I just love it. Well-respected but clearly liberal, E.J. Dionne, Jr., writes a scathing op-ed column in the Washington Post today called "Enough of the Right Wing Propaganda." In this op-ed, he blasts Andrew Breitbart and Fox News for publicizing and then reporting on the Shirley Sherrod "scandal."
I just love the "mainstream" (note I don't even have to use the word liberal here) media. Rarely do they talk about the left-ward antics of all the radical groups like MoveOn.org, Code Pink, New America Foundation and others that were so prominent and public when George W. Bush was president -- targeting anything and everything Republican. In fact, these "mainstream" organizations followed them like sheep to the slaughter. It even went so far that Nancy Pelosi went to great lengths to praise these groups and the right to protest.
What's ironic here, though, is that the clip of Sherrod's speech, while aired publicly on multiple news outlets, need not have provoked the rapid and ultimately incorrect response from the Obama Administration. After all, it wasn't Fox News or Andrew Britebart who fired Sherrod. It was Obama's Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsach who did the deed (probably under the direction of some White House functionary) -- with incomplete facts at hand. Ultimately, he had to eat crow...as did the Obama Aministration.
Second, what's always bothered me is that the left has pushes left-of-center content out on all other television channels -- ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, PBS and CNN -- yet Fox News, one little tiny station...with a HUGE following...gets raked over the coals and tarred as biased. Could it be that the "mainstream" media simply can't understand that Fox News has such a following because they report the news in a way that most people want to hear...yes..."fair and balanced?" The reporters at the Washington Post, New York Times and other well-established operations are witnessing declining circulation numbers and they, essentially, "preach to the choir" and there are just fewer and fewer in that choir.
The "mainstream" media's monopoly on the flow of news and information is gone...and it's never coming back. Mind you, I haven't even gotten started talking about the now well-publicized Journo-List, the left-wing cabal that went over and above to boost the Obama presidential candidacy and torpedo anything from the Republicans. Or, all the negative publicity over the Tea Party Movement...which is wildly popular with many Americans -- Republican, Democrat and Independent.
I wonder what E.J. Dionne, Jr. would have to say about that?
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Agree completely with Matt. Sherrod ended with a better job and the WH with egg (or something) on their faces they are trying to throw on Fox News.
Frankly I found the Sherrod comments offensive no matter how she covered them in the latter part of the speech. Try this. Listen to the speech again and substitute a white person in her position saying the same words about a black person.
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