Obama apologizes to Sherrod

Politico.com ^ | 7-22-10 | Glenn Thrush

[xzins]

She said she didn't give it all she could have, at first.

Which is still racial discrimination. Do I have that right?

BTW, I'm in Europe the last few weeks and extremely limited access to TV during our journeys. I do get to a computer every now and then....like now. Today's a down day.

[justlurking]

So, when is Obama going to apologize to the police officers that he accused of “acting stupidly”?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

We need a thirty day period of national apology in her honor, and also an international apology tour. And reparations. An executive order should take care of that.

[lstanle]

" It later was discovered to have been doctored to misrepresent Sherrod as racist."

This is a load of BS. Doctored would mean it was changed to have her say something she didn't say or show her saying things out of sequence. I don't think either of these things happened.

I've heard a lot of talk about the video being "edited". In my view editing means changing something, removing, or inserting something. This in my opinion didn't happen. What was shown was a excerpt from her speech. It was never claimed to be the whole speech.

With her background I can see her suing the Dept. of Agriculture, again.

[TigersEye]

Which is still racial discrimination. Do I have that right?

Yeah, I guess. Then she changed her mind and went all out to help him and did save his farm. Considering she worked for a non-profit org created to help black farmers she didn't have to help him at all and said so. She also said that in those days in southern Georgia blacks didn't help whites and whites didn't help blacks.

The whole point of her speech was that poor farmers of any color ought to get over skin color and work together to deal with government and the banks that screw farmers.

Even if you could see TV you wouldn't hear much that helped clarify things.

[xzins]

What I read 2 days ago was that she joked at an NAACP meeting that she went out of her way to injure a white farmer and got a lot of applause for her words.

Are we being told now that didn’t happen?

Are we being told she was just joking?

If the first, then that’s one thing. If the second, that’s still bigotry.

[TigersEye]

It didn’t look to me like she was making a joke out of it. It didn’t look to me like the audience was approving of the bias she was recounting. Seeing the whole speech changes everything. I’m sure you will see a lot of people saying that isn’t so but I think they’re full of it.

[W-Girl]

Hey Shirley ............your 15 minutes are up !!!!

Time to call "1-800-ASK-GARY" and get off my TV Set !!

[xzins]

is there a link to the speech on here...or at least the relevant section?

[TigersEye]

The video is 43 minutes long. IMO viewing a section of it doesn't get it. I was totally convinced that she was a die hard racist until I watched it. Which is more than 0bammy did before canning her. The excerpted part is 12 or more minutes in after she has set the whole thing up with her life story.

The FULL Shirley Sherrod video

[W-Girl]

Hey Shirley ......Call "1-800-ASK-GARY" another $300K in your 401-K could make you even more "tolerant" of the whitey !!

[KTM rider]

This event means obama is a racist for jumping to a predjudiced conclusion about a matter of race misconstrued while jumping to judgement about a cabinet post official of his who was seen apologizing for being a racist in front of a race baiting organization

So the moral of the story here is that its OK to be a racist and predjudiced as long as you apologize AND you are black....remember that kids.

[TigersEye]

Let me add that she does display an attitude of racism in other parts of her speech (and in comments she has made since her firing) that, to me, show a basic brain washed mindset of all Progressives. But as far as having a "hate whitey" Rev. Wright attitude I don't see that at all and the excerpted part of the video isn't that, or any kind of racism, at all.

She looks to me like a woman who genuinely wants to and has gotten beyond race but is still stuck on the Progressive Plantation. She has the right motives but the wrong view of solutions. The Marxists own her mind.

[TigersEye]

Absolutely! 0baMao is 100% racist and worse than that he knows it’s a game and is playing it from the Black Liberation Theology POV.

[xzins]

I agree. Didn’t sound like what it was reported as. And there was no applause. She sounded like she was trying to be helpful.

Breitbart, or whatever his name, has shot himself in the foot with this one.

[TigersEye]

Thanks. I haven't changed many minds so far but I persist. I don't think we can fight the enemy, Progressives, very effectively with bad intel. It's a Sun Tzu thing. ;^)

I think Breitbart got snookered just as everyone who saw the excerpt has been. I agree with Ann Coulter; the NAACP mole who gave him the excerpt knew the whole story and set him up. She says Breitbart should name him/her and I agree with that too.

He obviously doesn't have anymore of this speech to reveal since the whole speech is out now. But he may have something else.

[xzins]

I wouldn't count on Breitbart having anything more.

If this is what he led off with, and he viewed it, then he doesn't know what good info looks like.

If he led with this, and didn't view it but proclaimed it a grand exposé , then he's not likely to have anything else unless accidentally, since he doesn't personally preview his material.

[TigersEye]

I agree. He was overeager to hit the NAACP back for slandering the TEA Parties and got careless. He should have held fast until he had gotten hold of the whole video. But he has done very good work before so he will just have to take his lumps and carry on.

That's his problem not yours or mine. It has had the happy effect of showing 0bammy doing a dancing puppet routine.

[Chode]

[Shannon]

I'm hoping Brietbart has been sitting quietly on the next round of information and video about this woman.

You're telling me. It would make sense to have something else set aside....waiting to be launched.