Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Snookered by Fox? The case of Shirley Sherrod

U.S. director of rural agriculture Sherrod resigns over 24-year old-comments in which she suggested she had not helped a farmer as much as she might have because he was white. She told this story while speaking at an NAACP meeting in March. But the video of her speech played yesterday was not complete. She seemed today to be largely exhonerated, at least in this respect, by the full story. Too late. The white-hot sensitivity to race in the U.S. had already taken her job. Meantime, Fox News Special Report (early evening) carried a response tonight saying it hadn't even carried the story. The clip was carried however, with adverse comment, on the O'Reilly Factor and Hannity, later yesterday evening. UPI

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