Last week, the nation witnessed a somewhat bizarre scene play out in American media and national politics. The sensationalist, rightwing propagandists Andrew Breitbart ‘s posted on his website BigGovernment.com another one of his highly edited videos designed to tear down another liberal organization based on lies, misinformation, and the manipulation of facts. Their intended target this time was the civil rights pioneering organization the NAACP and a middle level FDA official named Shirley Sherrod. For the liberals, this kind of false, personal attack is nothing new. One thing is certain, as soon as there were politics there were political opponents attacking each other with lies and misinformation. However, there are two things that make the recent events surrounding the manipulation of the NAACP video of former FDA employ Shirley Sherrod interesting. One, just how fast Fox News jumped on Big Government’s phony video, and reported it as breaking news. And two, just how often Fox News plays into the racial fears of its mostly white, middle aged audience. Now that the Sherrod charade is starting to blow over, we see Fox News once again promoting the phony New Black Panther controversy.
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