Apparently, to hear Dean tell it, it was Fox News chairman Roger Ailes to canned Shirley Sherrod. And that makes him and his organization racist.
Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean accused Fox News of promoting racism, including in the recent fracus over the Obama administration’s forced resignation of Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod.We can argue about whether or not Breitbart was right in the way he posted the Sherrod footage online. We can argue about Fox News’ subsequent coverage of that posting. But at the end of the day, Shirley Sherrod was fired by Barack Obama (I don’t buy for a minute that it was Vilsack’s call, and neither does Vilsack’s predecessor).
“Let’s just be blunt about this … I think Fox News did something that was absolutely racist,” Dean charged on “Fox News Sunday.”
Dean said Fox helped promote the charges that Sherrod – who is black – made racist comments about white farmers, which led to her forced resignation Monday.
The fervor was built around a video of Sherrod speaking at an event hosted by the NAACP shown online by conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart.
If anyone was racist for firing Shirley Sherrod, it was Barack Obama.
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