Everyone Take a Deep Breath (TPM re: Sherrod)

[struggle4progress]

Everyone Take a Deep Breath
David Kurtz | July 20, 2010, 11:36AM

Andrew Breitbart has another notch in his belt: the forced resignation of a black USDA appointee in Georgia who Breitbart has on tape addressing a local NAACP chapter earlier this year and seeming to admit that she didn't give a white farmer all the help she could have because he was white. Or at least that's the story you get from Brietbart's Big Government and from Fox.

But that was enough for the Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to issue a statement condemning her remarks, and for the national NAACP to do the same.

But the Atlanta Journal-Constitution interviewed the woman, Shirley Sherrod, and if what she says is true, there's a lot more to this story. She tells the paper that the incident she was recounting happened 24 years ago, before she worked for the USDA, that she went on to provide considerable assistance to the farmer, that she eventually became friends with the farmer and his wife, and that the whole point of retelling the story was to show how she had managed to move beyond race herself ...

I'm going to wait to pass judgment until I see the entire video.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/07/everyone_take_a_deep_breath.php

[rfranklin]

1. They should hire her back if this is true...

Because these a-holes have to be curtailed.

[DURHAM D]

2. Why won't you read the interview on CNN with the farmer's wife and Ms. Sherrod?

Sherrod needs to be immediately reinstated with an Obama apology.

This is a public lynching.

Shame on the White House.

[katandmoon]

3. "A public lynching" - so true. It's beyond disgusting that the WH jumped on this so fast.

[Schema Thing]

4. Agree. They screwed up big-time on this one.

[struggle4progress]

5. I agree. I contacted the White House to register disapproval with the rush-to-judgment.

And I posted a link to the CNN interview here:

Farmer's wife says fired USDA official helped save their land
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=268x3820

[LadyJaneGrey]

6. Can they afford to hire her back?

Had breakfast with a few friends who are independents, and they were saying 'if she admits to doing it once how many times did she do it without admitting it'. If they hire her back it will look bad with the independents.
That is the last thing obama needs. They should have done an investigation b4 firing her. Or at least listened to the tape till the end.

[DURHAM D]

7. Well you have missed the point entirely.

She "admits" to nothing.

Try again.

see ya

[handmade34]

8. absolutely!

they can't afford to not hire her back

[Control-Z]

10. Have you read or listened to anything about this story? n/t

[struggle4progress]

11. Poor Queen Jane had short reign. She listened to the wrong people,

who wanted her to do the wrong thing. And since she had not at the start an adult enough head to decline, she had at the end not even her childish head

[Skittles]

12. LOL

your friends are "independents".........yeah sure :rofl:

[handmade34]

9. I will not be taking a deep breath

until this is made right!