Speed
Jim Geraghty makes a good point:
We have the administration that took three days to issue a presidential statement on an attempted bombing of a plane over Detroit, took ten days to publicly comment on the oil spill in the Gulf, took three months to review the policy in Afghanistan and took fourteen months to respond to governors’ request for U.S. troops on the Mexican border suddenly managing to move as fast as lightning on Sherrod. It’s surreal.
ABC News’ Jake Tapper, a night ago: “Last night, an Obama administration official called Sherrod in her car and demanded she pull over and type a resignation letter in her Blackberry. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement that ‘There is zero tolerance for discrimination’ at his agency. None of them bothered to learn that the incident in question happened 24 years ago when Sherrod worked for a nonprofit.”
Van Jones didn’t get this treatment.
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July 22nd, 2010 at 8:30 am
From the intertubes:
For all the over-warped speed in initially getting that bogus version of the Shirley Sherrod story out there and pushing her our the door at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, other details in this story have been surprisingly slow to emerge. In particular, I’d been waiting to hear more about a comment from Sherrod on CNN that her father had been murdered by a white farmer in 1965.
Now we know a few details. Her dad was named Hosie Miller, and he was a deacon at Thankful Baptist Church in Newton, Ga., toward the southwest corner of the state. He was also a farmer who, according to CNN, grew corn, peanuts, cotton and cucumbers and raised hogs, cows and goats. Forty-five years ago, Hosie Miller was shot to death — in the back, no less — by a white farmer in what his daughter now describes as ostensibly a dispute over a few cows, although the exact circumstances were murky.
A grand jury investigated the case, and no one was charged. All of the grand jurors were white, as was typically the case before the passage of the landmark civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s. From that incident, a movement was born. Indeed, according to this article, Shirley Sherrod’s mother — Grace Hall Miller — became the leader of the civil rights movement in Baker County after the killing, organizing marches and other protests from her home. The then 17-year-old Shirley Miller decided to stay in the South and become an activist; she soon married one of the leaders of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, a man by the name of Charles Sherrod. Shirley Sherrod told CNN that “”I decided to stay in the South and work for change.”
How unusual was it for a black man to be killed by a white man in the Deep South up through the mid-1960s with no one brought to justice. Way too common. We hear a lot about one particular killing in Mississippi — the 1964 murder of a trio of civil rights activists that included two white college kids from up North — but in reality dozens of black men were killed for taking a stand, for trying to vote or just on a whim.
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:34 am
You catching on now? Do you still think this woman shouldn’t be forgiven for the very minor transgression of holding racially motivated beliefs after what she went through AND the fact that she has obviously repented?
This person has 100x the integrity and honor and ethics of any of you sad racist people.
WILL YOU ISSUE AN APOLOGY FOR DRAGGING HER THROUGH THE MUD FOR YOUR POLITICAL CAUSE???
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:03 am
AFTER YOU APOLOGIZE FOR BEING PART OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY THAT MURDERED OVER 70,000,000 PEOPLE BETWEEN 1917 AND 1990!!!!
And, I might add, you might want to apologize for the dinner attendees who had yet to hear of Sherrod’s moral epiphany in the course of the speech, and who yet approved with laughs and applause!
And you might want to apologize for using race as a political tactic by crying RACIST even when there is no proof.
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:30 am
“And you might want to apologize for using race as a political tactic by crying RACIST even when there is no proof”
But what about when there is proof? And lots of it? Is it OK then?
Because that is clearly the current situation…ample proof abounds regarding Republican/Teabagger race baiting and overt racism.
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:08 am
ample proof abounds regarding Republican/Teabagger race baiting and overt racism.
Then post some.
))))))crickets(((((((
I thought so.
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:15 am
And while you’re at it, take a look at the load of false charges of racism (and other crap) leveled against people and groups that were proven not to be racist (or other crap).
Why is it that context of remarks is now so important when your ilk ignores it when you slander someone who is not a Progressive/liberal?
July 22nd, 2010 at 11:24 am
And how about this? [via Ace of Spades]
It seems that freedom of information requaest had to be vetted by Obama’s political appointees so they could see who was requesting what, perhaps to make an enemies list, an intimidation list? The administration stopped the practice as soon as AP investigated.
Progressivism/liberalism: reduce liberties, increase control, intimidate, isolate.
The most open administration ever. Bullshit.
July 22nd, 2010 at 12:22 pm
I asked first about the NAACP, Geezer.
July 23rd, 2010 at 5:58 am
ample proof abounds regarding Republican/Teabagger race baiting and overt racism.
Then post some.
)))))even louder crickets(((((