Sean Hannity Disengenuious, at Best; Sean claims Sherrod resigned before Sean's Fox News program aired, but did she resign before Sean's radio show?

No, Sean smeared her on his radio show BEFORE she resigned.


Audio here

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Quote from Rainmaker : No, Sean smeared her on his radio show BEFORE she resigned. Audio here http://fishwrangler.blogspot.com/...-cain.html

At what time of which day did Shirley tender her forced resignation?

Can't we just have one thread on this topic?

Quote from PaulG78 : At what time of which day did Shirley tender her forced resignation?

Since the audio was posted early Tuesday morning, and Sean makes no reference to her quitting (which hit the news just before 8:00 PM, Monday), the audio, is from Monday the 19th. I can tell you I personally heard it Monday. Also, Breitbart was not on a plane Tuesday, he was on a trip to New York, Monday afternoon.

Quote from appleyum : Can't we just have one thread on this topic?

This thread is on Sean Hannity being disengenoius, saying he did not go on Fox News with the story before she resigned. He did go on the air (radio) with it before she resigned, which he, I guess, he forgot.

Politi-Fact fact checker [politifact.com]

Quote : So, based on the Fox transcripts as well as Sherrod's own account in the CNN interview, Hayes appears to be correct that Sherrod "was forced to resign before anybody on Fox said a word about this." Indeed, Howard Kurtz, the Washington Post's media critic, reported that "after a news meeting Monday afternoon (July 19), an e-mail directive was sent to the news staff in which Fox Senior Vice President Michael Clemente said, 'Let's take our time and get the facts straight on this story. Can we get confirmation and comments from Sherrod before going on-air. Let's make sure we do this right... ... On balance, these two caveats persuade us to drop Hayes' otherwise accurate statement that Shirley Sherrod "was forced to resign before anybody on Fox said a word about this" by a notch to Mostly True."

Quote from DJPlayer : Politi-Fact fact checker [politifact.com]

Actually, you are treating Fox News, Fox Nation, and Foxnews.com as separate entities.
That is a different argument, and even Fox trips up on what side they stand on that debate.

OK Facts; we know Foxnews.com and Glenn Beck�s producer called the USDA for comment on this employee�s �racist remarks� late Monday morning.

�You are going to be on Glenn Beck tonight� is what Ms. Sherrod was told on the phone by a USDA official.�

Foxnews.com confirmed the attempt with this blurb, posted before noon, Monday;

"Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy.�

And this diddy:

"FoxNews.com is seeking a response from both the NAACP and the USDA."

�Fox Nation� reported the story at approximately 1:40 PM, with this headline;

�Caught on Tape: Obama Official Discriminates Against White Farmer."

Late Monday afternoon, Hannity went obnoxiously wild on his radio show about the video, and linked this �racism� with the NAACP�s Tea Party comment, and the New Blank Panther nonsense. Breitbart, (surprise! Wow, how did Sean get that booking so fast?), was a guest on the radio show to discuss this video. About the same time (the 5:00 PM Hour) ,Drudge posted this link

�Shock; Video Suggests Racism at NAACP event.�

Hannity on his radio show said he would �show the video� on his Fox News show that night.

So, the claim that she was let go before O'Reilly or Hannity taped taped their shows is dubious at best; Foxnews.com, by their own reporting said they had contacted the NAACP and USDA before noon for comment on the story. It was all over FOX Nation just after lunch, and Hannity had it on his radio show at 5;00 PM, two full hours before the announcement was made that she resigned.

It was a manufactured news piece trying to paint the Obama administration as �racist,� as Hannity has been trying to do for the past year. I can believe Fox News was careful; Fox Nation, Foxnews.com and Hannity were not.

Quote from DJPlayer : Politi-Fact fact checker [politifact.com]

If you recall, for the past two months, Fox News has been petitioning for the open front row seat in the White House Briefing Room. After turning down Breitbart's previous hit job on the Census because of obvious flaws, they were of course concerned about running blindly with a new Breitbart piece.

However, Foxnews.com, Fox Nation, Beck, and Hannity had no reservations about tagging the administration as "racist."

Quote from Rainmaker : If you recall, for the past two months, Fox News has been petitioning for the open front row seat in the White House Briefing Room. After turning down Breitbart's previous hit job on the Census because of obvious flaws, they were of course concerned about running blindly with a new Breitbart piece. However, Foxnews.com, Fox Nation, Beck, and Hannity had no reservations about tagging the administration as "racist."

is this one of Ryu's other screen names? I think this issue has already been discussed in the previous thread and discredited as well..

Quote from DJPlayer : is this one of Ryu's other screen names? I think this issue has already been discussed in the previous thread and discredited as well..

Discredited? But I provided audio of Hannity slamming Ms Sherrod on the Hannity radio program before the announcement of her resignation. Do you need video on a radio program? My God, Hannity even had Breitbart on to discuss her (alledged) racism.

Quote from Rainmaker : Discredited? But I provided audio of Hannity slamming Ms Sherrod on the Hannity radio program before the announcement of her resignation. Do you need video on a radio program? My God, Hannity even had Breitbart on to discuss her (alledged) racism.

And Hannity's frakking radio program is NOT FOX NEWS.

Did you miss that little part ?

Also rather convenient is that you have completely left out the fact that CNN and the other networks were reporting on this story the same way Fox was after 9:00 pm.

Hell, even left leaning Mediaite has explained this:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/on...rod-story/

Quote : But as we�ve laid out here [mediaite.com], there are misconceptions about the way FNC covered the story. The truth is, Shirley Sherrod wasn�t mentioned on air until 8:49pmET (according to TV Eyes), during a pre-taped Bill O�Reilly show. It is the fact that it was recorded earlier that makes the timeline more complicated, but what we do know is by the time O�Reilly made it to the air she had already resigned. In fact, before the show was even taped, around 5pmET, she had already resigned (although it hadn�t been made public yet). But O�Reilly called for her resignation at the time, which led to his apology (and new attack) the next night. The person at Fox News who can be legitimately criticized for jumping to conclusions is O�Reilly. The resignation was mentioned in the 9pmET and 10pmET hours as well. Again, though, clearly it was the fear of FNC�s coverage and not FNC�s actual coverage that forced the USDA, and Obama administration, to act as quickly as it did. The rest of cable news is in largely the same boat as Fox News. The clip aired on CNN Monday night too � in a report on Anderson Cooper 360 by Joe Johns. In it, Johns described the clip as a �YouTube video� (and no mention of the source), and said it showed Sherrod talking about how she �withheld help to a white farmer.� All three cable news networks covered the story on their morning shows without any mention of Sherrod disputing the context. On MSNBC�s Morning Joe, guest Margaret Carlson of Bloomberg said, �How about if Shirley and Mark Williams, the tea party guy, are locked in a room together as their punishment� � a reference to the legitimately-ousted conservative. And by 9amET Tuesday, all three cable news networks � CNN, Fox News and MSNBC � were reporting the story in full context. They were all showing the clip (many times), but also all pointing out that Sherrod was speaking out against it. CNN was helped by having Sherrod on-air during American Morning. Whether it was luck or by-design, the Obama administration enormously overreacted to a clip put out by Breitbart. On Fox News Watch, Kirsten Powers took him on strongly. �There�s something really twisted and sick about that,� she said. �Now he says he didn�t know that, but I say who gave him this video, they need to come forward and say why they set up this woman in this malicious, nasty accusation.� The knocks on Fox, though, are misplaced. Have they driven the Black Panther story to potentially race-baiting extremes? You could make a case for that. But although it would be convenient to say Fox News� relentless coverage of this internet video led to Shirley Sherrod�s unfair ouster, it�s just not true.

Just to make it easier, here are some quotes from the "as we laid out here" link in the story above:

Quote : Many people from MSNBC�s Keith Olbermann to Shirley Sherrod herself have implied Fox News was a driving force behind propping up Andrew Breitbart�s out-of-context video that forced her to resign. A more correct assessment might be that the fear of FNC�s coverage forced her resignation � but FNC�s actual coverage did not, and the evidence is clear. Both the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post write about a directive from Fox Senior Vice President Michael Clemente for the news hours of FNC to check the story out before devoting any time to it. �Let�s make sure we do this right,� he said.

And:

Quote : And that doesn�t mean FNC was the only one to mention the story Monday night either. It was referenced by a guest on Larry King Live, and Anderson Cooper did have a brief segment as well on CNN. By Tuesday morning, all three cable networks were leading with the Sherrod video. FoxNews.com had a story up before anything aired on the network (after she had resigned � Update: An emailer points out this line from the story: �The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned.� Clearly this means there was a previous FoxNews.com story up just based on the video, before the resignation.), but so did other mainstream outlets, like the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The AJC was also first to advance the story, with comment from Sherrod, that led to its eventual unraveling.

So let's see if we have this all straight now. Many on the left have claimed that Fox News caused Sherrod to get fired even though she was fired / had resigned PRIOR to this issue even being broadcast on the airwaves by Fox.

Looking at the title of your post, Hannity claimed that Sherrod resigned BEFORE his Fox News Channel program had even aired.

Hmmmm, seems that he is absolutely 100 percent correct and ALL the evidence backs up what he said.

Quote from Rainmaker : Since the audio was posted early Tuesday morning, and Sean makes no reference to her quitting (which hit the news just before 8:00 PM, Monday), the audio, is from Monday the 19th. I can tell you I personally heard it Monday. Also, Breitbart was not on a plane Tuesday, he was on a trip to New York, Monday afternoon.

So to answer my question directly, you don't know.