Sherrod: Breitbart wants to take us back to the days of slavery
posted at 5:17 pm on July 23, 2010 by Allahpundit
Via Dan Riehl, I can see that she’s going to do a bang-up job in that new racial-healing position that Vilsack’s lined up for her. Whether this is her lashing out in anger after having been treated unfairly or whether she really believes something this insane about Breitbart, only she knows, but it’s telling that Cooper doesn’t challenge it. One of the lessons of this week, supposedly, is that we should beware of caricatures in racial matters, not only because people are more complicated in practice but because the fallout from misjudgment is culturally poisonous. See, e.g., the initial clip of Sherrod versus her full NAACP speech. But here she is pushing a caricature of her own — with no evidence to support a charge this incendiary — and Cooper the journalist lets it slide, presumably because he’s squeamish about siding with Breitbart against someone who, to his audience, is a sympathetic victim. What a perfectly depressing note on which to end a depressing week.
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Perhaps Andrew should sue Ms. Sherrod.
carbon_footprint on July 23, 2010 at 5:19 PM
She’s nothing but a shill for Obama.
I did feel sympathy, although momentarily, for her…but not anymore.
She needs to wake up, and look around her. The only ones trying to enslave anyone, are those she’s buddying up with, and shilling for! Get a clue woman!!!
capejasmine on July 23, 2010 at 5:20 PM
Vid not working
What did she say ?
macncheez on July 23, 2010 at 5:20 PM
Obama told her to say this racially inflamatory thing as a condition of her new job offer.
Liberals have taught me that facts don’t matter.
GardenGnome on July 23, 2010 at 5:21 PM
Go ahead and sue, pal. Prepare for the counter-suit if you do.
MadisonConservative on July 23, 2010 at 5:21 PM
She forgot use the Klan reference, Nazis, & didn’t mention a lynching. She’ll do better once she has a sit down with Jesse Jackson & Al Franken.
She really has to improve her race baiting if she wants to compete in the big leagues.
portlandon on July 23, 2010 at 5:21 PM
Keep talking Mrs. Sherrod.
Cindy Munford on July 23, 2010 at 5:22 PM
She’s just being what she always was.
AUINSC on July 23, 2010 at 5:22 PM
Perhaps Andrew should sue Ms. Sherrod.
carbon_footprint on July 23, 2010 at 5:19 PM
FWIW, it shows her real character.
ebrown2 on July 23, 2010 at 5:22 PM
These frickin’ lefties sure don’t screw around with the projection hyperbole, do they? I’m only surprised she didn’t say Breitbart wants to return to slavery while forcing the slaves to build their own gas chambers.
fiatboomer on July 23, 2010 at 5:22 PM
Sherrod cannot help herself from her racism.
Inanemergencydial on July 23, 2010 at 5:22 PM
Slavery?! WHAT?!
The USDA needs to rescind that job offer. NOW.
Actually y’know what?
Let her keep talking she may succeed where Jeremiah Wright tried and failed.
Skywise on July 23, 2010 at 5:23 PM
It is frightening what that man is doing to this country. We were doing so well, coming so far and he had to ruin it. I fear for my children.
ctmom on July 23, 2010 at 5:23 PM
sorry, cooper and journalist in the same sentence, does not compute
cmsinaz on July 23, 2010 at 5:23 PM
Well, in her mind, not having a government job that you can never be laid off from is like being a slave.
ButterflyDragon on July 23, 2010 at 5:23 PM
Blacks don’t have to have evidence.
Mark1971 on July 23, 2010 at 5:24 PM
She better go ahead and accept Obama’s offer of her old job back very quickly before he changes his mind.
The more she talks to the media, the more she’s justifying her original firing.
teke184 on July 23, 2010 at 5:24 PM
Is this just another way of saying the fool is a tool?
Keep you chin up, AP.
Gang-of-One on July 23, 2010 at 5:24 PM
Anbody want to take back all the anti-Breitbart whining?
clnurnberg on July 23, 2010 at 5:24 PM
I’m in the camp that that feels if you give a horse thief enough rope, he’ll hang himself. I know they don’t realize it, but they’re peeling “rope” off by the yard and handing it to this woman. This will not end well for her…kind of like watching a train wreck. You don’t want to look cuz’ you know what’s coming, but…
Chewy the Lab on July 23, 2010 at 5:24 PM
She’s useful idiot.
taney71 on July 23, 2010 at 5:25 PM
As someone on the radio said this morning, Cooper is a “Swish”.
glennbo on July 23, 2010 at 5:25 PM
Thread winner.
WitchDoctor on July 23, 2010 at 5:25 PM
Ms. Sherrod has made her living from leadership positions in government-funded groups and jobs since she left the SNCC. The position she lost was a politically-appointed position. She knows how to work the system.
kingsjester on July 23, 2010 at 5:25 PM
So we’re back to the start of this whole thing – an NAACP person making wild accusations of racism with nothing to back it up.
forest on July 23, 2010 at 5:25 PM
A lot of people weren’t listening before, but I have a feeling a lot more are listening now. This endless barage of racism attacks is getting old. I can’t believe Dems are stupid enough to believe it’s gonna work a second time! Yeesh!
capejasmine on July 23, 2010 at 5:25 PM
he called breitbart a bully earlier in the week, he ain’t going to side with AB and challenge her, he more than likely agrees with her
cmsinaz on July 23, 2010 at 5:25 PM
I think it is great!! Keep her talking. I hope she sues Breitbart. I can’t wait for the depositions! Maybe even get a few JornoListers under oath too!
“Secretary Vilsac, do you think that Andrew Breitbart is trying to take us back to the days of Slavery or is Sherrod just batsh@t crazy?”
barnone on July 23, 2010 at 5:26 PM
right on
cmsinaz on July 23, 2010 at 5:26 PM
I thought they told us the point of the vid was that she had learned a lesson.
LastRick on July 23, 2010 at 5:26 PM
Yep. Shame on every single person apologizing for this racist.
tetriskid on July 23, 2010 at 5:27 PM
Anyone want to go back to defending this racist? Anyone want to apologize to Brother Breitbart?
Blarg the Destroyer on July 23, 2010 at 5:27 PM
Where is your proof Shirley? Since you have none stfu This is what the race hustlers always resort to. Conservatives want to go back to slavery. The only slavery i see us going towards is the marxist/communist/socialist ideals that Shirley and her friends at the NAACP and the WH support.
kathleen on July 23, 2010 at 5:27 PM
Blacks don’t have to have evidence.
Mark1971 on July 23, 2010 at 5:24 PM
Jeez, how about “Racist jackasses don’t have to have evidence?”
I’m pretty sure Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell aren’t convinced.
ebrown2 on July 23, 2010 at 5:27 PM
well, this should be fun to watch.
I’m guessing the Sherrod love-train will be off the rails soon.
She should just use the Dreyfus analogy that Olbie used and make herself a COMPLETE joke.
mjk on July 23, 2010 at 5:28 PM
Either way you try and interpret Sherrod’s comments it is not good for her. I think the likely meaning is that she is claiming that Breitbart wants to make slaves out of African Americans. I guess the Democrats realized they were not making any ground by calling us Nazis since the charge could be easily thrown back in their face. Calling us racists, while refutable, seems to be sticking. Is it time for another beer summit: Sherrod, Breitbart, and Obama?
Blue Collar Todd on July 23, 2010 at 5:28 PM
yup
cmsinaz on July 23, 2010 at 5:28 PM
This now is making Breitbart’s original claim, isn’t it?
lorien1973 on July 23, 2010 at 5:28 PM
This race-baiting moonbat deserves an apology? Pffft.
ddrintn on July 23, 2010 at 5:28 PM
All sympathy for her is gone.
Not for me. Mud Hens games tonight & tomorrow night.
rbj on July 23, 2010 at 5:29 PM
I’m so tired of this. I can only hope that this story finally dies over the weekend.
Emily M. on July 23, 2010 at 5:29 PM
She’s definitely a master manipulator.
Dusty on July 23, 2010 at 5:30 PM
Pot, meet kettle.
tommylotto on July 23, 2010 at 5:31 PM
Please keep her talking. Please.
TheBigOldDog on July 23, 2010 at 5:31 PM
You forgot the dogs and firehoses.
Monica on July 23, 2010 at 5:32 PM
Sucks, at least these fools could get his name right. It’s Brrrrrreit Barrrrrrrt. Arrrrgh!
MayorDaley on July 23, 2010 at 5:32 PM
Uhm… promoted liberty and a colorblind society?
elfman on July 23, 2010 at 5:32 PM
Sounds like she’s got some stored up anger just beneath the surface, like a certain professor had in Cambridge.
Beer Summit 2.0, Breitbart, Sherrod, Kaptain Kickass and Seargent Smartass. Who brings the brewskies?
fogw on July 23, 2010 at 5:32 PM
Turns out the White House AND the blogosphere was too quick to rush to judgment in RE-HIRING her. Her speech was just what so many speeches on racism by racists are — pretty words meant to reflect what she knows she is SUPPOSED to think. But when it all boils down to it, what she really believes — which you get at when she is not reading prepared words, but what she says off the cuff — is that anyone who criticizes a black person or a black organization is automatically racist.
She needs to be fired — again.
American Elephant on July 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM
Sorry, that should have been “Shucks.”
MayorDaley on July 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM
I think the Sherrod media blitz is great. If the left was smart they would start to end her 15 minutes, because she is a ticking time bomb. How long can she go before she says something similar to what she said at the NAACP event?
DFCtomm on July 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM
She walks like a duck and talks like a duck, she’s a racist.
ray on July 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM
Brietbart really is crazy like a fox, isn’t he?
ctmom on July 23, 2010 at 5:34 PM
Can’t make this stuff up. Seriously.
I don’t think Cooper chose not to call her on it. I think he fails to see a problem.
TexasDan on July 23, 2010 at 5:34 PM
[rbj on July 23, 2010 at 5:29 PM]
Bisons, huh. Good luck.
Dusty on July 23, 2010 at 5:34 PM
The more she talks the more she confirms that she is a first class racist. She said the statements on the video not Andrew Breitbart, and if you watch the entire video it shows that not only is she a racist she is also a marxist, like her boss, Obama.
The first thing they do when in hot water- is to throw the race card out. The NAACP is full of racists. I am surprised that they have not made Pastor Wright- the chaplin. They and Pastor Wright are on the same page. Notice how the biggest racists in the US- Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Wright all claim to be men of the cloth. What a joke that is!
flintstone on July 23, 2010 at 5:34 PM
She’s the one who admitted actual racism (not the fake kind that many people are accused of these days) and now she’s spewing this garbage?
ROFL.
How utterly embarrassing.
Metro on July 23, 2010 at 5:35 PM
In a paraphrase of former Arizona Cardinal coach Dennis Green – “She is who we thought she was.”
maninthemiddle on July 23, 2010 at 5:35 PM
Sweet
tommylotto on July 23, 2010 at 5:35 PM
Cite.
Skywise on July 23, 2010 at 5:35 PM
I know my comment was erased in the other thread, but I told you that she was a racist and so was the NAACP.
Tim Burton on July 23, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Unfounded cries of racism are racist.
No, that’s not ironic or sarcastic.
oddjob1138 on July 23, 2010 at 5:36 PM
I don’t think Cooper chose not to call her on it. I think he fails to see a problem.
[TexasDan on July 23, 2010 at 5:34 PM]
I agree. The usefulness of “context matters” is irrelevant now.
Dusty on July 23, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Sherrod is no surprise. Just who do you think are the dipsh!ts who man the desks at all your government agencies? They ain’t the best and brightest. You are at the mercy of racist idiots like her, thanks to your Congress allowing government to grow into every aspect of your life. Believe me, I lived in DC for over a decade. I worked for a Federal agency. It ain’t pretty.
quikstrike98 on July 23, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Sherrod wants to take us back to the days of lynchings, witch burning and human sacrifice.
This woman is just too hateful and too stupid to keep her big yap closed. Like the scorpion, she can not help herself.
Tav on July 23, 2010 at 5:36 PM
Yo, dipshit, you’re starting to sound like Sherrod, now.
Dusty on July 23, 2010 at 5:38 PM
Bingo.
BallisticBob on July 23, 2010 at 5:38 PM
She knows alright, and so do we
in her own words ” its all about the money ya’ll”
macncheez on July 23, 2010 at 5:38 PM
Testing
Texyank on July 23, 2010 at 5:38 PM
I think she just played the double-secret nuclear option race card. She’s not saying race may have played a role in his actions, or that he’s a bigot or a racist. She’s not even saying he wants to go back to the days of segregation.
He’s soooo racist he wants to go the whole way back to the days of slavery! And how does she know this? Because he posted a video that made her look bad, so obviously he’s in favor of slavery.
forest on July 23, 2010 at 5:38 PM
Not depressing. The week has been utterly entertaining and there is so much more of this to come. She won 12 million from suing her boss at USDA. Wait until she’s through with the govt/our taxes. She can send Bretibart thank you notes and pay him commissions.
What a gountry. The only sane person, and the irony, the irony, is Mr. Webb.
Schadenfreude on July 23, 2010 at 5:38 PM
Any sympathy I may have had for this woman disappeared when she was offered her job back. She has since shown her true colors that also happened to have been on display during the NAACP speech she gave.
glennbo on July 23, 2010 at 5:39 PM
The sad part is that she’s doing all her talking on CNN so no one will hear her.
Caper29 on July 23, 2010 at 5:39 PM
Alas, what a country!
Schadenfreude on July 23, 2010 at 5:39 PM
Yep.
With no evidence other than Breitbart being a conservative who called her comments racist, she says that he’s motivated by racism and wants to enslave blacks. Just when I began to doubt Breitbart, the bigot just proved him right. She just proved that she, “has not gotten past Black verses White”.
elfman on July 23, 2010 at 5:39 PM
I happened to watch this entire exchange last night. Sherrod could not shut up. She was on a racist rampage, going at Breitbart with all the pent-up anger she was sitting on and kept from expressing at those who actually either fired her…Obama and Vilsack…or led to her being fired: the NAACP.
It was an extraordinary one-sided exchange, where Coopie said a word or two and Sharrod just vaulted into white hot, non-stop vitriol. If Anderson hadn’t finally mercifully stopped her, her rant would have gotten even more racist.
Honestly, the woman was just warming up. That there was no basis for her accusations and assumptions was no deterrence for her. (And Coopie just nodded and prompted more outrage with his assent).
The extent of this woman’s racism, simmering just below the surface and unleashed by her day on television, is honestly mindboggling.
marybel on July 23, 2010 at 5:40 PM
A system-abusing harlot. Who are the fools? Not her. She’s got angels on her shoulder.
Why exactly was she still working?
Schadenfreude on July 23, 2010 at 5:40 PM
Best laugh I’ve had all day…!
elfman on July 23, 2010 at 5:41 PM
Never thought that Cooper has any real ones…but his ‘angelic’ stare ‘in disbelief’…wait, he actually believes her.
The media needs to catch a terrible ‘disease’.
Schadenfreude on July 23, 2010 at 5:41 PM
This woman is like someone who is accused of a misdemeanor. Turns out she is innocent of that misdemeanor, more or less anyway, but is guilty of 5 other misdemeanors and 3 felonies, and she is still racking them up, and yet she is regarded by many as a victim deserving an apology and even by some as a heroine deserving accolades. This is intellectual and moral bankruptcy as she is now stinking to high heaven.
Tav on July 23, 2010 at 5:42 PM
I really thought this story was dead and Breitbart would end up as the badguy. But she’s vindicating him… and she doesn’t even understand why and yet she gives speeches claiming she recognizes her own inherent racism but then her socialist training kicks in and she realizes its all class warfare and then turns around and lashes out at a capitalist figurehead (Breitbart) in a racial manner.
Leftists are friggin’ PAKLIDS!
“I am smart. I know racism. You are racist. I am smart. My economy is broke. Can you make it go?”
Skywise on July 23, 2010 at 5:42 PM
Was this entire incident a setup? It doesn’t add up.
flyfisher on July 23, 2010 at 5:42 PM
But where are the trolls?
There ought to be trolls
Don’t bother, they’re here…
SurferDoc on July 23, 2010 at 5:43 PM
Yup, she had a conversion, alright. She must have been taken out of context when she said FoxNews wants to bring back the 3/5 compromise, that Breitbart wants to bring black slavery, that Republicans are racist, and that they don’t like Obama b/c he’s black.
mcg0125 on July 23, 2010 at 5:43 PM
Ya know, I listened to Sherrod’s entire speech, and was inclined to think of her as a decent person.
She’s just shot that impression in a single sentence. She has no basis whatsoever for judging Breitbart’s character the way she has. It’s irresponsible, hateful, and divisive.
Maybe she’s just upset because she lost her job, but that’s no reason to engage in character assassination on national television. This is completely over the top.
philwynk on July 23, 2010 at 5:43 PM
It’s starting to look like the Breitbart story was fake but accurate.
RightOFLeft on July 23, 2010 at 5:43 PM
Yup, she had a conversion, alright. She must have been taken out of context when she said FoxNews wants to bring back the 3/5 compromise, that Breitbart wants to bring back slavery, that Republicans are racist, and that they don’t like Obama b/c he’s black.
mcg0125 on July 23, 2010 at 5:44 PM
Partly I want to welcome Mike Hessman back. All time leader in HRs for the Mud Hens, and he helped win a couple IL championships.
rbj on July 23, 2010 at 5:44 PM
Indeed. Can’t wait for you to return from vacation and to see him on panels with her.
He’s not done, by far.
Schadenfreude on July 23, 2010 at 5:44 PM
???
Sharke on July 23, 2010 at 5:44 PM
Well, IIRC, Breibart did tweet something about dancing in the endzone. It just took a while for the ref to raise his arms.
Kind of makes me wonder again if he’s been holding another vid of her.
Dusty on July 23, 2010 at 5:45 PM
Ah, she’s a delicate flower, isn’t she?
Keep on talking, Saint Shirley, so everyone can see that you’re nothing more than Jerry Wright’s ugly kid sister.
HornetSting on July 23, 2010 at 5:45 PM
From the get go, the two things in her NAACP speech that raised red flags were her saying “his kind” about the white farmer, and her self-correction that “it is about black and white.”
For a woman who supposedly learned her lesson about racism, she uses awfully salty language to prove it.
…and interviews like this one will do nothing to help the situation.
dugan on July 23, 2010 at 5:45 PM
She sure did. In fact, by next week Sherrod will be claiming to have walked to Selma with Dr Martin Luther King, and being part of the underground railroad during the 1850′s.
portlandon on July 23, 2010 at 5:45 PM
“Yes we can’t ” ??
macncheez on July 23, 2010 at 5:46 PM
Pray that she sues Breitbart…the hilarity, the hilarity.
Schadenfreude on July 23, 2010 at 5:47 PM
So it was wrong to accuse her, but now it’s OK to accuse Breitbart? Well, that seems to be Race’s position to for some reason.
Must be nice to have favorable media coverage.
Esthier on July 23, 2010 at 5:47 PM
I have a feeling this woman is a racist..I am not sure why..it’s just a feeling I have.
EnochCain on July 23, 2010 at 5:47 PM
Our ‘Healer’ in Chief is setting the country back by 50 years.
Schadenfreude on July 23, 2010 at 5:47 PM
Except it did work. Far too many conservatives dogpiled on Breitbart and spouted nonsense about how inspiring her redemption was.
No, it hasn’t lost it’s ability to stampede conservatives as yet.
sharrukin on July 23, 2010 at 5:47 PM
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