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I'm wondering if it is the other way around. Funny how folks think, isnt it?

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other way around?

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other way around?

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Breitbart is pretty good at playing the media.  Like the whole Acorn thing.  Release one, let them hem and haw and say "It's just one tape", and then release more and more.

I'm not saying this is the situation here, but it could be.

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The real issue was the NAACP who were AGREEING with this woman's position of being an open racist.  They didn't like it when she said she was wrong for treating the farmer different because of race.

This was MEANT to be disparaging to the NAACP, not Sherrod.  But since people are absolute morons, ESPECIALLY the White House, it was taken wrong.
 

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I think people miss the point of the tape.  It's not that Sherrod's remarks are taken out of context, it's the fact that when she is telling the story of possibly about fucking over a white guy, all the NAACP scumbags are cheering and applauding.  That's the point of the tape.

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it just seems like he's the one coming out on the losing end here.  if there's another shoe to drop on this I'm curious what it is.

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Explain how he's on the "losing end."  Are you purposefully ignoring the purpose of the video?

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The real issue was the NAACP who were AGREEING with this woman's position of being an open racist.  They didn't like it when she said she was wrong for treating the farmer different because of race.



This was MEANT to be disparaging to the NAACP, not Sherrod.  But since people are absolute morons, ESPECIALLY the White House, it was taken wrong.

 

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I mean he looks like a moron, he's getting panned by the right and the left.  how he could he have come out looking any worse?

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apparently his original post states this but i cant find it


 

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Breitbart is pretty good at playing the media.  Like the whole Acorn thing.  Release one, let them hem and haw and say "It's just one tape", and then release more and more.

I'm not saying this is the situation here, but it could be.

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He possibly does "look like a moron."  He also aired a video clearly showing the racism of an NAACP audience.
Now the NAACP looks rather silly for condemning the Tea Party as a racist org.  Wouldn't you say?

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And almost all of the Acorn videos were shown to be similarly edited pieces of crap, just like this one.

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By whom, and when?
Oh, you mean the ACORN that was summarily dismissed from further public funding because Breitbart completely flummoxed not only the entirety of Congress, but also a Federal judge who upheld their pink-slipping?
Your lips move, but I hear only the voice of Keith Olbermann. Try a new one.

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The NAACP is a joke, but that wasn't the point he was trying to make.  That's revisionist history after he's been made to look like a fool.

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And almost all of the Acorn videos were shown to be similarly edited pieces of crap, just like this one.

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i love it when you post your random thought of the day

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http://www.google.com/search?q=acorn%20cleared&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbs=nws:1&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn&cts=1279851869966

In response to a question from TPMDC, Vilsack called the debacle "a
teachable moment for me." He admitted that Sherrod had received advance
notice of Breitbart's intention to (mis)use the clip and had attempted
to inform her superiors, including Vilsack, by email –– but the email
did not get through, and thus her superiors' first contact with her
regarding the incident was after Breitbart's release of the clip.

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And almost all of the Acorn videos were shown to be similarly edited pieces of crap, just like this one.

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You're actually defending ACORN?



ETA:  Yes, I know you're a big liberal/leftist.  But the fact that you would defend ACORN shows you can't think logically.

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The real issue was the NAACP who were AGREEING with this woman's position of being an open racist.  They didn't like it when she said she was wrong for treating the farmer different because of race.

This was MEANT to be disparaging to the NAACP, not Sherrod.  But since people are absolute morons, ESPECIALLY the White House, it was taken wrong.
 

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The real issue was the NAACP who were AGREEING with this woman's position of being an open racist.  They didn't like it when she said she was wrong for treating the farmer different because of race.

This was MEANT to be disparaging to the NAACP, not Sherrod.  But since people are absolute morons, ESPECIALLY the White House, it was taken wrong.
 

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it just seems like he's the one coming out on the losing end here.  if there's another shoe to drop on this I'm curious what it is.

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And almost all of the Acorn videos were shown to be similarly edited pieces of crap, just like this one.

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How many ACORN members are in prison for voter fraud?

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So the news feeds on the day the tape was released decrying "Racist USDA official" and the blathering news pundits railing about her racism was my imagination? Yiou can believe their backpedaling all you want but I do not.



There are plenty of things to criticize Dear Leader for but this episode is a stain and does nothing to help conservatives.

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Did he say that upfront?

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.

We are appalled by her actions, just as we are with abuses of power
against farmers of color and female farmers.

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Yes, that was the point he was trying to make.  Do you remember this story from several days before he released the video?



From July 16th, 3 days before he released the video.



http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5591884/andrew_breitbart_to_naacp_you_can_go.html



Andrew Breitbart to NAACP 'You Can Go to Hell'



Has Tapes of NAACP Racism



Andrew Breitbart, whose media empire includes Big Government.Com and Breitbart TV, was on the Scott Hennan Show recently and had some caustic things to say about the NAACP racism in the Tea Party resolution. "Let me say something a tad newsworthy to the president of the NAACP. You can go to hell. You are manufacturing this in a summer in which the economy is the number one issue effecting blacks and whites in this country. This country can ill-afford the schism of race to be exploited the way you are based on the false premise of the tea party being racist. I have tapes...tape of racism and it's an NAACP dinner. You want to play with fire? I have evidence of racism and it's coming from the NAACP. This is absolutely manufactured for political gain..."

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Yes, he did... and the first wind I caught of it was this:


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http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/19/breitbart-hits-naacp-with-promised-video-of-racism/

Breitbart's own comment:





And the NAACP's official response confirms that:







 

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Breitbart's own comment:

]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.

Here’s really all you need to know.  It turns out that Andrew
Breitbart was exactly right.  This woman did not have an epiphany when
she was at the USDA.  When she was speaking to the NAACP she did not
have an epiphany about, "You know what?  It isn’t about race, it’s about
rich versus poor.” If you listen to the whole speech as people have,
43 minutes, she’s racist.  The NAACP is racist.  And this whole story
has been manipulated, wined and dined, formed and flaked in order
present the usual template that it’s us, that it’s conservatives who are
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Beitbart's own words in your post. "Sherrod's racist tale". You saw a racist espousing racism. I saw a contrite women talking about overcoming her prejudices and own racial attitudes. You heard the NAACP (approving "amens" etc from audience members) being racist. I heard a few, possibly racist, asshats but it was hardly an audience roaring with approval..

When the NAACP makes scurrilous claims about conservatives or Tea Party racism because of a few isolated assholes it is wrong and unfair. In my opinion, what has been done to this woman is unfair. I may disagree with her about politics, beliefs, etc. But what I saw on that tape was completely distorted when it is first released without the entire video.

In Defense of Andrew Breitbart

by  Dan Riehl

07/22/2010





The media and progressive-left Democrats now appear in a rush to convict Andrew Breitbart of shoddy journalism, while exonerating Shirley Sherrod and the NAACP from charges of abiding racism within their ranks. Both Sherrod and the NAACP have charged the Tea Party movement and the Republican Party with racism, while offering less proof than Breitbart did of the racism he correctly alleged. In many cases, the Left has outright manufactured evidence of racism regarding Tea Party events, yet no one has raised a voice about that slander at all. If one didn't know better, this wouldn't be today's news, but an Orwellian script circa 1984.



At approximately 17 minutes into the now-released full video of the event, Sherrod can be heard relaying a tale from her past in which she initially failed to help a white farmer with the full effort she would reserve for a black farmer.



The assembled crowd of card-carrying members of the NAACP took great pleasure in that, their laughter was not nervous at all. That is a contemporaneous expression of racism by today's politically correct standards, not racism from some 40 years ago.



Sherrod later says, "It's not so much about white…" then catches herself and says, "It IS about white and black." Perhaps Sherrod should explain why, even today, color is so centrally important in her work, be it at the Agriculture Department or elsewhere.



Breitbart’s web-posting of the speech showed more racism at one NAACP event than those charging Republicans and Tea Parties with racism have yet to produce after making accusations for months on end. The people making that charge include both Sherrod and the NAACP, neither of which has produced any proof. But it is Breitbart who should be convicted for false charges in the court of public opinion? That is totally absurd given the actual facts.



Sherrod twice decried present-day racism, as if it was 400 years ago. That suggests a person whose views on race have not truly changed at all. But she doesn't stop there. Sherrod says, "I haven't seen such mean-spirited people as I have seen lately over this issue, healthcare. Some of the racism we thought was buried, didn't it surface."



In Sherrod's world, no one is allowed to object to a significant Obama-supported policy change impacting the healthcare of all Americans without being labeled a racist. Clearly Sherrod sees everything through the lens of color or race. If her view is not racist, it is supremely ignorant and unfit for a public official. It is meant to marginalize any and all legitimate opposition to a political act. Sherrod is merely projecting her own racism into a perfectly rational, legitimate political debate so as to avoid it. That is not democracy; it is race-based demagogy commonly employed by racists everywhere. And still she was not done.



During the Bush years, says Sherrod, "We didn't do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black President." Gone is any valid argument over actual policy, fiscal restraint, government growth, or control of healthcare—supported or opposed by entire national political parties. In Sherrod's world, everything is all and only about race. If that isn't a tenet of racism, then what is? Without ignorant race-based presumptions, otherwise known as racism, Sherrod's entire scope of political argument falls apart.



Atty. Gen. Eric Holder said America is a nation of cowards on matters of race. He was correct, but in a manner he likely didn't predict. The racism Breitbart revealed is the racism of the Shirley Sherrods of the progressive-leftist Democratic Party and the NAACP. Afraid to honestly look at and address that, the usual leftist suspects are simply turning the tables as a distraction in a weak effort to instead attack Breitbart.



Breitbart did exactly what he set out and claimed to do, put the inherent racism of the NAACP and the American left on full display.



Additionally troubling are Sherrod's race-based political views that amount to Marxism. She sees an America in thirds. Evil capitalists are at the top, exploiting racist divisions to maintain control. She argues that whites were deliberately propped up to make them feel superior to blacks, which they apparently still do in Sherrod's view. Blacks then bring up the rear, seemingly oppressed by all. The racism in that view is inherent and severe, no matter how much she would try and dismiss it with an anecdote or two. Clearly in Sherrod's view, what is needed is the type of government-dictated economy more like a Marxist state, than the America we know and live in today.



Sadly, Sherrod wants to pass on that view to young black Americans. How tragic that she would saddle a next generation of black Americans with such an ill considered, ignorant, utterly divisive and ridiculous view.



If there's anyone who needs to apologize, it is a Shirley Sherrod unfit for public service and the NAACP—not Andrew Breitbart, who did precisely what he claimed he set out to do.



Dan Riehl works as a political consultant in Washington, DC and also maintains a popular Internet blog, www.Riehlworldview.com.

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The video I saw didn't mention she was being repentive......that gave me the impression she still held the rabidly racist views she did over 20 years ago.

I'm skeptical that someone can change their views that much once they are a full grown adult..........but I guess it can happen.  

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There are plenty of things to criticize, but I saw her say she knew her racial attitude was wrong. She also lamented that the crowd she was speaking to did not have more white people.



She did make the haves vs. have-nots crack and that might be indicative of socialism/marxism. But on balance with her other remarks and how what she said was distorted I choose to give her the benefit of the doubt on that one. Is she socialist? Probably. Am I outraged by it? Not so much.