Fox host apologizes for Sherrod-Waters mixup

[savalez]

Source: The Upshot

Fox News host Greta Van Susteren is apologizing for "a doozy of a mistake" made on her show Monday when a picture of Shirley Sherrod was used to illustrate a segment on Rep. Maxine Waters, the Huffington Post reports.

Waters, a California Democrat, has been charged by the House with ethics violations, and Sherrod was fired from the USDA for incorrectly being cast as a racist. What the two visually have in common is that they're both black women.

Van Susteren took to her blog Monday to issue an extremely effusive apology, calling the incident on her "On the Record" program "a very bad mistake and a painful one for which we are very apologetic."

"We really don't know what to say and there is nothing that you can post to make us feel better (not that we deserve to feel better!) This mistake was bad, very bad and we are immensely sorry," Van Susteren wrote.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100804/pl_yblog_upshot/fox-host-apologizes-for-shirley-sherrod-maxine-waters-mixup

[underpants]

1. But there is no racial element to any of it.... right?

:eyes:

[movonne]

2. Yes a mistake...do they think everyone is as dumb as the gop

tea party...

[classysassy]

3. The photo department at hoax news

Why don't they hire Mr McGoo.

[hay rick]

4. They all look the same to Fox viewers. nt.

[Jennicut]

5. All black people look the same, right?

Racist dumbasses.

[dsharp88]

6. To Fakes News. those people all look alike

so who can blame them? Certainly not their viewers.

[AlinPA]

7. Van Susteren is slime. Her "apology" is bullshit.

[Hissyspit]

8. Honest Racist Mistake

Another in a long line from Fox.

[Xipe Totec]

9. They're going to need to add a few zeroes to the 'apology' nt

[MadMaddie]

10. Yawn.....

Liars Liars pants on fire.

[Moonwalk]

11. This is like when they report on Republicans who have done something shameful and--

somehow those republicans always have a "D" by their names instead of an "R", right? Like when they were reporting on Governor Sandford's scandal with the mistress in Brazil and he suddenly was marked as a democratic rather than republican governor?

Funny how they keep making those kinds of mistakes.....

[Plucketeer]

12. Imagine if they were THIS stupid, and

trying to be a legitimate news organization! They'd have been outta business years ago! :dunce:

[Plucketeer]

13. Greta Van Sustern

The REAL LIFE Rosanne Rosanna-Danna. "Never Mind" :rofl:

[UTUSN]

14. She wants this behind her so she can FOCUS on Bret FAVRE (hot thing going on) n/t

[JoeyT]

15. It wasn't her fault.

She wasn't thinking clearly due to an elevated Thetan count.