Sherrod case shows power of conservative media

Source: AP

NEW YORK – A conservative blog posts 2 minutes, 38 seconds of video clips of a black federal agriculture official saying she didn't do everything she could to help a white farmer. The blogger labels it racism. Calls grow for the Obama administration to remove her. No one at the Agriculture Department or the White House checks further. The official is forced to resign. Monday ends, but not the story.

A complete, 43-minute version of the video surfaces the next day, Tuesday, and casts a much different light on Shirley Sherrod's comments: They were part of an NAACP speech about how she overcame her racial prejudice to help the farmer, not about prejudice that stopped her from helping him.

Now, the administration is criticized for wronging her by rushing to judgment. By Wednesday afternoon, Sherrod is sitting at a studio in CNN's Atlanta headquarters, watching on live television as White House press secretary Robert Gibbs apologizes to her. She accepts and says: "Being afraid of the machine that the right has put out there — that's what's driving this."

A split screen shows her face and Gibbs' in a surreal moment, concluding a whirlwind 48 hours in which conservative media had the Obama administration on the defensive. Fox News Channel has been riding high in the ratings since Barack Obama became the nation's first black president a year and a half ago. Commentators Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly offer a favorite destination for many administration opponents.

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started wising up back in the 70s. This is what its come to. A real shame that so many Americans don't have the critical thinking skills to see past this crap.

They may just be getting so cocky that they do not even try to be careful anymore. They believe they have such total control of the media that it does not even matter about being careful. Sadly, they are almost always correct. Look what they did to John Kerry, Decorated War Hero...And what they DIDN'T do to George Bush..AWOL playboy cheerleader.
The RWingnuts and their minions have been framing the debate for so long now, that it is almost a given. Read the book by Media Matters founder David Brock. Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative


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Sherrod could have followed the lead of Van Jones and crawled away whimpering. But instead she followed the lead of George Galloway and fought for her day in the court of public opinion--that's what turned the tide.

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isn't conservative....it's LIBERAL...I mean just ask a republican tell'you that over and over and over.

Yes... how about a barrage of speeches and comments from Dems pointing out the conservative media and asking just where the liberal media is... and was....and has ever been. MSNBC? Pu-leez.... Morning Joe anyone? Just compare Olbermann and Maddow next to O'Reilly , Beck, Hannity, Fox & Friends, not to mention radio hosts like Limbaugh and Savage. Then ask again.... where is this liberal media? Keith and Rachel... and Ed seem super-liberal only because they are not towing the line every other outlet is.

just as Gettysburg was the High Water Mark of the Confederacy with its slave-embracing entities.

actually made me laugh out loud. Talk about touting themselves while pretending they are touting others, it is beyond ludicrous.