Posted on 07/22/2010 11:58:34 AM PDT by Justaham
President Barack Obama called Shirley Sherrod Thursday to offer his apologies and urge her to accept a promotion on Thursday, but the Agriculture Department official, who was forced out on unfounded charges of racism, kept mum on her plans.
Obama had tried to call her twice on Wednesday night but couldn’t connect with Sherrod, according to an administration official. West Wing staffers were attempting to call her again when she returned the president’s calls at around 12:35 p.m.
The apology came after Sherrod took to the airwaves Wednesday to say she would appreciate a call from the president. The 62-year-old grandmother resigned at the direction of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack after a misleading video was posted on conservative websites. It later was discovered to have been doctored to misrepresent Sherrod as racist.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Wuss
Awaiting NAACP apology to Tea Party for their unfounded racism accusations.
Waiting...
waiting...
Publicly admit to not doing your job to the best of your ability, but still get a promotion because of that?
Sign me up!
doctored?
How was it doctored in anyway?
It’s even more incriminating when you watch what wasn’t shown later in her speech.
Of course 0dumbo wants her to take the job, he doesn’t want her to sue
she has said she might sure breitbart
for what?
btw if you watch the entire vid she says Republicans are onlyagainst obamacare because 0dumbo is black.
If that isn’t racist I don’t know what is.
Did Sherrod or did she not say that she worked against a white farmer just because he was a white farmer?
This is going to blow up in obama’s face BIG TIME!!!
Is Glenn Thrush one of these Journolists? He states a lie about the video being doctored.
For Pete's sake, this guy is a child.
Meanwhile nothing from the Pravda Media on the Journolist exposure of the media cabal that smears conservative critics as “racists” and beats them down “as warning” to other conservatives to shut the f*** up.
Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright [Journolist] (The Daily Caller July 20, 2010 Jonathon Strong)
In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”
... Spencer Ackerman, then of the Washington Independent (now writing for Wired)... “I do not endorse a Popular Front, nor do I think you need to. It’s not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright’s defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically.”
Liberal journalists suggest government shut down Fox News (The Daily Caller ^ | 7/21/2010 | Jonathan Strong )
Jonathan Zasloff, a law professor at UCLA, suggested that the federal government simply yank Fox off the air. “I hate to open this can of worms,” he wrote, “but is there any reason why the FCC couldn’t simply pull their broadcasting permit once it expires?””
Barack Obama has yet to meet with Cindy Sheehan (Bush did).
Two birds of a feather flocking together!!! Both Communists & America haters!!!
Did he kiss her ass also?
Correct. Later in the video she says that criticism of Obamacare is racist and that there was none of this dissent for 8 long years while Bush was President.
****It later was discovered to have been doctored to misrepresent Sherrod as racist.****
No Mr. Journ0list, it was NOT DOCTORED!!!! It was just shorted - like Soros shorting US stocks. And the WH panicked.
Makes you wonder what would happen if Russian TV played a tape of StarWars!!!
He’s afraid she’ll beat him up.
That's the racism I'm concerned about: the unrepentant racism of the NAACP.
Seriously???
Hahahaha- this arrogant old career race pimp made the pimp in chief beg for her forgiveness
Maybe he had to give her a pony
Lets made Shirley a US ambassador to Iran
Hahahaha- this arrogant old career race pimp made the pimp in chief beg for her forgiveness
Maybe he had to give her a pony
Let’s made Shirley a US ambassador to Iran
And like John Lewis being called a n****r, this will be the meme.
repeated with every reference to this woman, for eternity.
Waiting...
waiting...
Still waiting,,,,,,waiting,,,,,,waiting
Ping
Moron of the century.
Moron of the century.
Obama is a cowardly idiot. He fired Sherrod in a panic that Glenn Beck was going to have her on his show.
ROFLOL!! Idiots on parade!!
I truly hope she accepts Obama’s apology and accepts his job offer.
Just so’s he can fire her racist a$$ all over again as new evidence in incoming as I type of her racist/facist ways.
(hand me some popcorn, willa?)
Does it matter? The reporting speaks for itself.
When’s the Beer Summit?
She must been too busy suing the government to notice how Bush was portrayed. Especially during Katrina.
He should apologize to this country
OOOOOOHHHHHHHHH politicO
I never ever visit their site and I don’t care to read anything they print.
This is hilarious. Our country is being gutted and bulldozed by this fraud-in-chief and at least 48 hours and counting are spent talking nonstop about this pathetic low-level racist in the agricultural department.
Is this the same Politico whose writer plots with others to trash Palin?
She's going to turn out to be fun. She wants to be Al Sharpton famous, and Obama's her ticket to stardom.
Meet the new leftwing Levi Johnson, hopefully sans nudity.
It’d be interesting to learn who gave the tape excerpts to Breitbart. He’s said that when he was originally offered the materials, they didn’t play for him and he had little interest in the matter.
That was until the NAACP alleged racism as the motivation of the tea party movement.
The racist applause for Saint Sherrod at the NAACP meeting was not “a matter of editing”. Where was their “come to Jesus moment” where they acknowleged they were wrong?
To finish the “history”, after Breitbart became interested in the content, he looked through his emails and requested new copies of the tape.
Just be sure you are nowhere near the body scanner monitor at the airport when she is flying on her media tour.
No, but after she makes another round with the media, he'll undoubtedly call a meeting with her and bow.
"Mr. President, there seems to have been some incident involving Prof Gates and the Police."
"Well, I don't know what you're talking about, but what I can say is that the Police acted stupidly."
"Mr. President, a woman working for USDA said something the other day. People are upset."
"Well, I don't know what she said, but fire her."
"Mr. President, some people think that maybe what she said was OK."
"I have no idea what you're telling me. Fire her boss. Rehire her."
Agree...this is sooooo beneath the office.
Dems are panicking because they don’t want any black voters staying home in Nov.
Thus its time to start cranking up the racist grievance mongers.
Doctored sounds better than excerpted. Al least it sounds better when you’re trying to spin a racist’s statements.
Fired on Monday for racist remarks & bigotry regarding a white farmer...
Sainted & apologized to by every leftist racist commie pig official & organization by Thursday.
God help our nation from the tyranny of black racist leftists & white guilt idiots. We need a 2nd American Revolution more than ever and to drive these anti-American, racist, bigoted, socialist-commie pig leftists into the sea!
Fortunately, even the MSMedia is now reporting that obama is losing whites and independents at an ALARMING rate and you can bet your bottom dollar, that will translate into a November bloodbath...
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