Howard Dean: FOX News is Racist for... Reporting News?

[TheTechMaster]

The Fox News Channel’s handling of the Shirley Sherrod controversy “was absolutely racist,” former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean charged on Sunday.

Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Dean, who's also a former Democratic national chairman and hero of liberals, asserted Fox News failed to vet video footage of a speech misleadingly excerpted to make it appear that Sherrod was boasting of using her post as an Agriculture Department official to discriminate against a white farmer.

“I don’t think Newt Gingrich is a racist, and I don’t think you’re a racist,” Dean told Fox News host Chris Wallace, “but 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.”

When Wallace interrupted Dean to point out that Fox did not air the excerpted Sherrod footage until after the Obama administration had fired her based on it , Dean shot back “It was about to go on Glenn Beck, which is what the administration was afraid of.”

And Dean mildly rebuked the Obama administration, as well, saying, “We’ve got to stop being afraid of Glenn Beck (a Fox News host) and the racist fringe of the Republican Party. But Fox News was not blameless during this. You played it up.”

Dean dismissed Wallace’s point about timing, asserting “you didn’t do your job,” and charging that Fox News has helped the Republican Party foster racism by focusing on allegations of reverse racism.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicol ... l?showall#

[TheTechMaster]

Wow.

This guy doesn't really need to step far out of the way to prove himself a complete and total moron, does he?

What's next?

Charges for being racist, because the text running on the ticker at the bottom of the news screen in white on black?

[Admiral Beckham]

You're racist if you prefer:

White rice over brown rice,

Red beans over black beans,

The Red Sox over the White Sox,

Brown bread over white,

Brown sugar over white sugar...

the list goes on.

James

My question is, how is it news when FOX heavily edit the clip to remove the context and insert their own bias into the item?

Surely that should be the scary thing here?

Good question, Prom, and a very legitimate criticism.

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-1982 ... aten-Obama

http://cnnlies.blogspot.com/

http://www.democrats.com/msnbc-lies-abo ... iretapping

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201 ... b_dis.html

Point is that editorial slant (lying) is endemic in American news. You get used to it and assume that apriori, they are all bastards who need to be factchecked.

[TheTechMaster]

My question is, how is it news when FOX heavily edit the clip to remove the context and insert their own bias into the item?

Surely that should be the scary thing here?

Actually, it was the person who LEAKED the clip (someone who has to have been from the NAAPC as THEY own the tape in question), who edited to that one small clip that came out racist.

It was not FOX / SKY News who edited it.

My question is, how is it news when FOX heavily edit the clip to remove the context and insert their own bias into the item?

Surely that should be the scary thing here?

Actually, it was the person who LEAKED the clip (someone who has to have been from the NAAPC as THEY own the tape in question), who edited to that one small clip that came out racist.

It was not FOX / SKY News who edited it.

So I'm assuming that FOX retracted the video, apologised for unkowingly having smeared the reputation of the person in question and have definitely not continued to throw mud over the issue since?

My question is, how is it news when FOX heavily edit the clip to remove the context and insert their own bias into the item?

Surely that should be the scary thing here?

Actually, it was the person who LEAKED the clip (someone who has to have been from the NAAPC as THEY own the tape in question), who edited to that one small clip that came out racist.

It was not FOX / SKY News who edited it.

So I'm assuming that FOX retracted the video, apologised for unkowingly having smeared the reputation of the person in question and have definitely not continued to throw mud over the issue since?

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201007210082