Sunday, July 25, 2010

Shirley Sherrod demonstrates the chasm in US opinion

I've been following various news sources and blogs pretty closely the last few weeks. The Shirley Sherrod case exemplifies the great chasm of American opinion today. I have red redstate.com, dailykos.com huffingtonpost.com, townhall.com, cnn, bbc, fox, etc.

On one hand, the left sees this as all out warfare from the right, and some on the right still see this as a case of racism... Andrew Brietbart and Foxnews have made virtually no apology for sloppy Journalism (Fox went to so far as use the Administrations firing to smear Obama). The question in my mind is why did Fox report this story in the way in which they did? Until that question is answered, I will not consider them a serious news source; it's one thing to be biased and yet quite another to be yellow.

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