Anita should ask herself: “What would Chairman Mao do?”

That is easier said than done when the White House press secretary walks into the room and the only question people want to ask is, “How are you going to react? What are you going to do? What are you going to do? What are you going to do?”

You say “We are reviewing the situation to find out exactly what happened and what was involved and once that is done, we will take the action we deem is appropriate.”

I guess Barry has not learned from the Gates incident.

“We are reviewing the situation to find out exactly what happened and what was involved and once that is done, we will take the action we deem is appropriate.”

YEAH RIGHT!!!!!! EVEN YOU ARE NOT THAT STUIPID!!!!

Hmmmmm the last time Obama said something along those lines
conservatives started to blame him for the BP spill!!! Thank God that
bullshit has stopped.

“And that is perhaps as or more worrisome than anything else that has happened this week, because you cannot run a country based on a highspeed, attention-deficit, traffic-oriented, newscycle. ”

Bush made the choice not to engage and look what it got him . Frankly I wish Obama would
be more like Dick Cheney; screw the polls, screw the press, and start telling people
to sit down and STFU.

Ms. Dunn. Hmmm. Isn’t she the Maoist bitch who wants to shut down Fox News? Thought so.

Bootleghaircut said:

Dbagger, go to your dentist and get a haircut, asshole baby!

LOL

writer said:
Anita should ask herself: “What would Chairman Mao do?”

LOL.

Glenn Beck has it about right here. This whole Sherrod incident was a set up so that Obama and his buddies would have (in their minds) a justifiable rightous indignation against the media which they seek to overtake. It’s as clear as day what they are trying to do. This tape was most likely fed to Breitbart (I’d love to know his source) and when used was supposed to have been hastily reported by Fox and talk radio. The administration would act quickly to fire an ‘innocent’ person and be able to blame it on an out of control media that surely needs to be better regulated. ………..The hitch to the plan happened when Fox DID NOT act as rashly and impulsively as Obama had thought/hoped and so now the administration is left with the perverbial egg on their face but still trying to tie it all to Fox as the villain for ‘making us do it’. ..Yeah, right. ………….Keep looking Barry.. I’m sure you’ll come up with another plan and find some way to take over the media.

“This whole Sherrod incident was a set up so that Obama and his buddies would have (in their minds) a justifiable rightous indignation against the media which they seek to overtake. It’s as clear as day what they are trying to do. This tape was most likely fed to Breitbart (I’d love to know his source) and when used was supposed to have been hastily reported by Fox and talk radio.”

I’d like to nominate the above post for “Most Delusiona”

WideAwakeNow said:
LOL.

Glenn Beck has it about right here. This whole Sherrod incident was a set up so that Obama and his buddies would have (in their minds) a justifiable rightous indignation against the media which they seek to overtake. It’s as clear as day what they are trying to do. This tape was most likely fed to Breitbart (I’d love to know his source) and when used was supposed to have been hastily reported by Fox and talk radio. The administration would act quickly to fire an ‘innocent’ person and be able to blame it on an out of control media that surely needs to be better regulated. ………..The hitch to the plan happened when Fox DID NOT act as rashly and impulsively as Obama had thought/hoped and so now the administration is left with the perverbial egg on their face but still trying to tie it all to Fox as the villain for ‘making us do it’. ..Yeah, right. ………….Keep looking Barry.. I’m sure you’ll come up with another plan and find some way to take over the media.

Or: They are not letting a crisis go to waste. Coulter agrees with you though that the guy who sent the tape to Breitbart was setting it up, though:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4289782/unanswered-questions-in-sherrod-story

According to Breitbart, the tape came from a guy in Georgia who do not want to be exposed and attacked like Joe the Plumber:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4288023/andrew-breitbart-defends-sherrod-story/?playlist_id=86924

Bootleghaircut said:
“This whole Sherrod incident was a set up so that Obama and his buddies would have (in their minds) a justifiable rightous indignation against the media which they seek to overtake. It’s as clear as day what they are trying to do. This tape was most likely fed to Breitbart (I’d love to know his source) and when used was supposed to have been hastily reported by Fox and talk radio.”

I’d like to nominate the above post for “Most Delusiona”

Its fine that you can throw around names but maybe you can also bring us some arguments?

Thor-

I don’t argue with people who clearly have lost their grip on reality. You can waste your time
if you wish-I stand by my initial assertion and anybody who agrees with wideawake now
is not somebody who I will waste time on.

Frankly insulting “not so fast” is far more entertaining then delving into the luncy of
shut in and serial malcontents

Breitbart and Fox News out-Alinsky’d Obama, Shirley Charade, the NAACP, and the Democrat Party!

“I’d like to nominate the above post for “Most Delusiona”

That’s my conspiracy theory and I’m sticking to it. Couldn’t really care less if you agree.

“Frankly insulting “not so fast” is far more entertaining then delving into the luncy of
shut in and serial malcontents”

I am shut in today. It’s 105 degrees. And I guess I could be labeled a serial malcontent ..but it’s probably more along the lines of ‘cereal malcontent’. Have you seen the prices lately of your favorite store brands?? Rediculous.

….Wait and watch.. ..Obama will attempt a media takeover by year’s end.

Of all my many criticisms of President Obama and his Administration, most are founded on the fact that he has failed to stand up to lying, racist SOB’s like Breitbart, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and other FOX personalities in the media, and to Demented, Secessions and their ilk in the Senate. It has cost our nation. At least, Beitbart, FOX News and Limbaugh killed the goose who laid their golden egg last week.

Spiro Agnew provides the FOX Netwok’s methdology: I promise I won’t deceive you except in matters of this sort.

WideAwakeNow said:
….Wait and watch.. ..Obama will attempt a media takeover by year’s end.

Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

Spiro Agnew provides the FOX Netwok’s methdology: I promise I won’t deceive you except in matters of this sort.

“they apparently felt having a definitive answer to the reaction question was more important than whether their answer was right “.

Sadly, that sentence applies equally to the media. Instead of getting the facts and asking Gibbs why the administration had acted the way it did, the media skipped that step too. It’s equally embarrassing for the media because while Vilsack did not wait to hear Sherrod’s side of the story, the media didn’t bother getting her side of the story either. They can’t wash away that stench no matter how hard they try. Your business is supposed to be the facts and none of you actually got them before reporting on the edited clip. Perhaps the everyone who ran with that clip last week should give back last week’s paycheck. They clealry didn’t do their jobs either. All of you were scooped and duped last week by your own lack of due diligence.
Emphaisi, mine!

nice post Rox

As time goes on and the elixor wears off the rabid disciples, the light of history made clear by sound thinking people will show a comically inept administartion that over reached waaaaaay to quickly (as dems always do) and wasn’t prepared in the least for the backlash.

Their “message” was was exciting to the masses during the campaign, but the message, in the clear light of day turned out to be nothing but platitudes and “feel good” phrases in search of a socialist utopia never to be found.

Barry better have an enormous catastrophe in the near future to save his ass, because all the power and over-reach policies he’s implemented will be in the hands of a Republican President and at the very least a Republican congress, and you morons don’t think they’ll use all that? It will be absolute hell on Democrats, and well deserved.

Democrats biggest problem, they never plan far enough ahead. They don’t study history, they don’t believe history repeats itself, but it does. Enjoy a few more months of obnoxious arguments, cuz after November even WE won’t waste our time playing with you. You’ll be all alone in the sandbox.

You know, when it came to healthcare, or Wall Street reform, or the BP Oil Spill – Robert Gibbs preached patience from the White House Press Corps, the blogosphere, and the 24-hour news channels.

But there was none of that same patience shown here in throwing Shirley Sherrod under the bus.

The entire White House Communications team should be sacked.

“Listen to how former White House communications director Anita Dunn, former White House communications director…”

Really, no offense, but do you think you can (or SOMEONE can) proof read your stuff before you post it? There’s lots of these kinds of errors on this site.

notsofast said:
I guess Barry has not learned from the Gates incident.

Why do you call him Barry? Isn’t his name Barak?

“Democrats biggest problem, they never plan far enough ahead. They don’t study history, they don’t believe history repeats itself, but it does.”

You’re joking, right?

It’s Democrats at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton that TEACH history and write historical books.

Conservatives just watch Fox.

The Real Royal King said:
Of all my many criticisms of President Obama and his Administration, most are founded on the fact that he has failed to stand up to lying, racist SOB’s like Breitbart, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and other FOX personalities in the media, and to Demented, Secessions and their ilk in the Senate. It has cost our nation. At least, Beitbart, FOX News and Limbaugh killed the goose who laid their golden egg last week.

Spiro Agnew provides the FOX Netwok’s methdology: I promise I won’t deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Agreed. Sadly, politics is a dirty business. Mr. Obama shies away from dirty politics, but unfortunately, he is going to have to engage in it to defeat the right wing nutjobs at their own game. The Democrats run a smart political machine and I’m guessing they’re waiting until just the right moment to unleash. A two-minute commercial evidencing the many lies, exaggerations and threats from the GOP will go a long way to making their case that the right is run mostly by a bunch of deviants (Limbaugh, Beck, Palin, O’Reilly, Hannity, Fox News, Coulter, Gingrich… etc… etc…).

If this is the mind set the White House has constructed for itself with regards to the press not only does this whole week make more sense — they apparently felt having a definitive answer to the reaction question was more important than whether their answer was right — it means they have actually bought into the cable culture.

It’s more than that, though. It’s the elevation of style over substance. It’s like they don’t much care about what they’re doing, only whether or not they can sell it to the public.

Mr. Obama shies away from dirty politics…

Oh, bullshit. We watched the campaign, genius.

“It’s Democrats at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton that TEACH history and write historical books.”

…And that explains so much of what is wrong with our education system and our nation.

This whole ordeal is a joke.

This nonsense about not making sure they had every second of the video is absurd. Sorry, folks, but if ANY news organization on earth was sent a video snippet from a speech where a white USDA official said he refused to help a black farmer and then said he pawned the farmer off to “one of his own kind,” based on THAT snippet alone, EVERY news organization in the nation (and possibly the world) would have been on top of it 24/7. They would have immediately, based on the clip, called for the ouster of the white official, and Obama would have had another “healing speech” to heal the wounds of the nation.

So, let’s stop this nonsense that somehow Fox News didn’t vet it properly. The fact is, they covered the story ONLY AFTER she was ousted.

Also, this crap about the White House scared of Glenn Beck- it’s hilarious. Beck went to bat for Sherrod from the start. He clearly said that we should reserve judgement based on the clip. He went to bat for her when few others anywhere would (including Vilsack, Obama, AND the NAACP). Somehow this Glenn Beck was gonna attack her story, thus the Obama urge to oust her, is nonsense.

Finally- the clip WAS NOT edited. I’m so sick of hearing that claim, which implies it was trickery, or that words were put into her mouth. It was truncated. That’s completely different than edited.

In the end, you really can’t have a president who spent 20 years in the pews or a viruently racist, anti-american church say ANYTHING about race. If a white president who spent 20 years in an aryan church tried to discuss race, we’d laugh at him. Let’s be straight- Obama deserves no less with his checkered past concerning race.

Why are Prog woman so ugly ?

Their hate consumes them and eventually what is inside becomes outside .

Bootleghaircut said:
is far more entertaining then delving into the luncy of
shut in and serial malcontents

You would know- you are a gay shut in with dbag desires that transcend your anal preoccupation with double-headed dildos. .

I seem to recall during the election cycle we kept getting fed the line that this administration was going to be the most media savvy, and most attuned to technology. Well we have seen them announce recently certain members opened Twitter accounts, like that put them on the cutting edge — and then they fumbled with that basic platform. In less than two years they have also fostered a growing resentment in the press corps, managed news in ways the press objected, and then last week’s self-created fiasco. Seems like they are believing their own hype, as opposed to employing skills.

timzank said:
Barry better have an enormous catastrophe in the near future to save his ass

Actually, no. This is Rovian thinking which has infested and infected the rightists. We moderates, progressives and liberals are otherwise, more positively encouraged and empowered.

Spiro Agnew provides the FOX Netwok’s methdology: I promise I won’t deceive you except in matters of this sort.

notsofast said:
You would know- you are a gay shut in with dbag desires that transcend your anal preoccupation with double-headed dildos. .

How very O’Reillyesque. I imagne you have him titilated right now.

Spiro Agnew provides the FOX Netwok’s methdology: I promise I won’t deceive you except in matters of this sort.

“Why are Prog woman so ugly ? Their hate consumes them and eventually what is inside becomes outside.”

Yes, sure. Because Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin seem just SO full of love.

The Real Royal King said:
How very O’Reillyesque. I imagne you have him titilated right now.

yes, bootlicker loves to be gang banged by men like you do.

“We moderates, progressives and liberals are otherwise, more positively encouraged and empowered.”

Hilarious. So during 8 years of Bush when liberals constantly hoped we’d fail in Iraq, that was being positively encouraged, huh? Or this constant absurd cry of “racism” on the left against anyone who disagrees with them. That’s more of that positive encouragement.

murf said:
Why are Prog woman so ugly ? Their hate consumes them and eventually what is inside becomes outside .

I have to admit those women at the Tea Parties are some real babes.

Spiro Agnew provides the FOX Netwok’s methdology: I promise I won’t deceive you except in matters of this sort.

The Real Royal King said:
How very O’Reillyesque. I imagne you have him titilated right now.Spiro Agnew provides the FOX Netwok’s methdology: I promise I won’t deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Totally. That O’Reilly is constantly attcking those who disagree with him as homosexuals.

Well, I can see we need to get a jack hammer to get through that cranial concrete. My dear friend NSF made reference to a particular act of sexual perversion whih O’Reilly also enjoys, at least in his converstions with Ms. Makris. That is to what I made reference.

Here’s a tip: You know those products from the grocery store which say “Refrigerate After Opening”? That doesn’t mean that as soon as you get home, you open all of them and put them in the Kelvinator. It means that if you open and use only a part of the product, then refrigerate the rest.

Spiro Agnew provides the FOX Netwok’s methdology: I promise I won’t deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Cranial concrete? You’re the guy who believes, without a shred of evidence, the word of a woman who claims O’Reilly harassed her 2 years earlier (I always wait 2 years to report harassment on the part of my superiors)…then she left and wrote emails praising Fox and O’Reilly and saying she loved it so much. So much that she actually went BACK to work for O’Reilly. I know when I’m harassed daily, I leave after 2 years, keep quiet, then I go BACK to work for the same person who harassed me daily. Only after THAT do I demand millions of dollars to keep quiet.

Yeah, the guy who believes that isn’t one to talk about cranial concrete. Just saying. I have several bridges I’d like to sell you if you’re interested?

I should think O’Reilly’s prompt, subsantial settlement offer and the rush to seal the files might weaken your argument just a bit. Go back over to the Koldys Phox Phan Klub and have this re-argued.

Spiro Agnew provides the FOX Netwok’s methdology: I promise I won’t deceive you except in matters of this sort.

I’m sick of a culture where no one will ever step up to the plate and say they were wrong, and those who do seem to inevitably pass the buck at the same time. Always ultimately someone else’s fault. Someone else did it first or worst…blah blah blah.

I think it’s never going to improve. No one from any party is ever going to want to admit a guy in another has a good idea or work together for the common good. We’re just plain screwed, and I don’t think there’s any going back.

And that’s my Debbie Downer PSA for today.

The Real Royal King said:
I should think O’Reilly’s prompt, subsantial settlement offer and the rush to seal the files might weaken your argument just a bit. Go back over to the Koldys Phox Phan Klub and have this re-argued.Spiro Agnew provides the FOX Netwok’s methdology: I promise I won’t deceive you except in matters of this sort.

There’s not a shred of evidence there were any files to seal in terms of “evidence.” Now files to seal in terms of how much was paid- sure. That’s the norm with most settlements of this type. People settle suits everyday when they’ve done nothing. It’s part of being 1) rich and 2) a public figure. Look at DOW payments with the breast implant nonsense. The science is settled- they didn’t cause breast cancer…didn’t stop the company from paying out billions and being forced into bankruptcy.

Fact is- such an attack is childish. It’s a childish way to attack someone you disagree with. Especially considering the ONLY evidence is the word of a sole person who did very weird things then suddenly made claims while asking for several million dollars. Critical thinking works against your characterization.

Joshua Taj Bozeman said:
There’s not a shred of evidence there were any files to seal in terms of “evidence.” Now files to seal in terms of how much was paid- sure. That’s the norm with most settlements of this type. People settle suits everyday when they’ve done nothing. It’s part of being 1) rich and 2) a public figure. Look at DOW payments with the breast implant nonsense. The science is settled- they didn’t cause breast cancer…didn’t stop the company from paying out billions and being forced into bankruptcy. Fact is- such an attack is childish. It’s a childish way to attack someone you disagree with. Especially considering the ONLY evidence is the word of a sole person who did very weird things then suddenly made claims while asking for several million doll, Iratherars. Critical thinking works against your characterization.

With an ego the size of O’Reilly, I rather doubt that would happen. Nor would Murdoch and Ailes, with their own tremendous egos, force a settlement. Now boop on down.

Spiro Agnew provides the FOX Netwok’s methdology: I promise I won’t deceive you except in matters of this sort.

shootfromthehip said:
“Democrats biggest problem, they never plan far enough ahead. They don’t study history, they don’t believe history repeats itself, but it does.” You’re joking, right? It’s Democrats at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton that TEACH history and write historical books. Conservatives just watch Fox.

That’s the problem, they don’t TEACH it, they interpret it and rewrite it.

The Real Royal King said:
With an ego the size of O’Reilly, I rather doubt that would happen. Nor would Murdoch and Ailes, with their own tremendous egos, force a settlement. Now boop on down. Spiro Agnew provides the FOX Netwok’s methdology: I promise I won’t deceive you except in matters of this sort.

People settle all the time, I did twice in the last year in nuisance lawsuits. (small ones)…
That kind of remark is what leads me to believe you are a lot younger than you try to appear….If you were actually a “businessman” (international to boot) you and your company would have experienced some lawsuits and some settlements.

I still think you’re a junior, maybe a senior….

Newsjunky said:
Why do you call him Barry? Isn’t his name Barak?

No- It’s barry, as in barium enema.

shootfromthehip said:
It’s Democrats at Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton that TEACH history and write historical books.

Conservatives just watch Fox.

Friend, I don’t know what makes you so stupid, but it really works!

All the BHO admin could muster is a commie to defend them?

LMAO

Glen Beck and Faux News should be forced to apologize or be forced off the air over this last debacle.

Would that be the debacle that occured prior to them reporting on it?

Bill O’Reilly settled with that alleged extortionist, Mackris, because it was possible Mackris had audio tapes of phone conversations with O’Reilly. To clear himself of the harassment charges, he’d have to go to court, where the conversations would become public record, forever played by the likes of Olbermann and all the other anti-O’Reilly moonbats. It may have been a bluff on Mackris’ end, but O’Reilly wasn’t in a position to take that chance. Anyone who read the criminal complaint and looked at the facts(as mentioned earlier in this thread), can reach the conclusion Mackris wasn’t sexually harassed. Leaving FNC for CNN, then returning to FNC, then claiming she was harassed during her first stint wouldn’t get you too far in a court of law. Also interesting was the fact Mackris’ criminal complaint deleted Mackris’ responses to O’Reilly in the phone conversations. If she was “ooohhing” and “aaahhing,” not much of a harassment case. And if she happened to be faking excitement and rolling tape? Well, that’s just horrible.

Glen Beck and Faux played the video over and over out of context when in the end they turned out to be racists.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/7/21/886222/-Hey,-CNN!-Beck-gave-Sherrod-treatment-to-Llyod,-Holdren,-Dunn...

writer says: “Anita should ask herself: “What would Chairman Mao do?””

You mean like Newt Gingrich before her?

writer, you are a Beckerhead, and you should not be too proud of supporting or even believing someone who is a liar, a hypocrite and a charlatan.

Beck played that clip of Dunn once, the first time, in full. She went on the describe how the students she was addressing need individual responsibility, individual accomplishments, individual efforts to help others….There was nothing Maoist about her speech, but the irony was lost on shallow minds…like Beck’s and apparently like yours.

PEOPLE who think the Administration is “radical” need to get the progressive perspective. Google The Regressive Antidote and look at the collection of articles Green has written, particularly “The do-nothing 44th President.”

The President is not progressive enough for progressives. That’s why the enthusiasm is with the reactionary Tea Party. Obama is governing like a centrist, but viewers of Fox “News” would not know that.

progress said:
Glen Beck and Faux played the video over and over out of context when in the end they turned out to be racists.

Who ordered the poor old bag to be fired?

GlennBeckReview said:
PEOPLE who think the Administration is “radical” need to get the progressive perspective. Google The Regressive Antidote and look at the collection of articles Green has written, particularly “The do-nothing 44th President.” The President is not progressive enough for progressives. That’s why the enthusiasm is with the reactionary Tea Party. Obama is governing like a centrist, but viewers of Fox “News” would not know that.

Ain’t nothing centrist about taking over companies and health care and feeding unions.

Timzank, Glen Beck would have had his hourds of racists marching on Washington, we all know that. Yes, Beck got that woman fired.

progress said:
Glen Beck and Faux played the video over and over out of context when in the end they turned out to be racists.

Jeez, been proven to be a liberal talking point and a lie for days now…

imzank says: “Ain’t nothing centrist about taking over companies and health care and feeding unions.”

No, not from the perspective of the extreme right, there isn’t. Fact is there’s no public option when the majority of Americans wanted in the bill.

There is one company that was taken over, and the option was to let GM fail and dig us deeper into the great recession. I have no idea what you’re trying to say about “feeding unions.” Was Republican “feeding large corporations” centrist?

imzank, both sides take care of their own. That’s politics, centrist politics, in the United States.

When people’s sore source of news and information about the world is Fox or MSNBC, their understanding is going to be slanted in the case of MSNBC and off the wall in the case of Fox. It’s why Sen. Colburn told his his meeting, many of whom were radically misinformed, to watch Fox AND CNN. Fox is purposely creating a narrative that virtually demonizes the Dems while painting the Republicans as good guys defending people like Fox viewers.

That’s not news; it’s propaganda. There is one journalist on Fox, Sam Sheppard; the rest are unethical, sorry excuses for journalism.

Fox is NOT overtly racist. They race-bait a lot, but that’s to reinforce their reactionary and divisive narrative that the Other is coming to take their viewer’s freedoms or rights or stuff. It makes for great propaganda, but it’s not news in any normal sense of the word.

Just like when Olbermann labels anyone disagreeing with Obama as a racist. Except when Keith disagrees on Afghanistan. That doesn’t count.

MartiniShark said:
I seem to recall during the election cycle we kept getting fed the line that this administration was going to be the most media savvy, and most attuned to technology. Well we have seen them announce recently certain members opened Twitter accounts, like that put them on the cutting edge — and then they fumbled with that basic platform. In less than two years they have also fostered a growing resentment in the press corps, managed news in ways the press objected, and then last week’s self-created fiasco. Seems like they are believing their own hype, as opposed to employing skills.

Transparency. You forgot transparency.

GlennBeckReview said:
No, not from the perspective of the extreme right, there isn’t. Fact is there’s no public option when the majority of Americans wanted in the bill.

I could be wrong here but I seem to recall–BEFORE -0bamacare became law–polls from at least two sources indicating that the vast majority of US citizens did NOT want -0bamacare to be passed, regardless of what might have been in it. In other words, the vast majority of US citizens wanted to keep our healthcare system as it was.

On a side note, I heard on radio today that the UK is decentralizing their socialized medicine programme as a precursor to restoring it to private status. There is a lesson herein.