It looks like the governor of Maine,
Paul LePage won't be attending the upcoming ceremonies marking the
Dr. Martin Luther King holiday. The governor's declined invitations from the NAACP, which LePage dismisses as "a special interest...and I'm not going to be held hostage by special interests."The governor's director of communications,
Dan Demeritt,
Last week,
the story broke that the NAACP had partnered with liberal websites Think Progress, Media Matters, and New Left Media to create
TeaPartyTracker.org, a website that tracks stories of racism and bigotry amongst the Tea Party. Tonight, the director of the NAACP's Washington bureau appeared on the
O'Reilly Factor to debate the...
Could our two-week-long
national nightmare be nearing an end? In
an interview with Newsweek today,
Andrew Breitbart spoke to the magazine about the
Shirley Sherrod speech scandal and expressed regret, acknowledged that it has "been difficult for me as well," and claimed he would "be more than happy to meet with [Sherrod]...
The
Shirley Sherrod media fiasco is, by its nature, a sensitive and unusual case, with plenty of racial semantics pitfalls for even the most careful TV personality. When
Pat Buchanan was asked for his take on this issue on MSNBC this morning, he tried to evade those pitfalls by evoking legendary civil rights...
Among the many narratives that that has come from the whole
Shirley Sherrod saga, perhaps the most entertaining has been the resurrection of the bitter rivalry between Fox News and MSNBC.
Keith Olbermann and
Rachel Maddow have both launched
vicious assaults for what
they saw as FNC's role in the...
On his TV show Wed. night, shortly after the full
Shirley Sherrod tap had been made public,
Glenn Beck primarily took her side and excoriated the White House, and NAACP for jumping to conclusions about Sherrod. In the intervening 48 hours however, his narrative has gone from the White House performing "political...
Poor
Rush Limbaugh! He is being forced to talk about the
Shirley Sherrod even though he "hates" the story, he "despises" this story, he thinks it's a "distraction." Before you collapse from shock, here's why Limbaugh thinks it's a waste of his time.
While
President Obama may be trying to
avoid diving into the racial fray right now,
Rachel Maddow jumped right in last night. In a fairly devastating segment Maddow tied this week's
Shirley Sherrod debacle to previous cases, dating back to the Sixties, of politicians and the media using "scare white people"...
Earlier today, our own
Colby Hall wondered whether
Bill O'Reilly would apologize for calling for former (possibly future?) USDA employee
Shirley Sherrod's resignation based on an excerpt of a speech posted on BigGovernment.com. Tonight, O'Reilly acknowledged that he spoke prematurely, but still attacked her for being a "long-time liberal activist" and...
Add this to the
long list of
Shep Smith must-see TV moments. Smith opened his show today with what was as close to an honest excoriation of
Andrew Breitbart, President
Barack Obama, and at times, Fox News over their handling of the Sherrod video clip, as one expects...
As expected, the topic of the day at today's White House briefing
was Shirley Sherrod. Press Secretary
Robert Gibbs fielded many questions on her ouster, apologizing on behalf of the administration for what he rightly called an "injustice." In a dramatic turn,
Jake Tapper informed Gibbs that Sherrod was watching the briefing, and...
The woman at the center of the
Andrew Breitbart/NAACP/Obama Administration/USDA/probably-Journolist-but-who's-keeping-track-at-this-point
scandal,
Shirley Sherrod, spoke to Media Matters'
Joe Strupp today about the experience of going from cable news villain to heroine in less than 24 hours, and
unlike many in the
media, Sherrod is not angered by the White...
