NAACP Blames Fox and Breitbart For The NAACP’s Overreaction to Shirley Sherrod Video
by Jeff DunetzThe scandal surrounding the firing of Shirley Sherrod is getting weirder by the second. Now the NAACP is blaming Fox News and Andrew Breitbart for the NAACP’s own overreaction to the release of the video of Ms Sherrod, released on Big Government yesterday.
The video showed Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaking at an NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. The part of her speech covered in the video saw Ms Sherrod tel a story about providing only minimal help to a Caucasian farmer who came to her for help.
Today Sherrod said the video was taken out of context. She said that a video of her entire speech would reveal that she described the 24 year old incident as a turning point in her life. Ms Sherrod said that was the point where she learned it was not all about race, it was about poverty. She eventually helped that white farmer to keep his farm and even became friends with the farmer and his wife.
Almost immediately after Shirly Sherrod resigned, the NAACP President Ben Jealous released a statement condemning her.
“We are appalled by her actions, just as we are with abuses of power against farmers of color and female farmers,” the statement said.
“Her actions were shameful,” it continued. “While she went on to explain in the story that she ultimately realized her mistake, as well as the common predicament of working people of all races, she gave no indication she had attempted to right the wrong she had done to this man.”
When this statement was released it seemed very important , after all Ms. Sherrod was speaking at an NAACP function, and while Big Government only had access to the video they released, the NAACP had access to the entire video. Certainty they must have seen the entire video before they condemned Shirley Sherrod. Well Certainly not!
As soon as Ms Sherrod blasted the NAACP for not talking to her before bashing her the NAACP withdrew their statement. That’s when Ben Jealous then called Sherrod to find out her side of the story.
Following their conversation NAACP President Jealous released the following statement
“With regard to the initial media coverage of the resignation of USDA official Shirley Sherrod, we have come to the conclusion we were snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart into believing she had harmed white farmers because of racial bias,” said Jealous. “Having reviewed the full tape, spoken to Ms. Sherrod, and most importantly heard the testimony of the white farmers mentioned in this story, we now believe the organization that edited the documents did so with the intention of deceiving millions of Americans.”
“The fact is Ms. Sherrod did help the white farmers mentioned in her speech,” he continued. “They personally credit her with helping to save their family farm.”
Sorry Mr. Jealous, but you can’t be snookered when you hold all of the evidence. And you are still missing a major part of the video its not necessarily about Shirley Sherrod. Watch the video again, listen for the approval of the crowd as she talked disparagingly about the white farmer and how she sent him to one of his own for help. You see, Ms Sherrod’s story doesn’t change the fact that the NAACP audience seemed to have approved of her actions when she talked about not helping the white farmer.
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I only have one thing to say. *gigglesnort*
Mr. Jealous got snookered.
I think Ben sounds a bit "Jealous" lol
Well what a bunch of morons. Fox didn't even mention it until she had resigned. Doh! The NAACP are idiots! What? They so feared that Fox would say something they had to come out and condemn Shirley only to reverse hours later. Give us a break, go away, you guys (NAACP) are irrelevant buffoons.
The NAA(L)CP only has itself to blame.
Maybe if they wouldn't falsely cry "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!' every 5 minutes they'd have some credibility.
Oh, and isn't by it's very nature, an organization that supposedly stands for the advancement of "colored people" (presumably to the exclusion of people who are not so colored) a racist one?
Mr. Jealous, playing the race card game can get tricky. Maybe you should back away from the table.
I find it funny how they blame Fox and Breitbart on their own overreaction, and Sherrod for doing this upon herself. It is just sad how far down the NAACP has brought down itself and they have no one else to blame but themselves. Besides, they cant blame Breitbart for anything, since all he did was just report on what Sherrod said and has the video evidence to back it up.
Funny, the full video has been out for a couple hours now, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9NcCa_KjXk , and this site still hasn't linked to it yet; nor has BigMedia acknowledged that it got several key elements of the story dead wrong.
Context is, indeed, everything. I am shocked, shocked.
The leadership of the NACCP needs to be changed. They have wandered so far away from their founding principles that I dont even recognize the institution I was indoctrinated to admire.
The players who think they are the slickest always play one hand too long.
True that!
When you're an organization which has come to value perception over substance, this is the result.
Black and white has been here for almost 300 years now. Time to call for truce. Politicians and lobbyists are using this wedge to make a division. While infighting are ongoing, politicians and lobbyists are amassing wealth and power for themselves. Divide and conquer.
My guess is a whole lot of their current dues paying members wil be evaluating if they can afford to continue paying dues to a bunch of racist morons with knee jerk reflexes based in stupidity.
Ms Sherrod’s story doesn’t change the fact that the NAACP audience seemed to have approved of her actions when she talked about not helping the white farmer.
So the NAACP is not a racist organization, in spite of this evidence, but the Tea Party is a racist organization, in spite of the lack of evidence.
Hmm.
I don't think Sherrod's heart was in the right place when she was speaking to the NAACP. I think she presented the story to the group to show them she had some street cred as a hater. The group reacted so positively to her comments that I was expecting to hear some, AMENS! and ALLELUIAS!
Van Jones and Rev. Wright getting thrown under the bus was GOOD, the whole ACORN debacle was GREAT, this NAACP spectacle is,,,,,PRICELESS
I personally think that sherrod is not a racist, It sounds to me like she learned something from the experience related in her story. That being said that is not what bothers me about this story. What bothers me is how fast Obama and his cronies at the naacp threw her under the bus to cover their asses.
While I agree that the left, and socialist policies are the scourge of human civilization, and I frequent all of the "big" sites. I think this one might have been a screw up on our part. Even in the edited clip I could tell that this was a story about a learning experience, and the "I was deciding how much help I was gonna give him" is clearly meant in a joking manner. I see no evidence of racism in this video.
the fact is Sherrod's first instinct was to discriminate against the white farmer. So at the end she goes off on some holier than thou tangent. Big deal. Darling, the damage was already done.
You sent him off to one of "his own". Whatever. Guess what? Glenn Beck was wrong…and so is the NAACP. Ms Sherrod deserved to get fired.
If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr spoke in front of todays NAACP he would be booed off stage to slurs of "Uncle Tom" and "sellout".
Asking liberals to get past race would be like asking the palestinians to get past terrorism.
Great take on this one. Why is Jealous saying he was "snookered" when the most benign answer is that he was lazy?
Seems Mr. Jealous has a hard time taking responsibility for his actions. He perceives he is "snookered" when he is merely lazy . What is he when he accuses people of being racist with out evidence and supports firing someone, who although racist by her own admission, was in possession of proof that there was a bit more to the story? Seems Mr. Jealous has a bit of an agenda which in part is calling people racist without proof and not even looking at all the evidence he has first. He obviously has a big mouth , calls people racist with or without facts and is lazy about such a serious matter as slandering people. Is this the best the NAACP can do?
NAACP just fell victim to the self-induced "cry wolf" syndrome. Racism Charges are a powerful weapon that must be used sparingly.
They will have a hard time playing that card again,,,,with ANY credibility.
It surprises, and seems odd to me that Mr. Breitbart and the Big sites would post the video of Ms. Sherrod's speech without seeing the rest of the video, without finding out the context in which Ms. Sherrod's story was being told. Mr. Breitbart and the people working for him seemed to have all their ducks in a row when they were releasing Mr. O'Keefe's ACORN videos and had been on a roll after that hitting home run after home run. So what happened here? What happened to the research? The more I think about it, the more I wonder if Mr. Breitbart, or someone working for him, didn't A) Screw up by posting the video or B) if maybe they weren't LOOKING to get a reaction such as Mr. Jealous' to embarrass someone. If that was the plan, it seems to have worked but it doesn't make Mr. Breitbart and his team look very good either.
This is too rich! Context is, indeed, "everything", and in this context I STILL see a room full of racists intent on sticking it to "whitey". The NAACP needs to just admit that they jumped the gun. As Breitbart already said elsewhere . . . he did NOT fire Sherrod or call for her resignation. He was exposing racism within the NAACP. The story was (and is) MUCH bigger than Sherrod. However, it does make me laugh how easily the NAACP and Obama reacted. Hmmm . . . could it be election season and SOMEONE is worried about the white vote? *snort*
What I find even more amazing is Ben Jealous had the entire video from the get go. But he's a weasel on the run falsely accusing white folks(and is Ben Jealous black? maybe he's an albino) of racism. He should have reviewed the video himself before he made a knee jerk reaction.
Yeah and I just got to the end where it's the typical tripe about how they're doing it because of a "black president".
I retract my comment.
Yeah I was clearly wrong. I just got to the of the video… damn. I actually thing the edited clip makes her look better.
NAACP throws racist (?) speaker under the bus then has to be told that the real racism was with its own members in the audience (they missed that part).
Anybody think the naacp should ever be considered a serious organization again? Anybody care what the naacp thinks of the Tea Party, racism or anything else? They've shown what they are all about and so has our post-racial White House. What a joke!
Go Andrew Breitbart!!! Perfectly played sir.
Actually I find the full video much more damning.
This is not something to giggle about. Racism in any direction is wrong, and it i obvious that those who tried to snooker the NAACP were consciously misleading!
I think one of the bigger points here is actually context:
Even if Breitbart knew about any longer version of this particular video,not saying he did, by posting this section and getting this response he has dramatically shown the results of showing only 'part' of the story. This same 'partial' telling of the story has been intentionally used to great effect by the MSM as a direct assualt upon many right leaning individuals.
Typical libral responce to most things, they don't read the Bills they write, they probably still haven't read the Arizona Immigration law even though they knew it was unconstitutional through ESP, and they can't even sit through and watch a whole video. Can anyone say Attention Deficit Disorder? As to blaming Fox and Brietbart…our sun will go out before a libral will ever take responsability for their own actions.
emphasis on 'yet'
Who is this NAACP clown anyway, he does not look very black to me and as young as he is I doubt if he has ever seen a bit of real anti black-racism but I am quite sure he has seen a lot of anti-white racism.
The language Ms. Sherrod used was revealing as to what goes on in her mind, also the audience reaction was sincere and real, also showing their state of mind. Some blacks can be racist, and given the environment created by Jesse, Al, Ben Jealous, Obama and Holder, knee jerk reactions happen and Ms. Sherrod is the sacrificial lamb. I don't blame Breitbart at all. He didn't force the firing of Ms. Sherrod.
From http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100721/ap_on_go_ca_s...
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Sherrod says her remarks, delivered in March at a local NAACP banquet in Georgia, were part of a story about racial reconciliation, not racism. The white farming family that was the subject of the story stood by Sherrod and said she should keep her job.
"We probably wouldn't have (our farm) today if it hadn't been for her leading us in the right direction," said Eloise Spooner, the wife of farmer Roger Spooner of Iron City, Ga. "I wish she could get her job back because she was good to us, I tell you."
The website, biggovernment.com, gained fame last year after airing video of workers at the community group ACORN counseling actors posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend. It posted the Sherrod video as evidence that the NAACP, which recently passed a resolution condemning what it calls racist elements of the Tea Party, condones racism of its own.
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Nice going, biggovernment.com. The NAAPC does not condone racism, and this was not racism. All you've done is harm an innocent person who is not a racist and did nothing to you. You must be so proud. What a waste.
Seriously, this is your contribution? What is this even about?
You just wanted to smear the NAAPC, but the fact that you had to come up with a lie to do it must mean you could not find an instance where the NAACP actually DID condone racism.
If the NAACP feels snookered [love that word, so much nicer than duped] by Fox and Breitbart, how do they feel about the Obama administration, now that they have said they stand by their decision to ask for Mrs.Sherrod's resignation?
The moral relativists never seem to need context when smearing Rush Limbaugh. His comments on Donovan McNabb never were played by the lefty media within the context in which they were spoken. But, when the Players' Association says jump, the weanies in the NFL front office start leapin. Rush was railroaded in his attempt to buy the St. Louis Rams, and the moral relativist toadies of the NFL wimped out to the union. My only option? I haven't watched a single NFL game since, and have no intention of doing so again. My Sundays are no less enjoyable and I have the pleasure of not contributing time or treasure to the tools of the left.
Andrew Brietbart owes Ms. Sherrod a HUGE public apology, so do you, do does the WH (they are to chicken sh_t to admit their part, and so does Glenn Beck. This is a fine woman – too bad that most folks in politics don't have the integrity that this woman has. I am a Republican, I have been to Tea Party Rallies, I've never seen the first racist remark except a kid not old enough to have experienced capitalism with a sign that said capitalism = white supremacy. This woman is the bigger person than every single one of you involved – and I hope this teaches you all a lesson, but unfortunately, at this woman's expense – who overcame racism and stood there and admitted it. This is horrible.
2nd on the list of horrible things is that ya'll must be quaking in your boots of the tea party when you spend so much time pooh poohing them – your ruined a woman's life without even checking the validity of the story – or even bothering to look at the tape. You are no better than Andrew Breitbart – unbelievable.
You haven't proven that anyone was a liar. That requires being wrong and knowledge that you are wrong. Since you have not demonstrated this (and no one, to my knowledge, has done so), a retraction is in order.
Mr. Breitbart, you are indeed at fault, for introducing the video in a way that made it seem like she was telling a recent story. For editing it to omit the conclusion of the story, which was: she was glad she didn't make her life about who's black or white (which got more approval from the audience than anything else she said). For further mangling reality by adding wrong info in print on the clips themselves. For not fact checking – or you would have found the Spooners, still living on their farm and calling her a friend. For withholding other facts, example: she wasn't working for the government 24 years ago, she was working for a local nonprofit.
Some people trust what you put in print. You should apologize for getting this one so completely wrong.
I won't lie. I have NOT watched the full video.
If Mr. Breitbart and his people were looking to prove racism within the NAACP… I'm all for it. I say good for them.
But getting that proof cost Ms. Sherrod her job and her reputation and that makes me wonder.
How could ANYONE have "snookered" the naacp if it was the naacp that had the entire tape? Did they snooker themselves? Did they mislead themselves? Or did they just act like the racist organization that they are by throwing this woman under the bus just to save their sorry, racist asses?
Maybe the NAACP should go about getting its own context, rather than relying on Fox and Breitbart. (If I had written that last week, would anyone have believed that the NAACP would EVER trust Breitbart and/or Fox?)
Mr Jealous snookered himself. He has no excuse. He had the full tape.
By only posting PART of the video, by not giving context, Mr. Breitbart ended up wounding, if not destroying, a possibly innocent woman, Ms. Sherrod. She did nothing except tell a story. They could have posted MORE of the video, which might have cleared Ms. Sherrod's name while still showing the bigotry inside the NAACP.
Gigglesnort!
What editing? The whole piece was pretty clear as to her point, and no one in the audience seemed to be outraged by her comment, now did they? Spare me your faux intellectualism. You're another Cheetoe sucking troll. Go back to Huff and Blow where you belong.
Give it time bucko…you'll regret the day you ever voted for the Marxist in Chief.
The White House fired her – not Breitbart. The White House, like the naacp, overreacted and fired this poor woman without justification. They didn't use the many resources they had available, they didn't listen to Ms. Sherrod when she tried to explain.
Naacp, like the White House, proved to everyone that it bases very serious allegations on little or no proof. Just like they did when they alleged racism in the Tea Party.
Big Government gave the White House and the naacp enough rope and those fools hung themselves. Unfortunately, but not unusually, they victimized an innocent American along the way.
By the way, we'd love for you to keep trying to place blame where it doesn't belong so that we can keep pointing out the truth – over and over, day after day.
Now John, you're trying so hard to let the facts get in the way of their delusion……just sayin'
Yeah Benny, and next, you're going to attempt to BS us into believing the devil made you do it. /Sarkmark
The Obama economy is so bad…that even people who aren't in Baracky's Cabinet have stopped paying taxes.
CYA is all they know how to do. That, and ruin a country, that is.
Her reputation was already pretty well out the door when this surfaced.
This is too rich. Look at all the lefties signing up because they think they smell blood in the water. That's not blood, though. That's the Kool-Aid you spilled when your mask slipped.
In a nutshell, yes. Can you fit that neatly on a campaign banner?
Idiotchild, no one here was calling for her firing, merely pointing out the hypocrisy of the NAACP. I personally think she should be fired but that's my opinion. As far as Hussein's miserable healthcare plan it doesn't go into effect until after the election. If they implemented it before they would lose in a landslide, ironically that's what's going to happen anyway. Hussein understood you're too stupid to get that, considering you voted for him -even he recognizes the idiocy of his constituency- which is why he gets out there and says nonsense like "uh uh the world didn't end after I nationalized healthcare"; he knows slackjawed fools like you in your obama underoos will be out there cheering "yeah the wurld ddnt end! methadone and vicodin fur evry1! dum repubs! "
You're phuqed this November.
Having watched the whole video, there is a segment starting at the 24 minute mark that practically negates everything else she was trying to convey in her speech. Essentially, she goes off message regarding how she came to the conclusion that it's really about poor vs. rich (although she made sure not to move away from the "white vs. black" narrative in one statement), and starts denigrating the Tea Parties for being racist and that Republicans are only acting the way they are because now we have a black president.
For someone who was supposedly trying to "bring us all together" she went off in left field on that one.
I have one reply: This website is accused of altering the tape and contributing to the firing of Mrs. Sherrod. Now biggovernment.com try to spin it as if it was the NAACP's fault by saying that Jealous should have looked at the entire tape. Why didn't biggovernment.com state that the tapes may have been 'doctored a little'? I guess its easier to cause dissention than it is to be a part of the solution to our nations issues.
This website's credibility is on the line as far as people are concerned. What was the purpose of doing what you have done? You scream JOBS and LESS TAXES, but a woman is out of a job and will probably have to file for unemployment, if she doesn't get a lawyer first…and trust me sher will because she has been defamed. Good luck in your preparation.
Interesting that your point is so off it's uncanny. The fact of the matter is that the whole video makes it clear that her points were right on with the 2 minute clip, which was in context.
What was Fox promoting with your tape? Multiculturalism.
This is not the first time Andrew Breitbart aired highly edited videos solely for the purpose of attacking black people. Of course he's to blame. He's a professional racist, just like James O'Keefe.
"Why is Jealous saying he was "snookered"
Isn't that the way a "victim" mentality works? "I did something bad. It must be YOUR fault."
If Breitbart had posted more of the video, if there had been some context, if the video showed that Ms. Sherrod was telling a story of how she OVERCAME her own bigotry 24 years ago, her reputation wouldn't have been soiled at all. Now would it??
Yes, the Obama administration and the NAACP, and Mr. Jealous, all overreacted and didn't seek out the truth, they didn't do any due diligence either, they didn't find the video, they didn't seek the truth anymore than Breitbart apparently did. Their mistakes do not clear Mr. Breitbart of his guilt in this.
You could be right there, and it was in way wrong time and at the absolute worst place.
A bit off topic, this does prove that it is much harder to find a racist in the TEA party than it is in the NAACP. Since the TEA party doesnt tolerate them and kicks them out, and the NAACP just cheers and supports them. If the NAACP were smart, they would no longer play the race card anymore, but that is highly doubtful.
People are missing the point here. What Breitbart has done is to expose the "witch hunt" mentality surrounding an accusation of racism. With nothing more than a snippet of video and a comment that it shows "racism" at an event, the Powers That Be rushed to crucify an individual rightly or wrongly.
THAT is the real story. The rest is just window dressing.
Well played, sir. Well played indeed.
Hmm…biggovernment.com's altered tape may have the answer. I guess you can alter the sound of applause as well as the context of a speech. Hmm.
Unfortunately, I agree with your general point. In essence, I find the entire video MORE damning of the NAACP. Regaling an audience about "when was the last time you heard a gov't employee getting fired?", the laughter of the "get whitey" crowd, and the general disdain Sherrod had initially had when dealing with a white farmer (so much so she had to send him to "one of his own") are all issues and points getting lost in the shuffle here. The MSM is going to tar and feather AB and anyone leaning right as an ignoramous and cruel (even though Sherrod's firing was NEVER called for by AB) for releasing to his net followers a partial tape (the MSM conveniently forgetting that the NAACP had the entire tape in its posession the entire time). *sigh* The circle never ends.
The President had nothing to do with the firing. But it would be honorable if the perpetrators who altered the tape stood up and apologized. Especially before Mrs. Sherrod sues.
Liberals lie and blame others for their lies. Liberal press, liberal president, liberal NAACP, liberal voter…never admit a mistake. When you make no errors…you become God! Come on liberals…you are NOT God! Lucifer blamed God, Eve blamed the serpent, Adam blamed Eve…same old story of sin over and over!
And the lefties descending upon the thread with renewed claims of Breitbart's racism is a further object lesson in the same phenomenon.
So by this new standard put forth by liberals I can walk around and say the n word with impunity because the context of my use of the word is the only thing that matters.
You hear me say nigg#r but I really mean "hello!".
I heard her say "I didn't give him the full force of what I could do" but she really meant "Hello!'
Liberal logic!
*snort* It IS rather chuckle-worthy.
This entire saga has given me a queasy feeling: One comment poster (that I'm aware of) caught it when the first story appeared yesterday, complaining (I'm paraphrasing) that the tape was cut off and that Sherrod seemed to be trying to clarify something, that there seemed to be a mitigating element and that the poster did not think a full context of the tape would support a racism allegation.
If, as it now appears, Sherrod was relating personal growth and a lesson learned from a 24-year-ago incident, she has been shabbily treated by everyone involved: the NAACP, the USDA, the White House, and most of us. As far as Ben Jealous' complaint that he & the NAACP & company had "been snookered," nonsense — they snookered themselves by acting rashly without watching the full tape or directly contacting Sherrod.
I'm curious, though, how "the Bigs" came by that partial tape? Could it have been (to use a term of Bill Clinton's) "a twofer," Something to tarnish the Obama/NAACP camp, that would toss splash-back mud on the Bigs? Is that possible?
I have a feeling you will find out what a jury thinks of this little escapade.
That's so cute. The last time I heard "I know you are, but what am I" was in grade school.
Her mistake was admitting to being a racist as a public employee in a position of power. If she spoke of her enlightenment using an analogy unrelated to her position as a public employee it would be a different matter. But if any racist deserves to be fired it's Eric Holder and DOJ employees that have openly stated they will not prosecute crimes against whites.
Doesn't it bother you that Mr. Breitbart posted the video without context? Doesn't it bother you that Breitbart and his organization didn't do due diligence? Doesn't it bother you that they may have injured an innocent woman who happened to tell a story of how she overcame her bigotry twenty-four years ago and she ends being publicly embarrassed and fired for her troubles. Does this seem right to you?
And I guess you can dismiss evidence contrary to your prejudices as some sort of racist conspiracy.
I also think Mrs Sherrod should have told them on the phone go ahead Fire me. I would not have resigned and they would have looked even worse when they jumped the gun and fired her.
It has nothing to do with Fox, since Fox didnt report until after she was forced to leave. This was all Breitbart and his reporting. Everything else was Sherrod and NAACPs fault, since it was their own actions caught on tape.
In other words, Breitbart just reported a racial comment at a NAACP meeting and how they cheered for it. They have no one to blame but themselves and quit using that meaninless race card.
The morons are the ones who just made this woman wealthy within a matter of 24 hours: biggovernment.com, FOX, the NAACP, and maybe the USDA. But, bottom line, the altered tape is defamation of character. What was done to her is a travesty and this website may have contributed.
Well, Andrew, you must really be proud. Taking down an individual who never sought publicity and you can not even tell the truth. Oh, I know you claim that you did not lie. Well, you will find out that a misrepresentation can occur when you have a duty to disclose the entire truth. Have fun in court. California has punitive damages and big boy you will find out just like Ford did with the Pinto.
No one wants to believe how sharp those race cards can be until they start cutting people down. And they cut all people, deserving and innocent.
So you're employing the "we're dumb" defense. Puh-lease. Jealous had the evidence, and ignored it before shooting his mouth off. He wasn't snookered, he was exposed as out of his depth.
Exactly!
Ms. Sherrod, for now, is, sadly and unfortunately, "collateral damage."
I do feel bad for this lady. I honestly do. But, if liberal folks are going to play on race and with the race card, then they must learn that knife cuts both ways.
In this instance, the NAACP is sadly left with a great deal of egg on its face.
Having been redeemed, Ms. Sherrod may very well end up quite victorious and sitting pretty.
I can only hope she will be well and happy once this has all blown over.
Credibility? What about the tape? Now that it is know that it was altered (AND WHERE IT CAME FROM), whose credibility will suffer worse?
Just go ahead and rename yourself to PatheticUntruth. THERE WAS NO "EDITING" TO THIS VIDEO. The naacp OWNED this tape. They published this tape. They had the full version of this tape. And they stepped into their own pile of shit when they reacted to the story without REVIEWING THEIR OWN TAPE.
Just admit it. The naacp screwed themselves. Stop trying to blame others.
And if acorn was "fully vindicated," why did they have to change their name? Oh I know, that was someone else's fault too, right?
He has no class. Absolutely, none.
I agree. By only releasing a partial tape, no one really "wins". The right gets smeared (and I actually LOVE AB to death) and the MSM can call us a bunch of ignorant fanatics out to hurt an "innocent" lady and, on the other hand, Sherrod gets treated shabbily (even though this incident is NOT about her and AB NEVER called for her firing). If the ENTIRE tape had been released, racism within the NAACP would have been exposed and no calls of "racist" or fanatic" would be able to have been logically lobbed at AB. The point would have been made without all the collateral damage.
I agree. And the jury will find Breitbart and Fox Not Guilty or find for them in a civil suit. But you're right. Some idiot will probably take it to court. Probably someone like you. At least we'll be able to see what you look like.
They do condone racism as long as it is black on white. Mrs Sherrod should not have been fired by any stretch of the imagination, The Dictator in Chief did that once again actihg w/o the whole story, again.
The race card was invented by whites so that they could use it like a gladiator's shield in order to protect themselves from true accusations of racism.
If you don't want the card played don't be racist!
As MSM said there, what lie are you talking about. The tape was uneditied, and it was her own words and them cheering for her racial comments.
I think the only one lying here is you Huskerboy and you are lying to yourself. Besides, this just proved the NAACP supports racism as opposed to rejecting it, and they have yet to prove the TEA party to be racist.
"Why didn't biggovernment.com state that the tapes may have been 'doctored a little'?"
They weren't doctored one bit. Do you have evidence of this? You're the only one on any side of this claiming it was doctored. Are you a video expert? Or do you just use words you don't understand?
A lawyer? Unemployment? Are you aware of how high federal salaries are? How can a person be defamed by her own words? Have you ever heard of logic? Oh wait, you're a liberal and you rely on emotion. Makes sense in that light.
How about we just demand they give her job back?
The msm reworked a video of a "gun-toting" demonstrator at an obama event to advance their story of "racism against obama" by zooming so far in that you couldn't tell that the demonstrator was black. I'd say they are 1000 times more guilty of "editing video" than anything AB would ever consider doing.
1) No, because I don't know the full context and neither do you (even if you claim you do). 2) No, because I am not convinced they didn't just because you say so. 3) Somewhat, but I've seen it happen to conservatives so many times I've gotten used to injustice. 4) No, it doesn't seem right — but again, I'm used to things being wrong.
Why doesn't this type of thing ever bother liberals during their attacks? [Not a justification, an honest question.]
I agree–shame on the NAACP for believing Breitbart's lies.
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