According to Howard Dean:
Fox News did something that was absolutely racist. They took a – they had an obligation to find out what was really in the clip. They had been pushing a theme of black racism with this phony Black Panther crap and this business and this Sotomayor and all this other stuff.
Don’t believe your eyes. That Black Panther “crap” is phony. More importantly, it is racist for journalist that don’t find out what is “really in the clip”….you know….like the absurd charge that racial slurs were used against a congressmen by tea partiers when hundreds of cameras where on site (including in the congressman’s entourage) and yet not a single camera was able to capture the racial slur.
When Chris Wallace told Howard Dean that the clip wasn’t played on Fox until after Shirley Sharrod was fired, he shot back that it was about to air on Glenn Beck. What Howard Dean didn’t point out…and probably doesn’t know…is that Glenn Beck said we needed to see the whole tape before we can jump to conclusion. Mr Beck has been taken out of context enough to understand this game.
To someone on the left, only conservatives can be racist. This is what passes for intellect in the Democratic part, news rooms and universities. Fox News dares to trespass on lefty ground and therefore the smearing is justified in Howard Dean’s eyes.
Again…I couldn’t care less about Shirley Sharrod. So many whites have had their careers ended on baseless charges of racism that I can’t get worked up about it. I would hope that the NAACP would learn a lesson here…but I know they won’t.
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