Big Journalism has an interesting story written by PJ Salvatore.
Okay… Rick Perry gives a speech, and in it he makes a quote. Ed Schultz takes said quote and edits it from this:
” … that big black cloud that is hanging over America,that debt that is so monstrous …”
to this…
” … that big black cloud that is hanging over America …”
In an effort to create the impression that Perry was calling President Obama a black cloud (a not too far off analogy, considering he is in fact black, and blows in the direction of the wind).
Breitbart calls Schultz out for his selective editing.
Joan Walsh jumps into the fray, defending Schultz, and insulting Breitbart.
In case you don’t know who Joan Walsh is, she writes for Salon and accused Breitbart and Big Journalism Editor Dana Loesch of hacking Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account and placing the penis picture there, never once apologizing once he admitted it was in fact his shlong.
Al Sharpton used the reference on his show. We’re now hitting critical racist mass.
Then Schultz admitted, of course, that he edited the clip selectively and apologized.
“We did not present the full context of those clips …”
It was a mistake and we regret the error … we should not have included it in our coverage of his overheated rhetoric. That’s our mistake.
Indeed. Now it would be nice if Sharpton and Walsh apologized to Andrew Breitbart as well as Rick Perry for spreading the rumor that he made a racist remark. Of course that won’t happen; the first rule of lib club is that you don’t apologize when you’re caught making a mistake.
I’m not a huge Perry fan, but it’s amazing how well the MSNBC confirmation bias worked in this case.
Oh, and for my friend who thinks Media Matters reprimands the left equally to the right, I anxiously await their commentary on this whole circle jerk.