A textbook caseWashington Post (blog) - Virginia Bianco-Mathis - 26 Jul, 2010Q: One day, the US agriculture secretary forced an official to resign after she was portrayed as treating whites worse than blacks. ... |
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When Race Is the Issue, Misleading Coverage Sets Off an UproarNew York Times - Brian Stelter - 26 Jul, 2010Megyn Kelly, a Fox anchor, has devoted dozens of segments to an incident of suspected voter intimidation by a fringe group. By BRIAN STELTER In the last ... |
Sherrod incident shows how fast liberals cave inBoston Globe - 26 Jul, 2010RE “WHITE House apologizes to fired USDA worker'' (Page A8, July 22): Imagine the firestorm of indignation that would have erupted from the George W. Bush ... |
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POLITICAL MANN:Shirley Sherrod and America's racial guiltsNEXT - Jonathan Mann - 26 Jul, 2010A soft-spoken African-American woman with a gentle manner became the most famous face in US politics this week, in Kafkaesque confusion ... |
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Both Sides Now w/ Huffington & Matalin -- On Race-Baiting, Rangel & MosquesHuffington Post (blog) - 26 Jul, 2010This week there were several billion interactions and events in America, but two held center stage: the racial and media firestorm over Sherrod's firing and ... |
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The shameful treatment of Shirley SherrodSeattle Times - 26 Jul, 2010AP Shirley Sherrod was interviewed Thursday on "The Early Show." CNN filmed part of her call with President Obama, following her recent firing. ... |
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'Fear factor': Sherrod blame gamePolitico (blog) - Kenneth P. Vogel - 26 Jul, 2010Nearly a week after the Shirley Sherrod controversy shook the political firmament, the debate over what it all ... |
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Lessons to be learned from Sherrod videoThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com - 26 Jul, 2010Brendan Smialowski/Getty ImagesSecretary of Agriculture Thomas J. Vilsack listens as members of the Congressional Black Caucus speak to the press after a ... |
Glenn Beck: Shirley Sherrod Won't Come On My Show (VIDEO)Huffington Post (blog) - 26 Jul, 2010Glenn Beck lamented to Bill O'Reilly that Shirley Sherrod will not come on his Fox News show. Beck claims that Sherrod, who reportedly was asked to resign ... |
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Rev. Jackson: Breitbart “morally wrong”Politico (blog) - 26 Jul, 2010Andrew Breitbart's posting of the misleadingly excerpted video footage that started the Shirley Sherrod controversy “was morally wrong and created of course ... |
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360-Degree Turn -- Now the Right Is Attacking Shirley Sherrod for Calling ...Huffington Post (blog) - 26 Jul, 2010As fast as they issued mea culpas because of the treatment of Shirley Sherrod, some members of the right are now seemingly taking back those mea culpas and ... |
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When the Facts Get in the WayNewsweek - 26 Jul, 2010My family and I have spent most of July in Tennessee, which has put me in the position of being in touch with but not obsessed by the news cycle. ... |
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Obama's bungling of Shirley Sherrod issue overshadows administration's ...New York Daily News - Thomas M. Defrank - 26 Jul, 2010President Obama delivers remarks on the economy (above). His worst approval rating yet, combined with the PR gaffe over Shirley Sherrod ... |
Head Strong: Andrew Breitbart fooled America - againPhiladelphia Inquirer - Michael Smerconish - 26 Jul, 2010Last week, blogger Andrew Breitbart released a mischievously edited video. It showed a black Department of Agriculture ... |
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In the Sherrod controversy, do shoot the messengerDetroit Free Press - Mitch Albom - 26 Jul, 2010If a house is burned to the ground, you can whine about the firefighters or criticize the building material -- but first you blame the guy ... |
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Shirley Sherrod, Black Farmers and the 2010 Racial World CupHuffington Post (blog) - 26 Jul, 2010I think we live in a culture that things whip around, where people want fast responses, we give fast responses. I think everybody has to go back . . . and ... |
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Dividing us for political gainMiamiHerald.com - Joy-Ann Reid - Jul 24, 2010`Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, ... |
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Sunday RoundupHuffington Post (blog) - Jul 24, 2010This week, President Obama signed the financial regulation bill, Facebook signed up its 500 millionth member, and the Senate Judiciary committee signed off ... |
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For Obama, Race Means Repeated DistractionsNPR - Jul 24, 2010by AP Enlarge AP Shirley Sherrod answers questions during an interview at her home on Friday, July 23, 2010 in Albany, Ga. Sherrod was fired from her job at ... |
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`Fury' of the right turns into shameful hoaxMiamiHerald.com - Leonard Pitts - Jul 24, 2010You are familiar with that machine if you have access to the Internet or Fox News. As the name implies, it exists to stoke and maintain a ... |
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Barack Obama's White House bows to the conservatives againThe Guardian - Jul 24, 2010It is a tried and tested technique. A story surfaces on an obscure, journalistically dubious, conservative website. It spreads to Fox News who churn out ... |
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Making sense out of Breitbart's bum storyChicago Tribune - Jul 24, 2010In the end, the only people who came out of the Shirley Sherrod pseudo-scandal without egg on their faces were Shirley Sherrod and her falsely alleged ... |
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You'll Never Believe What This White House Is MissingNew York Times - Maureen Dowd - Jul 24, 2010It has Barack Obama, raised in the Hawaiian hood and Indonesia, and Valerie Jarrett, who spent her early years in Iran. ... |
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Shirley Sherrod and MeNew York Times - Jul 24, 2010By VAN JONES I UNDERSTAND how Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official who was forced to resign last week, must have felt. Last year I, too, ... |
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After the Shirley Sherrod furor, a pivot on racial entitlement?Christian Science Monitor - Patrik Jonsson - Jul 24, 2010The US Department of Agriculture, from which Shirley Sherrod was fired for appearing to discriminate, stood at the forefront of institutional racism for ... |
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Race: Still Too Hot to TouchNew York Times - Matt Bai - Jul 24, 2010If Tom Wolfe had set out to write a “Bonfire of the Vanities” on modern Washington, a farce about lives and races colliding, he couldn't have ... |
White House Dragged Back Into Racial FrayNPR - Ari Shapiro - Jul 24, 2010The controversy over Shirley Sherrod's ouster from her job at the Agriculture Department shows that race is an issue that cannot be ignored. ... |
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It's Time to Inoculate Ourselves Against Slander and Falsehoods in the MediaHuffington Post (blog) - Jul 24, 2010Last September, Fox News embraced a series of videos released by Andrew Breitbart that purported to expose ACORN, the national grassroots advocacy group, ... |
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Bob Herbert On Shirley Sherrod: Obama Running From Race IssueHuffington Post (blog) - Jul 24, 2010The Shirley Sherrod story tells us so much about ourselves, and none of it is pretty. The most obvious and shameful fact is that the Obama administration, ... |
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Race again proves a distraction for Obama, shifting his focus from crowded to ...Los Angeles Times - Jul 24, 2010WASHINGTON (AP) " Right when President Barack Obama should have been making political hay over big-deal legislative triumphs, race once again blew in with a ... |
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