Right-wing conspiracy: Sherrod controversy "orchestrated" by the White House to "smear Breitbart"
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.
Conservative media: Sherrod controversy a "set-up" to "smear Breitbart," Fox News
Beck: Did White House "plot" Sherrod story to "destroy the credibility of Fox News"? On the July 21 edition of his radio show, Beck linked the Sherrod story to "the President wanting to disgrace Fox News and separate everybody from Fox News." Beck asked, "is there a possibility that anybody involved is either going to use this emergency, or plotted this as a way to destroy the credibility of Fox News?" Beck went on to claim that in the future, when Fox runs a story the administration doesn't like, the White House can say that "they take things out of context all the time." Beck asked, "Is that a possibility? That's the only one so far that seems to make real sense to me." On his radio show the next day, Beck further suggested that if the Sherrod incident "wasn't a set up -- I have to tell you -- it is certainly Rahm Emanuel's don't let a good crisis go to waste."
Beck: "Maybe I'm being too conspiratorial" but "was this a diversion?" Also on the July 21 edition of his radio show, Beck questioned whether the Sherrod story was a "diversion" created by the Obama administration. Beck asked, "Did they do something else with the other hand yesterday that we're not paying attention to?" From the broadcast:
BECK: Now maybe I'm being, in this case, maybe I'm being too conspiratorial. Maybe we're just dealing with keystone cops at the White House. Maybe it was that somebody just didn't have the context. But it doesn't make sense.
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PAT GRAY (CO-HOST): Isn't it fascinating too how -- how long it took Van Jones? I mean, he's a communist. He's a revolutionary. He's--
BECK: That's why something's wrong.
GRAY: He's a radical.
BECK: Are we supposed -- Were they -- did they do something else with the other hand yesterday that we're not paying attention to? Was this a diversion?
GRAY: Maybe
BECK: Was - this doesn't make any sense. Was this just -- was this sloppy?
Savage: "I'm beginning to believe that this entire affair was orchestrated by the government itself to smear Breitbart." On the July 21 edition of his radio show, Michael Savage suggested that he was "beginning to believe that this entire affair was orchestrated by the government itself to smear Breitbart and the Tea Party movement." He continued by stating that the scandal "is part of the dirty tricks campaign that the Democrats are famous for" and suggested that the Democrats had "released these tapes -- these edited tapes -- of the black bureaucrat through a third party or a fourth party, whispering 'oh, do we have something for you Mr. Breitbart.' "
Limbaugh: "For all I know, the White House orchestrated this whole thing." On the July 22 edition of his radio show, Rush Limbaugh derided the narrative of the Sherrod story in the media. He suggested that "[n]ow the template is, do you deserve a phone call from the President? The White House wanted you fired. The White House didn't listen. The White House took it out of con -- The White House is afraid of Fox News." Limbaugh continued by claiming, "For all I know, the White House orchestrated this whole thing."
Curiouser and curiouser cried Worrirking.
If Worrier was a right wing nut, he'd never admit to anything.
Still, looking at the names these were mostly people working as commentators or as reportes for "agenda" publications as opposed to MSM per se. A far cry from the emails and faxes sent out by the RNC to friendly camps in MSM.
He purposely destroyed himself so that the conservative media and Fox would be devastated. It worked perfectly.
Drudge is now reporting that 6 months ago Breitbart registered Democrat and then just last month he registered Democratic / Socialist party. It doesn't appear he likes America very much.
No conservative would lie and prostitute himself like this.
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Wow!
Is Fox news just like their audience, which wants desperately to believe that Obama is a white hating, Marxist, Muslim non citizen president? This unbalanced bias in their reporting made them vulnerable to this evil white house plot.
Why was Fox so quick to assume that there was a NAACP attack on white people that they failed to be fair and professional and check the story? The White House must have known that fox would not be professional or use journalistic standards when it comes to an attack on the White House.
Why did the administration fire the lady when they new the un doctored tape would have to come out and make them look bad for overreacting?
You see, if this was orchestrated by the White House, the White House would know it would work because:
1. Fox is unfair and attacks whenever they think they can get away with it.
2. Fox is unbalanced: It will go viral on any story that smears non-conservatives and the administration.
3. Fox is unprofessional: It has given hours of air time to Conservative Media Celebrities who are uninterested in actually backing up what they say with evidence or even logic.
4. Fox is just plain mean. Smearing people, calling them names, dismissing them, stereotyping them seems to be the standard.
Fox expects its audience to swallow it up. They expect their audience to be obedient and well trained. They want their audience to be riled up and they want to derail the political discourse in this country. If you watch and believe all this, know that fox has a low opinion of you. Maybe you are ok with that.
Massive fail on your part.
So even if this was true, which it is not, then I am sure she appreciated getting smeared by FOX all day.
FOX must love having an audience that doesn't need real news or professionally produced journalism. All they need to do is reinforce the conditioning that has already taken place. Any nonsense that reinforces the message will be successful.
2, her boss forced her to resign AFTER seeing some part of the story, either the transcript of the clipped video or the clipped video itself - so reported your precious Fake news.
But Andrew seems to be standing mute on who sent him the tape.
*Crickets*
Oh I forgot who listens to these right wing blowhards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-8Fj5AmPLo
First off, the clip asserts that this was something she did in the recent past, as an employee of the USDA. It wasn't, and she wasn't.
Secondly, although initially she didn't go all out for the white farmer because he was white, in other words, she discriminated against him because of his skin color, the rest of the tape clearly demonstrated that she learned pretty quickly that it was wrong of her to think that she should be a very strong advocate for black farmers who were poor and disadvantaged and she should only do enough to get by for a similar white farmer. That change of heart was not fully described in the snippet of video that Breitbart showed. In the ensuing 24 years, she's done lots of good for both black and white farmers, including this very same farmer, who luckily wasn't permanently disadvantaged after her initial less than energetic help.
Third, the tape doesn't show what Breitbart claimed it showed about the NAACP!
The tape was wholly deceptive. It was a snippet from a life-story.
What does make sense is Breitbart trying to wipe a little egg off his face and his diehard defenders right there to help him clean up a bit.
They would do themselves a favor and just lay low until the press furor subsides, and get to work on the next deliciously tasty project that Fox can gorge their airwaves with to entice their viewers. After angry black panthers, scary Muslims and now this racist black woman, there must be more out there.
What do these guys want? They criticize Obama for not doing one thing so he does it and then they criticize him for doing it. You can't win with these people.
That one's easy, cs; the destruction of Obama and the Democratic Party, and they'll do literally anything to achieve it...
If what Fox and Rush is saying about progressives and liberals is true, why wouldn't a God fearing patriotic American round them all up. If Obama is really a racist, non-citizen, terrorist sympathizer commie socialist, he is dangerous. If Progressives are underground Stalinist racist, why would you sit all evening in your house watching Fox news instead of going out and doing what needs to be done? Why would't you want to act if you love your God fearing conservative nation and want to protect it?
Be honest with yourself Seahawks, if Democrats really do = extremist Marxist they are illegitimate. They need to go. I don't understand how, if you believe the Fox message, that you haven't started a plan to rid our country of them. Maybe you have.
So this conspiracy theory is actually pretty credible! If it were any white house other than our scum-appeasers, it'd be worth a look.
The conservative policy of derailment in action. The 90's became a big circus, not because we had a womanizing president (nothing new there) but because conservative media and political operatives did all they could to make it the most important issues facing our nation.
Conservatives did all they could to make an insignificant land deal in Ark., a civil lawsuit and a dirty dress in the white house the most pressing issues of the day. Now a real adult political movement would focus on real issues but the media got played and all we talked about in the 90's was marginal personal issues, hyperfocusing on crumbs of Arkansas impropriety. Glass-Stengel getting repealed: Who cares when we can make political discourse look like the national enquirer.
Turn the page to today. Nothing has changed with these conservatives and their media celebrities. If they could get us to all talk about a dirty dress in todays White House they would in a minute.
And so you have no point, doofus.
And this story is STILL happening, doofus. Get a clue.
Actually i did compose a complete and quite long(for me) reply to you in that thread..however..as my avatar indicates i'm a rather slow typist and by the time i edited..previewed and added relevant points to my reply..they had closed discussion
so i will paraphrase my response and be done with our debate..
you seem to be stuck on the need to rationalize the firing of Ms Sherrod by insisting that she somehow had done some wrong..when everyone..from the people she is supposed to have wronged..to the guy who fired her..have strongly and emphatically stated that she had not..the Spooners in particular.. immediately reached out when they first heard of this accusation the scum breitfart had published..if that is not enough for you to rethink your point of view..then i was wrong and ignorant about you..
Yes very interesting, especially coming from an Administration that Fox claims is shamelessly anti white. The way Fox has depicted the president, you would have thought they would have given her a medal for her anti- white racism.
Next we will have fox commentators speculating on the dramatic split within the administration between the New Panther Party faction and the Marxist faction within the administration over the firing of Mrs. Sherrod. The sad fact is that many of Fox's viewers would swallow that one also.
PS: After the revolution, all you guys are going to 'political re-education camps' to get your minds straight. No ifs ands or buts. Right wingers are in Group A---the list is already made... Beck, Breitbart and Hannity are at the top.
I mean, for Breitbart to fall for this, he'd have to be a REAL IDIOT.
And, as we all know...
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The crazier they get, the stupider they get. At some point they'll HAVE to start seeing it!
Randy