Yes this is officially what is known as a media circus.

Hey Anderson-why didn’t you try to get in touch with her to clarify her remarks before you went on air to appologize? What’s up with that buddy? So now anderson cooper needs to appologize to thin skinned Breitbart for not calling out Sherrod on some obvious bullshit? Wait a minute? REALLY? So Breitbartb gets to smear her as a racist, but then when she turns around to do the SAME THING TO HIM she’s the racist? Wait a minute here So didn’t she just pull a ‘breitbart on Breitbart? or what it an inside double Breitbart backfire?
Hello bizzaro wolrd.

Somebody explain to me know why everybody from Fox’s VP Clement, to S/herrod, to Breitbart are appologizing to each other?

Was this really Breitbart plan of using hypocrisy as his new secret weapon? Cause I got some news for ya folks:

HE BLEW IT!

The woman is a racist, and Breitbart was wrong. He didn’t challenge her cus she was Saint Shirley last week. We always knew that eventually somebody’s true opinions come out, if you listen to them long enough. We have listened to her, and we know who she is. In the immortal words of Denny Green, she is who we thought she was.

I think she has gone into hiding now, that video of her husbands racism and her words are now being analyzed fully. I wish she would sue Breitbart, so that the courts will laugh her ass out of court. I hate black people who always play the racial victim game. It pisses me off more than anything. Imagine accusing somebody of wanting to go back to slavery, just because they disagree with you politically. That fundamentally offends me as a black person. Breitbart cares more about black people than Saint Shirley, and you can quote me on that.

Shirely Sherrod you should lay low for a while and stop milking your 15 minutes of fame. The more you appear on the news the more vulnerable you will become. You already won so stop beating a dead horse with a stick. You cannot speak in such a manner as if you were at home. Remember the Tea Party bringing their racial topics from home to the public. As black people progress in society you will have to learn you cannot just say whatever you want or you will be struck down.

The left sees this as being mutually exclusive. It isn’t. Breitbart showed a video out of context, and Sherrod is a racist. Sometimes when one person is wrong, that doesn’t make the other person right.

Typical CNN. A guest claims conservatives want to bring back slavery, and Anderson Cooper just sits there slurping it all up like a cheap buffet dinner. This guy might have made a fine journalist, but at this point he has lost so much credibility, there is no way he can win it back.

“Sometimes when one person is wrong, that doesn’t make the other person right.”

Really deep, yo.

You mean like just cause one dude is asshole it doesn’t make the other guy not a creep?

WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING AND CAN I HAVE SOME?

Andy , just stick to interviewing people like female impersonator Kathy Griffin .

Shirley simply would answered why she believes Breitbart is a racist pig…

1 – Supporting and releasing a video of a man dressed as a stereotypical Black pimp. (that douchebag wore everything except Blackface lol)

2 – Supporting and releasing edited videos to hurt individual Black people and a Black organization (ACORN)

3 – Supporting and releasing an edited video attacking her with lies to injure her and drum up White hate.

4 – Printing crap like this on his website to drum up fear and hate of Black people…”The New Black Panthers’ officially condoned bullying is merely pay-back or rather, reparations.”

5 – The list goes on…

Whether you agree with Shirley or not she certainly has a lot of reasons to believe Breitbart doesn’t like Blacks and wants to set the clock back on racist relations and civil rights.
Shirley would have had absolutely no trouble answering that question.And I happen to agree with her.

writer said:
The left sees this as being mutually exclusive. It isn’t. Breitbart showed a video out of context, and Sherrod is a racist.

You will back up that claim with evidence, right?

bfd…
and it’s not only blacks that he seems to have a ‘strong dislike’ of…if he can smear hispanics, why not?
http://www.breitbart.tv/laredo-texas-on-lockdown-as-mexican-drug-war-crosses-border/

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
Breitbart doesn’t like Blacks

How tiresome to hear this over and over again in every situation. No one looks more foolish than these folks who play the race card every hour of the day. BFD is a chronic offender and arguably the most vacuous poster at Mediaite.

BFD, Chili, & jelper…You guys ever stop to consider you really just help stereo-type, minimalize, and reinforce racist meme’s by claiming every white man on the face of the earth is a racist?

You might want to ask a brother, cuz you ain’t helping.

BFD you are full of it and you need to stop:

1 – Supporting and releasing a video of a man dressed as a stereotypical Black pimp. (that douchebag wore everything except Blackface lol)

LOL about the stereotypical black pimp. Is that really how black pimps dress or just pimps in general?

2 – Supporting and releasing edited videos to hurt individual Black people and a Black organization (ACORN)

ACORN is not a black organization and the videos revealed corruption within the now defunct ACORN. Not recognizing that is being disingenuous.

3 – Supporting and releasing an edited video attacking her with lies to injure her and drum up White hate.

Please look up the definition of the word “edited.” The video was not edited, it was incomplete. If you’d bothered to go on his website, you would realize he was not really targeting Sherrod, he was aiming to show the NAACP audience present at her speech were racist when they were hollering in agreement when she was taking about sending the white farmer to one of his “own kind.” The video was therefore not released to drum up white hate but to prove the NCAA has racist elements and encourages racism. Yes, he was an a-hole by not talking to her before posting the video and by claiming she made the speech while she was working in her USDA position.

4 – Printing crap like this on his website to drum up fear and hate of Black people…”The New Black Panthers’ officially condoned bullying is merely pay-back or rather, reparations.”

How exactly does this drum up fear and hate (sic) of Black people? Why is it that when you read this statement your mind immediately conjured up “fear and hate of black people?” Especially when the statement had something to do with the operation of the DOJ within the Obama administration. You seem to suffer from the same disease you claim Breitbart suffers from, namely racism. You think in terms of color and you relate anything written and done by a republican to race. Don’t you get tired of this? Doesn’t this rather go to show the ineptitude of the Obama administration?

Whether you agree with Shirley or not she certainly has a lot of reasons to believe Breitbart doesn’t like Blacks and wants to set the clock back on racist relations and civil rights.

Shirley said Breitbart wants the US to go back to the days of slavery. All the above reasons you gave are not good enough to justify that statement. I’m sure she couldn’t come up with anything better.

BFD, screaming racism just because someone doesn’t share your political ideology is beyond old, it’s plain stupid and wicked. Furthermore, you are cheapening the word such that when racism does occur, people won’t pay attention anymore because the word has become so overused. Seriously, please stop it. This is coming from a black person who has experienced real racism in the past and who might do so again in the future. I don’t want my justified cries of racism to be thrown by the wayside just because of overuse by some people who did it just for political gain.

I wish they would have pressed her further on her weird answer regarding her hiring…

Parse carefully:
Anderson, you are one of the least disliked faces on cable news.
However, most of the people (including me) who don’t dislike you, don’t think much of you either. I find you boring and not particularly smart. That seems to be the combination for success at CNN.

There are two ways to interview political people:
(A) You ask only open ended questions, follow occasionally with clarification questions, and never state your personal opinion. This is also known as the Larry King interview.
(B) You respectfully challenge your guest, ask probing questions, and state your areas of agreement and disagreement. The best interviewers use great questions to make their points and expose weaknesses such as stupidity, hypocrisy, and various others.

Recently, Anderson has been frowning a lot, but still dishing out his Type A interviews. I think he is going through a little personal/professional crisis, wants to be known as a “smart” Type B interviewer, but is afraid to take the plunge out of his Type A comfort zone.

This lady has had her 15 minutes of fame and then some. Time to move on to important news and important people. Breitbart should give her a few dollars and send her on her way.

“Breitbart should give her a few dollars and send her on her way.”

LOL

Anderson Cooper did the right thing in apologizing for not staying close enough to independent confirmation of the facts. This self-corrective journalism is what we want to see. And not just in journalism but also wherever there is a conflict of interest hidden out of view by not minding about the facts.

I was actually happy to see Cooper apologize. I don’t know if it was sincere or if he is trying to mimic one of Glen Beck’s techniques, the admittance of your mistakes. At this point it doesn’t matter … it was refreshing to see a person in the media approach the topic of honesty and credible report. Let pray more will follow Beck’s and Cooper’s examples.

Jelperman, the NAACP had Sherrod as a guest speaker. Some of their other guests include Rev. Wright and Louis Farrakhan. The NAACP has a history of inviting and warmly welcoming black racist speakers. Sherrod was but another.

Okay, for all those who call Shirley Sherrod a racist, three words: Go fuck yourself. For all those who call the actions of the NAACP cheering: Go fuck yourself. I’ve been reading a lot of these comments over the last couple of days, and I’ve been reading past comments, and my ire has slowly risen, and all I can think to the people who calle each other racists, who play the race card, who deal with the absolutes: Go fuck yourself. You should be ashamed. Brietbart should be ashamed, MSNBC should be ashamed, Anderson Cooper should be ashamed. Because we keep hearing about Sherrod’ comments, about Brietbart wanting to show the NAACP as racist, but you forget to ask the most important question: Why? Sherrod’s father was murdered (MURDERED) by a racist KKK farmer, if any person during all this should have a distrust of whites, she tops the list. And by calling her racist, you are callous, heartless individuals! I’m not saying that she’s Saint Shirley, but put some context to it. Do you just want to remove history from the equation? I read an editorial that brought up a Mike Wallace piece on the Nation of Islam. He said something that it seems you pieces of shit seem to refuse to talk about. He called the “hate produced by hate.” For you to call the NAACP racist is to remove the hundreds of years of mistreatment, of oppression, of hatred. You don’t ask “Why do we have an NAACP in the first place?” So, Shirley Sherrod says that Brietbart wants to bring her back into slavery. It may be hyperbolic, but don’t you see the fear there? Those are harsh words, but why are they so harsh? Oh, because there’s no basis for them? Well, again, it wasn’t too long ago that we forced people to drink from separate water fountains, to not eat within our radius, to not even go to school with our children. And believe me, these are worst crimes against humanity than the NAACP cheering that Sherrod was thinking about not helping a white person to her full extent. Again, she did, and the speech’s meaning has already been lost among the “You’re a racist, no you’re a racist,” bullshit. You can’t even take a step back and ask “Why?” Has anyone in here ever had a real discussion about race, and open, honest discussion? And I’m not talking about with other white people or if you’re a minority, the people that exist within your personal race. I’m talking about with blacks, with Asians, with Hispanics. That’s a dialogue about race. And it shouldn’t be what Wyatt Cenac brilliantly said on the Daily Show, “You’re a racist, no you’re a racist.” I’ve talked with people about it. And I’m not doing it to say, “Look at me, I’m better than you are.” That’s not my point, asshole. My point is that during a discussion at a restaurant with a predominately black staff, I talked with a guy about race. He said he hated whites. I said that’s not fair. And he said, “Well, there’s no amount of bad feeling in your heart that compare to how I’ve been treated growing up.” I will always remember that sentence. And you should to. If you are calling people racist, ask yourself this question: Have you ever sat down, you, someone with no criminal record, next to someone on the subway, and that someone put their hand over their purse or bag to protect it. Despite the fact you aren’t a criminal! But yet, people deal with this on a daily basis. What does that do to their minds? Believe more blacks have seen whites do this to them, than whites have seen blacks commit crimes against them. And if you don’t see the context, if you don’t see why the NAACP cheering isn’t the same crime as forcing people to drink from different water fountains, then all I can say is Go fuck yourself! And I say this, because telling you to feel shame wouldn’t work, because I don’t think you know what that is. And I don’t give a fuck about you attacking my character, calling me a racist, or anything. Because in the long run, we can all go fuck ourselves. Because we won’t have a dialogue about race in this country, because we won’t put aside liberal and conservative. And I should go fuck myself for waiting this long to say something. And everyone, from Anderson Cooper to Andrew Brietbart all the way down to writer: GO FUCK YOURSELF! And after you’ve done that, and you’re ready to be a human being, let’s talk. Because we will never have a discussion on race until you walk into a room and that room hates you because you’re white. And instead of saying, “Bunch of racists!” you should say, “I understand.” And maybe then we can figure this whole thing out.

ronke a said:
Please look up the definition of the word “edited.” The video was not edited, it was incomplete.

Sorry, you probably aren’t a bad person, so I’m not attacking your politics or beliefs. The video was edited. You can’t go from a complete video to an incomplete without editing. My day job is as a video editor, and if I take a continuous shot and cut from five minutes to three minutes even though I’ve only made two cuts, it’s still editing. If they say the video was edited, then what they are saying is true. Again, I’m not validating or invalidating your post, I’m just saying that you can call the video edited.

Chudi says: “The woman is a racist….”

Holy crap; did not see her whole video? She is the antithesis of a racist.

“I don’t want anyone on my show to get away with saying things which cannot be supported by facts.”
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Well Anderson she did get away with it. This is probably why CNN’s ratings are rock bottom.

He is either lying about this and wanted to let her off or slipped up in which case he is incompetent and not doing his job.

Either way is pretty bad news and doesn’t reflect well at all on CNN.

Permatiltx said:
then all I can say is Go fuck yourself! And I say this, because telling you to feel shame wouldn’t work, because I don’t think you know what that is. And I don’t give a fuck about you attacking my character, calling me a racist, or anything. Because in the long run, we can all go fuck ourselves.

I say bravo! to your entire post. Unfortunately it will be lost in translation to many here, because they refuse to try and empathize at all. One can only hope you have at least gotten some of your frustration out.

It’s basically the same as when they were ranting on and on about the NBPP video and I tried to explain (since I live in Pa and was shocked at all the white racists that came out from under their rocks from the primary campaign forward) they have no idea how blacks must have feared intimidation as they approached their voting stations. No, I did not agree with their method to warding off trouble, but I understand why they felt the need. It fell on deaf ears, as your post most likely will as well.

I had an minor incident with my local police who I felt were harassing me 3 separate times. I was at work one day complaining to a fellow co-worker and friend, who is black. He chuckled a bit and said, well, maybe now you can see how we (blacks) have been harassed for much less, time and time again. You know that hit hard, and I realized how very true that statement was. Now he still let me talk through my anger about the situation, but I did walk away, keeping his statement fresh in my mind.

@writer I to went to an inner city school and I remember those days as well. But at the least of it consider the fact that in was teenage years. And many of us, white and minorities have grown up and grown out of our stupidity. You can not base adult life on much of what we said and did as teenagers.

@ the person that commented in another post that he is stick of what he claims that white people who empathize with blacks because of their white shame. I don’t feel shame for anything I have not done or been a part of ie: slavery. But yes, I do feel shame for the percentage of my white race that not only participate by doing far worse to blacks and other minorities presently. So to that I agree with Permatix, we should all GO FUCK OURSELVES!

corrections : sick
Permatiltx

And to Anderson.

I am sorry that you felt the need to bow down and apologize for something that the right and/or your bosses pushed for. When looking at the entire Shirley Sherrod story, I personally feel there was no reason for you or anyone for that matter to push her on her comment. I feel her comment was emotionally based and who could blame this woman after all she has been through, for no fault of her own. While I do think there is blame to go around and not soley with Brietbart. He was the catalyst in this whole shameful mess.

I have always liked your show. Specially when you do pieces on endangered wildlife and taking us to different countries and exposing us to different cultures etc. I look forward always to those and hope to see more.

ronke a said:
BFD, screaming racism just because someone doesn’t share your political ideology is beyond old, it’s plain stupid and wicked. Furthermore, you are cheapening the word such that when racism does occur, people won’t pay attention anymore because the word has become so overused. Seriously, please stop it. This is coming from a black person who has experienced real racism in the past and who might do so again in the future. I don’t want my justified cries of racism to be thrown by the wayside just because of overuse by some people who did it just for political gain.

ronke a

I think maybe your criticism of BFD is a tad misguided. I don’t mean to speak for him as he can speak for himself. I speak as someone who has been lurking mostly and reading thread after thread. I am not sure how new you are to this blog but if so, there are threads after threads of republican/tea party comments that go way past any acceptable limits of discussion, but further into defamation, slurs, name calling, non stop race baiting and screams of reverse racism on unfounded grounds. I appreciate and try to understand your point of overuse of the cry of the word racism but perhaps you should visit previous old posts that have to do with Shirley and NBPP. Maybe then you can understand more of why he posted what he posted.

Permatiltx said:
Go fuck yourself. For all those who call the actions of the NAACP cheering: Go fuck yourself. I’ve been reading a lot of these comments over the last couple of days, and I’ve been reading past comments, and my ire has slowly risen, and all I can think to the people who calle each other racists, who play the race card, who deal with the absolutes: Go fuck yourself.

With defenders like these, the NAACP hardly needs critics. So much vile stuff pouring out of the Leftists who post here. It’s revealing how much they have come to rely on insults, bullying and rants, and nary an idea or fact to be found — much like their role models on MSNBC, who would probably say similar stuff if the FCC didn’t ban this kind of talk from the airwaves.

felixw said:
With defenders like these, the NAACP hardly needs critics. So much vile stuff pouring out of the Leftists who post here. It’s revealing how much they have come to rely on insults, bullying and rants, and nary an idea or fact to be found — much like their role models on MSNBC, who would probably say similar stuff if the FCC didn’t ban this kind of talk from the airwaves.

Did you read any of the rant? I was hoping that by shooting out the vitriol, people would read. It’s about ideas, you idiot. And if you read it, I never called anyone right or left. I said people who deal with absolutes, which is both the right and left. I said people who play the race card which does tend to be the left more than the right, and people who call each other racists, well, unless the right is just calling each other racists, then, it would mean that yes, I’m including the right, the left, the moderates, the independents. Thus, since you hit the dealing with absolutes part of my comment, you, (just like I said of MSNBC, it’s in the comment, read the whole thing) can go…fuck…yourself. And the reason why I say that, because it seems the only thing people in here understand. Read the whole fucking comment. And remove your vile filled hate of the left to realize that this goes to everyone. From top to bottom. You don’t get what a conversation about race should be. And that’s the idea is all about. And nary a fact? So are you saying the separation of whites and blacks from water fountains, or the persecution of minorities in this country never happened? I could’ve sworn that was a fact. So, there was no history before the 70′s? And the FCC doesn’t ban this kind of talk from the airwaves. MSNBC wouldn’t be fined for saying it, FCC has no jurisdiction on cable. It’s a sponsor issue. You need sponsors to run a show and hearing these kinds of words would be bad for sponsors. It’s capitalism that keeps the words off the air, and I’m guessing you support that. Oh, and since I don’t have sponsors, you absolutist. Go fuck yourself.

Actually, I said MSNBC should be ashamed. But still, they can go fuck themselves.

The only reason Anderson “apologized” for not challenging Sherrod is because he discovered a tape of her husband making the same type of racist comments during a speech, which was “edited” from this blog post. I think Anderson is beginning to realize that he may have jumped on the “Saint Shirley” bandwagon a little too soon. I don’t think we have heard the last of the Sherrods’ racist comments.

Had the tape of Sherrod’s husband not surfaced Anderson’s “apology” would not exist.

writer says:”… the NAACP had Sherrod as a guest speaker. Some of their other guests include Rev. Wright and Louis Farrakhan. The NAACP has a history of inviting and warmly welcoming black racist speakers. Sherrod was but another.”

Writer, it’s clear that you are a clueless ideologue. You should go see a Dr. They have a cure now for rectal-cranial inversion.

libra blue said:
I don’t think we have heard the last of the Sherrods’ racist comments.

Had the tape of Sherrod’s husband not surfaced Anderson’s “apology” would not exist.

Hey, libra. Go fuck yourself. If you don’t know where that comes from, read a comment from up above. I’m sure you know which one.

I’m not too happy with CNN lately; however, Anderson Cooper did the right thing by apologizing whatever the reason. This Sherrod matter is very confusing & God knows if we’ll ever find out the truth, let’s just let it fade away, there are so many other important matters that need attention, like the poor boys out there in Afghanistan sitting in the hot sun wondering if they will be the next ones to be hit by a mortar shell. We have come so far in our relationships with each other, why do we now wallow in such hateful rhetoric? Are we so thin skinned that we cannot take criticism. All this talk about color is nonsense, even the whites hated Italians, pollocks, (as they were called) jews, drunken Irish, skinny people, fat people..this is part of our interaction with each other, it may hurt but how you react to it shows how strong you really are. My dad was Italian & my Mom was not allowed to date him, they called Italians’ “Greaseballs” years ago. So what? Movies are made are made showing them in the worst possible way, do you see Italians ranting & raging about how they were treated & believe me, the polish young men were waiting outside of the dance halls to “beat up” the “Diegos”, I never hear Italians complain & how about the jewish people..the Germans almost destroyed their entire race & they weren’t “hung”, they were burned alive. I know a lot of jewish people & never once did I hear them talk hateful towards the german people. It was a horrible time that is over with, people evolve. We cannot live with hatred in our hearts. I have spoken to many black women & men in my age catagory & they are the nicest people I know, we talk about ordinary things, of course they are proud of Obama just as we were proud of Ronald Reagan, it is only natural but many of them are worried about the present generation & how angry they seem to be about so many things. If the older generation is not upset, why then should the young people stir up so much trouble. Please don’t live in the past, the present has so much more to offer. The only thing I worry about is crime..it is enveloping our nation & when young people are angry they will look for something to hang onto to give them an excuse for doing “bad things”. We can’t undo the past but, if we all work together, maybe we can make a better “future”. Whether our President is black or white, we have no control on what the administration has to offer, we must just pray that the right decisions will be made that will help us all to live a better life, without anger & hate. There is a perception that the ‘tea party” advocates are against “Obama” because of his color, if that were the case, then why did so many whites vote for him? We are all worried that his administration is not doing what they promised & this means higher taxes that will impact all of us that are working hard to maintain our daily lives. Let us pray for wisdom, cursing & ranting only makes things worse, a meaningful discussion is worth so much more. While all of you are arguing, you can bet Shirley Sherrod is going about her own business. She explained her situation, people disagree or agree..let that be the end of it, remember, these commentators make a lot more money than we do, they enjoy this controversy, that’s their job! God Bless America! Helen Nordo