Sherrod seems likely to get job back; Breitbart still flinging baloney
This statement, time-stamped as sent at 2:07 a.m., was in my email this morning.
WASHINGTON, July 21, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack tonight released the following statement in response to the release of remarks in video from Shirley Sherrod:
“I am of course willing and will conduct a thorough review and consider additional facts to ensure to the American people we are providing services in a fair and equitable manner.”
Apparently the case is keeping at least some folks in Washington up at night. Good. The statement from the Obama administration represents a considerable change in tone from an email sent late yesterday afternoon defending Sherrod’s firing. They owe her not just her job back, they owe her a high-level apology as well. The NAACP has already issued such a statement.
Andrew Breitbart, who initially released the highly deceptive video at BigGovernment.com, continues to defend it. OK, maybe Shirley Sherrod isn’t racist, he now concedes. But her NAACP audience surely is.
“Regardless of what else is in Sherrod’s speech, the first video released on BigGovernment.com features Sherrod telling a tale of racism that is received by the NAACP audience with laughter and cheers. They weren’t cheering redemption; they were cheering discrimination. Upon hearing the cheers, Sherrod fails to offer any immediate clarification and even smiles right along with them.
Breitbart’s main objective by releasing the video was to call out the NAACP, an organization who has recently gone to great lengths to condemn the Tea Party’s alleged racism, for sanctioning racism in it’s own organization. Sherrod immediately became the scapegoat for the embarrassed NAACP and USDA, but she was never the target, the NAACP itself was, and the delight the audience took in the racist part of Sherrod’s speech leaves them exposed.
Sherrod’s firing is on the NAACP, who had the entire tape and apparently never bothered to scrutinize it until Sherrod had already been relieved of her duties. If it’s on anyone else, it’s the Obama administration, but Breitbart never even called for Sherrod to be fired.”
The refusal to accept responsibility — the utter lack of any contrition whatsoever — is dismaying, but not surprising.
Furthermore, I sat down to watch the clip in question again, and I don’t see evidence even for Breitbart’s latest claims. Early in the clip, the audience responds and chuckles along with Sherrod. But once she begins to talk about doing less than she might have for the white farmer, that reaction ceases and the audience falls quiet. Take a look for yourself:
Here’s the full video of Sherrod’s remarks:
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Pennsylvanian
July 21st, 2010
9:23 am
Off topic #1 – For Scout and SoCo — PC gone berserk. New term for illegal alien – displaced foreign traveller.
“During the raid, a U.S. Forest Service K-9 team located Gauldry Almonte-Hernandez, a displaced foreign traveler from Michoacán Mexico, who had tried to flee the area and hide while officers were performing entry into the marijuana garden.”
http://yubanet.com/regional/Arrest-Made-in-US-Forest-Service-Operation-at-Illegal-Marijuana-Site.php
USinUK
July 21st, 2010
9:23 am
Pennsylvanian – omg, now that’s funny.
Normal
July 21st, 2010
9:24 am
Actually I’m surprised that the Right hasn’t started the rumor that Sherrod was fired by the White House because she actually helped a White Farmer…
…and did you see the memo that ordered the White House be painted nutmeg?
Mick
July 21st, 2010
9:25 am
Knee jerk reaction by villisack – anything that is “exposed” by brietbart then echo chambered by hannity, fox,drudge etc..should be disqualified at face value. Media people need to do some fact checking before running with a story especially from that crew.
Doggone/GA
July 21st, 2010
9:25 am
“Is that the same “gotcha” journalism that Palin decried?”
I’m not sure about Palin, I never saw anything about her on the subject, but as I explained to Paul yesterday *I* use the term in the sense that it comes up with the Sherrod story: selectively editing someone’s comments to make them appear to be saying something they did not.
I differentiate this from “gotcha” questioning…as long as the answer is accurately reported. And even selective editing is not a problem, as long as the quoted part IS an accurate synopsis of the entire statment.
Moderate Line
July 21st, 2010
9:26 am
First, I believe the person who fired her should be fired. They apparently did not do a thourough investigation of the issue.
Second, even though she did help the white farmer it must be noted her initial reaction was racist. It is great to see that she overcame her racial animosity towards whites and eventually did her job. But the reality is she was not doing her job and was racist up to a point. She was more concerned about taking someone to one of their “own” and doing the bare minimum than to someone who could actually help. She justified it by saying he acted “superior”. If the white farmer had not called her back he would have face detrimental consequence because of her initial animosity towards whites.
@@
July 21st, 2010
9:26 am
USUK
Maybe so, but what I find all too obvious, is that this president will never be forced to assume full responsibility for anything. Why? Because he always has those, who are all to eager to shield him from the consequences of his actions.
Those people are people like you, who wanna soften his blows. Let the man grow up, or man-up, as the case may be. You do him a terrible disservice by stunting his growth.
I’ve never seen anything like it before.
larry
July 21st, 2010
9:26 am
The Ag.secretary said no one at the WH told him to fire Ms. Sherrod.
Ms.Sherrod told CNN that the WH wanted her to resign.
Whether the president told her to resingn or not…….
I think both the WH and the Ag. Department should follow the NAACP and apologize to her and reinstate her to her former job or promote her.
Doggone/GA
July 21st, 2010
9:28 am
“If the white farmer had not called her back he would have face detrimental consequence because of her initial animosity towards whites.”
So what you are saying is that it would have been Sherrod’s fault because the lawyer she initially referred them to was not doing HIS job?
@@
July 21st, 2010
9:28 am
I loved what she said about lawyers…ALL lawyers. They’ll nickel and dime you to death.
AMEN!
Normal
July 21st, 2010
9:28 am
I’ve never seen anything like it before.
I did…with the last Administration…Like it or not, both sides do it.
obama's fault
July 21st, 2010
9:28 am
I think that the President should resign…..and not because of this mess but because of his incompetence in everything else he does.
Doggone/GA
July 21st, 2010
9:29 am
“Ms.Sherrod told CNN that the WH wanted her to resign”
SHE DID NOT. She said she WAS TOLD the WH wanted her to resign. Not at ALL the same thing. I have not, yet, found any quote from anyone that the order came from the WH; and I have not yet found any quote where she even said WHO told her that. Just that she was TOLD that.
Scout
July 21st, 2010
9:29 am
Southern Comfort (EOI and disfunctional since 2010) :
Exactly ! And when the President was briefed he agreed !
It’s all about the polls and politics and perception.
Chris D.
July 21st, 2010
9:30 am
Quoting the leadership of the NAACP…”Once a Racists, ALWAYS a Racists”
So it is irrelevant that her speech was discussing how she dissed a white famrmer and then learned it was wrong to treat anybody that way.
ty webb
July 21st, 2010
9:30 am
“Like it or not, both sides do it.”
Amen! truer words were never spoken, and “sides” could refer to race or political party.
USinUK
July 21st, 2010
9:30 am
@@ – “Those people are people like you, who wanna soften his blows.”
um. how is wanting to find out exactly WHO is responsible “softening his blows”??? if it’s Emanuel (which is where my £££ lies), then he should take the blame. if it’s Vilsack, then he should. either way, the President should apologize for how she has been treated since they serve at his pleasure.
drey
July 21st, 2010
9:33 am
Sad thing is all the faux news zombies will either refudiate the correction or never see it for they only tune in to the unfair and unbalanced network…
Doggone/GA
July 21st, 2010
9:36 am
It would appear that the latest “defence” from Breitbart is that HE did not edit the video, now he says it was sent to him already edited: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/breitbart_i_did_not_edit_this_thing.php
Southern Comfort (EOI and disfunctional since 2010)
July 21st, 2010
9:38 am
Moderate Line
Put yourself in her shoes for a minute. Would you not expect her to have any racial animosity after her father was killed by a member of the KKK, and she saw that crime go unpunished? It’s all in perspective. If you’ve never been subjected to a situation like that, good for you. It’s the experiences we have from the time we’re born that shapes who we become. With experiences like that, I’m surprised that she helped them at all. Many people can not overcome a situation like that. It takes a mentally strong person to do that.
Penn
That deserves a facepalm.
Doggone/GA
July 21st, 2010
9:38 am
Here’s an interesting comment, by a commentor on Media Matters: “If the Administration had not fired Sherrod, the Troglodytes would raise hell because Obama was “harboring a racist”. As it turned out, they get to vilify Obama for bad leadership and lack of loyalty” nerzog
larry
July 21st, 2010
9:40 am
Ms.Sherrod told CNN that she was told WH wanted her to resign”
There , fixed my typo.
I agree with USinUK, the President should apologize for how she has been treated.
Peckerwood
July 21st, 2010
9:41 am
Only a fool could look at the entire video and claim that this women wasnt bigoted or racist in her condemnation of this “white farmer”. Regardless of the point she was trying to make her speak was overtly racial and she deserves to be fired from any position regardless of whether it is a public or private sector position.
Lastly the acceptance she received from the all black audience isnt surprising at all. Secretly when they think no one is listening alot of blacks make the most ardent white racist pale in comparision. Go listen to a black preacher give a sermon to see that Jeremiah Wright is much more the norm in the black community than the left would have us believe.
USinUK
July 21st, 2010
9:42 am
doggone –
– is this going to be a case of his 8 a.m. defense is “no, really, the video is about the NAACP”, his 9 a.m. defense is “but, *I* didn’t edit the video” … his 10 a.m. defense will be “the sun was in my eyes”
Mike "Hussein" Smith
July 21st, 2010
9:42 am
Libel laws being what they are, Breibert might possibly get away with murdering this woman’s career. Sherrod was, after all, a public official, which gives lots of leeway for saying ANYTHING about her. But she should push that OFB as hard as she can. Expose him for the malicious pimple he is. Force him into the light of day so decent people will forever shun him.
Southern Comfort (EOI and disfunctional since 2010)
July 21st, 2010
9:43 am
Peckerwood
Thanks for living up to your name!! (*polite golf clap)
Doggone/GA
July 21st, 2010
9:43 am
USinUK – looks like it! And here’s a fresh bone for the righties to chew on (I can take it!) – it’s beginning to remind me of “why we attacked Iraq”, with a new excuse every other day!
godless heathen
July 21st, 2010
9:44 am
The White House, specifically the President, has shown previously that he will go off on a racial issue while having only half the facts. See Srgt. Crowley and Cambridge Mass PD. Yet Obama’s loyal to the core defenders here, can’t imagine that he would have asked Ms. Sherrod to resign.
John Birch
July 21st, 2010
9:44 am
sherrod needs a good attorney, preferably one of her own kind.
@@
July 21st, 2010
9:45 am
USUK:
“The buck stops……”
Do you know how that quote ends?
If you think the government is ever gonna let us get to the bottom of what they do, you are not only mistaken, you are sadly naive.
USinUK
July 21st, 2010
9:46 am
“gives lots of leeway for saying ANYTHING about her”
no, it actually doesn’t. you can’t print an accusation that you KNOW to be false, regardless of how famous the person in question is.
T-Town
July 21st, 2010
9:46 am
Typical politics, Ms. Sherrod was exploited once, and now she gets exploited again. This story is a testament why so many people refuse to enter politics.
Doggone/GA
July 21st, 2010
9:47 am
“Thanks for living up to your name!! ”
I think “living DOWN to your name” would be more accurate
USinUK
July 21st, 2010
9:48 am
“The buck stops……”
on a dime?
at the end of Sarah’s helicopter-flown rifle scope?
inelegantly when trying to stop on ice?
seriously, what part of “Obama should apologize since they serve at his pleasure” eludes you?
Mick
July 21st, 2010
9:48 am
Man, this whole exercise has been about stoking the flames. Obama derangement syndrome is now at defcon 4. These purveyors of innuendo won’t be happy until there is blood in the streets..
Doggone/GA
July 21st, 2010
9:49 am
“Yet Obama’s loyal to the core defenders here, can’t imagine that he would have asked Ms. Sherrod to resign.”
I don’t recall anyone here saying anything like that. All I’ve seen is that no PROOF ehe did has surfaced to date.
James Harper
July 21st, 2010
9:49 am
It is Bookman who spews BS, and his hot air contributes to global warming.
1) If he watched the whole video, then he would see that the version the NAACP released has a cut/edit in it. He is either dishonest or if he missed it he is truly too stupid for words.
2) NAACP members did indeed agree with openly racist statements. He cannot make that go away. That was the point of the video.
Also, there are some on the right asking questions that are pertinent: how likely is it that Ms. Sherrod steered federal dollars toward fraudulent claims of discrimination in the Pigford case? And did she get her job as part of a lawsuit against the Federal Government? The payouts to black farmers in that case may have exceeded the actual number of black farmers.
That may be a reason that she was thrown under the O-Bus.
For Bookman to leave that out is, well, Bookman being Bookman.
Gerald
July 21st, 2010
9:49 am
peckerwood:
“Regardless of the point she was trying to make her speak was overtly racial and she deserves to be fired from any position regardless of whether it is a public or private sector position. ”
So should you, because you certainly have made racist statements yourself. Such as:
“Secretly when they think no one is listening alot of blacks make the most ardent white racist pale in comparision. Go listen to a black preacher give a sermon to see that Jeremiah Wright is much more the norm in the black community than the left would have us believe.”
I know of black preachers who NEVER deal with the race issue despite people who want them to. And of course, you seem to not know – or care – that there are LOTS of fundamentalist and (theologically) conservative evangelical black preachers. Cynthia Tucker bashes them all the time over their opposition to homosexuality and abortion. But you don’t care about FACTS like that, do you?
You are ten times the racist that you claim that Sherrod is. So whatever job that you have, go resign because you don’t deserve it. And if you are retired and drawing Social Security, stop doing so. We don’t want the hard-earned taxes of black workers supporting your racism.
Scout
July 21st, 2010
9:51 am
godless heathen @ 9:44 :
Excellent point.
Daddy, why did you fire that poor woman?
Pennsylvanian
July 21st, 2010
9:51 am
Peckerwood – My wife was born and raised in Troup County, Ga. She heard me use the word ‘peckerwood’ and asked me what it means. After I stopped laughing, I (Pennsylvanian redneck) explained it to her.
Scout
July 21st, 2010
9:52 am
WHAT DID THE PRESIDENT KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?
Gerald
July 21st, 2010
9:52 am
James Harper:
So for you, all black people are guilty until proven innocent. Or in this case, guilty even AFTER they are proven innocent. If that doesn’t make you a racist, then what does? People like you are disgusting. People like you complain about blacks not working and getting welfare, and then when blacks do get jobs you complain about affirmative action and reverse discrimination. Admit it. You hate black people and want to ship all blacks back to Africa, and once you get them all in Africa, you want to carpet-bomb the place. Am I wrong or am I right?
USinUK
July 21st, 2010
9:53 am
“Yet Obama’s loyal to the core defenders here, can’t imagine that he would have asked Ms. Sherrod to resign.”
considering it’s a personnel issue, I think that, if it was anyone in the WH and not the Sec of Ag acting on his own, it was Rahm.
either way, Obama should apologize.
Doggone/GA
July 21st, 2010
9:54 am
“Daddy, why did you fire that poor woman?”
What poor woman did your Daddy fire? And why do you think it’s at all relative to this dicussion?
Gerald
July 21st, 2010
9:59 am
USinUK:
Obama should apologize when Breitbart does the same for posting a video to edited make Sherrod look like a New Black Panther Party member. From the video, Sherrod is obviously less racist than Breitbart. White people who are still seething with fury over the O.J. Simpson acquittal demand that this woman just get over the fact that her father was killed by the KKK and nothing was done about it. Oh, wait, what are you going to do now, talk about how black on black crime is a much bigger problem and Great Society welfare programs are much worse than the KKK and Jim Crow ever was, or the usual Fox News/Tea Party spin? Please. What this tape shows is that it is possible for a liberal black person – and she is liberal – to NOT be racist, but instead to go out of her way to help poor rural southern elderly white people. This liberal woman did more to help whites than Breitbart and his ilk will ever do to help blacks, AND she urged blacks to stop relying on government help and instead to work and help themselves. That is the part that you folks really hate.
Peckerwood
July 21st, 2010
10:00 am
Gerald, when you cant debate call someone a racist, the left’s favorite tactic.
stands for decibels
July 21st, 2010
10:00 am
considering it’s a personnel issue, I think that, if it was anyone in the WH and not the Sec of Ag acting on his own, it was Rahm.
either way, Obama should apologize.
Just so it doesn’t come as a complete shock to the right wing echo chamber-pots here–there would be much rejoicing among the Netroots if Rahm’s noggin wound up on a pike on the 14th street bridge into DC.
Not that it’s gonna happen. Just sayin’.
@@
July 21st, 2010
10:02 am
Normal:
I did…with the last Administration…Like it or not, both sides do it.
After supporting Bush’s invasion of Iraq, the mainstream media quickly soured on anything and everything Bush. That has not been the case with Obama. They are still his biggest supporters, regardless of what he does…right or wrong…mouthpieces even.
As far as the electorate goes. The Republicans were out because conservative voters didn’t support their excessive spending. The Bush tax cuts were still in place…unemployment was low, so it had nothing to do with those. It was the wasteful government, and the realization that they were spending us into oblivion. We sent them a clear message. It remains to be seen whether dems will be brave enough to send their representatives the same message.
I doubt it ’cause money means nothing to you guys. What the government can’t print, they can borrow from China.
When and where did the charges of racism all begin?
In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/#ixzz0uKxHyAD6
Answer? During the campaign and inside the heart of the left-wing media.
Buckagon
July 21st, 2010
10:05 am
Particularly noteworthy here is the juxtaposition to the Dan Rather controversy. You liberals have selective memory so I will spill the whole history.
Dan Rather claimed to have evidence that Bush lied about his own military service. Rather’s evidence later was shown to be fabricated from whole cloth. Despite this Rather insisted that the story the evidence told was true, despite the fact that the evidence was complete false. If Breitbart needs flogging, then fine, Rather needed it too.
Thing is, Rather got awards and honors from his fellows in “journalism” and “punditry” before he left the anchor chair. The double standard never ends for you people, and you will go to any length to play the politics of personal destruction against your opponents, blaming them for all your problems, while claiming that their behavior justifies your doing unto them what you had condemned.
godless heathen
July 21st, 2010
10:07 am
I find it interesting to note that during the Bush administration there was much gnashing of teeth that decisions made by the Administration were being made by Bush’s Chief of Staff. but now when there is an Administration faux pas, it is dismissed as being made by one of Obama’s underlings.
“either way, Obama should apologize”
And I can agree. More likely he will throw that white guy head of the DoA under the bus.
Mark
July 21st, 2010
10:08 am
Larry, it dosent matter how you edit it, you cant sue someone in this country for that, and on Keith Olberman, r u serious…how bout “Teabaggers” for just one example
Buckagon
July 21st, 2010
10:11 am
Anybody remember James O’Keefe? His video wasn’t attacked. It was simply ignored by the mainstream “media” because the org was slapped on the wrist by the O-administration.
Mick
July 21st, 2010
10:17 am
Buckagon
A $10,000 reward was offered to anyone who saw bush at his “supposed” guard duty in alabama. No one stepped forward and no one saw him because he wasn’t there. This was going on during the vietnam war – AWOL. Only the privileged class could get away with it. Dan rather was correct and a damn good reporter. Brietbart? azzaholus maximus.
mary
July 21st, 2010
10:19 am
The so-called compassionate, conservative Christians have won the day, no substance all about their racist fear-mongering, go tell it on the mountain.
godless heathen
July 21st, 2010
10:21 am
Mick, are you and Dan Rather the only two people in America that believe the documents regarding Bush’s guard duty in Alabama were not forged?
Matti
July 21st, 2010
10:25 am
Mick,
My Daddy was a pilot in the Alabama National Guard during those years, and he never saw the Bush boy either. Funny, though. Daddy has photos of him on the tarmac with his plane, his crew, and his buddies. All Bush had to do was produce one such photo, but could not. The blind faith of the Republican faithful is indeed blind. Bush couldn’t PROVE he was there, but somehow that’s okay. (How dare you call him a liar?) Rather couldn’t PROVE the accuracy of his source for content that was undisputed by any fact, and he had to resign. Double standards make me ill.
Mark
July 21st, 2010
10:31 am
Matti, I’m not gonna argue if he was there or not, but in this country you’re innocent until PROVEN guilty, Bush is not required to prove anything…Rather made the claim so its up to him to prove it…some how thats been lost along the way…remember the Cambridege police episode, “I dont have all the facts but the Cambridge police acted stupidly”…maybe you should get the facts first before you make an accusation
Southern Comfort (EOI and disfunctional since 2010)
July 21st, 2010
10:32 am
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Mick
July 21st, 2010
10:32 am
Matti
It doesn’t matter to the bush idol worshippers. They want us to forget the previous administrations eight year slog into disaster, leaving the US in the worst shape since the great depression. Along comes obama and they want him to fail from the git go. Bush had his chance after 911, then promptly squandered it. We are where we are today because of his incompetence, cheney, and rove.
Buckagon
July 21st, 2010
10:34 am
Mick,
Dan Rather was blatantly caught red-handed with forged documents, and now you’re saying that the fact that no one claimed the 10 grand is evidence that Bush was AWOL?! –40 years ago?!! To say you have bad judgment is a gross understatement. Your thinking–like Bookman’s so often is–is a mockery of sense.
As an example, Breitbart offered $100,000 for anyone in this age of cell-phones and micro-video cameras for evidence of the John Lewis racism charge at the march to passing of nanny-state healthcare care. No one presented any evidence. Like the Bush charge, the only logical conclusion must be that there is no evidence–not that something happened like you say it did!
You can’t prove a negative, Mick.
Buckagon
July 21st, 2010
10:35 am
So Co,
You have WAY too much time on your hands.
Southern Comfort (EOI and disfunctional since 2010)
July 21st, 2010
10:38 am
Buckagon
Re your 10:34:
There have been posters here who have claimed that the fact that no one has stepped forward to claim Breitbart’s reward is indeed proof that there was no racism at Tea Party rallies. You’ll have to make sure to show them the error of their ways too.
Matti
July 21st, 2010
10:39 am
Mick
You’re so right. I love how Mark tells me to get my “facts” straight. FACT: My Daddy has tons of proof that he was there. FACT: Bush and his people produced nothing beyond the scantest of hearsay. FACT: Bush’s campaign slandered Kerry for his actual service, while touting Bush’s. FACT: There’s more hearsay evidence that Bush was effed up on coke for years than there is that he ever walked on a tarmac or flew a plane in Alabama. FACT: These Bush defenders make me want to puke.
Mick
July 21st, 2010
10:39 am
I don’t have to prove a damn thing. How come bush never gave us the truth? Obviously he is the one person who knows, right? You know the answer, its kinda embarassing to have to send reserves to iraq to get wounded or die, when bush himself did not complete his duty during wartime. If you were in the military you would understand. This fact just didn’t jibe with his “cowboy” bring it on or wanted: dead or alive manufactured image.
Sam
July 21st, 2010
10:40 am
breitbart lives off these ideologues…it doesnt make any difference to them whether its true or false…the video being manipulated makes no difference whatsoever..it fits into their ideology so it works for them. truth has no bearing on these people…i suspect mr breitbart isnt even political, he makes money off their outrage, so keep it coming…the mote clicks the better..keep stirring the crap, and let these geeks argue whether it true or not…not a bad business plan really.
Mark
July 21st, 2010
10:42 am
Hey Mick, everybody was gung ho about going to war after 9/11..wars cost money..just that simple, We probably should have came home alot sooner but where are all the anti-war Bush bashers now…Why are they not bashing Obama who campaigned on bring the troops home in 16 months(lie to get elected)..where are you guys now?
Mark
July 21st, 2010
10:47 am
Matti, you left wingers just dont get it, Im not defending Bush, like I said before I dont know if he was there or not, maybe he wasnt…but if someone makes a claim, Its up to them to prove it, not the other way around…the Left seems to want to ignore the Constitution these days
Matti
July 21st, 2010
10:47 am
Mark,
For the record, I wish he would bring them home NOW. I’d feel safer if our military were here defending us instead of occupying foreign lands. Obama campaigned on beginning to bring troops home from Iraq, and stepping up the effort in Afghanistan. This appears to be on track for the most part, even though it’s not what I personally would like to see.
Mick
July 21st, 2010
10:49 am
mark
I’m here and pissed off that obama did not have the gonads to pull out of afganistan. I was against the iraq war from day one and still believe it was a huge mistake in terms of blood and treasure. There’s china and russia sitting on the sidelines watching us spend ourselves silly in war debt, not to mention bin laden who trapped us into this unsustainable path.
Mark
July 21st, 2010
10:53 am
Well we can agree on something..thats a start
Mark
July 21st, 2010
10:57 am
blogger/lawyer Glenn Greenwald says program breaks US laws
In a striking admission from the Obama Administration’s top intelligence officer, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair announced Wednesday that the United States may target its own citizens abroad for death if it believes they are associated with terrorist groups.
“We take direct action against terrorists in the intelligence community,” Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the House Intelligence Committee. He said US counter-terrorism officials may try to kill American citizens embroiled in extremist groups overseas with “specific permission” from higher up.
If “we think that direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific permission to do that,” Blair said in response to questions from the panel’s top Republican, Representative Pete Hoekstra.
Blair’s comments came after The Washington Post reported that US President Barack Obama had embraced predecessor George W. Bush’s policy of authorizing the killing of US citizens involved in terrorist activities overseas.
Both of them are evil in my eyes!
The last Boy Scout
July 21st, 2010
10:59 am
What I have seen from the video is Shirley Sherrod is strong Christian women and Mr. Breitbart is a low life, scum sucking, moron. Anyone who says that biggoverment.com is not a right wing wacko group is lying or wrong. This is what is so wrong about the Tea Party and the Republicans they will do anything, say anything, and promise anything to anyone to get back in power. The Republicans are desperate to destroy the American dream they will stoop to any level to do so. This is just one example of where if you lay down with dogs you walk away with flee. If, Mr. Breitbart was a real man he would ask for forgiveness from Ms Sherrod and renounce all the hate he has written.
Mark
July 21st, 2010
11:03 am
Boyscout, why would you include all Teaparty people and Republicans with Brietbart..are there bad people in the Teaparty, sure, are there bad people in the NAACP, sure but dont accuse all over one persons comments
Mick
July 21st, 2010
11:05 am
mark
Obama has very quietly kept many of the bush policies intact; what’s his motivation for that?
Mark
July 21st, 2010
11:07 am
Mick
one word…Power
Favorite Right Wingnut Reaction: Redirect
July 21st, 2010
11:59 am
As usual, the right-wing neocons are redirecting here.
While I agree that the Obama Administration was negligent in vetting this video, especially considering the sources (Breitbart and False News, both discredited entities), that’s not the point.
The original, and actual, point in this issue is Breitbart’s malicious video editing to bolster his argument, and False News being complicit in his effort. Anything else is just the classic “when your flimsy argument begins to fall apart, quickly redirect” strategy of the great “Mr. Potato Head”, Karl Rove. You neocons learned so well from him!
Now, please be good boys and girls and go fetch his slippers for him! ANYTHING to get you away from the rest of us thoughtful citizens of all races and religions who — thank God!! — make up the overwhelming majority of Americans.
Buckagon
July 21st, 2010
12:40 pm
So Co,
To be honest though (which I wouldn’t expect from your side), I must add that an absolutely true statement is, “given all the media equipment, listening devices and reporters present during the march of the entire Congress of the United States to go vote, there is no evidence (beyond a statement by John Lewis to the contrary) that anyone in any gathering around this haughty march of Congressmen said anything at all that could be construed as racist.”
Put that in your pipe.
Buckagon
July 21st, 2010
12:42 pm
I’m listening to Shirley, saying that members of the administration harassed her to resign, including telling her to pull over.
Let’s face facts here: the theme of this adolescent-IN-CHIEF and his churlish administration is READY FIRE AIM!
Ivan Cohen
July 21st, 2010
12:49 pm
Would Sherrod want the job again? Politics has started showing its ugly head. It has been said in the press that the White House put pressure on her to resign. If this is true, then President Barack Obama had about as much loyalty to Shirley Sherrod that former President Bill Clinton had to Lani Guiner. Time will tell as whether the gesture of throwing Sherrod under the bus is going to help the Democrats in November. As for Andrew Breitbart, he ain’t no Matt Drudge.
Favorite Right Wingnut Reaction: Redirect
July 21st, 2010
2:39 pm
As for the “$100K reward,” CNN’s Candy Crowley should claim it.
A week after the controversy broke, she played a video on her Sunday morning show that showed a black lawmaker (not Lewis) walking up the Capitol steps, being roared at by tea baggers. One of them got right up in his face as he passed by. The lawmaker then WIPED HIS FACE, stared angrily at the guy and then said something to him before resuming his walk up the steps, and then WIPED HIS FACE again and peered back at the man.
Now, you can argue that the tea bagger didn’t hack up a loogie (gross!!) and spit on the lawmaker. But he spat on him nonetheless. I need to get my hands on the video so I can collect my $100K from Birdbrain! Additionally, former UT quarterback and current TN Rep. Heath Shuler was quoted as saying he heard the anti-gay slurs being barked at Barney Frank.
Nice folks, those tea baggers. What patriots they are. Give me a break! Where were these loons when the Bush-Chaney-Rove cabal was lying and spending this nation into the hole we’re currently in??!!
And for the nimrods (including Jeb Bush) who constantly whine that Pres. Obama doesn’t take responsibility for anything, that’s like blaming the volunteer clean-up workers along the Gulf for the oil spill instead of BP Oh, but I forgot, you are the same folks that back the dimwitted Alabama senator who apologized to BP!!
Ah, neocons/rightwingers/tea baggers …. great for comic relief and studies in dementia … bad for the future of this great nation.
bmchast
July 21st, 2010
3:48 pm
I just viewed the entire 43+ minutes of this video. If this unfortunate accusation does not change how journalists handle their business then no doubt the U.S. as we know it will never be able to stand up to its commitment for integrity in reporting. Who in this world will ever believe what is being said or shown on tape? There are so many negative behaviors that our society has sanctioned as being ‘okay’ that I believe we are losing respect not only for those that we want to destroy but also losing respect for our own self worth in whom we allege ourselves to be. If you are a professional in your trade why would you want to distort the truth by trying to hoodwink America with fear and distrust about other people that don’t look like you or organizations that don’t support what you support? In order to attain your superiority or to abate your own fears about what you might be losing as a result of the changes our society is going through are you willing to risk tarnishing your own career and ruining the integrity of your own journalism field? Note: This message is not only for Andrew Breitbart but also for the NAACP. Today in America, there is a new generation that will not support the NAACP if it’s going to be run by a group of clueless individuals. The first step the NAACP should have taken is to review the video before speaking. To all, in the future be proactive not reactive. It’s true that there is a silver lining in every cloud. The good that should come out of this reckless behavior is that we as people of all races should say I’ve seen what bad reporting can do to a person and from now on present to us all of the facts and we will make own judgment.
WideAwake
July 21st, 2010
6:01 pm
Fixed News and Breitbart Lies,
Acorn and pimp a lie distorted videos.
Sherrod they lied on her to get back at NAACP.
Who is Next?
Knucklehead
July 21st, 2010
6:06 pm
We’re all Knuckleheads, I mean Americans. Why does it surprise so many that we are defined by our experiences? Bookman is right about the video. I see a woman who once was blinded by her experiences, but enlightened by the Grace of God. The only disagreements I would have w/her are on her opinions about Obamacare and the role of Government in general, and we can agree to disagree about that.
Now to Bookman and the rest of the Left, No one has yet put up any substantiated proof, by video or audio, of anyone at the Tea Party rallies in DC in April either spitting or using the N word. In fact, the NAACP must believe that only white males must be guilty of discrimination, just look at the last paragraph of their July 20th press release:
“Finally, we hope this incident will heighten Congress’s urgency in dealing with the well documented findings of discrimination toward black, Latino, Asian American and Native American farmers, as well as female farmers of all races.”
Even though the paragraph appears to be limited to farmers, one must assume since it is tied into the Tea Party movement in this press release, that the NAACP must believe only white males discriminate.
Mary Francis Berry to Politico:
“Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness”. This is a blatant statement of Bigotry, have you condemned this Jay? Cynthia Tucker?
Have you condemned this Bookman? Probably not.
All of us have prejudices defined by our experiences and education, and we act on those in one way or another. That doesn’t make those thoughts right, it doesn’t make us right if we act on those thoughts, it just means we’re mere imperfect humans.
WideAwake
July 21st, 2010
6:26 pm
Mighty Christian of the Teaparty, Fixed News, Breitbart.
Who is next?
James Alexander
July 22nd, 2010
11:40 am
So it looks like everyone involved in this incident reacted to a partial news story without fully vetting all the actual facts of the situation.
The demolibs have used subterfuge and trickery like this for years in efforts to fool voters, make Republicans look bad in the news, etc. Sorta stings when someone uses your playbook tactics against you, doesn’t it?
Go Andrew Breitbart!! We need more of this on our side, not less. Politics becomes a lot more interesting when the dirty tricks are equal to both sides. The MSM didn’t do their fact-checking job well, either. They simply reported the incident from the White House viewpoint without checking it out.
THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN
July 22nd, 2010
4:48 pm
wow – it’s about the poor vs the rich.
Racism' Ugly Sister
July 22nd, 2010
5:00 pm
Please look at 25:30 – thru 27:00
This woman is not a racist. HOW DARE THIS NO GOOD – A**HOLE SLANDER THIS WOMAN.
and he continues to say that the crowd was laughing and “into it” — NO THEY WERENT
SHE SPEAKS OF COMING TOGETHER AS ONE PEOPLE — WORKING TOGETHER
RATHER THAN APOLOGIZE – THIS JERK KEEPS SPEWING HATE
Racism' Ugly Sister
July 22nd, 2010
5:03 pm
James – shame on you for saying: ‘ Go Andrew Breitbart’ – yeah “go” is the right word – followed by “to Hell”.
All these racist are showing their TRUE COLORS – all of the backroom talk – all of the words said under your breath – be hind closed doors — yep…. All of these sheet wearing people – stop cplaying games – just say what you really are (JAMES) and get on with it.
Racism' Ugly Sister
July 22nd, 2010
5:04 pm
THE TEA PARTY DOES HAVE RACIST MEMBERS — NO ONE ELSE WOULD PUT UP WITH THESE FOLKS — BUT THE GOP.