shirley sharrod. remember the shirley sharrod scandal. was an agriculture employee who was thrust into the spotlight after a clip on her was posted online by a conservative website. it was played on a constant loop on fox news and conservative blogs. it showed an african-american government official admits to denying assistance in white farmers. it made it seem like the government was employing an openly proud reverse racist, an anti-white people bigot. while the rest of the news media was covering, you know, news, fox news and right wing blogs were running with this story like it was watergate on steroids. >> break news tonight about an ags culture department official caught on tape making racially charged comments. >> that is simply unacceptable and miss sharrod must resign immediately. >> it was fox news online proclaiming that this is racism plain and simple. this is a big story. why isn't the rest of the news media paying attention? around the same time the rest of the news media paid attention to what was happening on fox, the obama