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Rachel Maddow tore into Fox News again Wednesday night, accusing the channel of stoking racial fears among whites. Maddow used the channel’s role in hyping the Shirley Sherrod tale as a springboard for a broader conversation of the history of using the media to pit whites against blacks in the United States. She connected Fox News’ [...] Bill O’Reilly apologized to Shirley Sherrod for taking her observations out of context Wednesday night on “The O’Reilly Factor.” O’Reilly, who Monday night started airing the excerpted video of Sherrod’s speech to the NAACP and calling for her resignation, aired more of the video Wednesday and apologized for not having done so prior. “I owe Ms. Sherrod [...] Bill O’Reilly apologized to Shirley Sherrod for taking her observations out of context Wednesday night on “The O’Reilly Factor.” O’Reilly, who Monday night started airing the excerpted video of Sherrod’s speech to the NAACP and calling for her resignation, aired more of the video Wednesday and apologized for not having done so prior. “I owe Ms. Sherrod [...] Keith Olbermann suspended his vacation Wednesday night to return to “Countdown” with a Special Comment on the Shirley Sherrod scandal. Olbermann blasted Fox News and right-wing media while at the same time calling upon President Obama to respond forcefully against their continued smear battle. “What you see on Fox News, what you read on Right Wing websites, [...] Rachel Maddow tore into Fox News again Wednesday night, accusing the channel of stoking racial fears among whites. Maddow used the channel’s role in hyping the Shirley Sherrod tale as a springboard for a broader conversation of the history of using the media to pit whites against blacks in the United States. She connected Fox News’ [...] The entire Shirley Sherrod affair is such a disgusting, stomach-churning episode of right-wing lies, propagandists posing as “journalists,” and craven political cowardice and gullibility, that it’s hard to know who to be most enraged at. Andrew Breitbart, the chief propagandist of the American right who severely edited a videotape of a speech by the Agriculture Department [...] Bill O’Reilly took on the media over its coverage of the New Black Panthers scandal Monday night on “The O’Reilly Factor.” O’Reilly took on Howard Kurtz, who said on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” Sunday that Fox News was “pushing” the tale, and Bob Schieffer, who told Kurtz that he missed the tale because he was on vacation. [...] Bill O’Reilly took on the media over its coverage of the New Black Panthers scandal Monday night on “The O’Reilly Factor.” O’Reilly took on Howard Kurtz, who said on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” Sunday that Fox News was “pushing” the tale, and Bob Schieffer, who told Kurtz that he missed the tale because he was on vacation. [...] Glenn Beck suggested that the Jews killed Jesus on his Fox News show Tuesday. Beck’s aver occurred in the midst of a long monologue about religion. In it, Beck attacked, among other equipment, social justice, liberation theology, Jeremiah Wright and Rev. Jim Wallis. He singled out liberation theology as a “perversion” that is connected to Marxism [...] |
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Tom Burrell: Birth of a Notion
A touch dark, dank and distressingly familiar has saturated the airways, clogging reason and exacerbating racial anxiety and paranoia. And, as it was during the beginning of the 20th Century, mainstream actively spreads the pollutants.
Recently, I received an e-blast from the watchdog group, ColorOfChange.org, calling for a massive letter writing battle to urge [...]