Another day, another colossal fuck-up. The details of how Shirley Sherrod’s speech about her own racial-awareness come-to-Jesus incident got spun into some sort of black-supremacist plot and cost her a government post are all over the place right now, so I won’t waste time going into it. However, a few things should be obvious at this point:
* Every word that Andrew Beitbart says, writes, or publishes is a lie, including “a”, “an” and “the”, and the only time he should be getting public attention is if he is being mauled by a live panther at halftime of the Super Bowl.
* Every word that Fox News broadcasts is a lie, including “and”, “but” and “or”, and anyone who attempts to assert that Fox is anything other than a propaganda arm for the worst sort of hack Confederate propaganda should have his testicles crushed by a lead-filled 3-liter Coke bottle. The only reason Glenn Beck folded on this one is because a) he thought he could make the White House look bad by doing so, and b) to continue to support a known fabulist might cut into his televangelism racket.
* This President, this White House and this Administration are running scared of a bunch of toothless hicks and their amen corner in the right-wing media echo chamber. It is past time for people who are sick of this shit to lean on the White House to sack up – and to browbeat every media outlet they can find into spending more than ten seconds fact-checking video clips from an organization with a proven track record of doctoring their content to support their avalanche of lies.
* Oh yes – it might be nice to give this lady her job back, since the pretenses under which she was pushed out of it are demonstrably and patently false.
If we’re going to decide that opinion isn’t enough, and everyone is entitled to their own goddamn facts, well, fuck it. I give up. We had a good ride there for a few decades. Maybe our new Chinese masters will make the cellular network run on time.