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By Bronwyn on July 31, 2010 at 4:00 PM in Current Affairs

At the moment, I’d rather pass my time browsing the Web by searching for stories and photos of Chelsea’s wedding, so ably written up by Ani, but I did run across these stories today and am interested in your reactions:

CNN’s Anderson Cooper has issued an apology for not pressing Shirley Sherrod on her allegations against Andrew Breitbart, the journalist who released the edited tape of Sherrod’s speech. From NewsBusters’ post, “Mea Culpa 360: CNN Anchor Says He Was Wrong to Let Shirley Sherrod Smear of Andrew Breitbart Go Unchallenged.”

On Thursday’s Anderson Cooper 360, anchor Anderson Cooper faulted himself for not pressing Shirley Sherrod when she appeared on the show back on July 22 and claimed that conservative Andrew Breitbart was a “vicious” racist who “would like to get us stuck back in the times of slavery.”

Cooper now says he should have challenged Sherrod to support such an inflammatory charge with facts: “I believe in admitting my mistakes….I didn’t challenge her that night and I should have.” …

This brings back memories. Bad memories. Remember the accusations against all of us who dared criticize Barack Obama and his qualifications to be president? Inevitably — invariably — we’d get slapped with the word “racist.” Which makes intelligent, rational discussion virtually impossible. Just ask Bill Clinton (but not today!).

Here is Cooper’s “mea culpa”:

COOPER: I interviewed Shirley Sherrod last Thursday. And in the course of that interview, I failed to do something that I should have. I believe in admitting my mistakes. I looked at the interview again today, and Ms. Sherrod said during that interview that she thought Mr. Breitbart was a racist. She said, quote, “I think he would like to get us stuck back in the times of slavery.” She went on to say she believed his opposition to President Obama was based on racism. Now, she, of course, is free to believe whatever she wants, but I didn’t challenge her that night and I should have.

I don’t want anyone on my show to get away with saying things which cannot be supported by facts. I should have challenged her on what facts she believes supports that accusation. That’s my job, and I didn’t do it very well in that interview, and I’m sorry about it. If I get a chance to talk to her again, I will.

Newsbusters has posted the video and transcript of the interview.

* * * * *

Then there’s Maxine Waters, about whom Reverend Amy has written recently, who has joined Rep. Charles Rangel in facing ethics charges for, reports the L.A. Times, helping OneUnited Bank get “$12 million in bailout funds” and arranging a meeting “between officials of the bank, other minority-owned financial institutions and Treasury Department representatives.” The problem? Rep. Waters’ husband has been a stockholder, director and member of the board of OneUnited. Here’s the kicker: Maxine is insisting on a trial rather than accept a reprimand. Reports The Hill:

This compounds House Democrats’ troubles because it means that two lawmakers from the caucus, both of whom are also members of the Congressional Black Caucus, could face back-to-back public ethics trials immediately before the midterm elections.

By the way: Democratic lawmakers are going ahead with plans for a big birthday bash for Rep. Charles Rangel, reports The Hill in “Dem leaders, donors to hold Rangel birthday bash at The Plaza“:

Democratic leaders and major party donors plan to hold a lavish 80th birthday gala for Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) at The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan next month, despite 13 ethics charges pending against the veteran lawmaker.

Lobbyists and other party donors received invitations this week to join Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and New York Gov. David Paterson (D) at one of New York’s finest hotels to celebrate Rangel’s birthday. …

I’ve heard a lot, too much in fact, about Charlie Rangel’s woes lately. There are a couple points that Charles Krauthammer and others have mentioned that are good to remember: Rangel served his country admirably as a soldier and, despite his many “errors” in his tax reporting, is not a particularly wealthy man, compared to many other members of Congress in Washington, D.C.

Barack Obama? He’s only too eager to get Charlie off the list of issues facing Democrats:

President Obama gave Rangel a nudge toward retirement Friday.

Obama said the ethics charges against Rangel were “very troubling.”

“He’s somebody who’s at the end of his career,” Obama said in a CBS Evening News interview. “I’m sure that what he wants is to be able to end his career with dignity. And my hope is that happens.”

Charlie, if Obama tells you that you’re at “the end” of your career, take the hint.

What else is going on?

  • Bronwyn
  • creeper

    Barry threw Charlie under the bus today, saying he hopes Rangel ends his career “with dignity.”

    This business with Rangel and Waters just baffles me.

  • Bronwyn

    Here’s more — it’s quite interesting:

    How do you think this got so out of control?
    At the beginning, Shirley Sherrod’s first comments were that she got caught between the NAACP and the Tea Party and she said that the NAACP is the reason for this. That’s her quote. The intent of my post was to challenge the NAACP in its six-day media-enabled negative branding of the Tea Party as racist using provably false information that the N word was thrown at the Congressional Black Caucus [earlier this year during the health-care debate]. I’ve been doing this for over a year, and this is just one more attempt of mine to point out to the general public that there’s consistency here in the Democratic Party to strategically issue the race card. My regret was that has been lost, and Shirley Sherrod became the focus.

    If Sherrod wanted to meet with you, what would you tell her?
    I’d have a long discussion with her, and I’d tell her that I’m not one of these people in this country that thinks racism doesn’t exist. And that I’m not one of these people who says that she hasn’t suffered from racism. And that the scars of her racism aren’t warranted. But I’d also tell her that my passion in life and my political trajectory from left to right was born from watching the Clarence Thomas hearings. I didn’t understand how he NAACP sat on its hands while privileged white gentlemen hammered him mercilessly and humiliated him and the media and the NAACP allowed for it to happen.

  • HARP

    SORRY CHARLIE !!!!

  • foxyladi14

    musta been barry,s white side talking

  • HARP

    Either way…..

  • Tricia

    Good for Anderson Cooper.  I still like him.

    Maybe Charlie Rangel deserves to be under Obama’s bus, but tere he is.  I used to really like him and was disppointed in these latest allegations.  I like term limits.  Something seems to happen when an elected leader has been around too long.  WE have a term lmit for the President.  Why not for Congress?

  • FranSC

    Well, I’m very glad to see Anderson Cooper back track on his angry rant the night of the Sherrod firing, especially his harsh said and unsaid words about Andrew Breitbart.  I very much appreciate what Breitbart has been trying to do.  Perhaps he should be more careful, but I tend to think his motives are honorable.

    As far as the racist rant of Shirley Sherrod, it can be summed up this way:  Misplaced Anger. 

    She was really furious with the NAACP, 0bama, and her boss.  She knew she could not rant about them on nat’l tv beyond her initial comments.  So, instead she savagely trashed Andrew Breitbart with the most vile racist rhetoric imagineable…’he would take us back to slavery’.  Oh, please!!  Shirley is the one who should apologize not only to Breitbart but to FoxNews as well.  I hope someone DVR’d for her Fox’s coverage of her unfortunate situation.

  • HARP

    Sometimes dogs just KNOW what is best……

  • GORDO

    “Some of Stanley Ann (Dunham) Obama Soetoro’s Passport Application Records Are Released due to Strunk FOIA Filing”

    http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/07/some-of-stanley-ann-dunham-obama.html
    ==================
    “Dr Polland charges in his videos that Identity, Election, Wire, Internet, Interstate Commerce, & Birth Certificate Fraud were committed by Obama et al”

    http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/07/dr-polland-charges-in-his-videos-that.html

  • lizzy

    I hope that both Charlie and Maxine put up a good fight.  Obama shouldn’t get everything his way.  I thought his statement to Rangel was nothing more than go quietly and die quickly.  Both of these Representatives are old.  I wonder how much the ethics charges are trumped up to get rid of people Obama doesn’t like.  With the midterm elections coming the trials should be interesting.

  • helenk

    Why is everyone surprised that benedict backtrack is throwing Rangel under the bus.
    Listen to benedict backtrack’s words and remember the 2008 primary where dems who had workedand contributed to  the party for many years were considered expendable.
    Loyalty is not one of the words the “NEW” democratic party under benedict backtrack understand.
    Just get the checks we do not need the people.

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • Fred

    I don’t know as much about Rangel, but Waters has a long history of being utterly corrupt.

    Waters deserves whatever goes her way.

  • getfitnow
  • getfitnow

    I think this is what you call “in your face.” I can’t wait for Nov.
    http://thehill.com/homenews/house/111995-dem-leaders-donors-to-hold-rangel-birthday-bash-at-plaza

  • getfitnow

    Go get ‘em, Mr. Green!

  • annie

    I don’t think the charges are trumped up against these 2. They have been looking into these matters for quite some time. I hope that they are treated like we would be treated. What a bunch of hippocrites and they show their faces and act like they did nothing…..It’s time for them to go I too believe in term limits. Aftr a while they have too much power and they feel that they are above the law.

  • Diana L. C. the Hazelnut Nut Thin Cracker

    Gordo,

    I want to thank you for continuing to post your links of information about the fraud that is now in the WH.  I know there are others on the site who think this argument has been lost and we should move on.  But I like to be reminded about just how deep the lies are, who committed them, etc., and how.  Thank your very much.

    I have been working on a personal project all week and became tired and needed a break from it.  So I took time to watch the videos.  I remember that as a high school student, one of the things my civics and government teachers always emphasized was the way things worked in the USSR was terribly wrong (it was still the Cold War when I was in high school).  They told us how the Communists would change their history books to reflect what they wanted history to be.  These videos make it very clear that this sort of thing is now happening in the U.S.  We are raising up a lot of children who are being taught lies, untruths, etc.  Makes me very, very sad.

    The epiphany moment I had occurred when I was a delegate to my state’s Democratic assembly and election.  I’ve told this before, but it’s important to repeat it over and over until people understand the importance.

    We Hillary delegates had to wait in a long, slow-moving line to get our ballots and then fill them out to cast them.  We had people at the convention who campaigned very hard to become delegates to the national convention, so we had a lot of names to go through.

    The Obama delegates simply filed through very quickly, picked up their ballots and cast them after signing their names.  Several laughed at us and mentioned how Obama’s process was so much better than Hillary’s because his campaign had already filled in the forms for them, had done all the choosing for them.  They didn’t have to wait.

    I mentioned how that appeared to me to be the same process that had been used in the USSR basically.  There was the party candidate and no opponent.  The party told citizens who to vote for.  No one understood that I was being serious about how they were giving away a very dear right of our country’s citizens.

    I fear it will take a long, long time for these sheep to understand how badly they’ve been played.

    It’s definitely not the country I remember from my youth.  I really would leave if I could find a country I feel as safe in as I did in the U.S. when I was growing up. 

  • guest

    Sherrod owes BREITBART an apology?  He posted a defamatory video of the woman on his Web site, heavily edited, to leave out the point she was trying to make in her speech.  Calling Sherrod out for her subsequent comments is fair.  Making the claim that Breitbart is some sort of hero is delusional.  Breitbart is a partisan hitman.  So defamation is an “honorable” pursuit?  In defense of the Tea Party and his desire to slam the NAACP his smear was admirable?  Now we’ve really gone through the looking glass.  As someone was was publicly smeared by a powerful organization and that nearly cost me my career, I’m pretty shocked that anyone would defend Breitbart’s actions.  

  • LibOne

    “But I’d also tell her that my passion in life and my political trajectory from left to right was born from watching the Clarence Thomas hearings. I didn’t understand how he NAACP sat on its hands while privileged white gentlemen hammered him mercilessly and humiliated him and the media and the NAACP allowed for it to happen.”

    In a conflict between two black government officials Breitbart expected the NAACP to take sides?  So the expectation here by Breitbart is to take the word of the man over the woman. 

  • TeakWoodKite

    OT…Way OT but does anyone get this math?

    Even so, to create the smallest black hole enough mass or energy needs to be gathered in a volume such that the event horizon is larger than the singularity, which is the Planck length in width. Using that as the Schwarzschild radius, the energy comes to 1.567e28 eV. To see if that much energy is absorbed from the neutrino sea, I’ll use a preliminary calculation with example unknowns: Dialing from the DHD takes eight seconds, one per press. The Stargate’s radii are around 3.5 and 2.5 m, so its cross-sectional area is 1.9e5 cm^2. Multiply all of them together with the flux and mean energy to get 6e23 eV. It would seem that the neutrinos are not enough to establish a wormhole. But the Schwarzschild radius is based on the gravitational constant G = 6.673e-11 which only works if gravity propagates in three dimensions. G turns out not to be a constant and it inflates when r < 1 mm because n > 2 on r^n. A NYT article announced the construction of the Large Hadron Collider in 2006 which is to simulate the conditions of cosmic rays. Cosmic rays average 300 MeV and have been as energetic as 10^20 eV. The LHC beam is only 7.0 TeV, but with the extra dimensions for gravity in M-theory or whatever they’ve used, this is enough energy to create a Planck BH. They estimated that a hundred Planck BHs a second were created in our atmosphere by cosmic rays. 7e12 eV is in the electroweak range for a particle, where it becomes possible to isolate partons or preons (quark constituents) which directly couple to the Higgs field. The catatrophisms that formed the conditions for stable naquada redistributed the Higgs field through subspace, allowing a smaller but specific energy to couple to gravity quintillion times of normal. Forming naquada into a closed figure allowed the electroweak-Higgs field to be focused and to prevent the preon singularity from being dispersed into Hawking radiation.

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    What I find interesting is the absence of the usual suspects during these problems we are having. Such as:

    No environmental or green protests about the oil spill in the Gulf.

    No  protests about the continuation and escalation of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    No protests about Gitmo still being open and maintained.

    No Hollywood hoopla at awards shows about the loss of civilian life during these wars.

    No videos or documentaries by the usual people (Michael Moore comes to mind) about the evils of war and the lack of participation of children of members of the Congress or Senate.

    Not a peep from any of these groups or people about the threat of war with Iran.

    No outrage from the usual bloggers about the sabre rattling and threats of further war (Iran).

    No cries of racism from prominent AA leadership, the NAACP, LSM, or other groups about the racist targeting of Rangel or Waters.

    They’ve all gone silent. Except for their criticism about the Tea Parties and the racists in Arizona. The same tune the government is singing. Do you think they’ve been bought and paid for? Nah. Couldn’t be.

  • Keebler-Katmoon Multigrain

    Yes, the silence is deafening. Home for a few days just stopping in to catch up. :*

  • Buzz water cracker Latte

    Sherrod has been outed as associated with the Black Panther/NSCC groups.

    Shirley is a professional victim.

    Shirley got caught speaking to the NAACP as a federal employee – yes it may have been on her own time – but in what capacity was she billed as a speaker?

    Shirley needs no apologies and she certainly doesn’t need any more money from the government or anyone else.

    Shirley’s days of screaming racism are officially over.  Who’s ever gonna buy her line of crap ever again?  You, guest?

  • Buzz water cracker Latte

    Charlie got caught with his hand in the cookie jar…and perhaps he’ll get a jail cell next to his lovey felon wife.

    Maxine fell off the truth train years ago.  She’s a loose cannon that needs to be cut loose.  

    I don’t care how either one of them goes – they need to be gone – never to return – never to do any more damage.

  • Keebler-Katmoon Multigrain

    Where is Rev Amy? I haven’t seen an article from
     her in a bit, I hope all is well.

  • sowsear

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/35161730/Stanley-Ann-Dunham-Obama-Soetoro-Passport-Application-File-Strunk-v-Dept-of-State-FOIA-Release-FINAL-7-29-10

    My computer keeps shutting down when I try to access these links. In fact, all day my IE has been closing down saying that something at this site, NQ, is trying to put malware on my computer.
    Anyone else having trouble?

  • Keebler-Katmoon Multigrain

    OOps, nevermind, I checked her page.

  • Patience

    You’ve nailed it and I couldn’t agree with you more, candymarl.  The hypocrisy is absolutely astounding.

  • Patience

    Just a thought and I could be wrong, but it occurs to me that perhaps, since there’ve been recent articles about the POTUS losing white and independent voters, the case of Rep. Rangel allows him an opportunity to very publicly admonish a black man and fellow Democrat. 

  • Justine

    Same problems, Sowsear, for a week.  I have to disable Trend Micro in order to view NQ.  (And I do…)
    .

  • Docelder

    Maybe all those groups public fronts have been astroturfed for a long time now. I always said the modern progressives have hijacked legitimate interests to their own ends.

  • GORDO

    Scribd link at puzo1:

    No problems with Firefox.  Tried Internet Explorer — my PC “froze”.

    (Used ALT-CTRL-DEL to access restart/shut-down options.)
    ===================
    The Scribd documents are viewable with IE at this link:

    http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2010/07/breaking-stanley-ann-dunhamobamasoetoro.html
    ———–
    “Updated 8PM: Also in this passport applications file is revealed the exact date of her marriage (two different exact dates and locations?) to Lolo Soetoro. But as everything with this family, nothing is consistent. In 1965 she says she married Lolo Soetoro on March 15, 1965 in Molokai Hawaii. But in a later passport renewal application marked P5 filed in 1981 she states she married him on March 5, 1964 in Maui, Hawaii. Which is true?”

  • FranSC

    guest, it is my understanding that Breitbart himself received the partial tape of Sherrod’s speech from a ‘friend’ neither of whom realized the tape did not contain the essence of Sherrod’s speech – a story of redemption.  It is also my understanding that Breitbart did not edit the tape nor did his friend.  By releasing the partial tape, like you, the left jumped to the conclusion that they knew the other half of the tape was on Sherrod’s ‘revelation’ that helped her become more accepting of poor white people who were the same as poor black people. 

    But, guess what?  The NAACP fired Sherrod yet had in their  possession the entire video tape.   Breitbart didn’t know the other part of the tape existed.  No one has said the ‘friend’ knew either.  I’m not excusing Breitbart or his friend, but your conclusion that the tape was put out there knowing full well what the other part of the tape was, purposely and viciously smearing Sherrod is being vehemently denied by Breitbart. 

    Breitbart’s goal was to show the NAACP, the democrats, et al who have continually accused the Tea Partiers of being a group bound primarily by racism, Breitbart was trying to point out their own racist leanings/words since they are clueless.  Yes, he jumped the gun by releasing this tape without fully researching the tape.  If this assessment is incorrect, then I’m sure a trial will reveal that.  But don’t hold your breath. 

    For Breitbart to apologize for the problems this caused Sherrod makes Breitbart look guilty of what Sherrod and the left subsequently accused him of.     

  • FranSC

    guest, you and Breitbart now have something in common – a powerful organization smearing you and nearly costing you your jobs.  Sherrod that you are defending as the victim has come out of this with many things:  total exoneration of the charge of ‘racism’ from her March speech, rehired with an offer of a job in her same USDA that she is taking her time responding to while her boss waits patiently with his hat in his hand, got a personal phone call from the POTUS, is now famous, giving her president a public lecture on why he should meet with her since she can “teach him a lot on this subject”, and been defended by almost everyone.   

    That’s why I say you should be identifying with Breitbart instead of Sherrod – she’s sitting in the catbird seat now.  Breitbart is probably the most hated man in this country right now due to the mischaracterization of him and this incident. 

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    She is sweet! She looks like several members of my family. I’ve seen that shade of blonde with bright blue eyes before. Bless her heart and bless her family.

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    I would explain it TWK but I don’t want to show off. Ahem. ;)

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    Patience, I wouldn’t put it past him. I don’t think it will work this time. Obama’s outrage is so obviously planned and so clearly political that that dog ain’t gonna hunt.  Obama and crew have spent far more time calling people racists, making excuses, blaming Bush, and carrying out vendettas than governing. Only the Congressional Black Caucus is screaming racism and evidently no one, even the LSM, is listening.

    Hey I know! Maybe they can blame this on Glen Beck and Fox News!

  • EllenD

    This business with Rangel and Waters just baffles me.

    Well, it baffles me why Geithner gets rewarded for blatant tax evasion and Rangel punished for more minor stuff. Obama is such a hypocrite.

  • getfitnow

    Mr. Green needs help, ya’ll. LOTS OF HELP!! (snark)
    Will there be a debate with Sen.DeMint?

  • HC123

    Wow, maybe Andersen Cooper will learn “journalism” someday? Amazing.

  • getfitnow

    Yep. I’ve noticed at a couple of sites, there’s a narrative building that this is happening because they’re black and even because they orignally were Hillary supporters. Sorry, I don’t buy. Whatever the outcome is on these two, corruption comes in all colors, genders and sizes.

  • getfitnow

    Or Breitbart; or BUSH!

  • Peggy Sue

    I agree, guest.  The idea of Sherrod offering Brietbart an apology is ridiculous.  There are no heroes in this scenario.  The NAACP was foolish in casting a blanket accusation of racism against the Tea Party.  Brietbart was spiteful in his response, airing an edited tape that smeared Sherrod, all in his frenzy to slam the NAACP.  And O’Reilly jumped the gun by airing the story before the facts were known [although to give O'Reilly credit he publicly apologized].

    Did Sherrod let her anger get the better of her?  Yes.  But who wouldn’t after being ground up in the gears, a nasty namecalling fued between the NAACP and Breitbart?  The woman never asked for the notoriety.  And I heard Breitbart actually say that he didn’t care about Shirley Sherrod.  His mission was to expose the NAACP. Sorry, but there’s nothing honorable in sacrificing a total stranger’s reputation in your frenzy to have payback.

    Sad affair, the whole thing.  

  • EWard

    Peggy Sue

    Sherrod of Assisi is a myth!

    Her vicious charges that Breitbart wants to take us back to slavery and that the attacks against her were really about Obama are race-baiting. 

    In addition, her financial lawsuit against the Agricultural Dept. smacks of corruption. Willie Brown the former mayor of SF stated that Sherrod had been a thorn in the USDA’s side for years and ran a community organization not unlike “Acorn” for years.

    In the Pigford vs Glickman lawsuit, how did 86,000 black farmers receive payments when there have been no more than 40,000 black farmers in the past three decades?  Furthermore, Sherrod and her husband received $13 million for their group named New Communities Incorporated. 

      

  • Peggy Sue

    I never said Shirley Sherrod was a saint.  And I am aware of her background.  But that doesn’t give Brietbart a pass on what he did or make his smears honorable. He’s just another partisan hack with a mission. He didn’t care about Sherrod or anybody else in this fiasco.  He merely wanted to slam the NAACP, tit for tat.

    As I said, there are no heroes in this story.

  • Yttik

    Actually, I’m glad Breitbart did it. I think he performed a necessary service by turning the tables and spot lighting the hypocrisy. I remember when Hillary was accused of threatening to kill her opponent, I remember when Palin was accused of billing people for rape kits. I remember when voters were called ignorant, racist, bitter. All these lies and defamation of characters is simply business as usual for the media. It’s what they do. And it’s gotten really old!! Breitbart turned the tables and gave the whole media a dose of their own medicine.

    Everyone is all worried about Sherrod, well what about lying and defaming Hillary Clinton so badly it cost her the election? What about defaming the character of Bill clinton? What about slandering Sarah Palin with crap about how Trig is not her baby? What about defaming the character of Americans who attend Tea Parties? What about calling people an angry mob and attempting to smear them with acts of violence that haven’t even occured?

    I think Breitbart exposed something that needed to be dragged out into the sunlight.

  • guest

    All these weak and pitiful defenses of Breitbart and hilariously hypocritical for a group of people who claim to have taken offense at the media treatment of Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton, which I agree was unfair and egregious.  Breitbart is a partisan hitman and snake oil salesman.  Had it not been for CNN contacting the white farmer, which other media organizations didn’t bother Shirley Sherrod, A PRIVATE CITIZEN, would have been royally screwed by the NAACP and the White House, who also should have checked the other side. Breitbart never called Sherrod to ask her for her side of the story, so please stop crying for him and defending him.  Anyone who agrees that hypocrisy and lack of ethics that harm people you like means everyone else is open season scares me.  The organization that smeared me made up accusations out of whole cloth.  I didn’t have the power or the resources to sue.  I was vilified on right wing blogs, not only for my views but my personal appearance as well.  It was a nightmare.  I hope this bitterness and misplaced anger works out for the posters who agree that smearing a person unjustly works out for you.  And thanks Peggy Sue for being the voice of reason.  I think Hillary Clinton would be ashamed to see how her supporters have out.  You may not like Obama but these postings and comments about Shirley Sherrod have gone too far.

  • guest

    Please excuse the many grammatical errors in the above posting.  Pretty embarrassing but I think I made my point clear.

  • guest

    Oh for God’s sake, give it up already.  This is pathetic.  How have all those lawsuits working out for Orly Taitz?  

  • Ghosts of Toyko and Dresden

    So the victim should apologize for getting pissed? She lost her job. What has happened to her accusers?

  • Ghosts of Toyko and Dresden

    Oh, to be clear– this nesting makes me crazy– amen to Guest.

  • Peggy Sue

    You did make your point, guest, and I agree.  When we start giving a nod to “collateral damage” for anyone and everyone who has a political bone to pick, we’ve stepped across a line. 

    Btw, I caught Breitbart’s first interview when the truth about the tape editing was revealed.  He looked like Mr. Tom Cat caught on a hot tin roof.  He hemmed and hawed, ducked and weaved like every other weasal who gets caught doing the wrong thing.  There’s nothing honorable in tossing people under the bus, regardless of what your mission is.  I don’t like it when the Obama Administration does it.  And I don’t like it in this case. 

  • Ghosts of Toyko and Dresden

    They’re gonna build a Stargate then Obots with worms in them will conquer the world.

  • TeakWoodKite

    W.O.R.M hole physics is such a mind melt that I would love to get my brain around it.

    Oh please do show off. :)

  • EWard

    Peggy Sue

    Alinsky’s motto: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it….

    With all due respect, Sherrod is an Obama hack and race-baiter running an ACORN type group which collected $13 million from the federal governement! 

    Breitbart symbolizes how “racism” is used effectively to silence the Obama critics and the corruption going on in the administration.  It got Obama elected and “smeared” HC, BC, Palin, Republicans, pundits, and bloggers attacking Obama’s competence and qualifications for POTUS.

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    I am so sick of the “We must defend those poor, poor blacks” defense. At least that’s how it sounds to me.

    This woman Sherrod is hardly poor or downtrodden and already has more money than the majority of black folks in this country will see in a lifetime.

    That is as insulting as the hard core racists that espouse  the same view. That we should have stayed on or returned to the plantation  because we are unable to take care of ourselves.  Breibart showed a video clip. Not quite the same thing.

    Obama and his crew started the whole Sherrod thing withour having all of the facts. Breibart, right or wrong, is not responisble for that.  These people are running the government and they are too stupid to investigate an incident before coming to a conclusion. That is a clear failure of leadership.

    Sherrod herself, I saw the video, said she was told the WH was demanding her resignation. Not Breibart, not Glen Beck, not Fox News.

    Get off it. This came from the top down.

  • TeakWoodKite

    I was not so much looking at the Stargate part but the lexicon of the mathematics being used. The math is fascinating.

    I am making an 8 foot Stargate for yard art. The original prop that was built weighs 26,000 pounds.

  • EWard

    Yttik

    Excellent job!  This would make a great op-ed or letter to the editor………….

  • GORDO

    “Two Questions to Ask Putative President Obama’s Enablers, aka Obots, Regarding Where Obama Was Born”

    “1. Where specifically in Honolulu, Hawaii was Obama born? Do not just tell me in Honolulu. We are talking about the President of the United States. Hence, I want to know the exact address in Honolulu where he first saw the light of day. …”

    “2. Who was physically present when Obama was born? I doubt that in 1961 an 18-year-old girl could give birth to her first baby all alone. …”
    …
    “Please do not answer my questions by telling me that the courts have already answered these questions, for we know that they dismissed eligibility cases because of standing, political question, or some other threshold ground, and have yet to rule on the question of where Obama was born.”

    http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/06/two-questions-to-ask-putative-president.html

  • GORDO

    Sorry for the triple post, again – Firefox difficulty.

  • EWard

    Candy and Yttik win the Weblog Award!

    “These people are running the government and they are too stupid to investigate an incident before coming to a conclusion. That is a clear failure of leadership. ” Candy

    “All these lies and defamation of characters is simply business as usual for the media. It’s what they do. And it’s gotten really old!! Breitbart turned the tables and gave the whole media a dose of their own medicine. ” Yttik

  • Mr. Natural

    Put Maxine on trial and you need to put the Compton Fire Dept on alert, too.

    Korean grocers are stocking up on ammunition, even as we speak.

    Betcha Villaraigoso would love to have that seat!

  • Mr. Natural

    >>> Get off it. This came from the top down.

    Absolutely!

    FYI, I always thought, “red bone,” was one word, to wit, “redbone.”

    Maybe that’s only when it’s Leon’s surname?

  • Buzz water cracker Latte

    So your point is to reward bad behavior because it will cause more bad behavior if it not rewarded?

  • Buzz water cracker Latte

    I can never decide whether the WH is staffed with imbeciles or criminals. Probably they are imbecilic criminals.

    Then they have the front man media to pave the way and cover for them.

  • Retired

    Many blame Glen Beck for Sherrod’s firing, but I blame George Bush.  He orchestrated the whole thing on a Blackberry from bar stool in a Tex Mex restaurant in Crawford, Texas while sipping a cold Corona.  Seriously.  Larry knows this, too, but his is afraid to disclose it in a post because he still has a security clearance.
    Oh shit, I still have a security clearance, too!  OK, it was Glen Beck, then, just like the White House said when they called up the DofA and had them tell Sherrod to pull over and resign on her Blackberry.
    Come to think of it, maybe it was the folks that make Blackberry.  After all, they’re the only people that come out looking good in this thing.  What’s their stock symbol, again?