Times Watch Quotes of Note - Leave That Sort of Thing To Us
Leave That Sort of Thing to Us
"But
it is an open question whether conservative media outlets risk damage
to their credibility when obscure or misleading stories are blown out
of proportion and when what amounts to political opposition research is
presented as news." - Media reporter Brian Stelter on the Andrew Breitbart-Shirley Sherrod tape controversy, July 26.
Leave That Sort of Thing to Us, Part II
"But
what is emerging is more of a permanent crusade, where information is
not only power, but a means to a specific end. As content providers
increasingly hack their own route to an audience, it's becoming clear
that many are less interested in covering the game than tilting the
field." - Media columnist David Carr on the Andrew Breitbart-Shirley Sherrod tape controversy, July 26.
Conservative Sen. James Inhofe, "Laughable Fool"
"Senator
Inhofe should be a harmless diversion, the kind of laughable fool that
any state can kick back to the capital, where hard-earned ignorance is
supported by a well-paid staff." - From former reporter Timothy Egan's July 21 post at nytimes.com.
Frank Rich Spreads More Lies About Racist Tea Party
"Even
the civil rights hero John Lewis has been slimed by these vigilantes.
Lewis was nearly beaten to death by state troopers bearing nightsticks
and whips in Selma, Ala., just three weeks before Sherrod's father was
murdered 200 miles away in 1965. This year, as a member of Congress, he
was pelted with racial epithets while walking past protesters on the
Capitol grounds during the final weekend of the health care debate.
Breitbart charged Lewis with lying - never mind that the melee had
hundreds of eyewitnesses - and tried to prove it with a video so
manifestly bogus that even Fox didn't push it." - From Frank
Rich's July 25 column on Andrew Breitbart and Shirley Sherrod. There's
no evidence - much less from "hundreds of eyewitnesses" - that Lewis
was "pelted with racial epithets" at the protests on Capitol Hill
against Obama-care.
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