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2010-07-27 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by trailing wife 2010-07-27 00:03|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Ms. Sherrod is one black pelt out of a long string of white pelts in today's race war.

Posted by badanov 2010-07-27 07:38|| 2010-07-27 07:38|| Front Page Top

#2 H*ll no he doesn't! An excellent summary TW. You should get your own blog.

Posted by Ptah 2010-07-27 10:09|| 2010-07-27 10:09|| Front Page Top

#3 The ones that need to apologize are those that rushed to judge and fired her so quickly. An investigation was perhaps warranted and firing could have followed but firing her for what is on that tape seems a bit illegal.

What is interesting to me is the audience reaction. It reminds me of the Trent Lott comments during the Strom Thurmond scandal. Nobody at the event thought the comments were out of line. Not the lefties or the journalists or anybody there until bloggers picked up the feed and realized the moronic meaning of what was said.

Perhaps people are just too polite when stupid things are said from a podium.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-07-27 11:29|| 2010-07-27 11:29|| Front Page Top

#4 He did his job as a journalist, he put the tape online and let people decide what they were watching.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-07-27 13:12|| 2010-07-27 13:12|| Front Page Top

#5 The woman is a minor bureaucrat who spoke about her own internal change of heart. The video of this speech was edited in order to make her seem like an unrepentant racist when in fact her speech indicates the exact opposite, that she recognized her behavior-- from a quarter century ago!-- and then CHANGED her behavior, in fact becoming close friends with the farmer in question!

She's not a hero, and neither is anyone in her audience, but she like anyone else does not deserve to have her speech selectively edited and twisted to mean the 180-degree opposite of what she actually said.

Breitbart acted just like the MoveOnners. He is not a journalist; he's a culture warrior. He should give up the pretense of "reforming" journalism and admit he's no different from Moulitsas or any of the other little ideological partisan bloggers braying through their tin megaphones.

Posted by lex 2010-07-27 13:13|| 2010-07-27 13:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Quite an effort there lex.

If you read the transcript, which at this point, you did not, yet, I am sure you will after reading this comment and then roar back here with "I read the transcript and you are wrong!"... But if you read the transcript Sherrod swings wildly back and forth between saying "it's all about being poor" and not race to those people who are against Obama's Health Care are racists, just like the NAACP says.

Yeah, thats right. She spoke glowingly anti-racism and then dived right into racism in her 45 minute rambling speech. Sherrod was all over the map in her transcript, saying it is a shame their are no whites in the meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as well as saying anyone who opposes Health Care are racists.

Why??? Because the sole purpose of such talk is to level false charges against people who, as Trailing Wife stated, believe in "individualism, entrepreneurialism and American grit" and are a danager to Government Administered Health Care by Beaurocrats like she was at the time of her speech.

Why??? Because she is the government beaurocrat that is trying to protect her turf. That is her REAL ambition. To take as a government beaurocrat from people in the private sector who workeded hard for what they have and give it to people who don't work in the government entitlement sector that Sherrod and her "small time beaurocrats" as you refer to her as, who she and Obama rule over.

Now, get on your knees, crawl up to her and beg for a hand out! You deserve no less. And don't act "high and mighty" doing so or you will be the butt of her next story at a closed door for sure this time NAACP meeting.

Posted by Jusoque Henbane7160 2010-07-27 14:58|| 2010-07-27 14:58|| Front Page Top

#7 I never thought Sherrod was spouting racist remarks after listening to the Breitbart video. What interested me was the response of the NAACP audience when they thought she was discussing payback to "whitie" a la O.J trial. Some of them may have never figured out she was discussing a pivot point in her life as it relates to race.

My gripe with Sherrod has been her accusations of "Racism" against Fox and Glenn Beck. Hell, Beck didn't say a word the first day after her firing and defended her on the second day even before the NAACP released the full video.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-07-27 15:57|| 2010-07-27 15:57|| Front Page Top

#8 I saw that episode of Beck, he did defend her.

That was before HE saw the full video and transcript though. I wonder what he'd have to say now.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-07-27 20:09|| 2010-07-27 20:09|| Front Page Top

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