The Shirley Sherrod 'smear job' by Breitbart and Fox News Channel

[ChumpDumper]

Look it up. A guy with your resources can find it easy.It's your lie. I'm looking at your lie right now.

[jack sommerset]

Any luck yet?

[DMX7]

Any luck yet?

There's no need to lie, jack. We don't respect you either way. And by "we", I mean "they", and by "they", I mean the "ones" that are coming to GET YOU!

[jack sommerset]

There's no need to lie, jack. We don't respect you either way. And by "we", I mean "they", and by "they", I mean the "ones" that are coming to GET YOU!

It's all over the news. Barry fired her ass then hired her back and apologized. Take a look around.

Who is coming for me, Rachel Maddows and Olbermann?

[admiralsnackbar]

Wonder if Valerie Plame ever got an apology... hmmmm

[tim_duncan_fan]

Barry

Mr. Backwoods, no one is offended by this. You may as well stop. You only make yourself look like the idiot everyone assumes you are. Everyone is laughing at you.

We're laughing at you.

The anchors and bosses at Fox News are laughing at you. They don't believe the things they tell you. They see that you like the kinds of things that they say and so they say more of those things to get you to keep watching.


Bill O'reilly, Hannity, Geraldo, Beck ect. None of them believe the stuff they feed to you. They walk off the set, collect the advertising money and laugh at your stupidity. They do not care about you. You're a fool for a game that is well above your head.


And on another note...

Blacky isn't coming to get you. Neither are the gays or the mexicans or the arabs.


Stop watching so much TV, you poor deluded bastard.


It's amazing how unintelligent people can be given the day and age. It's like part of society failed to evolve with the rest of us...

[jack sommerset]

Mr. Backwoods, no one is offended by this. You may as well stop. You only make yourself look like the idiot everyone assumes you are.

Blacky isn't coming to get you. Neither are the gays or the mexicans or the arabs.


Stop watching so much TV, you poor deluded bastard.


It's amazing how unintelligent people can be given the day and age. It's like part of society failed to evolve with the rest of us...

LOL...I never said anyone is coming for me....You poor deluded bastard. Throw yourself in the unitelligent people category. Society has failed you.

[tim_duncan_fan]

LOL...I never said anyone is coming for me....You poor deluded bastard. Throw yourself in the unitelligent people category. Society has failed you.

I'm very well aware that you never said that, but that is the underlying basis behind the ideology you subscribe to.

[DMX7]

Who is coming for me, Rachel Maddows and Olbermann?

I can't tell you. I can only use innuendo and vague terrifying descriptions of how bad it's going to be.

[jack sommerset]

Thanks for the warning. Barry has apologized and she accepted. It's all good.

[DMX7]

Thanks for the warning. Barry has apologized and she accepted. It's all good.

It's all good for her. But "they" are still coming. And when they do come. It's going to be bad. It's going to be real bad.

[jack sommerset]

I'm very well aware that you never said that, but that is the underlying basis behind the ideology you subscribe to.

LOL...All because Barry fired Sherrod. Nice conclusion. You are a welcome addition to the unitilligent society you subscribe to.

[jack sommerset]

It's all good for her. But "they" are still coming. And when they do come. It's going to be bad. It's going to be real bad.

You bet it is. She will make millions off Barry jumping the gun. Again, thanks for the warning.

[DMX7]

You bet it is. She will make millions off Barry jumping the gun. Again, thanks for the warning.

Barry did not jump the gun, son. Vilsack jumped the gun.

And the only people who are going to walk away with millions are the female camera operators at Fox News who were covered in the ejaculate of Bill O'reilly (sadly, not a first time for him), Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity on the day of the initial reporting.

[tim_duncan_fan]

LOL...All because Barry fired Sherrod. Nice conclusion. You are a welcome addition to the unitilligent society you subscribe to.

You don't subscribe to a society...

[admiralsnackbar]

LOL...All because Barry fired Sherrod. Nice conclusion. You are a welcome addition to the unitilligent society you subscribe to.

Sweet irunee.

[Winehole23]

The Obama administration has been shamed by its rush to judgment after it forced the resignation of a black midlevel official in the Agriculture Department who was wrongly accused of racism by the right-wing blogosphere. Shirley Sherrod was sandbagged by a two-and-a-half-minute clip from a 45-minute speech in which the real message was reconciliation.



Instead of tracking down the whole speech, the administration ran scared.

Tom Vilsack, the agriculture secretary, dismissed Ms. Sherrod from her job as the chief of the department’s rural development office in Georgia. On Wednesday, Mr. Vilsack apologized (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/us/politics/22sherrod.html?hp) that Ms. Sherrod had been “put through hell” and offered her a new job with a “unique opportunity” to help the agency move past its checkered civil rights history. The White House admitted it “bungled” the entire affair...
Read more... (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/opinion/22thu4.html?_r=1&ref=opinion)

[Ignignokt]

Barry did not jump the gun, son. Vilsack jumped the gun.

And the only people who are going to walk away with millions are the female camera operators at Fox News who were covered in the ejaculate of Bill O'reilly (sadly, not a first time for him), Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity on the day of the initial reporting.

Does that mean that your chest is congested with the semen of John Stewart, Keith Olbermann, and Obama?

[ChumpDumper]

It's all over the news. Barry fired her ass then hired her back and apologized. Take a look around.Show us that Obama gave the order to fire her.

Just a link to a news report saying as much.

[Stringer_Bell]

If Sherrod was an established name in civil rights and known for her good work, then why did she cave in so easily to requests for her resignation when she knew that she would be vindicated by the full context of her speech?

Thank the lord she's got some leverage and time to telephone Obama...now she can focus her energies on suing Breitbart for the betterment of the nation. Weeeeeeeeeee!

[Winehole23]

Breitbart's wanton disregard for the truth was bound to draw a defamation suit at some point. I think there's another one already underway wrt L'Affaire ACORN

(Couldn't happen to a nicer guy IMO.)

[tim_duncan_fan]

If Sherrod was an established name in civil rights and known for her good work, then why did she cave in so easily to requests for her resignation when she knew that she would be vindicated by the full context of her speech?

Thank the lord she's got some leverage and time to telephone Obama...now she can focus her energies on suing Breitbart for the betterment of the nation. Weeeeeeeeeee!

If the precedent was set that bloggers can't publicly misrepresent a person at the cost of that person's job, that would be for the betterment of the nation.


Breitbart's wanton disregard for the truth was bound to bring a defamation suit at some point.

(Couldn't happen to a nicer guy IMO.)

And there is actual malice!

[ChumpDumper]

Brietbart fucked up. I know he believes in personal responsibility, right?

He fully accepts the consequences of his actions and is eager to apologize make things right, right?

[Winehole23]

And there is actual malice!To suggest that Breitbart's behavior warrrants the lawsuit is not an employment of malice but one of description IMO. (At any rate, it is already a legally known fact.)

But I see how it could be taken otherwise, and my point would have suffered nil by its absence. Your objection is accidentally well taken it seems.:lol:toast

[Ignignokt]

Brietbart fucked up. I know he believes in personal responsibility, right?

He fully accepts the consequences of his actions and is eager to apologize make things right, right?

Too bad.

[Stringer_Bell]

If the precedent was set that bloggers can't publicly misrepresent a person at the cost of that person's job, that would be for the betterment of the nation.

Fair enough, but that's putting all the blame on Breitbart and "blogs." New media is still carving itself out...but what do we do about established employers (such as the Federal Govt, for example) that refuse to investigate the issues thoroughly before throwing people under the bus? I think that's the "teachable moment" here - people need to stop being pussies when it comes to finding out the whole story before reacting in a way that has severe consequences on a person's job, safety, etc.

In retrospect, there were so many better ways for the Administration, DoA/USDA, and NAACP to handle this...not sure I'd go after New Media personalities so much as people that refuse to gather all the facts before condemning me. This woman has leverage, it'll be interesting to see what she does with it and if her "christian" side will prevail. I don't want to sound like a jackass, but it did rub me the wrong way when she said "I will go after him cuz he came after me." I don't think she had to tip her hand like that and make it sound like revenge, much less go into a discussion about half-blacks not "living the life" of full-blacks and being different in some way cuz she's a black from the South.

It's NOT about the Haves and Have-nots, like she said it is - it's about the people that need help and the those willing to answer the call. I think we'll see who she really is in the coming weeks.

Phew, that's my rant. :p:

[ChumpDumper]

Too bad.Is that a yes or a no?

[Ignignokt]

Is that a yes or a no?

yes and no to what?

[tim_duncan_fan]

Fair enough, but that's putting all the blame on Breitbart and "blogs." New media is still carving itself out...but what do we do about established employers (such as the Federal Govt, for example) that refuse to investigate the issues thoroughly before throwing people under the bus? I think that's the "teachable moment" here - people need to stop being pussies when it comes to finding out the whole story before reacting in a way that has severe consequences on a person's job, safety, etc.

In retrospect, there were so many better ways for the Administration, DoA/USDA, and NAACP to handle this...not sure I'd go after New Media personalities so much as people that refuse to gather all the facts before condemning me. This woman has leverage, it'll be interesting to see what she does with it and if her "christian" side will prevail. I don't want to sound like a jackass, but it did rub me the wrong way when she said "I will go after him cuz he came after me." I don't think she had to tip her hand like that and make it sound like revenge, much less go into a discussion about half-blacks not "living the life" of full-blacks and being different in some way cuz she's a black from the South.

It's NOT about the Haves and Have-nots, like she said it is - it's about the people that need help and the those willing to answer the call. I think we'll see who she really is in the coming weeks.

Phew, that's my rant. :p:

The administration jumped the gun and everyone knows that.


And she shouldn't do the "christian" thing. Breitbart isn't a kid. He knew what he was doing. If she can use whatever leverage she has to bite him in the ass, she should definitely do so. Would you say he was doing the "christian" thing?

As for finding out who she really is, I just hope she isn't some push over that would let some asshole blatantly try to ruin her career and then let him get away with it.

[DMX7]

Does that mean that your chest is congested with the semen of John Stewart, Keith Olbermann, and Obama?

I'm not gay, so why are you coming on to me?

Did your boyfriend leave you? Did he not like your calf tatts?

[tim_duncan_fan]

To suggest that Breitbart's behavior warrrants the lawsuit is not an employment of malice but one of description IMO. (At any rate, it is already a legally known fact.)

But I see how it could be taken otherwise, and my point would have suffered nil by its absence. Your objection is accidentally well taken it seems.:lol:toast

Public figures need to prove actual malice in libel cases. I was saying that actual malice is there. We're agreeing...I think. lol

[ChumpDumper]

yes and no to what?Too advanced for you. Sorry.

[Stringer_Bell]

As for finding out who she really is, I just hope she isn't some push over that would let some asshole blatantly try to ruin her career and then let him get away with it.

What do you call someone that knows the truth will vindicate her, yet still agrees to vacate the position for which many can apparently vouch for years of service? Is that not rolling over? She's not a kid, she knew what she was doing when she resigned "on the side of the road."

[George Gervin's Afro]

I find this to be a case of karma for Fox News and Breitbart..they make their living off of taking sounbites out of comntext and just got burned for it...:toast

[Winehole23]

Public figures need to prove actual malice in libel cases. I was saying that actual malice is there. Gotcha. The pattern of negligence makes it easier to infer, maybe. What has made it so clear to you?

[CosmicCowboy]

She could sue, because anyone can sue anyone for anything but she would lose. Probably in a summary judgment.

[Wild Cobra]

Wonder if Valerie Plame ever got an apology... hmmmm
You mean her husband hasn't apologized for that yet?

[George Gervin's Afro]

You mean her husband hasn't apologized for that yet?

apologize for calling the bush admnistration out on bogus intel?

[DarrinS]

I find this to be a case of karma for Fox News and Breitbart..they make their living off of taking sounbites out of comntext and just got burned for it...:toast



Context, shmontext. I just make shit up. Weeeeee.
http://www.citizenjournalistnow.com/images/rather-cbs-logo_b6xb.jpg

[ChumpDumper]

So does this make what Breitbart did right, Darrin?

Yes or no.

[CosmicCowboy]

Context, shmontext. I just make shit up. Weeeeee.
http://www.citizenjournalistnow.com/images/rather-cbs-logo_b6xb.jpg

:lol

[ChumpDumper]

And Darrins contention is inaccurate.

As usual.

[DarrinS]

So does this make what Breitbart did right, Darrin?

Yes or no.


What Breitbart and Fox did was wrong. But people in glass houses.... shouldn't be so sanctimonious.

[ChumpDumper]

What Breitbart and Fox did was wrong. But people in glass houses.... shouldn't be so sanctimonious.Did Dan Rather comment on this story?

Link.

[Winehole23]

(The sanctimony aggrieves DarrinS. How pathetic.)

[clambake]

darrins is like an episode of cops when the guy ditches the car and runs.

[George Gervin's Afro]

What Breitbart and Fox did was wrong. But people in glass houses.... shouldn't be so sanctimonious.

dan rather lost his job and credibility..I think that's a fair price now.

[DarrinS]

dan rather lost his job and credibility..I think that's a fair price now.


He probably would've been canned eventually. His ratings sucked.

[CosmicCowboy]

:lmao

CNN's David Gergen just compared Shirley Sherrod to Nelson Mandela :lmao:lmao

[clambake]

i don't watch cnn. can you link that monologue?

[ChumpDumper]

:lmao

CNN's David Gergen just compared Shirley Sherrod to Nelson Mandela :lmao:lmaoIf it was something along the lines of not letting past racism prejudice your decisions once you achieve some amount of political power, that isn't too far off.

Do you want to give us any context at all, cc?

[CosmicCowboy]

Heres the quote:

http://www.educationnews.org/political/96454.html



Exhibiting an extreme case of the media euphoria over Shirley Sherrod’s vindication, moments before Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack appeared before the cameras CNN senior political analyst David Gergen gushed to Rick Sanchez: "I have to tell you, Rick, I don't want to put her on too high a pedestal....But I kept thinking about Nelson Mandela as I heard her story..."

[ChumpDumper]

Heres the quote:

http://www.educationnews.org/political/96454.htmlSo it's exactly what I thought it was.

Thanks for not quoting the entire passage. That's what started all this business in the first place.

Some people never learn.

[LnGrrrR]

What Breitbart and Fox did was wrong. But people in glass houses.... shouldn't be so sanctimonious.

I would prefer that we out any poor journalist. Surely, just because the person casting the aspersion did something wrong in the past doesn't mean the new incident is all well and good, does it?

[Winehole23]

(wrong thread)

[LnGrrrR]

Context, shmontext. I just make shit up. Weeeeee.
http://www.citizenjournalistnow.com/images/rather-cbs-logo_b6xb.jpg

Republicans vote for civil rights more than Democrats!

[jack sommerset]

Poor Fox. Obama blaming them for his mistake. Typical. The buck never ends with him.

[ChumpDumper]

Poor Fox. Obama blaming them for his mistake. Typical. The buck never ends with him.Poor jack. He lied about Obama's ordering the firing of Sherrod. Typical. He lies quite often.

[spursncowboys]

Remember:
He is willing to work across the isle in a bipartisanship manner...if the repubs agree to the lib's bill's.

The buck stops with him...but nothing is his fault

[spursncowboys]

Poor jack. He lied about Obama's ordering the firing of Sherrod. Typical. He lies quite often.

why did obama apologize?

[jack sommerset]

It's all over the news. Look it up.

[ChumpDumper]

why did obama apologize?He didn't apologize for giving the direct order to fire her.


It's all over the news. Look it up.It's not. If it were, you would have posted a link.

[jack sommerset]

He didn't apologize for giving the direct order to fire her.

How cute, you think it was a indirect order. Very loyal of you.

[DMX7]

It's all over the news. Look it up.

Don't lie, Jack. That won't stop them from coming. You're only making them more angry.

[ChumpDumper]

How cute, you think it was a indirect order. Very loyal of you.Show me an actual news story saying it was any kind of order from Obama and I will agree with you.

[jack sommerset]

Show me a news story saying it was and I will agree with you.

Show me a story where he fired her indirectly and I will believe you. Atleast we agree he canned her.

[ChumpDumper]

Show me a story where he fired her indirectly and I will believe you. Atleast we agree he canned her.We don't.

[jack sommerset]

We don't.

We cleary do. You were very specific.

[ChumpDumper]

We cleary do. You were very specific.No, we don't.

You can't provide any link at all.

You are a liar.

Why do you lie so much?

[jack sommerset]

Don't lie, Jack. That won't stop them from coming. You're only making them more angry.

Warn the Chumpster, he went off script and said Barry fired Sherrod as well.

[ChumpDumper]

Warn the Chumpster, he went off script and said Barry fired Sherrod as well.Nah, my post is quite clear. So where is your proof he did this?

I need a link to an actual news story.

You're a liar.

[SnakeBoy]

Show me an actual news story saying it was any kind of order from Obama and I will agree with you.

Sherrod says she was told the order came from the WH..

http://citizensagainstproobamamediabias.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/wh-denies-involvement-in-sherrod-firing-sherrod-says-they-were-videotext/

Do you think she is a liar?

[ChumpDumper]

Sherrod says she was told the order came from the WH..

http://citizensagainstproobamamediabias.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/wh-denies-involvement-in-sherrod-firing-sherrod-says-they-were-videotext/

Do you think she is a liar?So she didn't say it came directly from Obama.

Thanks.

:tu

[CosmicCowboy]

Nah, my post is quite clear. So where is your proof he did this?

I need a link to an actual news story.

You're a liar.

You are right Chump.

I'm sure Obama was playing golf. Or riding boats in Maine. Or raising money with speeches for Dems who are about to get their asses handed to them in November. I'm sure he didn't have time to be involved in a racial related firing that ended up blowing up in his administrations face.

[DMX7]

You are right Chump.

I'm sure Obama was playing golf. Or riding boats in Maine. Or raising money with speeches for Dems who are about to get their asses handed to them in November. I'm sure he didn't have time to be involved in a racial related firing that ended up blowing up in his administrations face.

If Wild Cobra were here and non-partisan, he would call that an "ASSumption".

[ChumpDumper]

I'm sure he didn't have timeThere you go.

[jack sommerset]

So she didn't say it came directly from Obama.

Thanks.

:tu

You said Obama shit canned her racist ass indirectly. We agree Obama fired her.

Thanks for your support.

:toast

[CosmicCowboy]

There you go.

Your partisan loyalty in the face of total incompetence is commendable. Carry on.:toast

[ChumpDumper]

You said Obama shit canned her racist ass indirectly.I didn't.


We agree Obama fired her. We don't.


Thanks for your support.No support.

[ChumpDumper]

Your partisan loyalty in the face of total incompetence is commendable. Carry on.:toastYou want to believe that Obama personally gave the order to fire her because--?

[DMX7]

Nothing to see here. Just two repugs doing what repugs do best, ignoring the truth.

[ChumpDumper]

I certainly can believe someone in the White House gave the order, but Obama himself micromanaging this episode?

No. As CC said, he's too busy.

[DMX7]

but Obama himself micromanaging this episode?


Ha! I was about to say that exactly. But repugs are quite the paranoid conspiracy theorists, so it's not really unexpected.

[jack sommerset]

Ha! I was about to say that exactly.

Shocking!

[SnakeBoy]

I certainly can believe someone in the White House gave the order, but Obama himself micromanaging this episode?


So Obama doesn't have control of his administration. Glad to see you finally agree that he is incompetent.

[jack sommerset]

So Obama doesn't have control of his administration. Glad to see you finally agree that he is incompetent.

Don't be hard on the kool-aid drinker. He already admitted she was fired by Obama.

The problem I have now is why he offered her job back or another job. She is a racist. Don't call her deadebeat ass with your tail between your legs because you didn't know what level of a racist she was. Stick with the decision.

[jack sommerset]

The dumper of chumps is scared. He thinks blacks are going after whites, he blocked off Fox chanel from his mamas cable box, he went back into the closet, he tells people he is canadian and since he was fired from Spewstalk he only works part time. He does all this because he thinks Barry or some organization that represents Barry is out to get folks like him. Give him a break. Spewstalk cut him loose from his mod duties for christ sakes. We all need to give him some slack.

[ChumpDumper]

So Obama doesn't have control of his administration. Glad to see you finally agree that he is incompetent.So you think Obama controls the hiring and firing of every employee on the federal payroll. Glad to see you finally admitted you are an idiot.

[ChumpDumper]

Don't be hard on the kool-aid drinker. He already admitted she was fired by Obama.Except I didn't. Liar.


The problem I have now is why he offered her job back or another job. She is a racist. Don't call her deadebeat ass with your tail between your legs because you didn't know what level of a racist she was. Stick with the decision.What action of hers tells you she is a racist?

[jack sommerset]

Except I didn't. Liar.

What action of hers tells you she is a racist?

You did. You said it yourself.

She told the world she is racist. Don't be scared. Noone is coming for you like you think they are.

[ChumpDumper]

You did. You said it yourself.Nope.


She told the world she is racist. Don't be scared. Noone is coming for you like you think they are.So why are you so scared?

[SnakeBoy]

So you think Obama controls the hiring and firing of every employee on the federal payroll. Glad to see you finally admitted you are an idiot.

The hiring & firing of every federal employee isn't controlled by the White House. You said someone in the WH directed her firing. Does Obama control the White House or not?

[ChumpDumper]

The hiring & firing of every federal employee isn't controlled by the White House. You said someone in the WH directed her firing.May have.


Does Obama control the White House or not?You will have to define control in that case.

Are you saying Obama personally gives every order that comes out of the White House?

I would disagree with that.

[Nbadan]

Breitbart hearts terra-ist...

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[Nbadan]

Breitbarts not doing to good these days

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:lol