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You really have to hand it to the hacks and non-entities over at Media Matters for America. I mean, they deserve an Olympic gold medal for the gymnastics they display while spinning the news to the extreme left-wing of the political spectrum. This whole Fox News/Shirley Sherrod story is a perfect example.

Eric “Boomarwrong” Boehlert is shamelessly spinning the story of the firing of USDA employee, Shirley Sherrod, as a Fox attack job with all his little Maoist heart. He is desperate to make Sherrod’s firing a result of a Fox News smear campaign and his reply to the posting at Johnny Dollar’s website proving that Fox News Channel didn’t really even take up the story until after Sherrod was fired by the White House is a masterpiece of spin.

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Starting with, “So many people, all saying the same thing. The same untrue thing,” Johnny Dollar goes on to show the timeline of how Fox News approached the story. Then J$ posted the words of a Fox exec, to wit: “Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news editorial, said the network’s news programs reported the story with caution.”

After this set up, J$ goes on piece by piece to show that the news channel did not push the story on the air until after the White House pre-emptively and hastily fired Sherrod in the wake of the video Breitbart posted on Monday last week. He then shows all the lefty newsies who made the false claim that Fox News was peddling the Sherrod story before a panicky White House fired her.

But the moonbats at Media Matters have to make this whole thing a Fox conspiracy, despite the truth of the matter. So, “Boomawrong” Boehlert tries to refute J$’s correct assertion that Fox News didn’t push the story. And here is his… cough… evidence: (more…)