In the course of a column decrying the lack of authentic blacks in the White House (seriously), Maureen Dowd adds this to the Whodunnit on the Sherrod firing:
The West Wing white guys who pushed to ditch Shirley Sherrod before Glenn Beck could pounce not only didn’t bother to Google, they weren’t familiar enough with civil rights history to recognize the name Sherrod. And they didn’t return the calls and e-mail of prominent blacks who tried to alert them that something was wrong.
MoDo is part reporter and part high school cafeteria gossip, but the bit about unreturned phone calls and emails does not seem made-up.
That contradicts the official story of a few days ago, where the White House staffers were passive, surprised bystanders and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack was to blame.
I don't know if anyone believes that, but I don't expect to see any reporters push on it, either.
ur expectations will be fullfilled.
Posted by: Strawman Cometh | July 25, 2010 at 12:07 AM
or un
Posted by: Strawman Cometh | July 25, 2010 at 12:08 AM
As Sherrod herself has made clear, the problem is that Obama ain't down with the struggle. No slave blood there. Brother don't know the rural South.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | July 25, 2010 at 12:28 AM
Fired by COOK.
And, using the White House "paraphenalia," to GPS locate a traveling driver on her cell phone.
Kudos to Shirley Sherrod for not driving into the highway's guard rail.
And, the best quote so far? "Shirley, she jests."
Posted by: Carol Herman | July 25, 2010 at 12:48 AM
Soylent care package:
'To showcase the efforts of those who support military families, Jill Biden and First Lady Michelle Obama have worked with the Corporation for National and Community Service to create a website dedicated to military families and veterans at http://www.serve.gov.
Biden noted that the site is a work in progress, but she urged people to share their stories about how they are supporting a military family, “whether it’s offering to mow their lawn, or bake cookies, or just go over with a movie and popcorn, or organizing a care package event in your neighborhood.”'
Yes, it's all stories of service, equal for all..................
www.woundedtimes.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-website-highlights-support-for.html
Posted by: America, Fuck Yeah! | July 25, 2010 at 01:03 AM
Soylent you are single, right?
Posted by: America, Yeah! | July 25, 2010 at 01:05 AM
AFY,
Despite the !, you seem insincere. Corrections appreciated.
Posted by: Strawman Cometh | July 25, 2010 at 01:08 AM
It's fairly easy. Political appointees "serve at the pleasure of the President". Only the President (or impeachment) can remove one from office. For pointers, the ABA has put together a very nice guide to the Federal Appointee process.
Posted by: Georg Felis | July 25, 2010 at 01:15 AM
Well, if has a wife and he's all the way over there ' bake cookies, or just go over with a movie' or whatever.
Posted by: AYah! | July 25, 2010 at 01:30 AM
Thank you our WARRIOR HERO! That's Andrew to you, WE LOVE YOU ANDREW!!! Sherrod is a liar as the whole video shows. The more she talks the worse it get's. The subject is dead, we aren't racists and we all know it, and it's so lame to even talk about it. It's time we get rid of the "special" groups for good, I think we're pretty evened out don't you, yea. In case you didn't notice, a year ago it all changed. We will not let them attack, lie, steal or manipulate any more. We know that it's not going to be easy for some people to change their ways, we have the rest of our lives to do it. That will give us enough time to teach the next generation what they need to know. We will never ever give up,we aren't a fad that will go away, they will never shut us up, evah! And another thing, with that same attitude there's only one person that's going to be in that house on the hill in 2012, and if the GOP thinks they will stop her they better get their Depends out. grrrr :) PS: WE LOVE YOU ANDREW!!
Posted by: jann | July 25, 2010 at 02:32 AM
“Hey you White House,
ha ha,
charade you are."
Posted by: Dave (in MA) --->>> BO Stinks <<<--- | July 25, 2010 at 02:36 AM
One more thing, OUR SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES DESERVE MORE THAN A COOKIE! That's so disgusting for crying out loud stop it. Hang in there gang, when the time comes we will honor you as you should be. You deserve the best and that's what you'll get. Thank you all for your service and our freedom.
Posted by: jann | July 25, 2010 at 02:46 AM
sometimes a cookie is all that stands between man and madness.
Posted by: matt | July 25, 2010 at 02:52 AM
For another Lefty unexpectedly criticizing the Administration, check out this 2 minute video on Tammy Bruce's site of ">http://tammybruce.com/2010/07/carville-slams-obama-again-now-on-moratorium.html"> James Carville slamming the Administration for gross incompetence in the BP Oil Spill, and for "killing folks down here" by shoving through their 6 months Drilling Moratorium.
Not difficult to watch at all, and especially fun is seeing perennial weasel Anderson Cooper reacting to Carville's unexpected outburst of animosity towards the Administration, and lamely trying to justify why the Administration should be able to shut all drilling down for 6 months or as long as it takes to figure out the problem. A nice deer in the headlights smackdown by Carville of that little piss-ant. But this is not about Anderson Cooper.
Posted by: daddy | July 25, 2010 at 03:55 AM
WAR ROOM!
tee hee
Posted by: lonetown | July 25, 2010 at 06:09 AM
It appears I am a lone voice crying in the wilderness, but I think Sherrod should not hold a position in our government.
I do not understand the need people feel to defend and coddle this women who clealry defines herself by her race and judges most issues based on skin color and thinks whites are rampantly out to discriminate against blacks.
She admitted discriminating against soemone based on their race, but then later changed her mind - why that qualifies her as a saint I don't get, except the fact that she's a liberal.
If she were a conservative, there isn't a rock big enough in death valley for her to hide under to avoid the media condemnation.
Even today she smears all white people at USDA as a bunch of racists out to hurt black people...seriously? Wouldn't this be considered deranged thought?
Posted by: Pops | July 25, 2010 at 06:40 AM
You're not alone Pops but they screwed up by immediately firing her without an internal investigation; she should've been suspended while her manager and HR examined what happened. Her subsequent statements have really damaged her credibility and she would be well advised to keep her simple yap shut.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 25, 2010 at 06:47 AM
Just in the few days that Sherrod has talked to the media, we have been enlightened about how she manages to find racism in America...She identified the following racists in quotes over the last week:
Andrew Brietbart is a racist.
Glenn Beck is a racist.
Fox News is racist.
Bill O'Reilly is a racist.
The Republian Party is racist.
Those who opposed Obamacare are racist.
Most whites at the USDA are racists.
President Obama may not be a racist, but he's not 'down for the struggle', so he's basically in bed with Whitey.
And Shirley Sherrod, the only person to publicly admit she discriminated against someone based on ther race...is the only non-racist in her scenario.
Here is what Brietbart said when they orignally posted the video: (Hardly any lack of context):
11:18 a.m.*: Breitbart posts Sherrod video,
We are in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail, that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions.
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.
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. """
Posted by: Pops | July 25, 2010 at 06:53 AM
Breitbart certainly removed the 'racist tea party' stories from the top of memeorandum which was his intent. He's outlining a winning push-back strategy. Good for him.
Posted by: scott | July 25, 2010 at 07:22 AM
I'm with you Pops. Then again I don't think Obama should have a position in this administration either. I must be a racist.
Posted by: Jane | July 25, 2010 at 07:50 AM
ttp://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/clarices_pieces_know_when_to_h.htm
This week's Clarice's Pieces
sherrod's stories about trying to alert Vilsack before the tape was released is full of contradictions
and things which require further explication. There's no credible account for how she knew about what Breitbart was doing for example.
I think someday we may find out that this was some internecine dispute inside the Ga USDA or even the NAACP.
Posted by: Clarice | July 25, 2010 at 07:50 AM
I hope Breitbart is looking into the story about Sherrod's father, Hosie Miller, being murdered in 1965. Shot in the back by a white neighbor, whose name we still haven't seen, over some sort of vague cow conflict, it's been reported as a fact that an all-white grand jury refused to indict the unnamed man, as was "common" at the time. (One article adds that it was common at the time, before the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed, although this supposedly happened in 1965.)
Besides the fact that the still-unnamed and possibly still-alive man was never brought to justice - yet they apparently haven't attempted to rectify that, even though there's no statute of limitations for murder - Ancestry.com lists Miller's county of death and county of residence as two different places, while the story Sherrod tells implies that the shooting happened at the boundary between the two farms.
All the stories I've read about this have reported as facts things that are alleged by Sherrod or her mother, who have both gained from this poignant story, yet these facts remain unverified.
There's also a story she tells about 40 white men burning a cross on her mother's yard shortly after the murder, and her mother makes a few calls and has enough black men come that they "surround" the group and move them off the property.
I don't say the woman's lying about these things, and I hope she's not, but it wouldn't be the first time a convenient yet not real history helped a career along. I'd like to see some verification of these stories.
Posted by: Extraneus | July 25, 2010 at 08:01 AM
Clarice's Pieces
Posted by: Extraneus | July 25, 2010 at 08:02 AM
Excellent, Clarice.
Posted by: Extraneus | July 25, 2010 at 08:13 AM
Thanks, ext.
My guess is if anyone examines here carefully, Sherrod will prove something of a fabulist.
Posted by: Clarice | July 25, 2010 at 08:14 AM
Spectacular Clarice!
Posted by: Jane | July 25, 2010 at 08:17 AM
Thanks, Jane.
Posted by: Clarice | July 25, 2010 at 08:35 AM
Clarice: All of your "Pieces" have been great, but his one simply is the best yet. Very well done!!!
Posted by: centralcal | July 25, 2010 at 08:57 AM
ah, typos! his = this
Posted by: centralcal | July 25, 2010 at 08:58 AM
Oh and Clarice, I believe you are on Lucianne this morning too.
Posted by: centralcal | July 25, 2010 at 09:02 AM
Certified lunatic and stuttering a-hole Howard Dean getting major pawn-job on FNS. Time for more self-medication for yeeeeaaarrrrrgggghhhh.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 25, 2010 at 09:08 AM
Clarice's Pieces with the first h.
Posted by: sbw | July 25, 2010 at 09:19 AM
As everybody here should know, I'm *not* a fan of Newt and consider him running for President, which yeeeeaaarrrgggh just endorsed in concept (which should tell you everything you need to know), preposterous; that said, if he's the originator of the phrase that he just used regarding McDivot, "trickle-down bureaucracy", that is outstanding.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 25, 2010 at 09:19 AM
Howard Dean just made a fool of himself on Fox News Sunday. He blamed Fox for the Sherrod firing. Wallace asked him if he was aware that she was fired before Fox uttered a word, he stuttered and blamed it on the fear of Glenn Beck. Gingrich then chimed in: If the white house is afraid of a news personality, how are they going to deal with the world's problems.
Posted by: Jane | July 25, 2010 at 09:22 AM
**Shock Alert**
Jesse Jackson not spending promised time helping to raise bastard daughter but mumbling incomprehensibly with marbles in mouth on FNS.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 25, 2010 at 09:22 AM
Ah, thanks sbw. I copied hers, used that to fix the link in my own browser, then used it again to create my comment. :-P
Posted by: Extraneus | July 25, 2010 at 09:24 AM
((It appears I am a lone voice crying in the wilderness, but I think Sherrod should not hold a position in our government.))
even Bill O'Reilly after apologizing for not doing his homework about Sharrod, as soon as he did his homework, called for her to be investigated for ethics charges, for violating the terms of her employment agreement. She is caught on the full tape politicking about how terrible the Bush admin was etc. etc. etc. and O'R says that is a clear violation of the Hatch Act.
Bill O'Reilly Apologizes, Attacks Sherrod
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-zSpfIKe_U
Posted by: Chubby (formerly Parking Lot) | July 25, 2010 at 09:24 AM
WOw - Jesse Jackson just said $3b in reparations were distributed on Thursday in the Pig farm case. Gee, I wonder if that was a demand of Sherrod.
Posted by: Jane | July 25, 2010 at 09:26 AM
Chubby,
You need to read back. You are not the least bit alone.
Posted by: Jane | July 25, 2010 at 09:27 AM
" the story about Sherrod's father, Hosie Miller, being murdered in 1965. Shot in the back by a white neighbor, whose name we still haven't seen, over some sort of vague cow conflict, it's been reported as a fact that an all-white grand jury refused to indict the unnamed man, as was "common" at the time."
If this actually happened, it would have been in the NYT. This sort of thing did not go uncelebrated in 1965.
Posted by: MarkO | July 25, 2010 at 09:29 AM
Jane, Chubby was quoting "Pops."
Chubby, for some reason, uses double parens instead of quotation marks.
Posted by: centralcal | July 25, 2010 at 09:31 AM
Jesse, who's never worked a day in his life, attacking Cavs owner Dan Gilbert who obviously refused to pay any shakedown money to get Mumbles to STFU. I'm sure Gilbert figured out that nobody oan understand a damn thing Jesse ever says.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 25, 2010 at 09:31 AM
((There's also a story she tells about 40 white men burning a cross on her mother's yard shortly after the murder, ))
the first time I heard that my BS Detector started going DING DING DING
Posted by: Chubby (formerly Parking Lot) | July 25, 2010 at 09:33 AM
Hey MarkO, you're a legal eagle. How would they know the composition of a grand jury, anyway, never mind that one considered the case? Isn't grand juror anonymity one of the reasons these things are kept secret?
Posted by: Extraneus | July 25, 2010 at 09:34 AM
Jane .
That was POPS I was quoting...
Posted by: Chubby (formerly Parking Lot) | July 25, 2010 at 09:35 AM
You know, Captain, you're kind of like the Andres Cantor announcer, screaming "Gol" for these sort of shows, sounds like a real Roberto Duran moment for both "Sherman McCoy"
and the veteran Mau Mauer
Posted by: narciso the harpoon | July 25, 2010 at 09:36 AM
narc, it's so rare that Chris Wallace doesn't act like his commie old man doesn't have his hand far up his offspring's ass and is moving his jaw, that I have to express my sense of pleasant disbelief. Maybe there've been a lot of letters & emails on just that.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 25, 2010 at 09:42 AM
CentralCal
((Chubby, for some reason, uses double parens instead of quotation marks.))
I like using parentheses because they look like quoatation marks but are bigger and more visual ...
Posted by: Chubby (formerly Parking Lot) | July 25, 2010 at 09:43 AM
I think I used one too many "doesn't" @ 9:42
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 25, 2010 at 09:44 AM
That sounds like a rally memorable exchange, Capt. Thanks for reporting it. Isn't it something how most of the press has utterly ignored the Journolist scandal about deliberately and falsely charging racism for political ends and at the same time accuses Fox of what that network demonstrably did not do?
Posted by: Clarice | July 25, 2010 at 09:47 AM
Here's one of the stories about Sherrod's father's murder, with nary a fact in evidence. And here's now it closes:
Posted by: Extraneus | July 25, 2010 at 09:48 AM
Fox is driven by a certain split in sentiment, the Hearstian populism that is typified by Beck, Hannitty, et al, and the more somber establishment mien that Britt
typifies
Posted by: narciso the harpoon | July 25, 2010 at 09:49 AM
Beck must really be driving McDivot's people crazy because they seem to have forgotten about bashing Rush lately.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 25, 2010 at 09:53 AM
That is the thing that offends my
sensibilities, it's not 1965 anymore, although
neither the late Sen. Byrd or Fulbright or
Governor Hollings had anything to do with that
Posted by: narciso the harpoon | July 25, 2010 at 09:55 AM
Beck seems to use "admissible" evidence. He always plays the video or the sound bite. He does not merely characterize the quotation. In that sense, he is far more dangerous than anyone else on Fox. Because he is on television at 5 in the East, he commands a large audience. Rush is good at using evidence, but he is on the radio.
Posted by: MarkO | July 25, 2010 at 10:00 AM
Just wait 'til Meet the Press comes on, they're setting a trap for Santelli on the "Roundtable of Love" with Anita Dunn and the head of the Urban League, among others.
He's going to try and run around the trap but I don't think they're going to let him.
Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | July 25, 2010 at 10:02 AM
In 1965, the story of a black man, shot in the back by a white neighbor who went unpunished would have been front page news. In fact, there likely would have been a federal case filed. Especially, if a local grand jury [read wizard] had failed to report charges.
If you can't find it rather quickly, I suspect it did not happen as currently reported.
Posted by: MarkO | July 25, 2010 at 10:04 AM
Isn't it something how most of the press has utterly ignored the Journolist scandal about deliberately and falsely charging racism for political ends and at the same time accuses Fox of what that network demonstrably did not do?
And they can't stop themselves from doing it even after presented with the facts. The only thing that's been discouraging is how some people (and I'm looking at Ace and his co-bloggers) get jobbed into scrutinizing the minutia of was Sherrod "really" being racist on the whole tape or not. As commentor baldilocks (a black female) pointed out: STOP GETTING PULLED INTO THIS FALSE ARGUMENT. All it is is subjective obfuscation in which one side will never back off. I'd really like to see use of the term become grounds for total ridicule and evidence of not being able to debate things based on facts.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 25, 2010 at 10:06 AM
It's not accidental, it's deliberate, we've seen with Richard Clarke, when his off the record comments praising the administration,
they ran the treackly accusations instead. When Armitage appeared in the Plame matter, he is still unperson Ogilvy to some. When one
clarifies that Sarah didn't say 'She can see
Russia from her house' they run the Feyism. In many ways Nyhan's side can't handle contrary evidence, not us
Posted by: narciso the harpoon | July 25, 2010 at 10:14 AM
wow Clarice, your putting together all the "pieces" of the labyrinthine Shirley Sharrod story was a masterly feat.
Posted by: Chubby (formerly Parking Lot) | July 25, 2010 at 10:23 AM
Posted by: cathyf | July 25, 2010 at 10:30 AM
Meanwhile the Times knows other folks unlike
the 'malevolent' Tea Partiers are just misunderstood, in the LUN
Posted by: narciso the harpoon | July 25, 2010 at 10:32 AM
Extraneus:
"I'd like to see some verification of these stories."
I can pretty much validate one part of Sherrod's past. Per Wikipedia, she's from Baker County, Georgia, in magenta on the map below. In the late '70s, I spent a lot of time in Dougherty County, in red, near the small "city" of Albany where Sherrod "studied sociology" at Albany State U. and met her husband.
In the 60's, again per Wikipedia, Charles Sherrod was coordinating civil rights protests in what became the "Albany Movement." The police chief there arrested so many people that he had to farm them out to other prisons. He threw Martin Luther King, himself, into jail three times. So, this was a period where racial tensions -- and white resentment -- were at their at their height, nowhere more so than in southwest Georgia.
When I arrived more than a decade later, it was still one of the most stunningly racist areas I've ever lived in -- and black farmers were at the very bottom of that heap. There were people around Albany who would have told you Baker County was even worse. Before driving through it on the way down to Florida, I was given this advice: "Just fill up your gas tank before you get to Newton, and DON'T STOP for anything till it's long gone from your rear view mirror."
Like you, I think there are a lot of narratives that deserve a whole lot more scrutiny than they get, and Wikipedia is not exactly gospel. When it comes to Sherrod's family history, however, I have no trouble believing every word of it.
Posted by: JM Hanes | July 25, 2010 at 10:33 AM
I agree that the story would have been front page news. I can still remember the reporting of actual events of that kind from that era. Medgar Evers, the three freedom riders, and before that Emmett Till. The truth on all of this is going to come out fairly soon, I would think.
Minus 20 at Raz today.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | July 25, 2010 at 10:34 AM
Good one, Clarice.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | July 25, 2010 at 10:42 AM
Ms. Feldman,
A timely and powerful piece. Thank you for your efforts.
Posted by: MoodyBlu | July 25, 2010 at 10:43 AM
Here's another story about Sherrod, with a few more interesting facts. In this version, the murder occurred in 1963.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | July 25, 2010 at 10:46 AM
Ms. Shirley Sherrod (or Sharrod)is a racist and unfit to hold government office at any level. Her views and comments disqualify her from holding any position that has power over any other citizen -white, black, brown, yellow, whatever. PERIOD.
Until we collectively get over looking at people as groups and not individuals..this will never work....
Posted by: tysm | July 25, 2010 at 10:48 AM
DOT:
Minus 20 at Raz today.
Day is not complete until I read DoT's Raz report.
Posted by: MoodyBlu | July 25, 2010 at 10:49 AM
Don't see the link, DoT.
Posted by: Extraneus | July 25, 2010 at 10:51 AM
One correction for Clarice. The Sherrod video posted by Breitbart did indeed contain the part where she speaks about her epiphany. There all the time. The hysterics simply ignored that and concentrated on the earlier part of the narrative.
Posted by: bio mom | July 25, 2010 at 10:53 AM
Excellent CP, Clarice.
Posted by: DebinNC | July 25, 2010 at 11:02 AM
Politico on 7/20 after Sherrod's firing but before the apologies barrage:
"Agriculture Department spokesman Chris Mather said Sherrod was let go because of what she said in March that was captured on the videotape, not due to her actions in regard to the farmer two decades ago. “She was asked to resign because of the comment she made when she was a political appointee. It’s not what happened decades ago. It’s the comments she made in March.”
Vilsack claimed later the WH didn't influence Sherrod's firing, but the WH surely influenced the jettisoning of the USDA's initial assessment of her comments, about which Vilsack/Mather agreed with Pops.
Posted by: DebinNC | July 25, 2010 at 11:19 AM
Sorry Ext, I forgot to link to the article and now I can't find it. It appears Free Republic has been looking for facts and can't find much.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | July 25, 2010 at 11:25 AM
When it comes to asking serious questions, I'd start with that Masters in "community development" and the precise character of "New Communities" farm business. There were some truly bizarre communal projects being set up around that time. I seem to recall a black muslim group which acquired a significant amount of property for a separationist enclave. One of its tenets was that "food is poison" -- which is not exactly a farmer's creed. I'm not sure how far off the ground it got, but I wouldn't assume such movements were homegrown.
The size of the eventual settlement suggests there was plenty for opportunists of every stripe to like. Sherrod is apparently in line for a major chunk of money, and it would be worth investigating how the rest is to be distributed, who the beneficiaries are and how they qualified for inclusion. It sounds like she's had a lot of money to pass around professionally too, and no small conflicts of interest. The Spooner saga may have had a happy ending, but that's just one small brush stroke in a much bigger picture.
Posted by: JM Hanes | July 25, 2010 at 11:28 AM
Just for the record, very early on, before this story was even picked up by "main stream media", Glenn Beck on his show said that the Sherrod story needed to be investigated more fully before anyone rushed to any conclusions.
Posted by: SB | July 25, 2010 at 11:40 AM
Here's the Wikipedia account of the Pigford class action lawsuit, in which about a billion dollars has been paid out. It's my understanding that Sherrod is one of the "Track B" plaintiffs. I certainly hope we learn more about her USDA duties and responsibilities in the coming days.
Posted by: Danube of Thought | July 25, 2010 at 11:52 AM
"I don't say the woman's lying about these things, and I hope she's not, but it wouldn't be the first time a convenient yet not real history helped a career along. I'd like to see some verification of these stories."
Echo. Sherrod uses these stories to justify her hatred of whites, but it simply doesn't follow that for someone so traumatized, the catalyst that reformed her was a white farmer ill-served by the white lawyer she sent him to.
Posted by: Fen | July 25, 2010 at 11:52 AM
JMH,
If we are talking about the same thing, the initial data was that she and her husband each got $150k while the typical settlement was about $27k. This morning Jesse Jackson said they paid out another $4b on Thursday - I question the timing.
And if we are not talking about the same thing, I apologize.
Posted by: Jane | July 25, 2010 at 11:55 AM
Here's more on that area of Georgia in the early 60's from Rich Lowry.
Posted by: Jim Miller | July 25, 2010 at 11:55 AM
Thanks all. BioMom, I believe video 1 cut off before the full epiphany disclosure..just as she started down that path. It was that which caused the Anchoress to suggest we all hold fire until we had more.
I'm with jmh, about the times..
In 1965 when I was graduating from law school, I interviewed at the Civil Rights Division. John Dorr reported back to the professor who had recommended me that since Goodman, Cheny And Werner had just been murdered, they would not allow white woman to go down south to handle these cases and that he thought I'd be bored sitting around DC rather than litigating.
These were hot, dangerous times.
But that was 4 decades ago.
Posted by: Clarice | July 25, 2010 at 11:57 AM
Oh, and kudos to our host for this line: "MoDo is part reporter and part high school cafeteria gossip, but the bit about unreturned phone calls and emails does not seem made-up."
What a nice summary of one of our favorite columnists.
Posted by: Jim Miller | July 25, 2010 at 11:59 AM
See, if Obama had slave blood, he woulda been down with the struggle and woulda recognize Sherrod name. That's why Sherrod coulda remind him that she got experience he don't. That why he run and talk to her. So this whole story just show like that black LA Times reporter ask if Obama black enough and it asnwer that question too. He ain't. Breitbart help America see that Obama naked on race. He don't have the street cred and he don't have the backgkround knowledge. He racist but he don't know history details. He know how to accuse America but he don't know a whole lotta stuff. Guess that why he got Chelle.
Posted by: NotPC | July 25, 2010 at 11:59 AM
This seems to be how she earned her masters, Earn a Degree While Working in Rural Community Development
And more on New Communities and the settlement.
Posted by: Rocco | July 25, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Jane:
Even if we weren't talking about the same thing, which I think we are, more info would be nothing to apologize for!
Posted by: JM Hanes | July 25, 2010 at 12:01 PM
FWIW, the 82 yr old GA Agriculture Commissioner is stepping down after 42 yrs. Lifelong Democrat Tommy Irvin was nationally known segregationist Lester Maddox's legislative aide until Democrat Gov. Maddox appointed him Ag Comm.
Posted by: DebinNC | July 25, 2010 at 12:04 PM
"the 'malevolent' Tea Partiers are just misunderstood, in the LUN"
Only underestimated, certainly not 'misunderstood'.
Evidence, the lack of accountablity shown here, without exception.
Posted by: Crimson Carrot | July 25, 2010 at 12:04 PM
I would ask Maureen Dowd, if I could, how the NAACP could make the same mistake as the White House. I mean if the WH doesn't recognize Sherrod's contribution because they aren't authentically black, how come the NAACP condemned Sherrod as well? Is it they
"weren’t familiar enough with civil rights history to recognize the name Sherrod"?
Posted by: Steve | July 25, 2010 at 12:07 PM
Breitbart gets a pass with fellow racists.
Posted by: Wine Jelly | July 25, 2010 at 12:11 PM
((Breitbart gets a pass with fellow racists.))
"Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness." Mary Frances Berry
"Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists" Spencer Ackerman, JournOlist
Posted by: Chubby (formerly Parking Lot) | July 25, 2010 at 12:15 PM
At tea party rallies, we ought to carry a sign reading "Don't Pickering Us"..Remind people of the dastardly use to which the race baiters have put the charge.
Posted by: Clarice | July 25, 2010 at 12:17 PM
Danube of Thought:
As Sherrod herself has made clear, the problem is that Obama ain't down with the struggle. No slave blood there. Brother don't know the rural South.
Good point. He just doesn’t know rural America. Period. Recall his “bitter…clinging to to guns and religion” remark about rural Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Gringo | July 25, 2010 at 12:19 PM
'Tainting' seems a flaccid word for the hard-on Tea-Baggers have for the White Race.
Posted by: Wine Jelly | July 25, 2010 at 12:19 PM
"race baiters"
Tea-Baggers are bait fishermen in a fly-fishing world.
Posted by: Wine Jelly | July 25, 2010 at 12:22 PM
This isn't a public toilet, Rancid Fruit; close the door on your way out.
Posted by: Captain Hate | July 25, 2010 at 12:26 PM
We get the morning's benefaction from Wine Jelly.
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Posted by: If this is Sunday it must be time to hate Belgium. | July 25, 2010 at 12:27 PM
And Van Jones, is crawling out of the woodwork
to insist he was a 'victim' like Sherrod. THe LUN was too a lively colloquoy with an Al Sshaab leader, the kind the order the massaacre in Uganda the other day
Posted by: narciso the harpoon | July 25, 2010 at 12:28 PM
(('Tainting' seems a flaccid word for the hard-on Tea-Baggers have for the White Race.))
This is a family site, we are not interested in your sex practices.
Posted by: Chubby (formerly Parking Lot) | July 25, 2010 at 12:28 PM
"close the door on your way out."
Not before I spray ecnough room freshener
in this Outhouse.
Posted by: Wine Jelly | July 25, 2010 at 12:29 PM
Teen unemployment is up to 25%.
3 minimum wages in 4 years from Pelosi and Reid.
It is particularly brutal on African American male teens.
Stupid economic policies have consequences.
This is a serious problem that consistently goes under-reported. A challenge to journalists who fancy themselves "social conscious"....give this story the coverage it deserves.
Posted by: Army of Davids | July 25, 2010 at 12:29 PM