Why is the media wasting so much time on this?
 

Former USDA official: Department's reconsideration is 'bittersweet' - CNN.com

I mean, this not a big deal whether you are for or against her. this is an HR matter, nothing more. people are fired every day for making remarks, people are not hired everyday for things they beleive in.
We are in 2 WARS!!! How the hell can the comments of a low level person made in a basement meeting amount to ANYTHING????

IMHO, this is just more race pimping. Trying to turn this into making FOX and as a results conservatives look bad for trying to disparage someone who ultimatley (as it appears now) did nothing wrong. This is the same as the Gates case, make a local issue become a national one, meanwhile 230 million people of all races live in relative harmony across this country. Where is the story on that?????

The issue is not what she said but the response from the audience laughter and applause at the idea she discriminated against whitey. She did go on to say that she learned from it and that to me lets her off the hook, but the reaction from the crowd/NAACP folks is what needs to be addressed. Reverse discrimination is apparently embraced by this organization.

the key is "what needs to be addressed". No one is addressing it! Its all about Shirley!

Are you serious? This is a great story and very timely. It just goes to show how people will believe anything these days, and how others suffer for it.

-spence

Kudos Spence...agree completely!!!

The real question is if anyone will believe anything Brietbart releases ever again and if those who pounced on the story will retract.

-spence

only from a "left" angle spence. There is no way in hell this would have the same amount of attention if the shoe was on the other foot.
Im all for this lady and dont think she did anything wrong. I mean isnt the whole point of the NAACP to help african americans rather that whites? Why wouldnt she be applauded for saying just that? Why do we have to ignore the obvious?
Bill and Melinda Gates has a foundation that has BILLIONS to support minorites. Good for them, its their money. Would it be news that someone from their foundation said they passed up helping white people to help minorities? No.

oh and ps- as far as people "believing anything" you do realize she was under serious pressure from the white house to resign, right?
Maybe they should get their facts straight before jumping to conclusions!

NAACP 'snookered' over video of former USDA employee - CNN.com

that is suprising, they're playing the "victim" card!

That's a crock.

We're talking about a pretty large "news" organization caught fabricating a scandal that influenced the operation of the Federal Government.

There's no evidence the White House was involved, and this was confirmed by Tom Vilsack.

-spence

I agree too:uhuh:...Obama Hope and Change......they should give Breitbart a lifetime award like they did Dan Rather for his reporting of the forged documents regarding GW Bush...President Stuff-Your-Face and Fly-Your-Dog-In-His-Own-Jet while blabbering about "shared sacrafice" and "reducing carbon emissions" and "fat people" should shut down all alternative media and require all Americans to dedicate two hours a day to watching the mainstream Obama media to get the real truth and to get their minds right :uhuh:

help, I cant see the forest, I cant see the forest, all these trees are in the way!!

"Late Tuesday, Jealous effectively retracted his earlier statement and blamed the media for the confusion.

"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," he said.

"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."


FoxNews.com was among several media organizations that carried the story of the initial video released Monday.
It remains unclear who edited and released the shorter video.

Breitbart, who initially reported the story on Monday, said in an interview Tuesday with Fox News' Sean Hannity, that he received the video from "an individual in Georgia." He said he decided to post it on his website as an example of hypocrisy at the NAACP, which recently condemned racism within the conservative Tea Party movement.

Sherrod, in a TV interview Tuesday morning, said she lost her job because the Obama administration overreacted to the original story.

"They were not interested in hearing the truth. No one wanted to hear the truth," she said.

Spence - please elaborate on how Fox fabricated the story?

yep...there's no need to "fabricate" a scandal with this administration, there's plenty to go around...but Spence, if we hold the lame stream media to your standards in this case we need to permanently discredit a whole bunch of so called "journalists" for life :rotf2:

Fox News anchor Bret Baier, however, noted on Wednesday that "Fox News didn't even do this story. We didn't do it on Special Report. We posted it online."

But it cant be! They "snookered us" !!!!!!!!!!! Even Spence says they fabricated the story. My God, everyone is to blame but us!

yes, and the remind us how they "fabricated" the Black Panther story too ...that was really funny...delusional...but funny

"Having reviewed the full tape ... and most importantly heard the testimony of the white farmers mentioned in this story, we now believe that the organization that edited the documents did so with the intention of deceiving millions of Americans," the statement from NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said.

shhh - dont tell him that it was FOx news that interviewed the famers and got their response to the firing. Shhhh, he may be snookered again and have to retract his retraction.

I never said this.

-spence

huh?

Oh and BTW -

Sherrod, who until Tuesday was USDA's director of rural development in Georgia, said she was on the road Monday when USDA deputy undersecretary Cheryl Cook called her and told her the White House wanted her to resign.

"They called me twice," Sherrod told The Associated Press in an interview. "The last time they asked me to pull over the side of the road and submit my resignation on my Blackberry, and that's what I did."

A USDA spokesman would not comment on whether the White House was involved, but Vilsack issued a statement saying the agency has no tolerance for discrimination.

poor guys been sitting around for months with nothing to do........


Jesse Jackson Wants Apology for Sherrod's Ouster
Wednesday, 21 Jul 2010 10:20 AM Article Font Size


The Rev. Jesse Jackson is calling for an apology from the Obama administration for ousting an Agriculture Department employee now at the center of a racially tinged firestorm.

Jackson said he talked to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack late Tuesday night before Vilsack said that he would reconsider his department's decision to ask Shirley Sherrod to leave her job.

Vilsack issued a short statement early Wednesday morning after Sherrod said she was pressured to resign because of her comments that she didn't give a white farmer as much help as she could have 24 years ago. Until Tuesday, Sherrod was the department's director of rural development in Georgia.

lololol...Jesse Jackson asking Obama to apologize. Somewhere on Pennsylvania Avenue Obama must me throwing furniture.

I bet he is seething. This was supposed to be the week that he turned up the heat on all those racist tea-partiers. Now he and Gibbs are probably crafting an "apology" where he attacks Fox news for all his woes.

Standard operating procedure.:uhuh:

We're talking about a pretty large "news" organization caught fabricating a scandal that influenced the operation of the Federal Government


he's turning into Bill Clinton...depends on what the meaning of the word "fabricate" is......be nice...it's all he has left :rotf2:

It was Andrew Brietbart who fabricated the scandal by offering as proof of racism a heavily edited video obviously intended to misrepresent the speakers intent. I don't believe for a second he didn't question the motives of the video's author. :hihi:

I suppose he feels obligated by his love for America. Or perhaps, he's just out to defend the Tea Partay at all costs.

This was pickup up by FOX News, the flames were fanned and the pressure for her resignation mounted.

Considering how much "news" is really made up, out of context or intentionally deceptive and malicious...that this led to the resignation of a Government official is indeed quite a story.

-spence

so Breitbart leads a "large news organization"?

nice try at a spin Spence.

Absolutely he does. I see Brietbart linked stories all the time...

-spence

So a tea party website = a large news organization?

Well, thats explains it then!
In other news, I just heard that BassDawg has been nominated as OTW's Angler of the Year. It has been posted on a "large fishing website" that he routinely drops 50s and 60s and will leave mid-30lb fish in order to pursue larger fish. An OTW spokesman announced " given that this was posted on a fishing blog from someone that has over 3000 posts, we know it must be true. So we believe Mr. Dawg deserves the award without further researching his claims. We know a sharpie when we see one."

:devil2:

she was only trying (unsuccessfully) to relate the IRONY
of being on the flip side of the situation
so many years later

after her own family
was refused help and lost their farm.

and nothing more

yes, and the Black Panther's club(weapon)...was "just a little club"..."no big deal"..or something like that...complete lack of perspective...Van Jones communist in the White House......no biggie...Obamas many radical associations that are all starting to show their influence...no big deal...20 years w/Reverend Wright and Black Liberation Theology...nothing to see here.........actually.,...let's make a list of Obama related scandals that Spence has deemed irrelevent and look at the things he thinks are soooo important...like Obama forcing this woman to resign via Blackberry:rotf2::rotf2:yikes....btw....Obama is getting the heat on this...other than the nutty leftists that drool venom when Fox comes on the air, most don't care, they just know that Obama is fing up the country that they love and things get worse each day that he's in office....for them at least...Obama is Parta'ying Like A Rock Star..........:rotf2:

DOH!

I guess Im glad they wasted so much time on it...

WASHINGTON – An embarrassed White House apologized on Wednesday to a black Agriculture Department employee who was ousted for her remarks about race, saying the administration did not know all the facts when she was fired.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs called the dismissal of Shirley Sherrod an injustice and a mistake and said he was apologizing for the "entire administration." He said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was trying to reach her to extend an apology.

The whole scene speaks to a lack of sophistication on all fronts....The TP needs to get some long-time Washington insiders if they want to play on the big stage and administration should have made sure this was not repeat of Al Capone's empty safe before they s-canned the lady.