Glenn Beck defends Shirley Sherrod UPDATE: NAACP issues statement –>> UPDATE: FULL VIDEO POSTED <<–
I came to the same conclusion as Beck earlier today – just check out my twitter feed. I saw a video earlier today where Sherrod was telling CNN that the actual incident of racism happened back in the 80′s, and that she was merely telling the story of how she changed. Now, I’m not saying I like where she landed after her revelation, into the old class warfare argument of ‘the haves vs the have nots’, but the story wasn’t what I thought it was. There wasn’t enough context.
Because there was so little context, I assumed that this was current, that she was telling a story of how she withheld money from a farmer since she was appointed to the USDA in the last year and a half. Well, I was wrong for making that assumption. I admit I trusted those who put the video out, but it turns out they didn’t even have all the context. So while she did in the end say it was about black and white, but not…well, I’m not ready to judge her for a crime that happened 24ish years ago.
So where I stand now is pretty much were Beck stands, that she shouldn’t have been fired. I am bothered by the fact that her superiors didn’t even get her side of the story before forcing her to resign; nor did the NAACP care to even speak to her before denouncing her. Now Beck tends to think that this firing hatchet job is symptomatic of the way this administration does business – that it doesn’t care about anything but preserving itself. I don’t necessarily disagree with that, but I can explain it just one word…or rather one number: 2010. It’s election year, and they don’t want any more baggage than they already have that could hurt their agenda. That’s the bottom line.
To the point about how this was really about the NAACP, in my opinion this video doesn’t show the NAACP condoning racism as previously thought.
So, I apologize for jumping to conclusions without full context. Enjoy the video!
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UPDATE: NAACP says Fox News and Andrew Breitbart snookered them:
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.
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. They personally credit her with helping to save their family farm.
The truth is that the NAACP rushed to judgment without even talking to Sherrod. There weren’t snookered by anyone except their insincerity to try and stand under the heavy weight of their recent idiotic judgment against the Tea Party. They are still a race baiting organization trying to keep Obama and the democrats in office.
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UPDATE: Full Video Posted. Via Hotair:
skip ahead to 16:30 for the segment about the white farmer and stick with it until at least 24:00 or so. She actually introduces the story by saying how she started working in order to help black people but then, through divine providence, came to realize that she was meant to work for poor people generally. The key moment comes just after the 21:00 mark when she talks about how helping the Spooners “made me see that it’s really about those who have versus those who don’t. You know, and they can be black, they can be white, they can be Hispanic.” And the crowd murmurs its assent.
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One supposes some sort of statute of limitations should be applied to an act from the 80s but the act did occur. More recent and worse is the NAACP's second response to the video which condemns Andrew Breitbart as a “Fox News and Tea Party Activist”. Mr. Breitbart is a new media publisher who appears on Fox News but who, to my knowledge, is not officially connected with either that company or Tea Party groups. Once again the NAACP has shown that it is nothing more than an outlet for Obama administration goals and talking points.
I agree with all your comments.
However…
I still found the laughing and what sounded like one guy cheering pretty uncomfortable. Her comments about her own prejudice seemed to earn approval.
Typical knee-jerk CYA from the Obama administration. I think what Breitbart was trying to show with the video was the reaction of NAACP members to her story rather than her story itself. It will be interesting to see how this plays out,especially since Glenn just put a spike strip in front of their plan on using this.
Hmmm.
http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/07/19/...
Except that the whole point of Breitbart's video, *both* of them, was to point out the racism in NAACP. Eg mote in eye. And the second video doesn't precisely cover Brown in glory either as she points out that government workers rarely get fired and have cushy jobs so please sign up for them.
Were a white administrator of $1+ billion make such a statement to an all white audience try and tell me that there wouldn't be an outcry,
If there is a fault the fault lies directly with Sherrod Brown, Obama's White House, NAACP and Vilsack of the USDA.
Hmmm.
1. Sorry, “Shirley Sherrod” not “Sherrod Brown”
2. Look at how Breitbart describes her:
“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.”
“… Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. …”
Note: Breitbart, who is not a wilting flower by any stretch of the imagination, does NOT call for her firing or resignation! Does not call for her to be punished in any way, shape or form and instead leaves his disgust right at the door of the NAACP.
It's the applause of the NAACP members listening to Sherrod that's the story here.
Sherrod looks like the innocent victim, but before you decide on that, check this out.
I'm not to sure what to think. At first I thought…I jumped the gun too…but then I read the article that erp617 linked……
It's hard to tell…
Thank you for that link, that needs to go viral so the LSM can't avoid the “pink elephant in the room”!
To all you claiming racism because of laughter, I've just got one quote for you:
“Please tell me you've got something more…Please tell me there's an ace up your sleeve.”
I think they were wrong for firing her, but I also think too many people jumped on the apology wagon before checking her background.
Pigford issues aside..audience reaction aside…for the moment……
Don't her statements merely suggest she realized that withholding help from poor whitey undermined her mission of class reparations from rich whitey?
i.e. from racial hood to Robin Hood.
I think I agree….I'm not sure she should've been fired either.
I just watched Hannity and Bret Bart was on there, I didn't care for his statement at all….
I hope RS will post that part of Hannity. I just didn't like it at all…
My problem is no one, including me, did any checking from the start. I was totally against her based on the first video. I normally spend hours checking out a story, but failed to do so this time. Before I form an opinion again, I'll take the time needed.
The problem is a goverment employ presumes to hold the power to bestow favors at her will to who she deems fit. The Public permits this ,and so we give another fed power over us and hope were among the favored and the simple fact is Blacks on the left see goverments roll to be to restore to blacks what whites are precieved to have taken from them. And that is not racist, just a fact.
When you listen to the clip it sounds like Sherrod is relating a story that she once had a tendency of racism and then came to realize her wrongs (much of the way many have had a change of heart once they could see).
If not her, who will shaft white farmers? Will holder take on that racist job also?
Of course this racist extremist will get her job back, PLUS she'll get the Presidential Medal of Honor from hussein for blaming HER racist actions and remarks on Tea Partiers and Fox News.
Upon giving this some more thought and reading,I get the feeling that there is another shoe Breitbart is getting ready to drop on this. He is far to smart and clever than to just throw something like this out without a boatload of stuff to clobber the rats with. I get the feeling he is waiting for them to come out of their holes just a little bit further.
What I fear is that something else is discovered about her and she's already been rubber stamped and is now untouchable. Unlikely, but this method of demonization (allegedly) by the right and subsequent redemption can be used to get unsavory people through before all the facts are released- the more hastily this is carried out the less time people have to background check the people.
Would this work on appointees?
They use recess appointments to get unsavory appointees through. Look at what he did with Berwick.
True, but Berwick is still open to criticisms and attacks and others still have the credibility.
If Sherrod were to be attacked 2 months after returning to her job even with video evidence, would anyone be inclined to believe it- or would the WH or other media just be able to say, “Look, Fox is at it again”?
Maybe it's a trial run on how to discredit the Beck factor with his appointees.
Possibly,in which case they severely under estimated Beck and the caliber of his research staff.
Glenn view the whole tape……….not only is she aracist….worse she is a Marxist.
Ypu are so wrong. Go back and find what Breibart wrote on his site when he ran the video. It was all about her.
Wow..folks can read the transcript below and think she is untouchable? Forget beer summit..beer goggles must be at work.
A link would be helpful if you are disputing my assessment of Breitbart's motives. However, here is a little tidbit from the NAACP,who btw had the entire video in their possession the entire time: “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.” Statement released by NAACP President Ben Jealous issued just after Sherrod's forced resignation