In Why Does Fox News Have More Power Than Any Progressive in the Country?, Cenk Uygur does lay some of the blame for the Shirley Sherrod incident at the feet of Faux Noise.

However, I am still waiting for an article that concentrates its ire solely on Faux Noise, and highlights the damage that they are doing and have done.

This article fails in that respect because it spends too much time calling the Obama administration nasty names for having been drawn into this mess by Faux Noise.

After all that Faux Noise has done, the story is still focused on the people who fell for it rather than on the perpetrators of the crime.  Maybe I should say “alleged crime” or “to be alleged crime”, because Shirley Sherrod has not even filed her defamation case against Faux Noise yet.

Let me be clear that there is nothing wrong with legitimate criticism of the Obama administration.  However, once in a while Obama’s natural constituency ought to consider criticizing something else.  Occasionally they might even find something for which they can praise Obama.  Or maybe once in a while they might take Obama’s side when facing a common antagonist..  How about some praise for President Obama having the courage to reverse an error made by his administration and taking responsibility for the damage that they did? Before the White House stepped in Vilsack, the Agriculture Secretary, seemed adamant that he would stick to his decision even after it was shown to be such a mistake.

The left, liberals, and progressives are so used to the stick approach, that they seem to have forgotten that the carrot approach is frequently more effective.

I recognize that this post seems to be all stick and no carrot, too.  I’ll try to find some carrot that I can give to the left wing media.  There is no carrot I can think of for Faux Noise.  Perhaps someone can correct me on that.