Black Talk Media: Dear friends, The Obama administration just caved in to the right-wing smear machine, firing a Black USDA official after she was smeared by far-right blogger Andrew Breitbart and his friends at Fox News Channel. Sherrod’s dismissal was based on a selectively edited video that made it appear she was confessing to discriminating [...]

Media Matters: As Andrew Breitbart’s Shirley Sherrod smear dissolved, rather than blame Breitbart for posting the deceptive clip of her speech, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, and Rush Limbaugh ludicrously began speculating that he and the conservative media could have been the victim of a “set-up” that had been “orchestrated” by the White House. [ READ [...]

The people who lit the fuse on the Shirley Sherrod absurdity, the propaganda pornographers at Fox, are still pretending nothing happened and/or are still mired in the fantasy of reverse racism. Why? In the early Seventies, president Richard Nixon seized on an initiative popularized by a Mr. Kevin Phillips called the “Southern Strategy.” Phillips noted [...]

Background: Tom Vilsack, Obama’s agriculture secretary, forced the resignation of Shirley Sherrod after a misleadingly edited version of a speech she gave in March caused outrage on the internet. The edited clips, put out by Andrew Breitbart of the conservative site BigGovernment.com, who has worked with the leading rightwing blogger Matt Drudge, gave the impression [...]

Senate Majority leader Harry Reid was damn right when he recently implied that Obama lacks the toughness needed to beat the ReTHUGliLOONS in the head. “On a few occasions, I think he should have been more firm with those on the other side of the aisle,” Reid explained. “He is a person who doesn’t like [...]