Fox News Shirley Sherrod 2 Wrongs Make a Right Fallacy?
20+ MORE examples of Fox News Biased Video Editing at www.youtube.com 125+ MORE examples of Fox News Bias at www.youtube.com A lot of people were to blame for the smearing of Shirley Sherrod last week and for the way she was forced out of her job at the US Department of Agriculture for out of context clips that inaccurately portrayed as racist a speech she made at an NAACP meeting in March 2010, but, despite apologies from the Obama Administration, the NAACP, and, in way, from Bill O’Reilly, Fox News itself tried to avoid responsibility for smearing Shirley Sherrod with the two-wrongs-make-a-right excuse that I show in this video. The clips of Howard Dean and Chris Wallace I use come from a segment of the July 25, 2010, broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” available on YouTube at www.youtube.com The clip of Jesse Jackson and Chris Wallace I use comes from a segment of the July 25, 2010, broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” available on YouTube at www.youtube.com The clip of Brit Hume I use comes from a segment of the July 25, 2010, broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” (which I have not been able to find online) The image I use of the full NAACP video of Shirley Sherrod’s March 27, 2010, speech comes from the YouTube video player page at www.youtube.com The image I use of Andrew Breitbart’s smear Shirley Sherrod comes from the webpage at biggovernment.com The image I use of TheYoungTurks video titled “Bill O’Reilly Apologizes, Attacks Sherrod” comes from the YouTube video player page at www …
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July 30th, 2010 at 3:00 am
@MaryJesusJoseph You’re right on most accounts, it’s just more about my personal expectations which fox news has lost all hope for journalistic integrity and some hope that the government should/must rise above being baited by the media to make unwise choices.
July 30th, 2010 at 3:34 am
@MakingTheMetalBand To be wholly honest my anger lies with Fox. They have done this before; ACORN, George Tiller, etc. I am not so much anger that they do, I have come to expect that they will do it and will continue to do so, I am angry that they get away if it every single time.
July 30th, 2010 at 4:30 am
@RememberJudas314 I think more than likely the Obama admin. found this to be a chance to show their lack of bias between minorities and the majority in our country (Caucasians). They however did jump the gun and so while I don’t think there was any bad intent, their system didn’t have the degree of checks going on to make well informed decisions. Fox news to me though.. seemed to have a degree of ill intent.
July 30th, 2010 at 5:21 am
liberalviewer. You are just enother enforcer of the roleplay the establishment set up.
Do you think FOX news or Obamas escapades or anyother of this bullshit have anything todo with real politics? fox news has so much in common with journalism as much as cats have in common with potatos. Its just a giant circus they have set up to work as opium for the people. The whole mainstream media is a giant bubble the american puplic so needs.
America or: How I Learned to Stop Worrieng and Love the TV.
July 30th, 2010 at 6:10 am
I agree with much of what you have said but I would like to point out that you are misusing the “two wrongs make a right” concept. Example of when people think two wrongs make a right: you kill my friend so I kill your friend.. now we are equal and justice has been served. What fox news was doing here was deflecting which is different from the above concept. They kept changing the subject and not even listening to the questions because they had a preprogrammed answer.
July 30th, 2010 at 6:52 am
@TheLummer66 Though we have no actual proof that Obama had anything to do with Sherrod’s firing I don’t doubt that he did. However, as it said in this video it’s just a distraction from the point that Fox News still reported the false information without checking it out. Tellingly, Shep Smith–the only person on Fox who seems to be somewhat rational took the station to task for it’s disastrous reporting on this matter.
July 30th, 2010 at 7:36 am
I squarely put more blame on the Obama administration. I don’t expect measured or informed opinions or reporting on behalf of fox news. It is (or should be) a requirement for government offices to be fully informed before making such decisions and not the adverse threat of being on Glen Beck.
July 30th, 2010 at 8:17 am
In order for it to be a two wrongs make a right fallacy the actions of Fox news would have to be characterized as countering the wrongful dismissal of Shirley Sherrod by some form of ‘journalism’ which while admittedly wrong was done to set right her dismissal.
The fact is the Fox news claim that it didn’t publish the story is a lie. It was on FoxNews.com before the firing and according to CBC World O’Reilly taped the clip at 5 o’clock well before her firing.
July 30th, 2010 at 8:46 am
What the Obama admin. did was pathetic and speaks to their history of bowing to the right, but what Fox did is far worse. They stoked the fires that caused everything to unfold and they pretend they did no such thing. It is this blatant hypocrisy and the fact that no other series news or political organization will really take them to task for it.
July 30th, 2010 at 8:59 am
@darealdjnutz
It is owned by a man who has no loyalty to any nation – he changes nationality like he changes a shirt.
July 30th, 2010 at 9:18 am
liveral viewer thank you for posting these videos you really find the words to correctly identify my feelings about things like fox news and how they indirectly defend themselves to relevant accusations. thanks again
July 30th, 2010 at 9:35 am
@hypnofan35 Roger Mudd looks like a cultural infiltrator from either Al Qaeda or the Republican party. I say we find out where he lives and “drone strike” his home,.. just in case.
July 30th, 2010 at 10:21 am
All this seems to say that they must put people without ties in jail and people with ties are elected to office, leading me to the conclusion that they must keep ties out of prisons. No worries; i am sure that civilization is self dooming and soon the doo dah army of suits and ties will stab each other with rubber knives for mutual adversity.
July 30th, 2010 at 10:42 am
@spinnersmetal TYT, RELEASING THE KRACKEN ON A DAILY BASIS!!!!
July 30th, 2010 at 10:53 am
Yes and no. Since it was Howard Dean trying to make a political statement of Democrat vs Fox News I feel it was totally acceptable to bring this up. If it were a general liberal commentator then no it wouldn’t be acceptable to counter with that argument.
July 30th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Both were wrong; the administration’s rush to judgment and Fox “news” coverage.
But interesting in how they state the two wrongs thesis: “She was fired before Fox News gave her name” – not before they ran the story, just before she was properly identified.
July 30th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
1) Absolutely
2) The Administration, they fired her on the word of the same person that lied about a charitable organization, ACORN, and managed to shut it down with the help of fox news. The fact that no one thought…let’s look into this, shows what politicians really sit around doing all day.
July 30th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
After 8 years of carrying GW Bush’s water, Fox News now pisses on Obama 24/7 and every American who voted for him.
July 30th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
@chatham2006 the administration tried doing that but the right had a hissy fit.Surprisingly so did many of the more legit news outlets.Apparently a great deal of the MSNBC news cycle is devoted to telling you how biased FOX news is and they might have to ,I don’t know…DO SOME ACTUAL NEWS REPORTING without Fox news around to complain about.
July 30th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
I think the real question should be if you can admit a mstake was made in firing this woman.If the people that the “racist remarks” were said to comes out and tells you that this woman helped me she’s no racist then why isn’t she reinstated to her former position?
July 30th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Q2) President Obama was the worst, because he trust Fox News (and Breitbart) more then he trusts his own people.
July 30th, 2010 at 3:16 pm
@LoryLandskipper
Thank you! And mentioned by their hosts while doing radio shows.
July 30th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
it was posted at fox news’ website before she got fired.
July 30th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
@evb4mvp Think about it, if Obama would have said something about they are trying to be racist they were they would have been trying to say Obama is using the race card. I think Obama did a great thing by causing this to stir in the media for the truth to come out. White ppl should start speaking up and calling out white ppl are still racist and call them out instead of them trying to make Obama shout out racism when others see it as well. Whites know when whites are doin racial things.
July 30th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
people of this country should stop counting fox “news” as real news. they only spead hate and propaganda