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Beck v. Beck on the Sherrod Facts
  by Gene Lyons

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No sooner had last week's thrilling episode about the smearing of USDA official Shirley Sherrod appeared
in this space than the indignant letters and e-mails began. Evidently, Glenn Beck has his acolytes well-trained.
"Damnable liar" and "fraud" were two of the nicer epithets.

Supposedly, I'd “knowingly smeared "the Fox News weeper" to advance (my) agenda."

Subjected to a similar barrage, a normally unflappable editor curtly informed me that
"if you would double-check your facts, it might save us a whole lot of time."

Ah, but I had, you see. And therein lies an instructive little tale.

First, here's the offending passage from last week's column: "The assault on Sherrod...was so mean-spirited, crass
and dishonest, not to mention so astonishingly stupid, that even Fox News provocateurs like Bill O’Reilly and
Glenn Beck - after initially falling for the hoax - were pretty much forced to apologize. I expect O'Reilly actually meant it."

I gave O’Reilly the benefit of the doubt out of personal experience. The man can be a blowhard, and frequently
goes off half-cocked. Having appeared as a guest on his program, however, I know that he also has the self-confidence
to book dissenters from his world-view, and lets them finish sentences. That’s more than you can say about Beck,
Limbaugh and talk-radio cult leaders generally.

What got Beck’s fans stirred up, however, was that his "apology" took the form of an elaborate falsehood.
Because, in reality, the self-proclaimed "rodeo cowboy" (has anybody ever seen him in an arena?) had fallen for
Andrew Breitbart's deceptively edited video of Shirley Sherrod’s speech hook, line and sinker.


I wish gene would do more TV.
I haven't seen him do TV since maybe the Clinton era.

 

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