Tuesday, July 20, 2010

FOX "News" Trashes Innocent Woman in Race-Baiting Ploy

There has been a concerted effort by FOX "News" and its allied partners in right-wing world to get white people to feel they're victims of racism.  It's nothing new--I think Sean Hannity invented the term "reverse racism"--but it has picked up steam lately.  There was the overblown, two-year-old story about the New Black Panther Party. There was the overblown response to a tepid statement from the NAACP warning tea baggers to repudiate the racists in their midst. And now, there's the railroading of a seemingly decent woman, Shirley Sherrod, by Andrew Breitbart, painting her as an evil racist within the Obama Administration.

This led to an unfortunate, knee-jerk denouncement of Sherrod by the NAACP itself, and a forced resignation by the Obama Administration.  The NAACP has made amends. I hope the White House does as well.  They've fallen for the FOX spin far too many times already.

The entire story was bogus, an edited tape taken out of context, representing the story to be absolutely the opposite of what happened. You know, the FOX "News" stock-in-trade.  The story is complex if you're not familiar with how these faux outrage stories bloom.  So, while I was going to try to avoid any Rachel Maddow Show clips for a couple of days, I could think of no better way to explain it all. This is primo stuff.  If you haven't seen it, please watch.  The second clip is worth a view too, but the choice bits are in the first clip (good stuff starts at 1:35).




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