http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/21/rachel-maddow-white-house_n_654134.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/98995259.html
It began Monday, when the clip, from a 43-minute speech Sherrod gave in March to an NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia, appeared on the conservative website Breitbart.com. In a blog post, activist Andrew Breitbart called it a "racist" tale in which she "racially discriminates against a white farmer." Breitbart, long at odds with the NAACP, said this demonstrated its racism. The NAACP had passed a resolution at its national conference last week calling on the tea party movement to repudiate racist elements in its ranks.
Out of an already-buzzing blogosphere, the clip was sucked into the 24/7 news cycle. Many major cable news outlets ran it, evidently without watching the rest of the speech.
Lambasted by NAACP president Benjamin Jealous, Sherrod resigned, saying later she'd been pressured to by an administration official worried that the story was going to be on Glenn Beck's show on Fox. Her boss, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, declared "zero tolerance for discrimination."
Then . . . somebody looked at the whole speech. Turns out it wasn't what it seemed. Quite the reverse.
"This shows you do your work, better check your facts, or you'll end up doing something you're going to regret," says Brooks Jackson, director of FactCheck.org, a project of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Public Policy.
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- Pete
- Springfield (Ill.), United States
- I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.
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