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As crazy as Fox News went with this story, they did just enough to protect themselves from libel. Andrew Breitbart, on the other hand, is about to get his ass handed to him if anyone's up to it.
Rachel Maddow takes FAUX News to school .....again...
One thing is clear by this incident, the Obama administration is scared -less of the wing-nut noise machine and the M$M proves once again how lazy and incompetent it really is....
As crazy as Fox News went with this story, they did just enough to protect themselves from libel. Andrew Breitbart, on the other hand, is about to get his ass handed to him if anyone's up to it.
We'll see I guess......the Obama Administration could be on the line too for demanding her resignation based solely on yet another Breitbart heavily-edited tape....did the Administration learn nothing from the Faux ACORN scandal?
IMHO, Maddow actually put words and context to Sherrod's story that I never heard Sherrod say herself on the tape. That's not enough to change my initial judgement, it still sounds horrible. HOWEVER, apparently the white folks she helped out are speaking up and thankful for what she did for them...the same white people she talked about in the speech.
Maybe Breitbart should have tried to talk to them and get some nasty quotes, then posted the edited video and the white people looking all sad in the aftermath. That would have worked much better.
Is there a pattern here?
Breitbart runs slyly edited vids and subsequently apologizes. Credibility of targets get[s] tarred irreversably. Mission accomplished.
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USDA reconsiders employee ouster over race remarks
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday he will reconsider the department's decision to oust a black employee over racially tinged remarks after learning more about what she said."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...MPLATE=DEFAULT
Pox News and Breitbart are just doing what they normally do. Too bad Obama's WH is so terrified of the right that it capitulates without reason or principle on issue after issue:
Washington PostSherrod told CNN that the White House urged her to resign Monday afternoon after the video clip surfaced.
"They harassed me," she said. "I got three calls from the White House. At one point they asked me to pull over to the side of the road and do it because you are going to be on Glenn Beck tonight."
Sherrod said the White House calls came from Cheryl Cook, USDA deputy undersecretary for rural development. "The administration was not interested in hearing the truth. They didn't want to hear the truth," Sherrod said.
Shirley Sherrod Unsure If She Would Go Back To USDA After Firing
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WASHINGTON — The woman at the center of a racially tinged firestorm involving the Obama administration and the NAACP said Wednesday she doesn't know if she'd return to her job at the Agriculture Department, even if asked.
"I am just not sure how I would be treated there," Shirley Sherrod said in a nationally broadcast interview. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday he would reconsider the department's decision to oust Sherrod over her comments that she didn't give a white farmer as much help as she could have 24 years ago.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0...tml?view=print
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It wasn't just them. The White House and the NAACP smeared her too.
And NBADan, playing an unbroken, unaltered, segment of a tape is not the same as "heavily editing" a tape.
Perhaps a turning point for the Obama administration. Where do they go from here? More than a mistake, this saga reveals too many weaknesses.
Disgusting.
Too bad she never takes to school liberals, who take PC to this level all the time.
That's right. The madcow is right in this case. She recounted a story that opened her eyes that some whites struggle also. That it's not a racial thing.
Now Fox was wrong for not verifying a story. So were everyone else who ran with it. CNN, CBS, MSNBC, etc. do this all the time when it's against a republican or conservative. Any heat directed to Fox over this , I hope people equally hold against the liberal press to this standard of outrage in the future.
However. I know that will never happen. It's OK to slander conservatives, republicans, and tea party members. Just no OK to do the same to liberals/democrats. Right?
I think they all saw the unedited tape, but forced her out because she was too conservative for them. Just used the snippet as an excuse.
Fox News and talk radio base thier living on soundbites. Is this a surprise to anyone?
All news is based on soundbites. Is this a surprise to you?
This should be a lesson to all News organizations and reporters...do your job...report the facts...if you're gonna give your opinion...don't call yourself a News organization...you're Entertainment Tonight...
The chick is a racist. Now some of you are blaming Fox news for her racism.
But, but, but she said she was a racist!
Don't you love it when the shoe is on the other foot...
Liberals always attack conservatives with soundbites. Now that they have experienced it, think it will educate them?
I don't. I think they will remain lib s.
Really?
Then it should be very easy for you to present a similar case in short order.
Please support your claim, as I am very dubious.
WTF are you talking about...have you not watched the ENTIRE video...or are you still going on what Fox "News" is reporting...
They base their living on providing "liberal media" conspiracy theories to brainwashed dolts who are willing to believe in it.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=158758
It is simply adding muck and water to a self-imposed swamp of stupidity, bad logic, and disconnect with reality.In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.
This bodes ill for a democracy, because most voters — the people making decisions about how the country runs — aren’t blank slates. They already have beliefs, and a set of facts lodged in their minds. The problem is that sometimes the things they think they know are objectively, provably false. And in the presence of the correct information, such people react very, very differently than the merely uninformed. Instead of changing their minds to reflect the correct information, they can entrench themselves even deeper.
The point of the story was that she realized that she was treating white and black differently, albeit not in a deliberate, conscious way, and that she realized that self-tendency to do so, and made a conscious effort to make sure that she stopped doing that.
She was a racist... in 1985.
(if you listen to the whole story, not just what you were spoon fed by a gleeful Fox News, the incident she was referring to took place in 1985, as Ms. Maddow pointed out, the year was directly determinable because she named a specific farm overhaul bill passed that year as part of the story)
LOL....
Cases we discuss here are often just that way.
Look at the example given in the Laura Ingraham thread.
Look at the NAACP calls about the tea party, denouncing racial influences within , when they don't.
So often, when a conservative speaks ill of a black, he's called a racist. Attacked because of his skin color.
Did you seriously not understand my point?
Just how many times does the left throw around the allegation of racism, when it only has out of context snippets? Very often. Isn't that obvious?
He's channeling how those in power over her job jumped to conclusions.
And to think, her boss wanted to be president. Don't need that itchy finger on the football.
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