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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Alpha Mare on July 19, 2010, 06:25:48 PM
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For the past week, Americans who consider themselves aligned with the Tea Party movement have suffered the indignity of being falsely labeled racist by the NAACP and their pro-bono publicity managers, the main stream media. The constant calls to “repudiate the racists from your ranks†have not only been insulting, but have also served to force a false standard upon America’s fastest-growing and most vibrant political movement that no other group could ever live up to nor would ever be asked to live up to.
We are in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail, that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions.
Sherrod’s racist tale is received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement. Hardly the behavior of the group now holding itself up as the supreme judge of another groups’ racial tolerance.
http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/07/19/video-proof-the-naacp-awards-racism2010/
:cheersmate: Breitbart!
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Video Shows USDA Official Saying She Didn't Give 'Full Force' of Help to White Farmer
Published July 19, 2010
| FoxNews.com
LINK (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/19/clip-shows-usda-official-admitting-withheld-help-white-farmer/)
(excerpt)
Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy -- video that now has forced the official to resign.
Shirley Sherrod, the department's Georgia director of Rural Development, is shown in the clip describing "the first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm." Sherrod, who is black, claimed the farmer took a long time trying to show he was "superior" to her. The audience laughed as she described how she determined his fate.
"He had to come to me for help. What he didn't know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him," she said. "I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land -- so I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough."
The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned.
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Breitbart confirms the resignation. So much for the "post-racial" crap.
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Didn't 0baMao say to judge him by the people he surrounds himself with?? So, I think we can safely assume that he is a bigot, a liar and a thief.......
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Didn't 0baMao say to judge him by the people he surrounds himself with?? So, I think we can safely assume that he is a bigot, a liar and a thief.......
We can certainly start there...and add on Van Jones, Soros, Andy Stern, Tim Geitner, etc., etc., etc...
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She's resigned.
Link (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/19/clip-shows-usda-official-admitting-withheld-help-white-farmer/)
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I betcha 99% of the NAACP members in attendance did not think her statements were racist.
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any bets on whether she'll be brought up on "honest services" violations?
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any bets on whether she'll be brought up on "honest services" violations?
Won't happen.
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Won't happen.
It'll happen as soon as the NAACP and Zer0 come out and call HER a racist.
Oh never mind, that's for us Arizonans and the Tea Party members. :whatever:
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I have to wonder if this white farmer existed anywhere besides her mind. It would be beyond hilarious if she made up a :bouncy: for some street cred while screeching and preaching to the NAACP and had to resign as a result.
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Somewhere in what's left of Zimbabwe, Mugabe chuckles quietly...
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Give me a friggin break what is this woman doing but to reenact the Gentleman Agreement from the 1930's.
Turn about is called fair play.
So now we Crackers, have to face what the Catholics, Jews and blacks lived in within the life time of our grand parents.
Not nice is it, to be living the life of our ancestors now that we are on the end of the stick.
Too bad for us crackers, now we are outraged that the same thing we did to others has turned against us. We Crackers now have to explain why what was done in the past to others was OK, but in todays world is wrong to be done to us.
Funny that things have a way of turning around and biting us in the Ass.
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Hey nothing to see here it happened like 24 years ago.
malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-20-10 08:02 AM
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So the latest Breitbart video story is only 24 years old
Edited on Tue Jul-20-10 08:04 AM by malaise
I am so ignoring that crap. All ReTHUGS want is the promotion of white fear.
add
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8778848
I'm sure if a white republican said the N word 24 years ago you would yawn about that too. :whatever:
malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-20-10 08:16 AM
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2. It's the only story on CNN
Some lady has been fired in Georgia for saying at an NAACP meeting earlier this year that she discriminated against a white farmer. She was talking about an incident 24 years ago.
And slavery ended over 100 years ago I bet anything this goon thinks reparations are needed for that.
mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-20-10 08:19 AM
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3. Oh brother.
Edited on Tue Jul-20-10 08:30 AM by mmonk
And how is that a story worthy of the "news"? Breitbart is just a sh*t stirrer.
Edited: I see what the story is now. I'm at a lake house and haven't been watching TV this morning or last night.
*yawn* discrimination against a cracker.
malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Jul-20-10 08:58 AM
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7. Gut responses are useless
That's what they want. It's called selective editing. Turns out that she did help them out and they remain friends.
uh huh I buy that.
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She's resigned.
Link (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/19/clip-shows-usda-official-admitting-withheld-help-white-farmer/)
Pathetic racist. Of course she resigned and if not for Fox News, the story would have never surfaced. If I hear a white taxpayer employee spouting off using their official job capacity to discriminate against a black person, I would immediately stand up and chew their ass to the bone then filed complaints with every government agency and media outlet I could access. The black racists in her audience? Not a chance.
These racist 'progressive' filth on the left are crossing a very thin line in this nation and will find themselves in over their heads. So much for 0bama uniting everyone.
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Give me a friggin break what is this woman doing but to reenact the Gentleman Agreement from the 1930's.
Turn about is called fair play.
So now we Crackers, have to face what the Catholics, Jews and blacks lived in within the life time of our grand parents.
Not nice is it, to be living the life of our ancestors now that we are on the end of the stick.
Too bad for us crackers, now we are outraged that the same thing we did to others has turned against us. We Crackers now have to explain why what was done in the past to others was OK, but in todays world is wrong to be done to us.
Funny that things have a way of turning around and biting us in the Ass.
So the racist actions of YOUR ancestors justifies discrimination against me?
You ignorant ****! Bad behavior or crimes on ones part does NOT justify bad behavior or crimes on another's part. That is nothing short of anarchy and there is NOTHING to justify it.
Take your white guilt back to your sewer where it belongs.
If some militant Black Panther caved your head in with their club, I would blink nary an eye. "Biting us (you) in the ass" as it is...
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So the racist actions of YOUR ancestors justifies discrimination against me?
You ignorant ****! Bad behavior or crimes on ones part does NOT justify bad behavior or crimes on another's part. That is nothing short of anarchy and there is NOTHING to justify it.
Take your white guilt back to your sewer where it belongs.
If some militant Black Panther caved your head in with their club, I would blink nary an eye. "Biting us (you) in the ass" as it is...
Liberal white guilt is EXACTLY why we are saddled with that asshole Zer0 for president. Affirmative action at its worst. :fuelfire:
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So now we Crackers, have to face what the Catholics, Jews and blacks lived in within the life time of our grand parents.
So the new rule is....."Do unto others as has been done unto your ancestors, keep doing it and never let up lest it be done unto you again."
OK, I got it.
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Give me a friggin break what is this woman doing but to reenact the Gentleman Agreement from the 1930's.
Turn about is called fair play.
So now we Crackers, have to face what the Catholics, Jews and blacks lived in within the life time of our grand parents.
Not nice is it, to be living the life of our ancestors now that we are on the end of the stick.
Too bad for us crackers, now we are outraged that the same thing we did to others has turned against us. We Crackers now have to explain why what was done in the past to others was OK, but in todays world is wrong to be done to us.
Funny that things have a way of turning around and biting us in the Ass.
Since when did two wrongs start making a right?
Oh, and for the record, I'm Catholic. Does that mean I now have to discriminate against myself? Or am I not as "protected" as some other folks?
Here's a wild ****ing idea--how about just letting all the shit drop and start off from zero again? Ever consider that possibility? Many of the minorities in this country today haven't endured racism or discrimination (well, unless self-inflicted.) Likewise, many of the white people/males/straights/whatever have never subjected anyone to any form of racism or discrimination.
So now it's somehow "fair" to shove our nose in the shit for what we never did? Nope--try again.
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Sherrod: White House worried about Glenn Beck
(CNN) – In an interview with CNN, Sherrod said she repeatedly fielded calls on Monday during a long car ride, during which officials insisted that she pull over to the side of the road and quit her post.
"They asked me to resign, and, in fact, they harassed me as I was driving back to the state office from West Point, Georgia yesterday," Sherrod told CNN. "I had at least three calls telling me the White House wanted me to resign…and the last one asked me to pull over to the side of the road and do it."
Sherrod said the final call came from Cheryl Cook, an undersecretary at the Department of Agriculture. Sherrod said White House officials wanted her to quit immediately because the controversy was "going to be on Glenn Beck tonight."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/20/sherrod-white-house-worried-about-glenn-beck/?fbid=j9kpvph3ZbF
All's fair in love and war...
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Sherrod Blames NAACP For Firing
The Agriculture Department official who has resigned after a video surfaced showing her saying she withheld assistance from a white farmer insisted on Tuesday that she really lost her job over the tea party’s clash with the NAACP...
The former Agriculture Department official also said she never heard from the NAACP to hear her side of the story prior to its statement on the video. “The NAACP has not tried to contact me one time, and that's why this happened,†she said. “I would have appreciated having the NAACP at least contact me … to try to get the truth about what happened.â€.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39961.html
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Stupid bitch. You got caught voicing your true views. Live it, love it, own it.
Wonder what her DU name is.
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She changed her mind about being interviewed on Fox.
:loser:
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This has got to be confusing the hell out of the DUmmies. Glenn Beck is defending her on his TV show. :lmao:
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Well, it had been some time since the next Obamaite found themselves under the LZ Bus......
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She changed her mind about being interviewed on Fox.
:loser:
...only because the NAACP told her to do so...
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This has got to be confusing the hell out of the DUmmies. Glenn Beck is defending her on his TV show. :lmao:
I know I'm watching right now. Seems like the whole video wasn't played, she was using the example of the white farmer as a turning point in her life. Where it wasn't about black and white but the haves vs the have nots. Still offensive but for a totally different reason and not the reason she was told to resign. The White House demanded she resign, according to an interview Beck played from CNN today.
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I know I'm watching right now. Seems like the whole video wasn't played, she was using the example of the white farmer as a turning point in her life. Where it wasn't about black and white but the haves vs the have nots. Still offensive but for a totally different reason and not the reason she was told to resign. The White House demanded she resign, according to an interview Beck played from CNN today.
She's no different than Sen Byrd. (MHRIP) The WH is just trying to cover it's racist ass.
oo...I mean past...
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I saw the video.
Comments like I took him to his "own kind" and "It's still about black and white".
If she was trying to convey a lesson learned, she went about it very poorly.
There may be more video than what Beck played, but I remain suspect of her claim that it was taken out of context.
If she honestly thought that she had done no wrong then she should have refused to resign. She shoud have forced them to fire her, then file a lawsuit for wrongful termination.
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I know I'm watching right now. Seems like the whole video wasn't played, she was using the example of the white farmer as a turning point in her life. Where it wasn't about black and white but the haves vs the have nots. Still offensive but for a totally different reason and not the reason she was told to resign. The White House demanded she resign, according to an interview Beck played from CNN today.
He had a valid comparison of her comments and him at an AA meeting. It makes me wonder if the left won't try and turn this on the right for being with hunter's. Breitbart knew what he was doing when he released the snip of her saying what she did. He is as good at playing the left as Rove is, almost.
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She'll still get her gummint retirement and benefits.
...and CBS ran down the old farmer and he had some positive comments....soooo they ran them.....if they had been negative, then it would have been like the Rodney King videos and the Dan Q. potatoe video...chopped up to make their point.
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I got the point she was trying to make about realizing it was not about color, etc. But also saw that for some reason, she went off on the race thing again and the point would be lost.
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He had a valid comparison of her comments and him at an AA meeting. It makes me wonder if the left won't try and turn this on the right for being with hunter's. Breitbart knew what he was doing when he released the snip of her saying what she did. He is as good at playing the left as Rove is, almost.
I thought Beck's 20 minutes about her was well done.
Bret Baier announced on his show, about 6:30, that the NAACP had released a statement that they were going to "review" the situation. Only AFTER Beck told them on HIS show, that he thought she was wrongly fired. :lmao:
Now...wonder when the White House is going to realize they just may have screwed up? I did like when Beck "asked" the White House, how come it was ok what Robert Byrd WAS 26 years ago, but not was this woman SAID one time, 26 years ago? :evillaugh:
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I thought Beck's 20 minutes about her was well done.
Bret Baier announced on his show, about 6:30, that the NAACP had released a statement that they were going to "review" the situation. Only AFTER Beck told them on HIS show, that he thought she was wrongly fired. :lmao:
Now...wonder when the White House is going to realize they just may have screwed up? I did like when Beck "asked" the White House, how come it was ok what Robert Byrd WAS 26 years ago, but not was this woman SAID one time, 26 years ago? :evillaugh:
The WH just requested that she be reinstated.
Scott
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The WH just requested that she be reinstated.
Scott
It's customary to provide a link or source on news articles and not hearsay.
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I can't find anything about her possibly being reinstated. I think she should be, though.
I suspect the clip was taken out of context and really don't like the idea of decisions being made based on youtube clips!
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/21/vilsack-usda-reconsider-ouster-official/
Closest I can find. They're reconsidering it. Which means tomorrow she'll have her job back and the WH will be trying they're hardest to sweep this under the rug.
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She not a very good speaker, is she?
I'd say over half the audience wasn't even listening to her.
So, let me see if I've got the new roes lined out here.
It's no longer black and white (well it is kinda) according to her, it's about the have and the have nothing ??
They just try to compartmentalize the hell out of people, don't they?
Do you think they do it so they can make people enemies of each other?
I tend to think this was played out beautifully.
The liberals completely missed the point and the white house came out looking like overreaching idiots.
So :cheersmate:
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I know I'm watching right now. Seems like the whole video wasn't played, she was using the example of the white farmer as a turning point in her life. Where it wasn't about black and white but the haves vs the have nots. Still offensive but for a totally different reason and not the reason she was told to resign. The White House demanded she resign, according to an interview Beck played from CNN today.
That is what I am reading now also -- the WH did a total knee jerk reaction in making her resign.
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I'm not one prone to tin hat moments, but do you think this might have been Breitbarts plan all along? Release that little segment in an attempt to elicit just such a reaction, and then let the rest go after it happened?
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Hold up -- it gets worse. She is racist:
http://www.dittos-rush.com/2010/07/sherrod-racism-invented-by-elites-to.html
I am sure that we are going to see loads of clips from this speech. This isn't taken out of context. The lady needed to be fired.
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I'm not one prone to tin hat moments, but do you think this might have been Breitbarts plan all along? Release that little segment in an attempt to elicit just such a reaction, and then let the rest go after it happened?
Isn't that what he did with the acorn investigation?
If that is what is going on, and the liberals (and the white house) fell for it, I will be :rotf: til I :bawl:.
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Mrs. E and I discussed this case this morning. She was incensed that, according to the Fox News and ABC News reports, Breitbart took Sherrod's comments out of context and didn't include the part where she said (paraphrased), that she saw that the struggle was with poor people (here's some Kum Bah Yah for you now) and less about race.
Mrs. E took every opportunity to point her finger at conservatives (she's an outraged lib, but that can be expected since she's glued to the All Barack Channel most of the time) and cry how unfair politics is.
I cannot view video at work due to firewalls, so I didn't see the 2 minute clip, but Fox reported that Sherrod's speech was done back in March and was over 43 minutes long.
Update to the story on the All Barack Channel News: Sherrod's not sure if she wants her job back, assuming it'll be offered back to her. Can anybody smell a lawsuit coming? It sorta has that stink, doesn't it?
All Barack Channel (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wirestory?id=11214040&page=2)
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I'm not one prone to tin hat moments, but do you think this might have been Breitbarts plan all along? Release that little segment in an attempt to elicit just such a reaction, and then let the rest go after it happened?
What Hath Breitbart Wrought? (http://wizbangblog.com/content/2010/07/21/what-hath-breitbart-wrought.php)
This writer seems to think that Breitbart set up the NAACP to overreact, and just caught the White House as an afterthought. I do think Breitbart deliberately released just enough to cause this , and knew that the full tape would be virtually meaningless.
Mrs. E and I discussed this case this morning. She was incensed that, according to the Fox News and ABC News reports, Breitbart took Sherrod's comments out of context and didn't include the part where she said (paraphrased), that she saw that the struggle was with poor people (here's some Kum Bah Yah for you now) and less about race.
Mrs. E took every opportunity to point her finger at conservatives (she's an outraged lib, but that can be expected since she's glued to the All Barack Channel most of the time) and cry how unfair politics is.
I cannot view video at work due to firewalls, so I didn't see the 2 minute clip, but Fox reported that Sherrod's speech was done back in March and was over 43 minutes long.
Update to the story on the All Barack Channel News: Sherrod's not sure if she wants her job back, assuming it'll be offered back to her. Can anybody smell a lawsuit coming? It sorta has that stink, doesn't it?
All Barack Channel (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wirestory?id=11214040&page=2)
Sherrod had won a lawsuit against the Federal government over discrimination (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/20/official-ousted-ag-department-took-usda-court-won/) before being appointed.
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That pretty much clinches it, at least for me.
Sherrod will claim that she was shitcanned because of her comments in front of the NAACP AND because of the lawsuit from last year. (This is borne out from statements already publicly made by Vilsack.)
The outfit that she was with cleaned up $13 million and Sherrod and her husband each got $150K for "pain and suffering". :whatever:
She'll refuse the offer for her job back, then sue the government for wrongful termination for an even bigger settlement.
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The media as a whole is a joke. Matt Lauer had the audacity to look into the camera this morning and say (paraphrasing here) "that cable news network that ran this garbage...... and we know they have an agenda".
Jeebus, Matt! WTF do you call that sister station of yours? The one that defies logic nightly with Keith Olbermann?
What a POS, hypocritical liberal dressed up as a news anchor.
I don't watch Fox, for the record, so I know for a fact the CNN was as consumed with this story as EVERY OTHER CABLE NEWS OUTLET.
Matt Lauer is a turd.
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That is what I am reading now also -- the WH did a total knee jerk reaction in making her resign.
You mean that Obama acted "stupidly"?
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You mean that Obama acted "stupidly"?
Vilsack is the one who will end up taking the blame and getting thrown under the bus.
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this was a trail balloon to raise white anger. It failed, she'll get a .gov job back. Just in some dark hole out of the sight of people.
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Breitbart: It's Not About Shirley Sherrod; It's About NAACP attacking Tea Party
Breitbart’s argument is simple and straightforward: 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.
Exemplified with today’s revelations into the JournoList and reinforced with the quote Breitbart read on Hannity, it’s been confirmed that the left conspires to label the right “racist†in order to distract from reasonable objections to Democratic candidates and ideas. In the 2008 election, it was Obama’s association with Reverend Wright. Today, it’s staggering unemployment figures. Breitbart has identified that tactic, and like he did with the ACORN video exposé, he’s used the left’s playbook against them.
http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/07/21/breitbart-its-not-about-shirley-sherrod-its-about-naacp-attacking-tea-party/
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Matt Lauer is a turd.
And a very stinky one.
Watching TV of any kind is something I do when I'm on the elliptical or when I'm too damned tired to go into the office and check online news.
I watch cable news very, very seldom anymore. And if Lauer's on, it's channel-flipping time. I can't stand that puke.
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From American Thinker on the Pigford case, in which Sherrod and her husband were big playahs:
Shirley Sherrod's quick dismissal from the Obama administration may have had less to do with her comments on race before the NAACP than her long involvement in the aptly named Pigford case, a class action against the US government on behalf of black farmers alleging that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) had discriminated against black farmers during the period from 1983 through 1997. According to Wikipedia:
The plaintiffs settled with the government in 1999. Under the consent decree, all African American farmers would be paid a "virtually automatic" US$50,000 plus granted certain loan forgiveness and tax offsets. This process was called "Track A".[2]
Alternatively, affected farmers could follow the "Track B" process, seeking a larger payment by presenting a greater amount of evidence - the legal standard in this case was to have a preponderance of evidence along with evidence of greater damages....
At the time the case was settled, it was estimated there would be in the area of 2,000 to 3,000 claims. As with most estimates involving government handouts that number was woefully short of the mark. Again, according to Wikipedia:
22,505 "Track A" applications were heard and decided upon, of which 13,348 (59%) were approved. US$995 million had been disbursed or credited to the "Track A" applicants as of January 2009, including US$760 million disbursed as US$50,000 cash awards. Fewer than 200 farmers opted for the "Track B" process.
Beyond those applications that were heard and decided upon, about 70,000 petitions were filed late and were not allowed to proceed. Some have argued that the notice program was defective, and others blamed the farmers' attorneys for "the inadequate notice and overall mismanagement of the settlement agreement." A provision in the 2008 farm bill essentially allowed a re-hearing in civil court for any claimant whose claim had been denied without a decision that had been based on its merits
In other words, according to Agri-Pulse.com the number of total claims filed not only exceeded the original estimate by almost 40 to 50 times, it is close to four times the USDA's estimate of 26,785 total black owned farms in 1977! One reason for this is that the settlement applied to farmers and those who "attempted to farm" and did not receive assistance from the USDA. Getting the latest round of Pigford cases from the 2008 farm bill settled is said to be a high priority for the Obama administration.
Sherrod's all about money - she can say what she wants and get Roger and Eloise Spooner of Iron City, GA, to spout off about her "good deeds" to po' white farmers, it didn't take ol' Shirley long to figure out how to cash in for herself.
One hundred and fifty thousand for Shirley, and one hundred fifty thousand for Charles. For "pain and suffering."
Gawd.
USDA (along with most of the rest of the government) is so inept that it can't even figure out how much a class action lawsuit would cost. Two to three thousand claims. The final number of approved claims was 5 times that estimate.
We love gubmint handouts. :whatever:
Stinky handouts (http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/07/forty_acres_a_mule_sherrod_sty.html)