While Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack starts up the job of pretending that it was all his fault that Shirley Sherrod got fired, the administration that actually canned the woman is beginning its own process. This is how it starts, you know:
There’s an arc to these things. Next you hear about ‘every confidence in [X],’ then it’s ‘the President stands behind [X] 100%,’ then it’s ‘[X] has decided to spend more time with his/her family.’ The resumes to DC lobbying firms shortly follow.
You know, there’s been a lot of discussion on just what happened here with Ms. Sherrod, and whether Andrew Breitbart’s going to take a hit from all of this. Let me put it this way: if he has managed to mousetrap the Obama administration into hastily taking a position that can only be salvaged by the blood sacrifice of the Secretary of Agriculture for (transferred) racial bias… then no. No, he will not.
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I'm a racist. Bill Clinton is a racist. Everyone's a racist!
clintonformccain Wednesday, July 21st at 10:07AM EST (link)I was told, in no uncertain terms, to pack my bags and clean out my desk in the Democrat Party because I was obviously a racist. My sin? I didn’t vote for Barack Obama in the Massachusetts primary. Nobody was interested in the whole story. It was just “get out”, straight from the DNC.
I’m sure that Ms. Sherrod had no problem with tarring me as a racist. No problem with tarring the Democrat Party’s first two-term president since FDR as a racist. No problem with tarring the Cambridge Police Department as racist.
I guess the chickens are coming home to roost for Sherrod and Vilsack.
You can't push anyone under the bus
Cargosquid (Diary) Wednesday, July 21st at 10:13AM EST (link)unless you first “stand behind” them….
There will be recycling
tngal (Diary) Wednesday, July 21st at 10:22AM EST (link)Why do I get the feeling no one will be completely thrown under a bus, rather just removed from view for a short while? Kind of like going into the federal witness protection program. Then they pop up somewhere else in the administration in a different capacity. Much like ACORN, but on and individual level.
Breitbart is doing
conservvoter Wednesday, July 21st at 10:54AM EST (link)what needs doing: getting in race-baiters’ faces and calling them out each and every time they play the race card. It will not end otherwise unless the Left knows we’ll not stand for it any longer. Shame on the conservatives who will not stand behind Breitbart.
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hippiessmell Wednesday, July 21st at 1:09PM EST (link)Leftism is just the latest incarnation of the decaying feudal system with its top-down paternalistic management of people’s lives–a system of having the “betters” take care of the dependent serfs, with the serfs surrendering their wealth, freedoms and choices.
Respectfully disagree...
wannabeanncoulter Wednesday, July 21st at 10:54AM EST (link)Breitbart will take a hit for this. What he did was sloppy. Come on — he didn’t even review the entire videotape or transcript of Sherrod’s speech. He never contacted Sherrod to get her side of the story before posting the video clip. He left certain details unmentioned, that the events Sherrod described go back more than 25 years when she was working for a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping black farmers and food co-ops.
What Breitbart did was reckless, at least as far as one Shirley Sherrod is concerned. If Sherrod can prove malice, Breitbart could be out some big bucks, too.
[And yes, Vilsack (vile creature even before he became AgSec) and the WH were sloppy and reckless.]
Breitbart definitely took a hit. I’m not going to waste my time visiting websites that engage in political punking.
I do think anyone named B. Hussein Obama should avoid using “hijack” and “religion” in the same sentence. — Ann Coulter
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IJB Wednesday, July 21st at 11:43AM EST (link)No hit
redneck_hippie (Diary) Wednesday, July 21st at 10:56AM EST (link)will be taken against Andrew, for the simple reason that he said the point of his exposing the clip was that the people in her audience were applauding the racist talk. The clip was aimed directly at NAACP’s resolution against the tea party. I heard a clip this morning where Ms Sherrod blamed the NAACPs resolution and the White House specifically for her firing.
This needs to be nailed to the door of the White House.
Sherrod should be defended by conservatives
m_quick Wednesday, July 21st at 11:07AM EST (link)She was a victim of the NAALCP and the White House trying to cover their butts after a week of race baiting against the tea party.
I don’t know what Breitbart was trying to prove with the video. When you look at the unedited video and the comments leading up to the Breitbart clip, you could tell where she was going with her story. It was a story about her realization that it’s not right to help blacks overcome the whites, it’s about helping the rich overcome the poor. That’s not racist. It’s Marxist. It fits right in with the Obama administration.
No, she shouldn't; she's simply a race hustler and a scammer.
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, July 21st at 11:21AM EST (link)She’s shaken down the taxpayers for billions including a settlement with Holder giving her and her husband $15OK each. The reason they “fired” her is they wanted her out of sight as quickly as possible in the hopes that nobody would look further into who she really is. Didn’t work and now the Administration neeeds to be made to suffer for the whole sordid mess for a long as possible.
In Vino Veritas
I disagree with the race hustler part
m_quick Wednesday, July 21st at 11:36AM EST (link)But where is the evidence for the settlement with Holder? I never heard of that.
And anyone in that position could be said to have shaken down the taxpayers for billions. That’s what every official in government does. The person who replaces her will shake down taxpayers too, it’s the nature of the job.
Read here:
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, July 21st at 11:40AM EST (link)http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/07/20/collecting-scalps-at-what-cost/#comment-76952
Then go search: Pigford Class Action Suit She was the major player and got her own special settlement for herself and her hubby.
In Vino Veritas
Looks like you're right
m_quick Wednesday, July 21st at 12:36PM EST (link)The Pigford case looks like it was a big scam. And her husband was in the SNCC. This really is the takeover of our country by a bunch of 60s radicals. It’s hard to believe it’s come to this.
Here ya go m_quick
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Wednesday, July 21st at 11:40AM EST (link)Read this.
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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IJB Wednesday, July 21st at 11:44AM EST (link)She is an unrepentant racist. Deal with it. nt
Tbone (Diary) Wednesday, July 21st at 12:22PM EST (link)Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
On the other hand...
merryj1 Wednesday, July 21st at 12:03PM EST (link)Breitbart’s article with and about the tape indicated that the partial tape being posted on the Big site was the entirety of what Breitbart had, but that the NAACP had the full, unedited tape (it was from a March NAACP event). I take Andrew at his word, and I think he has pretty well earned our confidence in his integrity. If he’d had the full tape, it would have been posted.
Without knowing who provided the partial tape to the Bigs or why, everything else is speculation — but I’ll speculate: Does anyone else recall Bill Clinton’s love for using a “twofer?” This could well be one, again, depending on who provided the partial tape and why; but the blowback is certainly taking down a few notches the NAACP and the Obama Administration, while casting a bit of “mud splashback” in the general direction of Andrew, the Bigs, and we conservatives generally: A Twofer! Advantage to … anybody?
Here’s a hint: Although it’s probably a complete coincidence, a well-known political operative from Louisiana has been widely and loudly proclaiming some really unflattering things about the competency and ability of all things Obama, which probably has absolutely nothing to do with that operative’s long, close ties to the Clinton camp. Really.
Addendum
merryj1 Wednesday, July 21st at 12:15PM EST (link)Sloppy me! I was completely unaware of Ms. Sherrod’s organization and its legal action against the Dept of Ag prior to (and possibley connected to) her employment at Ag.
Thanks, Aaron Gardner (Aaron’s Archive I and II)
That's certainly possible
clintonformccain Wednesday, July 21st at 1:46PM EST (link)There could well be some Clintonistas throwing a few seeds into the air, here and there.
This makes me crazy because now people are acting like Sherrod didn't say anything wrong!
AceInTX (Diary) Wednesday, July 21st at 12:19PM EST (link)Imagine if you will, the WHITE state directer of USDA going to a WHITE POWER rally and speaking about a BLACK farmer who talked on and on in an effort to prove himself superior to this WHITE state director…a WHITE State Director who struggled with whether he would help this BLACK farmer out because he knew WHITE farmers who had lost their farms while there were BLACK farmers who had been able to keep their farms…So this WHITE state directer states he decided to send this BLACK farmer to the NAACP to get help from “His Own Kind”.
Would there be any crocodile tears for this guy if that were the case?
It doesn’t matter a DAXX whether he eventually helped this BLACK farmer or not…and it wouldn’t matter a DAXX whether that BLACK farmer later came to this WHITE State Director’s defense….he’d be gone…and the race baiting Democrats and the so called objective press who are beating themselves over the head in shame over the injustice done to Ms Sherrod would be patting themselves on the back and shouting with glee.
Finally…Breitbart is pointing out that Sherrod isn’t the point of all this…it’s the NAACP crowd who is setting there in the video cheering her racist comments.
Is Ms Sherrod getting an unfair shake in this…maybe she is…but I don’t think so..and as far as the NAACP goes…
If you live by the sword…so shall ye die..
Looks to me like they have been beat at their own game to me!
Who will Be Chief Racist at USDA?
teapartypatriot Wednesday, July 21st at 1:31PM EST (link)If not her, who will shaft white farmers? Will holder take on that racist job also?
Of course this racist extremist will get her job back, PLUS she’ll get the Presidential Medal of Honor from hussein for blaming HER racist actions and remarks on Tea Partiers and Fox News.
Breitbart has done great work here.
Locked and Loaded (Diary) Wednesday, July 21st at 1:44PM EST (link)Even if he had the full video, so what? Let the liberals get worked into a froth over context.
What Breitbart has also revealed is this: It is important to examine and debate an issue, without, as BO and a corrupt Congress so often espouse, rushing to get it done.
Obama’s MO has come to bite him on the butt, and if Breitbart withheld video to expose these racists and make it happen, I like him all the more.
The wheels on the bus go round and round.....
Brian Hibbert (Diary) Wednesday, July 21st at 2:16PM EST (link)all through the town.
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You might say the White House acted Stupidly
callawyn (Diary) Wednesday, July 21st at 5:09PM EST (link)Pressuring her to resign before they had all the facts. Not like there’s a pattern here or anything.
Can’t believe no one beat me to this….
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Locked and Loaded (Diary) Wednesday, July 21st at 5:18PM EST (link)You're right. 5 with 5's for you! nt
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