What the hell is going on at the White House? How about the NAACP? Are they letting Fox News dictate their every action? It would seem so! First,Fox News got rid of Van Jones. And now Shirley Sherrod is the innocent victim of character assassination by none other than Fox News. Does anyone see a pattern here? While Glenn Beck,Sean Hannity & others at Fox claim that the Obama administration is engaged in reverse racism,they are demonstrating what overt racism is on a daily basis.
After they presented edited clips of Sherrod's speech(in order to prove their point that powerful blacks are currently practicing reverse racism),they jumped on Shirley Sherrod's side against the White House the following day. On July19, Fox News presented Sherrod as a black racist. Today, Fox News says that she is a innocent victim & the White House was wrong in terminating her. Watch the above video which contains Rachel Maddow's coverage on Shirley Sherrod.
And for the NAACP & Roland Martin to chime in before they knew all of the facts about this "controversy" is extremely disconcerting to me. Every observant intellectual being in America should know by now that Fox News has an agenda. It appears that they want the country to be divided instead of united. That's why the man who put this edited video of her on his site is a frequent guest on Fox News. They love Andrew Brietbart because he has the same motives that they do. Keeping racism alive in America seems to be the main goal here.
Shame on Obama for forgiving Robert Byrd's racist KKK past in his eulogy to the dead senator & throwing this black woman who is committed to civil rights for all under the bus! What?!!!Shirley Sherrod should never have been fired based on the fake "reporting" that Glenn Beck & other Fox clowns did on July 19! What about the whites at the USDA who discriminated against blacks for years? Will the White House demand that they all be fired?
Here's more on this disturbing story from The Washington Monthly:
"You can probably tell there's a "but" coming. In this case, the conservative Big Government site showed the part of the speech it wanted people to see, and Fox News to air.
Jay Bookman notes today that there's relevant information and context Breitbart's project didn't offer.
...Sherrod said what online viewers weren't told in reports posted throughout the day Monday was that the tale she told at the banquet happened 24 years ago -- before she got the USDA job -- when she worked with the Georgia field office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund.
Sherrod said the short video clip excluded the breadth of the story about how she eventually worked with the man over a two-year period to help ward off foreclosure of his farm, and how she eventually became friends with the farmer and his wife.
"And I went on to work with many more white farmers," she said. "The story helped me realize that race is not the issue, it's about the people who have and the people who don't. When I speak to groups, I try to speak about getting beyond the issue of race."
In fact, as it turns out, Sherrod worked so hard to help that white farmer and his family they consider her a "friend for life."
Somehow, this didn't make the cut in the Big Government clip. The far-right site has the entire video, but only released the part that served the right's purposes.
And in this case, the right's purposes are trying to spur racial animosity, taking the remarks of an African-American American official to the NAACP and removing the context, all in the hopes of generating white resentment.
The anti-ACORN crusade -- and its creative editing -- should have been the first clue that right-wing video clips released by Breitbart and Big Government may not be what they seem to be. Shirley Sherrod offers another painful reminder.
* Update: Today, the NAACP walked back yesterday's criticism, and is reportedly investigating the matter."(END OF EXCERPT) Read the article in its entirety here.
