Which makes the New Media surprisingly similar to the Over the Hill Media.

A House ethics subcommittee Thursday charged New York Rep. Charles Rangel with ethics violations, a blow to the veteran Democrat roughly 100 days before crucial midterm congressional elections.

The panel did not detail the charges against Rangel, who was forced to step down as chairman of the influential House Ways and Means Committee this year over his long-running ethics troubles.

Luke inherited his name, and his gig at NBC, so the pressure to make a name for himself is small.

Asked to respond to Breitbart during an interview Thursday night with CNN’s John King, Sherrod… called Breitbart a liar and accused him of stoking racist elements.

Asked what Breitbart would need to do in order for Sherrod to forgive him, the former Department of Agriculture official said he “would really need to come and sit down with me and look me in the eye so that we could see if we can find a place.”

Sherrod says she thinks Breitbart wants to see a return to slavery and that he’s after Obama because of his race.

Fox News is facing scathing attacks from the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, but Fox wasn’t even involved in the story until after the White House had fired Sherrod.

Many people from MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann to Shirley Sherrod herself have implied Fox News was a driving force behind propping up Andrew Breitbart’s out-of-context video that forced her to resign.

While Fox can be quite aggressive in stories like this, the level of venom focused on the network bares no resemblance to the network’s role in this story.

Both the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post write about a directive from Fox Senior Vice President Michael Clemente for the news hours of FNC to check the story out before devoting any time to it. “Let’s make sure we do this right,” he said.

While the lefties are eager to demonize Breitbart, he offers a New Media outlet that doesn’t fall under traditional journalistic expectations. He is half consolidator, half activist. From where I sit, he provides the material, it’s up to those of us who grab it to research it further. He’s putting paint on the pallet.

Even Media Matters, in their documentation of how FNC disseminated the story, notes its infrequent appearances on Monday – considering the story broke on Big Government at 8amET.

The president is still trying to recover from the White House mishandling of the situation. He called Sherrod today.

And that doesn’t mean FNC was the only one to mention the story Monday night either. It was referenced by a guest on Larry King Live, and Anderson Cooper did have a brief segment as well on CNN. By Tuesday morning, all three cable networks were leading with the Sherrod video.

The biggest screw-ups are the White House/Ag Dept folks, who certainly have a higher fact checking responsibility than Andrew Breitbart has, and that’s why their sycophants are going so strong at Breitbart.

The NAACP are a bunch of morons. Remember, Sherrod was speaking at their event, and they were the ones in possession of the full videotape that Breitbart was sent an excerpt of.

On Tuesday, FNC covered the story a lot – 39 times according to TV Eyes. MSNBC covered it 21 times, but CNN? They mentioned Shirley Sherrod 63 times. Now there will be an argument made about the tone of the coverage, but as the story evolved throughout the day, it shifted so much it had Glenn Beck, the cable news host near the center of the controversy to begin with, coming out with an enormous defense of the former USDA worker.

Lastly, the Mainstream media fell down by replaying the video without doing their own journalism. Considering the mainstreams, the White House, and the NAACP are all part of the same political organization, it’s easy to see why AB and FNC are taking the heat.

He starts to make some sense when he complains about the politicized White House, more worried about polls and bad press than about following principles. Small consolation, however, for his pretending to be ready to cry at the end.

Ousted but now recruited U.S. Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod says she wants to hear directly from President Obama that he and his administration are fully committed to fighting discrimination against black farmers.

“I can’t say that the president is fully behind me,” Sherrod told ABC’s “Good Morning America” Thursday morning. “I would hope that he is…I would love to talk to him.”

She now wants to consult to the White House…. but why is she being offered a new job instead of being given her old job back? Congressman Steven King, meanwhile, argues that Sherrod’s original hiring should be reviewed.

As usual, liberals do the evil things that they falsely accuse the right of doing.

Realizing that the government is now controlled by these people puts the president’s socialist policies into context.