As horrible as the treatment of Shirley Sherrod was.. I am glad the President waited

[Peacetrain]

before stepping in and trying to put oil on the water.

I have been watching the media the last couple of days start to do some self examination over their own complicity in the Breitbart mess.

Not only Fox ran with that story so did MSM.. they took the Fox bait of being accused of not covering a story.

Ever since the President did his original speech on race.. there has been a continual push for the President to make a speech to make difficult situations easier.

While the USDA has its own eggy face in this situation.. not getting up and letting the media off by addressing the situation right away in a teaching moment by the President.. was the right thing to do.

The best... best thing, was being able to see who Shirley Sherrod really was, who those white farmers really were, listening to her history , hearing the complete tape. If the President had jumped into quickly that would have been lost.

It is not going to cure it of course.. no one thing, no one time, ever ever erases a problem, but everyone has to become responsible for their own behaviors.... and not look to someone else to take the heat off of them, by taking all the blame of a situation on their shoulders.

[DURHAM D]

1. I guess you didn't notice.

Shirley Sherrod is sooo yesterday.

The new fresh meat is the cost of the Clinton wedding and a return to the usual Clinton bashing.

[Peacetrain]

2. Not for me.. but I know what you are saying

Still Durham.. they had to do a 2 day self examination that they did not want to do.. God Bless Shirley Sherrod for hanging in there and I do not know where she got the sheer strength of will do just stay on the TV and do those shows. She was amazing

[DURHAM D]

3. I agree.

She suffered through a public lynching and survived and became a hero.

[Peacetrain]

4. My husband called it a Rosa Parks moment..

One person refusing to step back or step down.. I think this is something we will be talking about 30 years from now.. Like Joseph Welch who asked McCarthy if he had no sense of decency.. the Unknown Chinese protester during Tienanmen Sq. I think we saw history made.

[besdayz]

5. a

if anyone was truly waiting she would not have been fired......he is a disgrace, maybe not as much as those other skum

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Obviously she shouldn't have been fired, but

the Administration got taken in by outright misrepresentation on the part of what purports to be a national news organization, complete with edited video to back up their fabricated story. Their sin was gullibility, not malice. I think "disgrace" is an unnecessary bit of hyperbole here. The disgrace lies with the liars, not with the victims.

[Phx_Dem]

6. So true. The media doesn't allow anyone to get the facts

before responding. God knows they don't get the facts before "passing on" whatever bullshit comes their way. The more scandalous, the faster they crank it out.

Remember a while back during an Obama press conference when Ed Henry asked Obama why he hadn't responded quicker about the AIG bonuses, and Obama said, "because I like to know the facts before I speak." The media had a fit about the time it took the President a issue a comment.

This time the Ag Department reacted quickly -- much too quickly. But it's the media who created this nasty atmosphere where anything goes and you'd better respond quickly, or they're rip you to shreds. And when Obama did respond quickly, to the Professor Gates issue, he was beat up for weeks about it, even though he was 100 percent right!

FUCK THE MEDIA. They are scandal-obsessed morons who have dragged the country into the gutter.

[Peacetrain]

7. Yep... they were screaming for faster reaction..

which goes to prove they will scream no matter what you give them.. But it has been good to seem them trying to tack their way around this, and it keeps coming back to them in the the end. They were the ones who swallowed it hook line and sinker

[Jackpine Radical]

9. You can say "Fuck the Media" all you want, but they retain immense power.

I said "Fuck the Media" years ago and don't watch any of that stuff, but they still have a major impact on my life because of the effects they have on the people who do attend to them.

[donheld]

12. The White House knew this came from a questionable source and

still made the leap to having her fired. Can you really blame the media for the White House quick jump to have her fired.

[Warren Stupidity]

10. The administration screwed up.

Did you miss that? Obama is responsible for the actions of his cabinet secretaries. This was a stupid overreaction, not a careful deliberate action after a complete examination of the facts. A woman's career was wrecked.

[Peregrine Took]

11. I like the way he tossed Vilsack under the bus. n/t