http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/2010/07/22/learning-from-the-sherrod%e2%80%99s-unique-experiences/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=learning-from-the-sherrod%25e2%2580%2599s-unique-experiences Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:23:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/2010/07/22/learning-from-the-sherrod%e2%80%99s-unique-experiences/comment-page-1/#comment-4836 Steve Cohn Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:45:18 +0000 http://mindyourowndamnbusinesspolitics.com/wordpress/?p=2952#comment-4836 I'm about to rant, because this story has made me angrier than any in recent memory. I am not forgiving the administration's handling of this or the NAACP being quick to condemn. I happened to see the video in the waiting room of my doctor's office and had the same exact reaction. The administration should be ashamed of themselves for jumping to conclusions. I know I would have been all over the Bush administration if they had done the same thing. That said, let's not forget the people who put Sherrod in this position in the first place. Brietbart's handling was not "at very best poorly executed and a violation of journalistic ethics." Breitbart is not a journalist, he is a provocateur. He puts things on his pages that are not true, made up or, like the video, deliberately shaded. He was the source for the WSJ on the "Jornalist" controversy, which, according to information released yesterday, should not be a controversy. Ezra Klein and those who signed the letter have never made any appearance of not being liberal columnists. However, there was a lively debate in the group as to whether they should go public and in the end only a small number of the much larger group did. If I remember correctly, quite a few people were annoyed with Stephanopoulos for the questions he asked, which were trite and dealt with issues that really had no bearing on leadership. But Breitbart and the WSJ chose to publish without checking. On the Sherrod story, Brietbart hasn't accepted blame and even those conservatives who apologized yesterday (O'Reilly) did so and then qualified their apology. I'm glad there are people like you who look at the world from both sides, and lord knows, the liberals have their own problems. But I don't find myself having to debunk hateful, untrue emails from liberals. I do from conservatives. I don't find myself having to discuss false, misleading edited videos that liberals post, because they don't post them. I'm all for the discussion. But I won't tolerate deliberate falsehoods for political gain, especially those which slander an innocent person like Shirley Sherrod. Thanks for giving me the forum. I’m about to rant, because this story has made me angrier than any in recent memory. I am not forgiving the administration’s handling of this or the NAACP being quick to condemn. I happened to see the video in the waiting room of my doctor’s office and had the same exact reaction. The administration should be ashamed of themselves for jumping to conclusions. I know I would have been all over the Bush administration if they had done the same thing. That said, let’s not forget the people who put Sherrod in this position in the first place. Brietbart’s handling was not “at very best poorly executed and a violation of journalistic ethics.” Breitbart is not a journalist, he is a provocateur. He puts things on his pages that are not true, made up or, like the video, deliberately shaded. He was the source for the WSJ on the “Jornalist” controversy, which, according to information released yesterday, should not be a controversy. Ezra Klein and those who signed the letter have never made any appearance of not being liberal columnists. However, there was a lively debate in the group as to whether they should go public and in the end only a small number of the much larger group did. If I remember correctly, quite a few people were annoyed with Stephanopoulos for the questions he asked, which were trite and dealt with issues that really had no bearing on leadership. But Breitbart and the WSJ chose to publish without checking. On the Sherrod story, Brietbart hasn’t accepted blame and even those conservatives who apologized yesterday (O’Reilly) did so and then qualified their apology.
I’m glad there are people like you who look at the world from both sides, and lord knows, the liberals have their own problems. But I don’t find myself having to debunk hateful, untrue emails from liberals. I do from conservatives. I don’t find myself having to discuss false, misleading edited videos that liberals post, because they don’t post them. I’m all for the discussion. But I won’t tolerate deliberate falsehoods for political gain, especially those which slander an innocent person like Shirley Sherrod.
Thanks for giving me the forum.

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