Since the Sherrod story broke, much as be made about who did what and when; who knew what and when. And ultimatley what blame should be placed and where.
After hearing Keith Olbermann's special comment, my reaction was anger.
I had to take a step back to think why.
This morning, it hit me. Why on earth has this story become about Obama?
Check this out from TPM:
Still, you just have to back up from that and realize that as disappointing as Tom Vilsack's first crack at this was, the idea that he or Obama is the bad guy in this story is not only preposterous but verging on obscene. It's like the NYPD as the bad guy in the Son of Sam saga because they didn't catch David Berkowitz fast enough. Or perhaps that the real moral of the story is that the woman with the stalker should have been more focused on personal data security. Not for some time has something so captured the essential corruption of a big chunk of what passes as 'right wing media' (not all, by any means, but a sizable chunk along the Breitbart/Fox/Hannity continuum) and the corruption of the mainstream media itself as this episode.
Have any of us thought this way? Ben Franklin was adamant about a free press. He believed, and rightly so, that a free press could be thought of as the fourth branch of government.
All of us should be outraged that the media picked up and ran with this story. The fact that the people of this country, as it stands now, probably cannot count on the press for the truth.
There used to be journalists like Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite. Where are the true journalists now? Journalists who dig down for the real story - not the gotcha' story - not the sensationalistic story for which ratings are rewarded.
TPM, I think, hit it on the nail. Besides missing the Sherrod story initially, we are still missing its larget points: How do we get back to real journalism, and, finally, we can admit that since Jan. 2010, since he was inaugurated, there has been a concerted effort to dismiss this President as "not one of us," and all this is due to racism.
Rather than get angry at the Obama administration, who are damned if they do and damned if they don't, we need to be angry at the Republicans and their minions who intend to push this country back to the days before the Civil Rights Act was signed.