“Context is Everything. In this piece you will see video evidence of racism coming from a federal appointee and NAACP award recipient…” - Andrew Breitbart, 7/19/2010
“That is simply unacceptable, and Ms. Sherrod must resign.” - Bill O’Reilly, 7/20/2010
“We here at Studio B did not run the video and did not reference the story in any way for many reasons, among them: we didn’t know who shot it, we didn’t know when it was shot, we didn’t know the context of the statement, and because of the history of the videos on the site where it was posted. In short we do not and did not trust the source.” – Shepard Smith, 7/21/2010
“What you see on Fox News, what you read on right wing websites…is a manipulation. Not just of a story, not just on behalf of a political philosophy. Manipulation of a society, its intentional redirection from reality and progress, to a paranoid delusion and the fomenting of hatred of Americans by Americans. And nearly every last word of it is never, in any tangible sense, true. Ask Shirley Sherrod.” – Keith Olbermann, 7/21/2010
“This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful.” – Edward R. Murrow, 10/15/1958