Posted on 07/22/2010 6:57:33 AM PDT by kristinn
Former USDA official Shirley Sherrod, who claims she was falsely smeared as a racist while she herself falsely smears Republicans and Fox News as racists, said this morning that she would like to see BigGovernment.com, the website that made her famous, shut down for the good of the country.
CNN's American Morning reported on Sherrod's demand:
She said if Breitbart's site were shut down, "That would be a great thing, because I don't see how that advances us in this country ... at a time when we should be trying to look at how we can make space for all of us in this country, so that we can all live and work together, he's doing more to divide us."
Sherrod also told CNN she is considering suing Andrew Breitbart, the owner of Big Government:
"I really think I should. You know, I don't know a lot about the legal profession, but that's one person I'd like to get back at. Because he came at me. You know, he didn't go after the NAACP. He came at me."
Yesterday, in an interview with the Democrat front group Media Matters, Sherrod smeared Fox News as wanting to take blacks back to the Jim Crow era:
... 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."
In the same speech given in March to the NAACP that initially got Sherrod fired by the Obama administration, Sherrod smeared Republicans as racists for opposing Barack Obama's government takeover of healthcare:
"Some of the racism we thought was buried, didn't it surface? Now we endured eight years of the Bushes, and we didn't do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black president."
Sherrod is being annointed as a saint by the media for her claim to have overcome her own racism. She is even being compared to Nelson Mandela. Yet to this day she speaks in starkly racist terms of "my people" and "his own kind" while flinging the race card as skillfully as Jesse Jackson at her perceived political opponents.
She also has revealed a leftist totalitarian streak. It's no wonder the communists from ANSWER and Code Pink were out supporting her yesterday:
There is no chance, ZERO that any *investigation* of this woman is going to be conducted, most especially by Republicans. She is one step away from being crowned the new Rosa Parks, if you think anyone is going to touch her with a ten foot pole ...
When another FReeper explained the context of her speech and saw it as a tale of "redemption" I responded positively because things are too quickly decontextualized. Being victims of that, we should not practice it on others.
However, I am now totally disappointed. Just another lib who wants to shut down everyone who disagrees with her.
Before it's over the only privacy and freedom we'll have left is the "right" to engage in "gay" sex.
Amen!!!
LLS
Sherrod is an idiot. All Breightbart did was call attention to the video of her NAACP speech. President Obama panicked and in fear of Glenn Beck (according to Shirley) forced the USDA to fire her. She claims the White House forced her to pull off the road and resign!
If she’s going to sue someone, it should be her idiot employer. Obama should be shut down!!
Her father was murdered by the Klan? Shirley initially said he was killed by a white farmer ... and at one point, that it was in the midst of a dispute of the ownership of some cows. Doesn’t sound like the Klan to me.
I agree, I just don’t know about Ann sometimes. She’s changed in the past couple of years. Maybe she’s dating a liberal or something. I used to look forward to seeing her on, now I dread it because I never know what she’s going to say. I like Laura Ingrahm better now.
AB is smart and he knows all of this... something will happen. We have to wait and see.
LLS
Will Holder prosecute him for .... breathing ???
If a white man said this in a room full of white men, on tape, Holder would have him arrested by now.
I guess I'm confused, because in your earlier post, you think Glenn smelled a rat, meaning you think he saw the video and decided to wait it out -- now you say you watched him explain this is not the case, which is it with you then?
I fail to see how “taking him to one of his own” indicates that Shirley Sherrod, married to the notorious black racist Charles Sherrod (look him up), was either transcending race or doing her job.
She had a great case against her employer. But she won't keep her big mouth shut - she's probably blown that suit.
Thanks -- I was making dinner right when this cut into Cavuto, proper digestion took precedence, I'm afraid. ;)
Fox absolutely SUCKS on this issue.
LLS
I am ready... are you?
LLS
Someone above said that she said rural, not rule. I haven’t heard it so I can’t say one way or the other.
Yes, well good luck with that. Breitbart reading the statement from Mary Frances Berry the other night:
Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.
Checkmate.
I’ve got a feeling there’s more tapes of her choice comments coming out.
All she needs to do is keep talking!
She played the game. Her goal was the big bucks....not saving farms.
Redemption my ......
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