When Brandeis University professor Anita Hill got a phone message earlier this week from a woman purporting to be the wife of Clarence Thomas, she assumed it was a prank and reported it to campus police. But ABC News said Tuesday the message was legitimate. It was indeed Virginia Thomas, calling to ask Hill to [...]
President Obama says Fox News is part of a journalistic tradition of news outlets promoting their political views without apology, but called Fox’s political agenda “destructive” even though it has made a lot of money for owner Rupert Murdock. Fox News, the president said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, advocates a “point of [...]
Jerry Brown, who hopes to be California’s next governor, has received the endorsement of Bill Clinton, a day after apologizing to the the former president for questioning his truthfulness and making a Monica Lewinsky crack on the campaign trail. In a statement to The Los Angeles Times, Clinton gave Brown his unqualified backing, saying any [...]
The suddenly famous Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she would “love” to talk about racial issues with President Obama, but she isn’t looking for an apology from him after being unceremoniously booted from a federal job over a misunderstanding about to a speech she gave on race relations. Sherrod was offered a new job with the [...]
Shirley Sherrod, I will read your memoir! Most of us had never heard of Sherrod until she was wrongly accused of racism and lost her USDA job over misleading video snippets publicized by the conservative Internet publisher Andrew Breitbart. Proving once again that the camera can, too, lie, what we saw on the tape made [...]
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