Dean unloads on Fox for Sherrod coverage
Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean called the Fox News coverage of Shirley Sherrod “absolutely racist” in an appearance on Fox News Sunday. “They had an obligation to find out what was really in the clip,” Dean said. “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.”
The former Vermont governor said later: “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. 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.”
