For those of you not familiar by now, a conservative blogger cut up a video, showed it on Fox News, and accused Ms. Sherrod of some warped form of racism. So the blogger (who clearly has an agenda) and Fox News (who never seems to just report a story) link up to call foul because the Tea Party was called racist lately. The problem? They doctored the video and ruined an African American woman's life to push their agenda. So they fought the charge of racism with a racist practice.

Racism is more than just insulting another person or making them drink from a separate water fountain. The Tea Party has a sizable racist element that attacks the President using racial imagery, slurs, and racist cultural references meant to demean him and an entire ethnicity. The Tea Party movement also refuses to distance themselves from what they consider a fringe element. This attack on Ms. Sherrod, claiming she is a racist when in fact she was telling a story of overcoming a racial bias, is patently racism. It's calling out an individual based on the color of their skin and totally warping their words to accuse her of something she did not do. 

By reacting to every news story without first investigating the source or the motivations of those breaking the story we allow this kind of warped "logic" to take over. It would be nice if a news source actually took the time to research and tell the entire story instead of everyone wanting to break it first.