Posted on 07/22/2010 7:40:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
“Thoughtful and intellectual conservatives have to show some intellectual honesty. Whatever the circumstances are (or are not) of her hiring, her firing was unfounded. Breitbart creates a situation where it will make it even easier for the MSM to ignore more important stories in the future. “
Intellectual honesty includes the fact that IF AND ONLY IF we let the story die now is your above statement correct. IF AND ONLY IF we continue to dig and find the true nature of the players involved: Sherrod, Obama, Breitbart, Fox, NAACP, etc. will we get to the transparent truth that OUR SIDE is not the primary source of racists, theirs is.
If we quit now then they win and you are right. But if we fight this fight to the end then WE will win and you will be wrong.
Are you willing to continue fighting or will you RINO out on us and give up the fight, just going along to get along?
Something for everyone to think about IMO.
Hold the phone here.
I’d like to have the NAACP provide an explanation for the edited (redacted) section on the FULL version of the video. What was taken out?
Secondly, even if we take Sherrod at face value, she says the race story was intended to show that while it’s bad to discriminate on the basis of race, she thinks it’s fine to do so on the basis of class (giving money to the poor. If an applicant met all other criteria, is this really how we want the USDA to operate?
Whatever - it’s Obama’s deal now. He owns whatever comes - or has come - out of her mouth.
I would like to see this same level of scrutiny
employed on the NAACPs charges of racism.
Frankly, I don’t care. The only calculus is whether this helps or hurts the left. If it helps them, it’s counterproductive. If it hurts them, I’m for it regardless of merit.
They have successfully engaged in political assassination over and over and need to have it done to them over and over, so long as it is productive. Regardless of merits. Maybe, for example, Sherrod faked having her daughter’s baby. Or maybe she lied about weapons of mass destruction. Or maybe she and Obama planned the oil spill as a way to help NALCO.
I’m done with civilized political behavior. It has not worked. We have spent the last 60 years on the defensive, partly as a result of civility. The left needs to be destroyed completely. Their media lackeys need to be destroyed completely. Their careers need to be destroyed on any pretext. They need to lose their houses and pensions. They need to be looking over their shoulders wondering where the next blow will fall. And then it needs to fall hard from a different direction. They have destroyed most of what was good about Western Civilization and adopted most of what is evil. Deliberately. Pinochet was not the bad guy.
No he does not!
First, he did not fire her!
And all he showed was a woman standing in front of an audience telling them why they should no longer be bigots or racists. In other words, she knew her audience were a bunch of bigots and racists aka NAACP.
Screw the $13 million dollar race-baiting shakedown artist. God bless Andrew Breitbart.
No, it really isn't anything to think about.
Conservatives don't win by acting like liberals. Brietbart was wrong. He should not have shown edited tapes. And, if he did show edited tapes, he has a journalistic obligation to clearly label them edited, as well as making the entire source material available, either in video, or in a transcript. That is the honest way to inform readers - show the truth, ALL the truth and nothing but the truth, and let your readers make up their own mind.
I don't like advocacy journalism, period.
Shirley Sherrod thanks you for your contribution to her $13 million dollar shakedown of the USDA. Will you also contribute to her slavery reparations shakedown fund, too? Pay off the race-baiters?
I am just going to go get fitted for my Mao suit now.
That was Breitbart's intention, all along. He never called for Sherrod to be fired. He was simply pointing out that the NAACP harbors racist elements, as shown by the audience reaction to her comments about not particularly wanting to help the white farmer. The video was a way for Breitbart to show EVIDENCE of racist attitudes within the NAACP, when the NAACP, even with their resolution against the Tea Party, could not prove racism in the Tea Party, as a whole.
To be specific, Sherrod said she refused to help the farmer because he was white. Then later on she had a change of heart because she learned he was poor. Her change of heart came AFTER she had refused to help the farmer. And her change of heart came about only because she went from being a bigot to being a marxist.
Many times dealing with the Left has meant “Anything you say can and will be used against you, taken out of context, and embellished” while we have been taking the higher ground and as a result being played as suckers. It’s high time we realize we are at war, even if it is a cold war. Hey Lefties, it must really suck to be on the receiving end of your own Alinsky tactics.
Sherrod is a race-baiting shakedown artist who is nothing more than a product of the affirmative action scam. She and the NAACP were exposed by Andrew Breitbart and you should thank him for everything that he’s done to expose ACORN and the NCAAP.
“I agree with you and others who have said Breitbart did the wrong thing here. The woman was wronged. The transcript and the account of the Spooners totally vindicates her. Breitbart AND Obama acted stupidly.”
It would have been better if Breitbart had emphasized the fact the Ms. Sherrod changed her way of thinking, while also emphasizing the racist reaction of the NAACP crowd. One good thing that may come of this is that when conservatives get taken out of context, they can now refer to what happened to Ms. Sherrod for comparison.
“Conservatives don’t win by acting like liberals.”
I guess Ronald Reagan’s “We win, they lose” philosophy was lost on you.
We’ll have to disagree here. I think you’re as wrong as you can be and actually are part of the problem if you think that quitting the fight right after it begins is some sort of “conservative” act.
But that’s just me. We’ll see what the rest of the FReepers think, shall we?
‘Owes us an apology’ ... standard liberal vomit.
but you cannot ignore the fact that she admitted to harboring racial hatred toward white folks
....EXACTLY!! and the point that “I used to be a Commie” Ron missed completely is that the racist audience is onboard with her earlier actions dissing the white farmer who dared talk down to her... who hired the racist to deal with Georgians anyway??? Is it still true the USDA still has one ‘crat for every farmer in America? Time to ABOLISH the USDA!
ymmv
The whole tape shows she is not a racist, but a Marxist racist. And very likely given her associations, been one for a very long time. Ask yourself what public employee white guy would still have a job saying stuff like point you to people of your “own kind” for help.
Watch the whole tape and decide for yourself.
Breitbart owes no one anything.
If there is any blame it’s too be laid at the feet of the NAACP and their race baiting. And the White House for colluding with the NAACP in firing her. Did they fire her for this reason, or was it because what might be found out by a deeper investigation.
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