Fox News Mistakes Shirley Sherrod for Maxine Waters

[LynneSin]

http://www.essence.com/news/hot_topics_4/fox_mistakes_shirley_sherrod_for_maxine_waters.php

What was meant to be a segment on ethics charges against Congresswoman Maxine Waters turned into yet another racial gaffe for Fox News. Instead of showing footage of Waters, producers for "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren" ran two clips of Shirley Sherrod instead, reports the Huffington Post.

The common refrain "Black people look alike" somehow comes to mind though host Greta Van Susteran says she is "sick" over the mix-up. Van Susteran took to her blog to apologize for the mistake. "OOPS...we're so screwed up on this one and we are sick about it," she wrote.

"Right now we are trying to console ourselves with the fact that, while we did a doozy of a mistake, at least it was unintentional, we noticed it immediately and scrambled to fix it immediately," she wrote.

Media Matters notes that this isn't the first time Fox has had a problem telling African-Americans apart. In 2006 the network aired footage of former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford, Jr. during a story on then-Senator Barack Obama. In 2007 the network mixed up Rep. John Conyers with former Louisiana congressman William Jefferson

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[spanone]

1. apologies mean shit

[nc4bo]

2. Don't cha know we all look alike?

Have no idea how people watch Fox News.

What a waste.

[Enrique]

6. who's that in your sig line pic?

i'm thinking it's either Beyonce or Rosa Parks. ;-)

[nc4bo]

11. LOL.

:rofl:

I'd like to think that Aunt Ester wouldn't clocked Fox News more than a few times with her pocketbook and bible!!

Freakin' heathens!

[rbrnmw]

19. It's Aretha see the bow?

Lol I know it Lawanda Page one funniest ladies who ever lived

[LynneSin]

13. Well all those Fox dimwits look alike to me....

STUPID

[rbrnmw]

20. Amen

[joeybee12]

3. Good Lord, I'm laughing that Greta thinks this is "unintentional"

Worthless plastic so-and-so.

[myrna minx]

4. "at least it was unintentional" - this time?

:eyes:

[Gold Metal Flake]

5. I need a screen shot to add it to my list.

Lieberman after he lost the primary and formed his own party:


A reassignment of Heckuvajob Brownie:


A new party for Specter before he actually switched.

[rbrnmw]

12. wasn't Larry Craig also labelled Democrat after his

Wide Stance scandal broke

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. In other Faux news Chairman Mao is remembered in his youth

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pashdf8IiYY/SqxrBVqNtLI/AAAAAAAAAlc/KqhyQmfqlTc/s400/Bruce+Lee.jpg

when he went on a long march.

[rbrnmw]

10. LMAO Good One and so full of truthiness

[LynneSin]

14. It was no different when they cast all those non-Japanese women for "Memoirs of a Geisha"

believe it or not I can tell the difference between a Chinese woman and a Japanese woman. I love the book but the movie made me cringe although Gong Li did make a good Hatsumumu

[rbrnmw]

8. Bullshit Console ourselves my ass

more like patting each other on the back Fox is number 1 in Stereotyping anyone other that White Fat Big Mouth republicans and their merry band of bimbos like Ingraham just look at the disgusting piece of racist garbage she is pedaling as nonfiction

http://www.amazon.com/Obama-Diaries-Laura-Ingraham/product-reviews/1439197512/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_summary?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

[Enrique]

9. Remember Fox News's version of the Lincoln-Douglass(sic) debates?

[dancingme]

15. Someday Fox News will run a photo of Flip Wilson as Geraldine

and label it "First Lady Michelle Obama".

[surrealAmerican]

16. I can't imagine many of their viewers noticed.

[rbrnmw]

17. K&R To expose the Racists at Fox "news"

let's get it on the greatest page

[spanone]

18. personally, i don't believe it's a mistake at all. i believe it was deliberate.

[lpbk2713]

21. Personally, I think it would be more noteworthy if Faux did something right.

They never can seem to do anything right. Faux would make a good comedy channel.


:rofl:

[rbrnmw]

22. You mean it isn't a Comedy Station?

[WI_DEM]

23. I've never seen a station which makes as many "mistakes" as FAUX.

[rbrnmw]

24. Yeah I know I do laugh when they label

one of their own who is caught up in a scandal a Democrat