Now that context finally matters, prepare for the apology floodgates to open;
And while we’re at it, how about some apologies for all the false allegations by Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Charles Blow and numerous left-wing bloggers claiming that health care protesters were violent, and falsely linking the Tea Parties to the Amy Bishop shooting, the IRS Plane Crasher, the Fort Hood attack, and the Pentagon shooter.
They can start with Rush Limbaugh.
You could tell even from the cropped video there was more to the story.
All I need to know from the original Sherrod video is the way she smirked at the 1:06 mark when she said, “I didn’t give him the full force of my help.”
Redemption in the context of the full video?
Puhl-ease.
Excellent comments by Jacobson. However, as he points out, race is a key strategy of the Obama Gang – and it’s going to get worse.
Obama is a ‘mental case’; he is pathological; he has a pathological need to control others. Race is one tactic of dividing people and turning them into adversaries of each other – and, preventing criticism of himself.
Obama has moved race into the forefront – in emotional hysteria that hasn’t been seen since the 60s and even the Civil War. It’s not an accident; it’s a deliberate strategy. Obama is anti-American and anti-white and has filled the WH with like-minded sycophants.
He’s going to throw Congress to the wolves, setting up a November election that sets up Congress to take the brunt of electoral anger – rather than Obama. Obama will move into his Victim role and his superior role, where he insists he is ‘above all that’.
He’ll use race to divide the people – blacks, hispanics, whites. That’s a major strategy.
And I’m betting on one more emotional tactic. I haven’t figured out what it is…but it will be as false and just plain evil..as the other two tactics.
CNN’s redemption, my ass, & Obama’s 20 year time date expiration of discrimination, condemning Fox for taking the story out of Context…(those freaky phases connecting superiority to power, & the empathy she could now, once she felt confident in her superior status, show white farmers). In the same segment CNN aired a report on the new Black Panther story, casting the whole issue as a political argument between Dem’s and Republicans. The Context with regard to the chief witness was lost and not mentioned
[quote]The Obama Administration is also apparently ignoring the concerns of Bartle Bull, a Democrat and renowned civil rights attorney who worked as the New York campaign manager for both Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Carter, and received a medal from Senator Ted Kennedy for his work on civil rights. Mr. Bull was at the polling place in question when the intimidation took place and witnessed first hand the New Black Panthers trying to intimidate voters, saying to him “now you will see what it means to be ruled by the black man cracker” as the man brandished a night stick and stood in front of the polling place.[/quote]
It is interesting to compare Barbara Boxers redemption (Clarence Thomas) and her
empathy towards blacks, now that she feels superior….
Doesn’t really matter whether anyone apologizes to anyone. The Democrats — or at least their brain trust — are becoming ever more disassociated with main-stream Americans.
They may have made some hay in the last election, but in the near future they’re going to look behind and wonder where their constituency has gone. Indeed some of them may be wondering that now.
The only thing that could save them is a massive Clinton-like shift to the centre, but given their current leadership, I don’t see that happening.
The irony is indeed delicious.
I think SeeBS should apologize to the whole state of Arizona for their ongoing “Arizona is RACIST!!!” coverage of everything in the whole state.
In readers tips I posted a clip from SeeBS which charged Neo-Nazis are patrolling the Arizona border. AKA civilians, one of whom SeeBS “linked” to a “group” which “some experts” called neo-nazi.
Well, tell you what. The armed to the teeth Neo-Nazis did find some Mexicans in the desert while the segment was being filmed… and turned them in to the Feds. They -also- found a dead body.
So Mexican illegal activity one way or another left a dead body in the desert, but the SeeBS take-away thought is these eeeevile Neo-Nazis are gonna kill somebody one of these days, they’re DANGEROUS!!!
Just to be crystal clear, Mexican drug runners who kill people/leave people to die are innocent victims, armed Americans White Men are bad.
I’ll take my apology in $50s and $100s please.
ET, the third leg of Barry’s election plan is probably doing something precipitous to the border states, something -really- messed up like arresting Jan Brewer for racism. I’m sure he’d be fine with white soldiers shooting white civilians in a nice little Southwest civil war. Nobody votes DemocRat down there anyway, its all good.
Sherrod is now a Saint because she’s calling everyone else a racist, it’s nice of the lamestream media to sort that out for us so we can think correctly.
Re context: I watched a CBS interview with Andrew Breitbart (AB) this morning (on the internet).
Irony of ironies—not!—the journalist set up the anti-Breitbart story, ignoring the context. He suggested that AB had deliberately played the tape segment to target Sherrod, unfairly. “You showed her to be racist, when, in the end, if one watched the full tape, this was a story of redemption” or words very similar.
AB started his response by pointing out to the interviewer that the interviewer’s set-up of the story was inaccurate: AB pointed out, first of all, that he had made a disclaimer, re Sherrod, along with featuring the tape segment, where she admitted to behaving in a racist manner. Here’s AB’s disclaimer:
“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.”
The CBS interviewer (CBSI)—who did allow AB lots of time to make his points: admittedly, the interviewer had no leg to stand on—wasn’t buying AB’s angle. CBSI tried to deflect the facts of the situation onto Sherrod, while ignoring—repeatedly—AB’s thesis, which was the FAVOURABLE REACTION of the NAACP AUDIENCE to Sherrod’s racist remarks.
AB made it clear that his purpose in airing the tape was to demonstrate that the Tea Party Movement is held to an entirely different standard than that to which its accusers are held: while there is little evidence to prove Tea Party racism—including the false accusations of the “N” word being used on the steps of Congress—the NAACP response to the dinner speech clearly showed approval for an expression of black-on-white racism.
As I said, CBSI did his (un)level best to ignore both AB’s thesis and evidence. AB admirably held his ground.
That the NAACP and the Obama administration decided—precipitously, and without watching the full tape, to which they had access—to throw Sherrod under the bus is their own damn fault: what dolts! Cry babies too: “Andrew Breitbart ‘snookered’ us and made us do it!”
As AB pointed out, he didn’t focus on Sherrod: he neither asked for an investigation into her role at the federal agency where she work(s/ed), nor did he ask for, or even suggest, she be fired. The blame for her firing lies squarely on the shoulders of the Obama administration and the NAACP, who most definitely “acted stupidly”. Dolts!
I also watched a couple of interviews with Sherrod this morning. IMO, the “dolt” adjective fits her quite nicely too: No, Obama had not apologized to her when he phoned her, but: i) By his words and tone of voice, it was like he’d apologized; and ii) He doesn’t need to apologize, after all, “because he’s the President of the United States”. Now, isn’t that impeccable logic?
Sherrod also said that, though she’d never met AB or even knew about him before this incident, she didn’t expect an apology from “someone like him”. Seeing as she says she’s looking into suing AB, she should have shut up then and there. She didn’t. She went on to state, with no evidence whatsoever, that AB was both “racist” and (in words very similar) “wanted black people to go back to slavery”. One can’t make up this stuff.
Go, Andrew!
http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/07/19/video-proof-the-naacp-awards-racism2010/
Being a lefty means never having to apologize.
The POTUS with ADD really only has race left to fall back on. Ok there is competence but I am not really holding out for that. Immigration and the inclusion of illegals for voting is his only chance. Course it looks like slim pickings either way.
You can taste the MSM manipulation in this story.
The left is purposely ignoring the context.
they are despareratly trying to spin their own angle. It’s NOT ABOUT Shirley Sharod. It never was.
The NAACP were laughing and applauding at their own racisim.
I’d say that Sherrod’s unsubstantiated comments about Andrew Breitbart, in my above post, are bordering on—or have crossed the line into—slander. Wouldn’t this be a case of the pot calling the kettle black? (Whoops!)
I’d watch my step if I were Sherrod: what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If she sues Breitbart, she might end up biting off more than she can chew.
Quoting myself, above: “That the NAACP and the Obama administration decided—precipitously, and without watching the full tape, to which they had access—to throw Sherrod under the bus is their own damn fault . . .”
I’ve just started to read the “apology floodgate to open” link, provided by Kate: the good Cornell professor writes:
“But the NAACP did not waste time in demanding that action be taken against Sherrod because the NAACP had not seen the full clip, only the part where Sherrod related her racist past. (IT APPEARS THAT BEN JEALOUS, THE PRESIDENT OF THE NAACP, WAS AT THE MEETING, SO HE REALLY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THE CONTEXT.) [Emphasis mine]
“[added: @0.45 of the video SHERROD STATES THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE NAACP WAS PRESENT – h/t J.S.]” (Emphasis mine)
(Ben JEALOUS: who could make up a more apt name for this crass opportunist?)
What is wrong with these people—besides the fact that they seem to be imbeciles? I have a few ideas but will keep them to myself.
Perhaps I notice things others miss….but my reaction to the original Sherrod video was the audience reaction….that was disturbing….
But then I seemed to be the only one who noticed that Rodney King remained on his hands and knees despite tasering and blows from trunchions that should have flattened a Rhino (the African critter with the horny nose). As I remarked to associates at the time—“wadda they got to do to subdue this guy—shoot him?” Then after continent wide riots and property loss….it finally surfaced that Rodney King was under the influence of SPEED…….
Phantom:
“No one votes Democrat down there”
Sorry to break it to you, but Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada all went for Will Smith. McCain held Arizona – it’s his home state, after all – Utah, and Texas. That’s 3 states each, although Texas’s 34 electoral college votes dwarfed the others. California went for Will, but I don’t think anyone considers that part of the Southwest.
NAACP own the tape, who sent it to Breitbart? Why?
The psychics at the White House just knew it was going to be on Fox, so they fired Sherrod.
Hours before the tape ran.
Then they blame Fox.
It is all way too odd.
Somebody got a lot o splainin to do.
A liberal propagandist will only apologize for their sins if facing jail time. Your standard garden variety Metrosexual liberal does not do well in prison environments – even though they are (ahem!) quite popular with the inmates.
They fear prison culture. They dread the bestial drug fueled personal violation at the core of lenient jail culture even though they have condoned it ideologically with their prison reform ideals. It is the one way to convert a recalcitrant liberal into an apologizing fountain of truth, threaten them with prison time.
Now this race baiting con Lady. Who won 13 million is untouchable Politically. Now figures she’s empowered to do anything.
Notice the NACCP doesn’t have her full audio up.
I listened & it was race baiting at its Jackson best.
jmo
Like “Iowa Jim” said,being a leftie means you don’t ever have to apologize”. They don’t. When they are wrong,they shrug,they say it doesn’t matter,and then change the subject to something like,”well Bush killed millions”. It is easier to flush a cat than pin down a leftard. Lefties do have brains,they don’t have morals.They wear the Machiavellian mask of deceit.
Iowa Jim @2:56 – “Being a lefty means never having to say you’re sorry” (FIFY).
I blame hippies. And Al Gore.
What’s Obama got up his sleeve? You wouldn’t believe me if I told you. [Hint: think more along the lines of: what have Obama’s handlers got up their sleeve?]
Black Mamba does have a deadly bite.
wallyj, what would be really great is if someone could photoshop ManBearPig’s horrible head onto Ryan O’Neal’s horrible head, and maybe change “Love…” to “Being an environmentalist…”.
That, I feel, would be acomplishing something.
We have a similar problem. I was dragging my knuckes across the A-M radio today and on QR77 came across the “Roy Green” show. This show was about Canadians applying for federal jobs,and being told they were not elgible,their applications would not be considered, because of their race.
Lawdy,lawdy,I just about passed an whole ounce of zinfandel through my tiny nostrils when I heard that.
WTF.
KevinB, I was thinking rural Az, New Mexico and Texas where they go pretty much 100% Republican. Except for the big cities and the Indian reserves, its all red state red. No downside to shootin’ a few RACISTS out there.
Yes,Black Mamba. If only. I still can’t make italics,so count me out.
But,I can make paragraphs.
I wouldn’t blame him though. Either that, or a lot of scotch,boubon,and beer. I drink alone,when people like that are around.
Huh. A bit of my last post didn’t make it through. It was the part about Lizzie May being Ali McGraw. Cheers.
FOX pwned the libs by holding on to the tape for a day before they let it out.
That tape was around the blogosphere for at least a year and the Breitbart posting was just one in a series of examples collected and posted there to provide examples of the sort of miserable POSs that are filling government positions.
Once the lefty spinners got a whiff of the Breitbart post …. they tried to pull a short con on FOX.
It was a set up by the leftards and that’s all there is to it.
File it under “Know Your Enemy”
Wally J …
Italics works like this….
type
then type What you want to have in Italics
then type
What I want to know is how to do the cool upside down ! that NoPasaran uses…
Try this, wallyj.
Woo, some SHUT-UPery from CNN!!! Check it:
“Should there be a “gatekeeper” regulating internet bloggers? In the aftermath of the Shirley Sherrod incident, that’s what CNN promoted on July 23.
Anchors Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discussed the “mixed blessing of the internet,” and agreed that there should be a crackdown on anonymous bloggers who disparage others on the internet.”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/alana-goodman/2010/07/23/cnn-host-calls-crackdown-bloggers-wake-sherrod-incident-something-s-g
There’s yer October Surprise, shut down the Internet. Or maybe they’ll save that one for 2012. The news are starting this one the same way they started the War on SUVs, kinda subtle like.
Thanks Black Mamba
yeah, I’m stroking
I’m stroking to the east
I’m stroking to the west. I’m stroking to the woman that I know best.I’m stroking.
Still can’t do thst weird No parasan thing though .
I think the MSM learned a hard lesson. When they corruptly refuse to report the simple facts of a story (bag it) the void will be filled…They hide under thier desks & hope everything blows over… Not anymore folks!
Example of MSM Corruption:
Morley Safers CBS interview of Holder was typical of a contrived fraud…He deliberately misrepresented the AZ law and did not ask Holder RE: Black Panther…BTW he is not an American, Canadian, & may have an iron in the fire, CBS should have disclosed that fact.
He claimed he was on Vacation and did not know about the Black Panther Story… Even FOX gave him a pass (never call a fellow J a liar), but everyone knows the Morley is a BIT player that does not have editorial control.. The Production Staff put the words in his mouth and he muddles along….
BTW
I consider “HATE” to be the defining level of real Racism, every thing else is political posturing for $$$$
Wallyj: Look at you! First paragraphs, now italics, thanks to Black Mamba’s helpfulness.
If you’re interested here’s a couple of links I find quite useful (the Luddite that I am)- http://w3schools.com/tags/default.asp
It’s a whole list of HTML tags, but I find that generally only bold and italics work on this site, (altho more seem to work in my own emails). Some experimenting here with the ‘Preview’ option might find others.
Actually, there’s a whole index of related HTML stuff that could teach us old dogs some new tricks.
Another one is- http://webdevelopersnotes.com
On this one you can find HTML character entities for Symbols, Mathematical Symbols, Greek Letters- you know, those real oddball thingies that make you go ‘huh’?
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A while back, when I set you on your way with paragraphing, you mentioned …if I was ever in Calgary…Well I happened to be there a little over a week ago. You may have seen me. I was the guy in a cowboy hat! :~D)