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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/matt-taibbi/blogs/TaibbiData_May2010/184697/83512 (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/matt-taibbi/blogs/TaibbiData_May2010/184697/83512)
Years ago a friend of mine in the media told me a story about an experience he had covering the execution of John Wayne Gacy in Joliet, Illinois. You won’t find anyone in the world who’d have been sad to see serial child murderer in a clown suit like Gacy die, but this reporter friend of mine said the crowd outside the prison on execution night freaked him out almost as much as Gacy had. There were something like 400 people outside the gates at Joliet and there were people selling commemorative t-shirts and pounding beers and chanting (“Kill the Clown!” was a popular one) all night.
At the moment of truth the crowd cheered and my friend turned to interview a scraggly-looking twenty-something with thinning long hair whom he described as looking like a too-old version of the Todd Ianuzzi mean-teenager character in Beavis and Butthead. The guy was into his second six-pack and smiling goofily like he’d just gotten a half-price rub-n-tug from a Thai massage parlor. He says to my friend: “You’re not against capital punishment, are you?”
“I’m not against capital punishment,” my friend says. “I’m against enjoying capital punishment.”
I’m with my friend on this one. As far as I see it, there are three positions on capital punishment. There’s being against it. There’s being for it. Then there’s putting sick-packs of beer in a cooler and driving to a hideous prison complex in the middle of the night with four hundred strangers to cheer like fans at a baseball game for the execution of some fat old child killer. Dude, if that’s what you call recreation, you’re either dangerously bored or seriously fucked up.
Which brings me to the Shirley Sherrod business. Following this surreal episode involving a heretofore obscure black female USDA official – an episode in which almost everyone involved acted like a complete and utter buffoon, from Tom Vilsack to Ben Jealous to Bill O’Reilly – there’s really only one thing we can say with absolute certainty. And that’s this: there are a hell of a lot of people in this country who enjoy talking about racism way, way too much.
This applies to people on both sides of our burgeoning race war, an increasingly unavoidable drag of a phenomenon that is looking now like a very good bet to drench the next 5-10 years of domestic political discourse in cacophonous suckhood. On the Tea Party side, I’ve decided it isn’t even necessary to have the debate over whether or not the Tea Partiers are racists. It’s enough to point out that the Tea Party and its sympathizers contain too many people like Andrew Breitbart (the idiot blogger from the Big Government website who originally posted the Sherrod video), Bill O’Reilly, and Glenn Beck, all of whom popped huge public woodies the moment the Sherrod video surfaced.
It’s just not necessary to say whether or not these people are racists. All that needs to be pointed out is that when they get a chance to gape at a video purporting to show a black Obama official confessing to having mistreated a white farmer (it turned out to be the opposite of that, of course), or a tape of Black Panther King Shamir talking about “killing cracker babies,” the word that best describes the emotions they display at these times is glee.
They enjoy these morbid stories about offenses to white dignity way too much. I caught Glenn Beck talking about some case involving a Black Panther who was intimidating people at a voting booth back in 2008 – the guy had this pervy smile on his face that made him look exactly like one of those creepy dudes sitting hunched over at the edge of the bed playing the cuckold in cheating-wife porn videos. Over the Black Panthers! Who the hell has even seen a Black Panther since the seventies? The whole thing reminds me of that Chris Rock routine about Native Americans – “When was the last time you saw two Indians?”
At every Tea Party event I’ve gone to, the scene always devolves in one of two directions: either everybody trades stories about the corruption of Charlie Rangel or ACORN or Jeremiah Wright or some other notable nonwhite villain, or else a group therapy session breaks out in which everybody shares their harrowing experiences of being unjustly accused of racism. Once they reach one of those two destinations, they camp out there, conversationally, not just for minutes but hours.
I remember being in Nevada with one group of Tea Party folks: I had one guy in my ear for a full half an hour about how “the mainstream media” had reported that a white man with a gun attended an Obama speech, and how in the end it wasn’t a white guy at all but a black guy… or something along those lines. The guy was staring at me like he had just told me the greatest and most interesting story since the Gospel and expected that when he was done, I would get the whole world on the phone so that it could apologize to him personally for how that initial misreport had made him feel.
Your average person doesn’t spending hours a day pondering his racial victimhood like this – not unless he enjoys it, and if he enjoys it, he’s an asshole! (Especially if he’s white. If he’s white, the scale of his assholedom is almost incalculable). The Tea Partiers and the Glenn Becks of the world are bad in this respect, but they obviously have some dance partners on the other side now. There’s the NAACP passing a resolution like the Tea Party’s white-whining epidemic is a national emergency, and now there is all this criticism of Obama for being silent on race, as if spending one’s time dealing with the Gulf disaster, two wars, and a financial collapse instead of validating some Fox-generated suburban angst is somehow political malpractice.
Maybe I’m wrong and we do need a national “dialogue on race,” but my guess is that if Barack Obama figures out a way to turn the economy around and create some real paying jobs, a lot of this racial angst will disappear pretty quick. If you tune out the hottest parts of the Tea Party rhetoric and just focus on who these people are, what you’ll basically see are a bunch of middle-aged white people who spent their teens listening to Eddie Murphy albums and deep down are a lot more worried about their credit card debt than they are about ACORN taking over the government. Add a little more disposable income to that crowd and this whole debate will recede to tolerable levels. Or maybe not -- but we can all hope, I guess. Is anyone else dreading 2012?
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Utterly absurd on so many levels.
The glaring blind spot this author has for absurd nonsense from Kanye West ("George Bush hates black people"), Holder (We are a nation of cowards on matters of race), Obama's daily lie machine, Sharpton (Greek Homos), Jesse Jackson (Hymie Town, spit in the food of white people), Sherrod (If you oopose ObamaCare you are racist), all the way to Obama ("White executives dont want to pay taxes to help inner city youth") is very telling.
This is another JournoList inspired piece of trash.
Most tea party people are against the disgusting agenda of the gov t in overregulating, over taxing, over spending, etc.
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Yep, they're so irrelevant, that one of their members just EMBARRASED the holy hell out of the NAACP, the USDA, the far-left, and the President of the United States.
333386, here's a gem. As I said the last time I posted this, even a broken clock is right twice a day. I give you, from the red-headed stepchild of cable news, Joe Scarborough:
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/joe-scarborough-rants-screwed-if-administration-afraid-of-glenn-beck
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Dumbest thing Ive ever read and nothing but lies.Beck,in fact,didnt report on this at all.He felt it was a scam.FOX never showed the video untill after she had been forced out.The overreaction and the love of race talk is on the left.Its people like those goof balls on MSNBC who cant wait to trot out the typical race haters like Johnathant Capehart,aL sHARPTON ETC.The white house itself loves racial issues and they will pay for it in Nov.
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Dumbest thing Ive ever read and nothing but lies.Beck,in fact,didnt report on this at all.He felt it was a scam.FOX never showed the video untill after she had been forced out.The overreaction and the love of race talk is on the left.Its people like those goof balls on MSNBC who cant wait to trot out the typical race haters like Johnathant Capehart,aL sHARPTON ETC.The white house itself loves racial issues and they will pay for it in Nov.
Check out my JournoList thread.
Those little commies have finally exposed themselves and msnbc, CNN, and all the other supposed non-biased channels for whatt hey are - DNC commisars.
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Dumbest thing Ive ever read and nothing but lies.Beck,in fact,didnt report on this at all.He felt it was a scam.FOX never showed the video untill after she had been forced out.The overreaction and the love of race talk is on the left.Its people like those goof balls on MSNBC who cant wait to trot out the typical race haters like Johnathant Capehart,aL sHARPTON ETC.The white house itself loves racial issues and they will pay for it in Nov.
Lest the left-winged goofies forget, the White House fired Sherrod (That's right!! The oh-so-tolerant-"Hope-and-change" Obama Administration forced a 62-year-old black woman, an advertised civil rights champion, to pull over on the side of the highway and QUIT), to keep her from being on Glenn Beck's show under their employment in the first place.
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Lest the left-winged goofies forget, the White House fired Sherrod (That's right!! The oh-so-tolerant-"Hope-and-change" Obama Administration forced a 62-year-old black woman, an advertised civil rights champion, to pull over on the side of the highway and QUIT), to keep her from being on Glenn Beck's show under their employment in the first place.
Even more incredible was that Beck had no intention of ever having her on his show.Another liberal lie.
See if you can get a view of the clip on FOX sunday with Chris Wallace talking to Howard Dean,one of the most amazing pile of lies ever seen.Dean is caught in his lies,then just says it doesnt matter if its lies.
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Even more incredible was that Beck had no intention of ever having her on his show.Another liberal lie.
See if you can get a view of the clip on FOX sunday with Chris Wallace talking to Howard Dean,one of the most amazing pile of lies ever seen.Dean is caught in his lies,then just says it doesnt matter if its lies.
Way ahead of you, Billy!! I saw this on TV yesterday...TWICE.
Here's the clip:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/howard-dean-tells-chris-wallace-fox-news-is-racist/ (http://www.mediaite.com/online/howard-dean-tells-chris-wallace-fox-news-is-racist/)
Notice how Howard Dean sounds like Porky Pig, when Chris Wallace asks him if he knew that Shirley Sherrod had been fired, before Fox ever aired the clip on TV. PRICELESS!!!
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The leftists like those on JournoLista are formenting CW2 with their march to communism.
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Way ahead of you, Billy!! I saw this on TV yesterday...TWICE.
Here's the clip:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/howard-dean-tells-chris-wallace-fox-news-is-racist/ (http://www.mediaite.com/online/howard-dean-tells-chris-wallace-fox-news-is-racist/)
Notice how Howard Dean sounds like Porky Pig, when Chris Wallace asks him if he knew that Shirley Sherrod had been fired, before Fox ever aired the clip on TV. PRICELESS!!!
How about when he is called out on his lie,and was destroyed by Wallace after Wallace said "the video wasnt shown on FOX until after she had resigned" Dean says "thats doesnt matter".Huh?That was his entire point,how can it not matter,if it doesnt matter why in the hell is he talking about it?What a f'n idiot.
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How about when he is called out on his lie,and was destroyed by Wallace after Wallace said "the video wasnt shown on FOX until after she had resigned" Dean says "thats doesnt matter".Huh?That was his entire point,how can it not matter,if it doesnt matter why in the hell is he talking about it?What a f'n idiot.
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This thread is not solely about the Sherrod incident Danny, its about the utter stupidity and narrow mindedness of those on the left and the JournoListas who have revealed themselves as the modern day commisars for the far left that we always knew they were.
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The video or her name were NEVER uttered on FOX until AFTER she resigned.Another liberal lie.Listen,its easy to prove,show the clip of FOX showing it or mentioning her before she resigned,you cant.Maddow,Olbermann and the rest of the lib idiots are caught in a lie.
Prove that Beck was going to have her on his show.You cant,another liberal lie.Never ever again will we have to hear the silly ass line "show me a lie Maddow or Olbermann told" we have proof beyond a doubt.Libs are liars.The racist scum bag NAACP was behind this.
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I love how Danny and the other far left dupes are all over palin, tea party nonsense, but ignore Obama supporting the release of the lybian bomber into compassionate custody.
Typical far left hackery at its best.
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I love how Danny and the other far left dupes are all over palin, tea party nonsense, but ignore Obama supporting the release of the lybian bomber into compassionate custody.
Typical far left hackery at its best.
Its also funny that he says the tea party is irrelevant,but just a week ago,the racist NAACP was in the news for lying about them.It was headline news for a week.Somehow that doesnt seem irrelevant.
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Danny claims he comes from a communist country yet supports those who have flirted with communism their entire public careers. Talk about Stockholm Syndrom at its worst.
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This thread is not solely about the Sherrod incident Danny, its about the utter stupidity and narrow mindedness of those on the left and the JournoListas who have revealed themselves as the modern day commisars for the far left that we always knew they were.
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I love how Danny and the other far left dupes are all over palin, tea party nonsense, but ignore Obama supporting the release of the lybian bomber into compassionate custody.
Typical far left hackery at its best.
WE all choose to engage in our own battles, for example your professed love and support for Christie as your next Messiah yet when I posted a valid article about him taking over some casinos in NJ and asked you point blank if you think he is a communist for doing that ( just to apply the same standards since you keep blasting this administration as being communist and traitorous for trying to save GM and Chrysler) you didn't seem to think it was a valid question worth your time to post an answer. ;) So no big deal, stop expecting people to react to all your posts, real or bullshit, some of them are simply not clear enough points for some of us to engage in speculation or paranoid theories.
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WE all choose to engage in our own battles, for example your professed love and support for Christie as your next Messiah yet when I posted a valid article about him taking over some casinos in NJ and asked you point blank if you think he is a communist for doing that ( just to apply the same standards since you keep blasting this administration as being communist and traitorous for trying to save GM and Chrysler) you didn't seem to think it was a valid question worth your time to post an answer. ;) So no big deal, stop expecting people to react to all your posts, real or bullshit, some of them are simply not clear enough points for some of us to engage in speculation or paranoid theories.
Idiot - they are taking over the local govts who are corrupt and failed, not the private businesses. Moron.
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4:52 P.M.? Are you smoking that stuff, Danny?
Sherrod herself claimed that they wanted her to pull over on the side on the road and quit, because "You're going to be on Glenn Beck, tonight!!" What time does Beck come on Fox News Channel again? 5:00 p.m. Eastern standard time.
And undersecretary, Cheryl Cook, called her MULTIPLE TIMES, trying to find out where she was, to get her to pull over. Guess what that means!!! The decision to can her came LONG BEFORE it even hit the website.
DO you really think all of that went down in less than TEN MINUTES??
And the undersecretary's concern is Glenn Beck, NOT the FoxNews.com website. She never said "you're on the FoxNews website". It was "You're going to be on Glenn Beck, tonight". They were worried about the story GOING ON THE AIR.
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The video was not aired until she resigned, Fox pushed the story before her resignation enough to create a shit storm.
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The video was not aired until she resigned, Fox pushed the story before her resignation enough to create a shit storm.
And the idiots in the NAACP condemed her even though they had the tape before the whole thing aired. Morons.
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The video was not aired until she resigned, Fox pushed the story before her resignation enough to create a shit storm.
Per the pic you just posted, the website posted the story around FIVE P.M, shortly before Glenn Beck hits the air. That's the exact guy the USDA bubbas wanted to avoid airing the video, according to Sherrod herself.
So your claim, just like that of Dean, Vanen Heukel, Maddow and other left-winged criers, simply doesn't wash.
Again, listen to Sherrod herself. The USDA (under-secretary Cheryl Cook, in particular) kept calling her CONSTANTLY to get her to resign. Unless all of those call came at a quarter to five, last week, the decision to fire Sherrod was made before Fox's website got the video.
To top it all off, the USDA secretary said he looked at the TRANSCRIPT of the speech and fired her, based on that.
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How about the NAACP condeming her when they had the video in their possession?
Huh Danny?
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Oh, by the way, that comment you just posted looks something like this:
jalee307
Arizona
Does this really surprise anyone? Racial discrimination has no color. It is individuals for whatever reason that are prejudiced. This woman should be fired, but as a government worker it is next to impossible. Perhaps, if she were white Eric holder would investigate the situation!
Monday, July 19, 2010 at 6:52 PM
So which is it? 4:52 PM or 6:52 PM (not that it matters. Even if it's the former, the odds that she got canned in less than 8 minutes before Beck's show hit the air are slim and none).
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Yeah, only tea party people can be racist. This just came out. ::) ::)
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Yeah, only tea party people can be racist. This just came out. ::) ::)
Wow. This is damning. That pig and her husband are racists.
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Both are die hard racists,this is what missed by Danny,who would rather paint her in a good light and FOX in a bad light.Ever hear ANYONE on FOX make statements like this?
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Monday
11:18 a.m.*: Breitbart posts Sherrod video, calls her "racist," claims "Context is everything." Breitbart posted the heavily edited video of Sherrod and falsely suggested that Sherrod discriminated against a white farmer in her capacity as the Agriculture Department's Georgia Director of Rural Development:
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.
In the first video, Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn't do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from "one of his own kind". She refers him to a white lawyer.
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.
Fox News amplifies Breitbart's deceptively edited video. On July 19, FoxNews.com reported: "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." The FoxNews.com article further reported that "[t]he video clip was first posted by BigGovernment.com" and that "FoxNews.com is seeking a response from both the NAACP and the USDA." The article is no longer available on FoxNews.com but was republished on another website:
12:13 p.m.: Hoft runs with Breitbart video. In a Gateway Pundit post titled, "More Racism at NAACP: Radical Obama Official Admits That She Openly Discriminates Against Whites," Jim Hoft posted Breitbart's video clip and wrote: "The former civil rights group known as the NAACP does not just invite anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan and radical America-hating Marxist Jeremiah Wright to speak at their events ...They also invite government officials who hate whitey, too." Hoft further wrote that "Sherrod admits in a speech at the NAACP that she discriminated against farmers because they were white."
12:55 p.m.: HotAir's Morrissey: "Breitbart hits NAACP with promised video of racism." HotAir's Ed Morrissey wrote in a post titled, "Breitbart hits NAACP with promised video of racism," that the video "show USDA official Shirley Sherrod explain to an appreciative NAACP audience in July 2009 how she deliberately withheld information from a white farmer in Georgia trying to save his land and his business." Morrissey later noted: "Actually, if Sherrod had a different ending for this story, it could have been a good tale of redemption. She almost grasps this by initially noting that poverty is the real issue, which should be the moral of the anecdote. Instead of having acted on this realization -- and perhaps mindful of the audience -- Sherrod then backtracks and says that it's really an issue of race after all."
1:40 p.m. (approximately): Fox Nation accuses Sherrod of "discrimination caught on tape" before she resigned. Fox Nation linked to Breitbart's Big Government piece and posted the deceptively cropped clips of Sherrod's speech at the NAACP in a post titled, "Caught on Tape: Obama Official Discriminates Against White Farmer":
The first reader to comment on the post is from July 19 at 1:41 p.m.:
After news broke that Sherrod resigned, the post's headline was changed to read "Obama Official Resigns After Discrimination Caught on Tape":
1:49 p.m.: Ace of Spades picks up Sherrod story, calls it an example of "your government, working for you." In an Ace of Spades post, blogger "Ace" posted Breitbart's video and wrote that "[f]aced with a white farmer whose farm was in Chapter 12," Sherrod "decided she wouldn't do 'the full force' of what she could do to help him, because she was concerned about black folks losing their farms."
3:31 p.m.: Elizabeth Scalia of the blog The Anchoress raises questions about the editing of Breitbart's video. In her post, Scalia wrote, "I am uncomfortable with this 'get' by Breitbart." Scalia further questioned Breitbart's selectively edited video of Sherrod's comments (emphasis in the original):
Nevertheless I am uncomfortable with this "get" by Breitbart.
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But the video ends so abruptly!
Sherrod, who is not an impressive public speaker, says she did not do all she could for the "poor white farmer" who she perceived to be somehow both asking for her help and simultaneously "trying to show me he was superior to me; I knew what he was doing ..." She admits that she did just "enough" for the farmer so as to cover her own sense of accountability and then: "I took him to a white lawyer ... I figured if I took him to one of them, then his own kind would take care of him."
Yes, there is a bit of paranoid projection, there, and some shocking language -- language that has been rightly rejected by society -- that seems to play well to the audience. But then Sherrod apparently has a revelation. She begins to understand that "it's about poor versus those who have, and not so much about white -- it is about white and black -- but you know it opened my eyes, because I took him to one of his own."
Yes? AND?
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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 know. Because it seemed like Sherrod was heading somewhere with that story, and the edit does not let us get there. I want the rest of the story before I start passing judgment on it.
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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.
If it was something "better" then we should have seen that, too.
4:01 p.m. Ace of Spades reports that CBS' NYC affiliate picked up Sherrod story, declares, "Breitbart gets results." "Ace" wrote that a "CBS Affiliate Picks Up Breitbart's Vid of Sherrod's Racist Attitude" and that "Breitbart gets results."
4:28 p.m. (approximately): Sherrod story hits Drudge. The Drudge Report linked to CBS' New York City affiliate's story on Sherrod with the headline, SHOCK: Video Suggests Racism At NAACP Event." From the Drudge Report:
4:50 p.m.: Breitbart tweets to Media Matters: "Tomorrow's gonna be a long day." In a Twitter post to Media Matters for America, Breitbart wrote: "Get some rest. Tomorrow's gonna be long day & first of many in a row."
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Racism For Thee, But Not For Me: The Sherrod Family Bigots
Posted by Melissa Clouthier on Jul 26 2010 Filed under Featured, Media Bias, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry
Now that the mainstream media has firmly established that all white people are racist, and Andrew Breitbart, in particular is racist, I’m wondering why their poster-girl for subjugation has been whisked out of the limelight? I mean, the woman has a story to tell and she should be telling it far and wide as a cautionary tale and to change the culture to being more accepting, tolerant and open. You know, to follow her excellent example of growth and personal development.
Maybe the reason she’s not around is because every time she opens her mouth, she reveals herself to be an unevolved bigot herself. And evidently, she’s not alone in her worldview.
Dan Riehl prevents a damning video of Sherrod’s husband Charles. Dan has a “conversation” with Salon editor Joan Walsh, whose dimwittedness was on full display this weekend on CNN’s reliable sources.
From Dan’s research:
Charles Sherrod: “We must stop the white man and his Uncle Toms from stealing our elections.”
Gee, Joan, can you tell me what’s so heroic about telling a room full of young black minds not even out in the world, yet – that if they ever embrace political, or socio-economic ideas that don’t jibe with your hero’s, the one elevated in a room before them, that they will be denounced as race-traitors? That is what Uncle Tom means, after all. What REALLY is heroic in that? It looks to me like what your hero does is build up their black identity to an extreme, then sends them a message that, if they don’t vote, or act the way he wants them to, he and his community make them outcasts, stripping that very identity from them as traitors to their race. Is that the message heroic Civil Rights leaders are passing on to young blacks today? It sounds like it to me, Joan.
Racism for thee, but not for me.
Consider for a moment Shirley Sherrod’s own words. Imagine, for example, if I or any other conservative white woman said, “It’s not about black or white, well it really is about blacks…”
It wouldn’t matter about context. It wouldn’t matter about capturing nuances.
But even in the Sherrod case, the more context that’s revealed, such as her whole speech, and then her family and associates and the environment, the worse the story gets. Not only did Shirley Sherrod view everything through the lens of race, her family does and continues to do so too.
To pull a leftist favorite: Black bigotry is a systemic problem. It’s a cultural problem. And it needs to change.
And here’s my question for wobbly conservatives: Why aren’t you defending Andrew Breitbart here?
If your answer is public relations and the MSM is skewering us and this is a losing battle, I question your commitment to bettering America. The subject of race relations will never improve if we continue to hold one race to one set of politically correct standards and another race to another set of standards.
By definition, that’s racist.
Part of being American means being tolerant of other races, religions, creeds, etc. Does that mean that racism doesn’t exist? No. But it does mean that it’s a good thing that there’s social sanction against ultimately self-defeating behavior like seeing through the prism of race, alone.
Part of being conservative means judging someone as an individual and not seeing people as a group or collective. Part of being conservative means looking at a person’s character and actions, not his skin color or gender. Part of being conservative means having the courage to fight against falsehoods that misconstrue the argument and defend the indefensible.
Shirley Sherrod is nowhere to be seen these days because the more she talks, the more she reveals if not outright racism, but the bigotry that defines her worldview. It’s damaging to the liberal case casting Shirley Sherrod as the victim instead of as the woman who would use her power to help people of one race over another.
I suspect that the reason she was fired so quickly is because the Obama administration knew of her associations and actions and knew that those words were not an isolated incident but a way of life. The mainstream media, reliable as always, roared to her rescue.
Once again, the story is not at all what the MSM portrays. Conservatives need to have the courage to reveal the truth–even when it’s uncomfortable.
http://libertypundits.net/article/racism-for-thee-but-not-for-me-the-sherrod-family-bigots/
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It looks like this is going to be the gift that keeps on giving.
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Racism For Thee, But Not For Me: The Sherrod Family Bigots
Posted by Melissa Clouthier on Jul 26 2010 Filed under Featured, Media Bias, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry
Now that the mainstream media has firmly established that all white people are racist, and Andrew Breitbart, in particular is racist, I’m wondering why their poster-girl for subjugation has been whisked out of the limelight? I mean, the woman has a story to tell and she should be telling it far and wide as a cautionary tale and to change the culture to being more accepting, tolerant and open. You know, to follow her excellent example of growth and personal development.
Maybe the reason she’s not around is because every time she opens her mouth, she reveals herself to be an unevolved bigot herself. And evidently, she’s not alone in her worldview.
Dan Riehl prevents a damning video of Sherrod’s husband Charles. Dan has a “conversation” with Salon editor Joan Walsh, whose dimwittedness was on full display this weekend on CNN’s reliable sources.
From Dan’s research:
Charles Sherrod: “We must stop the white man and his Uncle Toms from stealing our elections.”
Gee, Joan, can you tell me what’s so heroic about telling a room full of young black minds not even out in the world, yet – that if they ever embrace political, or socio-economic ideas that don’t jibe with your hero’s, the one elevated in a room before them, that they will be denounced as race-traitors? That is what Uncle Tom means, after all. What REALLY is heroic in that? It looks to me like what your hero does is build up their black identity to an extreme, then sends them a message that, if they don’t vote, or act the way he wants them to, he and his community make them outcasts, stripping that very identity from them as traitors to their race. Is that the message heroic Civil Rights leaders are passing on to young blacks today? It sounds like it to me, Joan.
Racism for thee, but not for me.
Consider for a moment Shirley Sherrod’s own words. Imagine, for example, if I or any other conservative white woman said, “It’s not about black or white, well it really is about blacks…”
It wouldn’t matter about context. It wouldn’t matter about capturing nuances.
But even in the Sherrod case, the more context that’s revealed, such as her whole speech, and then her family and associates and the environment, the worse the story gets. Not only did Shirley Sherrod view everything through the lens of race, her family does and continues to do so too.
To pull a leftist favorite: Black bigotry is a systemic problem. It’s a cultural problem. And it needs to change.
And here’s my question for wobbly conservatives: Why aren’t you defending Andrew Breitbart here?
If your answer is public relations and the MSM is skewering us and this is a losing battle, I question your commitment to bettering America. The subject of race relations will never improve if we continue to hold one race to one set of politically correct standards and another race to another set of standards.
By definition, that’s racist.
Part of being American means being tolerant of other races, religions, creeds, etc. Does that mean that racism doesn’t exist? No. But it does mean that it’s a good thing that there’s social sanction against ultimately self-defeating behavior like seeing through the prism of race, alone.
Part of being conservative means judging someone as an individual and not seeing people as a group or collective. Part of being conservative means looking at a person’s character and actions, not his skin color or gender. Part of being conservative means having the courage to fight against falsehoods that misconstrue the argument and defend the indefensible.
Shirley Sherrod is nowhere to be seen these days because the more she talks, the more she reveals if not outright racism, but the bigotry that defines her worldview. It’s damaging to the liberal case casting Shirley Sherrod as the victim instead of as the woman who would use her power to help people of one race over another.
I suspect that the reason she was fired so quickly is because the Obama administration knew of her associations and actions and knew that those words were not an isolated incident but a way of life. The mainstream media, reliable as always, roared to her rescue.
Once again, the story is not at all what the MSM portrays. Conservatives need to have the courage to reveal the truth–even when it’s uncomfortable.
http://libertypundits.net/article/racism-for-thee-but-not-for-me-the-sherrod-family-bigots/
Nothing racist about that.We need to focus on real racism like a morning shock jock like Don Imus calling the rutgers womens basketball team "nappy headed hos".Of course,no mention that in the next sentance he said how cute the Tennesee squad was and they had 4 black starters.So lets concentrate on real racism like that,nothing to see here with the Sherod case.
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The left is so desperate to paint the Right as the racist bigots despite that it's become more and more clear that the left is just as racist and bigoted. How pathetic.
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Wouldn't it be nice if the NAACP adressed the real problems in the black community such as absurdly high crime rates, children born out of wedlock, massive illiteracy and droput rates, and gangs? Nope, much easier to find racist boogymen like the Tea Party members. Ridiculous.
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That would be racist. The black community has no problems except white racism and corporate greed. By eliminating white people and rich people, everything else will work itself out.
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That would be racist. The black community has no problems except white racism and corporate greed. By eliminating white people and rich people, everything else will work itself out.
That seems to be working out great in Zimbabwe GW!