When you think about Freedom of Speech, does it mean to you that you can say whatever you want whenever you want? After all, it is literally free? Does Freedom of Speech mean that you have to consider who it is or the situation before you speak? Do you have to differentiate between your personal speech versus professional speech?

In the case of Juan Williams, what did he not consider? Or did he consider everything correctly? I personally have always appreciated Mr. Williams' political reporting as a panelist on Fox news. I never heard him on NPR  so I admittedly do not know if his commentary was different from that on Fox.

What I do know is his appearance on Bill O'Reilly's show was not based upon his employment of NPR but more on being a well respected journalist and author for years. I heard someone who as a person is able to balance his personal and professional state of mind and offer thoughts and feelings based upon both. Nevermind the fact that there was a lot more to the comments than what has been isolated but he offered a well balanced expression.

It appears Mr. Williams detriment is that he's too well respected and too well balanced. Had he just offered a strictly political response, there would have been no firing but viewers would have been short changed. We would not have been able to truly hear what's in the mind and soul of Mr. Williams and be relieved to know that he like the rest of us have fears about a significant change in our lives for the past nine years.

Maybe we need a new constitutional added that's called "Freedom of Feelings"!