referring to his suspension by the nfl. and you were going to admit it right away there was a hoax. what was your plan? the goal was to actually wait two or three, five minutes and write a follow-up tweet saying set a casino employee and make it clear that i was joking. but in those three to four or five minutes, see what national publication of any merit picked it up. and did not vet it, did not source it, just used it and built a homepage around the fact that some guy said this. well. you re not just some guy. that s the problem. i m from the washington post. on twitter. and i ll say substantially, i m doing the radio show. i m multiplatforming. i don t look up to see if the tweet all of a sudden, it says twitter overcapacity. this is 30, 40 minutes of the radio show has gone by. and i m going geez that, secondary tweet saying this was a joke did not post.
to see us come back together or understanding, now we know the truth, she was basically talking about her experience and how she s changed. vilsack, he s been meeting with members of the congressional black caucus explaining what happened. they want to learn lessons. this has not been a pleasant experience for tom vilsack, for officials at the white house, for the president on down, for leaders of the naacp. the major lesson all of us have to learn is don t blooeelieve everything you see on the internet. investigate, do due diligence, vet it completely before you jump to any conclusions. verify, verify, verify. i couldn t help, wolf, but see in the background, john lewis who came to this city, washington, d.c., as a civil rights activist. with black, white, jews, and all trying to bring about the kind
the power of the blogs to fight even with their own party to move the agenda and are willing to target a number of leaders in congress and even the president, wolf. they are also, i m sure, a lot of buzz about the shirley sherrod story that s going on out there and a ittive blogger who basically got this whole story going. what are you hearing? a lot of talk about it, wolf, and i spoke with marcus melanson, the founder of daily kos online. he blames the media in part for in his view running with right wing that s his language, right wing attacks, as he puts it, but he also blames the white house for not vetting enough. listen to what he had to say. white wing outrage. instead of capitulating they should have gotten all the facts and gone to war with folks out to destroy them. andrew breitbart wants nothing short of the destruction of the naacp and of barack obama so when you realize you have an opponent, an enemy out to destroy you and puts out material, vet it first before
focused on one thing and one thing only that is our border security. greta: if the democrat were to roll the dice and say okay we are going to secure the borders and not roll in right now and issue a comprehensive immigration reform. what is it that the republicans who are so dead set on separating those issues could say to the democrats now to convince them that yes, once the borders are secure we will turn towards swiftly resolving the other issue? i think they would say and which would hope that the majority would agree that it is absolutely an issue of which we need discuss. we have to come to some agreement of how we are going to do that and set forth some parameters about how we are going to accomplish that nothing is accomplished just by saying we are going to do this, this and this. you have to sit down, vet it and move forward. i believe in the past we ve seen elected officials on both
focused on one thing and one thing only that is our border security. greta: if the democrat were to roll the dice and say okay we are going to secure the borders and not roll in right now and issue a comprehensive immigration reform. what is it that the republicans who are so dead set on separating those issues could say to the democrats now to convince them that yes, once the borders are secure we will turn towards swiftly resolving the other issue? i think they would say and which would hope that the majority would agree that it is absolutely an issue of which we need discuss. we have to come to some agreement of how we are going to do that and set forth some parameters about how we are going to accomplish that nothing is accomplished just by saying we are going to do this, this and this. you have to sit down, vet it and move forward. i believe in the past we ve seen elected officials on both