Several days ago, a video broke showing now former (or maybe current) USDA employee Shirley Sherrod to be a racist.
In light of this discovery, the Obama administration forced her to resign from her position with the government.
Not so fast, gentlemen. As it turns out, Sherrod was the victim of some malicious editing.
A more careful viewing of the damning video in its entirety shows that Sherrod only used to be a racist and possibly may no longer be one.
We would like to offer our congratulations to Miss Sherrod for possibly no longer being a racist.
We would also like her to know that that David Duke, Al Gore Sr. and Robert Byrd have saved her a seat at their table.
(Read all of our Shirley Sherrod stories, and we have a lot of them.)
This post was last modified on July 27, 2010
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Pigford vs Glickman
This is in response to the WSJ article published July 28, 2010 : "Our
Divisive President", by Cadell & Schoen ,two....Democrats, on Obama
dividing America on race.
Andrew Breitbart is a media genius.
He proved it originally with his brilliant handling of the ACORN
hooker’ scandal which he skillfully manipulated so that the corrupt
media was forced, against its will, to broadcast corruption in one of
Obamas most powerful political support groups. But Breitbart
handing of that affair is nothing compared to his brilliant manipulation
of the Shirley Sherrod white farmer scandal.
It all began last Monday, July 22, 2010. As the country watched in
horror, Breitbart released a snippet of a tape on his Big Government
site which showed an obscure black female official of the Dept. of
Agriculture laughing to a roomful of NAACP members about how shed
discriminated against a destitute white farmer and refused to give him the
financial aid he desperately needed.
As she smirked to the room, she sent him instead to a white lawyer
one of his own kind for help.
The black woman was Shirley Sherrod and almost immediately she became
the center of a firestorm of controversy which exploded throughout the
country.
Within a day of the release of that infamous tape, the head of the Dept.
of Agriculture, spurred on by Obama, demanded and received
Sherrodâs resignation.
Breitbart had won.
But then seemingly Breitbartâs actions began to explode in his face.
As Sherrod screamed in protest, FOX News released the entire text of her
speech last March to the NAACP.
And there on tape Sherrod was shown supposedly repenting of her racism
against a white farmer and instead championing his fight to win funds to
keep his farm afloat.
Within hours of that entire tape being revealed, the entire world turned
against Andrew Breitbart.
Conservatives throughout the country were enraged that he endangered
their reputations by releasing a doctored tape.
Breitbart, they thundered, had dealt a fatal blow to the conservative media.
I confess that I also was horrified at what I saw as the clumsiness and
stupidity of Breitbart in doctoring a tape to make a supposedly
innocent woman look guilty. But now I discover I have been as guilty of
haste to judgment of Breitbart as the Dept. of Agriculture was of Ms.
Sherrod.
Only now am I realizing the real purpose for Breitbartâs release of that
tape snippet. It was to allow him to cunningly trick the media into
exposing one of the most shocking examples of corruption in the federal
government a little known legal case called “Pigford v. Glickman
Check it yourself at:
http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/07/27/pigford-v-glickman-86000-claims-from-39697-total-farmers/?singlepage=true
1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department
of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due
to racial discrimination during the period 1983 to 1997
The case was entitled Pigford v. Glickman and in 1999, the black
farmers won their case.
The government agreed to pay each of them as much as $50,000 to settle
their claims.
But then on February 23, 2010, something shocking happened in relation to
that original judgment:
In total silence, the USDA agreed to release more funds to Pigford
The amount was a staggering...... $1.25 billion. This was because the
original number of plaintiffs 400 black farmers had now....
swollen in a class action suit to include a total of 86,000 black farmers
throughout America .
There was only one teensy problem:
The United States of America doest have 86,000 black farmers !!!!
According to accurate and totally verifiable Official USDA 2007 Census
census data, the total number of black farmers throughout America is only
39,697.
Hmmm... by the Official USDA 1992 Census data the US had only 18,816
black farmers !!
Oops !!
Well, gosh - - how on earth did 39,697 explode into the fraudulent
86,000 claims ??
And how did $50,000 explode into $1.25 billion ??
Well, folks, youll just have to ask the woman who not only spearheaded
this case because of her position in 1997 at the Rural Development
Leadership Network but whose family received the highest single payout
(approximately $13 million) from that action “ Shirley Sherrod.
Oops again !!
Yes, folks. It appears that Ms. Sherrod had just unwittingly exposed
herself as the perpetrator of one of the biggest fraud claims in the
United States - - a fraud enabled solely because she screamed racism at
the government and cowed them into submission. And it gets even more
interesting.
Ms. Sherrod has also exposed the person who aided and abetted her in this
race fraud. As it turns out, the original judgment of Pigford v.
Glickman in 1999 only applied to a total of about 16,000 black farmers.
But.... in 2008, a junior US Senator got a law passed to reopen the case
and allow more black farmers to sue for funds. The Senator was Barack
Hussein Obama.
Because this law was passed in dead silence and because the woman
responsible for spearheading it was an obscure USDA official, American
taxpayers did not realize that they had just been forced in the midst of a
worldwide depression to pay out more than $1.25 billion to settle a race
claim.
But Breitbart knew. And last Monday, July 22, 2010, he cleverly laid a
trap which Sherrod - - and Obama + his cronies - - stumbled headfirst
into which has now resulted in the entire world discovering the existence
of this corrupt financial judgment.
As for Ms. Sherrod?? Well, shes discovering too late that her cry of
˜racism to the media which was intended to throw the spotlight on
Breitbart has instead thrown that spotlight on herself – and the huge
corruption.
Sherrod has vanished from public view. Her pigs, it seems, have
come home to roost.
Oink !!!!
But the perpetrator of that law passed in dead silence leading to unlawful
claims & corruption..... is still trying to fool all of US.
Google and read for yourself "Pigford vs. Glickman"
-The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a
fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who
made him their president."
Its "WE THE PEOPLE," not "ME" the President.
Screw to hell the true racist NAACP and their followers,They will have their day.I hope I live to see the day we turn the tables on these liberal assclowns & roast them on a spit.Bet they taste just like chicken.
She has the Obama Syndrome. That is to say, she blames EVERYONE EXCEPT HERSELF for her actions and subsequent repercussions.
You left out "and [current] multimillionaire" from your headline.
Look, I respect Ms. Sherrod's transformation from racists to whatever. I give her a tip of the hat.And I deplore whoever edited her speech to make it appear racists. Bad dog, no bone!But what interest me is the reaction of the NAACP audience. BEFORE they knew the moral of her story, they were applauding and laughing about the part where the white guy was getting screwed by the black government employee.My friends, that's racist no matter how you try to spin it.Given the reaction of the audience, I think the accusation that the NAACP has a racism problem within its ranks sticks like glue.I hope Ms. Sherrod can accept the deserved apologies from the respective journalist and government officials who jumped to conclusions and move on.But as a conservative, I have to say that I see no such apologies from the left about misrepresentations of conservative views. The hypocrisy lives on.
Something stinks with this whole situation and O'Reilly is back it willb e interesting to see what happens in th enext few days and weeks. If she doesn't come back and goes to work for a socialist instituation we will not hear from her again, but if she goes back someone will find something on her and it will be more and more damaging I am sure.
Whoa good thing a republican didn't say those things..that would be bad..very bad. now not so much.
Remember when the police arrested one of obamanos friends, it took obama about 5 minutes to get on CNN to say "the police acted stupidly", I wonder why he hasn't commented on this...humm
Leave it to the liberals, the "tolerant" liberals to start a race war...
Will obama order his storm troopers into action- they are just as well funded as the regular milaitary...
What is really telling is the snickering and affirmative head-bobbing of those in the NAACP audience. What Sherrod said may have been taken out of context but the reaction of the audience certainly was not.
The NAACP, true to form, reacted without bothering to find out the facts and rushes to the nearest microphone to denounce Sherrod without confirming the veracity of the video. But, unlike the Lewis smear campaign against the Tea Party, they apologize profusely when its pointed out to them that they screwed up.
Now the NAACP and the liberal state-run media have a list of enemies to attack while they cover up the overt racism displayed by that audience. Al Gore made the comment during a campaign that "Everything that should be up is down, and everything that's down is up". I suppose one could change that a bit to say "Everything that is racist isn't and everything that isn't racist is".
Shame on the NAACP. Shame on the liberal state-run media. Shame on any purveyor of racism.
Hmmmmm,,,, And what was the audience reaction to her racist remarks?
I just can't seem to muster any sympathy for this woman. It is just a bit hard for me to swallow that she suddenly had an epiphany one day, and no longer harbors any animosity toward white folks. Now, the media is trying to portray her as the innocent victim in all of this...someone that should be applauded instead of derided. Yeah, right...
The United States is reeling in trillions of dollars of debt; millions of people are out of work, their savings gone, their houses foreclosed on; we are fighting muslim terrorist at home and abroad in what appears to be a losing battle; illegal aliens are pouring through our southern border; the lame-stream media is a communist propaganda machine for the left; Obamacare will destroy our country; new taxes are coming that going to implode and destroy our society; the government work force is growing exponentially while the private sector is dying;
and the only things discussed are Shirley Sherrod and Lindsay Lohan! What a waste of focus and effort.