Really? That's what you think his message was? He got hold of a tape that implied black racism at the NAACP and released it without knowing it was selectively edited, and his real purpose in doing so was to show that racist statements shouldn't tarnish the tea party?
If the point was you shouldn't tarnish a whole organization based on the actions of some individuals, then how can he (or you) say its about the NAACP? Do you realize how hypocritical this sounds?
That is a distinction with no meaning. That is like saying if the US dropped a bomb on Mullah Omar they weren't targeting him but the Taliban.
Who's to say what his real motives are? He says one thing; you imply another! I only know what he said on the radio yesterday and that was that he thought he was demonstrating the sloppy means by which the MSM mis-represents the teapartiers as racists based on a selective snap-shot of the group. Maybe that's only him back-pedaling but it is, in fact, what has been proven out. Mrs. Sherrod is neither as evil or as glorious as two sides might make her out to be. She plunks down somewhere in the vast middle-- closer to glory in my opinion. It is my opinion that we all have racist tendencies. None of us are color-blind. It's what we do to combat it that counts.
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I'm asking you a question... again. If someone makes what you believe are unfair charges, does that make it OK to doctor up a video tape to make someone look like a racist and release it to the public as a news item? I understand what Breitbart is saying. I'm asking that given what he's saying that's an OK way to handle things. Is it OK that the woman who was trying to make a statement against racism, is made to look like she's speaking out in favor of racism? Is that an OK way to react when you feel someone has made false allegations against you?
The NAACP people in the audience didn't react in a racist way. They didn't applaud racism at all. Breitbart's own tape shows him to be a liar. Sherrod spoke out with a message to denounce racism. That's what happened. Breitbart doctored the tape to make it look like Sherrod acted in a racist way. She never did. News organizations didn't check the source and reported the way Breitbart doctored it. The Ag department fired a good woman for something she was never guilty of. They also rushed into action without checking the source. There is blame to go around, and it starts with Breitbart. It's odd that people at Fox News rushed to judgment calling Sherrod and the NAACP racist, then when it turns out that the tape proves that neither she nor the NAACP were racist, they blame the government for the same rush to judgment that they themselves are guilty of. This is a great segment on it. The good part starts around 1:00 into the clip <object width="420" height="245" id="msnbc522b67" classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0"><param name="movie" value="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" /><param name="FlashVars" value="launch=38353774&width=420&height=245"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="opaque" /><embed name="msnbc522b67" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" width="420" height="245" FlashVars="launch=38353774&width=420&height=245" allowscriptaccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="opaque" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object><p style="font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 420px;">Visit msnbc.com for <a style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com">breaking news</a>, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507" style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;">world news</a>, and <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032072" style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;">news about the economy</a></p>
Ah, the power of answering a question with a question... that's what all those photo-journalists do to the teapartiers; is that okay by you? Anything but just telling the perceived truth is wrong but then we are surrounded by that kind of thing from all sides. Truth is the victim and we are left to grieve.
Again, lame. Let's say his point was you shouldn't use individual cases of actual racism to tarnish an entire organization/movement. You don't go about demonstrating that by doctoring video to make a particular individual look like a racist and then saying, "See .. the NAACP is racist." That's just stupid.
Where's any spin. I'm just saying that what happened, intended or not, proves the point being claimed now. Do you deny that?
Yes it is wrong to make something look like what it isn't whether it's the teabaggers or anyone else. I've never said differently. I've never said that the tea party were entirely racist. I've said, correctly that there are racist members, and have shown examples. I've said that they had little if anything to weed out the racists in their gatherings. Only recently have they actually started to do that, and I've applauded them for it on this board. So answer the question Giddy.
No they don't. They never have. They've never taken a teabagger's speech meant to speak out AGAINST RACISM, and made it look like it was racist. They've never done that. Not once. They have shown racist signs, speeches, and incidents that happened at tea party events, and haven't shown other things not pertaining to race that the tea party does. That's very different than taking a speech against racism and trying to make it look like it is for racism. If you have clips of the MSM doing that to the tea party, fill free to point them out.
no its not, msm doesn't doctor signs of obama portrayed as chairman mao or hitler. on the other hand, fox doctors videos of the tea party to make it look like there are more people at a rally than the reality
wow, breitbart is a really sick f-ck. I'm not one to usually call for the enforcement of defamation/false light publicity claims, but she appears to ostensibly have a really good case against him here - I hope she takes him to the cleaners and bankrupts his fat ass.
this lady has handled this with more class than anyone involved and the bassos of the world are still tyring to defame her. its sad i'm not shocked at any of it any more.
Had your beloved AB not committed a crime by maliciously slandering both Sherrod and the NAACP, no one would have lost their job. AB didn't just fool Obama - he fooled the news media, he fooled most people on this board...and most pointedly - HE FOOLED YOU as you were so duped you posted a thread about it titled "Racism in the NAACP". And instead of manning up, you try to weasel your way out of it just like your beloved AB. Man-up basso and earn some respect!
