False Accusations of Racism: MSNBC's 'Stalin Standard'

As was the case with most of the corrupt mainstream media last week, if you were watching MSNBC you’d never know that the now-famous Shirley Sherrod video posted by Andrew Breitbart on BigGovernment.com included her moment of redemption. But that’s because MSNBC is a den of left-wing propagandists who have sworn to tell no truth that stands in the way of their agenda.

So what was all their faux outrage over? It was over their own false claim that the video was intentionally edited in a way to unfairly brand Ms. Sherrod as racist. Therefore it is safe to conclude that in the eyes of MSNBC, falsely branding someone a racist is a terrible thing.

Unless, of course, it’s one of their own employees doing it.

So outraged was Keith Olbermann by the Sherrod affair, that Mr. Special Comment himself briefly returned from an abrupt vacation to deliver a Special-Special Comment — one of those Bizarro-Murrow moments so lacking in self-awareness that even that vipers’ nest of JournoListers can’t help but to roll their collective eyes at him.

Mr. Olbermann’s own Special-Special words:

Let me make this utterly clear: What you see on Fox News, what you read on Right Wing websites, is the utter and complete perversion of journalism, and it can have no place in a civilized society. It is words crashed together, never to inform, only to inflame. It is a political guillotine. It is the manipulation of reality to make the racist seem benevolent, and to convict the benevolent as racist — even if her words must be edited, filleted, stripped of all context, rearranged, fabricated, and falsified, to do so.

Side note: Tell me again how two full, uncut excerpts qualify as “edited, filleted, stripped of all context, rearranged, fabricated, and falsified.”

Anyway, it was Joseph Stalin who once said, A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

And we now know that this is the same philosophy MSNBC uses when it comes to falsely branding individuals as racists. Using the sin of omission (ignoring our video showing Ms. Sherrod’s redemption) in order to falsely claim a single individual had been unfairly accused of racism, the whole of MSNBC went on an indignation bender last week. And yet…

Some 48 hours have passed since their own “anchorman” publicly branded thousands upon thousands of innocents as racists, and we have yet to hear a peep.