You said it, Sherrod, we didn't. There's nothing to construe there, you admitted publicly, to a friendly audience, to engaging in blatantly racist behavior.
Posted on 07/20/2010 3:47:32 AM PDT by tobyhill
The USDA's rural development director for Georgia says she was forced out of her federally appointed job after a "snippet" of a speech she gave in March appeared to show her admission to only half-heartedly aiding a struggling white farmer because of his race.
But in a phone interview from her home in Albany early Tuesday morning, Shirley Sherrod told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution that the two-minute, 38-second video posted online Monday by biggovernment.com and reported on by FoxNews.com and the AJC completely misconstrued the message she was trying to convey.
Sherrod, 62, insisted her statements in the video were not racist.
"For Fox to take a spin on this like they have done, and know it’s not the truth … it’s very upsetting," she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
Misconstrued, I dont think so!
Ah that evil Fox network! It's ALL their fault.
She was done wrong. An objective viewing of this clip will not allow an interpretation of racism on her part. Ugly business.
I’ll say this for her: her story is the most plausible one I’ve heard from any of these leftists caught on tape. I’m sorry to say that I don’t really care though. As long as the media filters talk radio through Media Matters, I think turnabout is fair play. However, I don’t doubt for a minute that if the rest of that tape were uncovered, and she was found to be telling the truth about the context, that Andrew Breitbart would make a full and public apology to this woman. We’ll never see that from Media Matters.
Geez! What a worthless POS! Get caught red handed and then comes the obligatory FOX News slam. Must be the MO of the media to stay away from certain stories, until after FOX airs them, to allow the “disenfranchised” scumbag to assault the messenger with the full support of their MSM friends.
The funny thing is she also slammed the AJC. I didn’t know that Murdoch bought that worthless fish wrap./sarc
I for one am happy the unemployment rate in GA went up one. I hope she gets a white employment counselor at the unemployment office.
and just what the message??
I thought the one I saw on Fox was quite clear.
Keep talking, sweetie. MSM will be forced show the vid.
Maybe she’d like to talk about the $13 million she was awarded in a discrimination suit by the DOJ just days before she was appointed to her position.
Oooh, but in a interview with the AJC, it's only the big bad Fox that treated her badly:
For Fox to take a spin on this like they have done
Predictable.
IF the MSM reports on a story, it’s only AFTER they’ve been given a line on which to hang a defense. It lets them still spin themselves as objective reporters but keep their obvious bias intact.
And if she felt she was right, why did she resign? Any good little NAACP jackbooter would’ve dug in and held her position.
I hope that every farmer that ever dealt with her and didn’t receive a satisfactory outcome sues her PERSONALLY.
So, she's making the argument that she knows when to be open and when to hold back? Next she'll say some of her best friends are white.
All the more reason to fire her racist ass. Dredging up a 24 year old event to play to her racist NAACP audience is a lapse in judgement that should be met with termination.
It never ceases to amaze me how so many blacks can say these kinds of things with a straight face and not seriously believe in their hearts that they can possibly be racist.
If this was a whitey, saying the same things about black farmers, it would be rightfully blasted as being Jim Crow all over again.
Did you understand my post?
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