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

**spursncowboys** · 07-21-2010

Even the New Black Panthers think that was funny.

**EmptyMan** · 07-21-2010

lol left crying like es when they all love playing in the fire too

**CosmicCowboy** · 07-21-2010

The funny thing is, whether BB was right or wrong the White House comes out of this looking absolutely, totally, ing incompetent. Even the major Washington/New York media outlets are smacking on the White House.

**Wild Cobra** · 07-21-2010

Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy

Trying to be a libertarian in modern society CAN get confusing. It basically comes down to "I may not agree with you and in fact may find you reprehensible but I support your right to think differently than I do".

That's too confusing for liberals. they think everyone should think like them. they don't understand true tolerance.

**Wild Cobra** · 07-21-2010

Originally Posted by DarrinS

Sherrod deserves an apology, but Acorn.

Agreed.

**Wild Cobra** · 07-21-2010

Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy

The funny thing is, whether BB was right or wrong the White House comes out of this looking absolutely, totally, ing incompetent. Even the major Washington/New York media outlets are smacking on the White House.

So does the NAACP. They cry racist, then over react, then see first hand what their careless accusations of others do. They don't give a damn when it happens to us whites, when they propagate it. Now that it happened completely withing their turf...

Hope it was a big wake-up call to those racists.

**DarrinS** · 07-21-2010

Assclown, Paul Krugman, weighs in:

So I don’t know if readers have been following the Shirley Sherrod affair. It goes like this: Ms. Sherrod was an Agriculture Department official; a right-wing blogger released clips of a video that purportedly showed her making racist remarks; the clips were featured big on Fox News; and the Obama administration promptly fired her.

But whaddya know, the scandal was fake. The clips were taken completely out of context. It was basically as if I said, “Some people say that violence is always the answer; they’re wrong”, Fox ran with the story “Krugman says violence is always the answer”, and the Times fired me.

What’s shocking here isn’t the behavior of the right, which was par for the course. It’s the seemingly limitless credulity of the inside-the-Beltway crowd. I mean, there’s a history here: ACORN, Climategate, Vince Foster, Whitewater, and much much more. (Someone recently reminded me that the GOP held two weeks of hearing on the Clinton Christmas card list.) When the right-wing noise machine starts promoting another alleged scandal, you shouldn’t suspect that it’s fake — you should presume that it’s fake, until further evidence becomes available.

So now Tom Vilsack, the Agriculture secretary, says that he may “reconsider”. I’d lay even odds that the Sherrod firing stands, even though it was totally unjust, because people in DC are so accustomed to cringing in the face of the right that they just don’t know how to stop.

I like how he threw Climategate into the mix. As if, somehow, the years and years of bull emails, hiding data, screwing with the peer-review process, avoiding freedom of information requests, etc. etc. were taken out of context.

Yes, this Paul Krugman.

**George Gervin's Afro** · 07-21-2010

Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy

The funny thing is, whether BB was right or wrong the White House comes out of this looking absolutely, totally, ing incompetent. Even the major Washington/New York media outlets are smacking on the White House.

what's funny about this?

**ChumpDumper** · 07-21-2010

Why are white people so afraid of black people?

**PublicOption** · 07-21-2010

If heads don't realize foxnews is bull .....they should realize it now.

**SnakeBoy** · 07-21-2010

Originally Posted by ChumpDumper

Why are white people so afraid of black people?

Are you white?

**Capt Bringdown** · 07-21-2010

Originally Posted by ChumpDumper

Why are white people so afraid of black people?

It's impossible to separate race/class when talking about America, but the connection is verboten in our national discourse. Worker solidarity is the enemy for the powers that be.

Race-baiting serves to keep us divided and distracted.

**Nbadan** · 07-22-2010

Sherrod: I'm a Victim of Breitbart, Fox 'Racism'

She also said Fox News never checked the facts with her before posting a story and the video clip.

"Not before they reported it," she said of Fox's negligence. "They have called me today and initially I had said yes (to an interview), but I thought about it and I did not think they intended to be fair in their reporting. They are going to say what they want to say regardless of what I say."

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"They intended exactly what they did. They were looking for the result they got yesterday," she said of Fox. "I am just a pawn. I was just here. 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 white folks in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person."

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Sherrod said she is considering legal action, perhaps against Breitbart, Fox or the federal government:

Media Matters

at wing-nuts supporting FAUX News for not checking facts before running a story from a source with a very dubious history....lol at Breitbart for going down in flames...he has put himself into the same not to be listened to loony group of Ann Coulter and Glenn Beckkk

**Nbadan** · 07-22-2010

Today, Mr. Breitbart could have just apologized, said he was wrong, but he didn't. Bullies never do. Nor do ideologues in our divided country. Instead, he now claims this was never about Ms. Sherrod; it was about the NAACP and what he says is their racism based on the audience's reaction to her speech. ..

**DMX7** · 07-22-2010

Department of Agriculture has a history of getting sued in raced based cases. To levy claims of racism on it probably made them panic more than it would another department. Either way, she should get offered a new job there or at least the old one.

**Winehole23** · 07-22-2010

**jack sommerset** · 07-22-2010

Shirley Sherrod: Obama 'Is Not Someone Who Has Experienced What I Have Experienced Through Life'

http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2010...ough-life.html

**CosmicCowboy** · 07-22-2010

You guys realize that Sherrod has already sued the USDA under the Pigford class action suit (that was settled out of court) and is about to collect $13,000,000, right?

**jack sommerset** · 07-22-2010

She said she has been fighting racism her whole life, including her own.

**fraga** · 07-22-2010

Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy

You guys realize that Sherrod has already sued the USDA under the Pigford class action suit (that was settled out of court) and is about to collect $13,000,000, right?

In regards to her firing???

**CosmicCowboy** · 07-22-2010

Originally Posted by fraga

In regards to her firing???

totally unrelated. In fact, her HIRING may have been related to the settlement.

**CosmicCowboy** · 07-22-2010

The Pigford suit was a HUGE boondoggle to right "past discriminations by the USDA" and has already paid out over a BILLION dollars in tax money. Shirley Sherrod was right there slopping at the trough.

**clambake** · 07-22-2010

Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy

The Pigford suit was a HUGE boondoggle to right "past discriminations by the USDA" and has already paid out over a BILLION dollars in tax money. Shirley Sherrod was right there slopping at the trough.

you don't agree to settle for 1 billion if what you did was right.

**CosmicCowboy** · 07-22-2010

Originally Posted by clambake

you don't agree to settle for 1 billion if what you did was right.

You can easily do it if you are the government and you are pandering to a cons uent voting block and it's not your money. Did you just fall off a turnip truck?

**clambake** · 07-22-2010

Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy

You can easily do it if you are the government and you are pandering to a cons uent voting block and it's not your money. Did you just fall off a turnip truck?

this may be the most idiotic statement you ever made.

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