No you haven't.
When Van Jones name can be found on a 9/11 "truther" petition, that's the definition of a scandal. Even liberal members of the media agreed he had to go (most recently being Jonathan Alter the other day on Rachel Maddow) because of that reason alone. That's not fiction, that's not made up. Regardless of whatever excuse Jones comes up with for his name being there, his actions speak louder than words.
So his name appeared on a petition. So what?
Many people think that we're still in the dark when it comes to knowing everything that happened during 9/11.
And I don't see any Republicans in Congress trumpeting the firing of Shirley Sherrod.
Shut up. Bill O'Reiley was one of the first asking for her resignation when the fake story "broke". On top of that, his "apology" was a backhanded slap to Sherrod as well. Faux was the first network to respond to the video hack job presented by Brietbart. There's video evidence of Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, O'Reily and several other pundits from that network calling for Sherrod's resignation among other things. Once it was discovered that the story was false, like the revisionists hacks they tend to be they desperately tried to change their story to make it seem as if the entire thing was Obama's fault. How conveniently and deceivingly
wrong, considering that it was the Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack who did the firing.
If anything, I'm sure they want the story to go away.
Trust me, it won't go away. This was a textbook misrepresentation of the facts and a deliberate attack on an innocent person from a company that claims to be "fair & balanced". Much to your partisan chagrin, it will NEVER go away. And in the process, Faux has destroyed their chances of ever being viewed as a credible news source in the eyes of MILLIONS of people including those in the White House. They are just as guilty, if not more considering that it takes a really hateful asshole to want to do harm to someone like this.
Yeah, Fox trumpeted it for a day or so, but they aren't the Republican Party, just a conservative media outlet.
Your phony act of naivete doesn't fool a soul.
Faux News a conservative media outlet that is necessary for the Republican party to convey its message.
And besides, these stories really have minimal impact on black people and for that matter, all people.
Are you black? If not, then shut up. Don't speak for people you can't relate to. Also, considering that less than 2% of the viewing audience of Faux News is black you can correlate the Shirley Sherrod incident as to one of the many reasons why.
Things such as healthcare, wars in Iraq/Afghanistan, govt economic policy, supreme court appointees, etc, are all far more important issues.
Neither of those things is the topic of this thread, and your attempts to derail it with other subjects are pathetic.
If black people honestly really let things like Fox's coverage of Van Jones, Black Panthers, Sherrod, etc impact their vote in November, should they really be voting when there are so many more important issues facing this country?
How socially ignorant of you.
Republicans have not been able to get more than 20% of the black vote going back to the Nixon years.
It isn't things like Van Jones, the Black Panthers and Sherrod that are affecting their vote. It's DECADES of presenting a phony message of equality, all the while supporting and proposing legislation that unfairly targets and alienates them. Whether it be a minority, a woman or the poor, the current batch of Republicans in power don't give a damn.
Even if Faux didn't blow the Shirley Sherrod story out of proportion, their "party" still has issues regarding Immigration (which demonizes Latinos), Islam (which demonizes Muslims), Abortion (which seeks to put control on women) as well as the unequal treatment women and minorities experience on the workplace. I could go on, but telling you this is fruitless.
Van Jones, ACORN, the inexistent Black Panther Party and Shirley Sherrod are just little reminders that after all this time, many of them still don't f***in' get it. And you don't either.
