This story is so rich. When I first heard how this black USDA official bragged about discriminating against a white farmer as payback I was sickened. I was pleased that she was sacked immediately and thrilled that the NAACP applauded her sacking so immediately.
What a difference a day makes.
Now it's clear that the footage was edited to slander her, just like they edited the ACORN footage.
According to the AP:
Sherrod says her remarks, delivered in March at a local NAACP banquet in Georgia, were part of a story about racial reconciliation, not racism. The white farming family that was the subject of the story stood by Sherrod and said she should keep her job.
'We probably wouldn't have (our farm) today if it hadn't been for her leading us in the right direction,' said Eloise Spooner, the wife of farmer Roger Spooner of Iron City, Ga. 'I wish she could get her job back because she was good to us, I tell you.'
But the right-wing attack dogs aren't interested in facts, they're after scalps. They play the 24-hour news cycle like a fiddle. Hit fast and hard, quickly frame the debate, feed it to fact-checker-free Fox, ruin someone's life, and then move on to the next victim before the truth catches up to them.
We are in the majority. How is it that they still seem to win so many, many times? How is it that we allow them to cheapen and demean without consequence?
Enough.
Mr. President, Secretary Vilsack, please stand up to the hatemongers, do the right thing, and reinstate Ms. Shirley Sherrod.
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You are as cupable as anyone else in the media. You "thought" the NAACP had done your job for YOU.
Sad Trey. Just sad.
IMHO, they have had more than 3 strikes, and they are OUT.
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1. The public perception matters (even if its wrong or mislead)
2. The public is easily mislead (temporarily / possibly years)
3. Racism is alive and well in America and in the voting public
4. Few read beyond the headlines, details dont tread water
5. There is no justice in politics just the gaseous amoeba that is the poisonous replacement for oxygen and it will kill your career if you ignore it and it drives this train like an unseen conductor out of control
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If Obama endorses Sherrod in any form publicly he might as well pack his office and move back to Illinois now.
She made an error in judgement. She ignored the amoeba. It was a mistep of a public figure. Unfortunately her story will be lost to the amoeba for years, floating in the poison like small bubbles of oxygen waiting to be breathed in but surrounded by green noxious fumes.
It's gone, let it go. Any attempt to rescue this oxygen will get you poisoned along with it.
Create more oxygen is the counter.
We want him to do the right thing but we want him to win more.
That is possibly the most frightening thing I've read in a long time. I want our president to always do the right thing, if he/she doesn't then I don't want them to win; I certainly don't want a president who thinks winning is more important than properly doing their job.
I keep abreast of the political events closely but I dont know a single person that works around me, family or friend who knows anything more about Sherrod other than she said she's made some racist decisions.
Like I said, people do NOT watch television news, except Fox viewers. Who are convinced that Glenn Beck is God's Gardner and chosen child and everything that utters from his mouth is from angels. People (voting people) dont watch the news. The support of Sherrod will backfire amoung most voters. Scary ? Yes. It should be. But that's the state of this nations politics.
shame on them for not defending her. the right wing noise machine wants nothing so much as to see obama fail, and they just won a major victory. he was fooled into sacking an innocent woman. and they now hold the power. it was idiotic.
email the white house and say so. tell the president he needs to stand up to those bullies on the right and he needs to promise never to get fooled by them again.
you must vote. a non vote counts as a vote for the right.
so, not voting is simply standing aside and letting the right win.
and all that is necessary for evil to win is for good people to do nothing.
so, again, who would you vote for? if obama is the democratic choice, will you let the republicans take power simply because you do not like obama? is that any better?
Perhaps he can vote in the Obama style - PRESENT
This reminds me of why we have to be vigilant. Shrugging our shoulders and accepting that this is just the way things go just doesn't cut it. Today its Shirley Sherrod; tomorrow it could be any one of us.