Barack Obama, Incompetent Fool

Larry—Great post, but I don’t know if I’d say that Beck is showing “decency” as much as he’s showing how he just loves messin’ with their heads!  I love that about him.
He turned their (NAACP, WHITE HOUSE, AG DEPT) entire story on its head, and did it brilliantly.
Thanks for the post about it.
 Can’t wait for the Tucker Carlson story tomorrow about Wright and the Left!

RDLN Graduate and Board Vice Chair Shirley Sherrod was appointed Georgia Director for Rural Development by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on July 25. Only days earlier, she learned that New Communities, a group she founded with her husband and other families (see below) has won a thirteen million dollar settlement in the minority farmers law suit Pigford vs Vilsack.
.. The cash (settlement) award acknowledges racial discrimination on the part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the years 1981-85. … New Communities is due to receive approximately $13 million ($8,247,560 for loss of land and $4,241,602 for loss of income; plus $150,000 each to Shirley and Charles for pain and suffering). There may also be an unspecified amount in forgiveness of debt. This is the largest award so far in the minority farmers law suit (Pigford vs Vilsack).

Here are just a few questions about Ms. Sherrod that deserve answers:
Was Ms. Sherrod’s USDA appointment an unspoken condition of her organization’s settlement?How much “debt forgiveness” is involved in USDA’s settlement with New Communities?Why were the Sherrods so deserving of a combined $300,000 in “pain and suffering” payments — amounts that far exceed the average payout thus far to everyone else? ($1.15 billion divided by 16,000 is about $72,000)?Given that New Communities wound down its operations so long ago (it appears that this occurred sometime during the late 1980s), what is really being done with that $13 million in settlement money?

Here are a few bigger-picture questions:
Did Shirley Sherrod resign so quickly because the circumstances of her hiring and the lawsuit settlement with her organization that preceded it might expose some unpleasant truths about her possible and possibly sanctioned conflicts of interest?Is USDA worried about the exposure of possible waste, fraud, and abuse in its handling of Pigford?Did USDA also dispatch Sherrod hastily because her continued presence, even for another day, might have gotten in the way of settling Pigford matters quickly?

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/Examiner-Opinion-Zone/Shirley-Sherrods-Disappearing-Act-Not-So-Fast-98846149.html#ixzz0uGQNrkU8

I would agree that Obama was just wrong, except I think the whole thing was a setup. I think Team Obama (if anybody believes they are organized enough to qualify as a team) anyway, they know they have alienated middle class white America over the Black Panther favoritism. So, this lady is a sacrificial lamb intended to do two things… 1) placate white middle class America… as if middle class white Americans need to see black carnage to be placated… I don’t think that is true myself… and 2) rub raw the resentments of black America by fostering the attitude of… look at this lady, she did everything she could and the white crackers still wanted her to be fired. So, I don’t think it’s just incompetence. This lady was sacrificed to the larger goal which is to bamboozle white America a little longer and rile up black America. I think this administration sees everything as racial. But when you are a hammer, then everything looks like a nail. I guess that makes this administration racist to even play this way. Sure looks like it.

Thanks for digging this up.  There HAD to be way more to the story than the Obama admin.  being gullable about a supposedly doctored video.

My dad worked 35 years plus in the USDA and in county programs before his tenure as a director of field services for three states for the USDA in the 1960′s and 1970′s. He was not allowed to have affiliations with groups that had political agendas.  He was called to WA DC more than a few times to discuss infractions by his people for lesser infractions than Sherrod’s.  I use to hate the midnight calls from people in WA DC and was a scared kid when senators called our home.

There was WAY more to this story than Breitbart being a bad guy.

I agree. No one should be fired before knowing all the facts but this came so quick I just knew there must be more to it than we are being told. Then again, Obama is known to act stupidly.

A toasted wheat cracker?

Truly amazing and the thing is if you watch cnn or msnbc or go on huffinton post or some other bought media they are still claiming its fox news fault…………….maybe Hannity is but beck made good points and I have to agree with    you and him!!   I really think this racist stuff being promoted by obama and his  crew is going to be a disaster for all of us.   its almost like they want conflict.

When I read the full story I thought Shirley Sherrod gave a better and more genuine speech about race relations than any that Obama has, BY FAR.

But, when I first heard the story, and read only the offensive snippet, It struck me as a truth. I have had similar experinces dealing with bureaucrats, but summed it up as people who make little money and have no power over their own lives wielding it inappropriately gleefully against the public.

I did not believe it had anything to do with race. Suspected maybe, but did not believe.

Until I heard the sound bite.

Although Sherrod ultimately helped the farmer keep the farm, she was preaching to an audience that she said needed to learn from her experience not helping, then ultimately helping other races. Sherrod believes black on white racism exists in bureaucracies. That is why she gave the speech.

Her audience cheered when Sherrod said she was struggling with deciding how much help she would give the White farmer..

That is the problem Obama and the NAACP need to address, not Sherrod, the bulk of the other employees who are giddy about not helping other races. They did not need to get Sherrod fired. In fact, they should have held up Sherrod as an example of a needed epiphany among racists.

Maybe then I will finally get the fingerprint card I have been requesting for months so I can apply for a professional license in a state that will not be named.

Wasa Cracker?

No, the agriculture guy is more of a corporate guy than a cracker. I just think when the Sunday morning reverends talk about this it will never come up that Obama fired this lady and if it does it will be that he had to do it to keep the peace. I think this lady was sacrificed in the belief that it would placate middle class whites and rub raw blacks. I think in black communities in the pulpits and on the streets the sacrifice of this lady will be seen as a lost attempt to placate white America. Maybe white America might see it as Obama is even handed. I think that was the intent of it. Still, I think it was a setup.

Corn Cracker!

Her audience cheered when Sherrod said she was struggling with deciding how much help she would give the White farmer - Well I can tell you that is nothing new. I worked in a Dallas hood office for five years. The day OJ got acquitted, I heard the most raucous celebration coming from the office next door. I never felt so little in common with a building full of people who I had considered most to be friends as I did that day. I still don’t get that one and I probably never will.

Agreed.  This is damage control coming from the left wing and Obama admin.  Someone keep tabs on her lest she show up again buried somewhere else in the Obama admin. soon.

They got busted at their own game and after all, that’s what is going to count come Nov.

I am astonished that Breitbart fell into this trap.  I think he approved the damning snippet of Sherrod on the heels of the NAACP calling the Tea Party racists.  But, the Obama machine has been deflecting their abjact failure, and turning it into a race issue, as a precursor to the elections.  Isn’t that exactly what they did to Hillary when Obama’s lack of experience and questionable associations were in question?  This page of the playbook has played out before, and Breitbart must have forgotten that part. 

All the race baiting would be working better if the economy hadn’t worsened under Obama and if hope and change had actually worked. But he doesn’t have the political capital anymore to play even a race card is what this means. It means he is a lame duck walking.

The meme is they are “owed”.   The facts and timelines and realities don’t factor in.

~JustMe~ Thanks for that tip! You are so sweet……I’ll have hubby check it out.

Wait, Obama threw another woman under the bus for political expediency??! I’m shocked, shocked, I tell ya! What is this, woman number 243?

Breitbart knew exactly what he was doing. He posted that clip to leave the impression that Sherrod was being racist. He didn’t fall in a trap at all, his goal was to show that the NAACP were jumping to conclusions about the Tea Party without any evidence. He was attempting to turn the tables on them. Boy did he nail it, too. See how easy it is to ruin somebody’s life by making false allegations of racism??

The only one’s who stepped in a trap were President Obama, Tom Vilsack, and the NAACP. True to form, they destroyed this woman over nothing but whispers and unsubstantiated rumors. Exactly what they are trying to do to Americans who attend Tea parties.

As cold as it was, Breitbart made his point.

The buck stops at Obama.  And Sherrod knows it too because she had some choice words for him.

Good post LJ and Docelder.

I agree with #2) in your opinion Doc. I have that eery feeling they will be doing as much as they can to cause racial divisions for the upcoming elections. Rile up black america, feed white guilt through a continuous weekly media blitzkrieg of trumpeted “incidents” that come out of nowhere.
I’m “clinging” to my hope that black america sees through his bullshit “act” and rejects these yahoos. (including the neferarious panthers – which is a future staging point point i’m thinking)

Bullshit… clearly the Adminstration got punked…

But, at the end of the day it was Breitbart who got Sherrod fired. Period.

The right is on full attack mode right now with their bullshit. Their NAACP comments and their BS about the New Black Panther party. I guess these assholes did not like being told that there are some elements in their tea party that is racist.

The American public sees through all this right-wing race baiting BS. The true believers will lap it up, but those people are a lost cause. The majority of the U.S. public knows that the right-wing has been trying to attach Obama to radical or extreme black movement since the election. They are fooling no one and only making themselves look like idiots.

The democrats war cry.

THE RACE CARD………Don`t leave home without it.

Tucker’s news of this is already on Daily Caller.  I hope this gets real traction because it sure does deserve it.

Yttik—I understood that Breitbart released what was sent to him, which was only excerpts of Sherrod’s speech.

Abigail—-yes, but Tucker is naming more names and adding to the story at midnight tonight!!

Nice Try…….I can understand your inability to respond with anything resembling intelligence.

It’s hard to get the big picture when you have such a small screen.

I don’t even think Fox ran the story until it was a done deal and she was fired, did they??

I keep reading how this is all Fox’s fault, but I didn’t hear about it by watching Fox. Did they even cover it before today?

No matter what this person may believe, she was called three times by the White House.
My intel comes by way of my sanehalf, who informed me that this woman had used her own failings as a basis for her speech which she has been giving for 20 some odd years. If that is the case, then why have the farmer and his wife been friends with her for 20 years?

I hope she sues for wrongful termination. If it is true that she has benn giving this speech for years, then the bus to Howorts just ran over her sorry ass.
Her then condesending “white” farmer clients and now friends are very upset about her being fired and think it’s BS. So do I.

Is journalism dead?

“But the firing was at the direction of the White House”

Larry, how do you know that?  The White House denies having directed her to be fired.  Do sources tell you otherwise?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/07/white_house_official_we_didnt.html?wprss=plum-line

These coming elections in November will be nothing but the use of the race card.   What about, the economy and jobs. 

I’m with Breitbart on this whole “story”.  This is not about barry or Shirley or even race.  This is really about the Democrats (this time) using Alinsky play book tactics to draw attention off anything real going on, on the hill and getting some yardage from continuing their attacks of “racism”:

This was one of Breitbart’s statements on Fox News tonight:

“Mary Francis Berry, the former chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, appointed by President Carter and Clinton — This is no conversvative — okay.  This is what she said that has to do with what’s going on right now and why this isn’t about Shirley and Andrew.  Why this is about the NAACP and the congressional black caucus and the Democratic party.

‘Tainting the Tea Party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats.  There’s no evidence the Tea Party is any more racist than other Republicans and, indeed, other Americans.  But getting them to spend their time purging the ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November.  Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.’

This is about politics and this is about tarring the American people and the Tea Party movement with the false charge of racism.”

The NAACP’s mock charges of racism must be countered and if it takes a decades-old video of someone to do that, that’s too bad.  The NAACP brought this on their own head.  No one asked for Sherrod’s resignation.  The WH did, in fact, state that the entire matter was reviewed and this is what it decided. 

See my post above. The lady publicly identified a person at the White House on CNN this morning.

Here’s a sing-along for us tonight!!
(I’d forgotten all about this song— used to teach it to kids in my music classes in the ’70′s) 

If they are so fucking stupid to get PUNKD by Breitbart, then imagine what’s happening with real enemies, like Iran.  You’re an idiot.

Abigail—Great comment….You’d make the original Abigail so proud!

Annie—thanks–it all happened so fast that I couldn’t remember the sequence———

nice try, you are a class a bot. go back to huff and puff where all of your racist friends live. Boo just got punked by his own team. Deal with it. Let it rip HARP.

Oh come on! Clearly this is George Bush’s fault!

/snark

Add this to the list too….

~Just Me~
Absolutely! Love this one.

We can hope this is on record…. you know how records go missing?
Barry’s FAULT

Cindy — I think it went up at 12a EDT.

Obma Dubya2—–You’re so funny.

Google will be loosing stuff and the Whitehouse will be shredding stuff!! Someone needs to make a copy of the video and keep it on record….. =-O

I totally agree.  What Breitbart did was dial back the effectiveness of the race card.

You know the Dems are/were going to work it since they can’t stand on the Obama administration’s track record of – sigh – achievements.

Everything Obama has “achieved” is pissing the likely voters off.  

America’s enemy within. Part 1 of 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm8e9FMSSW0&feature=related

the issues we need to deal with as a society derive more from disparities in class than in race - That is interesting, because I have that same opinion. Most of what gets passed off as racism is really classism. Going back to Professor Gates and the blue collar policemen. That was also about class to the policemen. People including Obama wanted to twist it into race… but it was about class. Same with the number of black young males in prison for drug crimes… again mostly class issues and not race issues. No wonder this administration fired her. Maybe it was what she was saying… not about the white farmer but about class vs. race that Obama wanted to suppress.

OBamaDubya2—-That whole “Bill Clinton is a racist” thing was so insidious…..so  bizarre!
Read what Tucker C. has uncovered and posted on Daily Caller concerning incidents like that.

“Why a duck?”

-Groucho

I knew from the beginning that Sherrod was being forced out for something other than what ‘looked’ like the obvious but probably was not.  It was too much of an about face for this lawless, racially motivated team 0bama.  I think Nice Try’s information probably holds the key.    

Without knowing all the information, at this point my guess would be that Vilsack didn’t like Sherrod being at the USDA and the knee-jerk reaction to the released video was that this would be an opportune moment to get rid of Sherrod.  No one would be the wiser.

Glenn’s show was excellent today as it is everyday.  As I’ve said before no one else in the mainstream media is doing what Glenn does.  He is quite the investigative reporter with a big staff.  Nothing is on that show that has not been fully researched with lots of supporting evidence.

Yeah and then the WH says they didn’t order her resignation.  Who are you going to believe?

JM, you missed the point of both my statement and Ms. Sherrod’s ‘testimony.’  Watch her arms when she ‘testifies’ as to the ‘revelation’ that came to her, which informed her with the knowledge the color of this farmer’s skin was not a material fact but his poverty.  It was precisely her spiritual awareness that was aroused, which turned her around. 

Listen to that farmer’s wife say today Ms. Sherrod saved their farm.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20011130-503544.html

So in the end, did Ms. Sherrod’s epiphany change the course and direction of the NAACP?  No.

Did the major the race card players get owned? Yes

Which caused awareness for the greater good on a mass scale? 

The universe is smiling.

Truthtelling007 – Breitbart said Shirley Sherrod was not ‘his’ reason for releasing the video.  He said it was to show the hypocrisy of the NAACP to whom she was speaking in the video.  He was focused on the fact that the NAACP audience was giving verbal approval as Sherrod was relaying the first part of her story of the white farmer and how she was deciding not to give him her best shot because he was white.  At the end Sherrod would say she had changed her mind on that, but the NAACP had already chanted their approval of the racism with which she told the first part of her story. 

There are plenty of rats, incompetence and black racism in this woodpile.  0bama’s incompetence is only part of this story.

I’m not sure about Breitbart, but I think your criticism of Glenn Beck is unjustified.  What was so wrong about exposing ACORN and Van Jones?  They have turned out to be exactly what Glenn said they were.  Sounds like you are assuming Beck is a racist who just took a different twist today.  You obviously do not watch that program and should not be voicing such self-righteous opinions about which you know nothing.

Truthtelling007,  I remember better things from you than your assessment of this incident.   

Which turned her around?  
From what?
Sherrod should never have felt for one moment she needed to be turned around from the help she was able to offer.
In her position she should never have been looking for a ‘revelation’ to arouse her spiritual awareness…… to reach out to help the farmer.
Simply put in her position she was asked for help….”her “Spirituality” should not even be in question…..
However this is maybe getting too deep, if she was as “Spiritual” as you see the discussion or explanation would not have occurred…..

Abigail

Ditto to your post!  Breitbart is not the issue.  The real story is a rogue government run by Democrats using race as a wedge issue to divide us while slowly gaining control over every major industry in the nation. 

Oh, of course.

Now this is really scary about the Vilsack/Obama debacle.

Scene:  Obama: Should I push the red button?

            Um, well, let’s push it and see what happens.

            Oh, shit the things really did fire and now they’ll blame me for destroying the world.  Where’s the re-set button?   Uh, uh, uh how do I get this thing to to to stop?  Uh,  any uh anybody here?  

Shirley can have her job back and everyone can sing kum-by-yah!  See?
Obama really is the messiah!

Ms. Sherrod helped the poor white farmer who came to the USDA for help.  However, she initially saw him as a white man who needed help from an agency historically unhelpful to blacks and who, ironically, needed a black woman to help him.  She steered him to a white lawyer figuring a white lawyer would help him.  When the white lawyer did not help, she intervened, and took the farmer to another lawyer who did help.  Her conduct in carrying out her job mandate is not in question.  She only revealed what was initially in her heart; until she ‘saw the light.’  Then, all that was in her heart was making sure this poor farmer did not needlessly lose his farm, and not on the dynamics of a white farmer asking a black USDA official for help.

Contorting this situation into something else to assuage a need for retribution (real or feigned) or, just to flame the level of discourse on NQ isn’t surprising.  Over the past few weeks, this has become par for the course.

Contorting this situation into something else to assuage a need for retribution (real or feigned) or, just to flame the level of discourse on NQ isn’t surprising.  Over the past few weeks, this has become par for the course. 
 
No one is contorting or flaming anything here it is looking at the situation from a different angle. We all have free will and thought and that is exactly how this situation should have been handled regardless of the color of a person’s skin, class or spirituality! Sadly, I too have seen how words and thoughts have been distorted recently at NQ and looking at it from an objective point of view is sickening. Personally, I view it as a group of a few women who get emotionally throw off course instead of looking at views from both sides…….. We will never all agree but I am pleased to say I can agree to disagree with many views offered here. So I would be happy jbjd if you could consider I may not agree with you but I would never cast the first stone and make out everything is par for the course!

I agree. This has white house spin all over it.  There’s 2 stories floating.  Shirley says she sent him on to his own kind and tonight on CNN her and the farmer say she helped him directly.  I think something smells and everyone is running scared instead of checking out the story further and the farmed.  Don’t think this bunch in the white house is beyond editing the tape and/or finding a farmer.

Because as Beck said, there may be something even worse on the tape. 

Yeah, I don’t think she had all that much of a revelation.  It makes me wonder, besides this one white farmer, how many other white farmers she had to “help” over the course of her career on our tax money?  I wonder how many others in her span of control are wondering if she brought the full force of her influence to bear on their particular problems or if she held back because of race or maybe some other reason.  Even if the finger of racism wasn’t pointed at her, her abuse of power over the people paying her to do her job to the fullest must be wondering.  That seems like a lot of power concentrated in one petty bureaucrat to me.  

Olivia:  I agree.  I think there’s a whole lot more to this than what we’ve seen.  Maybe nothing earth shattering but sometimes the mundane is even more bizarre and troubling.  And it could explain why the WH was so quick to give her the boot and why the NAACP was also so quick to endorse her firing by the WH. Now, whatever she says can be attributed to her being a “disgruntled employee”, the same way ACORN handled their internal problems.  If it’s true that after 2 previous calls from the WH she was told to pull over and submit to their request for her resignation, you know that timing was very important to someone giving the order.  Why?  Hopefully, we shall see.

Breitbart is a nobody.  This story is much bigger than a right wing blogger.  It speaks volumns that the WH, Vilsak and the NAACP jumped when someone said boo.  That is scary!

The NAACP say they were snookered by Fox.  How can that be when the white house fired her and the NAACP condemned her before Fox News ran the story.  Something stinks

Wow! Larry, you are the best. Now the Minister of Agriculture is reviewing Miss Shirry’s resignation.

Kudos to you. Keep the screw driver taut!

Yes! Larry for POTUS!

Agriculture Secretary to Review Shirley Sherrod Resignation

 http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/07/21/agriculture-secretary-to-review-shirley-sherrod-resignation/#ixzz0uJmZdqXj

Excellent Job Harp. I appreciate it very much! This raises serious questions about Sherrod’s firing that should be answered for “the whole truth.” 

if that is true (and I suspect it may be) that it is truly sad because when it has been reversed (IN MY ADULT LIFE) I’ve never heard anyone make a crack about the black or latino man or woman but I have heard comments about Asians. But regardless, the group SHUNS the one making the nasty racist comment (always) I”ve never hung with any GROUP THINK like that nor would I!!  Sad if what you say is true.

Olivia1998 – For some reason, this made me laugh out loud:

Don’t think this bunch in the white house is beyond editing the tape and/or finding a farmer.

HARP, you nailed it! Somebody needs to make this a political ad! 

For anyone interested in another perspective, there is an article on American Thinker. Forty Acres and a Mule by Rosslyn Smith.

obama as incompetent IS THE MAIN POINT OF THIS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN. GUESS WHAT THE BUCK STOPS WITH HIM NO MATTER HOW MUCH HE TRIES TO PASTE THE BLAME ON OTHERS. WE THE VOTERS KNOW THIS AND WILL RESPOND IN NOVEMBER.

the naacp is now longer relevant and have become a faint sad corrupted shadow of what they once were. the so called leaders like jesse jackson and sharpton make their living off proclaiming the lack of racial harmony. old stuff that is marched out to get donations or apply pressure to guilty whites. however with obama in the wh, people are saying enough with this bs. he got his chance and has made a total ass out of himself. racial my foot! he is just an incompetent sociopath who uses alinsky to further divide the races for his benefot.

Yes! Larry for POTUS!  


kafir–Yeah! He’s already LOTUS (Larry of the United States)

The NAACP say they were snookered by Fox

They were not snookered…..because it takes balls to play a game of snooker, and NAACP ain’t got em.

~Just Me~—-Well-stated!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2556389/posts
Sorry! It wasn’t a CNN interview. I found this on Free Republic.  I hope the link works.

Larry, the White House did not make the decision to fire Sherrod.  That was solely Vilsack’s call.

“A White House official who asked not to be named told Fox News on Tuesday that President Obama was briefed on the circumstances behind Vilsack’s decision to fire Sherrod after the fact and fully supported the decision. ”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/21/usda-reconsiders-decision-oust-official-race-comments/

Exactly, OA!  This is damage control all around.  Their aim is not only to divert attention way from the NBP thugs, but from Michelle’s “intense” comments at the NAACP — especially because her comments were getting attention over the internets.  So, BO and his team decide to sacrifice Sharrod to save Michelle and BO from their race-baiting ways just in time for the November elections.  I wonder if BO will give another “historic” speech on race?  Perhaps this is also why he and his minions have been stirring the racial pot, as it were, so that BO can come “save the day” with another transcendent speech.  But I also agree with Larry, BO is a boob!

Haven’t been here in awhile. But all I can say is this is not surprising. I’m on record and nothing surprises me about 0bama and his administration. It would have been nice if I had been wrong.

Also, Olivia1998, the NAACP had the entire tape containing Sherrod’s comments.  

Right.  Beck owes no one an apology on this matter.  Sean Hannity?  Yes, he helped foment the virtual lynching.  But ultimately it is the White House who is responsible.   Only Government officials could pressure Sherrod to resign and make it happen.

Nice one HARP. snap!

Exactly my point Olivia.  In the same speech she was giving above, she talks of how black vs. right is still a big issue it was just that her eyes were opened to also include poor people in general.

And her contemporary comments within the same speech she starts talking about “mean spirited people” who oppose Health Care, and their latent racism resurfacing.  And how the republicans are doing all this only because we have a “black president”

NEW RULE —  When anyone yells racism in this administration, they are really only pointing out how racist they themselves are.

NAACP stirs up race/bus fuss in NC
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100720/ap_on_re_us/us_busing_fuss

Unbiased investigation? In this White House? These clowns don’t know their job, as you have pointed out, Larry.

These guys don’t know that they sold their Obama product as the “first post-racial President”. That means he should be ABOVE the fray, working on more important stuff and not getting involved in these minor dustups.
Beer Summit? Give me a break. Hillary is out there doing his job at the real summits.

I feel kind of ill having to speak up for Hannity, but I don’t recall him discussing this issue until she was already fired and the entire tape was released?

It’s true, I don’t watch Hannity, so I could have missed it, but he was blathering on about some entirely differant subject the day before? Did he run the edited clip and label her a racist??

It’s irrelevent as to who is responsible here, that clearly belongs to the administration.

I see my reply to HARP above was taken off the site. More censorship. This is a joke and getting to be more and more of a habit of NQ to censor any alternative view points. What is the point of having a discussion board.  

You like HARP spout off with his far right talking points, but you do not allow a reply. Complete BS.

No your flag does not get under my skin, but whenever I see one of those flags, it just tags the person as an idiot.

Hannity did play the whole tape, and Martha MacCallum subbing for Greta did too.  O’Reilly was as usual an old pontificating fool on this.  His delusion is that he is fair and open-minded. I don’t watch Beck, but his comments on this video are right on.  

She got a big settlement from the Government – she doesn’t have to worry about unemployment – course if she decides to file – how do resignations work in regard to receiving unemployment??? I collected 13 weeks worth about 30 years ago & that was because my office was eliminated by the government…………..

i also believe they are looking to start some kind of race war. why else has neither of the Obamas come out  against all the racism accusations? meechele tells the Naacp to get more “intense” (code words perhaps?) instead they seem to be fostering it. hopefully many AA’s are too smart to fall into this trap. particularly since he has done little or nothing for them .so much for the post racial president.

doesnt anyone wonder who gave breitbart those tapes? that in itself should tell a story.

A timeline was just shown on Fox. Beck and O’Riley never mentioned the story on Monday. Hannity spoke about it in depth along with Dana Perino, who was standing in for a news anchor Monday night.

WOW.
I didn’t know these “behind the scene” facts about Ms. Sherrod.
Obviously, this is another reason they fired her immediately.
They didn’t want this info to come out. 

How come the news media isn’t bringing up these facts?  Sounds like a USDA cover-up to me.

Hey Mimi, what Cindy said

No, America is seeing through all of this LEFT WING bullshit.

 http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/21/liberal-journalists-suggest-government-shut-down-fox-news/

“Priceless”

A more important story is the extent to which FOX News has abandoned all journalistic standards and is running a misinformation campaign.  Edited videos of the ACORN “expose” and Shirley Sherod are run as legitimate news storys.  They are then picked up by Blogs, such as Reverand Amy, and circulated as factual.  Our democracy is damaged because this produces a misinformed electorate, which is the goal of those producing and promoting this fake news.  

As Karl Rove said, he “creates his own reality.”  He knows that people can be tricked into thinking Iraq had something to do with 9/11 or is alligned with Al Qaeda.  Hell, he helped do it.

Unless we get honesty and accountability in mainstream news, we’re doomed to repeat the same mistakes…read war with Iran.  And in this episode, I see no blowback against the perpetrator of the hoax, FOX News.

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READ THE REST HERE:

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/21/the-political-earthquake-as-pr

Obama doesn’t tolerate racism.  He embraces it.

Preach it to the other news network who won’t even ask Obama a tough question. Preach it to the journalists who started this “race baiting” thing by labeling those who disagreed with Obama as racists. In other words, talk to the hand.

Oh, but the Leftists on the Journolist who manipulated the news are WORTHY of our attention? 
You’re so full of shit.  I bet you’ve never watched FOX in your life. 
Nice try.
Here are the REAL liars in the media.
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=29858

Just a quick chime-in … haven’t had time to read all the comments here yet.

I think ultimately the reason Sherrod was forced to resign had nothing to do with Fox News.  My gut tells me it has more to do with her role in the Ag dept, her own history as a advocate for black farmers, and Obama’s real stance and record regarding Black farmers.  

We learned that shortly after Obama’s inauguration, that one of the first groups Obama threw under the bus was …. BLACK FARMERS.  Obama went against his own legislation he supposedly was the sole sponsor of as US senator, and capped the total recompense to farmers experiencing bankruptcy and able to qualify for federal funds as reparations.  His legislation was to increase that capped amount so that Black farmers would be included as recipients (often small farmers are ignored when it comes to doling out farm aid, with a preference to big, coop farms). Obama did a complete 180 degrees on this and instead affirmed the cap, disenabling black farmers, mainly in AL, from receiving federal funds.  

Surely, this is what Beck would have uncovered.  And this is the unreported-in-the-MSM story that gives a black eye to the Obama.  We’d also probably learn that it wasn’t Obama who wrote the legislation as senator, although he was allowed the credit for it (much like what occurred when he was state senator).  And, the lack of follow-up to this legislation by Dem congresspeople.  Black farmers are still waiting … 

A quick search shows this –

http://www.blackfarmers.org/

 http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/02/19/obama_black_farmers_settle_on_125b_deal/

Well I stand corrected on O’Reilly this was a timeline shown on Fox this am… Thank you for filling in the correct details.

Sorry, don’t believe for one minute that the WH didn’t know until after the fact.  What’s more is that Sherrod herself contends that the WH itself forced her resignation.

over 20 years ago

yttik — I’d like this comment 100x if I could!

Leaping without doing adequate research.  This sounds exactly like Obama’s MO.  Remember when Obama who was the chairperson of the committee on the war on Afghanistan not holding a single meeting to discuss said war, which is now his “war of choice”, because he was campaigning on his Euro-trip?  Remember when Obama was shooting his mouth off at the Hawaii airport about how he would be so tough and even INVADE Pakistan?  

Not doing your homework absolutely reflects upon how you handle any policy, let alone Obama’s incompetent handling of foreign affairs!!!! 

I think you are full of crap.  She is talking about her advancement and journey within the human condition.  We as humans are ALL subject to feelings of bigotry (racism is the application of that bigotry in a position of power).  She showed how she struggled with that.  cheezum, we can’t even talk about being “spiritual beings” anymore to make a point about our own personal development?  Is this what this country has come to?  

And I’m speaking as a person whose parent was part of a very conservative religious cult, and agnostic.  

LLLLLAAAADDDDYYYYYY!

 Jbjd I thought the comment ‘you’re going to be on Glenn Beck tonight’ was rather odd.

They managed this incident as well as they managed the economy. Stimulate me baby!

While I cannot agree that some poster is more full of crap than you Fembot, I do agree with those that  feel that turning this into some blinding flash on the road to Damascus is ridiculous.

Screw you on the “spiritual beings” comment.  It is not your job or anyone elses’ to decide whether Sherrod was being spiritual or not.

Maybe she changed her story because she saw herself being taped. Maybe after such a long length of time, a few of the facts have been lost or distorted or virtually made up.

The real evidence is that Sherrod made herself look good at the end by switching the white vs black theme to the poor.  Is she spiritual? No one one here knows that anymore than they know what color undies she has on today.

Get over yourself.

“The Spiritual” moment leaves a lot to be desired. Vilsack, stated in his press conference, Sherrod, emailed him last Thursday with concern over this video possibly be coming out. If she had such an epiphany with her “Spiritualism” years ago she would have handled this situation differently. One may now wonder how she knew this video may be released to the media.  

Bret Baier made clear what her feelings were when he pointed out what she said to Media Matters after refusing an interview on Fox.  About Fox, she said this:  “They are after a bigger thing, they would love to take us back to where we were many years ago. Back to where black people were looking down, not looking at white folks in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person.”  This suggests she still harbors resentment after all of these years.
Realizing at the time she was being taped she switched gears and decided to use her “Spiritual Awareness”  as cover for what she had originally set out to offer on the matter.

Did I make my point?  What’s this?  Shirley’s been offered another job?

The statement Sherrod issued through Media Matters completely highlights her hypocrisy.  

FOX wants blacks to hang their heads and march by.  

Old Shirley is neither post racial or holy.

Hope Shirley teach them a lesson by suing them…Vilsac, the President, etc.

Nice try, I take it the USS Constitution is an idiot?

You are the idiot, because you do not know the history of the Flag.