USDA official resigns over Breitbart tape of NAACP speech
posted at 8:21 pm on July 19, 2010 by Allahpundit
The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned.
“There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a written statement. “We have been working hard through the past 18 months to reverse the checkered civil rights history at the department and take the issue of fairness and equality very seriously.
Here’s Ed’s post on the vid in case you missed it this morning. It’s a great write-up, but The Anchoress adds an important wrinkle: Doesn’t it sound like Sherrod was building to a “but” before the clip cut out?
Doesn’t it seem like, after all of that sort of winking, “you and I know how they really are” racist crap wherein Sherrod–intentionally or not–indicts her own narrow focus, she was heading to a more edifying message? What did it open her eyes about? Was she about to say “I took him to one of his own, but it shouldn’t have mattered about that; my job was to serve all the farmers who needed help.”
Was she about to say, “I learned about myself and about how far we still have to go?”
Was she about to say “it’s not poor vs those who have, because we are not at war, we are just in the same human reality that ever was?”
Was she about to say, “poor is poor, hungry is hungry and the past is the past when a family can’t eat?”…
I want to see the rest of the tape. I cannot believe Sherrod ended on “I took him to one of his own.” Either she said something much worse after that (which we would have seen) or she said something much better.
I assume Breitbart’s edit is fair to the spirit of her remarks; if it isn’t, rest assured that Media Matters or whoever will produce the full tape of the event and demand to know why essential context was bowdlerized. And speaking of Breitbart, didn’t he claim to have “tapes” — plural — of racism at NAACP events? Perhaps that explains his latest Tweet, written half an hour before I’m posting this: “Hey @ericboehlert & the mostly male Caucasian @mmfa ‘senior fellows’: Get some rest. Tomorrow’s gonna be long day & first of many in a row.” Hmmmm.
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P O S T
R A C I A L !
P O S T
P A R T I S A N !
My, how far we have come.
Post-racial my posterior.
hillbillyjim on July 19, 2010 at 10:43 PM
Opps dang it I’m wrong on this.
It turns out Shirley Sherrod got her job as a result of a lawsuit (Pigford vs Vilsack) claiming racial discrimination on the part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the years 1981-85.
President Reagan abolished the USDA Office of Civil Rights when he became President in 1981.
Now on the “Ironic Scale” she got her job as a result of the Obama admin agreeing that because Reagan abolished the USDA Office of Civil Rights, therefore her Civil Rights were violated, has now been fired due to HER ACTUAL RACISM!
Now that’s Ironic!
DSchoen on July 19, 2010 at 10:44 PM
Cell phone videos rock! They will bring down this bunch of hypocites. Everybody, set your phone on Stun.
teacherman on July 19, 2010 at 10:44 PM
Live by the racism sword and die by the racism sword….
prophetic.
ted c on July 19, 2010 at 10:47 PM
I love it. Breitbart is my new hero. Wish he was in position to acquire CNN. Heck…if I could afford to acquire CNN, I would put Breitbart in charge of news angles. The JournOlist would be full of ex-CNN staffers looking for jobs.
jediwebdude on July 19, 2010 at 10:48 PM
P O S T
R A C I A L !
P O S T
P A R T I S A N !
My, how far we have come.
Post-racial my posterior.
hillbillyjim on July 19, 2010 at 10:43 PM
hillbillyjim: Sing it to da mountain tops!!!
What a glorious historical period
to be in,an A/A POTUSA,let the healing
and unity begin,ahem!!–:)
canopfor on July 19, 2010 at 10:49 PM
+1000
inviolet on July 19, 2010 at 10:50 PM
Live by the racism sword and die by the racism sword….
prophetic.
ted c on July 19, 2010 at 10:47 PM
ted c: Yuppers!!!!!!!!!:)
canopfor on July 19, 2010 at 10:50 PM
Mr. Holder, about that conversation on race that you were alluding to…..sure, we can start right here….
ted c on July 19, 2010 at 10:50 PM
Irony would also be a white farmer out there filing a civil rights lawsuit against Shirley Sherrod.
RJL on July 19, 2010 at 10:50 PM
Good one LOL
inviolet on July 19, 2010 at 10:51 PM
I be tired and ain’t be had no QOTD yet…
ted c on July 19, 2010 at 10:54 PM
That’s POSOTUS, pal.
Laura in Maryland on July 19, 2010 at 10:55 PM
Apparently its payback time, over at Justice too…
Rea1ityCheck on July 19, 2010 at 10:56 PM
Hopefully AP got something good. Hope he’s all Palin’ed out today.
Electrongod on July 19, 2010 at 10:57 PM
Shirley you can’t be serious?
I am serious, and don’t call me cracker.
Laura in Maryland on July 19, 2010 at 10:57 PM
They’re working on it. Pray something really bad doesn’t happen this summer. I think that the point of public Tea Parties and Town Halls was made last summer.
So much so, that the “racist” smear is being thrown with a vengeance for obama by his NAACP lackeys and Dem hacks.
And, for a little extra approval so that all the Leftists know that “this message has been brought to you by the White House”, michelle obama headlines at the NAACP the day before the racist denunciation and tells blacks to “increase the intensity”. What!!?? I really don’t like the sound of that in the context of their track record and their proven penchant for anti-American everything.
Anyway, I think we made our point in public last year, and imo, we should “go to ground” and just work like never before to get our candidates elected and to train and organize to try to quell the massive vote fraud heading our way.
No need to make ourselves targets in public this summer for agent provocatuers and violent instigators by repeating a tactic and point we already made very well last year.
Glenn Beck and the 9/12 rallies are a case in point. I don’t see why we have to use our energies to prove our numbers and that we are for real by putting ourselves in possible harms by yet another huge public rally, when our energies should now be focused like a laser on the mid-terms. Our numbers and reality should be proven this year at the ballot box, not in public parks.
What was good for the Tea Party in 2009 is not the same as what the Tea Party or 9/12ers should be doing in 2010.
That’s would be my strategery, no matter who wants to refudiate it.
tigerlily on July 19, 2010 at 10:59 PM
Haaa! you win girl! Airplane reference. +100
ted c on July 19, 2010 at 11:01 PM
Hatred is a horrible thing.
Except for the lawyer the white farmer is calling.
IlikedAUH2O on July 19, 2010 at 11:02 PM
Until somebody calls you “raghead.”
You two long days longing since past? When were things better? What year was the best year for race-relations in your shared mind?
Americans will always incorrectly generalize about all Republicans as racist because of a few are bigots, bigot-enablers and bigot-sympathizers. Unfortunately, the percentage of GOPpers giving in to base rhetoric and associations has increased right along with the mocking.
It’s weird. It’s as if many Americans have a stake in denying racism on behalf of people they don’t even know. It’s like saying there are no alcoholics in the tea party. How can one know that…especially if there are drunks passed out at every event?
Some conservatives feel slighted by victimhood to such a degree that they become hateful toward any person they perceive to wear the victim label they so despise. Some people are victims and Republicans are making it a habit of blowing those people off in order to spite those Dems who deal in victimology.
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 11:04 PM
I would hope that GA GOV candidates make this an issue and pick this up and run with it.
ted c on July 19, 2010 at 11:05 PM
That is poetry!
Oink on July 19, 2010 at 11:07 PM
Another radical leftist ejected from the most leftwing Administration in our history. Bravo Breitbart!
eaglewingz08 on July 19, 2010 at 11:09 PM
I’m glad that hag resigned. Yes, I called her a name.
This whole story breaks my heart. Aside from the racism, a farmer in trouble went to her and she sent him away. I live on a family farm. My Dad is a farmer as were all my Grandpas before him. My husband’s Dad is a farmer as well as all his Grandpas before him. You start messing with farmers, you’re messing with my family.
Oink on July 19, 2010 at 11:09 PM
If this USDA injustice had been white on black, Holder would have hauled them in on criminal and civil charges by now.
tigerlily on July 19, 2010 at 11:10 PM
I’m very glad that Allahpundit is sticking up for Obamaniac racists in the administration! God help us if he actually tried to … Oops, I mentioned God, and he’s an atheist. Sorry.
rmgraha on July 19, 2010 at 11:11 PM
Did ABC, CBS, NBC, or PBS cover this story tonight?
Sheerq on July 19, 2010 at 11:11 PM
The PUMAsphere has been arguing this since 2008; you should check the old Sugar n’ Spice blog (dunno how it is now, but — hot damn! — those patriotic gurlz were amazing in the day!) on how Obamanation would set blacks (like themselves) back for years with their scorched earth tactics.
It’s all coming full-circle.
Kids: befriend your local PUMA. They can teach you many things.
lansing quaker on July 19, 2010 at 11:12 PM
Move over, haiku guy.
tigerlily on July 19, 2010 at 11:13 PM
Cindy, I listened to that too and as I understand it, the video was broadcast on some local cable channel – my guess is something like a public access channel.
Some guy watching it couldn’t believe these things were being said – so he taped it and sent this to AB. I believe AB said the guy taped more than just this and that AB will be sharing it when he gets the whole shebang. (tomorrow, if me ears heard right).
whatcat on July 19, 2010 at 11:16 PM
Good. She needed to be fired.
AnninCA on July 19, 2010 at 11:20 PM
Holder calls us cowards. We stand for what is right even tho Holder is a coward and doesn’t. She can have her bigoted talk infront of the racist NAACP.
seven on July 19, 2010 at 11:21 PM
I’m thinking Tea Party “plants” or a real wacko, will do some serious violence this summer at the big public rallies, which I think were done, appropriately, in 2009, and that we should be holed up and working feverishly for our candidates and gathering and training hundreds of thousands to poll watch, cause the voter fraud is gonna be awesome come November.
imho, we’re wasting our energy doing anything else this summer, and by going out into big public rallies, again, we needlessly expose ourselves to be set up by the Left, and/or physically damaged in our persons.
obama and wife have ratcheted this thing up, and it’s gonna blow. That’s their plan. I think we are beyond foolish to go along with it by making ourselves ducks in their barrel.
tigerlily on July 19, 2010 at 11:22 PM
The fact that she says “I took him to one of his own kind” is really appalling.
It shouldn’t be about black or white. We are Americans and we have to take care of each other and be accountable to one another.
It’s like this: When I see black service members and white service members, I don’t think of them as distinct or seperate, I see them as heroes.
Rightwingguy on July 19, 2010 at 11:22 PM
I’m more optimistic. I think that people are fed up with the R card stuff, and it’s simply old and worn out already.
AnninCA on July 19, 2010 at 11:28 PM
The fact that you even have to consider Breitbart’s editing as race-baited tells a lot. Dude was my favorite neo-journalist. Then he went all Hollywood. He rails against them but he’s living the same life. IMNSHO.
@anybody
The official was getting to something. She had a lib-epiphany. She supplanted race for class and is now sanctified. She realized that there’s no future in race-war (despite Hotairhead speculation). It’s all about class.
Incidentally, what she said gives a very good example of how racism can affect one’s life. Do you think she is more or less racist than the people that your parents grew up with….generally? Do you think this is an example racism at its worst in this country?
Republicans would be taken seriously if this was not the first case of redlining they spoke out against.
Really? Who, specifically is working on creating anti-white racial violence in this country? Do you run and hide whenever you see a black face?
Amazing. What kind of person makes that allegation ? Again, you believe that “they’re working on it” referring to the terrible violence suffered by many South African farmers.
Ah canopfor. Than you for another HotAir special , inflammatory alluding to violence — and Africa! Of course, nobody will say anything save for the few supportive comment-high-fives. I used to think that challenging a thread full of good-Americans to stand up against this crap would work.
You’re sick. I know you’ll try to turn it back on me. But truly, you need to pray or meditate or something. Don’t handle sharp objects, especially liberals.
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 11:30 PM
It is really great that all of this nonsense is being exposed. The silver lining of the Obama Presidency is that the race card is totally played out. Real racism is being exposed and that is a good thing. With technology today everything is going to be brought out into the sunshine. Maybe we will actually start electing statesmen and women and get our act together as a result of seeing just how corrupt things have become. Maybe seeing this sort of thing will unite us people who want to simply be Americans and decent human beings rather than playing identity politics.
ReneePA on July 19, 2010 at 11:31 PM
+1
Yup. She’s ringing a pretty clear bell. No mystery about her feelings with that gutter-utterance.
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 11:32 PM
Huh?
Rightwingguy on July 19, 2010 at 11:33 PM
Well absolutely. We’re all human, no better or worse than the other. I think that comment was what clenched it for me.
Rightwingguy on July 19, 2010 at 11:34 PM
Who’s gonna inspect the beef jerky now?!?!
SouthernGent on July 19, 2010 at 11:35 PM
Depends on whom the other is! :^)
whatcat on July 19, 2010 at 11:39 PM
Who’s a real journalist?
Breitbart!
Too bad the lady wasn’t wearing a quasi military uniform and swinging a nightstick while calling for the killing of babies of the enemy. She might still have her job today
Hey, Breitbart, how about investigating why Obama did not call up FEMA for the oil spill. He had the power. Ask some of your journalist friends why they don’t care. They cared a lot about FEMA during 911 and Katrina
entagor on July 19, 2010 at 11:42 PM
You mean Americans like the “That’s right! That’s right!” congregation getting down with the “…so I took him to one of his own..” speechifier?
Gang-of-One on July 19, 2010 at 11:50 PM
Resigns, with what sort of golden bigoted parachute? And this lets the Obamacrats off to quietly continue their racist and political bigotry and purge unabated.
Nice…
Anyone want to bet against this being the general policy that Obamacrat bureaucracies have in general about helping, working or hiring conservatives of any skin color?
drfredc on July 19, 2010 at 11:54 PM
If she resigned, I would think she was busted. End of.
MSM, meet Breitbart, one of your executioners.
ddrintn on July 19, 2010 at 11:54 PM
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Another video the master did play
His vorpal blade again went snicker-snack!
And with another head he went gallantphing back
Cheshire Cat on July 20, 2010 at 12:12 AM
Race Card should go back to fantasizing about young girls being stalked by all the preverts on Hot Air. That’s what she’s good at, beside being an astroturfer and agent provacateur with a goose-turd-green soul.
Dhuka on July 20, 2010 at 12:19 AM
What utter nonsense. I was highlighting the absurdity of the drooling media memes that were spread far and wide by the MSM leading up to November ’08.
You have to admit that the “post-racial” slobbering by many of the media outlets has been proven to be complete fantasy.
If you want to read something else into my comments, have at it. I expect no less given your predilection for finding insult and injury where none exists.
hillbillyjim on July 20, 2010 at 12:22 AM
There is no way in HXXX this country is going to put up with 4 more years of being called racists for simply disagreeing with the Whiner In Chief.
What’s Hillary doing today?
DSchoen on July 20, 2010 at 12:22 AM
Transfering US taxpayer dollars to taliban….er.. Pakistan, and arm -twisting Karzai at the same time
macncheez on July 20, 2010 at 12:31 AM
Quite the opposite. Shirley won a class-action lawsuit and was hired into the organization she fought. She was at an awards dinner to recognize her accomplishments. And yet. And yet she had to gloat about grinding her government heel down on a hapless white farmer who had no idea about his role as a sacrificial goat for the racial sins of others. Shirley gloated about her not-so-petty act of bigoted revenge against a stranger on camera.
Race Card, can you see the Shakespearean tragic element to this story?
theCork on July 20, 2010 at 12:33 AM
They’re working on it. Pray something really bad doesn’t happen this summer.
Have you been on Mars, or do you just refuse to hear what obama, holder, the NBPP, the NAACP, the Leftist blogs, Leftist Congressional “leaders”, Leftist Hollywood, Leftist Administration appointees, and the Leftist MSM have been saying about conservatives since obama was elected?
Also, your childish comment about running and hiding from a black face is really funny. How do you know I’m not black, or married to a black man or have black relatives? You don’t, little boy.
As well, you seem to have appointed yourself the All-Seeing-All-Knowing Judge of all things related to race. What qualifies you for this God-like status that requires that you the read motives, hearts and minds in every post as you expertly ferret out hidden and obvious racism is beyond my limited powers of comprehending. Why, if you could bottle it, you’d be such a wealthy dude!
And what kind of a person would even think of elevating themselves to this kind of exalted position? I think it is VERY weird, to say the least.
No, I’m referring to the race baiting that could very well lead to violence, that is the point, not whether it will be identical to South African violence. If I didn’t make that clear then, I’m doing so now.
And if you think you are dealing with a “president” who is above inciting violence, then you just ain’t thinking.
obama not only incites violence, but through specific legislation, he has personlly visited violence on countless innocent unborn, focusing like a laser to make sure that babies get aborted in unlimited numbers and that those babies who somehow survive abortion will NOT receive medical attention and will be left to die. Research his singular role in this as an Illinois State Senator.
Specific to this post, he has taken the most vulnerable wound he could find, race relations, and is personally, and through his hack proxies, continually clawing at it until something gives.
And, just for your education, I suggest you take a look (that means some in depth research) at what U.S. Senator Obama did in Kenya when he campaigned with his cousin, Raila Odinga. Odinga was a “Christian”, is a communist and turned muslim quisling for votes. Obama campaigned all over Kenya with him, against the sitting and U.S. State Department approved Kenyan President and government.
When Odinga lost, he incited his tribe to murder 3,000; burning many Christians to death inside their churches. Odinga kept killing until he was elevated to share power with the President who won re-election.
Andrew McCarthy, at National Review Online has recently written a great article outlining and describing obama’s near, if not actual, criminal behaviour during his African campaigning for his murderous commie cousin.
I judge people by the company they keep. The company obama keeps – domestic terrorists, reverending racists, and marxist and radical muslim promoters don’t engender thoughts of a peaceful or even sane “president”.
As I have just described above, canopfor is closer to the truth when he links obama and and African violence than your ability to educate yourself or even be aware of obama’s little extra-curricular African family actitivies.
As far as using the example of a liberal as a sharp object (are you patting yourself on the back, here?), all I have to say is, oh, yeah, right, you’re so right, just so smart, so deep, so intellectual, so very, very, right.
tigerlily on July 20, 2010 at 12:36 AM
>>Don’t handle sharp objects, especially liberals.
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 11:30 PM<<
I thought I had found a sharp liberal once, but I was mistaken…turns out she was just like so many others, that most of her 'points' were copied, not original and organic; and since the basis for her points was emotion rather than truth, the strength of her points, and therefore her sharpness, crumbled under the pressure of reality.
A word of advice, Race Card: reverse your grip on the knife. You'll find that you've been trying to cut with the handle instead of the blade. The purpose for the dull edge is for holding the knife safely, and the purpose for the sharp edge is not to test the sharpness with your fingers but to use as a humble tool to accomplish honest work.
(I've never met a liberal more interested in accomplishing an honest day's work than in impressing someone with their supposed acuity.)
rwenger43 on July 20, 2010 at 12:36 AM
+1000000
Besides obama’s LOOTING OF AMERICA, his sabotage of the Gulf cleanup is the story of the century. This century and last.
tigerlily on July 20, 2010 at 12:41 AM
The theme for Obama’s Administration,is getting even!!
It is as if,its South Africa,except,the murdering and
the violence so far,isn’t happening!!!!
canopfor on July 19, 2010 at 9:12 PM
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They’re working on it. Pray something really bad doesn’t happen this summer.
Really? Who, specifically is working on creating anti-white racial violence in this country?
Do you run and hide whenever you see a black face?
The Race Card on July 19, 2010 at 11:30 PM
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Here’s my original post!
The theme for Obama’s Administration,is getting even!!
It is as if,its South Africa,except,the murdering and
the violence so far,isn’t happening!!!!
canopfor on July 19, 2010 at 9:12 PM
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RaceCard:
As you know,after South Africa was given their country back,
which was the RIGHT THING TO DO,a lot of the Farmers were
being killed off,white farmers that is,by South Africans,in
retribution!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anywho,where did this line come from,as I have never said it,nor did I post it!!
(They’re working on it. Pray something really bad doesn’t happen this summer.)
THOSE WERE YOUR WORDS, NOT MINE!!!
canopfor on July 20, 2010 at 12:43 AM
When do the lawsuits start up against USDA involving every case this lady worked on?
d1carter on July 20, 2010 at 12:46 AM
Don’t you have some white cracker babies to be killin or sometin? Yeah, black people never act violent over race issues…just ask Reginald Denny.
Some day you will grow up and not walk on eggshells around race issues, but by all means for now enjoy being the pasty white kid who hides behind black suffering for political points. Stand proud.
ClassicCon on July 20, 2010 at 12:49 AM
No later than 2008 ceratainly.
Tav on July 20, 2010 at 12:50 AM
No, canopfer, they were mine. And I was agreeing with you that violence could well be the result of this incredible race baiting. Not violence identical or engendered by the same persons/social conditions/history as South Africa, just plain, old as sin, violence.
For my more specific answer to Racecard, please see my post at tigerlily on July 20, 2010 at 12:36 AM
Sorry if I got you inadvertantly mixed up into something; my intent was defense, not offense.
tigerlily on July 20, 2010 at 12:51 AM
For my more specific answer to Racecard, please see my post at tigerlily on July 20, 2010 at 12:36 AM
Sorry if I got you inadvertantly mixed up into something; my intent was defense, not offense.
tigerlily on July 20, 2010 at 12:51 AM
tigerlily: Yes,I read your response to him,and your speaking
up of me,in defence,I thank-you!!
I’ve only responded to racecard a few times,is
that what he/she does,takes snippets of other
comments and rolls them into his post!?
And,no need for sorry:),as he/she mixed in your
posts comment sentence!!:)
canopfor on July 20, 2010 at 1:02 AM
I know I’m going to sound vague, he was vague, but I’ll try to answer with what I remember. I’ve emailed Duane to see if he will provide a transcript, but none is posted. Those are usually done super fast, so it might not be going to be done.
Anyway, from what AB said, I presume he has seen whatever it is. He said it was explosive, and that it would expose the media for what all of us presume them to be. And that it would begin being revealed tomorrow or Wednesday, then through the week and to come.
If I’m remembering correctly, it’s been a few hours and I was driving home at the time, but I think he said he would have to put his $100,000.00 away for another project. This is what really makes me think someone has come up with the Journolist archive. I just remember thinking, ‘oh man, this is going to be fun!’
lizzie beth on July 20, 2010 at 1:08 AM
Rock on, my Canadian compadre.
tigerlily on July 20, 2010 at 1:10 AM
btw, that was for you, canopfer
tigerlily on July 20, 2010 at 1:10 AM
A decaying corpse is a decaying corpse, of course, of course
And no one can talk sense to a decaying corpse, of course
And especially, of course, if the decaying corpse is the once proud NAACP
Go right to the source and ask the decaying corpse
They’ll give you answers that Martin Luther King would never endorse
They’re now on such a racist course
Talk to the NAACP
The NAACP now just smears a streak and wastes your time of day
Does any sane person even believe anymore a thing they have to say?
A decaying corpse is a decaying corpse, of course, of course
And this one’ll talk in slander til it’s voice is hoarse
You never heard of a talking decaying corpse?
Well listen to this
It’s the NAACP
Cheshire Cat on July 20, 2010 at 1:14 AM
I wonder if she resigned over this, which the Fox article says she later went on to suggest she made a mistake.
Or this:
I don’t think that’s the message DC is looking for right now.
Rocks on July 20, 2010 at 1:33 AM
Rock on, my Canadian compadre.
tigerlily on July 20, 2010 at 1:10 AM
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btw, that was for you, canopfer
tigerlily on July 20, 2010 at 1:10 AM
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tigerlily: Right back at ya,thanks,nitey-nite
and sweet OBE dreams!!:)
canopfor on July 20, 2010 at 1:33 AM
This could be interesting.
Cindy Munford on July 20, 2010 at 1:55 AM
I’ve seen no evidence yet of racism in the tea parties. I’ve seen lots of evidence of leftists smearing their political opponents with the “racist” label with — surprise, surprise — a complete lack of evidence.
It seems rather obvious that the asserted-but-never-demonstrated racism is far more likely to be the usual name-calling by the left.
Oh, and I clearly remember the Congressional Black Caucus claiming they were called the n-word by the tea parties, but having no proof of it, while there is plenty of video of the event with no evidence of racism.
Then there was the completely fraudulent video claiming to show evidence of racism at tea parties, but taken apart by Stephen Glass.
Let’s face it: all too often, charges of racism from the left are the equivalent of saying, The Republicans are trying to cut your medical care and throw you out on the street. Just another attempt at demagoguery.
There Goes The Neighborhood on July 20, 2010 at 2:45 AM
Not wanting people you don’t personally know to be accused without valid evidence and verbally lynched. That sure is weird. Well, maybe for you.
The NAACP and CBC smearers are not saying there are some tea party members who say racist things at home while they are taking a bath. They are saying that they say them at tea parties.
There may be evidence of that, although I doubt it, but I have seen no evidence of this racism of yours presented.
A word of advise. Stop being so lame. I am becoming embarrassed for you.
Tav on July 20, 2010 at 3:19 AM
Uh . . . she said something much worse I will warrant. On an organizational level like Acorn.
At least Mel Gibson is not on an organizational level in whatever rant he actually ranted.
The NAACP is a dinosaur and should already be extinct. Or is it the NAACP/BP (Black Panthers)? Not that I notice a wide range of ethnicities attending its meetings (as seen in videos I will admit).
I don`t care what color individuals are as long as they act right. It is a simple code to live by. I don`t care what color someone is at all.
Obama is the first “black” president. But I recall his mother was white . . . . Let`s be honest in liberal terms (cuz I really don`t care) but Obama is the first black and white president or white and black president or president of mixed ethnicity. Again, I don`t care a whit about it, but the libs do.
Too bad his policies are all gray and “emerging” . . . .And too bad he is simply a rotten president.
My son is half Asian for what that matters. And I was brought up to NOT be racist, moreover. It`s the liberals always talking about someone`s color. And its the liberals who tend to be racist. Give me a break already!
Sherman1864 on July 20, 2010 at 3:50 AM
I had a feeling there was a *but* and thought it was a *but I learned that we can’t discriminate*… or something. I was hoping, anyway.
That said, it doesn’t change the fact that she gave substandard service to a white guy because she acted *racistly*.
sarainitaly on July 20, 2010 at 5:49 AM
Can we talk, not just about Ms. Sherrod, but also her audience, the NAACP, which if anything giggled and tittered as she announced her racist actions?
Will the NAACP denounce the racist elements in the NAACP?
American Elephant on July 20, 2010 at 5:51 AM
sarainitaly on July 20, 2010 at 5:54 AM
Sidenote: If racism is about abuse of power, why did the NAACP condemn members of the tea party of being racist? How much power can a handful of loons at a tea party rally have? Seems to me the NAACP has more power than the few racists who try to infiltrate the TP rallies.
sarainitaly on July 20, 2010 at 5:58 AM
The agreeing That’s rights, were far from quiet.
Slowburn on July 20, 2010 at 6:15 AM
**breaking**
The DAily Caller has published excerpts from the JournoList archive strongly suggesting a concerted coverup of Rev Wright story from 2008. He names names, names papers, reports that someone calls Juan Williams the “new black friend” of Fred Barnes of TWS.
ted c on July 20, 2010 at 6:26 AM
This is how racial hate speech is often critiqued in our media. We always assume that the speaker vindicated themselves with some statement that is not on the video and blame the person making the tape for making propaganda.
Sheesh.
Jaibones on July 20, 2010 at 6:29 AM
It is so on. The Daily Caller AND Andrew Breitbart have launched a JDAM assault on the MSM. Pop the popcorn and fill the beer fridge friends, it is going to be a wild ride today.
ted c on July 20, 2010 at 6:32 AM
But is she destroying every institution in the country while cloaking it in a neo-fascist pan-African vibe?
angryed on July 20, 2010 at 6:33 AM
just read that…
good job!
cmsinaz on July 20, 2010 at 6:39 AM
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Does-Andrew-Breitbart-have-Journolist-98799114.html
ted c on July 20, 2010 at 6:42 AM
ted c: washington examiner just posted the daily caller link
cmsinaz on July 20, 2010 at 6:44 AM
cmsinaz on July 20, 2010 at 6:44 AM
It is going to be very interesting today. to say the least.
ted c on July 20, 2010 at 6:49 AM
Know what’s funny (peculiar)? Madam Sherrod made the comment twice that the white guy “thought he was superior” to her.
Guess she showed him . . .
BigAlSouth on July 20, 2010 at 6:50 AM
norah o’donnell just said this is an isolated incident….c’mon norah
and margaret carlson saying there are more racist attitudes on side than the other and buchanan trying to nail her on which side…
cmsinaz on July 20, 2010 at 6:50 AM
yepper
cmsinaz on July 20, 2010 at 6:51 AM
Don’t forget her audience. Did anyone stand up and scold her for those remarks?
dogsoldier on July 20, 2010 at 6:56 AM
isolated? of course it is. Especially when journolists get together and isolate it, like the REV Wright story.
ted c on July 20, 2010 at 6:56 AM
true
everything is an isolated incident when it involves a dem…my bad
cmsinaz on July 20, 2010 at 6:57 AM
BigAlSouth on July 20, 2010 at 7:20 AM
Not to worry, she will be working for the NAACP or Obama administration within the next month…
albill on July 20, 2010 at 7:21 AM
No eggplant, that’s for certain…
friendlygrizzly on July 20, 2010 at 7:37 AM
The NAACP
Speaking against her boasts of racism?
Applaud her racist deeds?
seven on July 20, 2010 at 7:47 AM
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