There was a time when journalists were expected to make sure a story was fair and accurate before running with it, and for the most part, the print media adheres to these standards. Sherrod, but when reason and compassion were called for, the administration revealed itself to be hysterical and image conscious before all else. After the truth emerged, the White House apologized to Ms. Bush were smeared as unpatriotic by the network, but fairness or consistency can't be expected of Fox.) The Sherrod story spread like a high-speed virus, culminating with her firing by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Fox News, that parody of a news organization, used the video to smear the president as a racist in the latest installment of its endless campaign to sabotage him. This was a small portion of a lengthy speech by an administrator who we later learned has willingly and effectively assisted white Georgia farmers in need of government assistance.Ĭonservative blogger Andrew Breitbart posted a severely edited video stripping her remarks of all context to make her appear to be a big government racist. While in high school, a white man killed her father with a gunshot to the back, certainly a defining moment. Sherrod, an African American and at the time the USDA's Rural Development Director for Georgia, spoke recently about her initial difficulty more than two decades ago in assisting white farmers in a speech to the NAACP.
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The Sherrod story is an uplifting one of racial reconciliation that the nation could use right now, but instead it was cynically distorted to fuel the racial divide coming to the foreground in this ugly election year.
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By immediately succumbing to the frenzy, the Obama White House made an ugly situation considerably worse.
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On Thursday's Eagle op-ed page, columnist Tina Dupuy criticized cable television news for removing the nuance from stories and leaving the fury, reducing complex issues to "high-fructose hyperbole." Then that very day came the Shirley Sherrod tempest, in which all of the cruel bias, dangerous haste and mindless fury of political debate as defined by the 24-7 news cycle were on display, illustrating the columnist's concerns.