Nice job, Steve!

“But Breitbart got lucky: the Obama administration and USDA jumped the gun and overreacted”

Such a shame. If the Administration had just waited they could have DESTROYED Fox and Breitbart.
They literally snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

Oh well, we’ll get ‘em next time.
There WILL be a next time.

What the fuck is wrong with this site? Are you actually defending FOX news? This is ridiculous. The white house fucked up but they took the hit and apologized. FOX and Brightbitch are the blame for this shit. I swear I think there is another dimension that I’m not aware of.

Dave Noland says:
July 22, 2010 at 3:08 pm

As we’ve found out of the past few days, Dave doesn’t much care for facts that dispute his version of reality.

Don’t take it personally, Steve. Unless you’re towing the line 100%… Dave thinks you’re a “moron.” Isn’t that right?

Dave said: “What the fuck is wrong with this site? Are you actually defending FOX news?”

Dave meant: “I don’t give a fuck about the truth! I’m here to help Mediaite smear FOX! Either get with the program or I’m getting outta here.”

Yeah, Dave. I agree. Even if Fox never covered this, it is clearly their fault, and we’ll figure out how later. What’s important is that they get the blame NOW. If Journolist is gone, we’ll have to do their work.

Steve Krakauer – the most sane voice on mediaite.

TfT said:
Steve Krakauer – the only voice on mediaite.

Fixed it!

Dammit! Should say “only sane voice”

The MSM jumping the gun on the contrived story by Congressmen Lewis that he was called ni@@ar… OK
The MSM jumping the gun on the contrived story by Andrew B the Shirley was a raciest… not OK.

I think I got it.

TfT said:
Steve Krakauer – the most sane voice on mediaite.

Good, at least you all admit this is sane:

“But just because FNC has tread dangerously into stirring the race pot doesn’t mean they did it here.”

“If the Administration had just waited they could have DESTROYED Fox”

The wet dream of every Leftist–destroy the free press.

ImNotBlue said:
Nice job, Steve!

dare I say, ditto! :O)

Al Sharpton has ‘stirred the race pot’ before and it resulted in people being killed. The left said nothing. But over this they’re outraged! Outraged, I tell you!

http://mediamatters.org/research/201007220004

Sorry, you’re wrong.

Great article, Steve. You had me til here:

But just because FNC has tread dangerously into stirring the race pot doesn’t mean they did it here.

Your “colleagues” could learn a thing or two from you.

Kayvan Ghavim says:
July 22, 2010 at 3:33 pm

What part of MM (ha!) contradicts Steve’s report?

TfT said:
Steve Krakauer – the most sane voice on mediaite.

That’s like bragging about being the smartest kid on the short bus.

As much as I loved this article, watching Dave’s head explode definately tops it.

Faux Niose will be a co defendant in the upcoming lawsuit. Should be an open and shut deal. Then in an act of Karma, Ms Sharrod should take some of the settlement and fund ACORN, the organization brought down by the axis of lies that so wronged this American Hero.

Wrong O again Krakauer, Your love for Fox must have gotten in the way of your Crack reporting. Monday Morning, Fox News put this Video on their web site. That of which they keep claiming to be a News Outlet (So Called Network) was The First to begin pushing this crap video. The Bill Oreilly show Made a report in it’s Reality (To Bill) Check segment, in which he demanded her termination. Them Shawn Hannity Newt and the gang jumped up and down having orgasm after orgasm over the video along with Danna Perino (Greta) came out of her I wonder if my ass looks big in this dress, fog and had her take. Tuesday, Fox and Friends had Duchy wet his pants and along with his co-trim screaming I tawt I taw a wasist, Owama is a wasist Rant. along with the rest of the Fox Gang Bang. Except for Shep Smith. Becky Boy took a break from sniffing chalk and had a breath of fresh air to see all hell was starting come down on his friends and him and took the high road. But, Billy Boy, Doubled Down and went on a tirade about all of the stories not covered my the main stream media. He included in his segment that The Main Stream Media Has NOT Covered The Sherrod Story at all. Which fly’s right in the face of YOUR Crack Journalism. Even though the Story was debunked, Tuesday Morning Oreilly still Doubled down. Then Hannity also had DumbBart on his show changing his story on why he posted the video. The Lie’s keep on flying. Then On Wednesday. Shep Smith tell’s the world Fox along with other’s fucked up big time. But, What does Oreilly Do.????? He Triple’s Down on attacking this woman. What the hell. He turns an apology into an attack on this woman again and again. So, like I said. GOOD JOB Krakauer. 1800-588-2300 This is the phone number for Empire Carpets, you can try getting a job there, because Journalism is not your cup of tea.

“American Hero” is quite a stretch, don’t ya think?

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If you watch other parts of the Shirley Sherrod video…uh…SHE IS A RACIST. You don’t speak about people DOWN RACIAL LINES. People who do that ARE RACISTS…and Sherrod does

Kayvan Ghavim said:
http://mediamatters.org/research/201007220004 Sorry, you’re wrong.

Sweet! Next time MSNBC reports something wrong, I’ll blame GE! Since that is what you are inferring with FoxNews.com and FoxNews – two seperate entities.

betweentwoevils said:
Faux Niose will be a co defendant in the upcoming lawsuit. Should be an open and shut deal. Then in an act of Karma, Ms Sharrod should take some of the settlement and fund ACORN, the organization brought down by the axis of lies that so wronged this American Hero.

Olberdouche would be so proud of you! You got his talking points down pat!

Whereas the NAACP once purged itself of extremist elements, it now embraces them. Ben Chavis, who served nearly a decade in prison for fire-bombing a white-owned store before a technicality overturned the conviction, became the group’s leader in the early 1990s. In 2008, the NAACP hosted the Rev. Jeremiah Wright as a keynote speaker at a fundraising dinner in Detroit. Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who believes the white race was created by an evil scientist, has addressed numerous NAACP events.

Rather than uninvited fringe elements showing up to a rally, as the NAACP alleges of nameless Tea Party racists, the likes of Chavis, Wright, and Farrakhan were part of the official program. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw charges of racism.

Right Latin, anyone who uses terms like “your own kind” isn’t what I’d call and American Hero.

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Here watch her speak…she should not be working in a government office and divide people down racial lines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GOhAA1Bbw&feature=player_embedded

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Olberdouche would be so proud of you! You got his talking points down pat!

What makes you think that isn’t olberdouche?

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An American HERO…does not divide people down racist lines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GOhAA1Bbw&feature=player_embedded

If SHE is an “AMERICAN HERO” then someone has the definition totally incorrect.

So Mediaite is blaming Breitbart for smearing Sherrod by exposing her own words? No matter what version of the video you watch she is clearly making racist comments. Yes, she was talking about an event 24 years ago, but just the fact that she made comments like “white lawyer” and “his own kind”, among other racially charged remarks during the NAACP speech, tells you she still harbors racist feelings.

Not to mention her arrogant and sarcastic attitude in recounting this story.

Breitbart or no Breitbart, Sherrod smeared herself with her own words.

Kayvan Ghavim said:
http://mediamatters.org/research/201007220004

Sorry, you’re wrong.

How about THIS video…SHERROD IS STILL A RACIST…you cannot talk about people down racial lines…THAT IS RACIST…You people must be deaf!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GOhAA1Bbw&feature=player_embedded

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Two words (or just one name)… Tawana Brawley. Who’s race baiting???

Breitbart or no Breitbart, Sherrod smeared herself with her own words.

But libra, they are counting on us obeying the 11th commandment, “thou shalt NOT use a liberals OWN words against them”.

MichelleF said:
Olberdouche would be so proud of you! You got his talking points down pat! What makes you think that isn’t olberdouche?

Probably just a clone. shudders

@germ: While I don’t dispute Steve’s timeline, I do have to take issue with trying to separate an outlet’s website from their product.

If it’s on NYTimes.com, it has been reported by the New York Times; The Dallas Tea Party criticized MSNBC for having no one of color on their website’s masthead; CNN counts all their platforms equally in their promotional literature and I see no reason that FoxNews.com should be considered anything less than Fox News.

Don’t forget the laughter and applause from the crowd as Sherrod told the tale of the white farmer getting screwed.

MichelleF said:
Right Latin, anyone who uses terms like “your own kind” isn’t what I’d call and American Hero.

Michelle, I expect this from Latin2 but you’re better than this unseemly grasping for racist straws after this woman was so needlessly and falsely destroyed.

Let her go.

writer said:
Don’t forget the laughter and applause from the crowd as Sherrod told the tale of the white farmer getting screwed.

No applause, no cheering. Laughter.

Keep it honest.

So BFD, If i ever used the term “my own kind”, you wouldn’t be screaming racist? Come on, I’m called a racist on this site daily for NO reason, so don’t expect me to buy that.

And I’d hardly say she was destroyed, since the left is trying to turn her into an “american hero”.

look how fast we forget she also told all those black people that they should get a job with the govt. because youll never get fired lol

MichelleF said:
So BFD, If i ever used the term “my own kind”, you wouldn’t be screaming racist? Come on, I’m called a racist on this site daily for NO reason, so don’t expect me to buy that.

Let. her. go.

Fox does not foment racism, they just report the racism of the libs. Sherrod has now been exposed as a racist by voicing her racist views of Fox News. She has also been exposed and another Van Jones. It will be very dangerous for the administration to hire her back.

germ said:
Olberdouche would be so proud of you! You got his talking points down pat!

The part about Karma is my thought, and would ROTFLMFAO when this happens.

Talking about this Blog. So many rightys here cut and paste their ideas from their talking point memos. Please don’t, I already subscribe to both left and right…

MichelleF said:
And I’d hardly say she was destroyed, since the left is trying to turn her into an “american hero”.

We shall build her up after Breitbart falsely tore her down.
She deserves as much.

Michelle, I expect this from Latin2 but you’re better than this unseemly grasping for racist straws after this woman was so needlessly and falsely destroyed.

I have to be honest here, BFD, and you won’t believe me but it’s the absolute truth. Before I started coming to this site, I never really saw things along racial lines. But since BO was elected and I’ve started commenting here and saw how EVERY little criticism of BO is deemed racism, I now think about it alot more. I wouldn’t normally even think about terms like “your own kind”, but now I just do it to point out the utter hypocrisy of the left. It’s actually a very sad commentary of the starte of our country. I wish it weren’t so.

As for the overarching theme of this issue’s media coverage, I feel that it was pretty much wall-to-wall yesterday for a variety of reasons, among them…

1) Ms. Sherrod is of a similar age and the same generation as a large segment of news viewers.

2) She lives in Georgia, so it was easy for her to get into the CNN studios to hold court.

3) In an attempt to explain himself, Breitbart went on every program that would have him.

I think that though he’s definitely added some fodder to Shep and others who consider him a “discredited website’ and an untrustworthy source, he pulled so many contortions of logic that he successfully confused the issue so much, he was easily overwhelmed by the White House angle and Ms. Sherrod’s likability quotient.

So when the NAACP has Farrakhan as a guest speaker, BFD, you don’t see even a hint of racism in that? Or is it that because they’re black, you choose to ignore it?

Latin2 said:
How about THIS video…SHERROD IS STILL A RACIST…you cannot talk about people down racial lines…THAT IS RACIST…You people must be deaf!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9GOhAA1Bbw&feature=player_embedded

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It is not ‘racist’ to talk about people down racial lines. You might want to check what the definition of racism is. Sherrod was being very honest and real about how she felt and what she decided to do in that speech.

writer said:
Don’t forget the laughter and applause from the crowd as Sherrod told the tale of the white farmer getting screwed.

Did you listen to the whole speech? If you did you would know the audience was anticipating where the speaker was going.

Have you ever attended a predominantly African American Church? I have many times…each time the congregation seemed to anticipated where the preacher was going with verbal responses. (I am sure that this is not so in all cases, only in my numerous experiences.)

Once again writer, open your mind and not just go with what you have been told.

betweentwoevils says:
July 22, 2010 at 3:38 pm betweentwoevils

Faux Niose will be a co defendant in the upcoming lawsuit. Should be an open and shut deal.

Unless you have a basic understanding of the law, in which case you’ll realize that no suit will go forward, she won’t be able to “charge” Breitbart with anything, and wouldn’t even make it into the courtroom if she sued FNC.

Dreaming isn’t the same as the law. But I’ll ask again, what would she sue for?

…the axis of lies that so wronged this American Hero.

…by the Obama Administration and the NAACP.

cmdrgmh says:
July 22, 2010 at 3:39 pm cmdrgmh

Wrong O again Krakauer, Your love for Fox must have gotten in the way of your Crack reporting.

Oh, this is going to be good…

Monday Morning, Fox News put this Video on their web site. That of which they keep claiming to be a News Outlet (So Called Network) was The First to begin pushing this crap video.

And the accompanying story makes no mention of her being a “racist,” only making those comments, and that they’re seeking more information.

Also, when was that article published? Do you have a time?

Your recounting of the time and events is confusing (partly due to content, and partly due to spelling and grammar). Much of your timeline matches Steve’s, although your “summary” on the content is often incorrect.

Oh, and O’Reilly apologized for being incorrect, but that doesn’t make Ms. Sherrod a hero. Simply because in this case she wasn’t as she initially appeared to be, doesn’t mean she’s without flaw or beyond criticism in other instances.

1800-588-2300 This is the phone number for Empire Carpets, you can try getting a job there, because Journalism is not your cup of tea.

Wow… in addition to being mostly incorrect… you’re very very angry.

How’s that “war” going, cmd? Is love still a battlefield? HA!

Magister says:
July 22, 2010 at 3:47 pm

If it’s on NYTimes.com, it has been reported by the New York Times; The Dallas Tea Party criticized MSNBC for having no one of color on their website’s masthead; CNN counts all their platforms equally in their promotional literature and I see no reason that FoxNews.com should be considered anything less than Fox News.

Traditionally the websites are considered different than the television… different staffs, different writers, different management. Isn’t MSNBC.com still partially owned by Microsoft, while MSNBC the cable channel isn’t? They are different groups of a larger organism.

betweentwoevils said:
The part about Karma is my thought, and would ROTFLMFAO when this happens. Talking about this Blog. So many rightys here cut and paste their ideas from their talking point memos. Please don’t, I already subscribe to both left and right…

Please. Don’t. There is only one type of person that calls it “Faux Noise” and they get all their information from Olby, HuffPo and the Kos Kids Koalition. Not exactly the bastian of independent thinking there, now is there?

do the lefties in egypt prop up the jews over guilt for their hebrew slaves?

writer said:
So when the NAACP has Farrakhan as a guest speaker, BFD, you don’t see even a hint of racism in that? Or is it that because they’re black, you choose to ignore it?

NAACP should NOT have racist Farrakhan as a speaker.

It’s a shame you righty’s didn’t go after that instead of an innocent person.
You would have had a case.

Thanks, Steve -

Wonder where the JourNoList cabal is gathering and plotting now? I’m using the word “cabal ” as in plot to throw an election! (cabal definition: 1 : the artifices and intrigues of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government); also : a group engaged in such artifices and intrigues).

You can bet they are a big part of “trying to shut down Fox News”!

For those interested here are lists compiled so far (1 with some photos):

http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/jurnolist-whos-who/

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/07/known_journolisters_1.html

Breitbart: User of Cocain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYigEUvG3Bo

BFD, that’s what I said in an earlier post. All the examples of black racism out there, and Breitbart picks the lamest one. Instead of Sharpton or Jackson or Farrakhan, he goes after a nobody with an out of context statement. Sherrod’s later comments still prove she’s a racist, but I do hold it against Breitbart for picking the wrong example.

ImNotBlue said:
ImNotBlue says:

The number of “mentions” is slightly different than the context my friend. When one news organization states that a video has surfaced, and Fox proclaims this to the be the worst case of reverse racism in our nation’s history, two paths have been taken.

This site went from being pretty good, to being a nest of Hot Air-rejects and PJTV jerkoffs. Honestly, if Brietbart didn’t have a hardon for Journolist, none of you guys would have ever heard of it.

betweentwoevils says:
July 22, 2010 at 4:07 pm betweentwoevils(Quote)
0 3
Breitbart: User of Cocain.

I’d be careful since Obama admits he was a cokehead.

First it was FNC driving this story , now it was Foxnews.com …WOW , you progressives are pathetic.

If this were a Bush official MSNBC would’ve sent reporters to camp outside Ms.Sherrod’s house the moment this video surfaced.

Gimme a break , get over it .

The scum that is this assassin BREITBART! You scoundrel!! You scalawag!!

Kayvan Ghavim says:
July 22, 2010 at 4:13 pm

The number of “mentions” is slightly different than the context my friend. When one news organization states that a video has surfaced, and Fox proclaims this to the be the worst case of reverse racism in our nation’s history, two paths have been taken.

And who stated that and when? And even so, what does that prove?

This site went from being pretty good, to being a nest of Hot Air-rejects and PJTV jerkoffs.

Yes, we get it… people who disagree with you are terrible. Tow the leftwing line, or STFU. We’ve all heard it before. It’s called ideological and political bigotry. It’s nothing new.

Honestly, if Brietbart didn’t have a hardon for Journolist, none of you guys would have ever heard of it.

Yeah, darn him for exposing journalists who were willing to violate the most basic ethics, and disrespect people for their own political gain! It’s a real shame that these folks have been exposed for willing to call people “racists,” even though it’s not true. And while now we can say that they’re insulting actual victims of racisms, and tried to use their legitimate suffering for their own gain, it’s not really their fault… it’s the fault of the folks who discovered it and talked about it. If people just kept their mouth shut, and allowed the leftwing liars to keep lying, it would have been so much better.

Isn’t that right, Kayvan?

murf says:
July 22, 2010 at 4:18 pm

How long until this is “Bush’s fault?” The Obama Administration didn’t overreact… it was Bush!

from EricBoehlert tweet

“Timeline of andrewbreitbart’s fantastically spectacular implosion. (Def. worth a look) http://bit.ly/bJ0jus“

MichelleF said:
betweentwoevils says:
July 22, 2010 at 4:07 pm betweentwoevils(Quote)
0 3
Breitbart: User of Cocain.

I’d be careful since Obama admits he was a cokehead.

Not to forget W Bush

betweentwoevils said:
Not to forget W Bush

And me.

Steve Krakauer said:
None of this excuses the ugly attempt to smear Sherrod by Breitbart – and it was a clear attempt, since the text before the original video purposely makes it sound like Sherrod is describing her current role.

Bullshit.

Breitbart made is clear that the point of the clip was to highlight how Sherrod was calling for class warfare rather than racial warfare, how the NAACP representatives were responding to her racist story, and how Sherrod felt entitled to a government job which she couldn’t get fired from. (Oh doesn’t she wish that were true!)

Yes, President Bush, we miss you very much!

“None of this excuses the ugly attempt to smear Sherrod by Breitbart” says Krakaeur.

LIE.

From Breitbart’s article, published MONDAY morning at 8:18 am:

“We are in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail, that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions.

In the first video, Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from “one of his own kind”. She refers him to a white lawyer.

Sherrod’s racist tale is received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement. Hardly the behavior of the group now holding itself up as the supreme judge of another groups’ racial tolerance.”

and:

“the NAACP’s recent resolution and false accusations have forced us to show you video 1 when video 2 is the bigger problem” because she spoke of how you can’t get fired from a Federal job etc.”

http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/07/19/video-proof-the-naacp-awards-racism2010/

Exactly how did Breitbart “smear” Sherrod? She DOES see everything through the prism of race & class. And later she slammed the GOP – saying that the only reason why Obama is criticized is because of “racism’.

Steve Krakaeur is a LIAR. What are you – part of the new CabalList, Steve?

And what is this BS?

“We were having discussions about FNC and race before all this broke … Whether we’re still talking about Shirley Sherrod next week or not depends on her decision to return to her job. But if she remains in the news, a continued boycott of Fox News will look less reasonable.”

A boycott of Fox? Are you God, Steve? Really? After all you vitriolic hate-filled liberal/progressive/socialist Obama worshippers have been exposed as the sycophantic, conniving liars that you ALL are – at Politico, and Mediaite, and Salon, and Time, and Bloomberg, and NPR – all of the pseudo-intellectual navel-gazing elitist “news” outlets – you have the nerve to condemn Fox?

What a pathetic joke you all are. Pure Alinsky tactics – deny any guilt/responsibility for JournoList, and deliberately lie about the Breitbart video AND the article he wrote.

A boycott of Fox?

Yeah, those boycott’s haven’t worked out too good for the left in the past, but heck, I say BRING IT!!

@murf & ImNotBlue: I’m not suggesting that the website drove the story. I’ve just been commenting since the Bret Baier post, where he made a distinction between the website and the television product that they are both branded Fox News.

At least on a local level, there has been a tremendous push to better integrate the online and offline products by tearing down the divisions, plus it has been suggested that in a competitive market, an outlet should try to capitalize on their offline strength to sell their online product.

I can also point to a few examples of where a posting or online product was nicked for not being worthy of the brand, or where a blog was told that it had to follow the offline rules.

This is just a big issue that is still being defined. The rules are still fluid, as you might gather from some of the recent “punishments” for some host’s behavior on Twitter.

Throughout this entire thing, whenever I’ve commented upon the separation to which Bret initially alluded, I’ve just been trying to get some clarification of how Fox and News Corp classify their websites. For example, if it’s on WSJ.com, then is it appropriate to say that the Wall Street Journal reports or do we have to wait until the next morning to see if it makes it into the print edition?

If it’s on FoxNews.com does that mean that it may not be up to the Fox News standard?

I’d just like to know.

Magister, I would like to know as well. I think it may be run a bit more like ESPN and less like NYT. ESPN has their “Network” anaylyst, reporters, etc. and then they have their ESPN.com analysts, reporters, etc.

You will often hear them say on Sportscenter that Person X is a reporter for ESPN.com, implying that they are seperate entities.

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
NAACP should NOT have racist Farrakhan as a speaker. It’s a shame you righty’s didn’t go after that instead of an innocent person.You would have had a case.

You rightys? Like the white house? Like the naacp? Let me guess. Its Bushs fault.

@germ: I’d think that in most cases, especially if the website employees more than one person, they maintain separate books and payrolls. I’d do it for accounting purposes and if I were running a media empire, I’d also make the distinction because it creates the impression that they’re outside analysts, plus there’s always the case of maintaining a distinct division, so that it could be sold, farmed out or shuttered without effecting your primary product.

But, I assume that ESPN.com maintains the standards of ESPN. I kind of find it doubtful that a blogger for the online entity would start trashing the television product and don’t think anybody on tv is going to call the website a piece of crap.

It may have been because he was ab-libbing, but what jumped out at me from the Baier bit was the phrasing; “Fox News didn’t even do the story. We didn’t do it on Special Report. We posted it online.” And to me, it was like he was making a clear distinction.

But of course, I’m kind of anal about such things.

Magister says:
July 22, 2010 at 4:49 pm

I think right now the standard is as follows:

Newspapers – Their website is simply a digital reproduction of their paper product, with more space to continue stories. The two are virtually the same, as they cover the same stories, by the same folks, exactly the same way.

Local Television – Their websites are mostly advertising tools, and reproductions of their broadcasts. They’re too small to really try to break into the national market for news and information, so they keep things very local, and have very similar content online and broadcast. Whether or not they’re one in the same depends on the location (the NYC stations may be different than small town who-knows-where).

Network / Cable Television – Their websites are somewhat independent of their broadcasts. They’re using their already established brand to market a new product. Information is frequently different than the broadcast content. Television personalities and information on such broadcast have to be found within the site, but aren’t usually the primary focus on the home page. There are unique staffs for the broadcast and the internet products, and therefore are separate entities under a common header.

Now that’s my opinion of (as you said) a very fluid and still developing area of the media.

Partners in Crime: Fox News Figures Aided & Abetted Breitbart’s Racial Deception http://bit.ly/aeDFEz

Another Tweet from Media Matters

Those who are calling me a liar: Go back and watch the original video, still on Breitbart’s site:

http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/07/19/video-proof-the-naacp-awards-racism2010/

The words before the clip begins (but in the YouTube video) say: “Ms. Sherrod admits in her federally appointed position, overseeing over a billion dollars…she discriminates against people due to their race.”

As we now know, this is 100% false. Even if she did at one time discriminate against a farmer, it was NOT in her federally appointed position, overseeing over a billion dollars.

@ImNotBlue: We’re getting way offtopic for Steve’s post, so I’m going to bow out.

Though, I will say that your I can point to literally dozens of exceptions to your local television and newspaper rules. As for the Network/Cable, they may all have additional products and more content than their offline cousins, but they fall under the same corporate umbrella, they cross-promote and are stamped with the same brand.

But this is really a topic for another post. I hope you understand.

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
It’s a shame you righty’s didn’t go after that instead of an innocent person.
You would have had a case.

It’s a shame the President didn’t go after that instead of an “innocent” person. He would have had a cause.

ImNotBlue said:
Kayvan

I’m willing to bet that you until Obama came along you spent the vast majority of you time commenting on “End of the World in 2012″ boards and fluoridation is mind control pages.

essequamvideri said:
at Politico, and Mediaite, and Salon, and Time, and Bloomberg, and NPR – all of the pseudo-intellectual navel-gazing elitist “news” outlets –

______________________________________________________________________________________________

Yes, HuffingPost also has someone on the list!

I am banned from Politico.com and HuffingtonPost because I didn’t KISS Obama’s @@@@ and I strongly support FOX News!

It’s really a “badge of honor”!

MichelleF must have really taken to my expression “watching her head explode”, because she now uses it on a daily basis for everyone!! Glad I could help you out!!!

Donna, obsessive Donna, I don’t even remember you using it. Unlike you with me, I do NOT hang on your every word. I’ll tell you what, though, if it makes you feel good, as a stalker, to think I got it from you, then I will let you think that. Have a great day!!

To sum up, Media Matters is lying and smearing Fox News, all in the name of accusing Fox of lying and smearing.

The lamestream media ignores the fact that Glenn Beck defended Shirley Sherrod on his first show after her firing from the administratio. After Beck’s show I was willing to give Sherrod the benefit of the doubt. But as time goes on, I have pegged her as being a tool for the anti-Fox News media.

AGAIN, this is what Breitbart said in the article:

“she admits that she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from “one of his own kind”. She refers him to a white lawyer.”

Granted – she was actually working for a non-profit then, not for USDA. But she admits in the video that she put off helping him. Exactly how long did it take for her to have her “epiphany”?

And I know something about USDA programs – you have to kiss butt with those folks. Yes, the Spooners (the “white” farmers eventually helped by her) now say she is a friend. As if they could tell the truth, if she really wasn’t helpful.

What sense does it make that Obama appointed her RD Director for Georgia, literally DAYS after her (New Communities) lawsuit settled for $13 MILLION? None. If there were actually REAL journalists employed by the old-style elitist “progressive” media, they’d be just a tad curious.

Breitbart was set up. The problem is – whoever set him up (NAACP?) thought that Beck & Fox would be all over the story – and they weren’t. It backfired on them when Beck strongly supported her. But facts mean nothing to liberals like Steve & the rest of the Mediaite writers.

The strategy of the liberal media, who are turning purple in their self-righteous rage, is to destroy Breitbart (whose blogger/journalists have done fantastic work that NO ONE else does, exposing ShoreBank etc.); bury the JournoList/CabalList stories – act as if they’re irrelevant; ridicule Fox & label it as a racist news org’n, thereby shutting them up so they won’t report on the widespread voter fraud that’s coming in November (can you say … another Al Franken voted in by convicted felons); and use Sherrod as their instrument – make her into a saint, created out of their own liberal guilt.

This is a free country still Steve K. – not for much longer – but there is an opposition out there – who love America – who know that the constitution is the best safeguard of our freedoms, and who believe that God did indeed create us with inalienable rights. And no socialist can ever take our liberty away from us. You are going to have a much tougher fight than you & Tommy C. (quavering in his boots before Malik Shabazz) & Dan Abrams ever thought.

@essequamvideri: Steve quotes from the slides that precede her appearance in the video, while you’re referencing (and interpreting) Breitbart’s text.

MichelleF–I just read your reply, unlike you I have a life and don’t just set on this site and call it my life. I would definitely call you an obsessive person, evidently you do hang on my every word, because I get a rise out of you every time!!!

Crappy job, Steve:

From Media Matters:

. . . FoxNews.com published a story based on the deceptively edited video before Sherrod resigned; indeed, a subsequent FoxNews.com article reported that she resigned “shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video.”

http://mediamatters.org/research/201007210032

I’m probably gonna catch it from some folks here for citing Media Matters but remember some of you are defending a man and a news organization who pushed an edited tape designed to smear someone. I have yet to see Media Matters guilty of such things.

Steve Krakauer said:
The words before the clip begins (but in the YouTube video) say: “Ms. Sherrod admits in her federally appointed position, overseeing over a billion dollars…she discriminates against people due to their race.”

Wow, you can’t even post a full sentence from Brietbart without editing it, but if Brietbart shows anything less than the full 43 minute Sherrod video, that is wrong?

betweentwoevils said:
Have you ever attended a predominantly African American Church?

No, but I did see the Reverend Wright videos. The audience response was similar.

Hey Michael-

Go watch the tape – I didn’t edit anything!

Michael Munsey said:
No, but I did see the Reverend Wright videos. The audience response was similar.

Probably on Fox News, a channel who ran those videos as often as the New Black Panther Party Clips, or the fake Pimp and Prostitute/ACORN videos….or…sense a trend?

–Cobra

This story is misleadingly represented on Mediaite. While I have no issue with your exonerating the BROADCAST version of Fox for spreading Breitbart’s lies, you cannot suggest that Fox News was blameless in spreading the story. As indicated at Media Matters, ( http://mediamatters.org/research/201007220004 ), Fox began spreading the story on its Web site before Sherrod had been forced to resign.

The Obama administration overreacted in part because it knew through past experience how Fox would treat the story and how Fox has successfully (because its audiences do not think critically and believe everything Fox tells them) spread false stories in the past. The Iraq War is the most glaring example of how the echo chamber effect–having all commentators and reporters saying the same things over and over–can force a narrative into the public’s face, even if that narrative is false. While the majority of the media news are conservative, Fox’s relentless war-mongering, and its blatant linking of support for attacking Iraq with patriotism essentially cowed other news stations interested in ratings like Fox’s to follow suit. In fact, Phil Donahue’s successful cable show was canceled because his station, learned through an inter-office memo–saw the climate that Fox was creating as risking making Donahue’s station look unpatriotic.

The fact is that Fox’s echo chamber strategy is like a cancer, and the Obama administration acted stupidly to avoid the type of criticism that Fox has fomented against him since he took office.

The story here, however, neglects the fact that Fox spreads its cancer online as well as on air, and simply because Sherrod resigned too soon for them to capitalize on the issue on air does not make them blameless.