The Power of Redemption (Peggy Noonan goes bonkers over "Shakedown" Shirley Sherrod)

Wall Street Journal ^ | 7/23/10 | Peggy Noonan

[jimbo123]

She was smeared by right-wing media, condemned by the NAACP, and canned by the Obama administration. It wasn't pretty, what was done this week to Shirley Sherrod.

And maybe something good can come of it. The thought occurred to me after reading her now-famous speech, which is about the power of grace and the possibility of redemption.

Here's a way to get some good. This September, when school begins, we should make the speech required viewing in the nation's high schools.

[thecabal]

Exactly. She is desperate to be part of the Ruling Class, but one gets the impression that she’s a bit like the ugly chick that the clique of mean girls keeps around so that they can relentlessly put her down. And just like that ugly chick, she keeps sucking up to her betters for more punishment.

[riri]

This race stuff has be be reverberating through the country. Yesterday, I had to ask the butcher at the grocery a question and he was a young black guy. I was completely uncomfortable. Six months a go, I wouldn’t have gave it a second thought.

[Oldpuppymax]

Sherrod was SMEARED by “right wing” media. TRANSLATION—her own WORDS were played back. That’s all it takes to SMEAR a leftist—record and replay what they say in supposedly “safe” surroundings.

[LibLieSlayer]

I knew that peggy was a putrid America hating leftist wh0re for obama... but now she even hates her own race AND THE TRUTH.

FU peggy!

LLS

[dusttoyou]

The “change” must have really changed the Lady Noonan.

There does seems to be a lot of bending over backwards to proven “I’m not racist”, these last few days. Must be some think just because the black voter block will be too lazy to vote for dems come November, they can be persuaded to vote for Pubbies, if enough kissin up occurs.

[marron]

She wasn’t smeared. Someone posted her own remarks. And, yes, Breitbart included two videos which included her later supposed epiphany where she claims to have seen the light.

She was fired before the story even aired on the news. The coverage at Fox has been largely sympathetic; her first defender was Glenn Beck who defended her immediately. In fact, it was only after he spoke up for her that NAACP and the Obamists found the nerve to retract their own condemnation of her, and offer to rehire her. Obama and the NAACP both waited until after Beck defended her to reverse course. Hasn’t stopped her from denouncing the “racists” at Fox, when they were the ones who spoke up for her.

[pallis]

If Shirley Sherrod were working for a private charity, or deciding what to do with her own money, it wouldn’t matter one wit that she had problems helping a white farmer. Given her background, it’s understandable. She has justified her reasons for being a racist, just like most racists do, to one degree of truth or another. I suppose a white child who loses a father to black thugs would have a good reason for becoming a racist, and if that child later went to work for the government, she might have difficulties helping black people. Maybe Peggy could be inspired by that, but my guess is that she would crucify her. Celebrate the ignorance.

[freespirited]

I dont think she reads anything but the NY Slimes and the Wapo. She is perpetually ill-informed.

[Frantzie]

Peggy is one of those left wing Manhattan Catholics. I am sure she voted for Obama.

Shirley Sherrod, the NAACP and Obama hate white people.

[Frantzie]

Peggy is one of those left wing Manhattan Catholics. I am sure she voted for Obama.

Shirley Sherrod, the NAACP and Obama hate white people.

[dead]

Peggy has become Maureen Dowd, without the trailer park hussy wardrobe.

Maybe Mo can let her know when the sales are.

[Nosterrex]

Peggy has been infected with the Washington liberal bug.

[DPMD]

It seems to me that the right-wing media was pretty careful to wait on the Sherrod tape, and was among the first to condemn her firing by obama. And, of course, throughout it all, Noonan was...silent.

As usual, for a liberal, Noonan waited until the votes were all in to declare her position, and lo, she chose the winning side.

Her morph from pretender in conservative circles to liberal loon is complete.

[mjp]

that it's really about those who have versus those who don't." It's helping the frightened and powerless

How? It depends on your overall strategy of how you are going to help.By violation of natural rights through government interventionism for social justice,egalitarianism, redistributionism, and economic democracy rather than through true justice, voluntary, and free action? No thanks,I'll pass.

[Eagles6]

If you watch the entire video you'll see that sherrod doesn't "overcome" her racism, she just realizes that she doesn't hate ALL White people, just the rich powerful ones.

She has a severe case of "minority psychosis" and views everything through the prism of race. All White people do is sit around and conspire how to keep the black man down.

In her comments in interviews following her "resignation" she calls all Republicans racist and that they and Breitbart want to take us back to the time when blacks were slaves.

It's like the myth that malcolm x saw the light and repudiated his hatred for Whitey. He did no such thing, after his trip to mecca he decided that he didn't hate Whites that were muslim, the rest were still White Devils.

[jwparkerjr]

I’ve got to wonder he he wasn’t set up by someone. They ‘leaked’ the damning part of the speech but conveniently left out the part that explained the part that was provided. I figure they knew he would run with what they gave him and planned to release the rest in order to make him look bad.

It’s difficult to realize there are people in the world who would sit up nights thinking of ways to pull a ‘gotcha’ on their enemies.

Until I had proof to the contrary I would have to consider this scenario to be at the top of list.

[kevao]

It was confirmed by Fox last night that the clip Brietbart put on his Web site included the come-to-Jesus moment. So the context was there for anyone to see.

Also, his point was never Sherrod; it was about the audience’s reaction to her story of discriminating against a white guy.

[Zakeet]

Dear Piggy:

Ms. Sherrod made a number of stunning accusations including:

• Her father had been murdered by a white man in Baker County, Ga.

• She was 17 when her father was killed, in 1965.

• These were still the bad old days; lynchings had taken place in her lifetime.

• The man who murdered her father "was never punished," even though there were three eyewitnesses.

• The grand jury refused to indict.

• After that, one night, a cross was burned on their lawn.

• Her mother had a gun, and black men from throughout the county came and surrounded the white men who surrounded the house.

As you probably know claims of lynchings and cross burnings historically have been vastly overstated. I therefore presume that you personally verified the validity of each of Ms. Sherrod's statements so you would not be guilty of the same mistakes which you attribute to Mr. Brietbart.

Sincerely,

/Zak

[TigersEye]

What's more important than that? What do students need to hear more?

They should pay particular attention to her statements that opposition to 0bamaCare was racist and eight years of Bush was racist and that "it has never been easier to buy a house. Thanks to 0bama." (Bawney Fwank and Chris Dodd must be relieved by that statement.)

VIDEO: Sherrod Wants BigGovernment Shut Down

[TigersEye]

If I were hiring someone for a job, I wouldn’t worry about their race because that would be racist.

If I were hiring someone for a job, I wouldn’t want to know their political or ideological leanings nor would I take them into account if I were hiring them. That would also be bigoted.

What says Shirley?

I don't know about Shirley but these are my thoughts.

If I were hiring someone for a job, I wouldn’t worry about their race because that would be irrelevant.

If I were hiring someone for a job, I would definitely want to know their political or ideological leanings because I wouldn't want anyone with a looter-class mentality infecting my company with their "world owes me a living" thinking.

I might hire a lefty if they had some serious qualities to recommend them with the clear proviso that they keep their mouths shut about their views on pain of immediate termination.