Which, awesome! Can’t wait to get the transcripts from that cross examination.
Plus, I like this as precedent. Without knowing it, Sherrod’s suit might help beat back the incoherent linguistic assumptions that the left has built its entire epistemological foundation upon — and to which it hitches its entire rhetorical wagon. To wit: imagine what happens to the left if a court decides that you simply can’t make up your own shit, then attribute that shit you’ve just invented to others, as a way to harm or discredit them, under the guise of some form of personal “interpretation”.
— That is, unless the courts adopt the standard that you can’t wage such dishonest rhetorical violence against members of protected groups, but that it’s perfectly alright — as a function of the First Amendment — to do so against an evil person, who is easily identified because he or she happens to be a white conservative like, say, Bill Bennett or Tony Snow or Rush Limbaugh or Laura Ingraham, et al.
Hell. I can think of a few conservatives who might even defend the practice. You know — so as to show their compassion for the Other and what not.
But that’s a post for another day.
Discovery is gonna be lotsa fun. Start with phone logs for her cell phone, see who called her when on that fateful day. Then on to email, both personal and professional. Then records of bank accounts and transfers for, say, the last year…
Will they do a reader poll in discovery?
Sherrod Hints At Obama Being An Uncle Tom
I’d rather hear this from her lawyer really cause she seems like she gets mixed up about stuff sometimes.
But, she’s a good woman.
The suit will most likely be quietly dropped with no MFM notice some weeks from now. Today’s headline is all that was wanted from this.
FOX should file suit against Sherrod, et al., for their having publicly blamed the news outlet for Sherrod’s firing.
I can just see that tape being played in the media over and over and over.
This makes me happy, because on the tenth viewing, even Leonard Pitts might be able to see that there’s something amiss, there.
Leonard Pitts, for those that missed the reference.
Fox would have to be able to show harms I think and this would be something what would make them *more* popular if it were true, no?
Yeah, like she’s going to win that one.
shirley temple is a drink with an umbrella in it
too many shirley sherrods leave me broke
and looking for my car
or stareing at some strange ceiling
Not a leg to stand on. Breitbart played the tape, unaltered. She said what she said, he played what he played. Case over. I love how she’s not going to sue the government for discrimination, since there, she might actually have a case. She’s dumb as a box of rocks and so are her racist buddies.
Except that we live in a world where telling the truth and keeping promises are considered dirty tricks.
So some claim. She seems to be an idiot as well as a grievance monger. That’s a sad, sad combination.
i wish i wish
i was black
and made 100 fifty thousand american dollars
i wish/ i wish
but everytime i get up to go to work
at like 6 in the morning
and wash my face and sigh and look into the vacumn of my
eyes
i wan’t to make a deal!
but i’m not holding a good deal
Way to keep that story front and center. I bet the administration and the NAACP are just tickled about this!
“…even Leonard Pitts might be able to see that there’s something amiss, there.”
I got five bucks that says that will never happen. Pitts is invincibly foolish and partisan.
I’ll believe this when I see the suit filed. Rule 11 makes me smile, as what attorney will put his or her signature on the complaint…
If she goes Federal. I wonder what State she would sue in, otherwise?
two non white farmers met at the crossroads/and split the cost to washington
East Texabama. It’s State #54.
But discovery, depositions and other investigations before this goes to trial leave her liable for other, possibly inconvenient facts.
This strikes me as a rather crass publicity stunt full of racial victimization but lacking serious facts. The fact that she’s not suing the USDA who, you know, actually fired her indicates a very unserious mind at work. I’m reasonably certain that this case will die with a whimper somewhere down the road.
Breitbart didn’t cover himself with glory but I don’t think I’d want to take him on, especially with both her families shady past and her voluminous current statements charging the entire right wing with racism. As Jeff points out, this suit crashing and burning, loudly, would do much to kow-tow the race pimpers in the media, at least the smart ones.
isn’t the point more whether they would be able to force Breity to say where he got the tape from?
tim chevelde lets things between his legs
like your momma
She has to show malice, ‘feets, in order to get anywhere. It’s a very, very tough sell, even with the headline that Mr. B. used. Her chances of reaching a point where some judge tries to force the coughing up of the source is really slim.
The irony is that suing the USDA under wrongful termination is a much easier sell. I just wonder why she won’t do that? Hmmmm?
“….who is easily identified because he or she happens to be a white conservative like…..”
– Heu now, that sounds like profiling….
– Racist!
can i sue u?
or can we reach a settlement?
i like ponies
buy me a two ponies
i will call them seattle slew and secriteriat
but they won’t listen
janus two heads were believed to look
in the past and the future
paul mcartney wrote yesterday
and /mm’ he didn’t technically marry a cripple
but john lennon did
Rush Limbaugh is not a racist because
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/17/limbaugh-we-need-segregated-buses/
shirley sherrod you’ve heard of context
Keep in mind also that whether or not the rest of the tape was exculpatory as to her earlier statements doesn’t necessarily make their omission a plain case for libel or slander. In fact I don’t see how she has any real case against Brietbart and I pretty sure that a good libel attorney would tell her that very thing.
This really looks like a publicity stunt designed to burnish her racial victimization and extend her 15 minutes.
AJB is not a fucking douchenozzle because
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well, I can’t really find a reason.
I see AJB is on “Bunnies!!” alert again.
This may go from a kerfuffle to a full fledged fooferaw. Though I don’t see Rule 11 sanctions coming. The entertainment value alone would keep ME from moving for that if I were defending.
Her kids should sue her for naming them “Kenyatta” and “Russia.”
Who is this AJB chap? We like the cut of his jib.
I’m on her newsletter mailing list, Bunnies. You’d love it.
Read one and you’ve read them all.
– I don’t know BJT, OJ’s lawyers had no problem proving it’s perfectly possible to murder people without malice. (just shown by that shit-eating grin he always displays.)
– On another note, will Bumbblefuck be called as a witness?
– There’s so much ‘po black folk, and racist phrasing in every talk she gives she’s becoming a racist parody in her own time.
– She’s already bitching about the job they offered her, and basically talking down to her President, stopping just short of accusing him of (OMG) in-authenticity.
– She said he needs to learn some history, and she wants him to go down south with her so she can take him out in the country to show him how real po’ black people live. She’s playing this for all it’s worth, and I don’t think the Left has any real control of her, and are probably wondering what she’ll do next. Something like they’ve created their own little racist monster, and now shes on the loose.
– I see her as more of a small town opportunist than a racist, although the two characteristics can certainly coexist in one person.
– the MFM is hanging doggedly to the narrative that suggests that somehow Breitbart had a direct hand in her being fired. Those people are mendacious weasle dicks,
not to judge/ cuz it’s culture
but i named my kids
both boys
faggot one and
butt boy two
and i had a daughter who i hope will change my diapers/ but i named her janis joplins bitch
I don’t listen to much talk radio, so I only have the written word to go by, but even using only that standard — which can hide tone, etc. — it is clear to me that Limbaugh’s remarks on segregated buses was an ironic barb aimed at the “post racial” Presidency and the Democrat / left race industry.
AJB is the ultimate in low-rent troll.
— Although there are probably more than a few “conservative” sites where he’d find a sympathetic audience willing to distance themselves from Rush to prove that they are “one of the good ones.”
Breitbart can’t lose on this. She is certainly a public figure. He made the tape available. Even if he intentionally took it out of context, it is going to be exceedingly hard to prove that he did so out of malice.
But even if she wins, what are her damages? Lost income for a week or so? The government offered her job back.
And she opens herself up to all kinds of fun discovery.
And I suspect Breitbart makes more back, by far, on publicity.
and/ believe me/ we held hands/ well butt boy two is
hand challenged
and sang freddie mercury songs
and someone leaked fluid on my socks
i hope it was janis joplins bitch/ cuz she’s moody
shy/ her breathe stinks
I predict this lawsuit idea is quietly scrapped and scuttled by Sherrod’s legal team.
I think AJB is bringing up a ten-month old ginned-up excuse of a Limbaugh attack as a subtle way of saying that Raw Story and Media Matters and Olbermann are all ripe targets for similar lawsuits in the near future.
I mean, that must be it, because anything else would be a sad example of a once-respected commenter bringing up a year-old non-scandal as a cheap distraction from the Administration fuckup du jour. And it would break my heart to think of AJB falling so far…
to pretend ur barbera stanwyck
playing annie oakley
and to say pull
does life get better than that?
“….to think of AJB falling so far…”
– Lefturd bottom feeders don’t fall, they slither.
How can there be “protected groups”? Zero said we’re all mongrels!
I’m still trying to wrap my mind around this whole “black farmers” thing.I’m sure there must be some in the south, but in my 56 years I’ve never seen one in the west. A farmer works from before daylight till after dark every day. If that aint actin’ white, I dont know what is. Don’t you lose your authenticity and become an “Uncle Tom” after 30 hours a week in a non goverment job?
I am surprised she is not blaming Bush.
I guess black farmers might also enjoy tractor pulls and country music.
– Apparently black farming entails a lot of paperwork…
The farmers in my region play a ton of golf.
robots arms and
hands are made of metal
ever try shaking a robots hand?
they grab ur hand and snap digits and
look u in the eye but have this creepy robot voice
they have a plan though
robot farmers are my new overlords
robots need energy’ they liked to be plugged in
don’t we all?
bobby orr could skate around u and make ur head spin
but ur just confused/ or a jerry kid
two robots arms fall off of a truck
and pull themselves safe to savety
a jerry kid asked a robot
why are u so tall and mighty?
and he replied/ cuz i’m not in a wheelchair
or ugly/ like you
two wheelchairs bump
and the occupants laugh
but they bothed dropped something and need a hand
or a smile
rock’m sock’m robots have heads u can put back
i have the muslim version
i think it’s broken
ever play rock scissors paper with a robot?
didn’t think so
cuz ur alive
robots can’t dance
but they can shufle
robots can dance…they do “the robot”
a robot/ a vegtable and u
meet in a warehouse
only ones coming out alive
a robot went fishing with me
he was heavy
he sank/ but he reappeared with sweet fish
and we’re best friends/ tho i have a taser
and a weary eye
ever hunt with a robot?
they kill many things and shake them in your face
japenese female robots have sideway slots
canadien robots are so pushy
want u to come north to see the falls
but they would put u in a barrel
they would
what’s scarier than a german robot?
a female russian~
Sherrod is just trying to stretch her 15 minutes in teh sun out as long as possible. unfortuately, she does not really help Big Government Inc. because she is clinically insane, and much like Barney Frank, it shows.
So she does what she has discovered pays quite well and sues. Shocking! I bet she has the trial bar on speed-dial.
Journolists take note: You are Shatner’s herd-mentality bitches.
Convicted DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo tells actor William Shatner on a cable TV special that he and his partner tried to recruit fellow shooters for their 2002 spree and that his accomplice killed one man for backing out, according to the program set for airing Thursday.
You write the same stories as all your friends, and Capt. Kirk makes a phone call.
He is: The Man.
You are: Spencer Ackerman.
#63 – and the Robo-boogie.
Where did they get “the tape” hf? Oh come on…it was a tape made for the local NAACP branch! It was a tape of an annual event, newsworthy unto itself.
FoxShirley would have to be able to show harms I think and this would be something what would makethemher *more* popular if it were true, no?See how that works, hf?
There are. Quite a few, actually.
Many of them, as near as I can tell.
There are black cowboys.
This
one got killed too.
Enough of that depressing stuff, I want a poke.
Yes, I’d forgotten about that one!
Reminds me of Karl Malone.
Alls I ate today was cheerios and hummus.
you should have a little debbie now
I’m on restriction cause of my sister and I went on a cupcake bender when she was here… we had junior mint and blue hawaiian and vanilla potpourri and chocolate coconut cream cheese and happy day and happy day with sprinkles and maybe a couple others I can’t remember. I don’t know why they never have strawberry when I go.
why is governor perry acting all homo?
have a little dignity you fucking pansy don’t just go swishing around like a tranny crack whore begging begging begging and invoking the good name of texas while you do it
Shameful.
my allen binge cupcaking
he be wanting some slush puppy stuff
a slush puppy interactive
If Sherrod is going to attempt to claim the tape was in any way altered (not merely truncated) by Breitbart then she is going to need a credible source tape for comparison.
Meaning the NAACP will either need to cough up the full unedited tape, or offer an explanation for the edit in the version they released.
Either way they lose.
Just a little bit further, HF. Oh, and pay no attention to that cracking sound. Everything is just fine.
which is out on a limb the cupcake fetish or the contempt for whorish Texans I do not understand
oh. LTC sorry I didn’t see that. Breity has been saying he didn’t edit the tape but then who did? It’s very odd for someone to have sent Breity a highly selective snippet like that, no? Mysterious. Some people are saying Breity was set up even. So that’s part of the fact set any proceeding would have to contend with I think but it’s hard to say cause we don’t know what she’s suing him for.
If Rush Limbaugh were a racist, surely his long-time BLACK producer, James Golden, would have objected to his attitude and quit.
Becuase if you’ve got the chops to run Rush’s board, you’ve got the chops to work anywhere in radio you want.
Same goes for all of Glenn Beck’s black cameramen, all of whom would know whether Glenn were racist, and yet no one ever interviews them.
How odd.
There’s a narrative to protect, di.
Re: the subject of the thread.
As others have suggested, I, too, suspect discovery will be sweet.
Your love of St Shirley. Little bit further. There’s a cupcake all the way out there on the branch. Oh, you’re sawing the wrong side of the limb!
I expressed no Shirley love in this whole thread at all not even a little.
is it strawberry?
I respect the Sherrods for what they did 40 years ago, their demagoguery and grandstanding makes me dislike them now
yo little debbie what the about threads other
hf, I’d go with the bow and tiny-arrow mit/string attached method of cupcake retrieval myself. Phwuing, haul in, haul in, peal peal, munch munch, ah
you’re very clever. I eat mine wif a spoon though. See it’s in a little cup for you, and it’s not worth eating unless the cakey part is so moist and cupcakey wonderful that it’s spoonable… this is how you can tell how good the cupcake is… and I think that’s why more and more you see cupcakes wif filling… it’s kind of cheating, the filling, but you know what that’s ok.
I envision a jury trial held in the venue of Ms. Sherrod’s place of employment, Washington D.C. We might all be found culpable.
Those of us who have not spent time in the South may be unaware that there are such people as black rednecks. I once had one as a foreman for awhile, years ago. Fine fellow. Worked with his hands, drove a pickup, had a deer rifle in the truck’s gun rack, even listened to the country music station.
The construction job I was just on the general contractor had two Mexican carpenters working odd jobs the subs didn’t catch. Brought in a Jamaican to help them out. Some serious friction arose at first, as one of the Mexicans informed the new guy he “didn’t take orders from a nigger.” The contractor was trying to figure out how to diffuse the situation when the two found out they were both Pentecostals and are now big buddies, listening to the Gospel Radio while they eat lunch together.
Things aren’t always what they seem.
meh –
I figure this is all a case of the pot calling the kettle a “mongrel kitchen utensil”
Newt has some interesting things to say about political language and leftist language practice.
If you’re interested in highlighting the part where Shirley’s NAACP audience giggles about her screwing Whitey, the excerpt being what it is makes a lot of sense. It shows exactly what it was intended to show, the setup and the punchline. But it also shows that whoever cut it wasn’t out to fuck her, because it includes the lead in to the part where God touches Shirley’s heart and turns her into a beacon of love and hope. And anyone who looked at that cut and didn’t get the fact that it was a cut and that there was more, well, that person is fucking stupid. So, if you want to accuse the editor of misleading the retarded, carry on.
People are just delightfully weird, aren’t they?
there are such people as black rednecks
What, like Karl Malone?
Charley Pride.
Is anybody going to San Antone, or Phoenix, Arizona?
Peggy Noonan hits a stand up double.
if i had a dime for every
time a black village people person got out of line
i’d wear a hat with feathers
why is james brown so funky?
why do opossable thumbs make texting so easy?
why do crippled children keep bothering me?
and why/ why /why dosen’t p t wizzdom ban me?
if my car broke down up the road apiece
and if i had to knock on ur door to use the telephone
and u were a black farmer and u had a sweet daughter
could i likee say
guess who’s coming to dinner?
natty dread
not four nuthinng/ but someone/ me/
deserves a bobby orr
two crippled children rolled into a bar
to raise money for cripples
then one of them looks out the window and thinks about birds
and the other pulled out a shotgun
i think i saw a law and order episode about it
up on cripple creek/ she sends me
Wouldn’t it have been neato if our first brown-colored president hadn’t been a low-life brick of pig shit? I think race relations and all that jazz could have been groovy in a far out way if it weren’t for what a worthless, rat fuck maggot America chose to make their Chief executive.
O well. Maybe next time.
three cripples and a canadien
formed a dance band
the canadian wanted to call it rush
one of the cripples spit
the other two nodded
five cripples tried to give me a high five
their still trying
Suppose you are a prostitute and suppose you are Charlie Crist. But I repeat myself.
if seven crippled brothers could dance with seven crippled sisters
that would be/like/ the best musical
except west side story/ which had natilie wood in it
she drowned/ christopher walken was involved
on the eighth day of christmas cripples gave me
fu fu fu fu five/ golden rings
but thats ok
check out the white album by the beatles/ there is a song called
number nine/number nine/ number nine
it’s like 8 or nine minutes long
i blame bush
engine, engine number nine, coming down the railroad line, how much farther back did she get off?
the ten crippled commandments
naw/ thats not funny
eleventy
if twelve apostles came to dinner
why am i missing three forks/ one knife ‘and my best china?
i’m looking at u /paul
why do u keep blaming judas?
Ole’ brown suitcase that she carried…
I looked for it ever-where
doesn’t seem to be among the rest
and I’m a little bit upset…
Engine, engine number nine
‘Rollin down that railroad line
How much further back did she get aw-off
Hunert ten miles ain’t much distance
Oh lord it make a difference
I don’t think she loves me anymore…
Dennis would have told Roger to eat a Mentos and just chill
rubbing Peter to pay Paul
apostles playing hide the kreplach
for 5 pieces of silver
and all the votive wine you can drink
story of a Ghey pimp
and his righteous bitches
the ancient version
of a man and his dawg
apostles eat my food
like it’s the last supper or sumtin
cuz it’s funny
i had them over for lunch onetime
and they nibbled
i think peter is ano reck sack/ heard him puking in the
bathroom
and the otre eleven were watching their weight
in episode three
Big J punches pilot
and all hell breaks lose
Big J ends up hangin ’round the mount
wit dah rent-a-guard Patrains
in a thorny situation
afterwards Mary vacations in France
REALITY CHECK: When someone pulls a gaffe in a speech, how often does the media offer the full and unedited speech? NEVER, or almost so, unless they planned to cover the whole thing anyway.
They air or post clips or partial transcripts showing the gaffe. Breitbart did what any media outlet would do. Most of those who aired the clip after him made no effort to secure the full speech until questions arose later.
Sherrod did what she said she did – she discriminated against a person solely on the basis of his race. Now, the full tape explains she later recognized she was wrong and went back and tried to make things right, but it does not contradict the statement in the clip. She DID it.
No way posting her public statement about what she did indeed do can be said to defame her character. If she did it, her character is accurately displayed. If anyone lied about what she did, it was her, because she is the only speaker.
If no one lied, why the apologies?
“Yes, we morons can fly like crazy!”
– They are not apologizing the the racism she practiced by her own admission in the video. They are apologizing for not waiting until the full video was available, which if more than any MFM outlet would think of doing for any conservative speaker they were trying to slime.
– Since then Shirley herself has made any number of defaming remarks about people that actually defended her like Beck and Fox in general, and she’s also made additional racist comments disproving any “conspiracy” to defame her.
– As noted, she doesn’t seem to be interested in actually focusing on the perps that really harmed her by firing her without due process, although now she’s milking it for all it’s worth and letting them twist in the breeze, including Bumbblefuck.
–
– Um….wrong header quote….That should have been an answer to:
“If no one lied, why the apologies?”
– Her lawyers have no doubt explained to her the video speaks for itself so she has no claime there.
– The wrongful termination is another case all together. She has a very strong case there, but you know the Left always falls on its sword rather than hurt “teh narrative”, so who knows what she’ll do. I’m sure the NAACP, USDA, the Pres, and the entire lefturd contingent have no idea what she’ll do.
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Comment by AJB on 7/29 @ 2:23 pm #
Rush Limbaugh is not a racist because
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/09/17/limbaugh-we-need-segregated-buses/
It’s called satire. Did your parents have any children that lived?
I’m guessing AJB has never read, nor will ever read, this blog.
Forrest Obama says: Momma always told me that life in a Socialist paradise was like a box of chocolates, the people at the head of the government eat all the chocolate, and the serfs get to sniff the little paper cups.
Example# 3,534,763,654 of this in action…
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138860
AJB has to compete with Rather Dim and cynn for greatest blog retard evah! That’s probably why it has been commenting more often. The competition is fierce.
RE: No.137
Here’s a quote for teh flavah.
“The evident prosperity is not enjoyed by all, or even most, of Gaza’s residents, according to Al-Houl. The problem is the vast differences in the distribution of wealth. The luxury resorts and wide range of consumer goods are enjoyed by “only a few groups,” he said, primarily those who own smuggling tunnels to Egypt and those who work for international organizations such as the United Nations’ UNRWA and who do not include or aid the rest of the population.
Most of the new resorts “are owned by members, or associates, of Hamas,” he reported. “In addition, the Hamas municipalities charge high fees, in Gaza terms, for the use of public beaches,” he added.”
The left’s idea of Social Justice sure does get around, don’t it?
Seconded. If happyfeets felt himself being misled, this would explain rather a lot.
Mostly unrelated: request that pdbuttons limit his posts to, say, less than 1000% of the times when he actually has something to say. He’s got 30% of the comments in this thread, just about, and none of them say a damned thing, as far as I can tell. It’s playing hell with my scroll-wheel finger.
The defamation angle will fall flat. I’m wondering if a tortious interference with a business relationship would be applicable- ie something possibly not exactly true was published, leading to her firing. The thing is, what are her damages, if she was offered her job back. Hell, she got a phone call from Golden Urkel – that’s gotta be worth something.
And my guess is Breitbart was hoping and praying a lawsuit would result- the more I watch the fallout from this, the more I think he was playing the grand provocateur- and the Obama administration, knowing Sherrod’s reputation as a racist, played right into Andrew’s hands.
*Suppose you are a prostitute and suppose you are Charlie Crist.*
As a Floridian, I despise Two Face Charlie. And the democrats, as is their nature, are abandoning their authentic african american candidate who can’t win for an orange faced double crossing lying white guy. Nice.
buttons makes threads better!
but Breity himself didn’t seem to have any understanding of what was on his little tape snippet so he’s either a retard or he’s just a liar
personally I think Andrew Breitbart is less than honest
Matt,
Do not weep for Charlie Crist.
Due to the Democrat’s unshakable belief that they are ordained by a power that is not God, but ordains like God would if He existed (which He of course does not) the Doemocrats never let moral or ethical cosiderations get between them and an elected office. They alone have the wisdom and the knowledge to save us from ourselves.
They are now in the process of executing their hyper-intellegent 5 year plan; killing jobs to improve the employment picture, raising taxes so that we have more money to spend, and attacking the energy sector so that we serfs are warm/cool and comfortable.
You say you are not smart enough to see how this will all coalesce into a giant fountain of American prosperity?
Me neither.
Has happyfeet gotten a job as an Obama astroturfer?
I have to ask, because Breitbart, as Jon Stewart noted in his seminal Shirley Sherrod rant, has explicitly stated that he intends to use every means at his disposal to attack the Dem/Media/Lobbyist/Bureacrat/Liberal complex.
So when he does that which he said he would do, why is he a liar?
*personally I think Andrew Breitbart is less than honest*
We’ve been fighting rampant dishonesty with honesty for years feets. If you mean Breitbart tricked the left, then ok, yeah, I’d agree with that. But I think dishonesty is based on knowledge that what you are presenting is not factual – what he presented was indeed factual. Sherrod is clearly a racist, despite the “end result.” Now if it turns out he had the entire tape and only choose to publish that portion, then I would agree he was being dishonest.
Try this experiment Happyfeet.
Go to a TEA party event and tell the media that you hate black people and at your job you wouldn’t help them on a bet. Continue in that vein for a while until you get to the part of the story where you have a change of heart and now you are best pals with several black folks.
See what part of the video makes it into the media conversation.
The media has vowed to destroy the TEA party, just as Breitbart has vowed to destroy the left, they are just to morally bankrupt to say it out loud.
It’s not at all clear that Shirley is a racist in that tape. It’s not at all clear that Shirley is a racist in real life. What’s clear is that she makes white people uncomfortable and what we’ve seen is there are many in Team R what will eagerly exploit that.
Glenn Beck done good though. He’s a tv star!
Comment by Slartibartfast on 7/30 @ 7:26 am
“Mostly unrelated: request that pdbuttons limit his posts to, say, less than 1000% of the times when he actually has something to say. He’s got 30% of the comments in this thread, just about, and none of them say a damned thing, as far as I can tell. It’s playing hell with my scroll-wheel finger.”
You took the words right out of my fingers.
What’s clear is that she makes white people uncomfortable and what we’ve seen is there are many in Team R what will eagerly exploit that.
spoken like a good Democrat.
Now if it turns out he had the entire tape and only chose to publish that portion, then I would agree he was being dishonest.
*someone* appended dishonest text to the video what mischaracterized the snippet… Breity needs to explain what happened but he won’t… I don’t think he gets a presumption of honesty until he comes clean and says who edited the tape if it wasn’t him.
Mr. W that is not a good experiment and it doesn’t justify Breity’s approach, which was icky cause of how malicious it was but also cause of he embroiled the Tea Party deeper into racial strifeyness instead of advancing any for reals Tea Party issues.
Good thing Mr. Howard has his eye on the ball today. That’s a big damn deal, the taxings and the spendings in the clear act.
buttons is my favorite! he is clever and funny and nice and he says a lot of stuff like about the goats and the clowns
Matt: It seems to me that as this Breitbart/Sherrod thing plays out, the longer it stays front and center, the more damage the Race Card takes. Accusations like racism get their power from the fear they generate in the target (which is only tangentially the accused – the real target is the public). But the longer the charge hangs out in the air without the ostensible target crumbling, the more the fear evaporates. No fear means no power for the accuser.
So please, Mrs. Sherrod – keep this going as long as possible so that fear can turn into befuddlement, amusement, annoyance, and then apathy.
Setup, punchline, audience reaction. It’s what he wanted to show, and it’s right fucking there. That was his point, that’s what he says is his point in the post, and it’s demonstrated, right fucking there, in the video as shown. Shirley becoming a Saint of the Holy Progressive Church is not the point, rather it’s irrelevant to his point which, if you read his post, it’s right fucking there.
This is not complicated.
no Breity lied and said that Shirley was busily keeping whitey down at the USDA … he made no allowance that she was just telling a charming anecdote … he lied to smear the black lady! But he’s not racist nonono.
Yes, he got that fact wrong, and upon realizing that mistake, corrected it. That error does not make your little bugaboo the point. His point was what he said was his point, which again, is right fucking there. What he intended, that is. He said it straight up.
If you’re determined to replace his stated intent with your own imagination, you are very much at the wrong blog.
*headdesk*
Thunk.
To plagiarize Mikey for a moment:
So please, Mr ‘feets – keep this going as long as possible so that fear can turn into befuddlement, amusement, annoyance, and then apathy.
I thought we said you had to be retarded to get that fact wrong.
what the vast majority of Americans know and all they will ever know about Shirley is she was that black lady on a tape and she got fired for something she said but them it turned it the tape was edited.
There was no masterstroke here.
turned *out* the tape was edited
*It’s not at all clear that Shirley is a racist in real life*
Well if you look at evidence outside that tape, its pretty obvious she is. As is her husband. Unless you’re definition of racist is not “hates a person due to color”. Again, you are defending the wrong person. There is a REASON why the white house did what they did so fast and the reason was not FOX news, its that they KNEW Sherrod was racist.
So the public have a distorted view of the incident because of inaccurate reporting by the mainstream media? I guess St Shirley has a case against Fox News then, since she and the mainstream media hacks all say Fox started it.
Dude, Balloon Juice needs you and you need it. Go.
That’s completely accurate reporting. I don’t know why people are so eager to see Shirley branded as a racist. It won’t help advance any issues the tea party gives two shits about.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/30 @ 8:52 am #
“what the vast majority of Americans know and all they will ever know about Shirley is she was that black lady on a tape and she got fired for something she said but them it turned it the tape was edited.
There was no masterstroke here.”
And the longer this plays out the more damage that particular narrative takes. The more Mrs. Sherrod continues to speak, the more damage she takes, losing her coveted ‘victim status’. Just damaging the Race Card, defusing that particular accusation, does more to hurt the left then anything I can think of because the other charges don’t have anywhere near the punch. For example, feminists destroyed the Sexist charge during the Lewinski Affair and that charge hasn’t really ever regained its potency.
So yes, let us have this continue to play out.
Not. The. Fucking. Point. And yet, Shirley’s doing a fairly good job of that all by her own self, much like her friends at the NAACP.
ok we will see but I don’t see it happening to where the Race Card gets damaged … the race card has marvelously unlimited permutations is what I think we will learn. And what are the Uni-TEA homos doing if not playing the race card?
It’s so weird. The Tea Party has gotten badly off track this last month I think.
By the way – you know how you are to get anything like the truth out past the filters and drum it on the public until they actually see it? You have to keep talking about it and keep it front and center. Running away concedes the field to your foes, and they get to control the storyline – not you. They get to control your reputation, not you.
And giving your foes that kind of power is incrediblly stupid. And no, happyfeet – what the tea partiers are concerned about will never get a hearing because the Race Card will be continuously used against them everytime they try to speak. To get their message a hearing the Race Card has to be reduced to the point that the charge results in a smirk, or rolled eyes.
Well, having the shameless political hacks that accuse the Tea Party movement of being “racist” (and any criticism of Obama’s ridiculous policies as being “racist”) shown to be shameless political hacks in full view of the public helps everyone.
*I don’t know why people are so eager to see Shirley branded as a racist*
I agree with Pablo is not the point but I’ll tell you why I want to see it admitted she’s a racist. Because she is. BEcause she was caught on tape. Because she keeps talking. Because her husband keeps talking. Its a “big secret” in this country that blacks are many times far more racist than whites, especially black democrats, because quite frankly, they are taught by their colleagues, white and black alike, that its ok to hate the white man – because of the fairness. I’m tired of liberals telling me whites are the only ones who are racist and blacks are not.
The other point is, until the liberal black community gets rid of the race hustling and race baiting and rampant accusations of racism, this country is never going to get past skin color. For my part, after dealing with years and years of this race hustling bullshit, I am far more prejudiced against your average african american then I was when I was say, 10, and skin color was not a factor.
That’s why the NAA(L)CP denounced them as “racist”, knowing full well it would throw them “off track”, and to direct the media narrative of the Tea Party movement to “Klan rallies without the hoods”.
*It’s so weird. The Tea Party has gotten badly off track this last month I think.*
No. Assholes trying to exploit the tea party for personal gain are the problem, not the tea party itself. You are making blanket statements about the tea party, that are simply not true. Either that, or you’re buying the propaganda of the left.
I can’t understand why you spend so much time attacking your allies, happy. It is counter productive for you to try to paint the tea party as racist, because its the exact same thing our enemies are doing.
allies? Chuckles Grassley teamed up with our ally Barack Obama to shepherd the whole black farmers reparations movement to its tawdry conclusion. Guess whose pac gave many monies to Chuckles?
The Alaska wench’s, that’s who.
yay allies
she was just telling a charming anecdote
The soft bigotry of low expectations?
I don’t know why people are so eager to see Shirley branded as a racist. It won’t help advance any issues the tea party gives two shits about.
Motes, beams, people living in glass houses, that kind of sh*t. It might also could be about exposing the Left’s habitual use of the “that’s just racist talk” gambit to ward of criticism of it’s agenda for the empty yellow canard that it is.
(Oh no! Ernst said yellow! Quick! Somebody denounce him before we’re accused of hating Asians!)
It’s so weird. The Tea Party has gotten badly off track this last month I think.
If that’s the case, then perhaps you ought to consider denouncing them as just another example of shitty failshit failure and move on.
Every day the Tea Party peoples aren’t talking about ways forward like Paul Ryan’s way forward or other serious plans of their own creation like his plan is a day spent talking about things useless to the formation of a consensus as to the way forward. In the meantime, Nancy P and her allies are focused on demagogging to discredit Ryan’s plan. Time grows short and possible solutions to extremely complex problems are limited.
what he said
I have to get ready for work it’s an awful day ahead really but then after that it’s Friday
So, who fired Saint (Disappeared before any more miraculous racisty divinations, thanks! MSM) Shirley Sherrod? Not Andrew Breitbart. AB didn’t have that power. This event is a black eye for O!’s administration and the NAACP; any spin you’re giving that speaks differently will only service those on the Left.
There’s no cupcake (or fuzzy Sufi Sithgoddess) worth it, ‘feets. Put down the saw and clamber back down to earth, we need you intact.
I am embracing a lifestyle of cupcake repudiation as of yesterday. For lunch I think I will do a jared sammich if I have time.
the one guy actually ends up falling at least a good foot further than the saw guy, which seems unfair
happyfeet, come home!
Abuse of delicious, moist, heavenly fudge chocolate or strawberry based cupcakes….
Denounced!
If she gets a DC jury, Breitbart is screwed.
– Her lawyers can file briefs until their black in the face (see what I did there – lulz), and no judge will agree to hear it. In spite of what you may have heard none of them are that stupid.
– The president it would set – allowing defamation tort based on heresay would result in litigants (95% of whom would be conservatives) lined up from the Capital building to the Potomac for past grievances against the MFM and scores of slanderous/baseless comments made by Democrats to the press and publicly about their opponents.
– Ain’t gonna happen.
*yay allies*
There will always be things you disagree with when it comes to people who you go to battle with. There is no perfect solution to this problem. My point, which should be clear, is that you should support your allies and demonize your enemies. Sarah Palin is your ally, assuming the battle you are fighting is to get rid of the socialist in chief and save the country’s economy. She’s your ally, even if you hate her – you are wasting your energy hating her. Saving it for Frank, Rangel, Reid, Pelosi, Maobama etc- THOSE are your enemies.
– feets may have OD’d on cupcakes. A few day’s of drying out and he should be fine.
Comment by Matt on 7/30 @ 10:01 am
Matt – many here written that many times and it doesn’t do any good.
Sarah Palin is Chuckles Grassley’s ally I didn’t get no 5 large.
I noticed that was the kind of sounds,Pablo, Cole along with the former Commisar before they turned to the left, sometimes your choices are not optimum, like the alternative would have been Huck’santi gay marriage crazy ally, Van der Plaats
In other news, True/Slant has gone tits-up. Conor Friedersdorf and Upchuck Johnson hardest hit.
“. . . True/Slant has gone tits-up.”
Ha! So my malevolent plan has worked has it? Good.
Yep, it’s worked. Which website is next?
Next website?
whatever one these guys land on, I suppose.
Conor Freedork and Barrett Brown are lying liars what tell lies and mendoucheous twatwaffles of the highest order.
Well, except for all the things she says and does.
Beyond that, not a speck of proof.
The things St Shirley has said and done since the White House – USDA panic attack have been far more damning than anything in the NAA(L)CP speech.
She was the biggest news story of last week, yet she appeared on not a single Sunday new show… why would that be? Because the WH was afraid of what she might say next?
**news show**
If Sarah Palin were ever to open a bakery specializing in cupcakes, I expect happyfeet’s head would implode with enough force to create a small black hole (or Black Ho for you NAACP readers out there).
It would be as bad as ‘crossing the streams, total protonic reversal’
#202
“I love this plan. I’m excited to be a part of it. Let’s do it!”
What if a black man murdered Jeff G’s father, and got off scot free by an all black jury? How would you judge Jeff G’s character after you knew he went on to help black people in his profession?
I don’t think a troll has had worse timing than this Fox character, ever.
Yeah, Cranky, the internet really does suck sometimes.
If his profession charged him with helping people regardless of color, age, or sexual orientation, I’d judge him as having done his fucking job.
That you want to give a black lady a medal for not being racist just goes to show what you really think of your little brown pets.
resonant frequency:
link
Was Jeff G’s father stealing from the black man who killed him? I don’t know and neither do you.
It’s just that simple until you take it upon yourself to complicate it. Why do people do that?
If I was black and a white guy murdered my Dad, and got away with it, I’d marvel at how far we’ve come from the days when that sort of thing went on in certain places. Then, I’d focus on what went so fucking wrong that my son is much, much more likely to die at the hands of another black man than he is at the hands of Whitey.
If I really thought about it, I’d find myself looking at white progressives. Whitey is still fucking the black man, just not the way they seem to think.
“Whitey is still fucking the black man, just not the way they seem to think.”
Pablo, that whole comment is great, but this line may be the thread winnah! Fair warning, I plan on shamelessly using it whenever possible.
But, like, I’ll credit you most of the time; and send you your cut of any jack, of any ever came of it.
Fox, you’re fucking stupid. You emote and mistake it for reason. That is what makes you so fucking stupid. Capiche?
Ah, so the progs are still trying the “x from group y killed this person z’s father so z is all disliking everyone from group y and that’s ‘understandable'” claim.
Funny, Inigo Montoya was looking for a specific man, not an entire group.