The American Spectator

jessica| 7.20.10 @ 6:25AM

No white people care about themselves being laughed at. Whites have such low self esteeme that they feel they deserve what this black women did was ok and the farmer was probable a dumb white man. White people just won't stand up for themselves and that is a shame.

Toto| 7.20.10 @ 11:49AM

Hey, AmSpec, tell the truth, the whole truth. Time to stop your misleading editing.

Here's what Sherrod said:

Sherrod said the short video clip excluded the breadth of the story about how she eventually worked with the man over a two-year period to help ward off foreclosure of his farm, and how she eventually became friends with him and his wife.

"And I went on to work with many more white farmers," she said. "The story helped me realize that race is not the issue, it's about the people who have and the people who don't. When I speak to groups, I try to speak about getting beyond the issue of race."

Bonnie| 7.20.10 @ 2:25PM

That makes sense. The media, and people in general usually edit information to suit / favor their own agenda. In omitting the remainder of this lady's speech they can continue to contribute to racial division in the US and prevent us all from getting what we need from the government we have elected.

Nick| 7.20.10 @ 6:56PM

Hey, Toto, how does it feel to have a black women canned by the first black president?

Shirley Sherrod was hounded from her job by O'Bama's henchmen. Why are they so incompetent?

You liberals never complain when the MSM does the same thing. Like the bogus story that President Reagan's administration was going to make ketchup a vegetable. And the one about how President GHW Bush didn't know there were price scanners at grocery stores.

Or, how about when Dan Rather knowingly spread the lies about President GW Bush's National Guard service with fake documents made with Microsoft's WordPerfect. Where were you then? You liberals defended Blather.

How does it feel to have your own tactics used against you, Toto?

Nick| 7.20.10 @ 7:27PM

One more thing.

How does it feel to know that President Dither's White House is so afraid of Glenn Beck?

"Well, Shirley, they want you to pull over to the side of the road, and [resign.] Because you are going to be on Glenn Beck tonight."
-Shirley Sherrod on CNN, giving her version of what USDA deputy undersecretary, Cheryl Cook, told her on the phone, while driving in Georgia.

carnot| 7.20.10 @ 9:13PM

wrong.

you must have missed the salient part of the whole melodrama: this woman cannot think except in terms of black and white. her whole concept structure spins from that primary way of looking at society.

you are remarkably appalling for the true implication of your thoughts: what she said and thought...as a public servant...was ok......the results belied the prejudice. that, of course, is unacceptable. and doesn't play...as we well know...in other circumstances with a different cast of characters.

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 12:31AM

No, you're just all giddy idiots masterbating to the idea that you may have caught the NAACP being as racist as you are for once. You're disgusting. The full story this woman told was about how she overcame her racial prejudice in helping this man 20 years ago when she was starting in non profit. In fact, the farmers wife has said how great she was and how she helped save their farm. Not that facts ever matter in crazy town. You are truly reprehensible human beings.

PleterPlan| 7.21.10 @ 4:00PM

The problem is that the racists at the NAACP clapped and lauded Shirley Sherrod's racism BEFORE they heard the end of the story.

hmmmmm...| 7.26.10 @ 10:45PM

Wrong again, dog breath. As much as you hope and pray to find some black person, sonmewhere, who is as full iof racial hatred as you are yourself, you missed this time.

Did you catch the audience reaction when she said she wasn't inclined to give this man all she could do? that's right: DEAD SILENCE>
So the post-hoc cover story is as big a lie as the original.

Alan Brooks| 7.20.10 @ 8:49PM

All that really matters is: "to advance the interest of colored citizens". The minutiae is unimportant, it is bread and circuses. What matters is: blacks have to move up the food chain just as whites do, and the NAACP has helped many in the past (as for the future, I do not know; am a postfuturist, not a futurist. Leave the futurebabble to Newt-- he is getting big bucks for it).
What I despise about crypto anti-black whites is they tell a black man to be a man, and then they tell him to walk around with his tail between his legs!
Doubleminded and Doublebinded.

Cooper| 7.20.10 @ 6:46AM

Shirley Sherrod is extremely rascist. I wonder if she is unaware of how backwards her statements were or perhaps she purposely is trying to stigmatize race. The people in power know how to use race to divide and conquer us. Lets not be ignorant to that fact. WATCH AT LEAST THE FIRST 10 MINUTES OF THE obama deception ONLINE FOR FREE.

Alan Brooks| 7.20.10 @ 8:59PM

I spent many summers in the South (N. Carolina), 1962- '72, before it became the New South. I realized by '72 that whites don't so much think blacks are inferior, they merely do not much like the physical appearance of blacks, but are too cowardly to say what they really think.
Whites do not have to like blacks, but many whites are afraid to say what they think, still expecting blacks to be forthright with whites.
Gutless, petty, sniveling; such whites are more cowardly than any draft dodgers who ever lived.
And it makes me more determined to vote for Obama as time goes on.

carnot| 7.20.10 @ 9:17PM

yea...that best explains the increasing prominence of...say...inter-racial marriages. particularly in the South.

Tim*| 7.20.10 @ 9:59PM

Apparently , that's your problem Brooks .

You're a leftover has been , stuck in the 60's .

Alan Brooks| 7.21.10 @ 12:24AM

Sure, when did I say I wasn't? Your grandpa's reference point is the '50s-- which probably WAS the best decade, along with the early '60s.

But what about certain conservatives and rightists stuck in the '80s? do you tell them 'get over it'?

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 12:07AM

No, you're just all giddy idiots masterbating to the idea that you may have caught the NAACP being as racist as you are for once. You're disgusting. The full story this woman told was about how she overcame her racial prejudice in helping this man. In fact, the farmers wife has said how great she was and how she helped save their farm. Not that facts ever matter in crazy town. You are truly reprehensible human beings.

Alan Brooks| 7.21.10 @ 12:56AM

"yea...that best explains the increasing prominence of...say...inter-racial marriages. particularly in the South."

Prominence? only a hardline Marxist would really think that.

SC Mike| 7.20.10 @ 7:13AM

TAS has done it’s part over the years, but Breitbart adds a level of media savvy that’s difficult for the leftist mainstream media to contend with.

BHO is no longer a closet racist, the truth is coming out. I feel terrible writing this, but all the evidence indicates that he's a corrupt, racist politician who hoodwinked the American public.

It’s another example of projection, too, because the Left endlessly announces that conservatives are corrupt and racist. I guess they have to do so to maintain their own cover of being so much worse.

Alan Brooks| 7.20.10 @ 9:01PM

You still do not know how relieved so many are that Bush has left office?

carnot| 7.20.10 @ 9:18PM

I agree.....if for no other reason than that he serves as a case example for the current incompetent.

Alan Brooks| 7.21.10 @ 12:29AM

Bush 41? McCain, Dole? they serve as case examples? If you get a good one to stand up then the Reagan Democrats would vote for him (or her);

but the track record hasn't been good.

Janice Martin| 7.20.10 @ 7:19AM

I think you should clarify that the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defencse Fund two completely different organizations? You shouldn't confuse the readers with the two because then the article becomes biased. This only contributes to the irrational behavior of ALL racists.

Phillip| 7.20.10 @ 7:39AM

I am reminded that Senator Obama had at least two of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam minions in positions of responsibility on his Senate office staff.

Alan Brooks| 7.20.10 @ 9:04PM

"at least two of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam minions in positions of responsibility on his Senate office staff. "
Louisiana GOP fielded David Duke back in the early '90s.
The extremists cancel each other out;

(not really-- but it makes us feel better to think such is what is happening)

Melvin| 7.20.10 @ 8:15AM

Black Americans freely admit, "White people are completely unable to band together and stick up for themselves."
Much of this stems from indoctrination from the government run schools that White folks are the bane of the universe and everything that is screwed up across the globe is the fault of White Imperialists.
Take slavery for example, how many years since the War between the States have Black Americans been beating up Whites, that the reason that Blacks can't be successful in this society is because of White economic oppression.
Black on Black crime isn't blamed on failed Black leadership whose policies have kept many but not all Black Americans trapped in the inner city Democrat run plantations.
Tawana Brawley, Crystal Gale Mangum, have openly accused white men of raping them, proven false, and what is the prevailing attitude from white folks. "Weeellll, maybe they didn't, but they sure were thinking about it."
Black civil rights leaders descended on the cities of where these women resided and stoked the fires of racism within the local Black populace, that these cities almost exploded with unjustified Black rage directed at innocents Whites.
And when it was proven that these women and Civil Rights Leaders lied, what happened, tell me what happened, was there investigations, were there charges of false statements, or even apologies from Blacks Civil Rights Leaders and the NAACP? No not one damn thing except silence and burning loathing.
Many Black Americans scream at the top of their lungs for racial justice when governments like the one in Sudan still practice slavery and bondage in this supposed modern day. Many Muslim nations still very quietly under the radar also still partake in human trafficking.
But let one stinking white farmer ask for some help from a Black government bureaucrat named Shirley Sherrod, and "Its payback time."
After Barrack Obama was elected President a co-worker of mine was standing in line at a convenience store in North Carolina and an arrogant Black woman strode up to the head of the line and turned around and told the patrons who were waiting to pay for their eeevillll cigarettes, "Get used to it."
Many Black Americans who do not share this attitude of retribution will tell their fellow Americans, "These peoples attitude doesn't reflect all Black Americans feelings."
My response to that is, "Well, duh, guess it could be said for White folks to, huh?" But then again the silence is deafening from many Black Americans who not share Al Sharpton's or Jessie Jacksons opinions of Whites. But then again I suppose Racism and bigotry towards Whites has become a successfull business hasn't it?

Alan Brooks| 7.21.10 @ 12:39AM

"[snip] that the reason that Blacks can't be successful in this society is because of White economic oppression."

Not oppression exactly, it is saying "a black man must be a man, but he must not be assertive, because then he is being uppity." It is like locking a guy in a room, and saying "get out of there, now."
You don't have to like blacks, or smarm them; but make up your minds; and remember:
blacks are not obligated to like YOU.

You wont admit it, but you are conflicted.

Alan Brooks| 7.21.10 @ 12:45AM

... you can't get it, still?
With welfarism, blacks are not exactly economically oppressed, but if dislike of blacks is supposedly finished because of a few interracial marriages (such are not THAT common) then why are the David Dukes in business? for every FaraKKKhan and Al Sharpedtongue there is a Duke.

Alan Brooks| 7.21.10 @ 12:50AM

(Al Sharptongue-- this is him exactly)
... the point?
Dukes and Sharptongues deserve each other. But with so many demagogues, the people caught in the crossfire-- black 'n' white-- are trapped.

Road Kill| 7.20.10 @ 8:25AM

Melvin, you're burning up the page. But you're right in many aspects of white vs black. Of course the NAACP is going to play their role to the hilt. But we haven't played "Cowboys and NAACP" yet have we.

Melvin| 7.20.10 @ 8:48AM

The fingers were doin the thinkin this morning that is for sure. Living in NC I have lots of Black neighbors, and one neighbor in particular named Angela made a comment years back that sticks with me to today. "I get so damn irritated at being called an African American, I'm not from Africa, I'm from Georgia and I'm an American period."
I share a fence with Angela and David and we talk freely about race, no one breaks out the shotguns and grenades. In fact one neighbor who is Hispanic told Angela, "Stop acting White." Angela being Angela retorted, "I"m putting a privacy fence starting tomorrow."
Angela didn't talk to the neighbors until they apologized and they to my surprise they did." But the privacy fence remains.
God, I do love independent thinking people.

Hmmm...| 7.26.10 @ 10:50PM

Yeah. Becau8se, yaknow, white folks have such a long history of oppression to overcome.

Honestly, do you ever actually read the drivel you write before hitting the "submit" button?

Harry Flashman| 7.20.10 @ 9:10AM

The 2008 presidential campaign featured the strategic genius of the Chicago Way hired gun David Axelrod, a proven race baiter (reference his work on the 2003 re-election of Philadelphia Mayor John Street) who sold his candidate as a "tranformative" politician who would "change the culture" of Washington and lead America into a "post-racial" future because it was "time" for a black president, with the clear message for whites being that if you won't vote for Obama, then you're a racist.

Right thinking Americans have our work cut out for us between now and November 2012. It is worth taking every appropriate opportunity to remind voters that the Democratic party was the party of Jim Crow, fire hoses and police dogs. That LBJ and the liberal mandarins of his time initiated the transformation of their party into the paternalistic entitlement behemoth that essentially paid black women to have babies, and in the process created a multi-generational culture of dependency that did more to destroy the strengths of the American black family than any other single factor. This was done to buy votes, though of course they and their successors continue to dress this institutionalized bribery with the fig leaf of "social justice."

Remind people about Eric Holder's calling them "cowards" for not having "honest conversations" about race, and the current president's judgement that the Cambridge Police Department "acted stupidly."

Remember for November.

ncatty| 7.20.10 @ 4:19PM

Flash for Freedom!

Gill O’Teen ✝✡$| 7.20.10 @ 9:37AM

The NAACP has not strayed far from the ideals of its former head W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963). According to his Wikipedia article, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois], Du Bois was at minimum a kommie sympathizer. He was certainly a great admirer of noted philanthropist, Joe Stalin, having penned on the occasion of his hero’s death:

“Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was the son of a serf but stood calmly before the great without hesitation or nerves. But also - and this was the highest proof of his greatness - he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate.”

Stalin may have been responsible for the deaths of about 20 million people.

He defended the Soviet Union’s 1956 intervention in Hungary by suggesting that “... the Hungarian Revolution was a plot of, "landlords and fascists".”

Hungary was a kommienist soviet-puppet state at the time and that Revolution began as a peaceful student protest against Soviet repression.

Even more shocking is this:
“Just forty days before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke at an event marking the hundredth anniversary of Du Bois' birth, at Carnegie Hall in New York City:”

We cannot talk of Dr. Du Bois without recognizing that he was a radical all of his life. Some people would like to ignore the fact that he was a Communist in his later years. It is worth noting that Abraham Lincoln warmly welcomed the support of Karl Marx during the Civil War and corresponded with him freely. In contemporary life, the English speaking world has no difficulty with the fact that Sean O'Casey was a literary giant of the twentieth century and a Communist, or that Pablo Neruda is generally considered the greatest living poet though he also served in the Chilean Senate as a Communist. It is time to cease muting the fact that Dr. Du Bois was a genius and chose to be a Communist. Our irrational obsessive anti-communism has led us into too many quagmires to be retained as if it were a mode of scientific thinking.”

Their very words reveal the content of their characters.

Note: AmSpec has a maximum number of links limit to posted comments. Anyone requesting those to my email address will be sent them. My primary source is Wikipedia, the other comments were found by a Google search.
Gill O’Teen ✝✡$
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com
"I'll have those (n-words) voting Democratic for the next 200 years." -- Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One according (to) Ronald Kessler's Book, "Inside The White House"
http://rightwingnews.com/quote.....acists.php
Only 915 days to go.

TURK| 7.20.10 @ 9:41AM

This article occurs in the current mix of multiple attacks via politics, government, media, academia, political correctness et al, upon our great(or once great) nation. Running parallel with the unspeakable reality of a mosque of those who carried out the murders of those at the World Trade Center, Pentagon and that Pa. Field at ground zero, we have the "Race" question.

It causes me to ask this question: Is the Farrakhen and allied "muslims" aka "black" "muslims" the same as that peace loving/mosque building group we associate with the mid-east? If not the same are they at common purpose-ie, the destruction of The United States of America? Just wondering!

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 12:28AM

No, the Nation of Islam is a religion started in America in the 30s. It has nothing to do with normal Islam except a shared name.

Bill| 7.20.10 @ 9:48AM

In the video clip, Sherrod claims that the white farmer was trying to show he was superior to her. I'd like to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting and have heard what he said that she interpreted as the farmer trying to show his white superiority.

If the farmer was being racist, I guess Sherrod was still wrong, but I could understand her counter-racism better. But I bet the farmer wasn't being racist; I bet this was one of those "black hole" or "niggardly" moments in black-white relations.

carnot| 7.20.10 @ 9:22PM

you might note that Sherrod never distinguishes what she means by this: I can easily envision a farmer speaking down to a government bureaucrat when discussing his warp and woof -> agriculture. and I can easily imagine a someone predisposed to seeing reality in binary terms (black and white) receiving this as racially motivated condescension.

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 12:08AM

No, you're just all giddy idiots masterbating to the idea that you may have caught the NAACP being as racist as you are for once. You're disgusting. The full story this woman told was about how she overcame her racial prejudice in helping this man. In fact, the farmers wife has said how great she was and how she helped save their farm. Not that facts ever matter in crazy town. You are truly reprehensible human beings.

Yosemeti Sam| 7.20.10 @ 10:25AM

And yet - and yet, BHOs' wife regaled this naacp organization with her fountain of wisdom.

Funny, no end - BHOs' wife extrapolating from her personal misfortune in the CONSTITUTIONAL arena per the PURSUIT of and not the guarantee of RICHES and applying same to her lesser folks' 'struggles' in a white mans' world to which they are not networked as
she and her fist-punched soulmate were.

Dustoff| 7.20.10 @ 10:25AM

I just wonder how many "whites" were treated this way by her?

Lawsuit time?

The part that really stands out. At the NAACP meeting where she was caught saying this. How come NO-ONE took her to task on her statements when she made them?

So who is the real racist? NAACP or the Tea Party.

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 12:08AM

No, you're just all giddy idiots masterbating to the idea that you may have caught the NAACP being as racist as you are for once. You're disgusting. The full story this woman told was about how she overcame her racial prejudice in helping this man. In fact, the farmers wife has said how great she was and how she helped save their farm. Not that facts ever matter in crazy town. You are truly reprehensible human beings.

Believer| 7.20.10 @ 10:55AM

Because the Blacks cant get over what happened 150 years ago and beyond, they raise their kids with the belief that they have no chance in life because of racism by whites. The Government started policies during FDR's time and reinforced by LBJ to pour Trillions of dollars into welfare programs that resulted in the distruction of the Minority familys. The illegitimate birthrate of blacks in the U.S. is now over 70%, meanwhile the black kids are taught that they have nothing because of the whites. I wonder if Shirly Sherrod was given her choice, which neiborhood she would choose to walk thru at night, White or Black.

carnot| 7.20.10 @ 9:26PM

hold on there. that simply isn't true. I have close black friends who feel their history and a sense of responsibility to it....but attend to the demands of their immediate families, position in society and....ummm...appurtenances of their economic class. cultures change as relative interests change. it's not a monolithic group think despite what polling numbers might indicate!

Dagny Taggert| 7.20.10 @ 11:37AM

Here's the money line from Breitbart:

The NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus do not want racial harmony. They want political victory, and the race card is their Stradivarius.

carnot| 7.20.10 @ 9:29PM

no different from the feminist movement...and dozens of other "rights" movements.

as Codevilla notes...first and foremost....it's about power.

Dagny Taggert| 7.20.10 @ 11:43AM

Oops, the above should be in quotation marks. And re-reading the quote reminds me of the "feminist" reaction to Sarah Palin's candidacy.

NOW doesn't want equal rights for women. They want political victory, and "choice" is their Stradivarius.

Seek| 7.20.10 @ 12:07PM

It is in the nature of struggle between the races that no group seeks "equality," which is at best a useful tool for a transition to power. No, what each race wants, no craves, is triumph. In sports, each team plays to win and not to tie; likewise in racial struggle, dominance is the desired end.

The late Sam Francis understood this lesson well. So did Enoch Powell.

Paul from SA| 7.20.10 @ 1:25PM

One of these decades, liberals will find or produce a video with a Republican making genuine racist comments -- and then liberals will have their proof that all conservatives, all Republicans and all white people are racist.

Petronius| 7.20.10 @ 7:41PM

Remember the lawsuit that ruined Texaco over the
"black jelly bean" eavesdrop tape? The suit was upheld because there was no way the executives of Texaco could prove anybody in their offices did not say those words.
The Jacksons, Sharptons, et.al. are like all other supra litigious pressure groups, being the worst of parasites upon our body politic. We all pay and pay and pay. They keep on suing and live like royalty. They pay no taxes as all the money they spend comes from their expense accounts of their nonprofit organizations which also own their homes, lease their vehicles, cover their charge accounts, and pay their press agents.
There is now way any white plaintiff could ever win against them because the self serving legal establishment which sustains them is on their side pro forma. Ask Sgt. Stacy Coon. He'll tell you.

S. Weasel| 7.20.10 @ 1:53PM

"Irony" is a word, not a phrase. Sorry to go all pedant up on your junk, but that kind of thing bugs me.

John Navratil| 7.20.10 @ 2:22PM

This is so destructive! Much has been accomplished since "Jim Crow" and counting the bubbles in a bar of soap.

To find anyone who lamented that a black man was elected President was to find an unreconstructed bigot. I'm sure they are around, but this conservative and all his friends where, to a man, pleased that the nation could happily elect him, even though we all lamented what we knew was to come.

I don't disdain Obama for the color of his skin, but for the color of his politics. Also for campaigning under false colors.

Now we see that skin color still seems to matter; at least to the Left where it is can be used as an issue to divide.

If there is any good to come of this it is to discredit the sanctimony of the NAACP . Julian Bond and Harry Belafonte are, no doubt, pleased with Ben Jealous.

Al Adab| 7.20.10 @ 5:00PM

Can we not all agree that they are racist who view every issue, event or action, whether by individuals ar groups, through the prism of race?

The once admirable NAACP has become simply an instrument to enrich its officers. It no longer advances anyone but itself. RIP.

Tyler S| 7.21.10 @ 12:10AM

No, you're just all giddy idiots masterbating to the idea that you may have caught the NAACP being as racist as you are for once. You're disgusting. The full story this woman told was about how she overcame her racial prejudice in helping this man. In fact, the farmers wife has said how great she was and how she helped save their farm. Not that facts ever matter in crazy town. You are truly reprehensible human beings.

John Navratil| 7.21.10 @ 9:02AM

I am racist, disgusting and reprehensible? Thanks! But I do know the story and don't see anything I wrote that labels me as you have. Try again!

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 7:12PM

You're right, I apologize, THIS comment shows no racial animosity. I was so enraged by the whole Shirley Sherrod thing that I copied my remark as a reply to every racist or uninformed opinion expressed here. This one should not have qualified (though there's some stuff you say below that, at best, shows an incredibly delusional and selective view of history, no apology for calling your bitch ass out there).

John Navratil| 7.21.10 @ 7:30PM

Thanks for the apology. But once again I get opinion from you. Where am I delusional or selective in my presentation of what I see as historical fact? If you are going to call my "bitch ass" out, please do so with facts.

Tyler S.| 7.22.10 @ 12:47AM

see below, bitch ass

John Navratil| 7.21.10 @ 7:51PM

I really should restate that. It's not your opinion which is at issue, it is the ad hominem attack. Attack my statements, not me.

For example: It is a fact that I disagree with you (I assert it). It is my opinion that you are misguided. It is an ad hominem attack to call you delusional, even if I think so, and has no place here.

Tyler S.| 7.22.10 @ 12:46AM

Oh no, heaven forbid I defile the holy comment pages of the American Spectator! Have I defiled our scholarly and learned debate?

Ollie Klozzoff| 7.20.10 @ 2:31PM

I feel so betrayed by Obama, thinking he would be the "post-racial" president, and I know now that if I and many others had only read more about his background, we would not have made such a terrible mistake in electing him. It seems that his use of many "code" phrases communicates to certain groups that they should expect what amounts to substitutes for reparations mascarading as all manner of bailouts and handouts. Clearly, he is not post-racial; and it pains me to say this, but he himself is racist.

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 7:14PM

You, on the other hand, are truly a racist. A president moves forward with a strong, liberal agenda (which only an idiot didn't see coming during elections, might I add) and because he's black, you see "reparations." Racist.

John Navratil| 7.21.10 @ 8:00PM

Do you see my point about how destructive this line is?

I'm a racist. No, Obama's a racist! No you're a racist!

What comes from it? Nothing! Worry about institutional discrimination (something to worry about!) and forget trying to read a man's heart.

Tyler S.| 7.22.10 @ 12:32AM

I'm sorry, but Obama's actions demonstrate a pure liberal agenda. I get why you super cons don't like it, but when someone looks at a pure liberal agenda and, because the man at the helm is black, sees reparations, that is racist. That is the definition of racist. Nothing in his agenda has been reparations. Any liberal, regardless of color, would have pushed a similar agenda. Your friend here sees black skin and assigns an ulterior motive. What would you call that?

Charles Martel| 7.20.10 @ 2:38PM

"So what happened to the murderers of James Byrd who got the death penalty? Still drawing the breath James Byrd cannot."

Yes, but...

John William King and Lawrence Russell Brewer (TDCJ# 999295 and 999327 respectively) are currently on Death Row awaiting execution. Shawn Allen Berry was spared the death penalty because he testified against the other two and is now serving a life sentence.

Yes, they still breathe, but we're working on that.

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Mojo Risin| 7.20.10 @ 3:16PM

Obama will someday have to admit he's a presidential failure, although he's always got the old reverend Jerry's fallback position: My presidency was taken out of context, don't blame me!!!

Haynes| 7.20.10 @ 3:54PM

As a child I was taught that if I lived as though I were being watched I would never get into trouble. Good advice.

norris hall| 7.20.10 @ 4:19PM

The government, the NAACP and Fox news owes and apology to Shirl.ey Sherrod...now that the white farmer's wife has come out in support of her for helping them to save their family farm.
That's why it's important to investigate the news before commenting on it.
Eloise Spooner, who Sherrod helped 20 years ago, described Sherrod as "getting in there and doing all she could do to help us."

jstwndring| 7.20.10 @ 5:23PM

You should watch the videos if you haven't, because this entire article, along with the referenced Andrew Breitbart column, were using Shirley Sharrod's own words against her. I've watched both, and it's impossible to interpret her words as anything other than those of a racist. On the video, she comments on the THOUGHTS she had about this white farmer. She never actually conveyed her thoughts to him. She did, however, unashamedly express her racist thoughts to those at the NAACP meeting. There is no doubt that she is a racist. Don't let the color of her skin fool you.

jstwndring| 7.20.10 @ 5:33PM

In fact, just to further reinforce the point (going from memory), she comments on how she did NOT use all of the available power at her disposal to help this guy out because he was white. She said she would rather one of his "own kind" deal with him because she refused to on account of his color. This is state-sanctioned racism. This goes on all the time, it's just that it has embarrassed her superiors, so, they had to go through the public motions of dismissing her to pacify the public, and therefore maintain some credibility.

Tyler S| 7.21.10 @ 12:11AM

No, you're just all giddy idiots masterbating to the idea that you may have caught the NAACP being as racist as you are for once. You're disgusting. The full story this woman told was about how she overcame her racial prejudice in helping this man. In fact, the farmers wife has said how great she was and how she helped save their farm. Not that facts ever matter in crazy town. You are truly reprehensible human beings.

John Navratil| 7.21.10 @ 9:03AM

Oh! It's not just me?

Tyler S.| 7.22.10 @ 12:27AM

you all = you + everyone else here. not tricky.

Mojo Risin| 7.20.10 @ 5:47PM

Are we suppose to ignore what she said? Seems to me she said it loud and clear and ya just knew the "context card" would be played. Although, say she was just lying to garner NAALCP support, she be blood, ya know and wants to be in their best graces. If she were lying about the farmer story, maybe that's just about the only way to explain away her racism. "I was joking", wouldn't that be worse and also worthy of intense condemnation?

Bydand76| 7.20.10 @ 8:58PM

No doubt Mojo!
You hit the nail on its proverbial head.

What really makes me angry though is every one in the crowd laughing and smiling in the video.

The NAACP is a joke! Kinda like the ACLU!

Pro Libertate!

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 12:24AM

No, you're just all giddy idiots masterbating to the idea that you may have caught the NAACP being as racist as you are for once. You're disgusting. The full story this woman told was about how she overcame her racial prejudice in helping this man 20 years ago when she was starting in non profit. In fact, the farmers wife has said how great she was and how she helped save their farm. Not that facts ever matter in crazy town. You are truly reprehensible human beings.

WRJonas| 7.20.10 @ 6:54PM

I'll bet the first white farmer in Zimbabwe who was about to lose his farm to Robert Mugabe didn't feel any animosity to the racist horde that was about to overwhelm the white population.
Tolerance of evil is encouragement to those who wish to do evil to you.
This Presidency is so close to the mind set of Black African dictators , one would think that our President was one of them.

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 12:16AM

You really wanna go to the white farmers of Zimbabwe? I mean, we revolted against the brittish over taxes and killed a fair number of em for it. The things the white farmers of Zimbabwe did ... well ... lets just say if the Zimbabweans who rose up against them are evil, we are doomed to hell for all eternity for rising up against the comparatively benign brittish. You wanna tell me that Tomás de Torquemada was persecuted for his religious beliefs while you're at it?

Petronius| 7.20.10 @ 7:46PM

Most of those white farmers in Zimbabwe didn't feel much of anything. They were beheaded.

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 12:21AM

You all need to take your puds out of your hands for a second and read a little more about this. Even fox news is saying that the woman was completely innocent now (although conveniently forgetting how they led the charge to accuse her a short time ago). She was telling a story about how she learned to overcome her own racial prejudice by helping this farmer. Hell, the man's wife considers her a friend and says she helped save their farm. I guess in the rush to the giddy circle jerk you all started at the mere idea that the NAACP is as racist as you are, you forgot to check the facts, huh? Disgusting...

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 12:23AM

Oh yeah, and the story is from 20 years ago when she was just starting out in non profit, not recent.

John Navratil| 7.21.10 @ 9:06AM

And just who was applauding her comments? That was the context!

By the way, should the 24-year-old defence have been applied to W's 24-year-old DWI during the election?

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 11:01AM

I believe it was. If it had happened a year before, you don't think that would have been a MUCH bigger deal than it was?

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 7:16PM

Also, the full video reveals that they applauded throughout her speech, and nowhere mode loudly and exhuberently than when she got to the lesson she learned. Uninformed dumbass.

Sam| 7.21.10 @ 1:40AM

Tyler,
You are 100% right and the news will come out tomorrow to prove that this is the case. However, before you congratulate yourself, be aware that the White House was fooled too and pressured her to resign, based on this video.

Yes, it is true that Breitbart is a liar and cannot be trusted. But I blame the White House for doing just that. They are so paranoid that Obama will be seen as a reverse racist, they did not think before they lept. If I were a terrorist, I would notify my sleeper cell that this president can be had by edited videos.

John Navratil| 7.21.10 @ 10:01AM

Sam,

Do you have any examples of Breitbart lying? Ad hominem attacks are not terribly persuasive.

What is a reverse racist? Does this imply racism is the exclusive province of whites? Can you explain Hutu/Tusti, Serb/Croat, Indonesian/Chinese antipathies? How do you describe King Shabazz?

All of this dust-up was precipitated by the NAACP resolution calling for the "tea party" to purge its ranks of racists. A specious call given that there is no formal membership list or requirements to attend a tea party rally and the only "evidence" of racism is the allegation of a few black congressmen with no substantiation and despite a $100,000 reward for any such evidence put up by Breitbart. It was a grandstand play which labelled a bunch of people racists who didn't like be labelled as such; just as I take exception to "Tyler S." calling me a racist.

Now you get the NAACP membership applauding Sherrod's comments and you think that isn't germane. The hypocrisy of a group welcoming Louis Farakhan into there meetings calling for the "tea party" to distance themselves from racists is profound.

That is why my original post calls this destructive. The discussion has devolved to name calling and professed aggrievement. This is going nowhere.

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 11:06AM

As for Breitbart lying, how about what happened just now, where he showed an edited video without context to make this woman look like a racist? Sounds pretty damn dishonest to me...

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 11:12AM

Also, I certainly wouldn't claim that white people are the only ones who can be racist. I would say, however, that based on results, we seem to be far better at it than anyone else, and we're not to far removed in time from some disgusting racial thought patterns, which is why a little extra sensitivity may be called for. Or did you come from a strange, parallel universe where white people have been oppressed by nonwhites for hundreds of years, instead of the other way around?

John Navratil| 7.21.10 @ 11:39AM

Breitbart hasn't covered himself with glory on this one. He will have to defend himself as he has when he stated that Sherrod wasn't the story, the NAACP's response was. And while one can easily observe that Sherrod became the story, it is hardly a lie. Do you have a better example?

A little history. The word "slave" comes from "Slav" and group of whites historically enslaved; no parallel universe needed. Now ask yourself who captured those black Africans and sold them into slavery? Arabs! And who stopped the Atlantic slave trade? The British and the Americans. Now, ask yourself where slavery is still practiced. Do you see any white people? Am I still the racist, or are you?

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 3:54PM

Definitely you, and that last paragraph didn't help. We get credit for stopping the slave trade? Do cereal killers also get credit if the last guy they kill turns out to also be a killer?

As for where slavery is still practiced, officially nowhere and unofficially everywhere, so no help for you there...

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 3:55PM

Oh, and the reaction only became the story AFTER he got caught lying. It was a beautifully manipulative bit of ass covering, though, I'll give him that.

John Navratil| 7.21.10 @ 5:24PM

You are an absolute delight. Of course serial killers aren't exhonerated, but then I wasn't suggesting that abolitionists where slave traders, was I?

I challenge you with facts and you respond with "slavery is still practiced, officially nowhere and unofficially everywhere". That is an opinion which is not backed up with any facts. Indeed the statement is speciously designed to be irrefutable. Yet, those who study the issue suggest slavery is predominantly a problem in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Hardly the simplistic black and white issue you present.

Finally, you happily gloss over Breitbart's response that Sherrod wasn't the story as "beautifully manipulative bit of ass covering" AFTER the lie which you allege and still have not stated -- as if an explanation of the story would have been necessary BEFORE Sherrod became the story. So, once again, please present an example of a Breitbart lie.

Facts, not opinions, please!

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 7:51PM

No, but America was a slave trading nation. The fact that we later produced abolitionists is something we should get credit for, but only inasmuch as it provides some modicum of redemption for a heaping pile of sins.

When you call my facts opinions, there's really no room for debate is there? Nonetheless, I can assure you that there is no nation on this earth that officially sanctions the slave trade, FACT. I can also assure you that there is no nation on this earth with any kind of reasonable population that doesn't still have some form of slavery unofficially lurking beneath the surface, this one included, FACT. You're unconvinced? Fine, prove me wrong or fuck off. Don't just call these facts opinions and act like you've won an argument.

Finally, Breitbart lied when he edited a clip to make this woman and the audience listening (who applauded throughout the speeach, and n0where more loudly than when she revealed that she learned the lesson that race doesn't matter) sound racist. Or don't they have lies of manipulation and ommission in crazy town?

I wish I could say I find you as delightful as you seem to find me, but really you and your ilk just depress the hell out of me. Still, I do love that this particular conservative rag offers no shortage of dumbasses for me to vent at.

John Navratil| 7.21.10 @ 8:23PM

Wrong! Assertion without basis. Find slavery in the U.S. and find a court jailing someone.

One cannot prove a negative even though you wish it were true.

Thanks for the advice on how to win an argument. Not that logic appears to be your strong suit. And...

Thanks for playing!

Tyler S.| 7.22.10 @ 12:24AM

Well, that depends on your definition of slavery, doesn't it? Would you consider a crazy religious sect forcing twelve year old girls into marriages with much older and occasionally related men slavery? I sure as hell would, and we got that going on here. How about children from the third world being shipped here and forced into prostitution? Once again, I'd say slavery, and once again, I'm pretty sure we got that disease. That there isn't a criminal offense called "trafficking in slavery" doesn't make you right. A slave by any other name is no less free. You wanna pursue this thing? I'll give you a dozen examples of each, if you wanna keep this going (Dead serious, I do legal research for a living, show me you wanna keep fighting this point and I will bring you the proof).

I like that you keep mocking my argument style but fail to directly counter any point I make, aside from your feeble attempt to claim there is no slavery in modern America. Where are YOUR facts?

John Navratil| 7.22.10 @ 9:15AM

Do a little of that research and get back to me. Where are you going to get those facts? Either from the public record or you are going to make them up. So far, I've seen plenty of the latter but nothing of the former. While I will not dispute that criminal activity of all kinds, including slavery (recently the Saudi woman enslaving a Phillipina or was she Indonesian) occur, when it is found it is prosecuted.

As I said, I can't prove a negative. Neither can you.

Nick| 7.21.10 @ 8:31PM

Tyler S.,

Mr. Breitbart didn't edit the video, moron. He received it edited.

Tyler S.| 7.22.10 @ 12:15AM

Even assuming for a fraction of a second that I believe that bald faced lie, you don't think he might have SOME journalistic obligation to investigate the clip before he broadcasts it as fact?

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 11:04AM

I totally agree. The most disapointing part of this whole fiasco for me is that, despite all evidence to the contrary, the USDA and NAACP seem to have fallen into the trap of believing that Fox News and Breitbart had any journalistic integrity whatsoever and would have done even a bare minimum amount of fact checking before character assassinating this poor woman. They should really have known better.

Nick| 7.21.10 @ 2:27PM

President Dither and his henchmen are afraid of Glenn Beck!

How does it feel to have to defend such an incompetent regime, Tyler S.?

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 3:51PM

I won't lie, it kinda sucks. Still, I'd rather have incompetents than evil, sadistic, manipulative SOBs like y'all follow.

Nick| 7.21.10 @ 4:27PM

Is it not evil to force a black woman to resign, without having all the facts, Tyler S.?

Also, is it not evil for the NAACP audience Mrs. Sherrod is addressing to laugh and agree with the part where she admits she treated Mr. Spooner different because he was white?

You are projecting, Tyler S.

Meanwhile, O'Bama's poll numbers are in the toilet. He has kept President Bush's war policy. He won't lift a finger to pass Cap n' Tax. He couldn't stand-up to BP because of all the money they gave him. And, he is afraid of Glenn Beck!

Even democrats don't want President Dither to campaign for them this election cycle. Why are you defending him, Tyler S.?

Tyler S.| 7.21.10 @ 7:20PM

Not defending him, dumbass, as I said, they screwed up. Obama, like all democratic politicians, is in many ways an inept bungler. I mean, we had a supermajority in BOTH HOUSES and the presidency and we still could barely get anything done. Still, at the moment I would take a thousand inept dems over any of the evil, manipulative pied pipers leading the conservative movement.

As for projecting, I'M not the one who twisted this into a referendum on "O'bama" am I, Nick the Nazi (just thought I'd get in on the unnecessary name calling fun, you jerk off)

Nick| 7.21.10 @ 8:01PM

The only one calling names here, is you, brainiac. I must have struck a nerve, huh? It sucks being a stinking, bleeding heart liberal these days, does it not?

Also, you constantly defend President Dither.

And you can kiss those majorities bye-bye, come this November. Then the Congressional investigations begin. (tee-hee!)

By the way, the Justice Department just announced that there will be no charges filed against anyone in the Bush administration, for the firing of all those U.S. attorneys. (double tee-hee!)

Man, what a bunch of losers!

Tyler S.| 7.22.10 @ 12:11AM

A) There's a world of difference between comparing someone to Hitler and Bin Laden and calling you a dumbass, especially since you so clearly are a dumbass

B) I'm a fire breathing liberal. Many of the positions Obama takes, I agree with since he, too, is largely a liberal (though to a far lesser degree than myself). Don't confuse that for defending the president.

C) As long as the tea party keeps nominating crazy people, I'm not actually too worried about losing the majorities. I mean, c'mon, the candidate you chose in Nevada is crazy enough to make harry reid look like a good alternative. HARRY FREAKIN REID! I'm so liberal I practically call my friends "comrade", and I wouldn't vote for that guy, but the polls put em even. By all rights, the repubs probably should sweep in in 2010 given the public moods, but you're gonna shoot yourselves in the foot and give it back to us. How's that feel?

D) I really couldn't care less about the firings. Bush is gone, we got the Dept. It's history now.

E) It always sucks being me, man. I don't think you understand how liberal I am. Compared to me, pretty much everyone is a conservative. You think I feel like this government represents me? Not at all. They're at best the lesser of two evils, but still painfully conservative government for me. If I were in charge, this would be the most gay people marrying, government healthcare having, high progressive taxing, massive network of European style high speed rail building, gun banning, financial sector regulating, abortion allowing, multilingual speaking countries on earth. Be thankful you just have to deal with the Democrats, you'd hate me in charge MUCH more.

Nick| 7.22.10 @ 1:12AM

Tyler S.,

When did I compare you to Hitler or Usama?

You and O'Bama are the disease, and conservatism is the cure.

Dusty Reid will lose. He can't get close to 50% in the polls. Not good for an incumbent.

Every lefty wants to see President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld, David Addington, John Woo, et al, prosecuted. Don't let the ACLU catch you writing such things.

Well, you've got abortion on demand, unfortunately. That is the most evil one. Hopefully, you will lose that one, and never get the rest on your list.

Rodney King| 7.21.10 @ 10:40AM

C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-ant we just get along...

Rodney

Syd Chaden| 7.22.10 @ 1:06PM

Plainly and simply, anyone who opposes, criticizes, or questions Obama is deemed to be a "racist" by both the black and white organizations that support Obama politically. Any black people who dare to oppose, criticize or question Obama are deemed to be Uncle Toms. And, white people, in their dealings with black people, can do no right, and, black people, in their dealings with white people, can do no wrong. Black people cannot commit "racism", because they are victims of "racism". White people cannot be victims of "racism", because they are not black. It's so simple, anyone should be able to understand racism today, in this "post-racial" era. Martin Luther King wouldn't understand it, but the only people quoting him today are Uncle Toms.

WAKE UP| 7.22.10 @ 10:11PM

A President who is half-black/half white, but pretending to be wholly black, is not "post-racial". Quite the opposite, in fact. This is actually the most racially-obsessed Administration I've ever seen .

Jonathan| 8.2.10 @ 12:52PM

Funny how at least 3/4 of the racial obsession I've seen seems to come from the conservative press.

metamarcisf| 7.26.10 @ 10:38AM

Jeffrey Lord, you are a pompous, ignorant piece of trash. And now that the truth has come out, don't you feel just a little filthy for having complimented Mr. Breitbart for his insight. No, make that INCITE. What a dick