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Resigned USDA official says racial story misconstrued
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^
| 7/20/2010
| Marcus K. Garner
Posted on 07/20/2010 3:47:32 AM PDT by tobyhill
The USDA's rural development director for Georgia says she was forced out of her federally appointed job after a "snippet" of a speech she gave in March appeared to show her admission to only half-heartedly aiding a struggling white farmer because of his race.
But in a phone interview from her home in Albany early Tuesday morning, Shirley Sherrod told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution that the two-minute, 38-second video posted online Monday by biggovernment.com and reported on by FoxNews.com and the AJC completely misconstrued the message she was trying to convey.
Sherrod, 62, insisted her statements in the video were not racist.
"For Fox to take a spin on this like they have done, and know its not the truth
its very upsetting," she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dnccorruption; dncracism; dncvswhites; obamaracism; obamavswhites; sherrod; tipoftheiceberg; usda; usdaracism; usdavswhites
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posted on
07/20/2010 3:47:38 AM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
Misconstrued, I dont think so!
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posted on
07/20/2010 3:49:50 AM PDT
by
elephant
To: tobyhill
"For Fox to take a spin on this like they have done ... Ah that evil Fox network! It's ALL their fault.
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posted on
07/20/2010 3:50:57 AM PDT
by
missnry
(The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
To: tobyhill
She was done wrong. An objective viewing of this clip will not allow an interpretation of racism on her part. Ugly business.
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posted on
07/20/2010 3:52:01 AM PDT
by
Misterioso
(The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. -- Ayn Rand)
To: tobyhill
I’ll say this for her: her story is the most plausible one I’ve heard from any of these leftists caught on tape. I’m sorry to say that I don’t really care though. As long as the media filters talk radio through Media Matters, I think turnabout is fair play. However, I don’t doubt for a minute that if the rest of that tape were uncovered, and she was found to be telling the truth about the context, that Andrew Breitbart would make a full and public apology to this woman. We’ll never see that from Media Matters.
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posted on
07/20/2010 3:55:08 AM PDT
by
perfect_rovian_storm
(The worst is behind us. Unfortunately it is really well endowed.)
To: Misterioso
Sounds like the Marion Barry defense: The B!t<h set me up!
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posted on
07/20/2010 3:55:30 AM PDT
by
Never on my watch
(The Obama Administration - an outrage a day)
To: tobyhill
Geez! What a worthless POS! Get caught red handed and then comes the obligatory FOX News slam. Must be the MO of the media to stay away from certain stories, until after FOX airs them, to allow the “disenfranchised” scumbag to assault the messenger with the full support of their MSM friends.
The funny thing is she also slammed the AJC. I didn’t know that Murdoch bought that worthless fish wrap./sarc
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posted on
07/20/2010 3:56:30 AM PDT
by
mazda77
(Rubio for US Senate - West FL22nd - JD Hayworth - US Senate)
To: tobyhill
I for one am happy the unemployment rate in GA went up one. I hope she gets a white employment counselor at the unemployment office.
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posted on
07/20/2010 3:57:39 AM PDT
by
catfish1957
(Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
To: tobyhill
and just what the message??
I thought the one I saw on Fox was quite clear.
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posted on
07/20/2010 3:57:46 AM PDT
by
elpadre
(AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
To: tobyhill
Keep talking, sweetie. MSM will be forced show the vid.
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posted on
07/20/2010 3:58:33 AM PDT
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
To: tobyhill
Maybe she’d like to talk about the $13 million she was awarded in a discrimination suit by the DOJ just days before she was appointed to her position.
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posted on
07/20/2010 3:59:13 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: tobyhill
the two-minute, 38-second video posted online Monday by biggovernment.com and reported on by FoxNews.com and the AJC Oooh, but in a interview with the AJC, it's only the big bad Fox that treated her badly:
For Fox to take a spin on this like they have done
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posted on
07/20/2010 3:59:45 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: tobyhill
Predictable.
IF the MSM reports on a story, it’s only AFTER they’ve been given a line on which to hang a defense. It lets them still spin themselves as objective reporters but keep their obvious bias intact.
And if she felt she was right, why did she resign? Any good little NAACP jackbooter would’ve dug in and held her position.
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posted on
07/20/2010 4:00:12 AM PDT
by
Kieri
(The Conservatrarian)
To: tobyhill
I hope that every farmer that ever dealt with her and didn’t receive a satisfactory outcome sues her PERSONALLY.
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posted on
07/20/2010 4:00:26 AM PDT
by
Nickname
To: tobyhill
From the article:
"There were some white people there. The mayor (of Douglas) was there," Sherrod recalled. "Why would I do something racist if they were there?" So, she's making the argument that she knows when to be open and when to hold back? Next she'll say some of her best friends are white.
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posted on
07/20/2010 4:00:43 AM PDT
by
VRWCtaz
(America has Zero to be ashamed of.)
To: tobyhill
But Tuesday morning, Sherrod said what online viewers weren't told in reports posted throughout the day Monday was that the tale she told at the banquet happened 24 years ago -- before she got the USDA job -- when she worked with the Georgia field office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund.All the more reason to fire her racist ass. Dredging up a 24 year old event to play to her racist NAACP audience is a lapse in judgement that should be met with termination.
To: tobyhill
Sherrod, 62, insisted her statements in the video were not racist.It never ceases to amaze me how so many blacks can say these kinds of things with a straight face and not seriously believe in their hearts that they can possibly be racist.
If this was a whitey, saying the same things about black farmers, it would be rightfully blasted as being Jim Crow all over again.
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posted on
07/20/2010 4:02:24 AM PDT
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: mazda77
It wasn't Fox that broke it, it was our real news friend Andrew Breitbart.
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posted on
07/20/2010 4:03:11 AM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: Never on my watch
Did you understand my post?
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posted on
07/20/2010 4:03:24 AM PDT
by
Misterioso
(The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. -- Ayn Rand)
To: tobyhill
What's to misconstrue? You said that you failed to fulfill your constitutional oath of office, you withheld services to a citizen because of his skin color, and you fobbed him off on a private attorney who was "one of his own kind."
You said it, Sherrod, we didn't. There's nothing to construe there, you admitted publicly, to a friendly audience, to engaging in blatantly racist behavior.
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posted on
07/20/2010 4:04:06 AM PDT
by
Oceander
(The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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