Teh 48-hour Rule
Of The Quick and Teh Dead Beclowned
Breitbart releases this vid clip of Shirley Sherrod speaking at a NAACP meeting describing how she “did not do all she could” to help a white farmer.
NAACP condemns her.
Tom Vilsack [vil; Latin - douche] fires her.
SHERROD: Why am I out? They asked me to resign. And, in fact, they harassed me as I was driving back to the state office from West Point, Georgia, yesterday. I had at least three calls telling me the White House wanted me to resign.
... And the last one asked me to pull over to the side of the road and do it.
She said, “Well, Shirley, they want you to pull over to the side of the road and do it because you’re going to be on Glenn Beck tonight."
*Someone* manages to watch the the full video and realizes Ms Sherrod is describing an incident 24 years old wherein she recognized her own raaaacism and changes her ways. Which was the point of her speech at the NAACP event.
Hilarity ensues:
OR *clicky*clicky*
@2:08 “really..."
Perhaps Teh Post-Racial ∅ne will comment on this… It appears that *someone* “acted stupidly.”
Cinvikuted…
She sent the guy to an outside (presumably “white") lawyer rather than do more - not good. But the NAACP audience cheers her act. Worse.
She goes on to say she regrets it, and is dong better. Good. Crickets… not so good. NAACP leaders kicking her out without looking at their own copy of the speech, ridiculous, especially as they have now seen it and are highlighting her remorse (fine) without addressing audience response (bad).
And now another development. Seems that shortly before signing on with USDA, a group led by she and her husband won a multi-million court case aginst, yes, USDA.
OK, if the USDA had decided it could use her expertise, good - but looks odd, more so with the quick “resign or be fired” response.Posted by on 07/21/10 at 07:44 AM
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