From Wednesday night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On the firing of Shirley Sherrod:

Sherrod said this all started when the NAACP attacked the Tea Party as having racist elements. And I think that’s really what’s important here.
For the last year and a half, having our first African-American president, we have not had the kind of racial animosity you might have expected. We had a heartwarming day on the day of Obama’s election, tears in the eyes of Jesse Jackson in Grant Park. It was a historic racial event.
For a year and a half, we had a national debate on the scope and the reach and the power of government, a real, honest, refreshing debate.
But what’s happened is: As the left began losing that debate this year — this didn’t happen last year — it began attributing the opposition to racism. And that happened in the press, among elite media, and in [the case of the] NAACP. And that’s what triggered this incident in particular.
And I think if there were less of that, if at least the other side would respect the honesty and the ideological sincerity of the opponents of the expansion of government and not attribute it [to] race, we would have a lot less of this, fewer incidents, and the atmosphere would be a lot less poisoned.

On Sherrod telling Media Matters that FOX News “would love to take us back to … where black people were looking down, not looking white folks in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person”:

She was a victim, but that doesn’t entitle her to victimize others and to use these kinds of attacks. I think she‘s wrong, and even though she is a person who needs restitution on the part of those who wronged her, this is not something anybody can endorse and it’s again part of this cycle [of racial accusations] which really ought to stop.

On JournoList:

What’s so remarkable — people of supposedly that high level, opinion-makers and teachers, speaking with unbelievable venom, never crediting the opposition with ideas, sincerity, evidence or principle, talking about them as Nazis.
I was also impressed by the low level of the discussion. … If this is the best liberal journalism can do, that is probably why our side is winning the argument.