Just Blame Fox, Ms. Sherrod
In a Washington Post Style section front-page article (that was conspicuously buried in the online WaPo), Howard Kurtz actually does Fox News a little justice. As you know, Shirley Sherrod was fired on Monday for the revelation, broken by Andrew Breitbart, of her flagrantly racist comments. For a minute, ignore the “context” issue and recall that, when the story broke on CNN, it sure sounded like Ms. Sherrod was fired by the Obama regime because of fear of blowback in particular from FNC’s Glenn Beck. And as reported here yesterday, Ms. Sherrod has been weeping victimhood tears a plenty, blaming not the White House or the Agriculture Department but the Evil Fox Conspiratorial Complex. She is actually may be considering suing Andrew Breitbart and Fox News for running the video clip and just generally being, well, racist.
Which brings us to WaPo’s Kurtz, who observes that FNC basically held back on the story until they couldn’t possibly not report it.
But for all the chatter — some of it from Sherrod herself — that she was done in by Fox News, the network didn’t touch the story until her forced resignation was made public Monday evening, with the exception of brief comments by O’Reilly. After a news meeting Monday afternoon, an e-mail directive was sent to the news staff in which Fox Senior Vice President Michael Clemente said: “Let’s take our time and get the facts straight on this story. Can we get confirmation and comments from Sherrod before going on-air. Let’s make sure we do this right.”
Sherrod may be the only official ever dismissed because of the fear that Fox host Glenn Beck might go after her. As Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack tried to pressure her into resigning, Sherrod says Deputy Under Secretary Cheryl Cook called her Monday to say “do it, because you’re going to be on ‘Glenn Beck’ tonight.” And for all the focus on Fox, much of the mainstream media ran with a fragmentary story that painted an obscure 62-year-old Georgian as an unrepentant racist.
Even NBC’s Today Show is blaming Fox News for Sherrod’s firing. The irony of the whole debacle is, of course, Ms. Whine-a-lot Sherrod or anyone else laying blame on Beck, who actually came to her defense.
The administration’s concern about Beck stems in part from his campaign last year that prompted the resignation of White House environmental official Van Jones over divisive remarks — a controversy that some news organizations acknowledged they were too slow to cover. Ironically, Beck defended Sherrod on Tuesday, saying that “context matters” and he would have objected if someone had shown a video of him at an AA meeting saying he used to pass out from drinking but omitting the part where he says he found Jesus and gave up alcohol.
Context indeed matters — and if you listen to Rush or other sources today who have watched her full speech (view here courtesy of Hot Air), you may find out that the context we originally expected (flagrant racism on the part of Ms. Sherrod) was correct after all, and that she had no kumbya “epiphany” as claimed. By this measure, one might actually accuse Beck of eschewing due diligence in defending Ms. Sherrod on the “context” issue until he was able to watch the full, unadulterated video.
The 800-pound gorilla here is, of course, the NAACP, which for an anti-racism organization is profoundly racist. Only the right blogosphere, conservative radio and conservative talk TV are reporting this, the real story. Ms. Sherrod certainly felt cozy standing there before her peers, chatting about practicing racism just because — as a black woman in power — she could.
On a non-racist tip from Penelope.
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Posted by The MaryHunter on July 22, 2010 1:06 pm
» Filed Under Bigotry, CNN, Fox News, Government, Liberal Media/Bias, NAACP, News, Racism
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This blog has no redeeming value whatsoever.
Wasted, you epitomize the vapidity of left-wing progressives. Meaningless words meant to attack and smear and ultimately gain power, but with no redeeming value.
Why don’t you instead entertain us with your views on the Sherrod controversy, at least? We’re waiting…
I watched the entire video, not just the part that made the news. First of all, as Sherrod related her past racist actions to the NAACP audience, you could clearly hear members of the audience voicing their support. Secondly, even though she claims she was TRYING to make a statement against racism, she repeatedly used racist terms to do so.
Breitbart has already said his purpose was to reveal the racism in the NAACP crowd, not to smear Sherrod. He did that, very effectively. It was the Obama administration that jumped the gun and fired her.
I fail to see any problem with any of this. The racism in the NAACP crowd is clear, and Sherrod admits to her past racism, and misusing her authority. The fact that she regretted it later is immaterial. Firing her was the right thing to do, but it was done for the WRONG reason, and several years too late.
Unbelievable. Please, everyone needs to pause to seek truth before passing quick judgement on anyone. To call Ms. Sherrod a racist is turning the truth on it’s head based on a lifetime of work. Stop this horrendous name calling and defamation. It helps no one. Listen to those who really know her – the many people to whom she has dedicated her life’s work – black and white. Her life long actions serve as a witness to her ideals and obvious desire to seek justice for ALL that are disadvantaged. The entire message of this speech in question was to overcome any misconceptions about people based on race and treat all fairly! It should always be wrong for anyone, from any group, to misrepresent the words of another. And it is particularly disturbing that someone who gave a message that racism is wrong was purposefully presented in an incomplete videotape suggesting just the opposite message. When someone is maligned and their message has been twisted through omitting part of their message, it is a disservice to that person and to all of us in the general public as well.
Thanks for the heads up, Silver Streake!