On Fox News Sunday this morning, Howard Dean accused Fox News of racism for showing the Shirley Sherrod clip that had been posted by Breitbart. According to Dean, Fox had a duty to find out that the video was incomplete before airing it. Dean blamed the whole Sherrod mess on Fox and its appeal to its racist viewers.
To call Dean an idiot is to be too kind. Fox News did not air the clip until after the White House had Sherrod fired based upon that very clip. In other words, the White House saw the clip on Breitbart and did not bother to find out if it was complete. Instead, the White House fired Sherrod without doing any further investigation. So it is hard to call FNC racist when they were reporting on what the White House had already done. If Dean were unaware of this fact, he would fairly be called an idiot. Dean, however, knew all about this and was reminded of this fact on Fox News sunday by host Chris Wallace. Of course, that did not stop Dean. He held to his guns and said that Glenn Beck was about to air the clip and make a big deal of it.
At this point, it is only fair to call Dean a race - baiting liar. Beck actually defended Sherrod on his show. Apparently the facts do not matter to Dean. All that matters is that he be given the opportunity to make up facts, to call people racists and to try to excite the Democrat base of blacks and far leftists who either love his slamming Fox or who fear any claim that a media institution is racist.
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