel: that he gets nervous when boarding airplanes with people dressed up in Muslim garb. NPR banished the veteran journalist within an act of politics correctness that finally sparked nationwide outrage and resulted in demands Congress to end its public funding of the advertising group. In Muzzled, Williams uses his very general public firing as a starting pad to discuss the countless ways that honest debate in America - from the halls of Congress and the health-care town halls to the chat shows and print out advertising - is stifled. In the current partisan world, where advertising provocateurs rule the airwaves and politics correctness dictates what can and can't be said with impunity, Williams shows how the honest exchange of ideas and the search for solutions and fair compromise is intentionally muzzled. Only those toeing the party's series - the screaming voices of the extremist - get airtime and dominate the talk in politics and the advertising. Each area, liberal and conservative, preaches to a choir that revels in expressions of anger, ideology, conspiracies, and demonized competitors. The effect is an absence of truth-telling and honest debate about the reality. Among the issues refused a full-throated talk are racial profiling; the increased reliance on religious values in debating American beliefs and legislation; the nuances of your immigration policy ended up awry; why abortion is marketed as a hot button wedge concern to incite the get together faithful and drive donations; the uneasy balance between individual independence and our desire to have secure deposit against terrorism; plus much more. A brutal, fresh look at the critical need for an open airing of questionable issues, Muzzled is a hard-hitting critique of the matters and concerns we can't speak about without hurting retaliation as a result of the politics correctness authorities. Only by providing such hot-button issues into the light of day can we hope to grapple with them and exercise our valued, hard-won right of free speech.
