Beaten to death in front of the courthouse. Not strictly a lynching, close enough I think. The Spectator should pull this story.
Pull this story? You’ve missed the point. Are you afraid of the truth about the man’s death? Racism is no secret, but to allow such individuals as Sherrod to use such incidents, and to lie about it in order to further her progressive agenda in race baiting blacks against whites is irresponsible journalism. Frankly, we would be just as guilty of bias if we did not expose Sherrod. Lest we forget, Obama may reconsider appointing her.
If you’re concerned that the Left will use the incident to further attack the “white man”, I’ve got news for you; the Left’s agenda has been to attack the white man for over 40 yrs. now.
I spit on PC, and on the thought that my tax dollars must pay such a political activist so she can spit on me.
Don’t pull this story for the following reasons:
1. Memory can change over time. There is a need to go to all possible primary documents/sources whenever possible, such as the Supreme Court decision.
2. Sherrod enhanced this terrible murder by using a well-known word/image of “lynching” instead of a beating. Her fault.
3. It was not her father but another relative. This is important. It was a deliberate distortion of the truth.
4. Remember, the three civil rights workers in Mississippi were beaten to death in a most horrible way. Murder is murder and should be acknowledged as such no matter what weapon or manner was used.
5. Sherrod comes from a family with some heavy racial luggage in it. Her husband is definitely anti-white, just as Mel Gibson’s father is a raving anti-semite. Hate is catching.
6. The mainstream media is totally incompetent, biased, and unwilling to go after the truth, and Breitbart proves it all the time.
7. Someone might have been trying to set Breitbart up, and the leftist media fell for it hook, line and stinker.
8. We must be very diligent in what we write about people and events, providing documentation whenever possible. (Some of my editors hated my listing many citations in my columns but I had to show my readers that I had done my homework and that my writings would withstand any challenges on accuracy and authenticity).
9. If apologies are due, give them.
You might read the article before spouting. It goes way beyond the semantics of murder vs lynching. It scratches old Democrat scabs and teases out a couple of American maggots, Hugo Black and Richard Brevard Russell. It raises the question of why Sherrod and her ilk still genuflect before their party.
Yup! Worst I have ever seen from them and I used to read the Spectator as far back as 1988
It's good that they tried to find out whether or not she was telling the truth, but the title "Sherrod Story False" is misleading and inflammatory. That is exactly what was not needed here. I vote they keep the story but change the title.
"First, she can visit the Supreme Court of the United States, and ponder the connection between progressivism and racism. Take a look inside the ornate chamber where on May 7, 1945, Justice Hugo Black, a lifetime member of the Ku Klux Klan honored with a lifetime seat on the Supreme Court, an honor made possible because he used his racism to support the New Deal, voted to overturn the conviction of Sheriff Claude Screws for beating Bobby Hall to death. "Just because the leftwing hordes, who now, foaming at the mouth, cry that Sherod's NAACP speech was "taken out of context" & "misrepresented" will now do just that with this article does NOT mean it should be pulled."Then a short stroll adown the street and she can visit another of Capitol Hill's enduring monuments: The Richard B. Russell United States Senate Office Building. As she strolls down its old marble corridors, surrounded by the offices of powerful United States Senators and their staffs, she perhaps can take the time to reflect once again on the night her father was murdered. And that the very building in which she walks is named in honor of the progressive/racist Democrat who was without doubt responsible for helping lots of Georgia farmers on a scale even Sherrod might not be able to imagine. But to do that he had to help create and nurture the atmosphere that made her father's death..."
For opponents of the left to accept such double standards is the very purpose of their attacks. You can only beat them by defying them and this past script of backing down and accepting the rules of their rigged game. Keep hammering hard at their lies, half truths, reverse discrimination and racism - and Americans who have been forced to live with this, for too long, will recognize the truth.