James Zogby: I understand Shirley Sherrod (She was "lynched" he says)

Cairo's Al-Ahram Weekly ^ | July 29 - August 4, 2010 Issue | James Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Yeah, those Islamic terrorists are sure making it hard for all the innocent Muslims out there.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

If she was lynched, it was on the orders of the Obama, the Arab.

[Don Corleone]

Had Andrew Breitbart dutifully written a column detailing how an obscure USDA official, Shirley Sherrod, and her husband, Charles Sherrod, had scammed the government out of millions, the story would have had the range and lifespan of a fruit fly

[Howie66]

How the hell could she be lynched?

She bought her own rope.
She made her own noose.
She slipped that noose around her own nech without any help or input from anybody else.
Then she threw herself off of the platform.

She has no sympathy from me at all.

And, if you call me a racist for this, go right the f*** ahead. I really don’t care.

[Altura Ct.]

As an Arab American

As a WHITE American - who cares?

[cripplecreek]

As an American-American I can understand the need to attach some kind of special significance to the little hyphen in my name so I can claim victimhood.

[A_Former_Democrat]

“As an Arab American . . .”

Just another Pity Partier

Poor victim

Go back to the Middle East if you don’t like it, victim. And I’m sure you have no identity or concern about Shirely Surefraud than to try to soothe your own racist attitudes via a public forum. FAIL

[Diogenesis]

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana

[Huskrrrr]

“Lynched” is a harsh word. That implies she was innocent. At the very least she has a big mouth.

[SandRat]

James Zogby... May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the hairs of your arm pits.

[Verginius Rufus]

Of course Zogby misrepresents the facts. She was forced to resign before Fox had aired her remarks.

Her "conversion" from racism was to class-warfare (deciding that some poor whites might be suitable targets of her beneficence as a public official, not just people of her own race). It's a bit like Malcolm X's "conversion" after his pilgrimage to Mecca, from 100% anti-white attitudes to the view that even though most whites were evil, there were a few here and there who might be salvageable.

[goodnesswins]

"Even now a new storm is brewing. A new mosque is being planned in an area near Ground Zero, the site of the terrorist attack that killed 3,000 innocents on 11 September 2001. Some local groups have objected and have been supported by the likes of 2012 presidential aspirants Sarah Palin, who called the mosque a "stab in the heart", and Newt Gingrich, who saw the mosque as part of a larger challenge, arguing that "America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilisation."

Me thinks we now know whose side Zogby is on....

[goodnesswins]

I like THAT.....American-American

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

A privileged minority member defending another privileged minority member.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[The video excerpt became a sensation and was highlighted by commentators on the Fox News Channel as evidence of the reverse racism tolerated by the Obama administration. Within hours. . .the US secretary of agriculture . . .forced Sherrod to resign.]

Actually FOX News never reported on the issue until after Sherrod resigned. The White House panic was based on Briebart’s reporting and web traffic.

[gusopol3]

Exactly.His money quote is a lie.

[EGPWS]

As an Arab anti American,...

[Fred]

ping to you sir...

[Verginius Rufus]

I think lynching basically applies when a crowd takes the law into its own hands and kills someone without due process of law. A lot of victims were totally innocent, in other cases it may be impossible to know because of the lack of proper investigation, but in other cases the victim had actually done something wrong (but still was entitled to due process).

Not all victims of lynchings were black--in the Wild West most were whites, but the lynchings in the West were far fewer in number than those in the post-Civil War South.

Several years ago I ran across a magazine article about a lynching in the North in the early 1900s--the author was the grandson of a factory owner whose employees were involved in the lynching, which caused an outpouring of white guilt on his part. The black man who was killed in that case had just murdered someone--but he was still entitled to a fair trial, not being killed by an outraged mob.

[Diogenesis]

In addition, Zogby is not truthful.
What was posted was the entire video, and not an excerpt.

Zogby sauce everywhere. Zogby has no credibility.