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Sam Donaldson Thinks Obama Should Stop Running Scared From Glenn Beck

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It goes without saying that the predominant topic on Sunday’s roundtables was the Shirley Sherrod debacle. In an excellent segment on This Week, Donna Brazile, who according to MoDo was the person who “after hearing the entire speech, pushed to get it out and helped clear Sherrod’s reputation on CNN” expressed some doubt over whether the White House had nothing to do with the decision, as they have claimed.

They told me the same story, and I’m reluctant — and I trust the source. My source said we had nothing to do with it, but, you know, once we got on top of it, we moved it…

But the truth is, is that the White House jumped the gun, Fox News and others who allowed this — this — this bogus tape to hit the airwaves…and the NAACP… that did not call their local chapter, did not confer with Ms. Sherrod, it’s a mind-boggling story. I talked to Ms. Sherrod. You know, when you grow up in the deep South, as I did, you know the — you know the history of the movement and you know the history of the Sherrod family. You know Shirley Sherrod’s personal story. I’m ashamed that so many people failed to even just simply Google her name.

Brazile later called on Andrew Breitbart to be fired.

Cokie Roberts, who noted she’d once had a cross burned on her lawn, agreed: “The truth is, the only people who could fire her were the administration. Fox News couldn’t fire her. The NAACP couldn’t fire her. Only the administration could fire her. So they really bear the most culpability here, I think by a long shot.”

And, at the end of the day that is the painful, disappointing truth. Jake Tapper, to his credit did not allow Andrew Breitbart to go unscathed here (in the larger picture he seems to have been subsumed under criticism, justified or not, of Fox), saying quoting Josh Marshall at TPM:

“Breitbart got a piece of video he knew nothing about and published it with a central claim that he either made up or made no attempt to verify. To use terminology of infectious disease, Fox was the primary vector of this story. And to the best of my knowledge, there’s been not only no disciplining of anyone in the newsroom, but as far as I can see, no retraction, apology, or even discussion of their primary role in an obvious smear. This is a journalistic felony, really, the worst kind of thing that journalists can ever do, a reality only compounded by the fact that they refuse to admit not only culpability but even that they did anything wrong.”

Fighting Sam Donaldson meanwhile, thinks the President shouldn’t be afraid of a good fight.

But from the standpoint of Obama and the administration, who are these people that they should pay attention to and be afraid of? Who’s Glenn Beck? I mean, who’s Bill O’Reilly? Who’s Brett whatever his name is?…I want to quote another president who also said he had enemies, I’m going to — of financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sexism. They are unanimous in their hatred for me, and I welcome their hatred, said Franklin Roosevelt, who said I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

So, President Obama, don’t be afraid of them. Take them on, and let the people judge. You may lose, but if you lose, you will lose grandly.

One can only hope. Watch below. Side note: This was Jake Tapper’s last week as host of This Week, Christiane Amanpour begins her tenure next Sunday, and suffice to say she has some big shoes to fill.

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  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    The glue on Sam’s rug is seeping through again . Sam . Go home and crank up the Victrola .

  • Pablo

    Brazile later called on Andrew Breitbart to be fired.

    Um, Donna? Who do you suppose should fire him?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Josh-Kaib/1091662620 Josh Kaib

    Why would anyone in the Fox newsroom get in trouble? They did nothing wrong. It would be like firing NBC newsroom employees for something Olbermann did. And why did Sam Donaldson try to drag Bret Baier through the mud, when he had absolutely nothing to do with smearing Sherrod.

  • murf

    Your honor , I am not a criminal . I was simply snookered by Andrew Brietbart into believing that armed robbery was legal .

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    Donna Brazile . So Breitbart should fire himself ? Nice work on the Gore campaign , by the way . I know the problem you had . People were rubbing Algore the wrong way and the campaign had to pay for it .

  • MichelleF

    Wait, is that the same Donna Brazile who said,

    “I will not let the white boys win this election”.

  • BatBoy

    If the left could not use Race, Racist, or Racism…they could not carry on a conversation!

  • MichelleF

    Or was it the Donna Brazile who said:

    DB: “I defended the Clintons and it was Black people who kept their asses in office.”

    and

    DB: “Blacks have been deeply wounded by the duplicity of the Clintons. Now, you may not like it or agree. But as a black person who helped saved the Clinton presidency, please just respect what I am saying. [emphasis added] Again, you disagree. But, I honestly believe the wounds will not heal. It’s personal and the Clintons have shown their darker demons.”

  • lazzzlo

    I thought Sam Donaldson was “dead”.

    Given his past, Sam needs to just stay retired.

  • MichelleF

    Batboy, that statement is SO true. You are a wise boy.

  • lazzzlo

    Here’s an odd thought.

    If the White House wants to speak…shouldn’t they?

    That would be a press conference.

  • BatBoy

    Unfortunately for Shirley Sherrod, this incident has shown what a RACIST she really is!

    When people are stressed…they show who they really are.

    She did…the cat is out of the bag and now the bag can’t be closed.

  • Pablo

    Chris Wallace beating Howard Dean like a rented mule this morning, over the Sherrod story, was must see TV.

  • Bootleghaircut

    Way to go Sam!

    I feel the same way. Anytime an adminstration official goes on Fox
    I watch- so there is no reason to back down from these
    crybabies-Go on Fox news sunday and kick them back right where they
    live Barry. One of the reasons that Fox is so noxious is that there is no
    counter to their over the top opinion programs. Perhaps the best example
    I can provide was when GIbbs last appeared on Hannity and Colmes and
    destroyed Hannity to the point where all he could do was whine about
    Louis Farahkhan! That segement should be used in political communication
    classes in how to deal with a partisan pundit. And of course Gov. Ed Rendell
    and Gov. Howard Dean are one of the few good participants.

    Anyways the great thing about the Breitbart story is it knocked the New BBP
    story off the air and then the whole story became about Breitbart and Glenn
    Beck.

    Meanwhile the Tea Party did EXACTLY what the NAACP INSTRUCTED THEM to
    do-they dissavowed the racists in the tea party and gave old Mark Williams
    the heave ho. The GOP wants to avoid facing the story that NAACP took
    on the tea party and WON.

    And that is a progressive victory which overshadows the circus that followed.

    Exit Question: When was the last time anybody listened to the NAACP?

    (answer: Last week.)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Josh-Kaib/1091662620 Josh Kaib

    That quote you attribute to Tapper was actually Josh Marshalls.

  • BatBoy

    Howard was stumped for a while, wasn’t he!

    He was caught in a telling a made up story!

    You are so correct Pablo…it is Must See TV!

    Pablo said:
    Chris Wallace beating Howard Dean like a rented mule this morning, over the Sherrod story, was must see TV.

  • michiganruth

    “Brett [sic] whatever his name is”? that’d be Bret Baier, Sam, who just has one of the best hard-news programs on cable, if not THE best.

    how condescending.

    and yes, Donna, should Breitbart fire himself from breitbart.com?

    what a bunch of maroons!

  • MichelleF

    Hey Bootie, thanks for proving batboys statement correct. We can always count on you!

  • MichelleF

    Yeah, Pablo, I’m sure Mediaite is putting the final touches on their Wallace smacking down Dean piece as we speak. Right colby!!

    ps, consider me checke!!

  • murf

    Bootleghaircut

    Brietbart : 2 ( Dont forget ACORN ! HA ! )

    Whitehouse & NAA(L)CP : 0

  • Bootleghaircut

    murf

    You don’t keep score too well. That explains TARP-1!

    LOL

    “Meanwhile the Tea Party did EXACTLY what the NAACP INSTRUCTED THEM to
    do-they dissavowed the racists in the tea party and gave old Mark Williams
    the heave ho. The GOP wants to avoid facing the story that NAACP took
    on the tea party and WON.

    And that is a progressive victory which overshadows the circus that followed.

    Exit Question: When was the last time anybody listened to the NAACP?

    (answer: Last week.)”

  • writer

    For the past year, Beck has been begging Obama to either call him or appear on his show to explain to him what he’s getting wrong. If Obama can go on the Tonight show, why can’t he at least give Beck a few minutes on the phone? Perfect chance to blow away all those “lies” Beck has been telling about him.

  • sarainitaly

    And, at the end of the day that is the painful, disappointing truth. Jake Tapper, to his credit did not allow Andrew Breitbart to go unscathed here (in the larger picture he seems to have been subsumed under criticism, justified or not, of Fox), saying:

    “Breitbart got a piece of video he knew nothing about and published it with a central claim that he either made up or made no attempt to verify. To use terminology of infectious disease, Fox was the primary vector of this story. And to the best of my knowledge, there’s been not only no disciplining of anyone in the newsroom, but as far as I can see, no retraction, apology, or even discussion of their primary role in an obvious smear. This is a journalistic felony, really, the worst kind of thing that journalists can ever do, a reality only compounded by the fact that they refuse to admit not only culpability but even that they did anything wrong.”

    This is really misleading. Jake Tapper is reading an excerpt from an article by Josh Marshalls. I was ticked off at Tapper for about five minutes until I saw the video.

    Donaldson and Cokie both told untruths – Sam repeated the lie that FOX was responsible for airing the video, regardless of the fact that she was fired before she was ever mentioned on FOX. And Cokie spread the n-word fairy tale.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Sometime it is hard to figure out if the left is watching the same program the rest of us are?
    Sam tried to get away with blaming Fox and he was shut down.
    Howard Dean tried to lie about Fox and he was made to be a fool. He did not check his sources before he shot off his mouth.
    On this very site the time line was presented fairly and proved Fox was not responsible for anything.
    The loony attacks on Fox are like blaming me for telling people to shoot Sam Donaldson and then they find out he was shot before I said it.
    Anybody that believes that Vilsac fired Sherrod without consent of the W.H. is just stupid.

  • murf

    NAA(L)CP , is ” ashamed ” of Shirley Sherrod .

    Administration , forced Sherrod to resign .

    So you telling me Andrew Breitbart is that powerful ?

    WH is afraid of Glenn Beck ?

    Bootleghaircut, if you want to parade this as a victory for the NAA(L)CP , well, be my guest !

  • sarainitaly

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Sometime it is hard to figure out if the left is watching the same program the rest of us are?

    Obviously they’re not. They just log in every morning, print out their talking points, and then spit them out.

    Dean made an ass of himself (again). At least he didn’t start yelling “We’re going to shut down FooooooooooooX! And then we’re going after Breiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitbaaaaaaaart! And then we’ll get Paaaaaalin! Yeeeeee Haaaaaaaaw!”

  • newzmaker

    I didn’t vote for Obama, but what’s up with all these old white walking dead liberals, repeatedly saying Obama is afraid of Beck and Fox News? Obama is like all presidents before him, which means he’s looking out for his own best interests, politically. Rather and all the other white condescending liberals, especially on MSNBC, have the attitude, that they helped the black guy become president, therefore, the black guy better ask, how high?, when they tell him to jump. Personally, I believe it’s extremely racist of those idiots, to practically demand that Obama follow their ‘imperialist’ orders. I’m flabbergasted that white liberals still refuse to move beyond their ‘master/slave’ relationships, with people of color, and start treating them as their equals. White liberal bigotry needs to be stopped. I insist they all shut the hell up. People of color should be outraged, at the bigotry of the condescending white liberals. This is a shame in America, that such bigots still exist.

  • MichelleF

    Oh bootie, you delusional fool, the jig is up, it ain’t working any more:

    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.

    Mary Frances Berry, former Chairwoman of The United States Commission on Civil Rights, appointed by Jimmy Carter.

  • murf

    Bootleghaircut has been snookered by the FACTS !

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Pablo says: “Um, Donna? Who do you suppose should fire him?”

    That’s exactly what I thought when I read that.

    Breitbart’s lies about BigGovernment.com has been discredited again. For not bothering with any double checking of the facts, so is Fox News discredited with one exception: Shepard, the only one on Fox who refused to mention the Sherrod story because he was aware that the source, Breitbart, was unreliable.

    God knows why Shepard doesn’t join a real news organization and leave the propaganda to the hacks with no journalistic ethics under the ownership of News Corporation.

  • murf

    Howard Dean is a blowhard , who also today , was snookered by the FACTS !

  • MichelleF

    You’re right GRB, shep should join a reputable news organization like MSNBC or Mediatite.

  • Bootleghaircut

    “Bootleghaircut, if you want to parade this as a victory for the NAA(L)CP , well, be my guest !”

    Ok-I will.

    “So you telling me Andrew Breitbart is that powerful ? ”

    Apparently not since the WH appologized to Sherrod and offered her a better job. I’m
    not sure that was Breitbart’s goal-or was it? You tell me.

    The real victory was the NAACP comdemnation of racists in the Tea Party in the middle
    of the New BBP non-scandal. You do remember that happening right?
    I guess you do recall somebody losing his job there too?
    Perhaps the “win” for Breitbart is to embrace the wisdom of Mark Williams.

  • felixw

    Donaldson is projecting his own fears and concerns. And the Leftists in the media are fearful, not because they are scared of Glenn Beck, but because they are afraid of the message of government accountability, fiscal responsibility and individual freedom that Beck represents. And they have good reason to be afraid, since those values are important to Americans, and the Left is opposing them at every opportunity.

  • Ninja

    All of this inside the same post from Boot:

    Quote #1 One of the reasons that Fox is so noxious is that there is no counter to their over the top opinion programs.

    Quote #2 Perhaps the best example I can provide was when GIbbs last appeared on Hannity and Colmes

    Now, I know the hatred for FNC runs deep in the left, but if you are going to make an argument about the lack of opinions from the left, you probably should not mention that Gibbs was on an opinion program in the next sentence. Just some free advice for you.

  • MichelleF

    So using your logic, baby-bootie, Beck’s success is the getting the whitehouse to get rid of van jones and anita dunn were huge wins for him, right?

  • murf

    Shepard, the only one on Fox who refused to mention the Sherrod story because he was aware that the source, Breitbart, was unreliable.

    Bill O’ Reilly was THE ONLY one on FOX to show the VIDEO at the END of his show btw, AFTER Sherrod RESIGNED !

    GLENNBECKREVIEW go REVIEW the FACTS !

  • Pablo

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Shepard, the only one on Fox who refused to mention the Sherrod story because he was aware that the source, Breitbart, was unreliable.

    And you heard him say that while he was not mentioning the story?????

  • Bootleghaircut

    “Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is
    proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats.”

    Indeed.

    “There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more
    racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans”

    Except for dozens of signs, Mark Williams, Chris Simcox etc. Sorry
    nobody believes that big lie-not even other Tea Party groups.
    Nice try though. Kind of reminds me when people like you
    were saying “Bush is not on the ballot” back in 08.

    And the very fact that you are quoting a Democrat is excellent. I love it when
    right wingers do that to make their points-shows their own people once again
    do not have a leg to stand on.

  • writer

    During Scott Brown’s election coverage, Olbermann referred to the winner as a ‘racist, sexist homophobe’, and Ed Schultz said that voter fraud would be acceptable in this instance. That’s the kind of straight-up, unbiased journalism that GlennBeckReview pays no attention to. He’s too busy only looking at Beck.

  • yweston

    I agree with Sam Donaldson. The WH should fight back and let the “chips fall where they may”.

  • Bootleghaircut

    “So using your logic, baby-bootie, Beck’s success is the getting the whitehouse to
    get rid of van jones and anita dunn were huge wins for him, right?”

    I think by any standard of logic Van Jones was a win for Beck. Anita Dunn? She was never a serious long
    term advisor but you can place that in your win collumn if you think it looks anemic. I’m not sure
    what you’ve won though as Obama is still standing-and smiling.

  • murf

    BOOT : The NAACP & the Left , judge a group of people , by the actions of a few , which ironically , is exactly how racists think .

  • Pablo

    gordonbloyershow said:
    On this very site the time line was presented fairly and proved Fox was not responsible for anything.

    Anything, that is, but provoking a deep and profound fear in the White House. Let us never forget what Shirley told the first people who bothered to ask her what happened. Referring to the now missing and presumed bound-and-gagged Cheryl Cook:

    She said, “Well, Shirley, they want you to pull over to the side of the road and do it because you’re going to be on Glenn Beck tonight.”

  • Pablo

    yweston said:
    I agree with Sam Donaldson. The WH should fight back and let the “chips fall where they may”.

    YEEEESSSS!!!

  • MichelleF

    “There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more
    racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans”

    Except for dozens of signs, Mark Williams, Chris Simcox etc. Sorry
    nobody believes that big lie-not even other Tea Party groups.
    Nice try though. Kind of reminds me when people like you
    were saying “Bush is not on the ballot” back in 08.

    Hey baby-bootie, you forgot this part of the quote, and indeed many other Americans” (AKA Dem’s):

    On Blacks
    (Affect(ing) a black accent to recount San Francisco mayor Willie Brown asking) “Who is this “Emily List? She’s supportin’ all these people. She’s supportin’ Sen. Dianne Feinstein. She’s supported Sen. Barbara Boxer….She supported everybody. Why won’t she support me?” — Hillary Clinton. Source: John Broder of the LA Times

    “Some junior high n*gger kicked Steve’s ass while he was trying to help his brothers out; junior high or sophomore in high school. Whatever it was, Steve had the n*gger down. However it was, it was Steve’s fault. He had the n*gger down, he let him up. The n*gger blindsided him.” — Roger Clinton, the President’s brother on audiotape

    “You’d find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they’d just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva.” — Fritz Hollings (D, S.C.)

    “Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart? Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza? Or the way you wash and park the whitey’s cars?” — Song from the show of left-wing radio host Neil Rogers

    Blacks and Hispanics are “too busy eating watermelons and tacos” to learn how to read and write.” — Mike Wallace, CBS News. Source: Newsmax

    “Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.” — Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the “conscience of the Senate”, in a letter written in 1944, after he quit the KKK.

    “I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state …. The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia …. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va …. I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities.” — Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the “conscience of the Senate”, in a letter written in 1946, after he quit the KKK.

    “These laws [segregation] are still constitutional and I promise you that until they are removed from the ordinance books of Birmingham and the statute books of Alabama, they will be enforced in Birmingham to the utmost of my ability and by all lawful means.” — Democrat Bull Connor
    (1957), Commissioner of Public Safety for Birmingham, Alabama

    “I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” — Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One according Ronald Kessler’s Book, “Inside the White House”

    (On New York) “K*ketown.” — Harry Truman in a personal letter

    “I think one man is just as good as another so long as he’s not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a ****** from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.” Harry Truman (1911) in a letter to his future wife Bess

    “There’s some people who’ve gone over the state and said, ‘Well, George Wallace has talked too strong about segregation.’ Now let me ask you this: how in the name of common sense can you be too strong about it? You’re either for it or you’re against it. There’s not any middle ground as I know of.” — Democratic Alabama Governor George Wallace (1959)

  • Bootleghaircut

    “BOOT : The NAACP & the Left , judge a group of people , by the actions of a few , which ironically , is exactly how racists think .”

    More delusional drivel.

  • MichelleF

    YWESTON, have you gotten over your embarrassment of touting the gallup poll showing the Dem’s ahead in a generic ballot, only to find out they had to come out and say the poll was rigged?

  • Puter Boi

    Apostrophe jones said:
    People were rubbing Algore the wrong way

    ewwwwwwwwwwww…….let’s not go there…..and let’s hope there is no video.

  • Pablo

    Bootleghaircut said:
    Anita Dunn? She was never a serious long
    term advisor but you can place that in your win collumn if you think it looks anemic.

    She was the White House Communications Director, and an adviser to the Obama campaign, and one of 4 people self-described as Obama’s inner circle. Thing is, Beck doesn’t see these resignation as a “win” because what he wants is answers and he isn’t getting them from either the legacy media or the Obama Administration.

  • Bootleghaircut

    the saddest thing about you michelle f is the fact like you and so
    many others prove that age of the good Christian is over in the
    USA.

    For you to denigrate Robert Bryd-one of the few people
    who recanted his racism is disgusting. For people like you
    there is no Christian repdemption, there is no change, there
    is only the bitter hate you cling to in your sad dark partisan
    heart.

    Having lived in WVA for many years I can attest to the fact the
    Sen. Byrd did all he could for his all constituents both black and
    white.

    That being said I hope you get your wish-I want the GOP
    challengers to to run on Byrd’s racist past-that will confirm
    for the nation that the GOP is incapable of looking forward
    and that the Religious coalition of the Reagan era is
    dead and gone.

    Let the big tent continue to shrink.

  • Bootleghaircut

    Pablo

    “Thing is, Beck doesn’t see these resignation as a “win”
    because what he wants is answers and he isn’t getting t
    hem from either the legacy media or the Obama Administration.”

    Ok then no wins for Beck. Sounds fine to me. I was giving him
    the benefit of the doubt but I can live with his assement as
    well.

    hope he finds those “answers”

    Chuckle.

  • JimBob

    lazzzzlo said;

    I thought Sam Donaldson was “dead”!
    Same as!!!, lazzzlo!! Same as!!

    But he addressed something that should be addressed. The President and/or his Administration should not be running scared of Beck or any one else. They all have the number of Beck’s Red Phone with an open invitation to call or appear at any time to debate and dis-prove his comments! No takers!
    EVERY commentator on Fox has extended invitations over and over to ANY member of the House, Senate and/or the Admistration to appear on their shows just about any time they desire! Few takers!!
    MSNBC, CNN, et.al are so damn jealous of Fox success they can’t stand it. They actually think they can WIN the ratings battle by screaming RACISM against FOX and GOP every moment or call them other vile names or dream up insults!
    Meanwhile Fox continues to kick their collective asses and laugh all the way to the bank!
    For the Adminstration. Time to stop blaming Bush. In the area of Jobs, Deficit, National Security, Health Care, etc.
    Do you REALLY THINK the average people out here are believing things are getting BETTER???

  • Pablo

    I don’t think you’re scoring the same things he is. And we should all hope for answers to questions like “How did Van Jones wind up working in the White House? Who hired that fool and why?” And while we know the answer is “Valerie Jarrett did it.” It would be nice to see the Administration asked and answer.

  • writer

    Most nights, Olbermann’s show is merely a rerun of Beck or O’Reilly’s show.

  • Pablo

    BTW, that was a fabulous job of diverting the discussion from the fact that you’ve got your facts wrong, boot.

  • murf

    The Left’s new mantra : ” If all else fails, blame Glenn Beck “

  • Bootleghaircut

    “BTW, that was a fabulous job of diverting the discussion from t
    he fact that you’ve got your facts wrong, boot”

    What facts are those? Michelle F was talking about “wins” for Beck.

    If you mean anita dunn. Pffftttttt ok sure.

  • Bootleghaircut

    ” And while we know the answer is “Valerie Jarrett did it.”
    It would be nice to see the Administration asked and answer.”

    And what would this prove again?

  • Pablo

    Bootleghaircut said:
    What facts are those?

    Wow, that’s a short memory you’ve got there.

    Anita Dunn? She was never a serious long term advisor

  • Pablo

    Bootleghaircut said:
    And what would this prove again?

    That the Most Transparent Administration Evah is somewhat clearer than mud.

  • Pablo

    writer said:
    Most nights, Olbermann’s show is merely a rerun of Beck or O’Reilly’s show.

    Yes, a HIGHLY EDITED rerun.

  • Bootleghaircut

    “That the Most Transparent Administration Evah is somewhat
    clearer than mud.”

    Oh yeah.

    You know that line is almost a stupid as McCain saying he was
    going to fight “the old boys network.”

    You can no more win on a broken promise of transparency
    than you can on cutting pork spending.

    Move on.

  • TfT

    Just imagine: In a world of a balanced media, this same conversation would be held regarding the slander of the tea party patriots as racists, with no proof. But alas, the conversation only comes up when something happens to a liberal. These same people were smearing the tea partiers based on nothing, nada, zilch, zero…but they had no problem doing it.

    Go figure…..the double standard is truly alarming, amusing too.

  • Pablo

    People who like being lied to are a big part of what’s wrong with this country.

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    Watch Glenn and learn , Sammy . …And you can tell Obama yourself , send him one of those ” computer telegrams ‘ that you may have heard about .

  • Bootleghaircut

    “the slander of the tea party patriots as racists, with no proof..
    These same people were smearing the tea partiers
    based on nothing, nada, zilch, zero…”

    Except for dozens of signs, Mark Williams, Chris Simcox etc. Sorry
    nobody believes that big lie-not even other Tea Party groups.
    Nice try though. Kind of reminds me when people like you
    were saying “Bush is not on the ballot” back in 08.

    Luckily the point is moot because the Tea Party did EXACTLY what
    the NAACP told them to do-denounce their racists-I guess they
    buckled under to the NAACP because they afraid right? No?.

  • writer

    Since the NAACP has featured guest speakers such as Rev. Wright and Louis Farrakhan, I guess they don’t believe in denouncing all racism. Just some of it.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    When watching videos of the left-wing congresspeople moving through the Tea Party protesters, take note of Jesse Jackson Jr. holding a hand held camera up in the faces of the people in the crowd. He recorded them. Why hasn’t he produced his video to prove that these folks were racists?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    the only good thing that can come out of this sad mess is the white house to NEVER listen to a report by the reptilian, repugnant right-wing (thank you michael eric dyson for that) smear machine that is fox and andrew britebart. at least the white house and naacp had the balls to step up and apologize unlike newt and most other whackjobs over at fox…especially those clowns on their morning circus.

  • Sunnyr

    Of ALL the Sunday morning pundits and other assorted fruits and nuts, Brit Hume, of Fox News Sunday, is the ONLY person who set the record straight and told the TRUTH about the Breitbart video. The video DID include the part that vindicated Sherrod, even as brief as it was. Most of the ignorant LEFTIST FROOT-LOOPS actually LIED and went off on Andy Breitbart because they couldn’t bring themselves to place the blame on the Amateur Hour Idiots in the White House for not checking out the story before FIRING Sherrod. The MORON, little Screaming Howard Dean, was totally ignorant and off the wall when he tried to say Fox News was responsible because they hyped the story and played the video for hours on end. A LIE!! Fox News didn’t even run the Video until that evening AFTER Sherrod had already been fired by the IDIOTS in the White House. Unless the DemocRAT party starts to call out these LIARS, they will continue to self destruct. I couldn’t care less if they do!

  • Pablo

    Luckily the point is moot because the Tea Party did EXACTLY what
    the NAACP told them to do-denounce their racists-I guess they
    buckled under to the NAACP because they afraid right?

    Williams isn’t a racist, he’s an idiot who ought to leave parody to the professionals.

  • Bootleghaircut

    “Williams isn’t a racist, he’s an idiot who
    ought to leave parody to the professionals”

    Yes and the tea party condemed him and now he’s no
    longer a spokesman for his bad satire. I guess
    The Tea Party Express forgot to mention that when they
    were giving him the boot and calling his satire “racist”!!!!

    Yeah the guy who called Allah “the monkey god” has
    a satire problem!!!!!

    Thanks for the laugh of the day!!!! Maybe the week!!!

    Nyuck!

  • Sunnyr

    Glenn Beck is the HERO in all this mess, even though that dingbat Shirley Sherrod wants to paint Fox News and everyone there as RACISTS! Glenn didn’t even mention this debacle until the SECOND day, when he went to Shirley’s defense. Glenn didn’t jump to conclusions on words taken out of context, The WHITE HOUSE did!!!! They are a bunch of Amateurish Bozo’s and if they are so damned afraid of Glenn Beck, we are in one *hit-load of trouble with this so-called “LEADER!” No wonder IRAN and NORTH KOREA are laughing at this KLOWN! Counting the days until 2012!

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    glen beck is the biggest clown on any show on television, including wwe wrestling. his attempt to rewrite history is a joke and one need only look further than that nutjob cleon skousy who beck worships…beck is just an evil and bitter little man.

  • Pablo

    Bootleghaircut said:
    The Tea Party Express forgot to mention that when they
    were giving him the boot and calling his satire “racist”!!!!

    Quote, please.

  • 4Liberty4Justice4All

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    glen beck is the biggest clown on any show on television, including wwe wrestling. his attempt to rewrite history is a joke and one need only look further than that nutjob cleon skousy who beck worships…beck is just an evil and bitter little man.

    I will take you to task, Mr. Progressive. Can you give me a few examples of how he has rewritten history? How about just one? How is he evil?
    You may perceive him as bitter but based on your words with no facts, I would say the same of you.
    But for sake of argument, let’s say you are not bitter, and that you are very rational…. please advise on the questions.

  • esd2000

    I have a new found respect for Sam Donaldson. He made a lot of sense in this segment. I couldn’t agree with him more. Even when they talked about a black outreach program he thinks it should just be outreach. I think he’s right about that. Thanks for making sense Mr. Donaldson.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    4liberty
    you probably consider salon just a ‘maoist’ publication and alex zaitchik just a smear artist, but he writes of beck mocking a competing dj’s wife after having a miscarriage ON THE AIR…that is pure evil, spiteful hatered
    http://open.salon.com/blog/awop/2010/05/26/glenn_becks_common_nonsense_an_interview_with_alex_zaitchik

    as for skousen, i admit, i have never read his books…but from what i understand he was a member of the john birch society? and he too, wanted to focus strongly on the religious beliefs of the founding fathers…his shows come of more of a sermon than the history lessons he claims they are.

  • Bootleghaircut

    Pablo

    First I got my facts wrong-they-the Tea Party Fedeation didn’t just kick out Williams
    but THE ENTIRE TEA PARTY EXPRESS as well. Sometimes being wrong tastes
    soooooooo good.

    “In a long post on his personal blog — the site of the astounding post last week about the NAACP that may prove to be the undoing of his career as a tea party leader — the Tea Party Express’ Mark Wiliams slammed the Tea Party Federation for kicking the Express out of the Federation because of him.

    The Tea Party Federation voted unanimously to boot the Tea Party Express out of the organization on Saturday after a week of negative press coverage following Williams’ anti-NAACP screed. Yesterday, Williams took aim at Tea Party Federation David Webb, who discussed his group’s removal of Williams and his group on CBS’ Face The Nation.”

    I suggest you look up with Webb said and educate yourself.

  • Pablo

    I suggest you provide a quote that supports your assertion.

  • Sunnyr

    yweston says:
    July 25, 2010 at 2:03 pm yweston(Quote)
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    I agree with Sam Donaldson. The WH should fight back and let the “chips fall where they may”.
    ————————————————————————————————————————

    Pfft! The morons in this White House tried to take on Fox News last summer and ended up with egg all over their smarmy, goofy faces. They are now like little whipped puppies. Counting the days until these Amateur Hour Bozo’s are only a bad dream. January 20, 2013, UNLESS we can IMPEACH the fool before then!

  • Pablo

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    as for skousen, i admit, i have never read his books…but from what i understand he was a member of the john birch society?

    “I don’t know shit, but let me tell you all about it!”

    Genius.

  • Bootleghaircut

    “Mark Williams, spokesperson for the Tea Party Express and author of last week’s racial attack on the NAACP, is threatening to cause a civil war in the tea party movement. Over the weekend, the Tea Party Federation — a group of grassroots tea party groups from across the country that hopes to create a unified voice for the movement — voted unanimously to kick out the Tea Party Express unless it removes Williams from its leadership and takes steps to “publicly rebuke” him.

    The move suggests at least some tea partiers are growing uncomfortable with Williams, whose racist-sounding screed aimed at the NAACP last week led to days of coverage on cable news. The screed, not the first time Williams has found himself in hot water over racially-tinged comments, was posted to Williams’ personal blog, but has led to questions directed at the Tea Party Express about the NAACP resolution as well.

    The Tea Party Federation called on the Tea Party Express to do three things if it wanted to remain part of the group (from the group’s press release Saturday):

    1. Mark Williams must be officially removed from the ranks of the Tea Party Express.
    2. Notice of Mark Williams’ removal must be placed prominently on the official Tea Party Express website.

    3. Tea Party Express must issue a press release articulating points 1 and 2 above.”

    On CBS’ Face The Nation Tea Party Federation leader David Webb explained that Williams’ letter was “clearly offensive” and needed to be answered for.

    “That is what we do,” Webb said. “Self-policing is the right and the responsibility of any movement or organization.”

    “Just days after insisting there are no racists in the Tea Party movement, Tea Party Federation leader David Webb told CBS’s “Face the Nation” today that Mark Williams and his Tea Party Express had been expelled from the group.

    “Last seen trying to start a sponsors’ boycott of MSNBC’s “Hardball” because of Chris Matthews’s tough reporting on the Tea Party, Webb was apparently appalled by Williams’s blatantly racist Letter to President Lincoln from “Colored People” signed by “Precious Ben Jealous,” asking Lincoln to repeal emancipation because “coloreds” had it better under slavery, not having to look for a job and such. Webb called the letter “offensive.”

    “Webb appeared on the CBS program Sunday morning to announce that Williams and the Tea Party Express — which has held a series of events across the country to generate support for the movement — no longer were part of the National Tea Party Federation.

    “We, in the last 24 hours, have expelled Tea Party Express and Mark Williams from the National Tea Party Federation because of the letter that he wrote,” Webb said of Williams’ blog post that satirized a fictional letter from what he called “Colored People” to President Abraham Lincoln.”

  • WideAwakeNow

    “But from the standpoint of Obama and the administration, who are these people that they should pay attention to and be afraid of? Who’s Glenn Beck? I mean, who’s Bill O’Reilly? Who’s Brett whatever his name is?…”

    Who the Freak is Sam Donaldson??

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    ok pablo…
    maybe you can tell me what a great man cleon skousen was…
    i haven’t read any of the twilight books either, maybe you can tell me about them

  • Azarkhan

    Who’s Sam Donaldson? He was born in 1934. He’s been a guilty white liberal since before disco.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Pablo says: GlennBeckReview said: “Shepard, the only one on Fox who refused to mention the Sherrod story because he was aware that the source, Breitbart, was unreliable.”

    And you heard him say that while he was not mentioning the story?????

    It was a story covered here on Mediaite. He said that the following day.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steve-Holmes/1299184145 Steve Holmes

    Glen Beck is a Trojan Horse of Obummer’s puppeteers. He’s given the duty to look anti-Obummer, probably to control a particular group of people. It’s about as real as “reality TV”.

  • loveliberty

    So what it all seems to come down to is that the left wing nut jobs are just as racist as right wing nut jobs. That black people have the same propensity toward racism as white people. And that all sides will use anything divisive to conquer and control us all. And that Bootleghaircut and ChiliPeppersfan are both fools.

  • 4Liberty4Justice4All

    Mr. Chilepepper,
    Glenn Beck is the first to say he was a dirtbag in his early days on the air. And I do not deny the story nor would I state “who cares” about such comments. So yes, we agree that he was not saintly in his early days (he was also a drunk ass). But just as in the Sherrod story, as she redeemed herself (unfortunately to a classist rather than a racist) so has Beck. I admire such people that overcome it (Robert Downey Jr., etc) and acknowledge with you that they were wrong for the past actions. But I don’t think he is evil now but perhaps we’ll never agree on this…

    BUT, more importantly, what has he lied about? Why is his message so bad… i.e. to bring honor and principle back to those who serve us. I won’t state that everything has been 100% true but from I have seen that is minor. And I have disagreed with some of his speculations… but not many (many have come true).

    I guess what I don’t understand is… why attack him in such a vitriolic manner when he preaches peace and a desire to return to honor and principle? If he has been incorrect, let’s clear those up and find the truth and then have an honest debate.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    4liberty
    i appreciate and respect your opinion on beck and your views on redemption…in fact, i remember watching a show beck did on redemption after sen. byrd had died. talking about redemption on one side of his face while on the other condemning sen. byrd and the people who spoke at his funeral saying how great it was he had turned his life around…
    he claims that history was rewritten by proggresives because what? we don’t believe in god? granted, i’m an atheist, but i’ve always know the impact religion had in the drafting of the constitution and i haven’t been ‘corrupted’ by those liberal teachers at a fancy college. it was a different time and from what i understand, a main goal was to separate powers of church and state…
    as far as my vitriolic manner, i know someone who had a miscarriage and i have been drunk many, many times and nothing so evil as to mock someone who lost a child would ever come out of my mouth…no matter how much i hated that person…i just don’t believe that is something you can excuse on alcohol.
    i may not be the smartest person who watches beck, but i bet there are some people not as informed who might not listen to him when he says don’t do anything violent…if you have to say that at the end of your show…there is something wrong with your message.
    like i said…i do respect your opinion as you seem very well informed…but he just scares the hell out of me

  • lczarne1

    Please Sam, get Pres. Obama to answer some little questions that Glenn Beck has about this administration.. Better yet why doesn’t old Sam debate Glenn and talk about how it used to be in the good old days. Talk is cheap actions speak louder than words. Come on Sam tell us what you think we need to know.

    A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
    Benjamin Franklin

  • http://none pyrope

    4Liberty4Justice4All said:
    I will take you to task, Mr. Progressive. Can you give me a few examples of how he has rewritten history? How about just one? How is he evil?You may perceive him as bitter but based on your words with no facts, I would say the same of you.But for sake of argument, let’s say you are not bitter, and that you are very rational…. please advise on the questions.

    Hell, anyone who is a fan of the Chili Peppers could not possibly have their head screwed on well.

    Apostrophe jones said:
    Donna Brazile . So Breitbart should fire himself ? Nice work on the Gore campaign , by the way . I know the problem you had . People were rubbing Algore the wrong way and the campaign had to pay for it .

    Good memory on Brazile!

    Dittos Michelle F

    Bootleghaircut said:
    Way to go Sam! I feel the same way. Anytime an adminstration official goes on FoxI watch- so there is no reason to back down from thesecrybabies-Go on Fox news sunday and kick them back right where theylive Barry. One of the reasons that Fox is so noxious is that there is nocounter to their over the top opinion programs. Perhaps the best exampleI can provide was when GIbbs last appeared on Hannity and Colmes anddestroyed Hannity to the point where all he could do was whine aboutLouis Farahkhan! That segement should be used in political communicationclasses in how to deal with a partisan pundit. And of course Gov. Ed Rendelland Gov. Howard Dean are one of the few good participants. Anyways the great thing about the Breitbart story is it knocked the New BBPstory off the air and then the whole story became about Breitbart and GlennBeck. Meanwhile the Tea Party did EXACTLY what the NAACP INSTRUCTED THEM todo-they dissavowed the racists in the tea party and gave old Mark Williamsthe heave ho. The GOP wants to avoid facing the story that NAACP tookon the tea party and WON. And that is a progressive victory which overshadows the circus that followed. Exit Question: When was the last time anybody listened to the NAACP? (answer: Last week.)

    Keep dreaming. -0bama is scared out of his wits to face anyone at FOX NEWS because they would ask him other than softball questions. The only people who still support -0bama are the ones who are still drinking the koolaid. While -0bama fears Glenn Beck, I believe Chris Wallace would gut him like a fish, and he wouldn’t even realize it.

    =========
    On a side note, did you get a look at the expressions on those mugs? They all looked as though someone had just pissed in their oatmeal.

  • yweston

    lazzzzzlo said

    “But he addressed something that should be addressed. The President and/or his Administration should not be running scared of Beck or any one else. They all have the number of Beck’s Red Phone with an open invitation. There are NO takers”.

    Why in the world would the Pres or his staff “waste” their time going Fox News to disspell the lies they push “24/7″? How do you disspell liars who spend all their TIME lying.

    The reason they were concerned about the Sherrod story is because they knew Fox would “beat it into the ground” and run that video all day. They were concerned about “public” backlash. Even though Fox didn’t run it until 8 p.m. The entire Country knows Fox will do ANYTHING to “bring the Pres. Down”. Lie, Cheat, Run EDITED tapes, slander innocent people, etc.

    Fox is a BIG Looosssseeerrr in this because the AMERICAN PUBLIC other than the RIGHT WING NUTJOBS won’t be soooo……QUICK to believe FOX when they run another TAPE. They can spin it all they want. People will always wonder. Is this TAPE EDITED. Is is a Breitbart tape?? And Good enough for them. Their Network should be right in the MIDDLE of this MESS/

    The Pres. met with the Prime Minister of Great Britain, signed a Finance Reform Bill and signed unemployment insurance extentiion for millions of people.
    Glenn Beck sat in a little room at his radio station “joking” about Olbermann. And you think he’s the winner. ‘GET A GRIP”.

  • yweston

    @MichelleF:

    Get a job. I’m tired of you living off my tax dollars and the Government “teat”. Your poor rear end isn’t even a “blimp” on the Republicans radar. They’re the real elite. If they get back in power your check is going to stop.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    lczarne1 says: “Please Sam, get Pres. Obama to answer some little questions that Glenn Beck has about this administration.. Better yet why doesn’t old Sam debate Glenn and talk about how it used to be in the good old days. Talk is cheap actions speak louder than words. Come on Sam tell us what you think we need to know.

    A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
    Benjamin Franklin”

    The Administration knows full well that they don’t have to answer to Glenn Beck, propagandist and reactionary, because his audience will never vote for a Democrat anyway. I’ve asked the Administration to address Glenn Beck through the Glenn Beck Review. Specifically, I’ve addressed “the most dangerous man in America” according to Beck, Cass Sunstein, to answer Glenn Beck through The Glenn Beck Review. Nothing.

    This Administration doesn’t care what Beck’s audience thinks about Obama because any group of people who takes serious anything that Glenn Beck has to say do not really think very deeply.

    If Ben Franklin had met Glenn Beck, he would not have written that.

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    Yweston . Your next client Algore is waiting for you .

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Van-Veen/617590041 Chris Van Veen

    I think we have all concluded that, yes, Obama is ‘losing grandly.’

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    I don’t know ChiliPeppers but I understand he was a card carrying member of the Communist Party USA.

  • Penguin60

    “but he just scares the hell out of me”

    Now you know how we feel about barry and his regime. And he isn’t some talking head, The job used to be the most powerful man in the world, and we are discussing opinion people. Good God we are in trouble.

    “This Administration doesn’t care what Beck’s audience thinks about Obama because any group of people who takes serious anything that Glenn Beck has to say do not really think very deeply. ”

    Large groups of people not thinking deeply=barry as president.

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