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Tell that to the White House that fired her before Fox News showed the tape on TV. A reasonable person would normally take the firing as verification of the tapes authenticity.
For the record, I didn't even know "Fox Nation" existed until I saw it in this thread.On Fox Nation. You brag about the audience Fox News enjoys and now want to claim no one ever saw that internet video on that site.
It hardly has the popularity of Fox News TV.
Tell that to the White House that fired her before Fox News showed the tape on TV. A reasonable person would normally take the firing as verification of the tapes authenticity.
Exactly, after the ACORN tapes were proven to have been heavily edited from the truth, there is no way FAUX news should have put themselves on the line based on another released Breitbart tape...they failed to do their homework plain and simple..The time for Fox to talk with her was before they reported it.
Mistakes were made by all. I just find it ludicrous that you and your liberal quack cohorts are trying to blame this whole mess on Fox after the fact.
Not at issue.
I already said the White House overreacted.
The authenticity of the tape was not in question.A reasonable person would normally take the firing as verification of the tapes authenticity.
I blame Brietbart mostly.
And Fox.
And anyone else who reported the story without watching the entire speech.
And I blame the NAACP and the White House for overreacting to really, really bad journalism.
Shouldn't the blame for overreaction be on the UsDA and specifically on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack?
...the administration fired the woman based on Vilsack's reading of a transcript of a video on a conservative website that left the inaccurate impression that Sherrod, a black Department of Agriculture official, had deliberately not helped a white man save his family farm in 1986 when she worked for a Georgia nonprofit.
LA TimesThis is a good woman. She's been put through ," Vilsack said Wednesday. "I could have done and should have done a better job." Vilsack said the decision to fire Sherrod had been his and his alone.
Vilsack said the decision to fire Sherrod had been his and his alone.
Do you have proof otherwise? thought not...
Breitbart broke it.
The first day, everybody. Then CNN blames it on the reporting from Breitbart they never checked for themselves. Only they don't say "Breitbart." Instead they blame "bloggers".
What, they didn't have time to watch the entire speech? Or they all just ran with Breitbart's artfully edited clip, fearing they would be the last ones through the door with it?
Yep. NYT and Jon Stewart took NAACP/Obama/Vilsack down on this point, hard. It's a solid observation.
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Seems here being fired would be verification enough the story was true!
I read the point of her being fired was when they asked for her resignation, which was before she actually resigned. They would have fired he if she hadn't given it.
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Which story?
....'the story' ....that's exactly what it was, a fictional story supported by a edited tape put out by a wing-nut site with a dubious history of A er type political dirty games...now Breitbart is a 'blogger' though
Please explain just how it was edited other than just being a snippit with her words added.
...it's all about context....he cut the tape short to manipulate the context to fit his agenda...that's the same as directly editing the content...
The leftist media and pundits do that all the time. Maybe you lib s are finally learning that.
No one does this worse than the Rush, Glenn Beckkk, and Hannity wing-nuts....it's in the main repertoire' for this crowd
Unlike with ACORN, Breitbart might have to face the music this time...
Shirley Sherrod To Sue Andrew Breitbart..
HuffSAN DIEGO — Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week.
Sherrod made the announcement in San Diego at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention.
The edited video posted by Andrew Breitbart led Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to ask her to resign, a decision he reconsidered after seeing the entire video of her March speech to a local NAACP group. In the full speech, Sherrod spoke of racial reconciliation and lessons she learned after initially hesitating to help a white farmer save his home.
Vilsack and President Barack Obama later called Sherrod to apologize for her hasty ouster. Vilsack has offered her a new job at the department, which she is still considering.
Sure, they sometimes get it wrong. That's the exception. Liberals get it wrong more often than right.
No one does this worse than the Rush, Glenn Beckkk, and Hannity wing-nuts....it's in the main repertoire' for this crowd
Faux News Exec Confirms it Did Peddle Sherrod Story Before She Was Fired
it's always helpful when people inside Fox News confirm what Media Matters has reported as fact, even if the channel's outside defenders prefer to toil in conspiracy as they flail around desperately trying to make up excuses for Rupert Murdoch's channel. Not that I think this confirmation from inside Fox News will quiet the online boo birds, but it's worth noting now that they're claiming both Media Matters and Fox News are lying about the facts in the case.
Good luck with that one guys.
PoliticoThis by-now tiresome debate centers around whether or not Fox News jumped on Andrew Breitbart's bogus Shirley Sherrod smear campaign. We all know that on the day it broke online, Bill O'Reilly hyped the story on his primetime show, presented Sherrod as a racist, and demanded she "resign immediately." Of course, at the time O'Reilly didn't have the slightest clue what the whole story of the Sherrod tape was. But that didn't stop him from maligning a black women in the Obama administration. (O'Reilly later apologized to Sherrod.)
So if O'Reilly was demanding Sherrod's ouster, that meant Fox News covered the story before she was forced out, right? Not quite. While his show tapes at 5 p.m., it doesn't air until 8 p.m., and Sherrod resigned shortly before 8 p.m. and July 19. So technically Fox News, or so the claim goes, didn't cover the story before she resigned and so all those people who claim Fox peddled the Sherrod attack are smearing Fox News!
But of course, Fox News did peddle the story before Sherrod resigned. Fox News peddled the story online. And Fox News peddled it in two different online forums prior to Sherrod's resignation on July 19.
And in a new report from Politico, Fox News Senior Vice President of News Michael Clemente confirms that fact ...
From Politico...
PoliticoFoxNews.com was not the only news organization to publish web stories about the video that Monday afternoon. WCBS-TV, New York's CBS affiliate, published a web story about the video that was linked to by the Drudge Report around 4:30 p.m. Monday afternoon. Like the other web stories, the CBS affiliate's story was updated the next day to reflect Sherrod's resignation.
The Atlanta Journal Cons ution was also reported to have carried the story on Monday, but no record exists in its archives. A spokeswoman for AJC said the paper did report it on its website on Monday evening, but, "Our initial posting followed and was attributed to Fox."
Clemente noted that, although FoxNews.com did put out a story before Sherrod's resignation was announced, it was published after she actually resigned, since it has been widely reported that she was pressured to get her resignation in before Glenn Beck's 5 p.m. show on Fox.
But more broadly, Clemente said he has been around the block enough times to recognize the telltale signs of a fishy story, which was why he issued the note of caution to his staff.
"I've been doing this since 1978, when I started at ABC, so I've seen what has happened," he said. "Mistakes were made. After a few years, you start to get a bit of a gut feeling about was this a portion of a story, or is this the whole story?"
Why that didn't happen on the website on the Sherrod story "will be addressed internally," he said.
FAUX News, nor its wing-nut shills, have not retracted any of its initial accusation against Sherrod but have spun this incident as a over-reaction by the Obama adminstration...
Prove it.
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