...says the Corner concerning Shirley Sherrod. She's gone from sinner to saint to sinner so quick it makes my head spin.* I know the media takes its job of building up so it can tear down seriously, but still... Bill O'Reilly, not known for nuance, was the most nuanced in his analysis yesterday by apologizing for the rush to judgment but at the same time not painting her as a saint given that she was throwing around the phrase 'his own kind' and 'one of his own,' as if skin color creates a different genus or species.
* - It's a fun parlor game to write/think something about some issue and then see who uses the same or similar words to describe it. The head spin also occurred to Andy McCarthy, who used a pendulum analogy. Yesterday I was reading some newspaper article that mentioned "The Decision" involving LeBron James as an hour-long infomercial. Check!
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