The forced resignation of Shirley Sherrod from the U.S. Department of Agriculture is disgraceful because it is so Un-American!
That Fox News takes information and purposefully distorts truth to serve its and owner Rupert Murdoch’s right wing agenda, is not new. What is so bothersome is that biased “news” and the insertion of opinion for fact is becoming a daily pattern in many news outlets, including in Florida.
The disregard of two of the four Democrats running for the U.S. Senate is a distortion of the truth. Not permitting Glen Burkett and me to be a part of a series of debates is denying Florida voters access to all of the facts. Further, purposefully not covering our campaign is a disservice to Florida voters.
Fox News knew that by not giving full information (that the tape was from 1986 and that the poor white farmers from Georgia, Mr. and Mrs. Spooner did get help from Ms. Sherrod, thus saving their farm) deliberately did not permit the audience to get the full story. That’s against the principles of our Democracy.
The saddest part of the Sherrod resignation is that the Obama administration did not do a full investigation, and thus added to the injustice. Shirley Sherrod should never have been asked to resign. We expect a lack of fact-checking from some news sources, but not from our highest officer in the Department of Agriculture.
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