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Geist: Fox News was "driving" the Sherrod story, "but there are a lot of guilty parties here"

July 22, 2010 7:39 am ET

From the July 22 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe:

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    • Author by christopher howard (July 22, 2010 7:46 am ET)
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      I agree. I first heard the "story" on MSNBC. Of course they weren't as breathless in their coverage as Fox.
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    • Author by smarshall1432997 (July 22, 2010 8:02 am ET)
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      And now, FoxNews don't want the spot light back on them just stop it at the NAACP and the WH for "trusting" FoxNews' right-winged Blogger, Andrew B. Hmmm, how pathetic.
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    • Author by kromecom48 (July 22, 2010 8:10 am ET)
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      Sure other media outlets are somewhat complicit, but in the words of Carly Simon . . . "nobody does it better" when it comes to smearing the left and character assassinations than Fox.
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    • Author by Jim Rockford (July 22, 2010 8:24 am ET)
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      Willie and Joe are always way to eager to buttress a competitor -FOX - as a legitimate news source. Here, (where, I agree, truly there are multiple guilty parties) they are choosing to downplay FOX and Breitbart and put the whole emphasis and massive outrage on "the White House" (LOL, which boils down to the agriculture dept. dealing with a personnel decision). Though MJ has a lot of good days lately, they still revert to the far right cherry picking of what they emphasize, and to faux, contrived outrage too often.
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    • Author by nerzog (July 22, 2010 8:43 am ET)
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      These dipsticks made me furious this morning. To listen to their take, FOX was only marginally involved.

      If it's available on line, I recommend that everyone watch Rachel Maddow's show from last night. She ran several clips of the FOXbots covering this story.

      She also went back in history just a little bit, to the Republican Southern Strategy, and made the case that FOX is merely implementing that same strategy now on behalf of the Republican Party... and she didn't even need a blackboard.

      If you look at how FOX has been hammering racial stories like Van Jones, ACORN, NBPP and Sherrod... the pattern is easy to see.
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