and it’s hard not to see, even if Andrew Breitbart is completely in the wrong here, how he does not come out the winner.

Now that’s gotta hurt, especially coming from Glynnis.

Still no story on the ThinkProgress “editing”? No surprise coming from Mediaite.

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I posted a comment asking Mr. Cohen if he was a member of Journolist and if so, did they also squash “the Birthers” story!

I asked him if Obama was a Usurper & Fraud!

They deleted my comment and banned me!

What a Hoot!

Maybe I stepped on his toes!

Keey dreaming Germ, i’ve been trying for days, they just aren’t interested. Funny how they break their necks to exonerate a lefty though, right?

Still nothing on the Glenn Beck/Goldline scandal? No surprise coming from mediaite.

MichelleF – You really have no clue what was said here do you?

And Breitbart did selective editing on a video to show Democrats in a false bad light? No fucking way! Maybe now after the second time you media morons will learn to take anything that Jackass releases with a grain of salt.

Yea I know…

Mediaite: Sherrod didn’t mean what she said.

Mediaite: Journolist didn’t mean what the emails said.

Mediaite: The Tea Parties mean they are racist, although their is no substance.

Mediaite: Glenn Beck meant “X” when he said “Y”

See a trend here?

How is Weiner’s investigation going? Oh thats right, he piped down didnt he?

“what is likely going to happen here is that the administration is going to come out looking like the bad guy.”

Yes, the administration will look like it is erring on the side of caution in protecting White sensibilities in the face of accusations of Black racism. That’s a “bad” I can live with.

After the NBPP and Gates stories this is exactly the kind of mistake I am glad they made.
For once they erred on the side of White people.

Now Whitey can’t accuse Barack of protecting Blackie anymore!

Yeah I do Teddy, do YOU? Maybe you should take your meds and try reading it again.

Jackie_Treehorn said:
And Breitbart did selective editing on a video to show Democrats in a false bad light? No fucking way! Maybe now after the second time you media morons will learn to take anything that Jackass releases with a grain of salt.

Actually, he stated that he played all of the footage he has in his possesion. Breitbart also claims to be looking for the entire footage.

Jackie_Treehorn said:
Still nothing on the Glenn Beck/Goldline scandal? No surprise coming from mediaite.

It was no scandal. There was quite a bit on it when it was hot coming from the Progressive Strategists though. Good try.

even if Andrew Breitbart is completely in the wrong here, how he does not come out the winner.

1. He is.

2. He will always come out the winner because you asses will keep posting what he says as fact even though he’s now a proven pathological liar.

If it was one of their ownThe Tea Party would pretend what she said wasn’t “racist” and continue to support her.

Germ, now why do you think the NAACP wouldn’t want the whole tape out there if it could exonerate them? Something to think about.

ahhh teddy did you hit the mad dog 20/20? you sound all mellow and shit

Twitter Response

“@AndrewBreitbart: About to go on Charlie Rose Show. I’m ignoring nothing. NAACP rebuked it’s own audience for behavior. It’s about hypocritical NAACP.”

Live by the race card; die by the race card. The Left has relied so heavily on racism charges in trying to bully and intimidate critics. But when so much of their own agenda is based on judging people on the color of their skin, these hardball tactics are sure to backfire. As they do here, and in the justice-by-skin-color policies of Obama’s Department of Justice.

My advice to the Left: step up and defend your policies of bloated, deficit-inducing government with real arguments and empirical date (if you can), and give up on the bully-boy race-card-shakedown tactics.

What this really shows is the breakdown and failure of media, all media, in covering stories. Fox is the most guilty, as they usually are, by their overblown and manufactured response to this “story”. But the rest of the media has picked up and ran with it, for fear of being labeled with the dreaded “MSM” tag.

But really, this is a non-story in every way. How many kids died in the Sudan today?

yweston said:
If it was one of their ownThe Tea Party would pretend what she said wasn’t “racist” and continue to support her.

Yes, that is exactly why they threw the idiot out of the party right? Right! Acorn is still not vindicated either.

Thanks Murf, I can’t wait to hear what he has to say.

This piece doesn’t make any sense. Brietbart posted the whole clip in context. It’s clear from the clip that the woman later learned the error of her way but that she clearly was racist in the case of the farmer. Brietbart didn’t edit out the former.

germ said:
It was no scandal. There was quite a bit on it when it was hot coming from the Progressive Strategists though. Good try.

No scandal of it coming to light that Goldline is pushing customers to buy overpriced gold, then not giving them what promised when paid???

There are two main types of complaints we’re seeing,” said Adam Radinsky of the Santa Monica City Attorney’s office, which has launched what it described as a joint investigation with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office.

“One is that customers say that they were lied to and misled in entering into their purchases of gold coins,” he said. “And the other group is saying that they received something different from what they had ordered.”

In an interview broadcast on Good Morning America, Radinsky said the probe is in its early stages and involves more than 100 consumer complaints about Goldline and Superior.”

So no scandal there whatsoever right? Remember thinking people…Goldline is the first “Beck University”.

These people panic at the idea of a nice lady being talked about by Glenn Beck…
AND THEY ARE RUNNING OUR COUNTRY ???

These people are not fit to carry Glenn Beck’s jock strap.

Felix, you are 110% correct. As someone very close to the left once said, “their chicken’s are coming home to roost”.

Presumably Breitbart is in possession of the entire tape, how else could he release a mere clip and and state so assuredly that Sherrod was making a racist remark if he didn’t know the full context.

Presumably? He’s got a couple of clips from someone who grabbed it off TV. (Note the DCTV3 logo) I suspect he didn’t grab it from a Douglas, Georgia cable access channel himself. So, who knows what he’s got, more than what he’s shown? But you know who does have the entire video, the original raw footage? The NAACP:

The full video is the property of the local NAACP chapter because it paid $350 for Wilkerson’s station to film and broadcast the event, he said. His was the only video camera in the room.

Yes Jackie, in your mind they are guilty until proven innocent just like Mrs. Sherrod. Wonderful.

Arkansas Steve said:

These people are not fit to carry Glenn Beck’s jock strap.

You mean magic underwear?

If I was Ms. Sherrod I would “shut up”. Glenn Beck will use her to embarrass the WH. What’s she gong to do when Fox gets finished “Using her UP”.

Pres. Obama should invite her to the WH for a Beer Summit. I think she needs a drink.

In a related story, it was reported today that the North Koreans assassinated (like dead) their representative sent to negotiate with South Korea.

That sounds a lot to me like the “political” assassination which the White House just executed on Shirley Sherrod.

Is there any comparison here??

@Arkansas

I guess Bierberts edited video has NOTHING to do with what happened to Ms. Sherrod in the minds of the “right wing”.

Wow Glynnis, this seemed almost psychotic rather than insightful.

Ms. Weston, you almost got it right.
However, the ‘beer summit’ should be with Shirley & Glenn.

According to Juan Williams (on Fox news tonight) the incident in question occurred 24 years ago. Clearly Ms. Sherrod should not have been forced to resign.

If Andrew Breitbart doctored the video in any way or mislead his audience, then at a minimum he needs to post a public apology and apologize directly to Ms. Sherrod.

The Sec. of Agriculture should also apologize and offer Ms. Sherrod either: 1) her job back, or 2) allow her to retire with full benefits.

I first heard of the Sherrod video when MichelleF posted it to yesterday’s “Former Palin Advisor” post and I believe she posted it a couple of other times, as I believe did someone else.

If this works, here’s the blockquote from MichelleF’s broadcast.

MichelleF said:
For the enjoyment of lib race-baiters

Video of NAACP racsim.

http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/07/19/video-proof-the-naacp-awards-racism2010/

Enjoy!!

Now, I’m pretty sure someone eventually provided a little more context and I didn’t view the video upon its first posting… oh, and I’m not trying to call out Michelle personally, but her initial post was easy to find and it helps illustrate my point.

Based upon the words from Michelle and the title-based URL from Breitbart, along with some other words from her or another commenter in another thread, I distinctly got the impression that Breitbart had framed the clip as an example of NAACP racism because the crowd had favorably reacted and now that I’ve clicked through to skim his too long post, I see this was the case.

So, I can’t really blame the NAACP for trying to distance themselves from the speaker. After all, the person who posted the video and one assumes had watched it was trying to use it as a weapon against them.

THE RIGHT GETS THIS MISDIRECTION FROM THE OBAMAMEDIA ALL THE TIME!

- Live with it!!!!

Azarkhan said:
According to Juan Williams (on Fox news tonight) the incident in question occurred 24 years ago. Clearly Ms. Sherrod should not have been forced to resign.

If Andrew Breitbart doctored the video in any way or mislead his audience, then at a minimum he needs to post a public apology and apologize directly to Ms. Sherrod.

The Sec. of Agriculture should also apologize and offer Ms. Sherrod either: 1) her job back, or 2) allow her to retire with full benefits.

You’re not Azarkhan.

IMPOSTOR!!!!

I wouldn’t be feeling real secure if I’m an Obama supporter!

LOL!!

You’re not Azarkhan.

IMPOSTOR!!!!

LOL

It seems that Ms. Sherrod’s story version (unable to see unedited video) is accurate. ALL involved that had some role in her firing and initial damaging reputation should be condemned. Brietbart, WH, NAACP and ‘credible’ media outlets.

Not just cherry pick one, and not ALL. Otherwise it’s just simple partisanship. “snookered” or not, Breitbart may have had more than what was edited but push a unfounded story angle and the NAACP had the full video version and issued statement condemning before they spoke with Ms. Sherrod or reviewed the tape. The dept of AG issued a statement defending the firing after Ms. Sherrod made the context known to at least investigate.

Ms. Sherrod’s job should be reinstated, perhaps given some restitution for the temp/perm damage to her reputation and many lessons should be learned from this.

Plenty of blame to go around. Especially if you don’t approach it with a partisans lens. There seems to be a clear victim.

Ohh and apologies from all those involved that played a role should be fast tracked and published to Ms. Sherrod

Andrew Breitbart’s deliberate disregard for honest journalism in editing is a perfect example of “the end justifies the means”. This is truly a sad state of affairs for our country, whether done in the name of conservatism or liberalism. I have lost respect for Andrew and Big Government as a source of honest reporting.

As for her dismissal from the USDA… We’ve received further clarification attributed to Sec. Vilsack that Tommy has posted, elsewhere.

He basically says that because the tape could be used to create the illusion that the Department of Agriculture may play favorites, they decided to err on the side of caution. I’m sure if they hadn’t have reacted and if the video was just hanging in the ether, then some farmer who may not get what they want might decide it’s due to institutional racism and they wanted to nip the possibility in the bud.

And while I’m at it… Ms. Sherrod was apparently speaking about how she had grown since ’86. Sure, based in a modern context, the “one of his own” could be seen as inappropriate, but she’s a black woman in Georgia talking about something that happened in ’86. The year Martin Luther King Day was first observed, before it had spread to every state in the union and while South Carolina state employees were still being given the option of taking MLK Day or one of the Confederate holidays and while it was still co-celebrated with Robert E. Lee’s birthday in Virginia.

IOW: It was another place and time.

I love it! Holder: “We are a nation of cowards on race.” Pal, you ,Barry, the NBPP , the NAACP and libs have been playing the race card before and since Barry got elected, and now, you all look like fools!

Breitbart just showed the video- It was not Breitbart nor FOX that fired the woman- it was you race card players who thought your race game had gotten out of control and that you now had to act before getting all the facts.

Sherrod on CNN said that it was the BHO admin and the NAACP who were responsible for her resignation. She said that she was told that the WH feared the video would show up on the Glenn Beck show- so what libs- you have already told us nobody watches FOX- right King??

She said no one would give her a chance to give her side ( sound familiar?).

Ahhhhhh, “hoisted withe their own petard” has never been more apt!

The headline here should be, “Wow!! Andrew Not So Breitbart just lost any shred of credibility he might have possessed.”

Bill Adkins said:
The headline here should be, “Wow!! Andrew Not So Breitbart just lost any shred of credibility he might have possessed.”

Wrong- there is nothing on that tape that did not happened.

You race card players just got had!

LOL

notsofast said:
Wrong- there is nothing on that tape that did not happened.

You race card players just got had!

LOL

Yea, they post a heavily edited video void of context. You know what that’s called? Illegal and libel.

Snipzor said:
Yea, they post a heavily edited video void of context. You know what that’s called? Illegal and libel.

Not at all!

I have seen the vids from “Think Progress.”

Snipzor said:
ea, they post a heavily edited video

Prove it.

It won’t be long before the Righty’s blame a “left-wing plant” for supplying the videotape to Breitbart to embarrass him. lol

Snipzor said:
Yea, they post a heavily edited video void of context. You know what that’s called? Illegal and libel.

I like it – in this one Andrew Not So Breitbart crossed the line – Shirley Sherrod is no public figure. This is great!! Robert Ruark as Shirley Sherrod and Andrew Not So Breitbart that nasty Westbrook Pegler. Was Pegler gay, too?

notsofast said:
Not at all!

I have seen the vids from “Think Progress.”

No, you haven’t. If you did, you would admit that you’ve got neither credibility of integrity. Instead, you lie about watching it and support a man who has indeed broken the law. How nice, call me when the American right-wing has the balls to be honest for once.

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
You mean magic underwear?

That one made me laugh.

notsofast said:
Wrong- there is nothing on that tape that did not happened. You race card players just got had! LOL

Oh, the tape came with the chryon that Shirley Sherrod used her position as a tool of her racism? I’m betting not – I’m betting Andrew Not So Breitbart added that. What say you, Nutsofast?

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
t won’t be long before the Righty’s blame a “left-wing plant” for supplying the videotape to Breitbart to embarrass him.

Breitbart has nothing to embarrassed about. But the NAACP and the WH sure do.

LOL

Bill Adkins said:
chryon

Oh, really- is that what your cretin brain came up with? That message wasn’t on the original, ya say?

bawahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Snipzor said:
Instead, you lie about watching it and support a man who has indeed broken the law

Bull shit!

I saw that edited “Think Progress” crap about the racist at a TP event that you bought hook, line and sinker!

notsofast said:
Oh, really- is that what your cretin brain came up with? That message wasn’t on the original, ya say? bawahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

And nutsofast comes out of the gate to prove she’s unarmed in this battle of wits!!!

Am I the only one who finds this whole thing funny?

Here is one of the unedited videos that “Think Progress” edited to make it look like the TP supported racists like you!

http://www.breitbart.tv/tea-party-attendee-confronts-proud-racist-in-swastika-shirt/

MichelleF said:
Am I the only one who finds this whole thing funny?

I think it’s a laugh riot.

The race baiters got baited!

LOL

MichelleF said:
Am I the only one who finds this whole thing funny?

Nope.

MichelleF said:
Am I the only one who finds this whole thing funny?

Nope.

You’re just the stupidest one.

Bill Adkins said:
And nutsofast comes out of the gate to prove she’s unarmed in this battle of wits!!!

You have only half- you are a half-wit.

But you do the work of two men- unfortunately , those men are Abbott & Costello!

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
Nope.

You’re just the stupidest one.

Got caught in your race baiting, BFD! Admit it!

Hey, everyone!! Are you enjoying Nutsofast squirmiing on this one? I certainly am!! Andrew Not So Breitbart busted as a lying piece of shit and Nutsofast is so invested she can’t let one post get past her. Loving it as Not So Breitbart crashes and burns next to the cold dead corpse of Jayson Blair.

notsofast, I think that’s why they are SO uptight right now. They are stuck in the web of racism they’ve been weaving since the day BO won the Dem nod. Maybe they will think twice next time, although I doubt it.

Um Bill, I don’t see notsofast squirming at all. We are really enjoying this.

Bill Adkins said:
Hey, everyone!! Are you enjoying Nutsofast squirmiing on this one? I certainly am!! Andrew Not So Breitbart busted as a lying piece of shit and Nutsofast is so invested she can’t let one post get past her. Loving it as Not So Breitbart crashes and burns next to the cold dead corpse of Jayson Blair.

Wow, your prescription must have kicked in.

Breiwwbart reminds me of Paul Newman in the movie “Absence of Malice.” After the govt. plays a con on Paul, Paul pulls a massive con on the govt. making then look like fools.

How did he do that? By playing to their perceived beliefs and gullibility.

LOL

Breibart is the new Newman!

This is the biggest non story of the year hands down.

I am pretty disappointed in O’Reilly tonight.

I expected better.

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
I am pretty disappointed in O’Reilly tonight.

I expected better.

Ahole, he just came on.

BFD, was hoping BillO would roll over and he didn’t.

notsofast said:
Ahole, he just came on.

His talking Points Memo.

It mentioned NOTHING about context, which was the BIG story all day.

notsofast said:
Andrew Not So Breitbart busted as a lying piece of shit

Show me where he was busted, child.

notsofast said:
I think it’s a laugh riot. The race baiters got baited! LOL

Sure, it is hilariously when an innocent woman gets targeted by BriteBart for political gain. And that is the state of the Republican party.

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
His talking Points Memo.

It mentioned NOTHING about context, which was the BIG story all day.

OK- I withdraw my comment.

valkyrie101 said:
Sure, it is hilariously when an innocent woman gets targeted by BriteBart for political gain. And that is the state of the Republican party.

Wrong!

It was the WH and the NAACP who threw her under the bus. Breirtart has zero control over her employment.

Try harder!

Plus O’Reilly said yesterday that Sherrod discriminated during her recent USDA tenure . Blatantly untrue, as we all found out today.

He should have offered a correction imo.

Sure, it is hilariously when an innocent woman gets targeted by BriteBart for political gain.

val, she admitted to being a racist, so I don’t feel too bad that BO canned her.

Everyone needs to take a deep breath and recall what first lead us down this path of racial tensions. Shortly after Obama won the election, a number of so-called journalists in the liberal white media, whom believed they were actually helping Obama, began throwing around the race card, against any white person, whom happened to disagree with Obama’s policies. You really have to understand the white liberal media mindset, when it comes to all people of color, especially blacks. On a subconscious level, many of these bigots in the media, believe people of color are their inferiors, intellectually, therefore, it’s their ‘job’ to ensure Obama, the black guy, is a success. Their attitude of imperialist condescension toward people of color, exposes their mindset, that no person of color can possibly succeed, without whitey’s ‘help.’ For 18 months, now, their wrongful playing of the race card, in order to help Obama, has backfired on all of America. Racial tensions are running higher than they have in 50 years. Yes, racism and bigotry still exist and always will, yet, when the white liberal media wrongfully plays that race card, naturally, the tensions are going to build up and explode into what we have now, which is the biggest racial divide in this country, since the 60′s. Their game plan didn’t work and now Obama is paying a political price, for what the white liberals viewed as a superb plan, to quash dissent and ‘help’ Obama. People of color may distrust Republicans, with good reason, yet, these condescending white liberals in the media, aren’t necessarily a better option. I’m not an Obama supporter, but Obama really needs to tell those troublemaking white liberals, to shut the hell up. Actually, their bosses need to shut them up, to calm the tensions they created. In America, when the media is in the race-baiting business, they no longer serve a useful purpose. Boycott the bigoted, condescending, race-baiters.

MichelleF said:
val, she admitted to being a racist, so I don’t feel too bad that BO canned her.

I must admit that I don’t think they should have fired her. They should have investigated and from the video I have seen, I would have told her due to the WH race baiting all the time, we are going to reassign you to another position for awhile.

MichelleF said:
BFD, was hoping BillO would roll over and he didn’t.

I thought he would be fair. My bad.

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
Plus O’Reilly said yesterday that Sherrod discriminated during her recent USDA tenure . Blatantly untrue, as we all found out today.

He should have offered a correction imo.

Fair- But he did follow up on that TP poster placed by the Iowa TP and blasted them. Let’s see what he does tomorrow. Some of the stuff was breaking late and I don’t know when he tapes.

Watch Hannity- Breitbart is on tonight.

notsofast, i’m not saying they should have fired her, but that’s on BO. He has a history of judging before he gets the facts.

MichelleF said:
notsofast, i’m not saying they should have fired her, but that’s on BO. He has a history of judging before he gets the facts.

True! Look at Cambridge.

notsofast said:
Fair- But he did follow up on that TP poster placed by the Iowa TP and blasted them. Let’s see what he does tomorrow. Some of the stuff was breaking late and I don’t know when he tapes.

Watch Hannity- Breitbart is on tonight.

Yeah, I think maybe it was breaking late.

Thanks for the tip about Breitbart on Hannity. Will definitely watch that. (for a change lol)

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
Will definitely watch that. (for a change lol)

BFD, from your comments, I think you may watch FOX more than you would like to admit!

And the ft. hood shooter.

What a bunch of boobs!
Now, if Breitbart manipulated the video, shame on him for misleading us all. Begs the question, can we not trust either the Left or the Right? What of journalistic integrity?

Then, the White House appears to not have a vetting process for the simplest of crises before having Ms. SS pull over to the side of the road to resign. What the heck are they thinking? Haven’t they learned from past experiences that there are embarrassing consequences in making rash decisions? Imagine if Ms. S. was hit by a tractor trailer while pulled off the side of the road…

I certainly hope this country does not get into a real jam where lives count on decisions that must be made by our Commander in Chief. Makes you wonder what POTUS would do if confronted with a “Cuban Missile” type crisis. He could have at least surrounded himself with intelligent consul instead of his Chicago cronies who appear unable to even sing the same notes from the same hymnbook.

What a cluster-bump! We are stuck with a community organizer who cannot even get it with on-the-job-training. We need a true leader – Hillary vs. Mitt in 2012? I would take either at this point.

And the X-Mas day bomber. He too was a “lone wolf.”

notsofast said:
OK- I withdraw my comment.

Hell, you should withdraw all your comments.

sfxd0401 said:
Then, the White House appears to not have a vetting process for the simplest of crises before having Ms. SS pull over to the side of the road to resign. What the heck are they thinking?

Well, if BHO only had a lawyer handy who knows………..

Never mind.

Bill Adkins said:
Hell, you should withdraw all your comments.

But I will not withdraw my dick from your mouth, Billo!

Bill, I don’t know what your problem is, but I’ll bet it’s hard to pronounce.

Poor, Bill you must be as confused as a hungry baby in a topless bar.

notsofast said:
Wrong! It was the WH and the NAACP who threw her under the bus. Breirtart has zero control over her employment. Try harder!

The USGA and the NAACP should have known better than relying on the BriteBart video without a full investigation, you got that right. But that does not mitigate the fact that BriteBart sought to destroy her reputation with the edited video for political gain.

You’re killin me notsofast, water almost came out of my nose with that last one!

MichelleF said:
You’re killin me notsofast, water almost came out of my nose with that last one!

How sad.

MichelleF said:
You’re killin me notsofast, water almost came out of my nose with that last one!

Mixing it with your coke again?

valkyrie101 said:
The USGA and the NAACP should have known better than relying on the BriteBart video without a full investigation, you got that right. But that does not mitigate the fact that BriteBart sought to destroy her reputation with the edited video for political gain.

And that ‘political gain’ motivation is going to be the silver bullet that destroys Andrew Not So Breitbart. If Sherrod doesn’t file suit on this one she’s missing her last best chance to own her own media outlet.

Actually, I’m a Pepsi girl.

You’re dreaming Bill. BO forced her out, it wasn’t breitbart.

MichelleF said:
You’re dreaming Bill. BO forced her out, it wasn’t breitbart.

Judge Judy you are not – this isn’t a employment dispute, it’s a defamation case and I am going to enjoy Sherrod’s attorney’s kicking Not So Breitbart through the goal posts.

Well good luck, since he has her on video! I guess we’ll see who’s right, dimwit.

valkyrie101 said:
But that does not mitigate the fact that BriteBart sought to destroy her reputation with the edited video for political gain.

Prove it was edited- I’ll wait. She hasn’t said it was edited.

Bill Adkins said:
Hell, you should withdraw all your comments.

I should have withdrawn from your mother!!

Bill Adkins said:
, it’s a defamation case

LOL

It was her own words!

LMAO-

‘Your honor, grant me relief from him playing words I spoke. My words defamed me!!!

LOL

What was I thinking Bill. I forgot the 11th commandment, “thou shal not use a liberals OWN words against them”. Silly me!

Jebus…the stupidity of nutso and Shelly is fucking mind blowing. Not surprising in the least…..but absolutely mind blowing.

Coming from you Jackie, I take it as a compliment!

I just saw a compendium of FOX coverage of this story on Rachel. Killer. FOX will be walking back with their head down tomorrow.

…no way they double down on this one.

It’s about the white-hating AUDIENCE laughing & applauding the anti-white racist story – Sherrod realized the errors of her ways…Racists in the naacp don’t!!!

- but it shows how quickly the Obama Cult will toss one of their own under the bus!!

Rachel?

‘Now, if Breitbart manipulated the video, shame on him for misleading us all. ‘

Breitbart did no such thing. I watched the video at his site yesterday and it was complete, with context, including her declaring that she eventually saw the error or her racist ways. That WAS yesterday. It was right there on his site, complete, yesterday. His point yesterday, and today, was about the NAACP being hypocrites. They state blantant falsehoods about the TeaParty yelling the N word, which is provably false, but celebrate a woman’s blatant racism. On the tape, as she’s telling the story, the audience is laughing and supporting her blatant racism. THAT’S the point.

The thing is, as Rachel pointed out, even the unedited tape clearly shows that the event in question was from about 1986, since she referenced the recent enactment of the Chapter 12 bankruptcy provision, but FOX and others, were alleging that Sherrods’ comments were referencing a recent event while she was working at her USDA job. Wonder if FOX might have to throw Britebart under the bus?

oopse, I mean “edited tape”.

valkyrie101 said:
I just saw a compendium of FOX coverage of this story on Rachel. Killer. FOX will be walking back with their head down tomorrow.

Will Vilsack give her her job back too?

valkyrie101 said:
but FOX and others, were alleging that Sherrods’ comments were referencing a recent event while she was working at her USDA job.

When did Fox say that? You know she was fired before Fox ever aired a word about it, right?

Jez said:
Andrew Breitbart’s deliberate disregard for honest journalism in editing is a perfect example of “the end justifies the means”.

This is completely false. Breitbart’s clip, posted yesterday, did not edit out the context. This entire article doesn’t make any sense, as I stated before, except that a Breitbart hater, apparently, since there’s no other explanation, Glynis McNichol is trying to smear him. The clip that Breibart posted yesteday, always had the complete context of the Sherrod’s comments. He wasn’t hiding anything. It was complete and showed the woman saying she eventually learned that her racist thinking was wrong.

Pablo said:
When did Fox say that? You know she was fired before Fox ever aired a word about it, right?

First of all, she was pressured to resign by her superior at the USDA, which she did. The BriteBart story specifically did not include the fact that the story she was talking about was from 24 years earlier. FOX ran the story numerous times, and each time the 24 years earlier part was not mentioned. It was like, yea, here is a current USDA official bragging to this black audience that she is racist. Of course the full context of Sherrods’ speech indicates the opposite.

Val, I don’t recall you being this outraged when think progress posted vids of supposed tp footage that was taken before there even was a tp. I could be wrong though.

You gotta love it when liberals tell the truth!

Mary Frances Berry admitted this at the Politico:

Professor of American Social Thought and History, U. Penn. :

Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.

valkyrie101 said:
First of all, she was pressured to resign by her superior at the USDA, which she did.

She says it was pressure from the White House, delivered through Cheryl Cook, deputy undersecretary for Rural Development for USDA. She’s appointed by and reports to Vilsack. I suppose Cook is her superior in the same way Vilsack and Obama are her superiors. She also says she wanted to defend herself, but nobody was interested in listening to her.

FOX ran the story numerous times, and each time the 24 years earlier part was not mentioned.

Really? Did you not watch this clip?

Oh, and Vilsack says it was his call and he stands by it. Damn that Fox News!

The right wing media is to knowledge what ocean water is to thirst. I suspect that it wasn’t that malicious idiot Breitbart’s edited video that got her fired, but the NAACP’s initial response to it that did — that gave it way, WAY too much credibility than it merited, and that is likely what pulled the trigger. If the US government is like a massive international corporation, Sherrod would be like a random senior office manager in a small rural office, so hardly worth direct WH involvement. But everything and anything that can used to make Obama look bad gets BFD’d by the right wing media, and in this case it gets to play both sides: tsk-tsking the supposed racism she shows in the edited tape, and then tsk-tsking her being fired when a less edited version puts thing in better context. I suspect all of the recent racism accusations has given people trigger fingers, but if Sherrod did indeed get fired on just the basis of the edited tape and the NAACP’s initial knee-jerk reaction to it, she should be rehired with an apology.

Wow!

It’s a real hoot watching you Breitbart clones desperately trying to clean this one up. From your posts, it’s clear that most of you don’t even have the basics of this story straight at all.

Face it, papa went and shot himself square in his own foot with this fiasco.

He can spin it any way he wants, but he still has made a fool of himself by not checking the very footage to which he insists is so incendiary.(If this was really so important to him, why not do some background checking?) And his angry posture maks it obvious as to what mentality his garbage appeals to.

To people who dont jones for BreitbartTV to filter their reality, this who mess has made Andrew appear like the joke he is. Even my friends on the right are calling this hog-wash.

And Andrew has no one to blame but himself for letting his misplaced anger push his recklessness lack of foresight.

The evidence is stacked miles high against him on this one, and now (thanks entirely to his own efforts) there’s nothing that will change that.

He posted an edited portion of a speech cut in such a way as to erase the actual story that Sherrod was telling, and that is now more than obvious. He posted not even a quarter of her story and fed it to you numb-skulls as the very fantasy you all wallow in so pathetically.

Sherrod was talking about her journey out of racism, and the white farmer in question continues to be friends with her. He has made his own perspective clear, and has called Breitbart out for the devious charlatan that he is.

Desperate to save face, he tries to spin it as some abstract lesson on the NAACP, but most normal humans can smell what this creep is all about.

Breitbart, maybe that unquestioning moron gimp crowd who follow you like a pack of sad strays might choose to fall for this.
But now even people on the right are seeing you for the unreliable and malicious liar that you truly are.

Keep it coming Andy, the more horse puckey you spit out, the more clear it is that youre just a blathering ass.

Snipzor said:
Yea, they post a heavily edited video void of context. You know what that’s called? Illegal and libel.

I must assume you have never watched MSNBC or CNN. There is no illegality. News outlets have always used bits and pieces of video. There is no libel.

The NAACP and the White House got punked by a game using their own rules.

500K4Sarah2Speak said:
The evidence is stacked miles high against him on this one

What evidence is that? He posted a clip and the White House an the NAACP pissed their pants and shanked Shirley Sherrod. That is the evidence at hand.

500K4Sarah2Speak said:
He posted an edited portion of a speech cut in such a way as to erase the actual story that Sherrod was telling, and that is now more than obvious. He posted not even a quarter of her story and fed it to you numb-skulls as the very fantasy you all wallow in so pathetically.

Breitbart wasn’t telling a story about Sherrod, he was exposing the NAACP for the hypocrites they are. The NAACP and the White House had a knee jerk reaction to the video clip. Brietbart also posted a video of the NAACP cheering on Jeremiah Wright, but there was no reaction since Wright has already been thrown under the bus by Obama.

http://www.breitbart.tv/flashback-naacp-crowd-cheers-jeremiah-wright-mocking-white-people/

It’s pretty simple…

Regardless of the players and their possible motivations…

This shows you how this White House operates.

It shows you how the NAACP operates.

You got to get your hateful race tactics together if you’re going to use them in an upcoming election.
And this just doesn’t help the spin machine do its thing does it..?

Flailing around trying to spin and do damage control shows yet more incompetence.

One guy makes the White House look like fools (again)..?

Just the latest reminder that the people in power, busy “transforming America” are idiots.

Stop trying to pin this whole debacle on Andy Breitbart! All he did was show a tape (even the parts where Shirley said she had seen the light, so to speak, about racism.) He was showing that the NAACP are a bunch of RACIST pigs who were laughing and whooping it up when Shirley said she did not give the white man her full service. These RACIST PIGS, the NAACP, tried to paint the Tea Party as a bunch of racists and it blew back in their smarmy faces. What goes around, comes around. Stop whining and take your licks, fools! You deserve them! Breitbart is not responsible. The NAACP had the FULL CONTEXT of Shirley’s speech. Why didn’t they READ IT? Shirley Sherrod was FIRED irresponsibly! Thanks to the White House and their Amateur Hour mentality. lmao!! Gotcha, AGAIN, Barry! You ignoramus!

Britebart is not responsible for racism. Yes. Is BriteBart responsible for accusing a woman of racism who was innocent? Yes. And if you read the story that goes along with the video he posted on his website, that is clear.

It is fascinating to read comments of people defending the sleazy tactics of Breitbart and Fox Reactionary Propaganda outlet. We have a post-truth politics where no one knows the truth because everyone sees reality through such different lenses. Thus one could ask what the truth is about Glenn Beck from four different people and get four different answers.

As a student of Beck – not to be confused with being a follower of Beck – I find it most curious that Beck knew to question the video’s context. Beck only had the video as it was on Big Government.com, so how did he know that there was more than meets the eye. It is unethical to state conjecture as fact the way Beck often does, but one has to wonder if Breitbart didn’t contact Beck to tell him that the video was taken out of context. Beck NEVER cares about what the context of a quote is and infamously quotes people and text out of context all the time to distort what was said or written. This of course is hypocrisy, but that’s not the story. The question is how did Beck know that there was more than met the eye during his show yesterday before the whole tape of Sharrod’s speech was aired?

What’s happening at Fox is not the production of news; it’s an open conspiracy to create stories from nothing. One extreme partisan makes a baseless claim, and Fox treats it like it’s news worthy not matter how absurd. From “climate-gate,” to the voter intimidation of the NBPP and now to this: Fox’s mission is to undermine the President of the United States until their candidate wins the presidency. This, during a time of war and economic crisis, borders on sedition. It’s not just the journalists on the JournoList who think that the government has a good case for shutting Fox down; even, nay, especially casual observers can see that Fox is sheer propaganda and not news.

Breitbart has long record of record of lies, smears and distortions:
The “video evidence” of Shirley Sherrod’s “racism” (NEW)

“Nationwide ACORN child prostitution investigation” (UPDATED)

Platform for anti-gay Jennings smears

Breitbart-promoted O’Keefe Census tape features selective editing (NEW)

Breitbart-promoted video falsely accuses Democrats of reconciliation hypocrisy (NEW)

Wild accusations over Gladney case

Breitbart’s websites make baseless claim that NEA engaged in lawbreaking

Bertha Lewis’ nonexistent White House visit

The Maoist Christmas tree ornaments

The ACORN “document dump”

False claims of community organizers “praying” to Obama

Glenn’s right. We can’t control Breitbart’s motive for releasing this clip, but we can control our reaction.

I was recently the victim of an unfounded accusation in the workplace. The event upon which the accusation was based was taken totally out of context, yet I was put in the position of defending myself against it. I was guilty until I proved myself innocent.

I was not allowed to speak to the people who made the accusation. The only thing that was brought up was this little snippet, which in itself was misrepresented. My story of the bigger picture was dismissed out of hand.

Regardless of any motive behind the events in this case, I’ve been in Shirley Sherrod’s shoes. The fight to prove yourself innocent to people who are protecting their butts is one that is doomed to fail.

Thank you, Glenn, for being the voice of reason. I wish more people would stop and analyze the bigger picture. Get away from the lawyers.

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Hey!…Andrew Breitbart!…Freakin’ Home Run BABY!!!

I really love you liberal whiners… During the Bush years, there wasn’t a lie, misquote or manufactured story that you guys wouldn’t jump into with both feet… and lets not forget about all the liberal lies told about Sarah Palin. And NOW you want accuracy? LMAO!!! Now the shoe is on the other foot…

You guys should be asking yourself this question who gave the Copy of the edited video to Andrew Breitbart. The only two copies of this video that we understand were in the hands of NAACP and the Videographer who filmed the March 27th NAACP meeting. It sounds to me like someone is or was trying to bring more division to this already very divided natiion. And I really think Andrew Breitbart was trying to show the Racism of the NAACP more than attack Shirly. Now ask yourself these two questions Why did the NAACP jump so fast to support the request of the White House for Shirlys’ resignation if and they did have a full copy of the video? Second Why did the White House jump to an emidiate decision to ask for Shirlys’ resignation? One more point why did the White House do all this before the video was even on YouTube? The White House did this all on Monday and the Media didn’t Even talk about it till Tuesday that included Fox. Why aren’t the People on this site following the time line. Your Trashing Fox News when they broke the story on Tuesday a full day after the White House has asked and gotten Shirly Sherrods resignation. Are we so blind as to the Truth instead of the biases that the Major Media keeps throwing at us everyday. I am asking thosse who ready things from this site and or any other when you read a story don’t do what the White House did jump the gun do your own research and find out who is telling the truth. I have learned to find out first make comments later. So if someone with media power is trying to keep this country divded they are geetting their way BIG TIME.

Pablo says: “You know she was fired before Fox ever aired a word about it, right?”

It was on FoxNews.com almost immediately after it was on lies about BigGovernment.com

Yeah, Beck chose to not mention this on his timeline too. That’s called lies of ommission.

Russ Burgett says: “…Now the shoe is on the other foot…”

No, actually it’s in Breitbart’s mouth. He’s just too pig headed to notice. So are you and his reactionary, most likely racist, supporters.

Tomas57 says: “Thank you, Glenn, for being the voice of reason.”

Oh my god, he has you bamboozled! You didn’t catch what he said that morning before something tipped him off about the larger context. See “Glenn Beck is a bald-faced liar” for details: http://www.examiner.com/x-55810-Syracuse-Progressive-Examiner~y2010m7d22-Glenn-Beck-is-a-baldfaced-liar

Anothrt debacle played out again this week, as Breitbart released another bogus tape, this time smearing (then-) USDA official Shirley Sherrod. The video, Breitbart boasted in a Monday post on BigGovernment.com, showed “evidence of racism coming from a federal appointee and NAACP award recipient” “against a white farmer,” and that Sherrod’s “federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions.” Breitbart opened his post: “Context is everything.”

Fox News and the conservative media initially lauded Breitbart’s “great work.” Fox Business host David Asman hailed the video from “our friend” as the “triumph of Andrew Breitbart over the establishment.” Unfortunately, even members of the Obama administration gave it credence and forced the resignation of Sherrod.

Breitbart’s triumph, however, was short-lived. As conservative blogger Allahpundit wondered when the video was released, “Doesn’t it sound like Sherrod was building to a ‘but’ before the clip cut out?” The alleged victims of Sherrod’s racism, Roger and Eloise Spooner, told CNN that those who were smearing her as racist “don’t know what they’re talking about,” and that Sherrod did “her level best” to help them successfully save their farm. And on Tuesday evening, the NAACP released the full video of Sherrod remarks, which exonerated her and showed that Breitbart’s descriptions were false. Sherrod was speaking about her actions 24 years ago (not during the Obama administration), and was telling a tale about learning that she needed “to work to help poor people” regardless of whether they were black, white, or Hispanic.

Breitbart, apparently operating without having “slept in 40 hours,” doubled down on his heavily edited clip and even bizarrely suggested that the farmer’s wife was a plant. Breitbart also offered an avalanche of false claims about his original story, like his scoop wasn’t actually “about Shirley Sherrod,” and that the real story is racism in the NAACP, as evidenced by supposed “applauding as [Sherrod] described how she maltreated the white farmer.” Throughout his flailings, Breitbart never offered an apology to Sherrod.

Fox News similarly circled the wagons. On Tuesday, Special Report anchor Bret Baier absurdly claimed, “Fox News didn’t even do the story” on Sherrod. On Thursday, Fox & Friends’ Steve Doocy claimed that the “Fox News Channel” didn’t touch the story “until she had actually quit.” A Los Angeles Times article that day reported that Fox News senior vice president Michael Clemente defended the channel’s coverage by claiming he “urged the staff to first get the facts and obtain comment from Sherrod before going on air.” However, Fox News commentators ran with the story before getting all “the facts,” and reporters for FoxNews.com published a story based on the deceptively edited video before Sherrod resigned and without comment from her.

Even after the facts came out, Fox News personalities continued to attack Sherrod. Juliet Huddy claimed that Sherrod’s “incriminating” “present tense” statements still “raise questions” about whether she should be federally employed. Glenn Beck said that Sherrod “obviously has some sort of Marxist or redistributionist qualities to her.” Dick Morris said employing Sherrod is like “having Reverend Wright on staff.” And Fox News contributor Monica Crowley suggested Sherrod may be among “radicals, racists, socialists” in Obama administration.

Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, and Rush Limbaugh even ludicrously speculated that Breitbart and the conservative media may have been the victim of a “set-up” “orchestrated” by the White House.

After Breitbart’s implosion, some — but certainly not all — in the media correctly noted that the case illustrates that Breitbart has no credibility. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said, “I think [Breitbart] has lost his standing to present videos to the country at any time.” CNN’s Anderson Cooper said that Breitbart’s actions are “a classic example of what is wrong with our national discourse.” Politico’s Ben Smith noted, “Breitbart’s sites now have a growing credibility problem.”

In the end, Breitbart is Breitbart. This was not his first dishonest video, and it won’t be his last.

The question is whether Fox “friend” Breitbart’s scoops about supposed misdeeds will still be given prominent news coverage, and taken as fact. As MSNBC.com’s First Read wrote, “you would have thought that all of us in the ACTUAL news business would have learned this lesson about Andrew Breitbart and his protégés: They’re not out for the truth; they’re out for scalps.”

Fox News anchor Shep Smith, frequently the station’s lone voice of reason, may have been speaking to his colleagues (once again) when he said on Wednesday that he declined to run the story “because of the history of videos on the site where it was posted. In short, we did not and do not trust the source.”

The way to avoid another ACORN or Sherrod debacle is simple: Don’t trust Andrew Breitbart.

The fact that the white house responds without being fully informed is concerning.