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[BrklynLiberal]

The entire article, and the quote from The American Spectator, has to be read to be believed..

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Following the debacle that is the Shirley Sherrod affair, the Right and its echo chamber have revealed themselves to be (perhaps) worse than I had ever imagined. In the rush of the conservative punditry to defend Fox News and Breitbart, their thin mask of decency has finally been thrown aside.

Of course, we can expect Limbaugh, Buchanan, Beck, and Coulter to continue with their bloviating, mouth frothing cries of reverse racism in the Age of Obama for that is their shtick. I am also willing to concede the cheap partisan games that Fox News plays as they race bait and gin up white racial anxiety in order to drive ratings. And ultimately, to my own immediate political and social concerns, I can sit not very surprised by how black conservatives have been noticeably silent on the Shirley Sherrod affair.

But, when is enough enough? At what point do the adults enter the room and say “no more?”

That moment has now passed, as conservative mouthpiece The American Spectator ran a column today suggesting that Shirley Sherrod’s relative Mr. Bobby Hall was not lynched by the Klan. According to Jeffrey Lord, “he was only beaten to death.” I kid you not. From The American Spectator’s reasoning, the original “lie” that is Sherrod’s story is proof of her lack of trustworthiness. By extension, “the exaggeration” of the circumstances surrounding the death of Shirley Sherrod’s relation is evidence of a “racist” “progressive” agenda because Ms. Sherrod apparently does not criticize the Southern Democrats and Hugo Black, legendary Supreme Court justice (and noted member of the KKK), who freed her relative’s killers.

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http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/07/27/pathologies-of-the-new-right-only-for-shirley-sherrod-is-a-murder-different-from-a-lynching/