Posted on 07/26/2010 12:50:38 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
Again, how can the NAACP (along with the Obama administration) say that they were "snookered" when the NAACP had the entire video of Shirley Sherrod speaking to the NAACP?
Second, why does the Obama administration say on the one hand that Fox News isn't a legitimate news source and that they pay no attention to it, yet they throw Shirley Sherrod under the bus and are involved in her ouster (per what Sherrod said) BEFORE the video clip even makes it onto Fox News?
Another Freeper posted an article from Town Hall “Why Are We Discussing Racism?” in which the NAACP said that they were “snookered” and I was wondering how they could say that with a straight face.
How can Dear Leader and his comedic side-kick sing “Happy Days Are Here Again” as we are all buying generic hot dogs, 4/$1 boxed macaroni & cheese and have to decide whether to pay the rent/mortgage or the kids college tuition?
Fox is now the most important news outlet on TV.
Dick Morris on the subject:
Obama’s Race War Backfires
Whenever race is mentioned, it hurts Barack Obama’s presidency. The very basis of his presidency is that he is the post-racial president. Now he finds himself knee-deep into racial politics.
Some is of his own doing. In suing Arizona over immigration reform, he takes a step that alienates the three-quarters of Anglo voters who back the law. In refusing to prosecute the New Black Panthers for their blatant intimidation of white voters in 2008, he alienates fair-thinking people of both races. But in firing Shirley Sherrod, he showed African-Americans that he was caving in to pressure from Fox News and the conservatives. Then, by reversing field and reinstating her, the president and his agriculture secretary, Tom Vilsack, show whites and Republicans-independent voters that he is caving in to pressure from the African-American community.
There are two common denominators to this equation: race and weakness. Any involvement in racial politics has to hurt Obama at his core. It goes to his fundamental selling point: that he is post racial. By dealing with race repeatedly, he is vulnerable just as Bill Clinton was when he always had to deal with sexual scandal.
It is not his strength but can ultimately destroy his credibility.
THey knew they were laughing and approving of her nasty treatment to the white farmer.
They thought that would be the story.
They were saved by the storyline created by the esteemed journOlists in the msm.
This whole Sherrod debacle is a beautiful thing. From now on all future accusations of racism will have to pass the “Sherrod check” in order to be taken seriously.
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