skippy the bush kangaroo: que sherrod sherrod

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

que sherrod sherrod

the story so far:

everything you need toknow about this whole shirley sherrod debacle, as told by someone who kind of understands it mostly (via ripcoco)

bradblog pulls no punches about breitbart

glenn greenwald thinks ms. sherrod has an actionable case against breitbart

jonathan turley also says she might have such a case, but it won't be easy

greg sargent points out that shirley sherrod calls it like she sees it, vis-a-vis fox news racism

addendum: tho greg sargent applauds robert gibbs for pointing the finger back @ the media when it comes to blame for the sherrod debacle, we are not so quick to agree.

rather, we are of the same mind as joseph nobles, commenting @ balloon juice:

i’m sorry, but who does obama have to blame for this pushing his victories off the front page? his administration. that’s who fired shirley sherrod. i’m not just mad at the firing, but for the bunker mentality revealed by the firing.

the difference between the gullible media and the administration, both "snookered" by this story, is that it was the administration that fired sherrod before all the facts were in (facts they themselves could have ascertained w/a phone call to the naacp archives).

obama looks pretty damn bad in this.

posted by skippy at 4:58 PM |

4 Comments:

Obama does look bad, but really, that's a moot point. He's damned if he does, damned if he doesn't by a mainstream "media" that takes its cues, no questions asked, from an all-around jackass who has referred to himself as "Matt Drudge's bitch" -- and actually seemed proud of that self-description.

With any luck, Obama and his administration will be permanently wary of any future stories with Breitbart's fingerprints on it. With any luck. But that's more than we can ever hope to expect from the mainstream "media." Their world, apparently, is ruled by the likes of Matt Drudge's bitch.

And they wonder why so many daily newspapers have folded in recent years...

commented by

Jim Yeager, 6:31 PM PDT

"With any luck, Obama and his administration will be permanently wary of any future stories with Breitbart's fingerprints on it."

Somehow I highly doubt it. It goes against their track record.

commented by

Frederick, 7:42 PM PDT

Firing Sherrod without any investigation was not only stupid, it was an act of cowardice. And when I say cowardice I'm talking about Obama.

commented by

Mad Kane, 12:00 AM PDT

As I've regularly said, anybody who thinks Vilsack made the decision to fire Sharrod all by his lonesome is smoking crack. Even Secretaries of Agriculture don't make political decisions of this nature without direct orders from the political commissariate -- i.e., Rahm and, indirectly, Obama. Vilsack was their hatchet man for plausible deniability purposes, that is all.

- Badtux the Kremlinology Penguin

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BadTux, 10:03 AM PDT

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