Video: Vilsack apologizes to Sherrod, offers her new job
posted at 6:45 pm on July 21, 2010 by Allahpundit
It’s a long clip but the first few minutes will give you the flavor. Say this for the guy: He makes no excuses. This is an unabashed grovel, accepting personal responsibility for the decision to can her and offering his every sympathy to her for having been put through the media wringer. His explanation for why Sherrod thought the White House wanted her fired is that the supervisor who spoke to her on Monday might have told her that a WH liaison with the USDA was informed of Vilsack’s decision to fire her — and Sherrod simply misunderstood. Although of course, that wouldn’t explain why Jim Messina was high-fiving his communications team on Tuesday morning and it wouldn’t explain why Sherrod herself claimed she was told that it was fear of Glenn Beck’s reaction that spurred all this.
As for why he pulled the trigger so quickly, Vilsack claims it’s because the USDA has a long, long history of discrimination and he wanted to set a tone of zero tolerance. That does jibe with the statement he released yesterday. No word on the new job — it’s not the one she held before she was fired but rather something “unique,” and she hasn’t accepted yet — but doubtless we’ll hear more about that tonight or tomorrow. If you make it to the 12-minute mark, note that Sherrod apparently tried to give Vilsack and company a heads up in advance that this was coming but, allegedly, messed up the e-mail address. I hope that’s true; if the White House actually had time to prepare for the media storm and dropped the ball anyway, they’re even more ham-handed than I thought.
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All these commenters focused on the shiny, pretty thing and finally, someone who gets what this is all about.
Thank you.
Tony Soprano on July 21, 2010 at 7:28 PM
Cindy Munford on July 21, 2010 at 7:28 PM
Here are a few examples of class acts for you Tom:
FROM JOURNOLIST
Keemo on July 21, 2010 at 7:28 PM
As with the Stimulus and other financial straws the Left uses to funnel yours and my money into their racialist groups, among others on the Left (Fannie and Freddie are more of the same for the Left), the USDA has a long history of not only BEING sued — as Vlisack was referring to in his speech today -=- but existing for that purpose (thus, it caves so easily when challenged).
It’s one of the Marxist targets used for wealth redistribution of taxpayer money. While they screw people in the Gulf, in the California Inland Empire (agriculturalists nearly all driven out after Obama and other Dems turned off their water) (has anyone ever heard Obama proclaim them “a disaster area” or issue anything merely sympathetic to either area, answer is, “no”).
I return the focus to James Clyburn in the House. He’s a scumbag racist and should not be tolerated in our government.
Do a simple search on terms, “Clyburn + racism” (or “racist”) and look at the deplorable history of statements he’s made in that regard (not to mention his rotten legislative hacks to fulfill his racial hatred of others).
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 7:30 PM
Shipley, you’re a moron.
Tony Soprano on July 21, 2010 at 7:30 PM
We can sue the Federal government? And get billions of dollars?
faraway on July 21, 2010 at 7:31 PM
His name is already on one lawsuit settlement with Mrs. Sherrod, I doubt he wants another. Although she apparently told CNN that she is discussing a lawsuit.
Cindy Munford on July 21, 2010 at 7:31 PM
I don’t think so, after all, it was the Obama administration that threw her under the bus to begin with. They could have waited to jump. In the end, they look incompetent…as usual.
Terrye on July 21, 2010 at 7:31 PM
Cane loader….
The President has not been down to the Gulf since around June 22…..he has though…gotten in plenty of Golf….Vacation….White House parties…..and anything else he can do to keep the debacle of the Gulf that he has failed miserably on off the front pages.
Like ACORN…Van Jones….Hide the Decline E-mails….and the support of the Black Panther party from the DOJ……
…..if it does not help Obama……the MSM will ignore it or spin and defend it.
Just read through the journalist and see the kind of idiocy and bigotry that makes up the MSM and you will see why.
Baxter Greene on July 21, 2010 at 7:31 PM
U.S. Department of Agriculture: Resolution of Discrimination
Complaints Involving Farm Credit and Payment Programs
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http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01521r.pdf
canopfor on July 21, 2010 at 7:31 PM
hahahaha, now Gibbs, Obama and the current Administration are “the right”? Who knew.
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 7:32 PM
That figgers. Something like de facto Ag Czar for Pigford Reparations and Land Redistribution?
Looks to me like they’re half scared of her, now that they know the full story. She sued ‘em once; she’ll sue ‘em again. They may want to co-opt her, buy her out.
petefrt on July 21, 2010 at 7:33 PM
canopfor on July 21, 2010 at 7:27 PM
===========================
His name is already on one lawsuit settlement with Mrs. Sherrod, I doubt he wants another. Although she apparently told CNN that she is discussing a lawsuit.
Cindy Munford on July 21, 2010 at 7:31 PM
Cindy Munford: Wow,that was quick!!:)
canopfor on July 21, 2010 at 7:33 PM
This five-year-old reference is for all of you who saw the entire video, heard from the white farmers, and still think she’s a racist:
truthiness (noun)
1 : “truth that comes from the gut, not books”
2 : “the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true“
YYZ on July 21, 2010 at 7:35 PM
La. is Central time zone… Try again at 5 p.m. AZ time.
Jeff2161 on July 21, 2010 at 7:35 PM
Lourdes, I agree this belongs right in the lap of Obamas administration. That being said unfortunately the MSM is pinning it on Fox, and Conservatives. Just as I expected they would.
sandee on July 21, 2010 at 7:35 PM
Why does Ms. Sherrod need a job, when she is a poor farmer?
faraway on July 21, 2010 at 7:36 PM
True, but as is already obvious, they are deflecting all negative opinion onto Breitbart, the Tea Party, and Fox News. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least to find out that the person who sent Breitbart the tape was baiting a trap.
RedRedRice on July 21, 2010 at 7:36 PM
Apologize!!!!
BigWyo on July 21, 2010 at 7:36 PM
So, Sharrod is against the ‘haves’ ? Seems her free money from lawsuits ought to put her in with the haves now. Too bad lawsuit money is non-taxable income… What a surprise.
Jeff2161 on July 21, 2010 at 7:37 PM
Oh fudge! I give up! I don’t know why the link won’t work…just go to Gatewaypundit’s site for the Ayre’s connection story. (I’m such a cyberloser!)
Chewy the Lab on July 21, 2010 at 7:37 PM
PS Shipley,
I’m a Communist. I quit the SDS and SNCC because they were rip-off artists and I have a conscience.
Scammers like Ayers and Sherrod make it more expensive for all of us to live while they become millionaires at our collective expense.
Tony Soprano on July 21, 2010 at 7:38 PM
I’m sure George Soros is just panting along with hopes and expectations for all that use of the USDA he perceives for his nationwide poppy farm.
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 7:38 PM
How many virgins in heaven did Øbama have to promise Vilsack to get him to fall on his sword like that?
Rahm: Hey, Vilsack, you gotta take the bullet on this one. You know, we can’t… it would be just too damaging… we can’t let the president have another “They acted stupidly” moment. Especially right now. So you take responsibility for firing her and keep the White House out of it, understand?
petefrt on July 21, 2010 at 7:38 PM
Oh well, for a day or so there was a teachable moment when both sides are embarassed and we might actually have had a productive conversation about race.
I see however, we’re back to where we started with the evil racist conservatives with their Klu Klux Klan robes hidden in their closets ready to bring them out at a moment’s notice.
Pretty sad really, but entirely predictable.
PackerBronco on July 21, 2010 at 7:38 PM
That depends; what’s your melanin level?
RedRedRice on July 21, 2010 at 7:38 PM
They can try to pin it on Fox, but the Obama administration and the NAACP jumped on her first. And I don’t think people will just forget that. It might even occur to people that if the media, the Obama people and the NAACP could be this wrong about something like this, who knows what else they are screwing up?
Terrye on July 21, 2010 at 7:39 PM
It’s cool. I often have trouble with links myself.
Disturb the Universe on July 21, 2010 at 7:40 PM
Duh!
:)
cmsinaz on July 21, 2010 at 7:40 PM
That’s it… Tanned, Rested and Ready: Nixon/Agnew 2012. That’ll fix ‘em.
Jeff2161 on July 21, 2010 at 7:41 PM
Wow!
=====================================================
Farm Service Agency (FSA). This report summarizes the information we provided
during a March 2, 2001, briefing of the Committee’s staff.
In summary, we found the following:
With regard to the class action settlement, the consent decree approved in April
1999 provides for various parties outside the federal government to make
decisions on the individual claims on the basis of information submitted by the
claimants and USDA. Although USDA participates in the process, it does not
make decisions on the individual claims. As of January 17, 2001, more than 25,000
people had filed claims under the consent decree; of these, more than 10,300
received settlement payments totaling approximately $520 million. Many claims
are still being processed, which will likely result in substantially more payments
to resolve this class action. At the same time, however, more than 3,600 claimants
(about 15 percent of those who filed claims) were rejected as not being eligible
class members, and more than 7,900 who met the class eligibility criteria were
found not to be entitled to a payment. As provided in the consent decree, many of
these people appealed these decisions to a court-appointed party. Furthermore,
the court extended the deadline for filing a claim, and more than 57,000
individuals have submitted written requests to file late claims. While most of the
costs of settling the class action are paid from a fund maintained by the
Department of the Treasury for paying judgments against the federal government,
some are made from USDA’s funding accounts, including FSA’s salaries and
expense account.
=================================================
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01521r.pdf
canopfor on July 21, 2010 at 7:41 PM
You have to cut the HTTP// for it to work.
Tony Soprano on July 21, 2010 at 7:41 PM
He knows.
lorien1973 on July 21, 2010 at 7:41 PM
Glenn Beck,Charles Krautenhammer,and two daytime reporters stated plainly that she looked like she was going on to make a bigger point and that it did not look like she was making racial attacks, but recounting how she learned a lesson from her racial attitudes in the past.
Here is the Fox round table:
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/special-report/index.html#/v/4287871/naacp-reverses-course-on-shirley-sherrod/?playlist_id=86927
Sherrod was hammered and forced to resign by her boss and was told it was coming straight from the White House…not FOX News.
Baxter Greene on July 21, 2010 at 7:23 PM
I agree with all of this. But, when the story broke, FOX was presenting it as if it had occurred while she was employed by the USDA, as if the event she was describing had just recently occurred, and if she was happy to have done it.
rjl1999 on July 21, 2010 at 7:41 PM
There must be 13,000,000 ways to leave your lover.
andycanuck on July 21, 2010 at 7:41 PM
Thanks for that, Keemo. I now realize just who some of the a.*.s.-is are on twitter and in other commenting areas on the internet (I always wondered why some people are quite so overheated about NASCAR, for starters, seems unusually bent-out-of-shape by those who are as to a target).
Boy-howdy, are those Leftwingers bent. I mean, they’re truly crooked, words, nearly fail me here.
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 7:42 PM
Wow, the gov’t outsourced this during Clintons watch…
Jeff2161 on July 21, 2010 at 7:42 PM
Thanks for that, Keemo. (I edited the quoted material with astericks.)
I now realize just who some of the a.*.s.-is are on twitter and in other commenting areas on the internet (I always wondered why some people are quite so overheated about NASCAR, for starters, seems unusually bent-out-of-shape by those who are as to a target).
Boy-howdy, are those Leftwingers bent. I mean, they’re truly crooked, words, nearly fail me here.
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 7:43 PM
I forgive her for accusing people opposed to Obamacare as doing it because he is black. Need more?
a capella on July 21, 2010 at 7:43 PM
What is obvious is that they are trying to deflect blame. The truth is it just makes them look like idiots. After all, they could have gotten the whole story before they fired the woman…all the deflecting in the world will change that. It just makes them look like dumb asses.
Terrye on July 21, 2010 at 7:44 PM
You know in January, they need to start congressional hearings on our racist President.
Jeff2161 on July 21, 2010 at 7:45 PM
Chewy the Lab on July 21, 2010 at 7:37 PM
Here’s the link: http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/
And yowza, after reading it, plus the Washington Examiner article – NO WONDER the White House wanted to throw this under the bus!!!
She and her husband aren’t just toxic, they are radioactive!
tru2tx on July 21, 2010 at 7:45 PM
Just a true american upset that Toyota runs in NASCAR…
Jeff2161 on July 21, 2010 at 7:46 PM
I don’t think that is true. I saw this on Fox and Friends and I did not get the impression that this woman had just done this. I think they actually made a point of saying it happened years ago. And by the way, didn’t CBS show the same tape?
Terrye on July 21, 2010 at 7:46 PM
Terrye, you are right. Fox did say the incident happened years ago. They said the NAACP event she relayed it at was recent.
sandee on July 21, 2010 at 7:48 PM
Well, if you believe it was the WH, not Vilsack, who called this shot, then the bigger issue is why did the WH have such a hair-trigger on her. And that leads, I believe, to the most damaging part of the story: Sherrod’s background, her suit against the fed gubmit, and the Pigford files. It’s an ugly skeleton that the WH would prefer to keep in the closet.
petefrt on July 21, 2010 at 7:48 PM
..Exactly….
Liberals got caught up in their own race baiting.
They had yelled and screamed so much ….but provided little to no proof to back up their accusations….that they had to act quickly in order to keep their narrative
of “racist right wingers” going and not allow the light to be shined on their bigotry and hate.
They can keep running with this story all they want….but the journolist is seeping into every corner of the liberal media and exposing how hateful, ignorant,and bias they actually are.
We already have an apology from the producer at NPR and left wing pundits along with right wing pundits are denouncing the journalist and their infantile statements and positions being revealed for all to see.
Mara Liasson, a liberal journalist at NPR stated tonight how harmful this was to the credibility of these journalist and the profession.
As usual…liberals will try and deflect from their own bigotry and bias by shouting bogus, unsubstantiated accusations at FOX or anything else they can drudge up to fixate their selective outrage towards.
Baxter Greene on July 21, 2010 at 7:49 PM
And Sherrod is now back to looking even more like a Schlamiel than she did at the begiining. Ten steps forward; a hundred steps back. Rather like some of these people you hear about who win the lotto and then blow it all and a lot more. And in her case, so fast!
Tav on July 21, 2010 at 7:50 PM
Sure, Vilsack – that wet-pants-emergency (WPE) to demand her resignation was all your idea. The person who told Sherrod that the White House was demanding her Immediate Rest Stop Resignation just made it up. Like a joke, eh? But no one picked up a phone at the WH because the NAACP demanded instant cleansing?
Hey, Obama – I wouldn’t even ask you because I know you’re only going to tell me lies. Kinda like a BP exec.
disa on July 21, 2010 at 7:51 PM
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 7:51 PM
Argghhh, formatting…
Well, that’s but a part of what was reported yesterday about Shirley but that’s not the full story, the entire response.
The story WAS ABOUT the NAACP’s vain, stupid and irrational slurs against the Tea Party (and who they allege are “old white people” who comprise the Tea Party).
The story as Breitbart presented that vignette from that old speech by Shirley — DELIVERED TO AND BEFORE A GROUP OF NAACP MEMBERS (note Shirley’s own defenses, she claims she was “speaking to Black people only” [I paraphrase} AS IF that justifies making the racist statements she did make and about which she received clucking approval if not open applause in agreement from those "Black people" who comprised [entirely comprised] that audience).
The vignette was released to emphasise the lack of credibility by the NAACP in their denigration based upon false racism claims hurled against the Tea Party by the NAACP.
So the vignette from Shirley’s speech showed that the NAACP for a long time now has been clucking away in enthusiasm and apparent joy and pleasure about their own racialist views about Whites. That removes any attempt by the NAACP to even claim they’re a group that supports racial equality or an “end to racism” when they’re grouping together rallying ON those terms, about those terms, proclaiming such despicable racist views about others.
Then the rest of the tape was released and persons such as Beck went on to emphasize the bigger picture of that speech (but didn’t reveal much more about ole’ Shirley as to her associations in addition to that speech).
It was what I’d call “moment-to-moment” reporting on specific aspects as they became available or were uncovered.
But now we’re on to more about Shirley, the USDA and more about the Marxist methods at work there…
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 7:51 PM
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 7:52 PM
I like the statement by Gibbs today claiming that the White House had been “trying to reach her (Shirley) all day” while earlier today, Shirley was on MSNBC with a silent cell phone in her hand.
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 7:53 PM
They are like an even more warped Eddie Haskel on steroids.
Tav on July 21, 2010 at 7:54 PM
This must-read story at Illinois Review and The Washington Examiner also reveals that Ms. Sherrod’s husband is a former honcho in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee back in the 1960’s. You can read more about it in Bill Ayers book “Fugitive Days.” Yes, that Bill Ayers. He was involved in SNCC as well. HT: tru2tx on July 21, 2010 at 7:45 PM
…
Thanks, tru2tx. Yes, Sherrod’s not just toxic. She’s radioactive. And that’s why the WH wants this entire matter to just go away.
petefrt on July 21, 2010 at 7:55 PM
BINGO!
It’s about trying to silence/eradicate anyone and any source who just might make Obama look as bad as he likely is and always has been. The effort to rub out objective observations and reports about them and other problematic conditions has been rather massive on behalf of Obama, lest anyone hasn’t yet noticed.
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 7:56 PM
Well, isn’t this all a fine kettle of fish?
Khun Joe on July 21, 2010 at 7:56 PM
Anita Dunn: Chairman Mao’s one of her two favored philosphers! Woo-hoo, Communism and racism and eugenics!
/pathetic reference to the reality that is Anita Dunn, the Left media and the Obama Cult.
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 7:57 PM
Dr Evil on July 21, 2010 at 7:58 PM
To be honest with you….and this is coming from someone who admits to jumping the gun on this story…..I was watching FOX and then reading the Captian’s post which stated “Breibart said this was all the tape he had”.
…… that made me pull back and question it.
Around noon when FOX was talking about it…the reporter stated ” Sherrod says she was simply relaying an incident from over 20 years ago and talking about how this changed her from it being about Black and White to those who have money from those who don’t”…..the last few seconds seem to back up her point” (this is not an exact quote,it is coming from memory).
FOX reported on the story…plain and simple.
They are not at fault for getting Sherrod fired….that came from her employer and by her account…from the White House.
Nor did FOX force the NAACP to make the statements of condemnation that they made….their words are their responsibility……not FOX’s.
They could have easily said “we are going to wait and confirm this before passing judgment.”…..
….but they didn’t….and now they don’t even have the ethical maturity to take responsibility for their own actions.
Baxter Greene on July 21, 2010 at 7:58 PM
Unfortunate word choice.
disa on July 21, 2010 at 7:58 PM
Back up your statement with facts or retract it.
PackerBronco on July 21, 2010 at 7:59 PM
Right you are, Lourdes. Now the real fun begins.
As a writer at RedState said this morning, Breitbart went fishing for minnows, but ended up catching the whale.
petefrt on July 21, 2010 at 7:59 PM
And more is revealed by the hour. The real journalists are working on this story as we speak while the phonies spend their collective hours attempting to spin this story into a Fox News debacle…
How pathetic! But hey, the truth is going to come out thanks to the efforts of real journalists and bloggers who have the balls to provide the forum.
Keemo on July 21, 2010 at 8:01 PM
Ruh roh, BOR may be on to the Pigford stuff.
petefrt on July 21, 2010 at 8:01 PM
Related: did anyone catch the photo of Barack Obama in Maine with his ice cream cone that Drudge ran as headline a few days ago?
Panning out from that closeup that Drudge used, was found a photo of Barack eating that ice cream after leaving an ice cream parlor whose logo/signage included a “Black Panther” black raised, closed fist.
So, perhaps it’s a case of “eat the White people” just as it is, as Drudge proclaimed, “eat the rich.”
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 8:02 PM
“That’s a lovely dress you’re wearing, Mrs. Cleaver……”
……I am sure you would be wearing a fur coat with that dress if those crazy right wingers had not cut so many taxes.”
Baxter Greene on July 21, 2010 at 8:03 PM
indeed
u watchin too?
blatantblue on July 21, 2010 at 8:03 PM
Ah, so Shirley herself was the one who submitted the tape to Breitbart, so that everyone would be snookered and she could leverage herself another round of payoffs on the American taxpayer AND a promotion to boot?
Why, that’s on a par with…Dr. Evil!
disa on July 21, 2010 at 8:04 PM
Yup, let’s light this candle. Let’s beat this drum.
petefrt on July 21, 2010 at 8:04 PM
Gee, What Do You Think Attracted Obama to This Ice Cream Shop?
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 8:04 PM
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 8:05 PM
I understand your frustration, cane_loader, but you are in the process of hijacking this thread and that’s a severe no-no. Email your story in and I’m sure it will be posted.
disa on July 21, 2010 at 8:06 PM
This is more and more like a chess game.
disa on July 21, 2010 at 8:07 PM
Yup, got in on in the background. I was kinda disappointed Beck didn’t get into it further this afternoon than he did. Probably he wants to research it more first. It’s almost a waste, of sorts, for BOR to ‘break’ (for FNC) the Pigford part of the story. I’d rather see it come from Beck or Rush.
Ruh roh… Morris is coming on next to talk about it.
petefrt on July 21, 2010 at 8:08 PM
“[Fox] would love to take us back to where we were many years ago. Back to where black people were looking down, not looking white folks in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person.”
No tears for Shirley, thank you. She didn’t learn anything in her teachable moment.
KS Rex on July 21, 2010 at 8:09 PM
And at this very hour and all day now today, the Left is attempting to make the entire issue of concern to be about “Fox” and “Breitbart” (either/or).
They’re AGAIN just resorting to predictable, pathetic Marxist hunta-errata (made that up, so sue me) in trying to “shoot the messenger” to ignore the message.
It’s just pathetic regurgitation by the Left of tiresome, pathetic, stupid Alinsky Marxist Druggy Rattling of Stones.
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 8:09 PM
Chewy the Lab on July 21, 2010 at 7:37 PM
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Here’s the link: http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/
And yowza, after reading it, plus the Washington Examiner article – NO WONDER the White House wanted to throw this under the bus!!!
She and her husband aren’t just toxic, they are radioactive!
tru2tx on July 21, 2010 at 7:45 PM
tru2tx: Wholly Sh*t,that changes the whole picture!:)
canopfor on July 21, 2010 at 8:10 PM
Liberals will always reveal who they are if they talk long enough.
disa on July 21, 2010 at 8:10 PM
No, it’s more like steering a fine ship through a large school of sharks. They have teeth and unpredictable urges that pose a mortal threat to us, we have a fine ship, big guns, a lot of harpoons and higher reasoning that can read maps, chart the course and figure out how to taunt sharks and steer them elsewhere.
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 8:12 PM
Morris: Of course Vilsack first coordinated what he did with the WH. Of course he did. Overall impression left on WH is one of “chaotic weakness”.
petefrt on July 21, 2010 at 8:14 PM
@ chewy the lab and @ canopfer …
Like I earlier wrote, this is about Marxist Cultism — among which can now be found the Obama Administration — using the federal goverment for-to-advance increased Marxism/Communism.
Shirley as much as spelled that out in her “24-year old” speech to the NAACP, and the NAACP as well as proclaimed it’s enthusiastic enjoyment at the suggestion (“get a job in the federal” proclaimed Shirley to the NAACP racist crowd…).
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 8:16 PM
Morris: WH now is stuck with Sherrod, her radical background and everything she ever said. Boy, are they ever in trouble now. They now own her. They can’t disclaim her. They can’t get rid of her. They are in serious trouble now.
WOW!
petefrt on July 21, 2010 at 8:18 PM
hahahaa…yeah….Gibbs: “we’ve been trying to get her on the phone all day” about Shirley, captured earlier today on broadcast t.v. holding a silent cellphone.
“Chaotic weakness” barely begins to describe this awful Administration. Seems the only thing they can manage well are parties (and that’s debatable) and vacations and private jets for their dog. Which other people pay for…
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 8:18 PM
HEADLINE:
“Obama reconsidering reconsidering Shirley”
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 8:20 PM
I’m a little confused about this. Why is the White House grovelling to someone who said that she refused to help a white farmer because he was white?
SoulGlo on July 21, 2010 at 8:21 PM
Did you hear Morris? He says the Sherrod thingy has put the WH in deep, enduring doo-doo.
petefrt on July 21, 2010 at 8:21 PM
She sued them for $13 million dollars. Now she see’s another jackpot in the making.
sharrukin on July 21, 2010 at 8:23 PM
ROFL You know, the way this story is mushrooming, it may just become a milestone. Even BOR is hinting there’s more to come out.
petefrt on July 21, 2010 at 8:24 PM
Is this story as important as the Black Panther voter intimidation story?
d1carter on July 21, 2010 at 8:25 PM
So,Hubby and her are radioactive,sooooooooooooo
its no wonder the WH wants this silenced!
canopfor on July 21, 2010 at 8:27 PM
You have to click on a specific article/post headline at that site (as with many others) to arrive at the dedicated (or “archive”) page for that respective article, AND THEN copy THAT URL and paste it where you want to reference/link to it.
Otherwise, when you’re “just” at the site on the Home Page, you’ll find the link to the Home Page and not to the specific article you have in mind (Home Page contains many posts, listed as you scroll down, but dedicated pages exist for each post as an ‘archive’ and you find those by clicking on an article headline from the Home Page).
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 8:29 PM
Well, that Pigford situation sounds like a real house of horrors… on a much larger scale than new Black Panthers, so it might have more impact. Plus the Black Panther story is pretty much one dimensional, but the Sherrod story is like peeling an onion. And each layer seem stronger than the last.
petefrt on July 21, 2010 at 8:31 PM
You can say that again!
I’m convinced this association with Ayers and the reparation/shakedown/slushfund/lawsuit has Obama’s panties in a twist.
(That’s a mental image I could’ve done without) :P
tru2tx on July 21, 2010 at 8:32 PM
Was over at newsbusters and read some other things she has on record. I guess she really is a racist, even by Neal Boortz standards.
hawkdriver on July 21, 2010 at 8:33 PM
My guess is the Leftwing media will continue to harp on dishonestly and in ugly fashion as they have about “racists” in reference to the Tea Party, and, Obama will simply try his big-old-smile routine while otherwise refusing to speak about Shirley, the USDA or the Black Panthers (or much of anything else that will compromise him if he does).
The Left has their one-note hatred campaign and that appears to be the only thing they know how to do. And Obama won’t talk about any of this (I’m guessing, unless he makes some slurring-reference or another to disparage by suggestion “some farmer somewhere” who he’ll describe negatively in reference to a Whiteman while not stating directly as such)…
The rest of us have to keep the pressure on discovery as to the extent of these Marxist webs, Shirley, USDA, Bill Ayers, Communists included.
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 8:34 PM
Fox or Breitbart of anyone else associated/curious ought to go down to Georgia and spend enough time there just talking to the locals. There are terrible stories of complaints about the damages overall to the areas affected by ole’ Shirley and her cooperative.
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 8:36 PM
Meanwhile the lib media you adore continue to cling to the tea party-as-racist smear. And of course you didn’t get too awfully torn up about it.
Class act.
ddrintn on July 21, 2010 at 8:41 PM
It may eventually expose how these scammers, one of which is the POTUS, run a scheme that is amazingly profitable. The democrats who protect them are participants in this money laundering operation and will have many extra funds to spend on the coming elections. All at the taxpayer expense. The nexus of this cabal is none other than the Chicago political mob of Ayers and Co.
Tony Soprano on July 21, 2010 at 8:41 PM
Lourdes on July 21, 2010 at 8:41 PM
Woohooooooooooo!
You hear Dennis Miller on BOR’s show. He’s no happy camper. He says this story makes him long for the good ole days of ACORN.
Phew, the big story’s breaking now, and it’s breaking big.
petefrt on July 21, 2010 at 8:42 PM
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