In the curious case of Shirley Sherrod, let’s see the whole tape
A couple of folks in comments yesterday brought up the case of USDA official Shirley Sherrod, a black woman caught on tape at an NAACP meeting here in Georgia apparently bragging about being less than diligent in helping a white farmer. The folks at Big Government posted a portion of her speech as part of the running feud between the NAACP and the Tea Party over which organization is more racist.
By the end of the day Monday, Sherrod had been forced to resign her post, and NAACP President Ben Jealous had released a statement agreeing with the forced resignation:
“Racism is about the abuse of power. Sherrod had it in her position at USDA. According to her remarks, she mistreated a white farmer in need of assistance because of his race.
We are appalled by her actions, just as we are with abuses of power against farmers of color and female farmers.
Her actions were shameful. While she went on to explain in the story that she ultimately realized her mistake, as well as the common predicament of working people of all races, she gave no indication she had attempted to right the wrong she had done to this man.”
(UPDATE: The NAACP has now pulled that statement from its website.)
After watching the video Monday evening, I wrote in comments that “what Sherrod says in that video — and what she apparently did — are deeply troubling… She might very well have earned a firing. But I’d like to see that rest of that video as well, because at the point it abruptly ends, she appears to be saying that it’s wrong to think in terms of black and white, that she came to see things as more accurately divided between poor and rich than by race.”
As I also noted, the folks at Big Government seem to have the whole video, since they also posted another segment, and it would be useful to see the rest of it.
Sherrod gets a chance to tell her side of the story in an AJC story by Marcus Garner:
“But Tuesday morning, Sherrod said what online viewers weren’t told in reports posted throughout the day Monday was that the tale she told at the banquet happened 24 years ago — before she got the USDA job — when she worked with the Georgia field office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund.
Sherrod said the short video clip excluded the breadth of the story about how she eventually worked with the man over a two-year period to help ward off foreclosure of his farm, and how she eventually became friends with the farmer and his wife.
“And I went on to work with many more white farmers,” she said. “The story helped me realize that race is not the issue, it’s about the people who have and the people who don’t. When I speak to groups, I try to speak about getting beyond the issue of race.”
So let’s see the rest of the tape, Big Government. Was Sherrod giggling among black folk about the time she put it to the white man, as the leaked excerpt suggests, or was the tape a deceptively edited excerpt of a longer story about getting beyond the issue of race, as she claims?
Let’s see the tape. The evidence apparently exists to settle the question. Cough it up.
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El Jefe
July 20th, 2010
12:45 pm
Jay, It all comes down to this. Even a hint of impropriety is enough to get you removed. Ask Trent Lott, ask Bill Clinton at the funeral of William Byrd, praising a KKK member – oh, wait, I forgot – thats right she is a democrat so she should not be punished – no matter what.
The left being so tolerant of people making honest mistakes and the conservatives so hateful that nothing is allowed, hmm, I think I got that backwards.
AmVet
July 20th, 2010
12:49 pm
“There were only 5 questions on the Republican ballot…”
Maybe in your neck of the woods. But not in mine. Eight, as in the number that immediately follows seven, on the GOP ballot…
Tony J
July 20th, 2010
12:58 pm
I think that this was taken way out of context by Tea Party supporters to try to take some of the heat off of themselves for the racism that is in their organization. A 62 year old Black woman, who grew up in the south, a victim of racial violence (Her father was murdered by a white guy because he was black), was telling a story 24 years ago about how she was able to overcome her own racial issues to do her job more effectively. It’s a shame that the Tea Party was able to use the as an example of “Racism” in the NAACP.
CT
July 20th, 2010
12:59 pm
What will the employees of the AJC do when the AJC goes bankrupt because of their failure to report the news fairly?
Perhaps without the left wing hacks like CT and Jaybird…maybe they would have a chance.
Tony J
July 20th, 2010
1:00 pm
correction a story about an incident that happened 24 years ago.
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Scout
July 20th, 2010
1:04 pm
josef:
Scout…
Remind me late night to tell you about Unmentionable’s shopping at Toco Hills…
WILL DO ………..
John Birch
July 20th, 2010
1:08 pm
Her words from today, not 24 years ago, clearly indicate prejudice, “I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland, and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land. So I didn’t give him the full force of what I could do.”, and that’s enough to lose her government appointed job. While it’s unfortunate we live in a sociey where bigotry, racism, reverse discrimination, and negrophilia exist in abuncdance, it’s also reality.
Al Swearengen
July 20th, 2010
1:15 pm
Too bad the widow of the farmer in question just came out and said that Shirley Sherrod saved their farm and is a “lifelong friend”.
More selectively-edited propaganda from our unhinged modern-day Goebbels, Andrew Not-So-Breitbart. May he rot in Hell.
Elephant Whip
July 20th, 2010
1:20 pm
UnPolitically Correct, et al. in his boat:
It is sad how latently racist and historically ignorant your views are. It is quite an exceptional accomplishment to change an almost completely racist nation by leading non-violent resistance. In fact, it exceeds the level of national recognition and warrants recognition throughout ages to come.
And, since MLK was American, it is appropriate that he be honored here.
Oh, and Paul, the Civil Rights Act was also legislation. Why does the fact that McCain was involved in legislative descrimination mitigate its discriminatory nature?
Jonas Freeman
July 20th, 2010
1:25 pm
Yes, Jay, let’s see the whole tape. In fact you could do us all ‘one better’. Why not follow her around for a week – or a year – to see if she goes to church, supports the girl scouts and does charity work for poor white folk.
She said what she said, and she’s a racist bigot, Jay. There are many many many such bigots in Black America, starting with certain members of the NAALCP.
And what timing! Just when the NAALCP was ramping up to pound the Tea Party for…. RACISM.
And what’s up with the ‘Some of my best freinds are white farmers’ idea?
DawgDad
July 20th, 2010
1:29 pm
Don’t need to see the whole tape. She got called on the carpet and resigned.
If people of any race are dealing with people of other races the way she says she did then they need to be identified and exorcised from the system. I really don’t see the need for further discussion, and apparently the NAACP didn’t, either.
Jon
July 20th, 2010
1:30 pm
Hey Jonas, so how you explain the comments from the white farmer’s wife? Amazing how this comment section has slowed to crawl since she spoke up.
A CONSERVATIVE
July 20th, 2010
1:30 pm
JAY……..You liberals created this climate of political correctness…NOW..one of your own plantation Negros has gone down…Racism is on both sides….AJC is biased against white conservatives…just like Ms SHERROD IS..You should know just how she feels..Ms. liberal//
John
July 20th, 2010
1:35 pm
Shame on anyone that sympathisizes with the racist.
Holly
July 20th, 2010
1:38 pm
Concerned citizen says: ” Fox News is the only news outlet left concerned with truth, justice and the (old) American way.”
Yes. The ”old” American way where black people had no rights. Sorry, you and your kind need to realize that it’s no longer 1950.
Scott
July 20th, 2010
1:46 pm
Hey, where did all the knee-jerk ‘conservatives’ go?
“The wife of the white farmer allegedly discriminated against by the USDA’s rural development director for Georgia said Shirley Sherrod “kept us out of bankruptcy.”
Eloise Spooner, 82, awoke Tuesday to discover that Sherrod had lost her job after videotaped comments she made in March at a local NAACP banquet surfaced on the web.
But Spooner, who considers Sherrod a “friend for life,” said the federal official worked tirelessly to help the Iron City couple hold onto their land as they faced bankruptcy back in 1986.
“Her husband told her, ‘You’re spending more time with the Spooners than you are with me,’ ” Spooner told the AJC. “She took probably two or three trips with us to Albany just to help us out.”
Spooner called Sherrod Tuesday morning.
“She’s very sad about it,” Spooner said. “She told me she was so glad we talked. I just can’t believe this is happening to her.”
Source: http://www.ajc.com/news/farmers-wife-says-fired-574027.html
Jose
July 20th, 2010
1:51 pm
So she did it and then felt remorse. Oh, what a damn shame. Bottomline Bookman, if this was a republican you would be screaming off with her head! You and Tucker are cut from the same mold and it looks like someone keeps forgetting to throw the mold away. More and more of you liberal, democratic apologist keep coming out. Now we have a story today how a group of you fine journalist formed a group to cover up the Reverend Wright story while are beloved leader ran for President. And you all wonder why Fox News has replaced the mainstream media?
BlaakRise1984-09
July 20th, 2010
1:51 pm
alotta blaax R like that (oy!)
Jon
July 20th, 2010
1:51 pm
Isn’t it funny that any time a story isn’t what the far right wing nuts thought it was that it quickly falls on the “most viewed stories”.
Scott
July 20th, 2010
2:01 pm
Jon – I see the humor, too. But, (and I think you would agree) this emotional over reaction by so-called ‘conservatives’ is exactly the kind of insanity that pushed us to war in Iraq.
These people are dangerous.
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Marie
July 20th, 2010
2:03 pm
Hey Scott where are the left wingers who also need to apologize to Breitbart and FoxNews on “deliberately” editing this story to make it appear that this woman was a racist. It appears that someone posted a clip of this event on YouTube and Breitbart and/or FoxNews simply picked up what was already out there. And that these news outlets who first reported this DID NOTHING.
However, it remains to be seen or heard why the Obama administration were soooooo quick to demand the resignation of this African-American female when they have gone out of their way to cover up or totally ignore controversial past statements or deeds that others within that administration have made such as Cass Sunstein, Rahm Emanuel, Eric Holder, etc. They did not even give her the benefit of explaining when this happened and exactly what she was attempting to say in this video. It appears to me that there was a RUSH to judgment of their part. Or did they just wanted her out because of the successful judgment she won against the Federal government?
Jose
July 20th, 2010
2:04 pm
If it so dangerous Scott, then why is our President intent on fighting in Afghanhastan? A war you libs do not like? Bush is gone boys, time to take responsibility for your parties actions. God Knows they are going to pay for them in November. I guess you and Jon will be real scared after you lose control of the House. Fear is good.
Scooter (the Original)
July 20th, 2010
2:07 pm
Perhaps someone has pointed this out already and, if so, please excuse my repetition. Sherrod is not the point. The point is all the cheering/racists NAACP members and the NAACP demanding the Tea Party repudiate the racist elements within. Breitbart’s point was those in glass houses should not throw stones. Don’t miss the forest (NAACP’s racist elements) for the tree (Sherrod).
md
July 20th, 2010
2:11 pm
sfd,
“So maybe this no-brainer answer I’m saying Gov. Palin should’ve given, wasn’t so risk free as I’d thought.
Still that says more about the really messed-up constituency involved, here, than any wedge-y evilness aforethought on the part of that dastardly Katie Couric.”
Questions are asked for reasons – one must ask themselves what purpose such a “soft-ball” question would serve. It was a gotcha – the way it works is this:
Read one Fox article, one becomes a Fox affection-ado – regardless of the fact that one only read one article. The media paints the picture as they want it, not necessarily how it is.
James
July 20th, 2010
2:19 pm
To think that all these people spoke so poorly of her without waiting for all the evidence to come out. Shame on all of you for you desire to name someone this or that. What you’ve all shown is the real problem in America — instead of discussion based purely on the facts, we resort to ad hominem attacks. Quite frankly until we resolve to check our emotions at the door and think and feel objectively we will never have any lasting change!
Scott
July 20th, 2010
2:42 pm
Marie, regarding: “Breitbart and/or FoxNews simply picked up what was already out there.”
Like I said: emotional, over reacting, knee-jerk ‘conservatives’. Charles Manson must surely be proud. He, too, wanted to start a race war in America:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helter_Skelter_(Manson_scenario)
Jack
July 20th, 2010
3:13 pm
We knew, absolutely knew, that this dust-up would get the Bookman & Tucker treatment. And all they’ve accomplished is to make harmony more difficult.
Ted Nugget
July 20th, 2010
3:19 pm
Just a sample of what black people do when they get their preferential jobs because of their skin color. We gonna get our share and the share you cheated us out of for 100 years. Get used to it whitey. Did deep and you will find thousands of examples of the same shame.
gsparks
July 20th, 2010
3:36 pm
If she goes on to say why that was the wrong thing to do, I congratulate her for having learned. Nonetheless, she admitted to *doing* it–on camera–in public. This proves her guilty of giving or withholding government assistance on the basis of race, and that’s a career-ender to me. It stands up (easily) to the test of reversing the racial roles. If a white man did the same thing to a black female farmer, I’d say “No second chances. Good luck in your next line of work.”
Scott
July 20th, 2010
3:57 pm
gsparks, regarding: “This proves her guilty of giving or withholding government assistance on the basis of race…”
Only that’s not what happened.
“The wife of the white farmer allegedly discriminated against by the USDA’s rural development director for Georgia said Shirley Sherrod “kept us out of bankruptcy.”
Eloise Spooner, 82, awoke Tuesday to discover that Sherrod had lost her job after videotaped comments she made in March at a local NAACP banquet surfaced on the web.
But Spooner, who considers Sherrod a “friend for life,” said the federal official worked tirelessly to help the Iron City couple hold onto their land as they faced bankruptcy back in 1986.
“Her husband told her, ‘You’re spending more time with the Spooners than you are with me,’ ” Spooner told the AJC. “She took probably two or three trips with us to Albany just to help us out.”
Spooner called Sherrod Tuesday morning.
“She’s very sad about it,” Spooner said. “She told me she was so glad we talked. I just can’t believe this is happening to her.”
Source: http://www.ajc.com/news/farmers-wife-says-fired-574027.html
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jrshipley
July 20th, 2010
4:10 pm
So in full context the story was about how she learned and changed her attitude. The farmer’s wife is on record calling her a friend and saying her help saved the farm. Maybe Vilsack should resign for kowtowing so easily to rightwing smearmongers. Breitbart has a record of deceptively editing video for their smear campaigns and FAUX has a record of uncritical, biased reporting. Asking for her resignation without getting all the facts was a terrible move by Vilsack. He owes her a public apology at least. Anyone who trusts the Breitbart/FAUX version of a story is a sucker.
UnPoliticallyCorrect
July 20th, 2010
4:12 pm
DebbieDoRight “I see that the Texas Board of Education has already begun their white washing of history for the next generation of young minds. However, I’m a little confused about your reasons for posting this drivel…..perhaps you can help everyone to undertand why you think this is so. Could you please post a link, (National Archives in DC may help); of all the white slaves who were bought and sold at auction and/or their children taken away from them and sold on American soil? Thanks!”
LOL Debbie- how cute. Actually, if you would have read my post from Thomas Sowell earlier, you would have understood where I acquired the information I posted. Therefore, to help you out below is the link to Thomas Sowell’s work, who for arguments sake is a very well known conservative black professor at Stanford.
But I suppose, like all blacks whom are conservative you will label him an Uncle Tom despite his education, intelligence and ability to research history appropriately without the need to b@st@rdize it to fit some BS political agenda.
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Chicago, 1968
A.M. in Economics, Columbia University, 1959
A.B. in Economics, magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1958
http://www.tsowell.com/cv.html
http://article.nationalreview.com/432614/misusing-history/thomas-sowell
Andrew Austin
July 20th, 2010
4:37 pm
The full tape does vindicate her (as if she needs vindicating). So does the white family whose farm she saved. In fact, the white family is shocked by the way she is being treated. A CNN story today completely debunked the claims made about this woman. Her story is in fact a personal one of understanding that white people are just as screwed by capitalism as are black people.
But suppose that we believe what we are being told to believe, namely that this is racism. Racism is a social system in which one racial group benefits systematically at the expense of another. It has never been true in the United States than blacks have benefited systematically at the expense of whites. It follows that her comments cannot be racist.
To call this racism is to falsely reduce racism to race prejudice (racism doesn’t even require race prejudice, and in fact these days racists prefer its absence). This is a decades old project to change the meaning of racism in order to legitimate the false concepts of “reverse racism” and “reverse discrimirnation.”
The fact that Obama caves everytime the right wants him to participate in the white power project to dissimulate racism tell us the reason why his election to office was desired by the powers that be.
Scott
July 20th, 2010
4:50 pm
Andrew, regarding: “The fact that Obama caves everytime the right wants him to…”
I agree and at this point, this is what the story is all about for me. The whole Liberal establishment was punked by this crap. Even Huffington Post is still running the headline proclaiming Ms. Sherrod’s guilt. When will we ever learn how to fight back?
Anyway, for what it’s worth, that’s why I wrote to Secretary Vilsack at agsec@usda.gov and also forwarded it to the President via WhiteHouse.gov. We can’t afford these kind of mistakes.
Mr. Secretary,
It is indeed sad to see someone in a leadership position such as yourself be so easily fooled by the Right Wing.
The highly edited video used against Ms. Sherrod was put out by the same Conservative group which brought us the now discredited ACORN ‘pimp’ video.
Did you or your office even stop to fact check the attack on Ms. Sherrod?
Reinstate Ms. Sherrod and please submit your own resignation. Your lack of leadership on this issue is inexcusable.
Sincerely,
My Name and address, etc.
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jlvhale
July 20th, 2010
5:39 pm
Some of these comments from those who don’t need to see and hear the rest of the story scare me.
Joaquin Bustelo
July 20th, 2010
6:05 pm
I hope Ms. Sharrod will sue those who have so viciously slandered her, especially in the Mainstream Media, into bankruptcy. As a working journalist since before Watergate, I have been appalled at the collapse of professional standards and ethics on the pretext that “it’s out there on the Internet” and the fecklessness, not of journalists, young or old, but of the corporate managers who prevent us from doing our job fairly and responsibly.
I also hope against hope that Obama will find the moral courage to fire everyone involved in the shameful capitulation to mob rule at USDA. He will, of course, need a new Secretary of Agriculture, and –the one silver lining in this cloud– there is a Black woman available who seems eminently qualfied from a lifetime of helping small farmers. And it will be a break from the corporate farm stooges we usually get in that post, both under Democrat and Republican presidents.
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Eyeswideshut
July 20th, 2010
6:14 pm
Wow so much nastiness! I find it hard to believe that the NAACP had no video of their own running at this event that could be available to set the record straight of what this woman said, and how she said it.
Begemot
July 20th, 2010
7:56 pm
This is the dumbest thing ever. She told a story that happened a quarter of a century ago, where she clearly suggested she made a mistake back then. And without a real investigation she is asked to resign? This stupid story is making me agree with Glenn Beck of all people. Rediculous
Buckagon
July 20th, 2010
9:05 pm
Yeah Jay, and I’d like to see the whole Robert Byrd n—— comment again (in context)!
Puhleaze!
Atsamee
July 20th, 2010
9:44 pm
Ms. Sherrod saved that farm for those folks. Her ultimate message in that anecdote was that she ultimately realized “[we're] all in this together” and it’s not about black or white…it’s about helping the poor. Though my efforts may be futile, I wrote a letter to the White House. Ms. Sherrod should be reinstated immediately. We are ALL done a disservice by Fox “News” and their dishonesty!
Bud Wiser
July 20th, 2010
10:30 pm
So if the racist is ‘innocent’, then why did she resign?
Oink oink
Califlander
July 20th, 2010
11:15 pm
gsparks: “This proves her guilty of giving or withholding government assistance on the basis of race …”
“Guilty” … except for the fact that (1) Ms. Sherrod didn’t work for the government when she met Mr. Spooner, and (2) she helped him regardless of his race.
The Spooners think Ms. Sherrod did right by them. They’re in a better position to judge than you are.
Timothy
July 21st, 2010
2:38 am
The full tape shows she was explaining how 24 years ago, long before she was a federal employee, she confronted her prejudice and overcame it. She in fact went out of her way to help a white farmer save his farm from foreclosure. She was, in fact, explaining why race should not be a factor in helping another person. I think she should sue fox media for posting false and misleading information that resulted in her loss of employment.
johnny
July 21st, 2010
7:05 am
Why is this not the HEADLINES in every newspaper, But oh my goodness if this was a WHITE person talking this trash it would be the HEADLINES. Obamma has brought out more hate an race since taking office in which is setting this country back 200 years.
UnPoliticallyCorrect
July 21st, 2010
10:25 am
Someone remind me what happened to Trent Lott when he simply made a gesture to the 100 year-old Strom Thurmond. Lott did not say he longed for the years of segregation, he did not say that he wanted blacks to go back to the back of the bus or have separate bathrooms; he simply stated that Thurmond would have made a better president than those who were elected instead.
Because liberal white guilt and political correctness decided to dissect it and read into it does not mean what he said was racist.
I mean, it is not like he said “I did not want to help the black man” or “I sent the black man to his own people for help”; or “The black man was acting superior to me so I was only going to do the bare minimum so he would go back and say I helped him even though I could have and SHOULD have helped him more”.
Right…….Trent Lott had to resign from his position, but I digress.
Double Standards and Hypocrisy-Double Standards and Hypocrisy.
@ Holly- you are right, this is no longer the 1950’s; it is also NO LONGER the 1860’s, slavery is over and there is not a soul alive who was every a slave or a victim of slavery. With that, remind me why those of today must pay for the past indescretions of others only so those of today whom were NEVER a victim of slavery and milk a system based off of white liberal guilt and political correctness?
PS… I am not blind to the fact that racism is still alive and well today, so long as you guys are not blind to the fact that racism is an equal opportunity employer with ALL races.
Someone said earlier that blacks do not benefit at the expense of whites…..LMAO, really? What on earth is affirmative action? What on earth is preferential treatment with getting into colleges, law school medical school ect.? And with Obama’s new financial overhaul, what is up with the preferential treatment towards minorities?
Right- blacks are not benefiting at the expense of whites. Do let the rest of the world know when you return from Pluto!
UnPoliticallyCorrect
July 21st, 2010
10:54 am
Someone remind me what happened to Trent Lott when he simply made a gesture to the 100 year-old Strom Thurmond. Lott did not say he longed for the years of segregation, he did not say that he wanted blacks to go back to the back of the bus or have separate bathrooms; he simply stated that Thurmond would have made a better president than those who were elected instead.
Because liberal white guilt and political correctness decided to dissect it and read into it does not mean what he said was racist.
I mean, it is not like he said “I did not want to help the black man” or “I sent the black man to his own people for help”; or “The black man was acting superior to me so I was only going to do the bare minimum so he would go back and say I helped him even though I could have and SHOULD have helped him more”.
Right…….Trent Lott had to resign from his position, but I digress.
Double Standards and Hypocrisy-Double Standards and Hypocrisy.
@ Holly- you are right, this is no longer the 1950’s; it is also NO LONGER the 1860’s, slavery is over and there is not a soul alive who was every a slave or a victim of slavery. With that, remind me why those of today must pay for the past indiscretions of others only so those of today whom were NEVER a victim of slavery and milk a system based off of white liberal guilt and political correctness?
PS… I am not blind to the fact that racism is still alive and well today, so long as you guys are not blind to the fact that racism is an equal opportunity employer with ALL races.
Someone said earlier that blacks do not benefit at the expense of whites…..LMAO, really? What on earth is affirmative action? What on earth is preferential treatment with getting into colleges, law school medical school ect.? And with Obama’s new financial overhaul, what is up with the preferential treatment towards minorities?
Right- blacks are not benefiting at the expense of whites. Do let the rest of the world know when you return from Pluto!
sarah w
July 21st, 2010
3:44 pm
JUst to keep you “journalists” honest…I would like for you to know that the release of the sherrod tape was NOT about Sherrod, it was about the NAACP. Listen to the cheers from her NAACP audience as she describes her feelings about a white farmer…it is strange that a group who labels white tea party people “racists” has not looked st their own bigotry….Glass houses and rocks…..
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Harlan
July 22nd, 2010
4:41 pm
Something big and significant is missing in the evolving news about the firing and re-hiring of agriculture official Shirley Sherrod. What is missing is any real consideration of the extent to which we’re all being sidetracked by unnecessary firestorms. We’re being consumed by firestorms fueled by partisan politicians, right and left wing commentators for both traditional and emerging media, and by various others in entertainment and other businesses. Thoughtful debate is essential. But we’re not seeing thoughtful debate or discussion, are we? Thoughtful discourse may not be compelling enough to be newsworthy. So, we’re exposed, instead, to bickering and titillating communication that fails to accomplish very much.
In a posting on our blog (www.uneedleftnut.blogspot.com), yesterday, we suggested that concerns about comments by Shirley Sherrod — decades-old comments taken out of context — were “Much Ado About Nothing.” That this firestorm was nothing more than another campaign to sidetrack, to keep us from focusing on really important stuff. We’re being sidetracked by bogus, artificially-inflated issues that should not be issues in the first place. It’s bad enough this is happening, and it’s even worse when a good, decent person like Shirley Sherrod is impacted.
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July 22nd, 2010
4:48 pm
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floridame
July 23rd, 2010
10:42 pm
Enter your comments here All of you right wing idiots who are too lazy to listen to the whole original speech: It was edited to make it seem like she did the OPPOSITE of what she actually did! The full story showed how with this first “white” case she encountered, she came to realize that white, black, or anything else, all people who need help should be extended a hand. And that is exactly what she did. Even later short versions leave out the fact that when the “white lawyer” did not come through, she went out of her way to make sure those people got help! So helping ALL people who are in need is her guiding principle.
This blog was a set up to try to discredit the administration. It was knowingly edited to give a false impression. This seems to be the current modus operandus for the new “right”, and it is so wrong! If they do not desist this kind of immoral garbage, they will lose what little credibility they have left.
L L
July 25th, 2010
11:38 pm
So…is anyone here going to apologize to Shirley Sherrod now? Seriously, where’s the apology? Come’on, cough it up!
from the past
August 1st, 2010
3:57 pm
Was this a ixon trick left in the bag for the future? Falsifying a Muskie letter is nothing compared to doctoring videos. Well, actually stealing Muskie letterhead, fraudulantly composing a letter that attacks a group with a slur, and forging a signature probably has more charges than this piece of lying. I hope she sues and sues big!