FOX smear

[Fazda]

Just got this from somebody in the States:

Dear xxx,
After initially throwing Shirley Sherrod under the bus, the White House and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack apologized on Wednesday, and Secretary Vilsack offered her a new position at the USDA. The NAACP also did an about face and retracted their condemnation of Ms. Sherrod.
There’s a lot we could talk about regarding this incident, including why the Obama administration and the NAACP acted as they did. But, what's uniquely important for all of us to understand is the right wing smear machine — how it works, and what’s at stake if we fail to learn from this moment.
The story of Shirley Sherrod's alleged racism was a fabrication created by the right-wing media, led by Andrew Breitbart and FOX News. Breitbart and Fox were counting on Sherrod's silence to perpetrate their fraud. But thanks to Shirley's strength and the quick appearance of her full remarks, their attempt to spread their lies throughout the mainstream media failed, and they were exposed as con-artists trying to stoke racial fear and paranoia for political gain.
This is not the first time Breitbart and FOX have attempted something like this, and it certainly won’t be the last.
Over the last year, Breitbart, FOX, and other members of the right wing media machine have repeatedly run distorted and fabricated stories claiming a wave of anti-White racism from the Black community, including President Obama. Their motive is simple: mobilize the far right and deflect attention from the deep-seated racism within key parts of their movement.
It was distortions carried on FOX News that led the smear against Van Jones, ultimately leading to his resignation from the Obama administration. It was deceptively edited videos published by Andrew Breitbart, then picked up by FOX News, that destroyed the grassroots community organization ACORN. A few weeks ago, FOX News persistently pushed a bogus story about the New Black Panther Party, claiming that Obama’s Department of Justice is refusing to prosecute civil rights violations perpetrated by Black people against White people. And those are just the smears that caught hold — numerous others were tried and mostly ignored by the mainstream media.
Many of these smear campaigns have destroyed the reputations and careers of good people doing good work. Unfortunately, those attacked don’t usually fight back quickly enough against the smears and the lies. And usually, evidence of fabrication and lies doesn’t surface so quickly.
Shirley Sherrod is a hero because she’s done something much bigger than saving her reputation and her career. She helped expose, on a big stage, the tactics and the character of Andrew Breitbart, FOX, and others who engage in deception and race-baiting packaged as news. And she’s showed us that standing up and fighting directly against race-baiting can work. It's an important lesson because Breitbart, FOX and their friends are going to keep conjuring up the myth of systematic anti-White racism, and unless we fight back, they will win.
You can help by making sure your friends, family, and neighbors understand what has happened, and in particular FOX’s role in race-baiting and misinformation. And together, with our voices united, we can continue to call out this pattern on the national stage. It will communicate to the White House and to other leaders that we expect them to fight back. And it will show the media that we expect them to tell the truth about FOX, Breitbart, and the smear campaigns they keep launching.
At ColorOfChange, we promise to stay focused on giving you meaningful ways to confront the right-wing propaganda machine, and reduce their power to drive national conversations about race and politics. We’re hoping you’ll be with us as we do.
Thanks and Peace,

 

[w1z4rd]

Haha, I saw O Rielly on Faux news yesterday calling all the accusers corrupt and liars. Haha, I laughed my head off. You know _anything_ O Rielly says is carefully crafted bs

The rancid right have really gone downhill

 

[Fazda]

Haha, I saw O Rielly on Faux news yesterday calling all the accusers corrupt and liars. Haha, I laughed my head off. You know _anything_ O Rielly says is carefully crafted bs

The rancid right have really gone downhill

What concerns me is the number of converts they have attracted since Obama came in. Everybody from the KKK to the anti abortionists seem to have jumped on the bandwagon.

 

[Kilgore_Trout_Redux]

The issue here is that Obama is ruthless and has absolutely no sense of loyalty to the people he depends on.

If he thinks there is the tiniest chance you will hurt his political career he will throw you under the bus.

 

[Fazda]

The issue here is that Obama is ruthless and has absolutely no sense of loyalty to the people he depends on.

If he thinks there is the tiniest chance you will hurt his political career he will throw you under the bus.

The issue here, is that you are talking absolute crap

 

[Kilgore_Trout_Redux]

Right, so Obama didn't have someone on his staff fired without first confirming whether she was guilty or not?

He did it to the long term minister of his church too. The guy campaigned tirelessly for Obama and after he was elected it was revealed that one of his past sermons had been "politically insensitive" and Obama cut him off as well.

 

[Alan]

Yeah his mentor and family friend thrown under the bus. Hell he even threw his own grandmother under as well

Politicians aspiring to the presidency are ambitious. It comes with the territory. But there are politicians with honor and those without honor. There are those who will do anything to get elected and those who won't. And Barack Obama, for all his blather about ushering in a kinder, gentler politics of unification, is a politician who will do anything to get elected. He is a politician without honor.

Barack Obama will throw his own grandmother under the bus if it helps him get elected -- and he has. After the mainstream media finally caught on to the fact that Obama attended a black radical church for two decades, Obama made a speech in which he compared his America-hating pastor to the white grandmother who raised him. "I can no more disown (the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.) than I can disown my white grandmother, a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe." Also, a woman Obama will knife if it helps him in the polls.

Here's the story of Obama's "racist" grandmother: She brought up a daughter who married a black man, then raised their mixed-race son when her daughter took off. Here's her supposed Bull Connor moment: Obama rips on her in his bestseller, "Dreams From My Father," for harboring fears about an aggressive black panhandler who accosted her at a bus stop. Not exactly the stuff of which Simon Legrees are made.

Here's the story of Jeremiah Wright Jr.: He was Obama's spiritual mentor for 20 years. He also says 9/11 was a case of "America's chickens coming home to roost." He thinks the U.S. government created AIDS and distributed it in the black community. He believes America sentences crack cocaine dealers more harshly than regular cocaine dealers because of racism. God, he avers, should damn America, not bless it. He is, in short, a tremendously racist, despicably anti-American rabble-rouser.

For Obama to attend Wright's church is disgusting enough. For him to compare his grandmother to Wright is simply sickening.

Even Obama recognized that tagging his own grandmother as a racist before the nation was problematic. And so he justified himself by tagging every white person in America as a secret racist. "The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't." Obama said after his speech.

http://townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2008/03/26/barack_obama_throws_grandma_under_the_bus

Anyway WTF kind of thread is this. Some anonymous email full of ranting and raving is thread worthy?