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Obama Has Jumped The Gun In Media Culture Too

While my column deals with President Obama being in a similar incident like Agriculture Sectretary Tom Vilsack has found himself in regarding the Shirley Sherrod Affair, my vlog blasts the president for blaming the media's handling on the event.

While President Obama is blasting the media for his own administration’s failings for jumping to conclusions without knowing all the facts regarding the Shirley Sherrod Affair, it wasn’t too long ago that he did the same thing when he said police “acted stupidly” in arresting Henry Louis Gates Jr.

A year ago on July 16, police responded to a 911 call about men breaking into a home in Cambridge, Mass. It turns out that the home was that of Gates, a black Harvard University professor, who was actually coming back home from a trip and was having trouble with his front door. There was a confrontation between Gates and arresting officer Sgt. James Crowley, who is white.

When the incident turned into a media frenzy, with people unjustly accusing Crowley of racial biased even though he was hand-picked by a black police commissioner to teach new police recruits on avoiding racial profiling
Associated Press story, President Obama quickly condemned the police for how they handled the situation even though he didn’t have all the facts either.

And it seems as if the president still hasn’t learned his lesson or he would have contacted Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and told him not to jump the gun in firing, or forcing Sherrod to resign, after a small segment of video showing how Sherrod was once racist towards a white farmer. (And we all know how that turned out.)

It makes you wonder how many times a Nobel Prize winner has to learn the same lesson about jumping to conclusions.