printROSA PARKS REDUX. Glenn Beck was in tears (just about). Shepard Smith is being as solemn and pious as I’ve ever seen him; the White House press corps is in a collective conniption—all over the great injustice done, and corrected forthwith, to a black Agriculture Department employee who turned out to be less of a racist than was alleged.
Andrew Breitbart is alleged to have created the confusion with a misleading, incomplete report of this allegedly decades-old incident. Breitbart’s “Big this; big that,” ever-mutating websites exemplify what Lawrence Auster has termed “low-grade conservative media.” “Tease journalism,” I wrote.
Shirley Sherrod, state director for rural development (Great Journalism doesn’t say which “rurality”), said this (16 minutes into the tape), paraphrased: she began her work intending it to be for black people. G-d put things in her path that made her realize she was there for poor people. A white farmer came to her for assistance with a superior attitude. (I guess if it were a Brother, she might have described him as a proud man in humiliating circumstances.) So many black people had lost their land, and here she was faced with having to help a white man save his property. [Hallelujah; what a pure heart] “So, I didn’t give him the full force of what I could do,” Sherrod said. “I did enough. I took him to a white lawyer; one of Them; to his own kind.”
Paradiddle, please: (verbatim): “That’s when it was revealed to me that this was about poor vs. those who have. And not so much about white—it is about white and black—but it opened my eyes …”
A nice enough lady, Ms. Sherrod goes on to reveal how she did her job even when it came to a desperate, downtrodden white man. She may be a charming woman, but she does not deserve to be beatified, as she is, by the BHO admin and the press. She came to work preparing to work for her Race. Arguably, this is not uncommon among blacks and Hispanics who have a sense of cohesion and unity in opposition to mainstream whites.
Here Andrew Breitbart makes excuses for his shoddy excerpting:
Shirley Sherrod may be honest enough to admit that 24 years ago, she didn’t feel love to some poor white guy who was insufficiently obsequious to her highness. She then made the valid point that poor white and poor black farmers are as entitled (UNentitled in my opinion) to taxpayer-extracted agribusiness booty as Archer Daniels Midland. She was a loyal and faithful waster of taxpayer money
for her boss, Cheryl Cook:
http://www.usda.gov/blog/usda/tags/arra
But I guess sainthood is relative – compared to hit man Breitbart, hyped-up Fox (Republican) News, an overreacting defensive NAACP, an overreacting White House, a spineless Secretary Vilsack, and her ass-covering boss Cheryl Cook – I guess we can beatify St. Shirley. Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development Cheryl Cook apparently kept ringing St. Shirley on her phone and insisted that she resign IMMEDIATELY before hearing any explanation from her (ZERO TOLERANCE to “racism”).
All this “Teatro di Michigash” (imbecilic farce) reminds me of the “Political Correctness” in H. M. S. Pinafore where Captain Corcoran uses the “D word” and Admiral Porter says “I will hear of no defense” at 7:30 min into:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg23Us7Kz50
Life imitates art. Turn off Fox News & CNN – watch H. M. S. Pinafore!
Nothing new here. I was raised in the South in the 1950’s and 60’s and grew up in a time when the excesses of government, popular culture and the antics of the “newly liberated” blacks ran rough shod over whites on a regular basis. The rest of the country cared little. Being berated and disrespected by loud mouthed black females is nothing new. Maybe the rest of the country will finally get it.
As myron pauli says: “She was a loyal and faithful waster of taxpayer money” That’s all that concerns me.
I think it’s suspicious that this non-story turned feel-good movie has made itself so comfortable on the news channels. What news wasn’t covered yesterday as black t-shirt Cooper/180 breathlessly reported update-#12 on the Sherrod story from all angles LIVE from New Orleans! (Obama signed a financial reform bill yesterday, didn’t he?)
We should laud BigAndrew. Why? The 3 networks aren’t hammering at the Tea Parties on denouncing racists — real or imagined — in their midst. If Obama, ‘err Vilsack, had waited 2-3 days to decide on Sherrod’s fate, then Breitbart may have been the unquestioned bad guy. Instead Obama spewed another of his famous premature ejacu-opinions. Obama is so afraid of the big-bad Beck pulling a Van-Jones II act, that he preemptively fired this woman to cut off Fox News at the pass. I’m sorry, that’s a win for FNC. Fox is in Barry’s head.
Meanwhile, cable news has been spending the past few weeks obsessed with race rather than: unemployment, the media blackout in the Gulf, Obama’s poor poll numbers (soon, even the fanboys will realize it’s okay to tell people they don’t like Barry), or whatever Obama’s central planning move-of-the-week was.
As for Sherrod: why did she feel the need to describe the white farmer as copping a superior attitude? Was that germane to her anecdote of redemption? She still uses phrases like ‘one of his own’. Funny: after decades of social liberals yelling how actual racism refers to racial prejudice + power = racism, on the one occasion where someone admits to actual racism (i.e. using one’s admin power to not help out a farmer on the basis of his skin color), the lib media doesn’t wonder: how many other farmers did she give less than 100%? and as an appointed employee of the government, is it kosher to verbalize your political leanings?
Ms. Sherrod is a racist; not melodramatically so, no secret society, no regalia, no grand titles, but viscerally. Sherrod like the President, thinks, reacts, and filters everything through race colored glasses. The NAACP audience, as reacting to Ms. Sherrod is racist. The NAACP organization is racist, routinely awarding ‘black image’ awards to vile, generally hateful and specifically racist (and sexist) entertainers. The results of the NAACP’s advancement of colored people is racist; all the skinheads and KKKers in all the world could not have so thoroughly destroyed the black family as has the NAACP with its cycle of silence, acquiescence, and encouragement (black image awards) of social degradation and personal abasement.
Let Breitbart have his comeuppance for shoddy this or self-serving that; but by no means should we forget about Breitbart’s deserving focus. The work of exposing the NAACP as the national umbrella organization for race baiting and race pimping should continue.