Breitbart’s defenders need a dictionary. Sherrod’s relative was lynched
While many conservatives rightly and promptly demanded that Andrew Breitbart apologize for his smear of Shirley Sherrod, some on the right have — inexplicably — kept up their crusade to prove that Mrs. Sherrod is, if not a racist, then a contemptible liar. It’s very odd and has had the effect of making conservative media outlets like The American Spectator appear unhinged.
In a piece on its Web site, the Specator comes to the conclusion that Sherrod told an outrageous lie in her NAACP speech when she said a relative had been lynched.
This is the Spectator’s proof, from Supreme Court documents:
The arrest was made late at night at Hall’s home on a warrant charging Hall with theft of a tire. Hall, a young negro about thirty years of age, was handcuffed and taken by car to the courthouse. As Hall alighted from the car at the courthouse square, the three petitioners began beating him with their fists and with a solid-bar blackjack about eight inches long and weighing two pounds. They claimed Hall had reached for a gun and had used insulting language as he alighted from the car. But after Hall, still handcuffed, had been knocked to the ground, they continued to beat him from fifteen to thirty minutes until he was unconscious. Hall was then dragged feet first through the courthouse yard into the jail and thrown upon the floor, dying. An ambulance was called, and Hall was removed to a hospital, where he died within the hour and without regaining consciousness. There was evidence that Screws held a grudge against Hall, and had threatened to “get” him.
So the Spectator apparently agrees that Hall was viciously beaten to death by law enforcement agents, including the sheriff. Still:
It’s also possible that she knew the truth and chose to embellish it, changing a brutal and fatal beating to a lynching. . ..The image stirred by the image of the noosed rope in the hands of a racist lynch mob was, to say the least, frighteningly chilling. Did Ms. Sherrod deliberately concoct this story in search of a piece of that ugly romance to add “glamour” to a family story that is gut-wrenchingly horrendous already?
I have no idea why the American Spectator would go to such lengths to prove that racist law enforcement officials actually beat a black man to death and were not forced to pay for his crime, in the service of attempting to make his distant relative, Sherrod, look bad.
It is certainly true that the widely perceived definition of “lynching” is to hang a person with a rope. Nevertheless, if this argument is really over semantics, here’s the definition of lynching, from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: “To execute without due process of law, especially to hang.”
That’s especially, but not exclusively.
Geez.
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Sam (The Cool 1 )
July 26th, 2010
4:46 pm
The Cisco Kid and Pancho would have nothing to do with stuff like this. They are the the human race.
Billybob
July 26th, 2010
4:46 pm
You are missing the boat again Tucker. Watch the video and listen to the NAACP crowd and their reactions to what she is saying and that is what I think Breitbart was pointing out…..but at least it will help you to meet your weekly quota of articles based on race, so Congrats!
Chris Salzmann
July 26th, 2010
4:51 pm
CT SAID: Breitbart’s defenders need a dictionary.
CHRIS SAYS: CT, you give these slimeballs too much credit. You need to be reasonably intelligent and have the ability to read to use a dictionary. These idiots are neither.
Stonethrower
July 26th, 2010
4:54 pm
Give it a rest! These folks will never own up to it no matter what you publish in the editorial section. Facts are what people believe they are so no amount of proof you offer to the contrary will be acceptable.
Granny Godzilla
July 26th, 2010
4:57 pm
If the GOP had a dictionary they’d probably just burn it.
Dave
July 26th, 2010
5:06 pm
Ok, we get. Conservatives are racist. Next topic!
Mary Elizabeth
July 26th, 2010
5:08 pm
I listened to the full video of Mrs. Sherrod’s speech and I saw no evidence of racism toward whites in the reactions of the listeners, only their acknowledgement of her understandably human reaction to the severe racism toward black people that was present in the days after segregation in the South.
That Mrs. Sherrod choose to transcend her bitterness was remarkable. That is what should be the focus of attention.
A note to CONTRACTOR, a blogger from last week. Sir, although you said you would be continuing to write on this blog, I have not seen a posting by you since I addressed your remarks to Cynthia. I want to apologize to you for my anger, which may have come through my words.
I still think that you should be courteous to Ms. Tucker, and to bloggers, for that matter, but I also think you should express yourself. You said you thought America was on the wrong track. I disagreed and said I thought America was on the right track because, now, ALL people have a voice. That certainly includes your voice. In retrospect, I realize that I could have used better language than, “You, sir, should watch your manners.” That was rather harsh. Do come back and tell your story as to why you think America is on the wrong track. If I do not respond, it is because I do not often blog. I am sure others will respond to you. Your voice is as important to be heard as any other. I simply believe we all should show one another respect to others, without arrogance, myself included. And do not worry about grammar or syntax, it is your story that is important.
Class of '98
July 26th, 2010
5:10 pm
Another Tucker column about race. On an unrelated note, this morning the sun rose in the east.
Greg Brezina
July 26th, 2010
5:10 pm
Very few people know that a person can be lynched, but not hanged. Ignorance is not an excuse, though.
mackyjim
July 26th, 2010
5:13 pm
Breitbart saw an out and came up with “the reaction of the audience is my point,” angle. Kyle Wingfield fell for it.
ODDOWL
July 26th, 2010
5:17 pm
The word lynch is derived from the name Willie Lynch, a carribean plantation owner who met with southern U.S. slave owners on the James river in S.C. to instruct them on his methods of breaking enslaved African people and forcing them to act more docile. All manner of atrocities and inhuman brutality was used to acchive their goal. Andrew Breitbart attempted to lynch Mrs. Sharrod with his overt act of vile vicious racism. Breitbart’s picture should be placed in the dictionary along side the word RACISM. Andrew Breitbart behavior is the consonantal root meaning of the word RACISM. The only people who would defend Breitbart are people who are themselves RACIST.
Don't forget
July 26th, 2010
5:19 pm
Shhhhh, Cynthia don’t tell the conservatives about the dictionary! They’ve already re-written the Bible with their conservative bible, and history with with the Texas school books. Next thing you know we’ll be seeing words like refudiate, misunderestimate and nucular in the dictionary. The dictionary is about the last thing they haven’t redefined to suit their purposes.
Dave
July 26th, 2010
5:25 pm
Actually, my post should have said: “Ok we get it. Conservatives, and ONLY conservatives, are racist”. I mean, the only reason she was canned so quickly is because the administration is so scared of losing the white vote.
ctucker
July 26th, 2010
5:39 pm
Mary Elizabeth, Glad to have your reasoned voice on this site.
Billybob
July 26th, 2010
5:39 pm
Mary Elizabeth
Ms. Sherrod had no part in any of this rhetoric that has happened since she was fired. She was unfairly treated and most people can see this. We just see the same videotape in two different ways. Tucker, how about the fact that THE WHITE HOUSE, based on what the media might do or say, fired a woman based on nothing? They initially denied they were involved, and then Obama apologizes and finally blames the whole thing on the ‘24 hour media-cycle. These guys are supposed to be above this. This is Keystone cops at the highest levels of our government. I can’t believe that you don’t fundamentally see this……like so many do
ctucker
July 26th, 2010
5:39 pm
Billybob, Does Fox have a weekly quota of articles based on race?
Moderate Line
July 26th, 2010
5:43 pm
I am somewhat baffled by both the left and the right on this one.
I have seen the right defend firing her because they assert she violated the Hatch Act which I do not believe she did.
Based on the video she did nothing to be fired.
I was watching SBCNEWS This Week when someone stated Shirley Sherrod said “Andrew Breitbart wants to return to the days of slavery. ” Donna Brazille stated “Well, you know, I’m not going to — to second-guess Ms. Sherrod. I know her history.” so she can say such inf inflammatory things because of her history.
I was a little surprised that Donna would not condemn such a statement. I believe Andrew Breithart should apologize and now Ms Sherrod should also apologize for such a statement.
I still do not believe she should have lost her job. No one is perfect and she is understandably angry for what happen..
Mike K.
July 26th, 2010
5:46 pm
@Moderate Line
To me, you sure sound like a voice of reason compared to some other people here.
Billybob
July 26th, 2010
5:50 pm
You tell me, you have more access to that type of information than I do. Either way, I hope they don’t. While you are at it please check MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, FOX, BLOOMBERG, NYTIMES because I follow all of these as well. I then make my OWN mind up. With all due respect, I try to give you the benefit of the doubt….if you tried to see things a little less through the prism of race, you might find that even we have a lot of things in common.
Moderate Line
July 26th, 2010
5:52 pm
Mary Elizabeth
July 26th, 2010
5:08 pm
I listened to the full video of Mrs. Sherrod’s speech and I saw no evidence of racism toward whites in the reactions of the listeners, only their acknowledgement of her understandably human reaction to the severe racism toward black people that was present in the days after segregation in the South.
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I would somewhat disagree. I saw the entire video and also heard some people chuckling when she said she was deciding on how much she was going to help him. However, I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt since the rest of the video did seem to indicate any signs of laughter.
Moderate Line
July 26th, 2010
5:53 pm
I meant to say did “not” seem to indicate any signs of laughter.
Keep up the good fight!
July 26th, 2010
6:02 pm
Billybob…now how exactly do you “make up your OWN mind”. I’ll tell you very clearly, the NotsoBrightbart claims are not supported by the full tape. I watched the full tape and as someone trained to look at evidence, I sure would not present that tape in a court of law to support his claim. It would be malpractice. Do you have “other evidence”? In fact, “making up your mind” on many items is an overstated fallacy. Most people don’t have all the evidence. They have some news information. In some cases, like Sherrod, fortunately we have a full unedited tape.
Billybob
July 26th, 2010
6:03 pm
I make up my mind just as you do…thank you.
Granny Godzilla
July 26th, 2010
6:07 pm
Saw the tape….several times….searched it out on different sites in case the audio was messed with…..Nope nothing to support the claim.
Andy Breitbart is a liar. Time and time and time again.
You can fool some of the the people all the damn time if you appeal to the lowest common demoninator.
ctucker
July 26th, 2010
6:08 pm
Moderate Line, I think by that time Mrs. Sherrod was thoroughly exasperated with Breitbart’s lies.( She certainly didn’t say that in the NAACP speech.) I’m willing to let her slide, and I guess Brazile was, too.
Billybob
July 26th, 2010
6:11 pm
I knew at some point the name caller would appear. Thank you Granny Godzilla….
Granny Godzilla
July 26th, 2010
6:15 pm
BillyBob
Name caller?
Yep. When the name is apt.
Andy Breitbart is a liar.
However, I bet you are are pretty decent guy.
Granny Godzilla
July 26th, 2010
6:20 pm
Oh and BillyBob,
While I make supper may I suggest you google the you tube video titled
“Shocking video shows Brietbart’s true allegiance: Al-Qaeda”
It’s funny/snarky.
Let’s all play Liar Andy
Grumpy
July 26th, 2010
6:20 pm
Righties need to STFU about this whole issue. Every time they bring it back up they look more foolish. Everyone overreacted – the White House, the right wing, and the NAACP. But it seems like only the right wing wishes to constantly remind everyone how dumb they were. As someone who lines up right of center on many issues, I find this highly disappointing.
Keep up the good fight!
July 26th, 2010
6:29 pm
Billybob…calling someone a liar is not “name-calling”, it is a fact. Not even subject to dispute.
T-Town
July 26th, 2010
6:34 pm
While I would agree that the WH and the NAACP overreacted (and to be fair, me also), I think what Breitbart did (and for that matter the right) was take a snippet of Ms. Sherrod’s speech and run with it. IMO, this was what I would call a pay back for the NAACP’s moving to condemn certain fringe elements within the TP. It appears to me what Breitbart was doing was showing there is fringe elements within the NAACP that have racist tendencies to and Ms. Sherrod was being used as a patsy. Politics gets nasty as an election day looms.
Tech Man
July 26th, 2010
6:37 pm
CT and her liberal media counter parts are deploying electronic countermeasures to evade detection of the real issues. The preemptive action of countermeasures is directed to generally prevent lock-on of a threat sensor to a certain target. It is based on altering the signature of the target by either concealing the platform signature or enhancing the signature of the background, thus minimizing the contrast between the two.
The injection of race into the 2010 election cycle is a preemptive countermeasure to take the eye of the voter off of the real issues of jobs, the economy, the expansion of government oversight, the expansion of taxes, and on and on.
The issue with Shirley Sherrod is the rush to a knee jerk judgement by the Obama Administration not the American Spectator. However, that and the demands of the NAACP on the Tea Party are themselves defensive countermeasures to that the eye of the voter off the real issues.
Brantley24
July 26th, 2010
6:39 pm
It’s a matter of semantics, really. Words are often used to inflame, to stir emotions, to instill fear.
Lynching is extrajudicial punishment carried out by a mob, often by hanging, but also by burning at the stake and shooting
lynch: to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal sanction
It was President Obama who said words matter. Choose them carefully so as not to invoke or provoke.
hnf
July 26th, 2010
6:41 pm
Keep up the good fight!–(1) Evaluations concerning the evidentiary merit of a video are exclusively for the trier of fact (judge or jury). If that’s the only evidence a client has to prove some point in contention, not only would it NOT be malpractice to introduce it, it would be within the attorney’s ethical obligations to put it in. “[T]rained to look at evidence”? What does that mean, jury duty a couple times? You’re wrong. (2) Are you unable to comprehend the distinction b/w “making up your own mind” and a fully informed opinion? The former has nothing to do with the comprehensive nature of the evidence at hand; it merely involves the ability to form a conclusory opinion after hearing two or more differing views based on their substance, rather than the conveyors of the views. The “fallacy” of your logic belies you.
The American Spector clearly showed a lack of perspective with this one. Breitbart should apologize; he undertook responsibility for the video when he posted it, whether or not he had actual knowledge of its having been deceptively and maliciously edited. But, Mrs. Sherrod should also apologize for accusing Fox News of wishing for the return of days when blacks “were looking down, not looking white folks in the face”; that’s reckless and counterproductive. While it’s easily understandable that someone in her circumstance would lash out, it doesn’t excuse the comment.
F. Sinkwich
July 26th, 2010
6:43 pm
Yep, this was all Breitbart’s fault, yessirrie.
Who fired and maligned this lady?
Oh, yeah, lefties did — Obama and the NAACP.
Leftie response: Bang on Breitbart some more!
Pathetic.
Keep up the good fight!
July 26th, 2010
6:43 pm
Hmmm….Tech Man…I guess you are right. Just because FoxNews.com ran with it before resignation, that was the fault of the White House. And the claim that Fox News Channel somehow did not run the story before the resignation conveniently ignores that OReilly taped his show PRIOR to the resignation and demanded her resignation without investigation. That was the show that aired AFTER the resignation (purely chance). Oh yes, its the Dems who interject race with by making Rush play Barrack the Magic Negro, etc., etc.
Them Dems are so inept at running the government but they are so sneaky in forcing the right wing to dance to their tunes. Dance puppets dance.
F. Sinkwich
July 26th, 2010
6:50 pm
I think the libs are running scared. Our country recognizes their Marxist intentions and it horrifies them. Stealth is their friend.
Unfortunately much damage to our way of life has been done. Fortunately it’s repairable, but our renewal will take some time.
Keep up the good fight!
July 26th, 2010
6:54 pm
Sinkwich…. absolutely the Ag Dept rushed to judgment and was clearly wrong. They corrected their error and they apologized.
Notsobrietbart denied his original post then tried to lie about the story he was trying to bring out, which is not supported by the full tape. Moreover, he claims never to have had the full video but rushed in his conclusion. Not responsible journalism….oh but he is not. He is the same hack who ran the Acorn lies in an edited video.
Absolutely pathetic. I hope Ms. Sherrod sues and sues and sues. But who exactly is now challenging her story on the lynching….I guess its the Dems?
hnf — an attorney may decide to put it in evidence but that would likely be Ms Sherrod’s side. If the attorney’s only defense for Notsobright is the video, it’s a loser. While the jury and judge are ultimate deciders of fact, attorneys make judgments all the time about what evidence to present, what is credible and have an obligation not to present clearly false evidence. But hey, you put Notsobright on the stand and play the tape over and over again and ask him specifically to point out where the audience reaction was……watch the jury smirk.
T-Town
July 26th, 2010
6:56 pm
There is one thing that has me baffled, who actually took the original video? From all reports and from what Ms. Sherrod has said was that her speech was in March of this year at a local NAACP event. As I remember, correct me if I’m wrong, the TP didn’t get traction until after the healthcare bill was signed in May. So looking at Ms. Sherrod giving the speech in March I would have to believe a member of the NAACP video taped the event and the question would be what was done with it…..YouTube? Or did someone within the NAACP supply Breitbart, or someone he knows, with the tape. The true chain of custody would certainly be interesting.
Granny Godzilla
July 26th, 2010
6:57 pm
F. Sinkwich
Please continue to think the liberals are running scared.
Yep, stealth is our friend…….you look sharp today…..te he heee
Lil' Barry Bailout
July 26th, 2010
6:58 pm
Hey Cynthia, why did Obama support releasing the Lockerbie bomber?
jconservative
July 26th, 2010
6:59 pm
What Breitbart did was way beyond common human decency. All just to make a cheap political point. Now you have conservatives, who have plenty of real issues to attack/defend, wasting their time and eating their own words trying to defend a fellow conservative who is not worth defending.
I have been a political conservative for 50 years. But if Breitbart is the best conservatives can come up with today I may need to rethink based on the company now associated with the word “conservative”.
If conservatives do not have the intellectual ability to make a point without resorting to fictionalizing stories, then we deserve the liberal society we are now getting.
Mike McCollum (no alias)
July 26th, 2010
6:59 pm
Rather than discuss the issue of race, most of the comments seem to be attacking Cynthia. If a bird flew into a suburban Atlanta window, I’m sure most of the readers of the AJC would be quick to blame Cynthia for building a house in the flight path of a bird. In the same vein, Cynthia didn’t make up this Sherrod story. She hasn’t presented anything factually inaccurate. Fox was the first network to bring it up with headlines such as “Racism caught on TAPE!” The AJC is only too lucky to have Cynthia Tucker. I wish she was in the news section rather than the opinion section though.
Granny Godzilla
July 26th, 2010
7:00 pm
Did I mention all liberals were given a key chain engraved with the diebold source code?
Stealth is our friend, nya ah ah… (think snidely whiplash)
Terrence
July 26th, 2010
7:01 pm
The NAACP’s inappropriate response can be found beginning @ the 7:13 mark and running through to 7:30. It begins with Mrs. Sherrod saying he (the white farmer) was trying to show me he was superior to me. The NAACP members responded with “that’s right — that’s right.” When Mrs. Sherrod said she was trying to decide if she was gonna help him or not, the NAACP members laughed. It was never about Mrs. Sherrod. It was about the responses coming from the NAACP members.
Keep up the good fight!
July 26th, 2010
7:02 pm
Granny….. oh yes…be very scared. Sharon Angle is leading the polls against Reid, right? Oh wait…….
Granny Godzilla
July 26th, 2010
7:02 pm
The original plan was to have the Lockerbie Bomber rent a room at your house…..damn you spilled the beans!
Tech Man
July 26th, 2010
7:03 pm
Keep up the good fight!,
Who was the employer that asked for the lady’s resignation. Fox News? Rush?
I thought David Ehrenstein, LA Times, coined the phrase, “Magic Negro”.
Regardless, the continuation of this blog post by CT and the continuation of this discussion is a countermeasure to take the eyes of the voter off the real issues in the 2010 election.
Keep up the good fight!
July 26th, 2010
7:04 pm
Terrence…the “that’s right” is there. The laughter is not. Try again
Granny Godzilla
July 26th, 2010
7:04 pm
Kamchack
Stealth update from O of O HQ:
25or624
Orange10
July 26th, 2010
7:04 pm
Cynthia, still throwing your little racial fits. When does it end?
Keep up the good fight!
July 26th, 2010
7:06 pm
The “that’s right” is not evidence of racism…it is an acknowledge of a white man acting as a superior to a black female in the 1980’s. But spin like a top!
Terrence
July 26th, 2010
7:08 pm
Keep up the good fight!, it’s there. Cynthia won’t let us link to the tape here. The one I’m referencing can be found at h t t p : / / w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m / w a t c h ? v = E 9 N c C a _ K j X k.
See for yourself. Remove the spaces in the url.
Keep up the good fight!
July 26th, 2010
7:08 pm
Granny….. does anybody really know what time it is?
Scout
July 26th, 2010
7:10 pm
Cynthia:
My great, great grandfather (who was from the deep hills of W.Va. and may not even had ever seen a black man up to that time) fought for the Confederacy and was captured by Yankees at the age of 62. He was sent to Camp Chase, Ohio were he was starved and brutally treated (even though the Yankees had plenty of supplies). He was finally paroled but died from his treatment.
Why do I tell you this? Because a larger percentage of Confederates died at Camp Chase than Yankees did at Andersonville.
Now, if you want to get into the genocide of Native Americans by the United States Government I will be happy to.
Bottom line ………….. a lot of people have been mistreated in our past.
If we keep dwelling on it we will never reconcile !
Granny Godzilla
July 26th, 2010
7:10 pm
Keeps
Keen intercept.
Now 8575309
hnf
July 26th, 2010
7:11 pm
Keep up the good fight!,
What are you talking about? How can you say who would or wouldn’t introduce it w/o any mention of the claim or style? That makes no sense. “Clearly false evidence”? While it might not be my interpretation of the video, the video itself cannot be “false”; it is what it is. And while Breitbart’s testimony might be highly lacking in credibility, any statement he makes w/ regard to his subjective motivations wouldn’t be objectively knowable to the attorney. A zealous defense would require as much should he be sued for slander; it would be evidence for both sides, asserted for differing purposes.
You claimed malpractice, and then misunderstood independence and awareness as applied to decision making.
Scout
July 26th, 2010
7:12 pm
Orange 10:
I think she could make something racial out of an ice cream cone. You know …….. more people like vanilla than chocolate …………….. must be hidden racism !
Tech Man
July 26th, 2010
7:12 pm
Keep up the good fight! 7:08 pm
It’s 2010 election time.
Granny Godzilla
July 26th, 2010
7:13 pm
Damn….I’ve just blown the mission….it’s 8675309….now the operatives are in danger.
I make a lousy stealth warrior, but gravy to die for and killer cole slaw.
bootney farnsworth
July 26th, 2010
7:15 pm
the idiocy of the column is breathtaking.
even by the AJC standards
hnf
July 26th, 2010
7:18 pm
Keep up the good fight (6:29): “calling someone a liar is not ‘name-calling’, it is a fact. Not even subject to dispute.”
Logic fail again—w/o a voluntary admission by the speaker or the ability to delve into his/her conscious thought process at the time of the statement, you can never know—in an objective sense, as in “Not even subject to dispute”—that someone “lied”; it’s merely your opinion until then and always open to dispute. There’s always a chance it was mistake or reckless indifference, both unprofessional. To be CLEAR—I don’t have an opinion on the veracity of Breitbart’s claims; it was sloppy and he’s responsible in either case.
Truth-o-meter
July 26th, 2010
7:21 pm
Andrew Breitbart, thank you for your scheme to embarrass the NAACP. I am African-American and must admit that I was not familiar with the outstanding work of Mrs. Sherrod. (You see, I was in high school when Mrs. Sherrod’s father was murdered. My parents understood the dangers of growing up Black in the south during that period, so they protected my siblings and me from as much exposure to danger as possible. For example, rather than having us subjected to rejection at a restaurant, we were taught not to go and attempt to eat there. And we were taught not to even think about going in the front door of a bus station—that was for “Whites Only”. ) I guess if it had not been for brave people such as the Sherrods, many of us would still be going in the back door. Why, if you hadn’t posted that edited video and those misleading captions, others and I would not be aware of this woman and her story that should be an inspiration to all of the Americans who truly want to move beyond racial bigotry. I have recommitted myself to being more understanding to the views of other races. No matter how much you try to divide this country, there are more Shirley Sherrods out there than there are Andrew Breitbarts. And the former, Blacks, Caucasians, Muslims, Jews, Hispanics and the rest are feed up with the race baiting you, Fox News and your cohorts have unleashed on our country. We are mad and aren’t going to take it anymore!
One last thing. There is a passage in the Bible that states in part, “what you did you meant it for evil, but God meant it for good…” How appropriate for this situation. (I am sure you have studied this passage in your local church’s weekly Bible Study class.)
Thanks, Andy!
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Keep up the good fight!
July 26th, 2010
7:22 pm
terrence… the laughter is at a point where she says “I was trying to decide how much help I was going to give him.” That laughter is not evidence of racism, it was was an acknowledgment that the “superior” person needed help for the purported “inferior” person. However try at 17:40+ where she says “so I didn’t give him the full force of what I could do” — absolutely no reaction.
hnf…I did not say the video was false (although videos can be falsified). Statements as to his “motivations” are not supported by his actual words used.
Granny….. I got your number! Who do I turn to?
godless heathen
July 26th, 2010
7:25 pm
Merriam Websters Online Edition: : to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal sanction.
Now use it in a sentence: Fifty three people were lynched in Los Angeles, CA, following the Rodney King verdict. or Reginald Denny was dragged from his truck and almost lynched.
Mr Charlie
July 26th, 2010
7:25 pm
So the right they took a sound bite out of context and used to smear the person who said it. Hmm, why does that sound familiar?
Mary Elizabeth
July 26th, 2010
7:26 pm
Cynthia, I sincerely appreciate your gracious words. I don’t blog often, but thank you.
Moderate Line, once when I was teaching in a high school, students laughed at what I thought was an inappropriate moment in my instruction. I mentioned this to an Assistant Principal. He said to me that neither he, nor I, could really control when students laugh. I might add, now that I am older and hopefully wiser, nor would we want to control the laughter of others, unless that laughter was deliberately malicious and deliberately hurtful, as a sneer would be. Laughter can come from many reasons and can even have cultural variances. I saw no maliciousness in the laughter of the people I heard on the Sherrod tape. I saw only very human people who released some tension they felt, through laughter, upon hearing an honestly told story of a very ugly system of repression in the South, which I think most audience members had experienced firsthand. As the tape progressed, I, further, felt the audience’s warmth of response (sighs, etc.) when Ms. Sherrod talked about her change of heart as if they, too, believed that that “turning the other cheek” and helping the white farmer was the right, and spiritual, way for her to have responded. I thought that that audience was very human and large of heart. It was so touching to witness Ms. Sherrod’s deliberate “through line” within her speech which was obviously meant to help the young people reject hating, even when there may have been good cause, and instead turn to becoming a “giver” in society instead of perceiving themselves as victims. The best way for whites and blacks, and all others who have been victimized by society, or by individuals, to transform themselves is to become self-sufficient and then give back – even to those who have hurt them. This is one reason that I think public service is so much to be valued. One is giving back to others, not just accuring for themselves. The black race, in my opinion as a white woman, can elevate this nation, for the better, in ways we could never have imagined if they will continue to follow the nonviolent principles espoused by Martin Luther King, Jr., because their previous victimization was soprofound and finally now fully acknowledged. I believe Mrs. Sherrod was trying to be a leader in that new positive vision by being totally honest and transformational and, as a result, she affected the souls of all races who heard her speech later on TV. It should be noted that when she gave that speech she thought she was only going to elevate the small number of young people in that room, but I believe God had bigger plans for that speech in our world.
Keep up the good fight!
July 26th, 2010
7:29 pm
hnf…. a logic failure…. I dont think so but of course you may intercourse the penguin! But you can of course look up the definition of liar and lie yourself.
godless heathen
July 26th, 2010
7:43 pm
And we get this retraction from the New York Times:
“The Political Times column last Sunday, about a generational divide over racial attitudes, erroneously linked one example of a racially charged statement to the Tea Party movement. While Tea Party supporters have been connected to a number of such statements, there is no evidence that epithets reportedly directed in March at Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, outside the Capitol, came from Tea Party members. Tea Partiers have made these racial slurs, we all know that, it’s just that we can’t find any in this one specific instance, and when we find some to validate the accusation in the first part of this sentence, we’ll be sure to pass those along to you as well.”
We know it’s twu, we just know it’s twu.
Lil' Barry Bailout
July 26th, 2010
7:45 pm
So the Idiot Messiah fired someone for not being a racist?
What a moron.
Granny Godzilla
July 26th, 2010
7:47 pm
Truth O Meter
You are my new hero! Brilliant.
You are always welcome to Sunday Supper.
Lil' Barry Bailout
July 26th, 2010
7:49 pm
Perhaps Truth-o-meter will now expound upon what the Idiot Messiah meant by “typical white person”.
godless heathen
July 26th, 2010
7:51 pm
CT: Will the AJC begin to now use the word “lynch” properly? If three hoods jump a guy after the Braves game and beat him to death, I’ll expect to see the AJC report that the poor man was “lynched”.
Lil' Barry Bailout
July 26th, 2010
7:53 pm
The victim will be blamed for injuring the assailant’s fists with his face and charged with a “hate crime”.
Mari
July 26th, 2010
7:54 pm
Okay, so when the entire tape of Mrs. Sherrod’s speech was posted, those disappointed that hers was a story of growth and reconciliation then complained that the audience was cheering when she spoke of her temptation to not give the white farmers the full force of her effort. For those individuals, I say that nothing will ever persuade them otherwise. They need to believe the worst and will always find the evidence that they need to support their already made-up minds.
For those of you who are troubled by the response of African American audiences during speaking events, especially in a church or similar venue, there is clearly a cultural divide here. People, I don’t understand why Catholics and Episcopalians stand up and sit down so much during worship (my cousin is a Right Reverend, so I harbor no disrespect) but I accept that it is what it is. I don’t “get” why many churches frequented by whites in particular (and some Blacks)are very quiet and stoic. But I don’t criticize that, it is what it is. It does not mean that they are any less spiritual, devoted, religious, or anything else. It is a style of worship. For African Americans one will find that there is a style of worship that often spills over into other gatherings. In many African American churches one will experience the “give and response” to the speaker. It’s called “witnessing.” Persons in the audience or congregation will clap, say “amen”, or make other comments to show that they are following the speaker. That’s what I heard when I listened to the video tape of Mrs. Sherrod’s speech. Now, if you still don’t get this, go visit a “Black” church for about a month and maybe you will. Caution: This is in many Black churches, not all. I was in a church recently and the speaker couldn’t “buy” an “amen.”
Keep up the good fight!
July 26th, 2010
7:59 pm
heathen… I am sure the AJC will if it is not just a fight but rather a mob imposing execution without due process of law. A serious distinction.
Granny Godzilla
July 26th, 2010
8:01 pm
poster @ 7:53
yassir yabetcha
then we are going to ask him for his papers, waterboard him while in stress positions with dogs watching AND
shuttle him to a black site where he’ll be forced to listen to
vanilla ice singing the rosemary clooney songbook.
stealth is our friend….boom shaka laka boom
MikeB
July 26th, 2010
8:06 pm
Breitbart is a fool and a disgrace. Anybody that reacted to that video and influenced Ms. Sherrod being fired is as big a fool as Breitbart (Insert Obama Administration here).
This appears to be a very similar due dillegence process that was undertaken to investigate the BP-Gulf mess. Just look at that fiasco (Unless of course it was all a design play….Who knows and will we ever really know the whole entire truthful story there..) It seems like amatuer hour in D.C. policies falling to pieces, no forward progress, job growth stagnant, so did the White House go get everyone fired up about race on purppose here?….. Or are they just plain lazy about being thorough and precise……….. Which is worse? I don’t have a clue and don’t care for either scenario.
General McChrystal is looking more and more like a great Patriot for shining a light on this administration’s incompitence…….. Don’t let race distract you from a lack of meaningful performance and an increase in taxes coming your way in 2011.
These hacks need a one way ticket out of office. Think about it….They really do… And they can take any self serving conservative with them. We need people serving people. More importantly serving tax payers. Want something from the Govt. Pay taxes into the system 1st….
granite head
July 26th, 2010
8:06 pm
‘ “To execute without due process of law, especially to hang.” That’s especially, but not exclusively. ‘
I’m sure Justice Thomas would agree. He claimed he was the victim of an electronic lynching.
Owl
July 26th, 2010
8:10 pm
146 years ago a bunch of white people marched to Atlanta, killed a bunch of white people and burned the city to the ground. It wasn’t good enough…
T-Town
July 26th, 2010
8:13 pm
Here’s a little tidbit that may get you thinking: did you know a white person can be an African-American?
tiredofitall
July 26th, 2010
8:14 pm
The Republican party has become so corrupted by the religious right that they can never again have power in this country. . They must be forcefully disbanded and all their members tried for TREASON!!!!
Granny Godzilla
July 26th, 2010
8:16 pm
Mike B
Good question!
Now that Obama got everyone fired for being racist, who’s gonna fly the F16’s and put out fires and direct interstate commerce and keep the radar array’s working and inspect incoming containers for radioactivity and teach our children and give medals of honor and make the laws and build the bridges and run covert ops and fund the childrens television workshop and maintain the power grid and keep oreo cookies safe for dunking?
woe is us.
calvinb
July 26th, 2010
8:18 pm
What else is new. People are still going to have different opinions on the topic. Big deal. I am more interested in discussing more issues as well as race. For example, I cannot for the life of me figure why no attention is paid to the upcoming Senatorial race. That is gonna have just as much impact on all of us as well.
Dan
July 26th, 2010
8:19 pm
Um the white house and the NAACP smeared her, Breitbart simply posted a video. Any and all misdeeds misreptesentations are from the left. Whether or not someone in her family was lynched (more than likely impossible to prove or disprove) matters not. If it does than any white person who has had a family member robbed or murdered by a black is free to be a racist???? The utter biased ignorance of CT’s articles has increased exponentially in the last year and a half. I used to view her as a source of reasonableness from the left but now. Blind bias
bank walker
July 26th, 2010
8:27 pm
Everyone,please click this link. It will show you just how racist the Sherrods really are:http://www.marklevinshow.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2010/07/sherrod-we-must-stop-the-white-man-and-his-uncle-toms-.html
Robbin Hood
July 26th, 2010
8:33 pm
And now the poor conservatives are trying to argue that the dictionary is wrong? Reminds me of a neighbor’s dog that just couldn’t stop chasing cars. He wouldn’t know what to to with it if he caught it anyway.
casual observer
July 26th, 2010
8:34 pm
Ms Tucker if not for race you would be layed off with the rest of AJC.
jh
July 26th, 2010
8:37 pm
Wow what a surprise another race related column by CT? Why don’t you just copy and paste the same thing every week and save yourself some time. Republicans/Bush are evil, racist, warmongers, and have ruined the world. Democrats/Obama can do no wrong and we should all be just listen to them because they are so much smarter than we are. In a time when so many people are looking for work can the AJC not do any better???
godless heathen
July 26th, 2010
8:45 pm
Good fight: A street beating is not without due process of law? A fine distinction, perhaps? Was Mr. Denny nearly lynched in LA? Can a white person be lynched? Can a white person be a victim of a hate crime?
Seems to me that the story of the death of Mr. Hall was no more one of a lynching than any other death by beating. So if Mr. Hall was lynched, many are lynched every day.
Kamchak
July 26th, 2010
8:48 pm
Granny Godzilla
(I’ve got you number, written on the) Back of My Hand.
MobetterBlues
July 26th, 2010
8:50 pm
Cynthia you are a very sick liberal lady and I pray for you. You keep up the racial rhetoric just like white bigots and are no better than them. My uncle was murdered by white policeman in south ga during the 50’s and I am over it however I don’t pass judgment on all white people and conservatives like you do. I would guarentee the people that lynched Sherrod’s family member was Democratic since Ga did not turn Republican until the 1990’s. Its funny how liberals forget history and the pass when Jim Crow was established by Democratic and white Republicans started organizations like the NAAPC, and help establish schools such as Spelman, named after a white Republican’s wife.
Traveling Man
July 26th, 2010
8:54 pm
Shirley Sherrod was found guilty of being a racist when she said ” So I took him to a white lawyer that had attended some of the training that we had provided because Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted for the family farm. So I figured if I take him to one of them, that his own kind would take care of him.” ONE OF THEM… if a white person had said that black people would be marching in the street wanting to burn down the house of the one that said it.
Cynthia once again you are nothing more than a pot stirrer. YOU are a waste of life, and your purpose is to be a tool. You do nothing good and its time you need to a.) do some real journalism or b.) please shut your mouth. Its that simple.
jh
July 26th, 2010
8:57 pm
We all know that blacks can’t be racist. They have been opressed therfor they can do no wrong. CT how about focusing on the real problem in the black community; 70%+ children born to single moms, black on black crime, and generational poverty. As an average everyday white person how is any of that my fault???
Keep up the good fight!
July 26th, 2010
8:58 pm
Granny…you be careful walking that dino. The dinos may be drinking tea before they go extinct.
Notsobright “simply posted a video”…right! There were no words with that video, no editing, no “hey this may not be accurate”. Simply posted a video….. what next? Rape is simply having sex as part of God’s will? Oh wait, they are arguing that too.
Lil' Barry Bailout
July 26th, 2010
9:07 pm
Conservatives are having a good laugh about this whole Sherrod incident. It’s hilarious watching the libtards fall victim to the smear tactics that they so often employ when they’re out of ideas, which of course is their natural state.
All under the leadership of their Idiot Messiah and his band of incompetents.
Keep up the good fight!
July 26th, 2010
9:09 pm
Heathen….now try to breath slowly and think…. a white man can be lynched. The lynching discussed was by the law enforcement without due process. If a mob grabs a white man and says “he did X crime, kill him”, that is a lynching. If a mob says “let’s beat up that guy, just because he is wearing a green shirt”, there was no due process due. Its just an angry mob breaking the law. There was no claim of justice. I know this is difficult to grasp but you can do it.
Traveling Man… again, out of context. Her entire story was about her growth to move beyond her own preconceptions. Yes, the comment was about her own failing and she acknowledged it. The context was about how she moved past that and realized that it was not black or white it was about being poor. When someone stands up in church and tells their story of personal weakness and redemption, you understand the journey.
A CONSERVATIVE
July 26th, 2010
9:10 pm
MAYBE ROBERT (KKK) BYRD….superestar of the democrats…attended the lynching……think maybe….men who lunched him were all good democrats…could be.
Scout
July 26th, 2010
9:15 pm
Ms. Tucker:
Vanilla or chocolate ??
“And so he bowed”
godless heathen
July 26th, 2010
9:16 pm
Good fight: Take a deep breath yourself and read CT’s post.
“There was evidence that Screws held a grudge against Hall, and had threatened to “get” him.”
Sounds like an old-fashion murder to me. But the race baiters prefer to play the “lynch” card. Doesn’t sound like a lynching to me, unless every unlawful killing meets the criteria.
godless heathen
July 26th, 2010
9:21 pm
If Rodney King had died, would we say that LAPD lynched him?
Kamchak
July 26th, 2010
9:21 pm
!etacifitrec htrib a …………… kooL
Keep up the good fight!
July 26th, 2010
9:25 pm
Heathen, again your ignorance of the entire story taints your commentary. Read the prior paragraphs about his arrest and that the beating was at the hands of law enforcement under a claim of color of law. Now if I hate you and I am law enforcement, and I then arrest you and I and my deputies beat you to death, you want to play “it wasn’t a lynching, it was just a brutal killing” and ignore the arrest, etc. How many lynchings were done by mobs who didn’t have other motivations such as prejudice and hate?
Sounds like you are grasping for pathetic distinctions.
godless heathen
July 26th, 2010
9:28 pm
The point here is that a professional word smith (Ms. Tucker) pulled out the dictionary and tried to get even more mileage out of the Sherrod dead horse. Based on the account cited in Ms. Tucker’s column, i.e. Hall beaten to death by a couple of cops, the term lynching is not what should be applied.
Marie
July 26th, 2010
9:38 pm
I find it so curious that Cynthia who accuses Breitbart and Fox of distorting and editing the speech of Shirley Sherrod has chosen to the do same with this American Spectator editorialist. She pulls out the pieces of the article which SHE CAN USE to make her point and actually dismisses the portions which states that the author is not “stating for sure” that Ms. Sherrod lied. In on instance Ms. Tucker even chops up the actual paragraph and gives you only the beginning and end and eliminates what the author actually has written.
So here is a portion of what the author actually wrote (NOTE: The article is rather long so I can understand the AJC not reprinting the whole article but I do think when you portions Ms. Tucker decided to delete sheds a different light on what the author is saying and does not make it appear that he is just splitting hairs as Ms. Tucker wants her audience to believe) :
So why in the world would Ms. Sherrod say something like this?
No idea. It’s possible that Ms. Sherrod simply doesn’t know the truth. As with any family, stories from generations past can get handed down and over time the truth gets rubbed away and fantasy or fiction replaces it, younger generations none the wiser. This event took place before Ms. Sherrod was born, so that is certainly possible.
It’s also possible that she knew the truth and chose to embellish it, changing a brutal and fatal beating to a lynching. Anyone who has lived in the American South (as my family once did) and is familiar with American history knows well the dread behind stories of lynch mobs and the Klan. What difference is there between a savage murder by fist and blackjack — and by dangling rope? Obviously, in the practical sense, none. But in the heyday — a very long time — of the Klan, there were frequent (and failed) attempts to pass federal anti-lynching laws. None to pass federal “anti-black jack” or “anti-fisticuffs” laws. Lynching had a peculiar, one is tempted to say grotesque, solitary status as part of the romantic image of the Klan, of the crazed racist. The image stirred by the image of the noosed rope in the hands of a racist lynch mob was, to say the least, frighteningly chilling. Did Ms. Sherrod deliberately concoct this story in search of a piece of that ugly romance to add “glamour” to a family story that is gut-wrenchingly horrendous already?
Again, I have no idea.
There is also a third possibility for what appears to be a straight-out fabrication. Having watched Ms. Sherrod’s speech and read the transcript, I think it’s abundantly clear that she is a liberal or progressive political activist.
Keep up the good fight!
July 26th, 2010
9:39 pm
xnay on the long formay Kam!
godless heathen
July 26th, 2010
9:51 pm
Good fight: You ignored my question if Rodney King died, would we call it a lynching? Of course you ignored the question, because you know it shoots down your shaky position.
You lose.
Scout
July 26th, 2010
10:02 pm
If I could I would personally hang the captain of that Dutch ship that dropped anchor in Jamestown Harbor in 1607 and sold the colony 20 African slaves.
hnf
July 26th, 2010
10:07 pm
keep up the good fight,
reading comprehension fail. utterly incoherent response.
Avenger
July 26th, 2010
10:08 pm
Scout. War is hell. All kinds of atrocities occur during war. That is why it is call war. My great, great grandfather (who was from the deep hills of W.Va. and may not even had ever seen a black man up to that time) fought for the Confederacy and was captured by Yankees at the age of 62. He was sent to Camp Chase, Ohio were he was starved and brutally treated (even though the Yankees had plenty of supplies). He was finally paroled but died from his treatment.” In the 1800s’, maybe people were just more cruel and evil – who knows and who cares. Your comparison is just simply double talk comparing war evils with the evils of the1900s when America’s terrorist arm was committing evils acts on law abiding citizens with impunity from the law. and sanctioned by majority of American people.
“Bottom line ………….. a lot of people have been mistreated in our past” You people need to get a different line than this one. For one reason – you try to justify your “lot of people have been mistreated line by using ill comparisons like the one you used above. Pure double talk
bank walker
July 26th, 2010
10:13 pm
I am with you Scout. That was the dumbest thing ever done was to bring slaves to America. See what kind of mess we have gotten into over it?
soames
July 26th, 2010
10:15 pm
I agree with Senator Webb on this issue.
Folks need to learn to look past their differences and embrace what they have in common with one another. That is what being American is all about…or that’s my version anyhow.
I don’t know why CT has to post something about race every other week but it is tiring so I won’t be commenting on anymore stories that pertain to race. Equal Opportunities abound.
Thomas
July 26th, 2010
10:29 pm
I am sure all the blogging advanced the healing of the great racial divide- what is in tomorrow’s bag of tricks? Anyone following the nut job Oliver Stone or is his “media” deemed ok?
ODDOWL
July 26th, 2010
10:35 pm
There are stealth Democrats buried deep within the Republican party. They await their orders to sprang the October surprise. Boycott the NFL on Fox.
Guido
July 26th, 2010
10:49 pm
Amazing how someone as one-dimensional as CT is able to keep a column. Her job is to stoke the fire of racial discourse, and she does it well. Such a shallow, closed-minded and petty “writer”‘ who could never get a job if she had to be objective.
Jose
July 26th, 2010
10:52 pm
Anyone who has watched the full video and does not think this lady has a little racist tinge to her is a moron. You might be a racist when you refer to a race as “one of his kind”. DAMN, people be ignorant when it comes to racism. In fact, they are Tuckers, race baiting BIGOTS. New term for racists, Tuckers. Feel free to use.
froghairs
July 26th, 2010
10:58 pm
Lessee … so far we have all “conservatives,” “tea partiers,” “right wingers,” “religious right” and so one smeared in an event that involved Breitbart, the blogosphere, the Ag Dept, and the WH. This is the problem with allying with any specific party or organization — you are frequently called on to defend the indefensible. Nope. Won’t do it. I saw the initial video, could tell it was edited “too soon” and that she was driving to a point. I’ve done this myself in speeches, where you use yourself as the person who learns the lesson — it makes it easier to break down the defenses of your audience. I told my husband that it looked like to was cut too soon, deliberately, but she did sorta incriminate herself — my not knowing at the time how long ago it had happened, and that she had a change of heart. But wait — there’s more! The blogosphere and the media are running with this football and with all the back-and-forth sniping. It’ll never end. But don’t blame Cynthia Tucker — when you are a columnist you are expected to sound off on these hot button topics. And if she’s made a career of following the trendline of the racial debate, so be it. There are other columnists out there. A writer’s gotta make a living.
froghairs
July 26th, 2010
11:00 pm
With that said, I find few people who want to rationally debate race in this country. The old speeches and writings of Thomas Sowell does come to mind, however — an underappreciated man, by both whites and blacks. Pity. We need minds like his to move us along and beyond.
froghairs
July 26th, 2010
11:01 pm
Sowell’s an economist.
Scout
July 26th, 2010
11:02 pm
Avenger :
Sorry ……… government sponsored terrorism (Camp Chase) is worse than individual terrorism.
Scout
July 26th, 2010
11:03 pm
bank walker :
You hit the nail on the head ……….. but then again we wouldn’t be on Cynthia’s blog and I’m just not sure I could stand that …………………
Beleck
July 26th, 2010
11:05 pm
well Brietbart pulled back the scab on the unspoken war that has been going on since the Civil War put down their weapons of guns, knives and artillery. Now we have that war being revisited. as well as the desire to rescind The Civil Rights laws. a Return to the Good ole Days for non white, female, and sexually nonconformists who so patiently will help the Republicans in their war on Blacks.
the topic is out there now. and we have the experiences from the ’60s on to decide which tactics will work best. Such a diverse and trite set of rules.
for someone who saw this happen in the ’60s as a child, i can only say we are in for as Betty Davis said, “We are in for a bumpy ride.” i hope that is the correct quote.
i, for one, don’t believe there is any hope in trying to convince the Right that there is some inherent White Society that minorities describe as being all pervasive. Being in the sea the idea of being wet is just not something you think about, because it is all “Wet”.
and with 40 yrs of the black vs white fight going on. it is so easy to just play the race card to stir up the pot. doesn’t even matter what or the particulars if you aim is noise to divert attention.
so smart people playing games with peoples’ heads. keep us poor and fighting each other while they figure ways to con us.
very smart people indeed
froghairs
July 26th, 2010
11:12 pm
Beleck — intelligent response, but I have to ask, what is the secret to the poor getting out of poverty? Sowell covered this nicely back in the ’70s, but no one listened to him. Sadly, it was likely because he’s black. But he knew the truth and he’s spoken it ever since.
B
July 26th, 2010
11:14 pm
so in the video, when Sherrod says “I didn’t want to help him because he was white” and the audience shouts “That’s right!” and “Amen!” – That’s ok?
froghairs
July 26th, 2010
11:19 pm
I don’t think those were her exact words. And I just don’t recall whether I heard them reply that way or not. But I think she heavily implied that there was a disconnect for her working with a white farmer. But she was clearly using it as a setup for her main point which was that it wasn’t about white or black but about being poor — and that’s pretty darned close to her actual wording before she was cut off.
But we’re adults here, aren’t we? And we know for a fact that people in power have biases — our pastors, our teachers, our police officers, our bosses … and it’s all wrong, and then it can go alright once we persevere and help them to see the right way to be. You can regulate, which is only as valuable to the citizens as a costly and public lawsuit, but you can’t force a heart to change. It happens over time, until something like this happens and everyone loses their minds again.
Time for a beer summit!
Beleck
July 26th, 2010
11:26 pm
oh like all blacks or whites are smart enough to realize that being dumb is the way to make race relations better. we learn at different rates, people. we need leaders who can show growth wisdom and tolerance, and tolerance means teaching others what is inappropriate and what’s okay.
so all whites are bigots? i think not. that whole thrown stones analogy. the purpose of learning to get over the misunderstandings that “black and white” thinking consists. life is full of gray. hold all accountable and expect no less from other to you.
we are all God’s children according to that book i see alluded to so often.
froghairs
July 26th, 2010
11:29 pm
bank walker: Unless you are posting from the great beyond, “we” didn’t bring slaves. I didn’t, and you didn’t — unless you are currently involved in an illegal activity. I recognize that there are far-reaching implications, especially since the Civil Rights Movement really was not that long ago. And even though we’ve all heard that the sins of the fathers are visited upon the sons, I do not personally hold any blame. However, Christ commands us to love one another, to serve one another, to hold others in higher esteem than ourselves. That’s a tall order, but we’d be in a much better place if we followed Christ’s teachings. How would these postings read if we just followed “Do unto others and you would have them do unto you”? Wow.
Beleck
July 26th, 2010
11:30 pm
why hold so much bitterness and hatred towards people you can’t change much less control. the acid you hold for them hurts you more than it ever could them.
froghairs
July 26th, 2010
11:30 pm
Apologies for the typos … as you would have them do unto you …
froghairs
July 26th, 2010
11:30 pm
Amen, Beleck.
Beleck
July 26th, 2010
11:46 pm
if you think these “others” are out to get you, then you are in real trouble. there are lots of them and only a limited amount of you. even if i were to go with white birth ratios compared to “others”, you know the amount of fear in that line of thinking is enough to light the entire grid of North America for a long time. the fear will only increase the amount of ill will/fear you will have to live with.
and most importantly, where oh where are we going to run to or from?
not like the “other” is going to go away. we fought the damn Civil War over the Blacks. isn’t that enough blood for this senseless fear of “there isn’t enough” to go around. and don’t dare give the Blacks what there “aint enough” of. that Blacks and Whites have lived together for so many years despite the BS between us.
but there’s enough white anger at having to share the country with blacks because the Federal Government told us to. talk about pissed children who have to share their toys, cause they feel they don’t have enough to begin with. now they see a way to stop the “progressive” way of thinking of having to live with “them.” roll back the Civil Rights, vote Republican and we can return to separate but equal. nowadays,i hear, blacks have made it enough so they can’t possibly need “government” help. now can they, after all this time. talk about growing up.
oh it never ends, nor is it supposed to.
itpdude
July 26th, 2010
11:55 pm
The distraction machine continues. There is a segment of the GOP that insists on distracting from the issues and getting into BS. The Sherrod vid was easily identified as a snippet of her talk. No context was given. And now that context is given, a lot of these blowhards can’t admit they screwed up or were led astray by manipulation.
So of course they are going to look for some other “gotcha” on a woman who was more honest about race publicly than Obama has been since taking office. Yeah, what a great victory for racial dialogue this whole thing has become.
I don’t blame the GOP for wanting to throw out red-herrings. If I wrecked the economy and led my country into two wars I’d want to change the subject too.
katwalt
July 27th, 2010
12:38 am
@A CONSERVATIVE (what, as opposed to a conservative?):
See, the difference is the Democratic Party has evolved and acknowledges its racist past. The CONSERVATIVES (well, not all, thank goodness, but an awful lot, especially in these comments) continue to defend a slime monger like Andrew Breitbart. Do carry on, though you may break your shovel digging that hole.
JustSaying
July 27th, 2010
12:55 am
What scares me is that some people will read the report of the event and still, to this day, think that he got what was coming to him.
Charlotte in dispair
July 27th, 2010
1:37 am
I should know better than to read comments, but I am boggled by peoples need to twist things around to justify their point of view. ..Oh forget it . nothing will penetrate the mind of a person in righteous denial.
ck hall
July 27th, 2010
3:41 am
When all issues are lost by the Democrat party ,you and Howard Dean revert to the old race based attacks!i.e.,FOX news is racist and Sherrod lied about lynching…When wil it ever end, and the real issues will come to the forefront?
Constructive Feedback
July 27th, 2010
4:00 am
Ms Tucker:
I would personally be impressed to see YOU take time out to specifically address one of the multitudes of murders of young Black males that occur every week within Metro Atlanta.
I notice – along the lines of the Tasha York/Cracker Barrel beating – that when it comes to people who think like you – it is the killer/assailant that determines the value of the life of the Black person.
You would like us to believe that the police are “special” and/or that a “Civil Rights murder” had more of a terroristic impact upon the Black community. Unfortunately the quality of these killings don’t trump the QUANTITY of the regular ole Black on Black murders that are too commonplace.
Do you realize how predictable you are Ms Tucker?
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
July 27th, 2010
5:02 am
American Exceptionalism is predicated on “left” (côté gauche) ideals – per the coiner of the term, Thomas Carlyle’s “History of the French Revolution,” just as “liberal” is the most praiseworthy adjective applied in the Bible to a “made in G-d’s image” human. Those failed Americans who disagree are merely ignorant of Our Founder’s writings and utopian sentiments, or actively, if dumbly, in service to the anti-”E Pluribus Unum” “Divide and Conquer” Old Sectarian Order we escaped in the this “Novus Ordo Seclorem.”
The fraudulent editing of Shirley Sherrod’s humbly sharing her witness of personal transcendence in our civil religion of credal Americanism is the means by which the Creator enabled We, the People, to see the “Fifth Column” false elite, the “pseudo aristoi,” in the open.
As the Electorate, sovereign individuals must not fail to recognize the difference between holy woman Mrs. Sherrod’s obvious righteousness, and the perversion and treason manifested in her detractors. There is no compromise with G-d, Who by “Annuit Coeptis” is The Single and Unique Foundation of Our Nation’s covenant, health, and posterity.
Agents of the Roman Anti-Christ, identified by Mr. Jefferson in his Kercheval letter, like Andrew Breitbart and “American Spectator”, are The Enemy Within: against Truth and Justice, against G-d, and against the People and Constitution.
That Mr. Obama has failed to curtail their treasonous activities by charging, trying and hanging their titular leaders Bush and Cheney for having committed 9/11 (Viz. “The New Pearl Harbor,” Griffin, Ph.D.) is unfortunate evidence of this administration’s “practicality,” cowardice, or “bi-partisan” cooperation. The L-rd does not let the Righteous stumble, yet stumble they did in firing one all Georgia should arise and make our next governor by acclamation and write-in ballot.
Upon Further Review
July 27th, 2010
5:26 am
So, Ms. Tucker, why do you believe that Andrew Breitbart should apologize for his “smear” of Shirley Sherrod, yet as far as I know, you’ve made no such demand of fellow liberal journalists who colluded on JournoList to undermine the candidacy of Sarah Palin.
Don’t try to tell me the JournoList was nothing more than journalists talking among themselves. In one comment, Joe Kline says he used the “accumulated wisdom of this august list” to write a column questioning Palin’s “militant” ideology.
Worse yet, some of the so-called professional journalists discussed the possibility of calling conservative commentators racists in order to distract the public from Obama’s Rev. Wright problem.
How is it not a serious breach of journalistic ethics (if you care about such things) when writers plot behind the scenes to influence a presidential election — with false allegations if necessary?
Upon Further Review
July 27th, 2010
5:31 am
itpdude wrote:
I don’t blame the GOP for wanting to throw out red-herrings. If I wrecked the economy and led my country into two wars I’d want to change the subject too.
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*** And I don’t blame Obama groupies for throwing out red herrings like the one you just posted.
There’s an election in November, and it makes sense that you would want to distract Americans from recognizing that the unemployment rate, the federal deficit, foreclosures, bankruptcies and the national debt have all gotten worse since your socialist/progressive hero took office 18 months ago.
Better to talk about Republicans “driving the car into the ditch” than admit that Obama drove the tow truck into a bigger ditch.
Upon Further Review
July 27th, 2010
5:36 am
CORRECTING MYSELF: I meant to spell Joe’s last name “Klein.”
firstborn40
July 27th, 2010
6:31 am
wow…stop the madness….why is it that there are some that want to act as though slavery didn’t happen and the continuously perpetuated harassment of racism is not prevalent in almost every aspect of the united states….just what did the african-americans do that you hate so much? you brought us here and made us slaves in a inhuman and vile way…and you are mad at us…why because we don’t want to take your crap anymore!
those that left england left basically because of the same system that you have in place here in the united states…the have and have nots – you enslaved a race of people to build this country for you and you now act like there is no place for them here and just like then as now…you refuse to admit what you’ve done and you want to label someone a liberal because they give a damn about the disenfranchised…i’ve asked this other times…who died and made you God???!!! it is obvious that you don’t have all the answers….you haven’t been able to do anything about your hate! and you are the same ones that go to your churches…the ones you formed when you left england because you wanted to worship how you wanted to worship.
i see why they contained how you prayed…when left to your own devises you pray to a God that allows hate and mistreatment of others.
bob
July 27th, 2010
6:51 am
Cynthia, why bring up fox news when it comes to race, you do it almost daily. So Obama made a hasty decision based on the fact that Glenn Beck might run the story ? Howard Dean said so on Foxnews.
Early Bird
July 27th, 2010
7:30 am
I know nothing about the story of Ms. Sherrod’s family member being lynched. But if we use liberal reasoning then we can certainly make sense of the situation.
Ms. Sherrod’s family member was lynched by a hillbilly sherif. Ms. Sherrod repressed her hatred for white people and used her position as an outlet to get back at white people. Her words not mine.
Liberals would say that Ms. Sherrod is justified in her racist selections because of her past experience with white people. So withholding funds to the poor white person was just a by product of her long past family member being killed by a white person.
Check the modern day statistics of black on white crimes in the US. Your head will spin. My question is, does this justify white people carrying a repressed hatred for the black race. Should Ms. Sherrod’s hate have been directed at the white PERSON and not the white RACE.
She was wrong, she admitted it. She’s a changed woman. Move on!
MAC
July 27th, 2010
7:53 am
Marie, CT doesn’t actually read the articles. She gets daily talking points on out of context quotes from Media Matters and Thinkprogress. You’re expecting too much.
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“I find it so curious that Cynthia who accuses Breitbart and Fox of distorting and editing the speech of Shirley Sherrod has chosen to the do same with this American Spectator editorialist. She pulls out the pieces of the article which SHE CAN USE to make her point and actually dismisses the portions which states that the author is not “stating for sure” that Ms. Sherrod lied. In on instance Ms. Tucker even chops up the actual paragraph and gives you only the beginning and end and eliminates what the author actually has written. “
common sense
July 27th, 2010
8:15 am
The more you hear about this woman, the more I despise her and realize she is a full-blown racist. So she had a thug relative that continued to resist arrest and he paid the price for it? How in the world is that a lynching?
CT, are you implying that every white person that has been mugged, robbed, beaten or rapped by a barbaric black should be a racist? Given the fact that blacks are overwhelming statistically leaders in every crime category I just mentioned, that would mean about 85% of whites, according to your logic, would have a perfectly good excuse to be racist.
jerry
July 27th, 2010
8:16 am
LOL!!! A relative I’m sure she never even met and one she probably didn’t even know she had and probably just heard this propaganda at a family picnic.
Williebkind
July 27th, 2010
8:28 am
I love this story! It is a reflection of how liberals use the media all the time. It is called the “gotcha clause”. Yep get someone to speak and look for something anything that can used against them and their supporters. Yepper the liberals use the gotcha clause all the time and now someone used it against them. It caused chaos in the liberal ranks. They can dish it out but can not take it. The gotcha clause conservatives, remember it use it.
Deal? Get real.
July 27th, 2010
8:29 am
“GOP Invites Breitbart to Fundraiser” Headline from today’s AJC. That should tell you everything you need to know about the GOP’s desire to use race for political gain, then play the victim when sullied by its backlash.
Jack
July 27th, 2010
8:29 am
Billybob, you get flogged pretty good by the blog’s owner for making up your own mind: Even though the flogging is at the hands of a biased liberal with absolutely no regard for race relations.
Jose
July 27th, 2010
8:32 am
What we have going on here with the democratic party is a well thought out plan of making the next two elections about race and not the issues. They have no choice, they are losing on the issues. So mouth pieces like Tuck will be spreading the word weekly that Fox News, the republican party, and the Tea Party are all racists devils. When it comes to debating the issues, you are either with Obama or you are a racist. That about sums up the liberal game plan for ‘10 & ‘12. All you have to do is listen to the likes of Howard Dean starting this past Sunday and you see it. Question is will this make independents vote democrat again like they did in ‘08. The dems can not win without the independent and the white vote that Obama received. Should be fun. Tuck, roll out your racist rants. We are expecting it.
Deal? Get real.
July 27th, 2010
8:35 am
I see the late risers have missed the facts of the story and continue their ignorant diatribes as if Breitbart’s original posting is all they have to go on.
Deal? Get real.
July 27th, 2010
8:40 am
Just like Sherrod, Obama is being linched daily by the right-wing smear machine, facts be damned.
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
July 27th, 2010
8:42 am
The Gay Old Perverts’ inviting the “made” traitor against Our Creed, pseudo-American Breitbart, to headline their “insider” fundraiser is the Roman Anti-Christ’s need to keep rolling on the American People.
Had Bush and Cheney not committed 9/11 there may have been progress toward the People’s bringing to justice Bush’s father’s and Cheney’s mentor, Nixon’s, assassination of John Kennedy to send us to die for the pope in Vietnam.
Veterans, patriots, Baptists and Freemasons take notice.
Jose
July 27th, 2010
8:46 am
Deal, get serious. Have you watched and LISTENED (key word there) to her whole speach? And by the way, if you call lynching the guy for his policies that are hurting and not helping, you have looked at the econmic numbers lately I assume, then you are no different then the other racists who call call it a lynching. By the way, his fellow dems are starting to “lynch” him as well. Oh mercy, what a mess.
Jose
July 27th, 2010
8:48 am
Will Jones, go back in your hole and put down your crack pipe. You are whacked! You can’t even be taken seriously.
ken R
July 27th, 2010
8:49 am
Sherrod did embelish the Lynching remark, just like you embelish most of the stuff that you write about.
For the 3rd time please update your picture, a 20 year old picture is just as false as your articles.
Jose
July 27th, 2010
8:52 am
Ken, I don’t think we want an updated picture of Tuck. Please let the 20 year one stand. Liberal women tend to get real ugly looking over time due to all the hate they have for the right and races. It wears on their faces and they can not bring themselves to smile. No thank you.
Upon Further Review
July 27th, 2010
9:14 am
Admit it: Liberals hate Andrew Breitbart because he trumps their Alinsky tactics with better Alinsky tactics.
His $100,000 reward for evidence that any Tea Party member yelled racial slurs against black Congressmen was a classic “put up or shut up” that worked to perfection.
Talk about taking the wind out of the Democrats’ sails! Suddenly, all of the supposed “victims” started clamming up and changing the subject.
Throwing the R-word at conservatives has become such a cliche that it’s losing its impact. You can only cry “Wolf!” so many times before people recognize your desperation.
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the LIAR Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
July 27th, 2010
9:22 am
Oh come on Cynthia…she DID say she’d rather deal with blacks over whites and that whites could take care of their own. If that’s NOT racists you don’t know what it is, PERIOD. End of story. GET OVER IT, she’s not uneployed except by her own doings. She was offered another job, maybe one she can keep her racists thoughts to her self.
And, BTW how’s that Afgan war going? Geeze if W was bumbling it like NObama, you’d be all over it.
TommyJack
July 27th, 2010
9:23 am
CT: Sincere apologies that the 60’s have passed. You must be miserable.
Williebkind
July 27th, 2010
9:51 am
Upon intense review, the conservatives have won this blog. The conservatives repeated their message of truth and the liberals repeated their message of racism. There was no racism except on the part of the 2nd party, the liberals. We need a new blog now please. You have lost again.
Usmc Dawg
July 27th, 2010
10:29 am
Cynthia, PRESIDENT OBAMA had the woman FIRED! Not Fox News.
We know you hate white people and feel inferior. We don’t hate you, just pity you and your racial hatred towards us. You are the loser. Your racial hatred of white people has been and will be your downfall. Let that hate in your heart go. The rest of us (black and white) have moved on.
phil
July 27th, 2010
10:33 am
There is NO proof of lynching and this black lady used the term, like many blacks often do, to illicit images in people’s minds that had nothing to do with the person she’s talking about. Sherrod should be criticized for “spinning” (really she lied, I’m just using a nice term) the story to try and win a political point.
phil
July 27th, 2010
10:34 am
And Cynthia- From now on every time a black person robs a white person and beats them up and steals their car, I’m going to call that crime “lynching.” How do you feel about that? That happens every day in Atlanta.
Joe in Decatur, GA
July 27th, 2010
10:36 am
Keep up the good fight, Cynthia. Reveal the liars.
Lester10
July 27th, 2010
10:36 am
Readers of this blog- If you weren’t already convinced that Cynthia is not capable of being an unbiased writer, let this post be your proof. If you need more proof- Go back and read what she wrote about the Black Panthers 2 weeks ago. In her story, she never condemned the Panther(s) for their actions, however she did criticize the white people who suggested that the Black Panthers had committed a crime. Folks, we know who Cynthia is and what her goals are. Keep that in mind as you’re reading her garbage on this blog.
Georgia Dawg
July 27th, 2010
10:40 am
Cynthia, your hometown heros ( Jackson & Franklin ) just lost a Federal Law suit over Hartsfield Airport bid rigging, your needed back here to defend them against the cruel white boy network.
Usmc Dawg
July 27th, 2010
10:42 am
Cynthia Tucker HATES white people. Therefore, Cynthia Tucker is a RACIST.
Mike B
July 27th, 2010
10:44 am
Upon Further Review………… Well done! This is a precise description of the times, Ms. Tucker has consistently chastised conservatives for communication methods owned/frequently used by the liberal left without any comment from her.
This is not acceptable, just as Mr. Breitbart’s tactics are unacceptable. Two peas in a pod with different agendas is all. What a shame that people will allow the one that furthers their viewpoint and lash out at the other, when both should be looked at with equal revulsion.
As a conservative I don’t particularly care for Sarah Palin, but that does not mean its open season to smear and take snippets out of context. Same with President Obama….. Don’t care for him either. But if we are spending more time ensuring literary and journalistic accuracy/integrity, then what is the real value of mainstream media??? What is the real value of Ms. Tucker if there is no balance to her discussion/opinion?
polly
July 27th, 2010
10:46 am
For white people- I suggest that you avoid interacting with illogical African Americans like Cynthia Tucker. Her goal is to divide by race by using embellishment and distortion. If you truly want racial reconciliation, spend your time having discussions with honest, truthful African-Americans who are as unbiased as you are. Those conversations are worth your time. Don’t waste your time with extremists like Cynthia.
Cynthia Tucker is a racist.
July 27th, 2010
11:01 am
You’re killing several birds with one stone in this one, Cynthia. You’re anti-right, anti-white and anti-Fox News. Guess what. You’re WORSE than Fox News. They are biased, but you’re flat-out racist.
An article on lynching? Really? People of all races and all societies throughout all of history have been treated poorly, tortured, murdered, exterminated, banished, exiled and wiped out altogether. The Irish, Jews, Australian Aboriginals, Native Americans… The list goes on. None of them cry as loudly or expect so much entitlement as the African American people. Stop complaining. You live in the best country in the world.
So, there were some unjust and down-right terrible things going on decades ago. Lynching is a horrible thing, but your example was so long ago, you can’t even pretend to have all of the facts on the matter. You’re certainly no subject matter expert. Printing quotes from other biased text proves absolutely nothing.
One fact that can’t be refuted is that my paychecks have been lynched my entire life paying reparations for the bad people who did wrong many years ago. That’s an unbiased fact.
J.R. Ewing
July 27th, 2010
11:02 am
Roy Barnes? Don’t ever trust a lawyer named Barnes !
NA
July 27th, 2010
11:06 am
Breibart was wrong to edit/ run/ show video that cast an illusion of wrong doing by Ms.Sherrod.
The NAACP was wrong for jumping before determining this video was inaccuarte.
The White House was wrong for jumping and firing this woman before investigating and determinning the truth.
Cynthia is wrong to make everything about race.
Ms. Sherrod should not only receive some apologies, she should be compensated in some way for smearing her name and causing her anquish over this.
What is gained by attacking someone who seems to have only been doing her job and helping people.
John
July 27th, 2010
11:23 am
Both sides are way to touchy. Let little things go. Jesus is watching.
Cynthia Tucker is a racist.
July 27th, 2010
11:24 am
publiusforum.com/2010/07/19/top-ten-most-left-biased-american-journalists-5-cynthia-tucker-atlanta-journal-constitution/
Swampdawg
July 27th, 2010
11:24 am
Roy Barnes reminds me of Boss Hog. What say you?
QueDawg12
July 27th, 2010
11:30 am
Is is me or did her boss vehemently say that it was him and all him that had her resign? Why are we blaming the White House? Whites are quick to tell us time and time again to let it go, it was so long ago, quit playing the race card. Well let me be the first to say it is easy to say when you have a people that has not had any type of persecution? Jews, Indians, Blacks, Latinos all have a right not to forget about it!!!!!
Swampdawg
July 27th, 2010
11:31 am
Mrs. Sherrod does have some liability in my opinion. She was acting as cheerleader to an audience with racist overtones on her commentary. As a Govt. Official she should not have displayed that role.
Cynthia Tucker is a racist.
July 27th, 2010
11:37 am
QueDawg12 –
How about the Puritans, Christians and Irish people? Remember that this country was founded by people who fled persecution in England. –> There’s the door. Feel free to leave any time.
lynn ehrlicher
July 27th, 2010
11:38 am
The big story here is how conservatives cut and paste videos to promote their lies about progressive groups. The fact that Sherrod was fired because people, including the President, were gullible to their mischief is a side story. Fox News and conservative bloggers are slimers and liars, and this story just illustrates that fact. The main stream media blames Obama for making a mistake here, when actually, the curtain has been pulled back and the wizard is exposed.
Usmc Dawg
July 27th, 2010
11:42 am
@QueDawg12:
There once was a man named Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Please learn to read so you can go to the library and read a book about him. Be on the lookout for a famous quote that goes something like,”Judge not by the color of one’s skin but by the content of one’s character.”
Once you let that HATE go that is boiling inside of you, you will feel much better and live a happier life. And please educate yourself. Your ignorance is what keeps perpetuating RACISM in the world today.
Swampdawg
July 27th, 2010
11:44 am
lynn ehrlicher.. you are full of crap! Obama’s MStream Media would not blame their annointed one! Fox News IS FAIR AND BALANCED! Get over it!
Your president is destroying our country. What has the Economy, Race Relations, Patiotism, etc, etc, etc done since he took office. Read the polls!
mmm, mmm, mmm, Barack the LIAR Obama - BEND OVER, Here comes the CHANGE!
July 27th, 2010
11:48 am
Usmc Dawg – Do you mean the MLK, Jr. that CHEATED on his wife? Good roll model.
Usmc Dawg
July 27th, 2010
11:49 am
Yeah, that one.
Cynthia Tucker is a racist.
July 27th, 2010
11:51 am
Anyone else in here need some fresh air? Check this out. I’m sure she’s aspiring to be #1.
publiusforum.com/2010/07/19/top-ten-most-left-biased-american-journalists-5-cynthia-tucker-atlanta-journal-constitution/
Swampdawg
July 27th, 2010
11:54 am
But Cynthia is soooo cute in that photo!
Upon Further Review
July 27th, 2010
12:00 pm
lynn ehrlicher wrote:
The big story here is how conservatives cut and paste videos to promote their lies about progressive groups.
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*** You need to learn the difference between an excerpt and a “cut and paste video.”
The mainstream media use excerpts every day, both fairly and unfairly. Do you think the quotes contained in each news story were the only comments each person made, or do you understand that in almost every case, some reporter and/or editor subjectively chose what to put in and what to leave out?
Do you have any evidence that Breitbart had access to the entire speech and chose to show only the excerpt? No, you don’t. That may have been the only portion of the recording that he had.
You can argue that he shouldn’t have posted the excerpt without seeing the entire speech, but you also have to admit that if the White House and the NAACP hadn’t jumped when Breitbart said “Boo,” Sherrod never would have lost her job.
As it is, she’s hardly a major victim. Big deal — she’s out of a job for maybe a day, then gets offered a better job … and she’s still on tape admitting what a racist she was at one time. How many white farmers did she unfairly discriminate against during her racist years?
Upon Further Review
July 27th, 2010
12:10 pm
Mike B wrote:
But if we are spending more time ensuring literary and journalistic accuracy/integrity, then what is the real value of mainstream media??? What is the real value of Ms. Tucker if there is no balance to her discussion/opinion?
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*** Those are both good questions that I don’t have an easy answer for.
Having seen what liberal journalists say and do when they think they’re speaking to like-minded colleagues in private (i.e., on JournoList), I seriously question whether we have a real Fourth Estate anymore. How far has the profession sunk when we have supposed professional journalists shilling for a particular presidential candidate … discussing, coordinating and implementing ways of undermining a rival VP candidate … and plotting to downplay Obama’s Rev. Wright controversy by falsely accusing a conservative commentator of racism?
If there’s any difference between that and the behavior of a Democratic campaign worker, it’s too subtle to mention.
Unfortunately, the majority of Ms. Tucker’s columns fit the same predictable pattern: Butter up Democrats, tear down Republicans.
Here’s the real question: If Watergate happened today under this administration, do you seriously believe that Ms. Tucker, the Washington Post, the New York Times or any other card-carrying member of the dinosaur media would bother to reveal it?
Charles
July 27th, 2010
3:08 pm
What happens when there is more than one dictionary? Webster’s says: to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal sanction. I might be the only black man that associates the term “lynched” with a mob seeking vengeance.
This does not excuse anyone! His death was horrible, but let’s not become hypocrites by excusing a racist even if they are black. What she said and what she did was in fact racist, but it does not mean that she stayed that way. This should be your story.
Moe
July 27th, 2010
4:24 pm
Fox News represents the views of RIGHT thinking FAIR minded GOD fearing Christian Americans. As Such, it is attacked constantly by the administration of Barak HUSSIEN Obama, a Kenyan born Muslim Communist. It is time to take back our WHITE House America, support Fox News and defend America. Lets get the military to remove HUSSIEN, or the Republicans can impeach him once they get control of Congress, then the Supreme Court can appoint Jeb Bush President circa 2000, and Mary Cheney his VP, where she can fight to keep gays out of the military. And don’t forget to call your congress man and get those Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy extended NOW! It’s that important!
Big Jim
July 27th, 2010
4:34 pm
What kind of “human being” would defend the barbarian
concept of lynching? Why would you string words to
take the side of people that have no regard for those
that are different. Why? Why say these things,strictly
racist comments,as if it makes you happy?
My answer,evil. No devil,vampires,werewolves,or mothmen.
Just evil human beings.Anonimity is one hell of a motivator.
The reaction by SOME,not all,is disturbing at best. At worst,
disgusting.Are people really “waiting” for the first opportunity
to point the finger at other races,even though there is enough
blame to go around.
This reminds me of the crowd,SOME of them,that will tell
a person to jump from a building.Some people are sickos.
Sorry to real sickos for associating you with the political
madmen that are willing to say anything while hiding behind
a keyboard.
Upon further review,among others,prove there is no God
watching us.Where’s the guilt,the contrition,the humility?
Doesn’t exist.
Cynthia,you’re stil sexy.Keep doing what you do.
Mike B
July 27th, 2010
5:57 pm
To Upon Further Review………….
It absolutely bends me that people here see their opposite party’s conspiracy as clear as day, but are as ignorant as they come to their party’s manipulative tactics. Same can be said of the journalists that feed at the trough of controversy when the inevitable collision of party’s occurs.
Politicians are supposed to have platforms and agenda’s….. Journalists are not………. Wondering when Journalists are going to recognize how much credibility they have lost with honest hardworking citizens, and take a stand against unbalanced argumentation and collusion as a component of reporting stories. Think about it…..
Moderate Line
July 27th, 2010
7:14 pm
ctucker
July 26th, 2010
6:08 pm
Moderate Line, I think by that time Mrs. Sherrod was thoroughly exasperated with Breitbart’s lies.( She certainly didn’t say that in the NAACP speech.) I’m willing to let her slide, and I guess Brazile was, too
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I never said she did say it in the speech in fact I was very specific.
We are sometimes judge by who let slide and who we don’t let slide. I perfer not to let anyone slide.
Moderate Line
July 27th, 2010
7:23 pm
Mary Elizabeth
July 26th, 2010
7:26 pm
Cynthia, I sincerely appreciate your gracious words. I don’t blog often, but thank you.
Moderate Line, once when I was teaching in a high school, students
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I a disagree. I heard chuckles when you said she was deciding on how much help she was going to give them.
greg
July 28th, 2010
7:18 pm
Getting your butt stomped for being an idiot because you refuse to follow the rules is hardly a “lynching.”
WideAwake
July 30th, 2010
11:58 pm
I am glad Ms.Sherrod plans to sue breitliar my only hope is that faux news is also sued.
The minions have faux talking points to a tee–the audience clapped, hatch law, farmers lawsuit and what ever the spin zone will tell them. They will continue to justify this event and will even try to convince anyone it was someone else’s fault.
Mighty christian.
WideAwake
July 31st, 2010
12:03 am
Upon Further Review : Journalist 101 you are always suppose to check and verify the story before you post it or run with it. Period.
Brietliar also did this to ACORN with lies and spliced and diced video. Faux and Friends are not out for the truth but to smear.
What we should be talking about is that the majority of faux and friends are not journalist nor college educated thus that is the dilemma.
WideAwake
July 31st, 2010
12:09 am
Swampdawg: The country was already being destroyed by your President and the Dick.
I guess you are the new sleeping giant who slept through 8 years of destruction now crying about polls what was the polls when bushinator left?