Posted on 07/19/2010 7:08:25 PM PDT by kristinn
As of 10:00 p.m. EDT, hours after Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack fired Shirley Sherrod for racism in her official duties after being exposed by BigGovernment.com there is a near total blackout by the mainstream news media on the scandal.
Sherrod was appointed a year ago by Vilsack to be the Georgia director of Rural Development where she doled out millions of dollars in federal funds.
Just days before her appointment, the Obama Justice Department settled a lawsuit by Sherrod and her husband claiming discrimination against their farm cooperative for a reported $13 million.
A search of Google News and Google Blogs shows nothing form the Associated Press or Reuters. Nothing from Politico or The Hill. Nothing from The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times. Nothing from MSNBC or CNN. Nothing from ABC or NBC. CBS gets partial credit for running a story earlier about Sherrod's racist remarks but has failed to follow up with the story of her firing.
Credit goes to Fox News for reporting the story and updating it with news of Sherrod's termination:
The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned.
"There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a written statement. "We have been working hard through the past 18 months to reverse the checkered civil rights history at the department and take the issue of fairness and equality very seriously."
Sherrod was videotaped at an NAACP dinner in March of this year speaking about an incident where she discriminated against a white farmer while acting in her offical capacity because she is black and is prejudiced against white farmers.
Big Government broke the story with video to back it up around mid-day. The failure of the mainstream media to touch this story even after Sherrod was forced to resign and was publicly rebuked by an Obama cabinet secretary is a shameful example of the censorious nature of the liberal mainstream media.
13 Million huh?
I spent 13 dollars today.
Of course. And the media complex covers for Obama.
The other thing I do, in remembering the “all politics is local mantra,” is register at other local papers, just as I invite others to register at mine.
LOL! Good point!
need to give this story legs...
I hope this is not an example of what Obama “healthcare” will be like for white folk.
Ok panel, who is next. Well madame chairwoman, we have John Doe appealing his denial for hip surgery. Oh? Is he white? Yea. Then tell him to get a lawyer of “his own kind.”
I suggest people go here:
http://suggestions.yahoo.com/?prop=news
and ask why this story isn’t being covered.
If others can find similar places to ask the question, that would be helpful.
bump
When the Obama Administration gave $13 MILLION of taxpayer money to this Obama ally, that was not just a conflict of interest, it was brazen plundering of the public treasury.
When the Obama Administration gave $13 MILLION of taxpayer money to this Obama ally, that was not just a conflict of interest, it was brazen plundering of the public treasury.
Yes. When the revolution comes, the MFM should be first against the wall.
Another unperson. Winston Smith will be busy tomorrow at the Ministry of Truth.
Hey, lay off Yahoo. They’re on the really important news, like the fact that Sarah Palin made a minor error in calling Kodiak Is. the largest in the US. That’s what’s really important to Americans!
Obviously we are dealing with the Black Klan. These people hate white people with a passion. Give them the power and they will use it against whites with pride.
BLACKOUT!!!
She is another Blackunnist.
Obviously the news organizations are communist front groups at this point.
The MSM just doesn’t get it ... Americans want news - the good, the bad, and the ugly. When they don’t get it, they realize that they are being hornswaggled by the media elite.
Does the MSM ever wonder why their ratings are tanking, why their subscription bases are down? Doesn’t WaPo realize why they are selling Newsweek - after they turned it into a left-wing propagandist mag with NO conservative point of view?
The only one at WaPo that has got this right so far is the Ombudsman - who flat out stated that anything controversial [such as the Black Panther Party mess] is news and should be accurately reported.
Maybe when these “responsible journalists” are standing in line waiting for their unemployment checks, they will begin to realize that it is not their place to censor the news - but to REPORT IT !!!
When you Google Sherrod on google news all you get are all these links about tea party racism allegations and the Williams resignation
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