Posted on 07/25/2010 8:39:49 AM PDT by mozarky2
The Shirley Sherrod affair illustrates only three of the main problems with modern American media and politics.
First it demonstrates — hardly for the first time — that there no longer exists any meaningful divide between the irresponsibility of partisan bloggers and the supposed news professionalism of the mainstream media.
By mainstream media, I primarily refer in this case to the cable news networks, mainly the most disgraceful one.
(Excerpt) Read more at arkansasnews.com ...
I managed to go through the vast majority of my lifetime with some contempt, but little actual hate and revulsion.
Then there was the Obamaloon.
Two things I got from the Sherrod affair.
One is that NO ONE at Fox news followed up with either the farmer or his wife to get their point of view.
Two is that John Brummet is a jackass.
The pathetic bowel product occupying the white house heard about the video and panicked. He had Sherrod fired and he did it because he was afraid it was going to show up on Beck’s TV show. Sherrod had already been fired by the time Beck ran the segment and he defended her based on the fact that we didn’t know the whole story.
By the time FOX NEWS reported this story she had ALREADY BEEN FIRED!
FOX NEWS had to not only report that it had a tape, but that they white house had fired the woman already
If they ONLY Had the tape, they could have said they were investigating and maybe heard from the woman herself and she could have directed them to the farmers...
but SHE HAD ALREADY BEEN FIRED before Fox even reported the story
Her and her hubby received $300,000 for "activist work".
They're no farmers.
She treated the white farmer as she did because she thought they were "setting her up".
Her notice that he was acting like he was "superior" was sickening.
Now the media is calling Obama mixed-race. This is what I told the Charlotte Observer about that: “Now you are saying our first black President is mixed-race? Aren’t you the ones who told me he was post-racial?”
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/07/25/1581462/is-obama-afraid-of-racial-backlash.html
Not true. FOX and Friends played the video in the morning, at least twice, before any firing took place. FandF never reported that she was leading to a “redemptive moment” even though it was clearly at the end of the originally posted video by Breitbart. I know what Glenn Beck said but he was misinformed. FOX and Friends started this whole mess by not reporting ALL the facts.
Does anyone think Fax will suffer much from this incident? It will be used by networks that cannot compete with Fox in the ratings.
One example of late was ," General McChrystal voted for Obama".This was put out by a liberal so called journalist/ blogger working for Politico, Michael Calderone.
No need for anyone to ask why Calderone knew how McChrystal voted in 2008. Just say it, and it becomes truth. Many freepers believed it and bad mouthed a General with a life time of honorable service to our country. Never wondering how this liberal creep could possibly know how General voted in 2008.
Lots of sympathy for Sherrod, little for the good General that spent his adult life in the trenches fighting for his country.
My anger burns deep and hot in my heart against those that bashed McChrystal,because they belived words spoken by a rabid lefty.
One example of late was ," General McChrystal voted for Obama".This was put out by a liberal so called journalist/ blogger working for Politico, Michael Calderone.
No need for anyone to ask why Calderone knew how McChrystal voted in 2008. Just say it, and it becomes truth. Many freepers believed it and bad mouthed a General with a life time of honorable service to our country. Never wondering how this liberal creep could possibly know how General voted in 2008.
Lots of sympathy for Sherrod, little for the good General that spent his adult life in the trenches fighting for his country.
My anger burns deep and hot in my heart against those that bashed McChrystal,because they belived words spoken by a rabid lefty.
With all due respect, mozarky2, this article had less to say about Shirley Sherrod than it did about left-wing journalism. The biggest point he makes in the article is that The White House, and I guess he means the rest of us too, should stop watching Fox News and most importantly, stop blogging.
Sherrod's comments about the white farmer illustrate a fact of American life--if a black person accuses a white person of racism, the white person is guilty, regardless of the facts and without the need for any corroborating evidence.
Thanks for posting.
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