Last week, I jumped the gun (as did many others) in taking what was a complex story and boiling it down to an video clip without its proper context. I apologized to my readers and to Shirley Sherrod.
I hereby withdraw the apology to Mrs. Sherrod.
As I noted at the time, this was a very complex story and I had a pretty good hunch that Mrs. Sherrod was not the angel she appeared to be. I am correct. She is a picture perfect product of the liberal policies that make African-Americans dependent on the Federal Government and foster a victimization mentality. Mrs. Sherrod claimed she learned something when she helped that white farmer, but what she learned may be worse than the presumed racism from the clip of her at the NAACP meeting in March.
I mean � get a load of this. This is the conclusion Sherrod makes against Andrew Breitbart:
SHIRLEY SHERROD, FMR. GEORGIA DIRECTOR, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, USDA: I don�t think he�s [Andrew Breitbart] interested in seeing anyone get past it, because I think he�d like to get us stuck back in the times of slavery. That�s where I think he�d like to see all black people end up again. And that�s why �
ANDERSON COOPER: You think he�s a racist?
SHERROD: � I think he�s so vicious. Yes, I do. And I think that�s why he�s so vicious against a black president.
Are you f�ing kidding me???? So Shirley is in the camp of � �If You Criticize Obama, You are a Racist�. Give me a bloody break.
Oh but there�s much more. Salon�s uber-progressive Editor in Chief calls Shirley�s husband, Charles, a �civil rights hero�. Um, really?
Charles Sherrod: �We must stop the white man and his Uncle Toms from stealing our elections.� (January 2010)
The Sherrod�s are full-blown race-baiting liberals. Dan Riehl has done all of the research, so you don�t have to. But here�s the money quote:
Mark Knoller mentioned a potential wrongful termination lawsuit [from Shirley Sherrod] in passing. And now the media and the administration seem intent on making her [Sherrod] disappear. One theory on that I�ve heard is, they don�t want people asking questions about her lawsuit. What I�m wondering is, maybe they don�t want people asking questions about Obama.
He worshiped with Jeremiah Wright for years. He potentially appointed a racist black liberationist Marxist to the USDA. Just how many of them does he have around him, as he sits in the WH waging war on capitalism? And, finally, what might all those college documents of his they won�t let us see tell us about him � especially given this?
Ultimately, given all this now beginning to come out as a result of Andrew Breitbart�s original work makes him a hero in my book. These are the tough questions the press doesn�t even want to ask. It brings to the front important issues on race and racism, black, or otherwise, the press and the WH don�t wish to confront. But that�s what�s suppose to happen in a genuinely free, open and democratic society.
As things stand, an extremely controversial woman is sitting there with a free ticket for a promotion at the USDA from an incompetent in the WH who created this mess by appointing her, then firing her too quickly for some reason. This isn�t Breitbart�s mess. This is now Obama�s mess to clean up, or justify, as far as I�m concerned. Heckuva job, Barry. Heckuva job. At least we�re starting to get used to it. I believe the word is: incompetent.
Obama really does seem to have some of the strangest friends, just like Joan Walsh, of Sherrod�s white media conspiracy against blacks. Who�d a thunk it?
So I�m through with this story. The edited video was unfortunate, but the true racist stripes of the NAACP, the Sherrods, and the Obama Administration have certainly come out over a week�s time. So bravo, Mr. Breitbart. You hit the target.