STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN BEFORE YOU BEFORE YOU FIRE SOMEONE

Once again, the 'one-size-fits-all' folks are at work.  They are trying to make the Shirley Sharrod assassination of .character  a racial issue.  It is about so much more4 than race. It is an expose on just how lax we have become about what we see and believe without checking out more facts.  In fact is is an outrage about what our medias has done to the truth.  It should not have come as a shock that video can easily be tampered with to show the propaganda that is wished to be shown.  For years we have seen during campaigning and saw it during the Bush-Kerry campaign in all its full glory.  Andrew Breitbart is called a genius at it.  And the rest of us have allowed it.

I have written before that it used to be the habit (nay, requirement) of new editors that a story had to have three sources of confirmation before it could be accepted.  Journalism lost its Bible and I don't mean the ancient story of religion, I mean the  morality and integrity codes of journalism.  That it has, by osmosis, drifted into politics and media, and now even government handling, is not a surprise.   Secretary Virsack did no noble thing, though he was praised as a hero for admitting what an incompetent he had been.  He takes 'full responsibility', whatever that may mean.  People are blaming Obama.  The man isn't in the Gulf to offer support.  Of course not, he is needed elsewhere,where can actually do some good. He didn't stop the  Sherrod fiasco from happening. He hasn't  made the country healthy, wealthy and wise in eighteen months of office, and more there are more complaints, ad nauseum.  The man is human and being asked to do the equivalent of cleaning out the Aegean  stables.  His advisors need a refresher course in helping the man do his job rather than trying to do the job themselves for which they were not elected.

Why can nothing be done about the evil of Fox News, owned by an Australian and an wealthy Saudi Arabian prince.  That knowledge makes me believe that Fox News is a plant of Osama bin Laden.  Surely there must be some rules when a media license is given that Fox News is clearly violating, is there not?  It is wonderful to have a few in CNN and on MSNBC trying to help but they need more clout than their reach can influence.  Is there not some agency that can explore the requirements for owning such a powerful tool for evil against our country!  Wake up, Americans!