Napoleon: "Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."

It's very frightening to witness just how easily the American public can be manipulated. A few days ago, conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart released a heavily edited video of a speech being given by Shirley Sherrod, a director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The speech was given to the NAACP back in March. Breitbart edited the video to make her seem like a racist. By the time the video in its full context was released, the damage had already been done. Sherrod's comments were not racist in any way, but she was still forced to resign from her job. If you want to read what was said/wasn't said, wikipedia sums it up quite well.

The White House has apologized to Sherrod, and has offered her another job, but she still hasn't decided if she'll take it. Fox News was literally the only news outlet pushing this story. Now that everyone knows the truth, Fox has completely ignored its own role and shifted the blame entirely to the Obama administration (surprise!). And it's working. Even on liberal sites like the Huffington Post, the top story right now is how it was Obama who dropped the ball (proving once and for all that the far left media controls America!)

But it's not like the White House doesn't deserve criticism over this. They need to get a fucking backbone. The mindset of the Democrat Party in general is largely responsible for what happened (and by "mindset," I mean they're a bunch of pussies). Obama himself has to direct his attention towards shit that's actually important as president, so I highly doubt that he even knew what was going on by the time the shit hit the fan. But in the end that doesn't matter, because Fox is going to do everything it fucking can to make sure it all falls in his lap.

Fox News has long since moved past its "news" status. This is propaganda. You know how I can tell? I could send the following video with Maddow's take on the story to any one of my conservative friends/family members, and they will dismiss it outright without even watching it. I won't pretend that many liberals wouldn't do the same if sent a video to a Fox story, but Fox as at least earned its reputation (see: this story). Conservative media convinces its audience that every other news outlet lies, because they are liberals and that's what liberals do. Do they ever bother watching rival stations to confirm this? Of course not. They're liberals and they'll brainwash you. Maddow and other journalists like her can expose all they want, but Fox knows its audience, and its audience simply does not care. Maddow's smackdown of Fox is pretty epic. Just stop watching once Kent comes on.

To be fair, I'll give a shoutout to Fox's Shepard Smith. Smith, an actual journalist, said that he refused to run the edited video because "we did not and do not trust the source." Keep it classy, Shepard. It's a real shame that you'll be fired soon for being fair and balanced.

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