(Not-Racist) Greta Van Susteren Is Apologizing For "a doozy of a mistake"

[kpete]

FOX News host Greta Van Susteren is apologizing for "a doozy of a mistake" made on her show Monday when a picture of Shirley Sherrod was used to illustrate a segment on Rep. Maxine Waters, the Huffington Post reports.



Waters, a California Democrat, has been charged by the House with ethical violations, and Sherrod was fired from the USDA for incorrectly being cast as a racist. What the two visually have in common is that they're both black women.

Susteren took to her blog Monday to issue an extremely effusive apology, calling the incident on her "On the Record" program, "a very bad mistake and a painful one for which we are very apologetic."

"We really don't know what to say and there is nothing that you can post to make us feel better (not that we deserve to feel better!) This mistake was bad, very bad and we are immensely sorry," Susteren wrote."

more:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100804/pl_yblog_upshot/fox-host-apologizes-for-shirley-sherrod-maxine-waters-mixup

[ananda]

1. Afraid they'll lose their two Black viewers?

..

[Xenotime]

2. All 2 of them?

[myrna minx]

3. Not only is it racist, but FOX now has besmirched the

reputation of Sherrod yet again, by associating her face with a story about ethics violations.

:puke:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Clearly they all "look alike".

:puke:

[Dappleganger]

9. Doesn't that make you sick?

I've got some choice words to say about that woman.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. They pull this shit all the time. Their emperor Jabba The Rush once made a

comment to the effect that: "All police composite sketches of criminals look like Jesse Jackson."

[cwydro]

5. Ah Greta...

how could you?

Lol.

[Botany]

6. That was no mistake because Fox has done that before many many times

When Rep. William Jefferson was caught w/ $90,000 of dirty money in his freezer Fox
ran video of John Conyers.

[Warpy]

7. Aw, they all look alike, dontcha know?

It's not like their idiot Generation Suck racist old man viewers* will notice the difference, just like they didn't notice all the other times Pox pulled a fast one on photos, crowds, and party affiliation of politicians caught with their pants down or their hands in the till.

*Yes, that's the demographic, retired white males over 65 make up the largest percentage of their audience.

[HubertHeaver]

13. Retired white males over 65 couldn't tell the difference between

Shirley Sherrod and Maxine Waters even with their glasses cleaned and on. Really, all those guys can see on the TV is a blur.

[sadbear]

8. If Waters were a republican, they would have put a (D) after her name

[corpseratemedia]

10. fox news, you are nothing but a mouthpiece

for your owners. Other than that, go fuck yourselves you lying sacks of racist shitheads.

[felinetta]

12. This was not a mistake.Faux you are so dishonest.This was biz as usual.

[unblock]

14. that is extremely uncharacteristic of faux news

they hardly ever apologize for the kind of crap they pull all the time.

[digitaln3rd]

15. Give me a break.

Not that I care much for Fox but how is this racist? Both women were in the news lately so it's not very illogical that both pictures would be on file.

Live news runs the wrong footage all the time.

There's plenty of things to criticize Fox for but calling this "racist" is pretty much a stretch.

[GSLevel9]

16. well... to be honest...

I couldn't look at a picture of Mitch McConnel and Mitch Daniels and tell WHICH one is WHICH person. Is THAT racist?

[mmonk]

17. Horse hockey.

What her apology is worth.