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"Journalism shouldn't be about left and right.
It should be about the truth. What Mr. Breitbart does, and what
others on the left and the right do may well be what journalism
has become but it's certainly not what it should be.
Breitbart...told Sean Hannity,'I could care less about
Shirley Sharrod to be honest with you.'
That is the one thing he has said that is indisputable.
He does not care about Shirley Sharrod. He doesn't care about
making false allegations against her or ruining her career.
Andrew Breitbart has his ideology. He believes he is right, and
in his mind that justifies any action he takes. That's how
ideologues think, on the left and on the right...
Make false claims about a person. Why not if it gets you
more web traffic. That is where we are today.
...They cherry pick their facts to prove their argument,
not that facts that reveal the truth."
~~Anderson Cooper 360, CNN, 7/22/2010
This kind of "journalism," as Andrew Breitbart calls his cold hearted, deceitful hatchet work, was also used by Glenn Beck on President Obama; and the media slept. Obama is always being attacked by Glenn Beck in unscrupulous ways, so no one - but Beck's focussed critics - noticed.
Breitbart's ally
Between that NAACP resolution and Breitbart's publishing of that hatchet job of Sharrod's speech, the Tea Party did purge the racist Tea Party Express from its ranks. Since racism is clearly an issue in the Tea Party, which Beck acknowledges and downplays, what is the need for "retribution" on Breitbart's part? Before Breitbart timed his release for the news cycle on Monday, the NAACP and the Tea Party seem to have come to agreement (on CNN) that there is no room for racists in the Tea Party movement or the NAACP. Breitbart's video seemed to inflame more than it healed, and of course that's what race-baiting is about.
This hatchet job filled the news cycle for 48 hours, and then Beck accused the White House of firing Sharrod to distract the public from the signing of the Financial Reform Bill! Beck declared this bill to be the end of our Republic. For Glenn Beck, our Republic is dead because the financial system is now regulated to prevent millions of Americans from being thrown out of their work, homes and/or cars every ten years or so. Who is Glenn Beck speaking for, the people or Wall Street?
Beck's discursive style is fear-mongering, hyperbolic and deceitful. Like all ideologues on the far left and the far right, Beck has the kind of certainty that comes from picking and choosing what facts he recognizes to comprise the "truth" and ignoring the facts that do not fit in with his reactionary, anti-government narrative. It requires discipline and objectivity to avoid this temptation, both qualities Beck lacks.
Andrew Breitbart and Glenn Beck are allies for a reason: they are two peas from the same pod of deception. The media need to give greater scrutiny to Beck's methods in the way that the Sharrod crisis put focus on Breitbart's. The biggest difference between Breitbart and Beck is that Beck is far more talented as a speaker, propagandist and salesman. He is extremely convincing. Glenn Beck is America's premier salesman.
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5 comments:
Beck and Blackbart are definately birds of a feather. Willing to destroy any good person for fun and profit.
And the biggest shame? Beck does this while wearing his Mormonism on his sleeve, and claiming special knowledge from God.
Jesus wept.
You are kidding me, right?
Using Anderson Cooper as a model for good journalism? Seriously, that is akin to using Carter or Nixon as models for presidents!
You are truly insane.
Anonymous, I'm open to other suggestions. Who do you think is a model for good journalism? Don't criticize here unless you have better ideas.
About the good journalism thing, I guess you might use a quote actually connecting Beck with Breitbart, since that appears to be the intent of this article. For a good model you could use a quote from Tim Russert who actually aspired to Cooper's first 2 sentences. By the way the name is spelled Sherrod.
You go off on a number of tangents here, but with respect to how you attempt to tie Beck and Breitbart as allied on this is outright nonsense, as you have cherry-picked your "facts". I wonder if Cooper was your only source for this story, because if you had bothered to see Beck's 7/21 show, the day after Sherrod was fired, you would have seen how this is taken completely out of context, chronologically. Sherrod was fired 7/20am after Breitbart's video surfaced. This is the day before Beck talked about it when he defended Sherrod, indicating she was taken out of context by the NAACP and the White House. Understand that the NAACP had the complete video of Sherrod's speech, as this was an NAACP event, which they didn't bother to review before calling for Sherrod to be fired.
You really should see the actual video before making these insinuations, because you see, as Cooper is of the left he can't be your sole source if you're looking for the truth. I have included 3 youtube links of cuts from Beck's 7/20 show of various lengths for your perusal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkdGGKPHwnk&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKU8KHjgIi0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W9UokKAzAM&feature=related
You should see that if you expect others to trust anything from GBR, you must correct the record. Would you ever indicate when Beck got something right or is he always deceitful in your eyes?
Jack, I do agree with Beck on a few points. The topic of Beck's show on 7/19 was one I agreed with. Beck had been informed over the previous weekend about the Administration's plan to assassinate an American suspected of involvement with Al Quada off the battlefield. Beck is right to take issue with this violation of the Constitution. Beck is also woefully uninformed as that news was over 6 months old on July 19th.
My main point here is one you seemed to have completely missed. What Breitbart did to Sherrod (thanks for pointing out my spelling error), Beck did to Obama only with analysis that was sheer deceit. (See "The show when Beck Breitbarted President Obama.) I didn't claim that Beck and Breitbart were in cahoots about the Sherrod debacle, but I sure as hell suspect that the reason Beck changed his tune about her from his 7/20 radio program to his 7/20 Fox show is because Breitbart touched base to inform Beck that there is more to the tape than what is on Breitbart's website. I articulate that suspicion on an Examiner piece: http://www.examiner.com/progressive-in-syracuse/how-did-glenn-beck-learn-that-context-matters-regarding-sharrod I also back off the suspicion by the end. (Occum's razor)
Beck, actually, often uses video clips out of context that distorts the meaning of the speaker's words. When Beck claims that for him "context matters," he's lying through his teeth.
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