Shirley Sharrod got caught in the middle of a political fight. She is a lefty with ridiculous, racist positions, but that doesn’t mean she deserved the treatment she got from the media and Barack Obama’s administration.

But now that the episode is more clear, the media is falling all over themselves to apologize and to find ways to avoid this trap in the future. The trap is the tricky environment where discussions about race and racism is a dangerous game. It is a trap they invented.

I would like to make a suggestions. Before they spend an extra second on apologizing or excusing Shirley Sharrod, maybe they should re-live their Joe the Plumber moment. Samuel Wurzelbacher was tossing a football in his yard when Barack Obama stopped by for a photo op. What followed was a media storm caused by a brief moment of clarity. Joe the Plumber was born and Sam Wurzelbacher died. The press and Democrats operatives (probably working together on the Journolist) started a smear campaign that destroyed his life.

Where’s the apology? Where’s the outrage.

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