David Frum: Shirley Sherrod and the shame of conservative media

The Week ^ | 07/21/2010 | David Frum

[dirtymac]

“The tape isn’t edited. It shows the NAACP applauding her racism.”

That is exactly the point, regarding the NAACP.

For her part, she selected this story for her speech. She also admitted that she initially did not help the guy as she should have. It is good that she came around. But she had the power and did abused it, albeit initially. Conservatives are going to be in this position (?) with health care, IRS taxation, mortgages and financial investments

[Palladin]

...also putz, mishuggeh, farshtunken, tuchus...

all synonyms for Frum.

[Recovering_Democrat]

David Frum doesn’t get it. The ocnservative media, and Breitbart, never asked for the lady to be fired. Hussein and the regime fired her.

Breitbart’s point was to show the NAALCP behaving in a happy way about the white guy gettin’ the shaft.

[muawiyah]

In the meantime Frum continues to look past the guys guffawing and tittering about what Shirley is saying ~ "white"?!

She had these esteemed gentlemen and gentle-ladies of the NAACP, virtually all of whom were highly educated doctors, lawyers, accountants, principals and military officers, just rolling in the aisles at the mention of "white".

Looked like a bunch of particularly ignant Ku Kluxers if you tell me ~ 'ceptin' the color.

[mak5]

Defamation? She’s the one who admitted she sent the white farmer to “one of his own kind” rather than helping him (at least at first).

[Tex-Con-Man]

Sen. Trent Lott called. He wants his leadership position back.

...George Allen wants his senate campaign back...
...Limbaugh wants his NFL franchise back...

[kbennkc]

Frum hasn't watched the Breitbart video. The so-called redemption lesson was clearly there. Who is he writing for? Conservatives hate him, liberals think he is a suck-up fraud.

[Pessimist]

“acknowledging that an innocent women had been defamed.”

Innocent? She did admit to it.

Besides, the point was that no one seemed to mind what she said. Including the President of the NAACP, who was reportedly there at the time.

[LeonardFMason]

Is there any doubt that this douche bag is just a spiteful liberal posing as a conservative?

[CharacterCounts]

Okay, I watched the video.

Seems that she has evolved from racism to classism.

Some improvement!

[reagan_fanatic]

Besides which: The episode in question dates back to 1986, long before Sherrod ever went to work at the USDA.

Why make that point, Mr. Fwum? Is there a statute of limitations on racism?

There's a lot of blacks out there who want white people to pay financial restitution for slavery, something that happened over 150 years ago. Where's the statute of limitations for that?

[UCANSEE2]

I thought she was already gone by the time the evening shows like O'Reilly and Hannity hit the air.

Facts are not important, in this case (or any case involving the WHITE HOUSE).

The NAACP/USDA/WHITEHOUSE all knew what she said, (the NAACP leaders were at the meeting, weren't they), and yet CLAIM they FIRED HER based on a video they saw on YOUTUBE.

[UCANSEE2]

Exactly, and that is the point. The NAACP crowd applauded when she was talking about not helping the white farmer, but went silent when the story shifted to how she (allegedly) had overcome that attitude.

THANK YOU. That's what I've been saying for two days.

[UCANSEE2]

Everyone is holding Breitbart to a higher standard than the rest of the media.

The fact is that the full video was available the whole time the partial video was.

AND the NAACP members were AT THE MEETING, so they knew what she said, fully.

All BREITBART did was ensure that the public's attention was drawn to the FULL VIDEO of the meeting, by doing a TEASER.

Isn't that what all the MSM does every darn day, every hour on the hour???????

[SuziQ]

Andrew Breitbart never called for Sherrod’s firing. He was simply pointing out the blatant hypocrisy of the NAACP, after their railings about Tea Party activists.

[Paul Ross]

Frum keeps nailing his coffin tighter. What a communist A-hole.

[UCANSEE2]

Including the President of the NAACP, who was reportedly there at the time.

But who somehow couldn't recall what SHERROD said, until he watched the YOUTUBE video on BREITBART, and then watched BILL O'REILLY.

I guess one of these guys used their little flashy thingy at the end of the NAACP meeting.

[mrsmel]

The real point is that, the left will now and forever use this as an excuse to continue to give minority racism a pass while comtinuing to fabricate accusations of racism from the right. They will point to this as an example of how they jumped the gun after being “taken in” by the nefarious right, while continuing to fire people for using the word “niggardly” when it suits their agenda. The fact that the NAACP audience amened her recounting of her racism will be swept under the rug.

[UCANSEE2]

Andrew Breitbart never called for Sherrod’s firing. He was simply pointing out the blatant hypocrisy of the NAACP, after their railings about Tea Party activists.

Yes, but when have FACTS ever been important to this ADMINISTRATION and it's MEDIA?

[mrsmel]

And that’s a very good point that the left has no statute of limitations in attempting to force whites to pay for the actions of a small group of whites who have long been dead, and for which reparations in a sorts of forms have already been made. All it’s about now is vengeance and redistribution of wealth on racial grounds.