The conservative outrage machine chokes on Shirley Sherrod
Last week, the conservative outrage machine tried to chew up Shirley Sherrod, writes columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. This machine exists to stoke and maintain a state of perpetual apoplexy on the political right by feeding it a never-ending stream of perceived sins against conservative orthodoxy.
Leonard Pitts
Syndicated columnist
Last week, the conservative outrage machine tried to chew up Shirley Sherrod.
You 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 state of perpetual apoplexy on the political right by feeding it a never-ending stream of perceived sins against conservative orthodoxy.
While the machine will use any available fuel (health care, immigration, Muslims) to manufacture fury, it has a special fondness for race. Specifically, for stories that depict the God-fearing white conservative as a victim of oppression.
So Sherrod must have seemed a godsend to blogger Andrew Breitbart.
(More here.)
Leonard Pitts
Syndicated columnist
Last week, the conservative outrage machine tried to chew up Shirley Sherrod.
You 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 state of perpetual apoplexy on the political right by feeding it a never-ending stream of perceived sins against conservative orthodoxy.
While the machine will use any available fuel (health care, immigration, Muslims) to manufacture fury, it has a special fondness for race. Specifically, for stories that depict the God-fearing white conservative as a victim of oppression.
So Sherrod must have seemed a godsend to blogger Andrew Breitbart.
(More here.)
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1 Comments:
I do not watch Fox News but, I believe that the White House fired the lady BEFORE Fox News broadcast news about the speech and also beleive that Fox News has appoligized for the error and lack of fact checking. I find all news to be biased and Vox Veras unfortunately follows suit with such one-sides articles. I coudl point out countless articles of false or biased liberal reporting, why not report on those? I slao wonder why the cheering of the crowd during certain segments of the speeach were not newsworthy? Perhaps I'm assuming Vos Veras actually watched the or read the entire speech text...
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