I must assume that most of you by now are aware of the fiasco involving Shirley Sherrod, the USDA employee who was fired after a bogus video of her surfaced.
So, I will not go into that...she was fired by the White House and chastised by the NAACP. Obama later called her to apologize - but he had to be the one to say "cut her loose."
Ann Coulter destroys Rick Sanchez of CNN in a heated debate over the Shirley Sherrod incident.
By Noel Sheppard - 07/24/2010
NewsBusters
Conservative author Ann Coulter was Rick Sanchez's guest on the prime time edition of "Rick's List" Friday, and the sparks were flying.
After showing a clip of Coulter earlier in the week claiming that Andrew Breitbart was set up with that partial video of Shirley Sherrod speaking at an NAACP function in March, Sanchez asked, "Look, doesn't Breitbart deserve to lose his credibility for this?"
Coulter responded: This wasn't edited to make it look like she was discriminating against a white farmer. She was admitting that she was discriminating against a white farmer...It wasn't a doctored tape. It wasn't an edited tape. It was an excerpted tape.
When Sanchez replied, "You're playing games. You're playing semantics," the battle was on!
Maybe Sanchez should chat with his colleague Howard Kurtz who last Sunday claimed on CNN's "Reliable Sources," "Sound bites are compressed on television every day." If sound bite compression at CNN doesn't invalidate the point one host is making, another host shouldn't complain about a website using excerpts from videos to prove its point.
More importantly, what seems to be lost here is that all Breitbart did was publish a video at Big Government. He didn't call for anyone to be fired over what was posted. Instead, he published it as an example of a double standard as it pertains to racism, a point Coulter would echo:
COULTER: Well, then the NAACP and the White House are far more guilty than Breitbart because they didn't wait to see the full video, and, by the way, the NAACP had the full video. Breitbart didn't fire anyone. Breitbart didn't have the full video.
COULTER: And if we could get back to your claim that what you care about is the truth, why do you keep repeating the despicable lie that John Lewis was called the N-word 15 times on Capitol Hill at the anti-Obama protest?
That is a lie. And you have repeated that. All these -- all these -- this network repeats it. All these networks repeat it. That is a lie. At least Shirley Sherrod got her reputation back.
Blog author's comments - I would expect by next week Shirley Sherrod will be compared to Rosa Parks. I would not be surprised if Obama appoints Sherrod to his administration as his 'Czar on Racial Relations.'
Sherrod said concerning Andrew Breitbart who apparently was sent a tape and posted it on one of his websites. "I know I've gotten past black versus white. He's probably the person who's never gotten past it and never attempted to get past it."
"I think he would like to get us stuck back in the times of slavery. That's where I think he would like to see all black people end up again."
Did Sherrod chastise the President? Her initial firing came from the White House. Has she gone after the NAACP? They had the full version of the tape but did not check it out before they criticized her.
Has anyone else noticed that the division between the races seems to have grown wider rather than closer, since Barack Obama was elected President? You don't suppose his push against those that have vs. those that have not has added to this problem?
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