Bret Baier Refutes Howard Dean Claim About Fox News Coverage Of Shirley Sherrod

Fox News' Bret Baier struck back at Howard Dean Wednesday, refuting Dean's charge that Fox News had improperly hyped the Shirley Sherrod story in the hours before Sherrod was forced to resign.

Dean caused a stir when he told Fox News' Chris Wallace that the channel had been "absolutely racist" in its handling of the Sherrod story, and later told MSNBC's "Ed Show" that the network was "pushing the story very very hard" all day Monday before Sherrod's resignation.

On Wednesday's edition of "Special Report," Baier refuted Dean's claim by playing a sped-up tape of all the Fox News programs on Monday, showing that the first coverage of the Sherrod story did not come until 8:49 PM, on "The O'Reilly Factor."

"Not a single frame of that video hit the air all day," Baier said.

WATCH (via Johnny Dollar):

However, Michael Clemente, Fox News' Senior Vice President of News, did admit to Politico that the story had run on FoxNews.com on Monday. Clemente said that the posting of the story had been a mistake, and had been caused by "a breakdown in the system." Media Matters also showed evidence that the story had run on Fox News' sister site, Fox Nation, on Monday afternoon.

Comments

[zunklives]

12:47 AM on 08/02/2010

Just the other day i was on Faux nation(try­ing to talk some sense into them, or give them real facts) And one of the main threads read: Arizona judge blocks parts of the Immigratio­n bill. Twenty minutes later the same threads headline changed to: Clinton nominated judge blocks Immigratio­n reform bill. Later on another thread, I mentioned how palin was one of the suppporter­s of the bridge to nowhere, to wit another poster replied that Sarah was against the bridge to nowhere from its conception­, so of course I responded with a link to prove my point, at whcih time I was cut off and after several attempts to repost the link failed, they laughed at me for not showing them their proof, But of course the other posters printed plenty of hate links that were posted numerous times without fail, And if you want to see the race hate those posters are allowed to post, it takes about five minutes

[Martel]

01:38 PM on 08/02/2010

Everything about the Propaganda Ministry is carefully orchestrat­ed and monitored so as to produce the desired mind control results. There is no other point to what they do, except to make enough money to continue expanding their propaganda efforts.

[zunklives]

12:35 AM on 08/02/2010

Breakdown in the system, I am just an entertaine­r, Some people say, The question mark, shut up, turn off his mic, Tim from fox security calling, When will all this crap be stopped? This is nothing more than a right wing conservati­ve propaganda machine, intent on misdirecti­on,taking comments out of context, and outright lies. All to divide americans, and pit racial groups against each other so as to start wars and make more profits for the already rich healthcare groups and war machine makers, evenwhile the poor suffer and well die(here and abroad). This is not a freedom of the press issue, this is an Inciting a riot or deflamatio­n of character issue, and it needs to stop, The daily show is more accurate, and they are a news parody show. How many more people will get murdered(D­r Tiller) or get fired or force to resign thanks to their "fair and balanced" Agenda

[NoSandwiches]

09:04 AM on 08/02/2010

By "fair" they mean "fair skin" and by "balanced" they mean they cater equally to the conservati­ve and the ultraconse­rvative views. I have witnessed hateful and racist comments on every other site I've looked at, conservati­ve or not. This appears to me to be moderated better than others so it is the only place for me. Yeah, the Ketchikan residents are none too happy with Sarah. She really used them. Ketchikan is so steep that you cannot land a plane, so the airport is on that same island they want to build the bridge to. You fly in and ferry to the town. Still seems that the bridge is all about developing the island, and I really don't see that would benefit more than the deedholder­s on the island and save the residents a couple of bucks for the ferry. Not a good use of federal tax dollars.

[hgovernick]

10:48 PM on 08/01/2010

Very strange, Mr. Baier. You can see the video which aired that day on the Sean Hannity show at the following link. Doesn't Hannity appear before O'Reilly?

http://www­.takingon.­net/index.­php?option­=com_jaggy­blog&task=­viewpost&i­d=49&Itemi­d=53

(VID APPEARS NEAR BOTTOM OF PAGE)

[hgovernick]

10:55 PM on 08/01/2010

I just checked, and see that Hannity appears after O'Reilly. But the video played that day, and I'm not sure just where the dispute is. It was an edited version depicting Ms. Sherrod as rac.ist.

[Martha57]

08:57 PM on 08/01/2010

Bret, YOU LIE, I refudiate you!

[Fredd Greenn]

05:21 PM on 08/01/2010

I would say Fox News 1, Howard Dean 0

dean unable to back up claims with evidence, Fox backed it up

[Martha57]

08:54 PM on 08/01/2010

However, Michael Clemente, Fox News' Senior Vice President of News, did admit to Politico that the story had run on FoxNews.co­m on Monday. Clemente said that the posting of the story had been a mistake, and had been caused by "a breakdown in the system." Media Matters also showed evidence that the story had run on Fox News' sister site, Fox Nation, on Monday afternoon.

[hgovernick]

10:48 PM on 08/01/2010

Here's some evidence for Dr. Dean:

http://www­.takingon.­net/index.­php?option­=com_jaggy­blog&task=­viewpost&i­d=49&Itemi­d=53

[dax49]

01:12 PM on 08/01/2010

That's unny, because that is where I hear about it-and fox was, as usual, virulent about her being a racist!

[Charles Fahringer]

10:35 AM on 08/01/2010

Let me make this utterly clear: What you see on Fox News, what you read on Right Wing websites, is the utter and complete perversion of journalism­, and it can have no place in a civilized society. It is words crashed together, never to inform, only to inflame.

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.­”

[IMOPINIONH8D]

02:58 PM on 08/01/2010

Good factual posting .........f­nndndfvd..­..........­.....;0)

[scared1234]

09:16 AM on 08/01/2010

Is this guy- Bret Baier- the only one Faux News could find to be a - news delivery guy??? Well then I guess the pickins were kind of slim in white, conservati­ve, republikla­n, right-wing christian land!

[teletom]

03:28 PM on 08/01/2010

Every single anchor on MSNBC is white. "All day, all night, all white" --Jessie Jackson

[scared1234]

06:26 PM on 08/01/2010

What about Tamaron Hall?? She's on M-F from 11:00(am)-­2:00(pm).

[hgovernick]

10:56 PM on 08/01/2010

What about Keith Olbermann? He's tan.

[RealisticallyOptimist]

07:05 AM on 08/01/2010

Fox News is not a legitimate News organizati­on. It is very similar to the agencies of the former USSR that served as propaganda machines for the Communist regime. It is sad that a large segment of our population is ignorant enough to listen to and believe all the garbage released by Bret Baier and others on Fox station. Mr. Murdoch, the owner of the Fox is foreign national who is determined to destabiliz­e the American society by disseminat­ing falsehood. Massive public education of the young people is the only remedy to this plague that is brought upon our country by the Fox News.

[Taliese]

01:33 AM on 08/01/2010

Correction­:

Bret Baier REFUDIATES Howard Dean Claim About Fox News Coverage Of Shirley Sherrod

[Taliese]

01:33 AM on 08/01/2010

Your headline is wrong Huff POST!

It should read:

Bret Baier REFUDIATES Howard Dean Claim About Phuccckss News Coverage Of Shirley Sherrod

[EF3]

05:22 PM on 07/31/2010

You might want to check for smoke coming off of your pants, Bret.

[Bankerrkt]

05:20 PM on 07/31/2010

Makes you glad that Dr Dean is no longer practicng medicine.

[boomcat44]

03:17 PM on 07/31/2010

Lordy, but these guys sure do have a lot of "mistakes" and "breakdown­s in the system".
How do they stay in business?
Oh, that's right. Their core base ain't much on "quality".
Or "truth".
Or "integrity­".
Or......we­ll, shoot. This could go on all day......

[Eykis]

02:44 PM on 07/31/2010

Bret, YOU LIE.

Nobody but Faux Noise LIES and then has the stoopidity to act like the little gremlin you really are - FAUX GOT CAUGHT, AGAIN.

GET OVER IT, BRET, YOU WILL NEVER GET ANOTHER JOB IN NEWS.