Rush Limbaugh said Thursday on his radio show that Fox News and at least one of its anchors “caved” in its coverage of Shirley Sherrod, the former USDA employee who was fired in haste on Monday after an edited clip of her was posted on a conservative website.
“I have to go after it … because even Fox caved on this,” Limbaugh said. “Even Shep Smith. Even poor old Shep Smith went down there and said that everybody’s wrong on this, that [BigGovernment.com founder Andrew] Breitbart is wrong and so forth. There’s only a handful of us that have the guts to put this story straight. If we don’t hammer back nobody will.”
Limbaugh dismissed the story, saying he was bored by it.
“Caved” is a strange way to phrase it. Fox and Breitbart were utterly wrong and got a woman fired for no reason. When confronted with the entire unedited video and a statement from the white farmer the anecdote was about saying she helped them retain their farm and are still friends to this day, Fox was forced to walk back their breathless coverage about white discrimination in the Dept. of Agriculture. The only real story here is that there was successful push back. Usually these smears go unanswered and the injustice remains. They didn’t get away with it for once.
I’m disappointed that the White House and the Dept of Ag asked the woman to resign, without investigation of unsubstantiated allegations. Their appears to be some over sensitivity about racial issue in the Obama administration.
I’m certain el Rushbo finds the truth boring. It’s not what he’s accustomed to dealing with.
