Posted on 08/01/2010 3:12:26 PM PDT by kristinn
Edited on 08/01/2010 10:55:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Rescheduled, not cancelled: Breitbart to get RNC invite
The Republican National Committee has cancelled a fundraiser with conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is under fire for promoting an edited video that falsely portrays former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod as having boasted about discriminating against a white farmer looking for her assistance.
Breitbart was scheduled to appear with RNC Chairman Michael Steele at a reception later this month in Beverly Hills.
You are such F-ing A**hats and Morons.
It is no wonder why stopped contributing to your phony organization
Unbelievable.
If Steele doesn’t stop making the wrong decision everytime! GGGGRRRRR! Step down now!
They don’t call the GOP the Stupid Party for nothing.
“I think just blaming the RNC is too simplistic. “
Yes, of course you’re right. I was just spouting off quickly about the RNC. But I think you’d agree that they haven’t been much of a help.
BTW: I have considered myself an independent Conservative for going on 20 years and I don’t identify as a Republican. So I am not coming from a partisan viewpoint when I criticize them.
The RNC being so ineffective is only one reason I think we are in this mess. But it is an important contributing factor.
no guts no glory.....they should stand tall with Andrew, but then, he has balls and is fighting back, so I guess the RNC is afraid....
no guts no glory.....they should stand tall with Andrew, but then, he has balls and is fighting back, so I guess the RNC is afraid....
The mistake is buying into the idea that the RNC is the party. They are not. WE are the party, and we shall demonstrate it at primary elections by supporting the Tea Party candidates. If there is no Tea Party candidate, and the incumbent is a RINO, then support any primary challenger who looks good.
Send no money to the RNC, only to individual candidates. If the RNC has no money to distribute for campaigns, then it becomes unimportant.
This.
The RNC is not the solution. They are a large part of the problem.
People of principle need to take over the RNC before we can really begin to restore this country.
Republican politicians running this year need to be made to understand that they'll be getting Tea Party votes in spite of that (R) behind their names, not because of it--at least until the RNC gets serious about fiscal responsibility, freedom, and Constitutional government. Period.
The Tea Party movement is as much a rebellion against the RNC/RINOs as it is anything else.
You just knew this was coming, very very disturbing to say the least.
The MSM's version of the Sherrod story usually gets three things wrong.
First, the MSM states or implies that Sherrod was Breitbart's intended target. In fact, he was illustrating the NAACP crowd's racism by their apparent approval of Sherrod's description of her own racist impulses. Here's Breitbart:
Sherrod’s racist tale is received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement. Hardly the behavior of the group now holding itself up as the supreme judge of another groups’ racial tolerance.
(from http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/07/19/video-proof-the-naacp-awards-racism2010/)
Second, the MSM contends that the Breitbart clip was intentionally misleading because it excluded Sherrod's statement that she had learned that she should treat poor whites as well as she did blacks. This is s false, but MSM propagandists know that only a tiny percentage of their audience will bother to check its accuracy. Anyone who checks will find that Breitbart's video includes her "redemptive declaration," and his description of that video makes reference to it.
In the first video, Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from “one of his own kind”. She refers him to a white lawyer.
(from the same link as above)
Third, the MSM states or implies that the full NAACP video shows a post-racial Sherrod who has moved beyond her old bigotries. In fact the full video shows Sherrod's morbid obsession with race and class grievances even more clearly than Breitbart's clip did. Her "redemptive declaration" turns out to be lip service to a post-racial equality she does not believe in. Of course, the MSM will not tell its audience about Sherrod's crackpot theory of how the rich create racism, or about her casual slander of Tea Partiers. The full video makes Sherrod look worse and does nothing to make the NAACP look better.
Michael Steele could have used this opportunity to denounce black racism as practiced by the NAACP, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and so on. Steele is in a perfect position to do it. Instead, in his now-familiar fashion, Steele ignored the real issues and left a good conservative twisting in the wind.
Ditto
Ditto
Thank you for the links.
The joke is on them. Because the Tea Party is very focused on their goals.
>> Breitbart was scheduled to appear with RNC Chairman Michael Steele at a reception later this month in Beverly Hills.
Steele is a dirtbag.
Breitbart should be relieved to not be seen with Steele. Strip clubs, entertainment expenses and his soft dealings with the race issues hasn’t made Steele an asset for the RNC.
He needs to leave.
Love your idea. Thanks.
More proof of the lockstep in which the Rinocratic Oligarchy march...
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