Posts Tagged ‘shirley sherrod’

Well there goes any sympathy I had…

Posted: July 23, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speech
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It’s one thing to be angry over a situation, it’s another to decide to demagogue:

SHERROD: 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.

COOPER: You think — you think he’s racist?

SHERROD: … I think he’s so vicious. Yes, I do.

And I think that’s why he’s so vicious against a black president, you know. He would go after me. I don’t think it was even the NAACP he was totally after. I think he was after a black president.

So. I’ve gotten by black and white but the person I don’t like is a racist who wants to return us to slavery and hates the administration because Obama is black. As opposed to the actual administration that fired her which by her interpetation did so due to an attack by a racist, or the NAACP that backed said firing even though they had full context of the videos available.

It’s one thing to be angry for a day but once you decide you are going to be part of the national debate then you are a legitimate target for comment, and if she thinks Breitbart wants to bring back slavery then yup she has lost any credibility she had and deserves any ridicule she gets from it.

As Hotair puts it:

One of the lessons of this week, supposedly, is that we should beware of caricatures in racial matters, not only because people are more complicated in practice but because the fallout from misjudgment is culturally poisonous. See, e.g., the initial clip of Sherrod versus her full NAACP speech. But here she is pushing a caricature of her own — with no evidence to support a charge this incendiary — and Cooper the journalist lets it slide, presumably because he’s squeamish about siding with Breitbart against someone who, to his audience, is a sympathetic victim..

Some people handle attention different ways. I think she is in real danger of letting this stuff go to her head. Quite a shame really.

Of course this might be the media trying to bait the right too, keeping the story alive to take copy space from Journolist. We’ll see.

Memeorandum thread here.

Update: Ed Driscoll puts it much better than I did complete with Airplane Gag.

My latest Examiner Article: An expensive 12 hours 

Posted: July 22, 2010 by datechguy in examiner columns, opinion/news
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My latest Examiner article An expensive 12 hours deals with the NAACP and the Sherrod case a peek:

The Shirley Sherrod story this week certainly has not enhanced any reputations but one group in particular has rightly paid a higher price than all.

As always every click on my Examiner stuff is like a little click on the tip jar, so I encourage you to check it out along with the rest of my articles there.

O’Donnell BS’ on Breitbart

Posted: July 22, 2010 by datechguy in media
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Larry O’Donnell is BS’ on Breitbart and re-writing some history on Acorn, since the majority of MSNBC viewers get “Journolist” style presentation of any media from the right a big bunch of their niche market might buy it.

Gail Collins is also hitting Breitbart, but I don’t see them playing the MSNBC clip of him or asking him on.

Some things never change.

Update: Wouldn’t you know the Fridge guy shows up about the fridge and I miss the Sherrot appearance, but got some great info on my new fridge that didn’t seem to be reaching the proper temp.

I never thought I’d say this

Posted: July 22, 2010 by datechguy in media, opinion/news
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But Melissa Harris Lacewell of the Nation is making some excellent points on Morning Joe.

She hits Breitbart, the administration and the NAACP but notes that it was the advocacy of the white farmers who were helped that turned this story around.

I also didn’t know Schrrot’s families history in the civil rights movement, Barnicle made an excellent point about how a person suddenly becomes famous but that’s a difference in culture.

Joe points out the actual timeline and defends Fox’s piece in the timeline, and Lacewell points out that she has more anger for the NAACP and the administration presumably because they should have known better.

Just before she was introduced Joe talked about “fringe elements on both sides” and coincidentally introduced her next. She joked saying I hope I’m not part of that fringe. Since she writes for the Nation, for me that would be the default assumption but her presentation was anything but fringe.

I like pleasant surprises like this.

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