Rachel Maddow: White House 'Inexplicably Keeps Falling For' Fox News Stunts (VIDEO)

Rachel Maddow went after Fox News Tuesday night for its role in propagating the Shirley Sherrod story, but she also criticized the White House for continuing to fall for the network's stunts. Full Story »

Posted by Dwight Rousu - via Google Blogsearch (Politics), Moises Figueroa (f)
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jul 21, 2010 - 10:00 AM PDT
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4.9
by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 21, 2010

This is the most thorough and insightful coverage of the Fox news character assassination smear of Shirley Sherrod with the big lie technique.

Vilsack is a vile sack of stupidity in this act of the play.

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Peter L. Combs
1.7
by Peter L. Combs - Jul. 22, 2010

As journalism this is silly, Fox news didn't carry the story until after it had been around for several days. The point of the VIDEO was to show NAACP attendees supporting her earlier racist views towards white people. The real story is how fast this White House will turn on their own without any investigation. The ACORN child prostitution story has never been shown to be inaccurate, she needs to check her facts. No wonder Maddow has about the worst ratings of any journalist around.

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Randy Morrow
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by Randy Morrow - Jul. 21, 2010

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Joseph W Kalb
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by Joseph W Kalb - Jul. 26, 2010

this is better than Fox pumping up a false story to get back at the NAACP for telling the tea party to get rid of its racist elements. (FOX news appears to fit the description)

fox might have not broadcast anything before she was fired but they had it up on their website.

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Moises Figueroa
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by Moises Figueroa - Jul. 22, 2010

Yes, it is just informative and to the point to uncover the yellow journalism from other news channel. Really sad this thing are actually happening in USA.

If Rachel Maddow story is based on factual information as it appears to be we as American should demand an apology from Fox News. There need to be a stop to this kind of journalism that uncover true and clear information in order to promote their hidden agenda.

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Ann Marie Testa
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by Ann Marie Testa - Jul. 21, 2010

I don't think the headline accurately captured what Rachel Maddow was really getting at. She detailed all the attacks on this presidency from the right very well and then asked how do so many people continue to fall for it. The White House is included in that- but so are ALL the Fox viewers!

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    Media Matters has documented a timeline of Andrew Breitbart's smear of Shirley Sherrod, from Breitbart's initial posting of his deceptively edited clip of Sherrod -- which was ...
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