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Howard Dean Calls Fox News Racist Posted on 7/25/2010
Former DNC Chairman and Gov. Howard Dean, D-VT, said the Fox News Channel's handling of the Shirley Sherrod controversy "was absolutely racist."
Dean said Fox News failed to vet video footage of a speech misleadingly excerpted to make it appear that Sherrod was boasting of using her post as an Agriculture Department official to discriminate against a white farmer.
Howard Dean Comments Dean told host Chris Wallace, "I don't think Newt Gingrich is a racist, and I don't think you're a racist."
Dean said, "But Fox News did something that was absolutely racist. They took a - they had an obligation to find out what was really in the clip. They had been pushing a theme of black racism with this phony Black Panther crap and this business and this Sotomayor and all this other stuff."
Gov. Dean told Wallace, "You didn't do your job."
He charged that Fox News has helped the Republican Party foster racism by focusing on allegations of reverse racism.
Dean said, "The tea party called out their racist fringe and I think the Republican Party's got to stop appealing to its racist fringe. And Fox News is what did that. You put that on."
He said, "Continuing to cater to this theme of minority racism and stressing comments like this - some of which are taken out of context - does not help the country knit itself together."
