WASHINGTON — Shirley Sherrod, the black Agriculture Department official whose firing and subsequent offer of rehiring by the Obama administration this week has renewed a conversation about politics and race, said Thursday that she believed she deserved a telephone call from President Obama. The White House said that Mr. Obama had not ruled it out.
Ms. Sherrod appeared on a round of morning talk shows Thursday, the day after the White House and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack apologized profusely and repeatedly to her for the way she had been humiliated and forced to resign after a conservative blogger released a misleading video clip that seemed to show her admitting antipathy toward a white farmer.
The full story, right here.
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:36 AM
It is disappointing that the White House fell for this sucker punch, but how many times is the media going to fall for this. This is the SAME GUY who was caught doctoring and promoting videos previously, and they are gobbling it up like its fact. Kudos to Shep Smith of Fox News for refusing to air it, saying he didn’t trust the source. Conservative, yes. Ethical? Yes.
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:51 AM
Where was the ourtage on the left when they did this to Bush,Cheney, and all the people that worked in
the administration? MSNBC and thoses 3 stooges Madcow,Olberman,Mathews did the same thing over
and over again during the Bush years. Pretty sad.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:01 AM
Oh nonsense Floyd. Cite some instances…
99.9% of the lies, especially the whoppers, come from the right. Maddow, and Olbermann are left with having to fact check all the ignorance spread by Faux New
Bush / Cheney should both be in jail and the sad state was the way they left the country….
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:07 AM
If the left were this effective, than Rumsfield would have been gone right after Abu Garhib broke, not after Dems took control of congress. See that the difference, with Obama they have to edit video tape and make up scandal. With Bush, there was a never ending stream of investigative opportunities, most of which the media passed on it.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:13 AM
People on the left weren’t outraged about the reporting about Bush,Cheney, and all the people that worked in the administration because the reports were true.
Unlike the completely fabricated smear job that Brietbart and the Fox-ups attempted to pull on Shirley Sherrod and the NAACP. This was all coldly calculated lies put out in an attempt to counter the NAACP honest request the the Tea Party distance themselves from the racists in their midst.
Brietbart and all those Foxnewsers should be crawling on the belly’s to apologize to Shirley Sherrod for smearing her and disrupting her life.
Now reopen Breitbart’s ACORN fraud — and get the story right
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:34 AM
Floyd,
The obvious difference is that Ms. Sherrod was innocent of the venomous charges of racism and abuse of her Office, whereas Bush and the Cheney bunch were not.
It’s sickening that the accusations against Ms. Sherrod went as far as they did thanks to the slanderous attacks by the foxed-up loose-screw news crews of Fox cable news.
Faux news has once again steamrollered every precept of the Journalism Code of Ethics by its’ vicious, misinformed attacks spurred by their hatred toward President Obama.
Sam, I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on this from your personal perspective as an honorable reporter.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:40 AM
Whoa.
SL, we seem to be doing some verbatimerizing here!
I guess it really is true what they say about great minds.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:42 AM
The fact is that the “Big Story” of the clip was not that Shirley Sherrod was a racist. The story was that when Sherrod told the story of her racist past, the NAACP members cheered loudly. The same NAACP members who were accusing the Tea Party members of being racists. The White House missed the point and took the whole story out of context, both Shirley Sherrod’s story and the “Big Story” that Andrew Breibart was reporting.
The NAACP were carrying water for the White House, accusing the Tea Party members of being racists, when in fact the NAACP are more racist than the Tea Party members. That was the story, but the White House didn’t wait to hear the context of the story, the White House ordered Sherrod fired before the story even aired on FOX News.
Incidentally, at the same time the the White House was firing Sherrod, another story was being covered on another blog, the story of how the MSM formed an association to collaborate to neutralize any conservative reporting and questioning of Barack Obama. The collaboration began after the exposing of the Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers during the primary. In other words the MSM were actively working to hide information from the public, rather that seeking to inform. The name of the media collaboration group is “Journolist” and I think that the original discussion was posted on the “Daily Caller”, but it has since been covered all over the web.
The expressed plan of the “Journolist” reporters was to accuse anyone who criticized Obama or his administration was to accuse the conservatives of being racist, whether there was any evidence or not.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:59 AM
Hey Shaun:
What about the slander of Tea Party people? How about the Bush justice dept? They were just found innocent of all those trumped up charges about the firings that took place a few years ago. The left
and MSNBC is just as wrong as Fox News if i had my way they both would be off the air.
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:14 AM
“misleading clip”?How about a first degree LIE! Get it right. These assassins at Fox ”The Anti-American Network” are using every means possible to move their ‘American Taliban” agenda forward. Misleading, Misspeaking premeditated counterfeiting of the truth to make it look like they have a shred of credibility on facts should disqualify any idea that these criminals can be seen as a serious news network in anyway shape or form! Except of course in the eyes of the ideologically stunted deniers of reality who continue to assault our nation with their ignorance. Keep that IQ of yours as low as possible “Wrongies”! Keep watching Fox! Or you might consider some research other than this joke we have called the 24 hour cable (news?) feces machine.
BTW Vilsak is one of these “Demorats” (Monsantos Pets), The guy is just one of the republicons who have infiltrated the Democratic party. He should “apologize” for himself taking up space where we need an advocate of the people not another bought and paid for corporate shill.
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:17 AM
John Galt - you are grossly and inaccurately mischaracterizing the Journolist story.
First, yes, it’s controversial and, due to myriad stories where conversations from that list were leaked, it no longer exists (though a new list called “The Cabalist” has now been formed with less than half of the members from Journolist being invited to it/participating).
Second, the list was largely comprised of opinion commentators who work for a diverse array of publications, but many are Internet-based media outlets or independent media publications (often more liberal, think of The Stranger in Seattle).
Third, the “gotcha” story on The Daily Caller was pretty horrible journalism in that it was very, very myopic and one-sided. Nowhere does it really point to any traditional media print REPORTERS engaging in the discussion. It does, however, try to hint that they were, but doesn’t provide any factual information whatsoever that would back that up.
What that story cites are several well-known liberal opinion columnists from a variety of publications getting all angry about a question asked by George Stephanopoulos of then-candidate Sen. Barack Obama regarding his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Those specific listserv members, again all liberal OPINION columnists, were angry about the question.
That is not a secret, nor surprising, as the question asked by the moderator was widely discussed in the media not only amongst the media but amongst the public as to whether or not the question was valid. Never before in a presidential debate had such questions been asked of a candidate, so it was sort of a first and people were having a debate about whether it was a fair question or not.
AFY and I have had a discussion about this topic over e-mail and I’ve basically shared with you my journalistic thoughts on the topic. You’re reading into a story in exactly the way it appears The Daily Caller would like you to, but it’s bad journalism that is written in a way to make it look like this was some type of widespread discussion.
Again, no proof that it was.
The Journolist was killed after Washington Post columnist David Weigel’s listserv comments regarding wanting Matt Drudge to catch on fire or some such after he went after Weigel on The Drudge Report. The comments, combined with his criticisms of conservatives on his conservative-tracking blog, were met with an aggressive campaign by conservative media outlets to oust him, and it worked after the Drudge comments from Journolist were leaked. Once they were, Ezra Klein, the creator of the listserv, killed it.
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:26 AM
Earth to Floyd……..There’s a big difference between a legitimate investigation and straight out lies.
What slandering of Tea? Tea slander themselves by associating with outrageous miscreants..
John, you really need to quit mainlining all that Faux News, Limberger, Daily Bawler disinformation flow…it’s is decidedly not working ….
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:27 AM
SL the partisan speaks agin, Let’s balme everything on Bush Cheney, democrat’s are perfect, republican’s are the enemy:
…the progressive forces are constantly stymied by increasingly byzantine conspiracies meant to fool and manipulate the people. The only people you can find living by a more arcane conspiratorial worldview would be in the Muslim Middle East… and that is no coincidence at all.
The left’s inability to recognize its own hubris and totalitarian habits, their faith in organizational over representative government, and their tolerance for their own extremism has made it impossible for it to transform in a positive direction. Instead boiled down to the basics, the left’s voice consists of tantrums and thrown fists. Once in power its agenda self-destructs quickly in a democratic system, and self-destructs slowly in a totalitarian system in which they have absolute power—so naturally the left wants absolute power in order to “get things done”.
And so Obama is back to running against Bush and the Republicans. Just as he always will be. Because to do otherwise would be to admit his own inexperience and the feuding egos and agendas of the Democratic congress, the same sort of pettiness that has toppled many a revolution before. And such an admission for an ideology that venerates the redemptive powers of government and transcendent messianic leaders is a dangerous one. It would almost be blasphemy.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/20563
Both side’s are not perfect, both sides make mistakes, but if all we do all of the time is just try to prove the imperfection of one side or the other, what good do we actually do? But calling someone else names is always a lot more fun than taking a look at how to really solve any problem or understand our own mistakes.
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:29 AM
Sorry that was Let’s blame everything on Bush Cheney, democrat’s are perfect, republican’s are the enemy:
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:39 AM
JournoList was an informal online discussion group involving several hundred left-leaning journalists. In excerpts released Tuesday, some of their discussions appeared to veer toward collusion, from how to protect Barack Obama to how to tar conservative critics.
“The [JournoList] is troubling,” says Jim Campbell, a political science professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Buffalo. “At one level it could be thought of as just colleagues throwing ideas out to one another, but from another standpoint it almost looks like collusion … where virtual talking points are shared and solidified in a group.”
“That can’t be healthy for the country – or for the media, for that matter,” he says.
“To some extent [some] media have been successful in [playing the race card],” he says. “You have people now talking about the tea party and others in terms of this race issue, and that in itself deflects from what the tea party people are really concerned about, which is out-of-control federal spending and excessive intrusion of government. To the extent that the press, even by suggesting that race is an issue, if it gets everybody talking about the tea party in those terms, they have been successful.”
At the same time, Campbell says, the race card may have been so overplayed that it no longer has much of an effect on how Americans think or act.
“I think a lot of people don’t take it very seriously anymore,” he says.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0720/JournoList-Is-call-them-racists-a-liberal-media-tactic
What surprises me the most about this is that those in the media conspiring with others in the media would ever think that some reporter might not one day report about it!
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:46 AM
Indeed, race seems to be the subtext of almost every contemporary issue, from the soaring deficit and government spending to recent presidential appointments and the enforcement of existing immigration law. In times of growing deficits, white people are stereotyped as being angry over supposedly paying higher taxes to subsidize minorities, while minorities are stereotyped as being mostly on the receiving end of entitlements…..
Yet the country passed the old white/black divide years ago. We are a racially diverse society of Asians, blacks, Hispanics, whites, and mixtures of all that and more. In a world of conservative Cubans and liberal whites, race is no longer necessarily a guide to politics.
Who now, exactly, is the racial “Other” deserving of special consideration in hiring and education? A half-Punjabi immigrant whose father owns 500 acres? A three-quarters Puerto Rican who just arrived in New York? A Korean-American son of an orthodontist? The African-American children of a Cabinet official?
America has largely moved beyond race….
http://article.nationalreview.com/438474/the-new-racial-mess/victor-davis-hanson?page=2
AFY!!theheelotsheepdog!!!
July 22nd, 2010 at 12:54 PM
Shaun you are nothing but a water carrying left wing supporter that can’t even remember how the last
President and his people were treated. Very sad to have to live like that.
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:40 PM
Oh Floyd, and you are nothing but a water boy for the right…
Bush and Cheney were/are treated far better than they deserved/deserve.
But perhaps you missed it…if you were comatose for the last 10 years….
http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/30368958
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:39 PM
So who is the water boy?
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:40 PM
So who is the warwe boy?
July 23rd, 2010 at 6:38 AM
Shaun you miss the point again, I said get rid of both Fox and MSNBC but you libs won’t be happy until you control all the media because you are mindless to think for yourself. You could not even worn one
of President Bush’s shoes at all. You never heard him whine and cry like this clown we have in there now. So keep drinking the KOOLAID!!!!
July 23rd, 2010 at 7:47 AM
I could have thrown one of my shoes at him…
I also see that as in the case of fugitive from justice Bush, English, like cleverness, is not your forte’….
But keep it up, you make a lot of my points for me.
July 23rd, 2010 at 7:55 AM
Lets make a little side wager, Bush will be more popular in 5 years than Obama. How about it?
July 23rd, 2010 at 8:06 AM
It wouldn’t be civil to bilk such an easy mark…..
You also might want to avert your eyes now, since reality can be harsh for the truly delusional….
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/03/historians-see-bush-as-wo_n_94898.html
July 23rd, 2010 at 8:11 AM
After what happens this November Obama who stands at 44% now will be lower than the IQ of the whole staff at MSNBC and all of its minions. You will be crying in your own stupidity this fall.
July 23rd, 2010 at 9:08 AM
Grammar Floyd, grammar…..
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:13 PM
Got it Sammy!!!! No name calling around here!!
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:16 PM