Video - NAACP audience cheering USDA official's acts of racism

[PegLeg45]

I saw on the news a minute ago where Ms. Sherrod got to spend 7 minutes talking to King BHO and a 'special, better' USDA job was just created, especially for her.

  

Don't get me wrong, the edited tape was wrong and I abhor seeing things like that done by media jerks just to stir the political pot, ..............but, I've listened to this woman for years, still a typical liberal.

[Solus]

Sigh...

Oh, Ms. Sherrod, we have this new better paying job for you.  We didn't need it done yesterday, even by a minimum wage flunky, but it's all yours now.  Congratulations on your accomplishment.

I feel she is owed something, but not another insult.

[ericire12]

Sigh...

Oh, Ms. Sherrod, we have this new better paying job for you.  We didn't need it done yesterday, even by a minimum wage flunky, but it's all yours now.  Congratulations on your accomplishment.

I feel she is owed something, but not another insult.

She is saying that she will probably sue the blogger who released the tape....... who was not targeting her by releasing the video..... and who did not edited the tape (its all he had)..... and who did nothing but release a tape of her own words. Ummmm, how bout you sue the bastards that wrongfully terminated you and admited to doing so on national TV

[billt]

I'm sick of this whole thing already.

1.) A guy posted an edited clip of what she said, that took the meaning out of context.

2.) Everyone ran with it, and wound up looking like idiots.

3.) Apologies ran rampant, and as usual, Fox News caused everything.

How can they manage to take a 5 minute story, and beat it for over 2 days?   Bill T.

[Hazcat]

I'm sick of this whole thing already.

1.) A guy posted an edited clip of what she said, that took the meaning out of context.

2.) Everyone ran with it, and wound up looking like idiots.

3.) Apologies ran rampant, and as usual, Fox News caused everything.

How can they manage to take a 5 minute story, and beat it for over 2 days?   Bill T.

Not true.  FOX did not even report on it until she had been fired.

[Sponsor]

[billt]

Not true.  FOX did not even report on it until she had been fired.

I know that, and you know that, and the liberal lamestream media knows that. It makes no difference, it's Fox News fault. Always.  Bill T.

[Solus]

Well, there is a lesson here.

Remember that what you see is the only fact you have.  Do not assume anything more than that fact.

In a Heinlein novel, Stranger In a Strange Land, there was a character who was a Professional Witness who trained to make no assumptions.  To demonstrate, she was asked the color of a distant  house, she looked at it an replied  "It's white on this side."

We all can use a bit more thinking like that.

[PegLeg45]

Well, there is a lesson here.

Remember that what you see is the only fact you have.  Do not assume anything more than that fact.

In a Heinlein novel, Stranger In a Strange Land, there was a character who was a Professional Witness who trained to make no assumptions.  To demonstrate, she was asked the color of a distant  house, she looked at it an replied  "It's white on this side."

We all can use a bit more thinking like that.

Yep....well said.

PegLeg45, who has tasted his own shoe leather from time to time.

[ericire12]

 

[PegLeg45]

From an article by Robert Fortner:

Did Andrew Breitbart Lay A Trap For Sherrod's Fraud... Unbelievable!
Yesterday at 8:06pm

Andrew Breitbart is a media genius.

He proved it originally with his brilliant handling of the ACORN ‘hooker’ scandal which he skillfully manipulated so that the corrupt media was forced, against its will, to broadcast corruption in one of Obama’s most powerful political support groups. But Breitbart’s handing of that affair is nothing compared to his brilliant manipulation of the Shirley Sherrod ‘white farmer’ scandal.

It all began last Monday, July 22, 2010. As the country watched in horror, Breitbart released a snippet of a tape on his “Big Government” site which showed an obscure black female official of the Dept. of Agriculture laughing to a roomful of NAACP members about how she’d discriminated against a destitute white farmer and refused to give him the financial aid he desperately needed. As she smirked to the room, she’d sent him instead to a white lawyer – ‘one of his own kind’ – for help. The black woman was Shirley Sherrod – and almost immediately she became the center of a firestorm of controversy which exploded throughout the country. Within a day of the release of that infamous tape, the head of the Dept. of Agriculture, spurred on by Obama, demanded – and received – Sherrod’s resignation. Breitbart had won.

But then seemingly Breitbart’s actions began to explode in his face. As Sherrod screamed in protest, FOX News released the entire text of her speech last March to the NAACP. And there on tape Sherrod was shown supposedly repenting of her racism against a white farmer and instead championing his fight to win funds to keep his farm afloat. Within hours of that entire tape being revealed, the entire world turned against Andrew Breitbart. Conservatives throughout the country were enraged that he’d endangered their reputations by releasing a ‘doctored’ tape. Breitbart, they thundered, had dealt a fatal blow to the conservative media. I confess that I also was horrified at what I saw as the clumsiness and stupidity of Breitbart in ‘doctoring’ a tape to make a supposedly innocent woman look guilty. But now I discover I have been as guilty of haste to judgment of Breitbart as the Dept. of Agriculture was of Ms. Sherrod.

Only now am I realizing the real purpose for Breitbart’s release of that tape snippet. It was to allow him to cunningly trick the media into exposing one of the most shocking examples of corruption in the federal government – a little known legal case called “Pigford v. Glickman”.


***snip***

“In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to racial discrimination during the period 1983 to 1997.” The case was entitled “Pigford v. Glickman” and in 1999, the black farmers won their case. The government agreed to pay each of them as much as $50,000 to settle their claims.

But then on February 23 of this year, something shocking happened in relation to that original judgment. In total silence, the USDA agreed to release more funds to “Pigford”. The amount was a staggering $1.25 billion. This was because the original number of plaintiffs – 400 black farmers – had now swollen in a class action suit to include a total of 86,000 black farmers throughout America.

There was only one teensy problem. The United States of America doesn’t have 86,000 black farmers. According to accurate and totally verified census data, the total number of black farmers throughout America is only 39,697. Oops.

Well, gosh – how on earth did 39,697 explode into 86,000 claims? And how did $50,000 explode into $1.25 billion? Well, folks, you’ll just have to ask the woman who not only spearheaded this case because of her position in 1997 at the “Rural Development Leadership Network” but whose family received the highest single payout (approximately $13 million) from that action – Shirley Sherrod. Oops again.

***snip***

Yes, folks. It appears that Ms. Sherrod had just unwittingly exposed herself as the perpetrator of one of the biggest fraud claims in the United States – a fraud enabled solely because she screamed racism at the government and cowed them into submission. And it gets even more interesting. Ms. Sherrod has also exposed the person who aided and abetted her in this race fraud. As it turns out, the original judgment of “Pigford v. Glickman” in 1999 only applied to a total of 16,000 black farmers. But in 2008, a junior Senator got a law passed to reopen the case and allow more black farmers to sue for funds. The Senator was Barack Obama.

Because this law was passed in dead silence and because the woman responsible for spearheading it was an obscure USDA official, American taxpayers did not realize that they had just been forced in the midst of a worldwide depression to pay out more than $1.25 billion to settle a race claim.

But Breitbart knew. And last Monday, July 22, 2010, he cleverly laid a trap which Sherrod – and Obama – stumbled headfirst into which has now resulted in the entire world discovering the existence of this corrupt financial judgment. Yes, folks – Breitbart is a genius.

As for Ms. Sherrod? Well, she’s discovered too late that her cry of ‘racism’ to the media which was intended to throw the spotlight on Breitbart has instead thrown that spotlight on herself – and her corruption. Sherrod has vanished from public view. Her ‘pigs’, it seems, have come home to roost. Oink!
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Robert W. Fortner

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/110/024/Is_There_More_to_Sherrods_Dismissal.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/07/forty_acres_a_mule_sherrod_sty.html

http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/07/27/pigford-v-glickman-86000-claims-from-39697-total-farmers/?singlepage=true

Bold is my emphasis.