Posted on 07/26/2010 10:17:09 PM PDT by This Just In
Sherrod Story False
By Jeffrey Lord
It isn't true.
Shirley Sherrod's story in her now famous speech about the lynching of a relative is not true. The veracity and credibility of the onetime Agriculture Department bureaucrat at the center of the explosive controversy between the NAACP and conservative media activist Andrew Breitbart is now directly under challenge. By nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court. All of them dead.
But first, it's important to say this.
After Shirley Sherrod's firing I wrote a column congratulating Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for removing her -- based on a viewing of the now infamous edited Breitbart clip. I was wrong. I should have waited to see the entire video or read the transcript before writing a word. So my apologies to Ms. Sherrod.
The problem?
I have now done exactly what I should have done originally. So there's no mistake about "selective editing" of videos or speech transcripts, here is a link to the website of the NAACP, where they have made a point of posting the full video of Shirley Sherrod's speech. I have seen the entire speech as supplied by the NAACP. The now-famous speech runs just over 40 minutes. If you don't have the time, here is a link to the printed transcript of her speech supplied by a site called American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank. The transcript is taken in full from the video version of her speech, which American rhetoric also supplies. I have read the transcript as well.
Let's get to this.
In her speech, Ms. Sherrod says this:
I should tell you a little about Baker County. In case you don't know where it is, it's located less than 20 miles southwest of Albany.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Look at this article for what it is.
The article is not nitpicking. It exposes the hypocrisy of the left.
See post #78.
she is a racist, a bigot, a liar and someone who plays the class card.
I said this before and I’ve said it again. I’m not going to fall for their damage control and crap from the media over this like so many did including talk show hosts.
Sadly there are many more like her knocking around and it is her kind which is dividing this country and ruining this country
This must be why the MSM decided to drop the issue like a hot potato before the last weekend.
I’m confused. Sherrod wasn’t even born when that man was “lynched.” According to this...
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/07/21/sherrod.profile/#fbid=j_pVPKVo9OT
...her father was shot to death in a dispute in 1965, when she was 17.
As I understand it, blacks were a solid Republican voting block from the end of the Civil War until FDR, who went after their votes. (There is a scurrious -- and perhaps apocryphal -- quote attributed to FDR speaking to Eleanor about getting black and Jewish votes for Dems!)
I agree, I think quibbling over words in this case makes us look bad. It was perhaps not a mob lynching (by any means - hanging was not the only one, although it was common) but instead serious police brutality based on the fact that this man was black and one of the sheriffs apparently didn’t like him. But it certainly qualifies as a race-based killing that went unpunished, and I don’t think we should argue over the word.
The article is actually good, showing the racist background of some of the left’s great heros and the fact that they have always used race to manipulate, in one direction or they other, but the author’s point gets lost because he’s trying for a “gotcha” moment against Sherrod.
So what? One of my ancestors was burned as a witch in Wales. Do I get reparations?
Truth doesn’t matter when you’re a certified victim with an apology from the Messiah.
Baker County, Georgia Sheriff Screws and two others, a policeman and a deputy, rounded up Bobby Hall, took him to jail and beat him to death.
If Shirley Sherrod wants to say they lynched Bobby Hall, while not legally accurate, it's close enough for me. I don't have a problem with her semantics.
Jeffrey Lord picked the wrong hill to do battle on with this column.
No problem. Sherrod and the rest of the libs will say she was only speaking figuratively by saying her relative was lynched. We should know the routine by now. The new Rosa Parks/Nelson Mandela/MLK will not be knocked from her exalted perch.
I’m just glad I wasn’t a poor white farmer who had to go to this woman for help saving my farm. How many other times did Shirley do ‘just enough’ based on race?
I read all 5 pages of the article...there are two articles in it. The title and first part is breaking apart a word ='lynch'. The second part is about the Pols/Dems/KKK/New Deal politics that encouraged and bred racism,it should be a separate article and has nothing to do with the title.
The article is not nitpicking.
The title and definition of lynching is nitpicking, lynching does not mean just hanging - it has been broadened to mob rule and/or death without justice.
It exposes the hypocrisy of the left.
The last part of the article does - it should be its own article, not bogged down with what a term means - to say she lied is way over the top pushing it.
The ‘lynching lie’ was merely the lead-in to a much more significant story. My initial impression was that the author was grasping at straws, but I went ahead and read the rest of the article.
Quite at length, using many examples and verifiable historical facts vs. lore, the author shows that Sherrod chose to follow her own prejudices, and overlooks racism and evil by those whose political philosophy aligned with her own.
Are you saying that the man wasn’t lynched?
“No problem. Sherrod and the rest of the libs will say she was only speaking figuratively by saying her relative was lynched.”
And anyone who thinks otherwise is, of course, a racist.
I agree. What is being missed (deliberately so by Big Media) is Breitbart's revealing of the NAACP crowd as a bunch of bigots. That part is even overlooked by the conservative media in their drive to paint Shirley Sherrod as being wronged. She wasn't wronged by Breitbart, and her further comments tend to damage her. Breitbart himself said to Sean Hannity that he had no interest in hurting Sherrod. His sole purpose in using that tape was to show the NAACP in the proper light. I'd like to see conservative mediots play that up.
I remember the same thing about the South. Every single politician had a (d) behind their name. That changed after LBJ when many started to see how corrupt he was and really changed after jimmah cattah screwed up the country. Only when Ronnie Reagan came into power was the (d) party getting fewer votes here.
Why would you think it ok to lynch someone without a trial?
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