UPDATED: White House, You Were Punked By Andrew Breitbart
This whole episode screams "Why can't we have reasonable discussions about racial issues???" at me.
The answer is twofold: First, Andrew Breitbart is a dirty, lying SOB who thrives on waving his malodorous lies around on Fox News and the Internet. Second, the White House or USDA, depending upon which story you read, believed him.
Here's the story in short bites:
Shirley Sherrod was an employee of the USDA; specifically, the USDA Georgia director of rural development. In a speech to the Georgia chapter of the NAACP, she tells a story that appears to indicate she prefers to put black folks ahead of white folks.
Breitbart edits the video, puts it up, and the world goes mad. Sherrod is fired resigns, after being told pressure is coming from the White House to fire her.
Does this sound like the ACORN story? Via Salon:
Sherrod was speaking to a Georgia chapter of the NAACP. In the speech, according to Breitbart's characterization, Sherrod is explaining how she refused to help a white farmer as much as she could have because she preferred to help black people. Breitbart:
We are in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia director of rural development, speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions.
The speech wasn't to an all-black audience (though the specter of black people revealing their contempt for whitey in closed-door meetings of fellow black people seems to drive a lot of conservatives into a paranoid frenzy), as the mayor of Douglas, Ga., was among the white attendees. And the story Sherrod told was about her work 24 years ago for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund, not "her federal duties." So, that's a lie. Andrew Breitbart is lying in this paragraph. Just for the record. Andrew Breitbart lies.
If the White House or the USDA had bothered to actually look for facts, they might have discovered that Sherrod had ultimately befriended that white farmer she talked about, and helped the family save their farm.
The story Sherrod told was one of redemption, not prejudice. But Breitbart twisted it around into a story that never existed and the White House/USDA took the bait.
As the President so often says, "You're entitled to your opinions, but not your own facts." It might have been good for the folks in the White House to actually think about that before reacting to a lying liar scum like Andrew Breitbart.
Here is the UNEDITED video
scumbag.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Dpn't insult real scumbags. They're a much more evolved form of life than this piece of shit.
my apologies, all you real scumbags out there.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
FOX Theatre is for reThuglitards.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Either way it worked you all have stopped talking about the blatant racism in the hate group of the TEA party. Even that you now know that the story was false you are still reporting on the false story and not the racism in the TEA party. I also find it pathetic that everyone is all set to call the WH stupid for falling for it when all of the the so called "news" outlets were reporting it without fact checking it first even after they knew that Fox is as credible as an Archie comic book.
She should be appointed to head of the FCC.
This is an attempt to justify the Tea Bagger's racism. Breitbart is one of the "brains" behind the Tea Baggers. Watch this bite them all hard in their collective asses. Just watch.
a story is getting out that the Republicans grow and harvest
racism like a crop.
That has also come out of this.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
You shall be quoted. Not quota-ed.
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I sure hope the W.H. didn't put any pressure on the USDA to fire her. That would mean they are no smarter than a teabagger (actually less intelligent). Oh my.
I hope she can sue that lying little pig too.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is standing by its quick decision to oust a black Agriculture Department employee over racially tinged remarks at an NAACP banquet in Georgia, despite evidence that her remarks were misconstrued and growing calls for USDA to reconsider.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/20/shir...
Some stuff you can't make up!
contacted by and published on a blog. A blog where on of the
most popular stories to comment about is Jennifer Anniston's nude perfume ads.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
and agenda-free. Not.
"The story Sherrod told was one of redemption, not prejudice."
indeed... this is one more example of the Dems / Obama backing down to the bullies for no good reason, as you mentioned, as shameful as the ACORN fiasco.
Absolutely Pete. Something has to be done about Breitbart. Can't he be sued by someone? If this is allowed to continue there will be more "Watergate" type dirty tricks, that will make Acorn look like a prank. The law needs to stop him!
ljmel
Seriously......this is beyond ridiculous and borderline terrorism ala McCarthy
They would know what to do with this lying fuck. And it smells like JUSTICE. or sue him for interfering with USG business. I think he'd have to share a cell with Lindsay Lohan (remember Andy, she's not allowed to tweet). Make sure he gets to keep his shoelaces.
Sounds like his own fantasy...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
no kidding. Same old same old...man, I'm STILL waiting for 'change'....
Sucker punched by a professional hater. The Obama Administration owes Sherrod an apology and her job back with back pay. And then they need to clean up their act so they don't get taken again by these frauds.
Imagine it if this happened to a Republican. We would have 24/7 nonstop outrage for months.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
And they wouldn't have been fired, they would have been applauded by their followers.
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...to get the White House to give her job back, AND thus demonstrate some spine. Oh, and to watch the BrightFarts and PalinDrones go batsh*t crazy. Then everyone will know who's sane and who isn't, going into the fall elections...
I'm for it. This is a disgrace. Good people deserve better.
Just send two e-mails as soon as you can to:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?...
The firing of Ms. Shirley Sherrod by the USDA Secretary Vilsek is an outrage. I DEMAND that you both rehire her with back pay, and make a public apology to her for the unjustifiable action you took in response to a right wing smear attack by a known racist liar.
If you do not rehire her immediately, Pres. Obama will absolutely LOSE MY VOTE in 2012.
We who worked, donated, supported and voted for Pres. Obama are sick and tired of you COWARDS allowing the racist right wing radicals of this country manipulate you into firing staff who are talented and have integrity but who are African Americans, such as Van Jones and Ms. Sherrod. This firing is the last straw.
Re-instate Ms. Sherrod with back pay and an apology, or lose my support, and vote.
Shirley Sherrod was railroaded into losing her job, because a website painted her as a racist by highlighting only a part of a speech she made. She was not allowed to explain herself, yet the Obama administration stood by the decision to have her removed.
Lying sacks of shit like Andrew Breitbart do this all the time, so why is it that the Obama administration fell for it hook, line and sinker? Sherrod deserves a public apology for the disgraceful treatment she got.
Duh!
A HUGE apology.....PUBLICLY...ON RECORD with all the cameras clicking away
because they're not. They have no empathy whatsoever for the ordinary American -black or white - and even seem to get pleasure out of "punishing" them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_document...
Is Barack Obama a secret Republican? Cause it seems that the only thing that motivates action from him on anything is when the Pukes and Faux news start browbeating him.
They want to be seen as 'fair and balanced' by the mouth breathing Faux et al audiences.
So basically the politicos at 1600 Pennsylvania ave end up being reactionary and on the republican leash.
Its seems change has turned back into don't upset the dinosaurs and repugs. For some strange reason we expected better.
This is truly a sad story. Ruining a persons career on lies. When will someone take this asshole to court and take everything he has. Set up a fund for the cost. I will happily contribute.
Worse part is, they are trying to counter their racism by accusing blacks. We are regressing at a very fast pace.
Obama
Acorn
NAACP
Rev Wright
Shirley Sherrod
They have all had their rep destroyed by these racist. Who's the guy I'm missing?
is intended to be a factual statement
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Until you respect the citizenship of those with which you disagree, you're not a true American.
That's who I was thinking of. For some reason Reggie Love was in my head. I'm sure they'll go after him next.
is intended to be a factual statement
Hasn't the White House heard that Barack Obama is a Nazi Socialist Communist Muslim Kenyan racist idiot? Why does HE still have a job?
You forgot that he wasn't born in this country but born in Kenya or some other foreign country
the first victim of Beck, and more importantly, the cowards in the WH
What I want to know, is after such a blatant example of attempting to incite a race war, how do we bring these mother fackers (Breitbart, Fox Noise, et al) down??? I am on the verge of puking at the thought they can repeatedly get away with this kind of cr@p!!!
"Fox News is a cancer on our Nation" -- Me
Money and the airwaves. Unless this woman brings on the biggest lawsuit ever seen against FOX News and Breitbart nothing will change. We'll see this happen time and time again and the morons will drink it up.
is intended to be a factual statement
contempt for the truth.
BALLS!
Apparently the WH and NAACP were pretty quick to throw Sherrod under the bus... compared to, say, Vitter, who is still employed as a Senator with the support of his party.
but they should not be. What's the problem, they have decades of fighting the racist bastards. Time to rejuvenate the old spines and get back into the mode that moved this country toward some evolution of tolerance, that made us all proud with the election of Obama (how he disappoints now though).
President obama had nothing to do with the resignation.
Not his department.
just found out...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
and the progressives under the bus during healthcare reform, while coddling the Blue Dogs and Republicans; how quick he was to throw Hacker (and the unions) under the bus while coddling Blanche Lincoln; how quick he was to throw Howard Dean under the bus for Keane; how quick he was to throw Volckner under the bus for Summers; how quick he was to throw the Gulf coast residents under the bus while coddling BP; how quick he was to throw his dewy-eyed supporters under the bus upon assuming office doing a 100% turnabout to coddle the Big Money crowd; not to mention how quick he was to throw Van Jones, Samantha Power, ACORN, David Paterson, Jeremiah Write, and his grandmother under the bus.
Obama loves to throw progressives, independent thinkers, his base, anyone with principles, uppity blacks, his "friends", and ordinary Americans under the bus, while twisting himself up into a pretzel to keep the Teabaggers happy and handing over control of the country to the corporations via the Teabagger-Blue Dog conduit.
Anyone who doesn't see a pattern by now is either blind or in willful denial.
I for one am in wilful denial, a bit longer anyway...
Republicans have no soul.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Is a moby troll.
Not you ape man.
But that guy is a very slick moby troll.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
mudshark?? Usually when someone labels me with DLC-speak, they turn out to have an agenda themselves: DLC.
I'm calling you a Moby Troll.
I think it's obvious.
Yeah, I'm DLC, CFR, DNC, DRGAF.
LOL.
Moby Troll.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
This was a ruling in a case from Florida just a year or so ago. Truth, not so much a valuable commodity over there in the Land Of PalinDrones.
The post by karoli above says that Sherrod was fired - she was not - she resigned. Regardless of whether or not she was pressured, etc..., she resigned.
Please correct the post.
It does matter, it matters a lot. She was FORCED to resign. She didn't do it because she felt she did something wrong.
is intended to be a factual statement
Then karoli's post should be corrected to state just that - "Sherrod was forced to resign after being told pressure is coming from the White House to fire her"... or something similar.
Regardless, Sherrod was not fired!
Wouldn't it be ironic if this site gets nailed for deliberately lying about Sherrod being fired in a post focused on what a dirty, despicable liar Breitbart is...?
"Regardless, Sherrod was not fired!"
If she didn't resign she would have been fired and you know it. She had a choice, as a black woman it would have looked pretty bad if she was fired based on racism on her part.
is intended to be a factual statement
Here, take this nice severance package we've put together for you and resign, or... your fired.
We are in the midst of a race war. Neocons against the rest of us. I loved the sixties for the music only, bring back Hendrix and Joplin but leave the rest.
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That would be class war.
That's when the wealthy plantation owners pitted the peckerwoods against the pickanninies
And the peckerwoods thought the plantation owners had their best interests at heart.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Yes. And that was the final point of the story she recounted. THEY want a race war. SHE was fighting for the poor.
More than one race that has their own poor...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
was the best example of how one should negotiate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqJ8zxV7Cjw&fe...
Keven Spacey didn't do too bad in this negotiation either:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgx7YOY1ukU&fe...
You miss the point... almost deliberately, it seems.
In this scenario, the difference between Sherrod's resigning under pressure and fighting the pressure and making them actually fire her for this BS would be huge. Either way, her career is damaged because of this incident... standing up to the pressure and making them actually fire her would have done much more good in the long run than resigning so quickly, before the story had some holes poked in it.
Claiming that she was fired when she was not does this whole story, and this site, a huge disservice.
Ironic, too, that this post is under the topic 'Jounalism' when it contains such a blatant inaccuracy. Hopefully it will be corrected soon...?
You miss the point... almost deliberately, it seems.
If the admin stood up for her it would have killed them and her. The problem was not her, it was the knee jerk/pussy response by this administration. Racism has reared it's ugly head again in this country like we haven't seen in years. She couldn't fight these people, she had no choice. NONE! That's what you're missing. We're talking about one black woman against the most powerful organization in the world. USA Politicians. You fight them, you lose money and credibility and a career. Look at Acorn, it was proven they did nothing wrong. Are they fighting? Not really.
is intended to be a factual statement
Accuracy in journalism counts–for EVERYTHING when the story's about lies, half-truths, and misleading statements.
Get over it.
Someone noticed the inaccuracy, it was corrected, and everything is fine now.
That's a good thing. Good lawyers take no prisoners. I hope the law suits go to trial. I want to see Breitbart and his rat pack on the stand, don't you?
With your "You miss the point... almost deliberately, it seems."
You're a pompous fuck.
is intended to be a factual statement
The repugs got him resigned/fired.
Not what happened here.
Sherrod should be able to brag about her forced resignation in the future. Because of the willful mishandling and deceptive editing of a speech by a mendacious media outlet hellbent on lying the American public into fascism, she has been, without any effort on her part, the person who exposed the lying rats at Faux for the racist frauds they are perpetrating on their viewers.
Shirley Sherrod, stand tall and proud. You go for the glory, girl. Many a Southern white racist who never met a black person has been in the situation you were in, and found to their utter astonishment that blacks are human beings just like themselves. America is healing, and you have just exposed the disease vectors who are trying to kill Liberty.
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 16:30 — Buford
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Technically, you're wrong.
Employers don't use the word fired anyway, but terminated.
That can be voluntary or involuntary
And avoids law suits
From
donald trump.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
the correct term was "terminated" but it sounds so...final. :D
Your boots, and your motorcycle.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
His diaper?
Who was he talking to, david vitter?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BpOrRWsDy4
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbcxjDmf2pw&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
...under pressure.
They kept calling her on her cell, and then demanded that she pull over and resign, right?
Hope she was wearing underwear...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
...I revised that line to reflect her resignation under pressure.
We know what you meant, he was just trying to start some shit. Point is, if she didn't resign she would have been fired. Bottom line. This has turned into a race war. Rich white conservatives and dumb backwoods against America.
is intended to be a factual statement
Yes Buford had a wild hair up his ass. What Karoli did was not wrong. She was forced to resign. That is being fired in my book.
What smokes me the most about this nonsense is that when I was wrong about a Breitbart enterprise, I said so straight up with an apology.
Breitbart intentionally LIED about Sherrod, and sets off a storm that ends up with no one addressing the true issue, but everyone pissed off at the outcome.
We've all met these types. They're the ones who always need the focus on them. Always need to be the center of the storm, and then when they are, they cry innocent and retreat into a hole of intellectually dishonest self-justification.
OK forget him. This joker is done. Now, go look at the Hardball video from today. About 2 minutes into the show. You may want to ad it to your post. I swear Tweety did a remarkable job on this. You might even want to create a new topic for this. I was amazed.
I think probably a new post on it is warranted...
Breitbart's blog through the MSM to the White House would be more than informative.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I'm willing to betcha a couple of bucks O'Reilly doesn't back down.
I agree with you.
You weren't wrong, it was semantics. Resigned, forced to resign, fired. Simple fact is it was a black person being attacked by the right because they were called out for their racism. Nothing pisses off a racist more than being called a racist.
And you are right, you admitted a mistake if it was really one and the right would never do that. Keep up the good work.
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"Good work" is exactly correct. Karoli is very very good. Off to the next topic. (I don't think this one is over yet.)
I think that may be worse then just plain being racist.
railroaded? I am speechless about that for the moment.
They want continuous racial polarization in order to defeat Obama.
Correct your grasp of the facts, Buford.
Buford, think much? Resigning is the same as being fired in politics. McCrystal "resigned" too.
that is their code speak for "YOU'RE FIRED!"
Cheryl Cook called her celll phone three times, while she was on a long distance drive, told her to pull over off the highway and submit her resignation.
They didn't even give her the courtesy of allowing her to fly to DC and seek Vilsack or Cook IN PERSON.If that's not being fired, I don't know what is.
That sounds woefully like being PUSHED OUT.
first acorn, now the usda. obama is scared shitless when it comes to dealing with racial issues. he flies as quickly away form this as quickly as a person who disturbs a wasp nest. in both he acorn and usda situation, obama and the administration didn't bother to investigat. even though he knows the info provided came from individuals connected to faux news, obama and his people had major heart attacks and fired or declined funding for a organization or a woman who did nothing wrong. they were played and slayed both times by faux.
the enemy has found his weak spot: racial issues. they will keep exploiting this weakness until oama and his team get somebackbone when it comes to the racists segment in this country
First, on Rev. Wright, who I believe is at least honest, and often right, in his pronouncements (full disclosure, I am a late middle aged lower income Progressive white guy).
Then Van Jones, left to twist in the wind by the cowards in the Administration. Then ACORN and now Ms. Sherrod.
What a shameful bunch of manipulated jellyfish we have in the WH.
With Bushco congressional friends like those you don't need enemies. And another thing, and all the congress-critters and top Dems are too busy worrying about november to back the WH or any staffer under fire, they leave Obama to the tender mercy of Lumpy Rash and Faux &co.
And Obama surrounded himself with too many wallstreeters and (friends of) lobbyists. They care about themselves and their bank accounts, before Obama or the Democratic Party or the people.
Poor Obama. It's got to be tough having a cabinet of people you can't trust. I wish he had the power to do something about it... like maybe force them to resign?
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
I now think the claims by Clinton that he wasn't ready to be POTUS have a great deal of truth to them. If he actually assembled that Cabinet himself, well, he really fucked up. I could have assembled a better cabinet from the residents and staff of the local residential mental health center I work at. Maybe not as polished, but certainly, all would have more integrity and honesty than this bunch.
damn good question. because in general americans are very judgemental? a throwback to our puritan past?
in this particular case the lady should not have resigned
http://www.mediaite.com/online/usdas-shirley-...
she should have stood her ground, even though she did admit this slight bias 25 years ago!!!!! looks like you can't be reasonable in this country.
to the larger question, the american citizens have not developed class consciousness; they fight about valid, but nonetheless divisive issues, and do not make common cause on the all-encompassing issue of class struggle.
capitalism creates objectification, whether we like it or not, wages put a price on a persons head - the rest is just a matter of degree. the base objectification is what creates the "i and it" situation, rather than the "i and thou"; until this changes all the biases toward fellow human beings will have fertile ground in which to flower.
Great post!!
a different perspective when your very white boss tells you to resign or be fired, especially out of a clear blue sky.
One would think that after the ACORN fiasco, that Dims would double check a Right Wing propagandist's smear. But NO, they are so cowed and such cowards, that they do what the Right Wing wants them to. These people (meaning the Dims AND Obama) do not deserve my support, and I will let them know that this is totally unacceptable. And then not contribute, or vote for these cowards, who are more disgusting to me than the people like Breitbart who can so easily manipulate them.
By the way, Obama, you and your cowardly and stupid crew will NOT be rehired for a second term. I cannot in good conscience vote for you again, especially as you are dong just what the racist right wing wants you to do to your minority, and deserving, appointments. You COWARDS disgust me (I repeat myself).
don't vote for him an the right wing racists win again.
Shouldn't we have a real choice? Sorry. I lost my mind there for a second.
the POTUS is surrendering without a fight. So, I'll not waste my vote on him again, when I wanted to vote 3rd party anyway.
I'm perfectly happy with the job he's done so far. He can't help it that he has to try and legislate with a bunch of high school idiots doing everything they can to get in his way.
"Fox News is a cancer on our Nation" -- Me
and when i am displeased with his actions or inactions such as keeping Geitner and Summers, i just remind myself that if McCain/Palin had won we would be deep in shite up to our necks.
'Talk to the hand'
perfectly happy? Easily appeased I'd say. Also, very low expectations.
i have a diagnosis for you, young man!
President Obama did not fire that Lady.
some guy from Dept. of Agriculture did it entirely on his own.
Hmm...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
of whether Obama or anyone in the WH were involved, anytime any of these issues come up out of the unamerican racist assholes, it should be at least investigated and she should have had an opportunity to defend herself.
Innocent until proven guilty is so pre-9/11.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
and only for white Rethuglicans, not muslims or black women.
And watching the coward Roland Martin try to turn piss to lemonade on CNN this afternoon was sad and hilarious. Mrs. Sherrod truly gave it to that phony asshole today. At least the NAACP was honest enough to retract their initial bullshit.
My dad used to say "I don't know whether to shit or go blind" which, loosely translated meant something to the effect of "damned if you do, damned if you don't".
That's the situation Obama, the NAACP and the Dems find themselves in with Fox and the rest of the right wing cancer out there. They finally try to act quickly to get ahead of a story and it turns out to be another fabrication.
Hopefully they'll finally learn from this one, like they seem to have with the right filibustering the unemployment extension, and get out there and start kicking some more right wing ass.
"Fox News is a cancer on our Nation" -- Me
To anyone with moral character the choice is easy: If you're going to get skewered either way you do what is right. Unfortunately they choose to do what is easiest.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
should at least require verifying the facts involved. The WH was wrong, and the only way to handle this is to admit it and to not do it again. You know, use honesty and integrity.
This is the kind of bullshit that could make Obama's most loyal base(us Blacks) tell him to eat shit.
OK, but i think it was an Agricultural guy that did it.
maybe president Obama will un-do it though, but only if that's
still possible.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
...expressly asked for her resignation...this shit is on Obama's shoes. Btw, I loved the way Mrs. Sherrod blasted CNN's Roland Martin for condemning her before he got all the facts. She had that fool stammering like Ralph Kramden.
fuxNoise says,"was this woman wrongly fired?"
Some stuff you can't make up!
tomorrow.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Ms Sherrod said the lady who called her several times, Cheryl Cook, told her the white house wanted her to resign but Vilsack made it very clear the white house had nothing to do with it, it was his decision alone. Cheryl Cook works for Vilsack.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
More? They haven't kicked any. Not that I've seen, and I pay attention.
It's not hard to fight back, re: Alan Grayson and a few others. If you do your job, rather than only caring about making it a career.
this whole deal is already up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Sherrod#...
which is why the fascists will continue to try to control it.
Is it just me or does it seem like the Obama administration is as anxious to put successful Blacks in their "proper place" at least as much as the RepoThugs.
Much less they have repratedly shown that all the RepoThugs have to do is point a finger at a Black leader and whine racist and that person is pitched off a high bridge into a shallow creek.
And why the hell would they listen to anything Breitbart and/or Fox says is beyond comprehension.
too stupid to lead.
Why is it so difficult to find the unedited version of her story on video? I had to go to MSNBC.com and click on the "Clarifying racist charge against USDA official" link in the video lineup, which brings you to the Hardball segment on it. But the video locks up there.
Anybody have a link to a clean, watchable version of the unedited video?
It fits into their schedule and gameplan to have it remembered as the racist Obama appointee fired from the USDA for racism.
There seems to be a general tone of automatic contempt for any and everything the White House (WH) does or does not do. Similar to what happen to Shirley Sherrod's - judgment before the facts - situations, the MSM has latched on to this story and seem ready to put the WH on the spot. More and more the left side of the political spectrum seems to want to say Obama is really a right-wing hack. This kind of prejudgment can only hurt the president and the Democrats.
Joseph
Sherrod had no past to judge her by therefore it is something they should have looked into before condemning her. THe administration has enough of a record for us to go on when condemning them. Van Jones, ACORN, etc...
Unless it's a guaranteed win there's no reason to expect Obama to stand up for principles.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
would have done? Is this what you're suggesting?
I can understand people's fears for running for certain offices while this guy's around. God forbid they have some sorta video footage of them talking about puppies and kittens that can be edited and twisted into a fire-able offense.
If anyone had HALF a brain they'd consider EVERY SINGLE VIDEO that comes from this sleaze to be edited into a vicious political attack.
Jed Lewison of the dailykos is calling for her reinstatement and I agree with him and posted this on the kos!
I agree that Sherrod should get her job back and am very upset that the Whitehouse is standing by Vilsack's decision. How hard would it be for both Vilsack and the Whitehouse to simply come out and say that they made a mistake but, after watching the full video and collecting all of the facts, they realized they were wrong to fire Sherrod? They're also allowing this story to step on their victory today of finally passing unemployment extensions though, watered down the bill is.
I hope that everyone on the left and the NAACP who admits that they were "snookered" will continue to ask him to reconsider. I'm also going to get the number of Vilsack's office and call them every 5 minutes tomorrow. While the NAACP has already asked him to reconsider, they should also consider telling Vilsack that if he doesn't, they will advise Sherrod to file a lawsuit for wrongful termination which would bring even more unwanted attention to this and by extension, the Whitehouse for backing them up. It's disgraceful!
Or would it be slander because it was on video? What ev! It's a law suit. Breitbart! Duck and cover, you fat-headed weasel.
give 'em enough rope. i wonder if this is the real issue.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61H5XD2...
Very. I truly don't know if they're connected, but geez...
yeah, I 'wonder' if they are connected.
As soon as the White House accepted Van Jones's resignation the floodgates were opened, and all is linked to a stupid attempt at keeping the door open for bi-partizanship.
President Obama may have surrounded himself with intellegent people but the sad fact is, these guys are not up to the task of taking on the republican media machine and their skills at ratf*cking.
These are supposed to be Chicago politicians who know how to fight dirty.
How does the saying go again?
"They bring a knife, you bring a gun.
They put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue."
With these bunch of bed wetters its more like "They bring a knife, you bring them a coffee."
Sad and pathetic.
I liked the President but, he's not stepping up and will continue to get this kind of shit thrown at him. I'm still not voting Republican but, I want this administration and Democrats in general to grow a spine and take on these idiots head on. They'll continue to get punched until they block one!
Bush would be a good one to start with. Then do Rove twice because Cheney just had surgery.
Obama rose to prominence here in Chicago as an outsider, he was never a prototypical "Chicago style politician".
Having said that Obama will be slammed by Blacks as a racism acquiescer with this pussy move.
Tue, 07/20/2010 - 17:16 — ukobserver
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I think that was Sean Connery...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
you wear your diapers.
Isn't doctoring a videotape and making a public presentation like this defamation? Isn't it actionable?
Ms. Sherrod should sue Breitbart for damages.
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