And yet Glenn Beck (the anti-Christ to you people) on his broadcast on Fox News (GASP! ARGH! ) was one of the first people to DEFEND Sherrod. And the Fox News (but we must always call it "Faux" News to show our cleverness and sophistication) pundits twigged faster than anyone else that the video ACTUALLY showed her talking about her realization of her own prejudice and overcoming of that. Thus - Fox News was in the VANGUARD supporting Sherrod getting her job back!
Media critic Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post says blaming Fox may be
unfair. He notes that the Sherrod case got little mention before her
resignation -- which some believe the administration caused because it
feared what conservative media might report.
From Kurtz:
In point of fact - the White House pressured Sherrod to resign because it was AFRAID of Fox News and Glenn Beck coming after her, but ironically, Glenn Beck himself DEFENDED Sherrod and opined that she had been done wrong by the administration and the NAACP. Noting that they were LIGHTNING FAST to fire her over this, but these were the same people who derailed the DOJ investigation into the new Black Panthers for voter fraud and voter intimidation during the 2008 election.
Proof? Video or it didn't happen? This was Glenn Beck's own first show after this broke.
(That is - if you can handle it rather than putting up garlic over your door and making the sign of the cross. I bet none of you on the left even watch this.)
Media critic Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post says blaming Fox may be
unfair. He notes that the Sherrod case got little mention before her
resignation -- which some believe the administration caused because it
feared what conservative media might report.
From Kurtz:
Quote:...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.
On Monday night, O'Reilly had played the clip posted by conservative activist Andrew Breitbart on his site BigGovernment.com. O'Reilly led his Wednesday program by criticizing some of Sherrod's language but acknowledging his own mistake: "I owe Ms. Sherrod an apology for not doing my homework . . . and for not putting her remarks into proper context." While the excerpt showed Sherrod, an African American, telling the NAACP in a speech that she had discriminated against a white farmer as a nonprofit aid officer 24 years ago, the full speech made clear she was saying she had overcome that racial instinct and learned an important lesson.
In point of fact - the White House pressured Sherrod to resign because it was AFRAID of Fox News and Glenn Beck coming after her, but ironically, Glenn Beck himself DEFENDED Sherrod and opined that she had been done wrong by the administration and the NAACP. Noting that they were LIGHTNING FAST to fire her over this, but these were the same people who derailed the DOJ investigation into the new Black Panthers for voter fraud and voter intimidation during the 2008 election.
Proof? Video or it didn't happen? This was Glenn Beck's own first show after this broke.
(That is - if you can handle it rather than putting up garlic over your door and making the sign of the cross. I bet none of you on the left even watch this.)
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