By Douglas V. Gibbs
Shirley Sherrod convinced even the White House that she is a racist, or at least once was. The White House jumped to fire her "before" Fox News caught on to the story, and then blamed Fox News for leading them to fire her in error (like they even watch Fox News). Sherrod, since Breitbart released the video in question, has proclaimed that it was a piece of video taken out of context, and that she was telling a story about how she finally saw the light, and decided not to be a racist anymore. Now she spews her hate against anyone who has achieved, instead, engaging in Obama-style class warfare.
Funny thing, however. Since it has been proven Sherrod is not a racist after all, she has been saying things that are. . . racist (and that isn't even counting her husband's racist remarks in regards to black separatism last January).
Let me give you an example. Shirley Sherrod was pretty angry at Andrew Breitbart, and I suppose if she is in fact the innocent little reformed one as she claims, she has a right to be. But in a response to Andrew Breitbart in the below video, what you see is one angry woman. And her anger, it seems, is pointed Breitbart's whiteness (that would be racist, right?)
Pay close attention to the video after Breitbart is mentioned by Anderson Cooper:
She says that Breitbart wants us to return back to slavery? Does she really think that Breitbart and other whites want us to return to slavery?
She claims that Breitbart is so vicious to our black president? "Our Black President." I thought color means nothing to you, Shirley?
And then she claims that Breitbarts accusation that the NAACP is racist (of which they are) means that in reality Breitbart is racist?
And if you watch the full video of her comments from last March (the video Breitbart released), Shirley Sherrod notes in the extended video that she believes blacks, in regards to receiving benefits, should be elevated above whites. And when she said it, the crowd in attendance at the NAACP event burst into applause and agreement.
And we are being told that the full context exonerates Sherrod from the accusation of racism.
But, for sake of argument, let's say that everything the Left is proclaiming is true. She has been shown the light, and is no longer racist, and the video is proof. Then how did the video appear as it did?
I have met Andrew Breitbart, and I know a number of folks who work with him. His due diligence is normally impeccable, so if this video was out of context as stated and is not an example of racism by Sherrod, then either Breitbart viciously edited it and put it out to make Sherrod look racist (which is hard to believe not only because of Breitbart's known journalistic integrity, but because it would be obvious that the full context would be made available quickly and he would be exposed for doing so anyway), it was an honest mistake, or the video was given to him as it was and he trusted the source and did not consider that there may be more to it.
If the video was fed to Breitbart, then one must ask, "Why?"
Is it possible that, in conjunction with the false accusations of racism against the Tea Party, that the video of Sherrod was fed to Breitbart with the hopes he'd play it so that the whole stink that happened would? In other words, is the Left trying to race-bait the Right?
Wait, wait, wait. I know, only the Republicans and Rightwing Extremists can be racist, and the Leftist Democrats are incapable of such horror. Liberals tell me so everyday!
That must be why the Democrats filibustered the Civil Rights Act, Democrat Senator Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Reid referred to Obama's "negro-dialect", Clinton indicated that ten years ago Obama would be fetching him coffee, Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed segregationist and Ku Klux Klan Democrat Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the court, on March 17, 1960 Liberal Democrat South Carolina Governor Ernest Hollings (later a Senator) warned that South Carolina would not permit 'explosive' manifestations in connection with Negro demands for lunch-counter services, Jesse Jackson has a history of anti-Semitic slurs, and notoriously liberal newsman Dan Rather used an analogy of Obama selling watermelon on the side of the road. . . just to name a few.
But the real fun is in the papers right now. Maureen Dowd, New York Times columnist, has written a piece. . . now get this. . . titled: You’ll Never Believe What This White House Is Missing.
The first sentence of the piece answers the question posed by the title. It reads, "The Obama White House is too white."
Dowd actually indicates that Obama doesn't have enough blacks that understand the struggle. You know, she is recommending that he go find some slave blood for his administration.
Are you kidding me?
Whatever happened to "judged by strength of character?"
Dowd goes on to say that the first black president has a "smug cordon of overprotective white guys surrounding him."
But what is even more amazing is Dowd's ability to lie in this piece.
Let's run over the lie real quick, because this is truly juicy.
In the article Dowd writes: "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."
First, she's blaming the "white guys" for the White House being quick to fire Sherrod. Second, and this is the doozy, she points out Glenn Beck, of all the conservative commentators out there, as the guy that was going to pounce on the Sherrod story. Funny thing is, of all of the rightwing hosts out there, Beck was the one that didn't jump to conclusions.
I don't watch Glenn Beck's television show, and I don't listen to his radio program. I catch a You Tube every once in a while, and he strikes me as a person that gets it. But as this Sherrod thing was unraveling, many of my friends and family that watch Glenn Beck kept telling me how strange it was that Beck was saying nothing about the Sherrod situation, and in fact when he did he said, "There is more to it than we are being told."
In other words, Glenn Beck realized the video may be out of context!
And Dowd pinpoints Beck as being one of the conservatives that would have been on the attack?
She must pay less attention to Glenn Beck than I do.
Either that, or like most liberals, she is a liar.
Well, after all of this, I only have one thing to say. Dowd is wrong. Obama doesn't need more black people in his administration. He needs less communists.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
You’ll Never Believe What This White House Is Missing - New York Times
New Sherrod Video: Husband of Shirley Sherrod Gave Black Separatist Speech in January 2010 - Free Republic
The New Racism – Why Shirley Sherrod could be Called a Racist - Macs Mind Living the Life
Watermelons, Washington, and What We Call News Today - Huffington Post
The Democrat Party's Long and Shameful History of Bigotry and Racism - GOP Capitalist
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