...until I came across this awesome article that must be a part of our history!-Mem
Unbelievable! Fox has lied out of it's teeth since President Obama announced his run for President! They have filled the minds of the American people with the koolaid of deception, racism, hate mongering, fear and violence and they have the nerve to want an apology. Why because they have gotten away with this for two years now. Not only have they gotten away with it but they have made their "journalism" acceptable and copied by others!Fox News’ Brit Hume delivered a commentary on Special Report with Bret Baier, where demanded that the media apologize to Fox News for calling them racist. Fox wants an apology from the NAACP, Howard Dean, and Shirley Sherrod. Hume said, “You might think all this would be the stuff of further apologies.”
Video courtesy of Media Matters:
On Special Report with Bret Baier, the host and Charles Krauthammer denied Shirley Sherrod’s claim that Fox News has a racial agenda. Charles Krauthammer said, “She is a victim, but that doesn’t entitle her to victimize others, and to use these kinds of attacks.” In essence, Fox News smeared Shirley Sherrod then claimed to be the real victim.
Here is the video courtesy of Media Matters:
Shirley Sherrod spoke about Fox News to Media Matters, “When you look at their reporting, this is just another way of seeing that they are (racist), but I have seen that before now. I saw their reporting as biased during the Bush Administration and the Clinton Administration.” Later she directly discussed Fox News’ broader racial agenda, “They are after a bigger thing, they would love to take us back to where we were many years ago. Back to where black people were looking down, not looking white folks in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person.”
Host Bret Baier replied, “Ms. Sherrod that is just not true. It’s not true.” Charles Krauthammer said, “She is a victim, but that doesn’t entitle her to victimize others, and to use these kinds of attacks. I think she’s wrong, and even though she is a person who needs restitution on the part of those who wronged her. This is not something that anybody can endorse, and again it is a part of this cycle that really ought to stop.”
The evidence though tells a different story. The edited videos used to bring down ACORN to the bogus attacks against Van Jones, the phony New Black Panthers/DOJ scandal, and now the railroading of Shirley Sherrod all have one thing in common. They targeted African Americans as part of a larger narrative designed to make a segment of America afraid of the black man in the White House. Fox News has been race baiting since Obama took office. I agree with Ms. Sherrod that it is a part of larger strategy. Not a racial one as Ms. Sherrod suggested, but a political one.
Fox News wants to deny President Obama a second term by making his reelection about race. They assume that if they terrify enough people about Obama, he will be denied a second term. The victims in each of the FNC attacks were targets of opportunity. None of them have/had the resources to combat a full on assault from Fox News. Charles Krauthammer decried the cycle of race based accusations in this country without pointing out that it is Fox News that is instigating and perpetuating the cycle on a daily basis. FNC can try to claim that they are the real victims here, but without Breitbart’s edited video and their endless, relentless promotion of it, Shirley Sherrod would never have been fired. The real victim is Shirley Sherrod, and the racist attacks are originating from Fox News.
And if his claim that the NAACP tolerates racism is based on the debunked claim that Sherrod's speech shows she is racist, doesn't his whole excuse fall apart? Well, Breitbart claimed on Fox News last night that the video proves there are racists among the NAACP because "the audience was laughing and applauding as she described how she maltreated the white farmer," and he argued that the audience did not "know that there was going to be a point of redemption" in her story.
On Good Morning America today, Breitbart again claimed that his video shows that "at an NAACP event, people are applauding racism." And he demonstrated:
In his initial post, Breitbart described the audience reaction as "nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement." And that was before we all had access to the full video and the proper context. Now, he says that the audience was "applauding" in approval of discrimination. In fact, Breitbart's claim that the audience was applauding as she "described how she maltreated the white farmer" is demonstrably false.
First of all, the full video shows that the audience did have reason to understand where Sherrod's speech was going and that her story was about the importance of moving beyond race. Before getting into the story about the "white farmer," Sherrod previewed the lesson that she learned:
[16:34] SHERROD: God is good. I can tell you that. When I made that commitment, I was making that commitment to black people -- and to black people only. But you know God will show you things and he'll put things in your path so that you realize that the struggle is really about poor people --
AUDIENCE: All right. All right.
SHERROD: -- you know. The first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm. He took a long time talking but he was trying to show me he was superior to me -- I knew what he was doing.
Her story begins around 16:30 in the video. Contrary to Breitbart's claim, the audience does not applaud at any point during the story about her interaction with the farmer.
Nevertheless, media outlets are already uncritically reporting Breitbart's attempt to cover his ass. The New York Times reports:
"They're trying to make this about me and Shirley Sherrod. This is about the N.A.A.C.P.," he said by phone. He said that the civil rights group had "spent an inordinate amount of airtime trying to brand the Tea Party as racist" while tolerating racism itself.
The Washington Times wrote:
Mr. Breitbart, whose Big Government blog posted the video, said Tuesday that the point was the NAACP audience's reaction to Mrs. Sherrod's account of her past actions.
"This was not about Shirley Sherrod. This was about the NAACP attacking the Tea Party and this is showing racism at an NAACP event. I did not ask for Shirley Sherrod to be fired," he told CNN, adding that Mrs. Sherrod "should have the right to defend herself. But what you see on the video are people ... applauding her overt racism that she is representing."
And the Los Angeles Times reported:
Breitbart told CNN's "John King, USA" that releasing the video was "not about Shirley Sherrod."
"This was about the NAACP attacking the tea party, and this is showing racism at an NAACP event," he said.
How can these outlets actually repeat Breitbart's claim that this was "not about Shirley Sherrod," when it clearly was? Didn't anyone read what Breitbart had written? In his initial post on July 19, Breitbart claimed that the video is "evidence of racism coming from a federal appointee" and that Sherrod discriminated against a white farmer in her "federal duties" as the USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development. The video itself also included text that said. "Ms. Sherrod admits that in her federally appointed position, overseeing over a billion dollars she discriminates against people due to their race." Breitbart then posted a tweet asking, "Will Eric Holder's DOJ hold accountable fed appointee Shirley Sherrod for admitting practicing racial discrimination?" After the USDA forced Sherrod out of her position in response to the deceptive video, Big Government celebrated with a post titled: "Racist Govt Official/NAACP Award Recipient Resigns after Big Government Expose."
Things quickly took a turn for the worse for Breitbart. Sherrod told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Breitbart's video completely distorted the meaning of her remarks, and media outlets - aside from Fox News, which repeatedly aired the cropped video and called Sherrod a racist - began calling for Breitbart to release the full video. Breitbart was then forced to admit that he did not have the full video and that he had smeared Sherrod as a racist based on a three-minute clip that cuts her off in the middle of her speech, indeed in the middle of a sentence. CNN later interviewed the "white farmer" who Breitbart claimed Sherrod discriminated against, and he said her critics "don't know what they're talking about" and that Sherrod had done "her level best" to help him save his farm. With the full video now available, everyone can see plainly that the facts are basically the opposite of what Breitbart claimed them to be.
The whitewash began immediately. Big Government inexplicably criticized the Obama administration for believing and reacting to what Breitbart had called "video proof" of racism by a federal official. Glenn Beck and FoxNews.com also appear to be concealing Breitbart's failure and Fox News' own horrendous coverage.
And now Breitbart is trying to cover his outrageous smear of one woman by baselessly attacking a whole group of people as racist. Will the media comply?
Posted by Alex Seitz-Wald at 5:50 amFor far too long white Americans have been told that diversity is something beneficial to their existence. Statistics prove that the opposite is true. New Hampshire residents must seek to preserve their racial identity if we want future generations to have to possibility to live in such a great state. Affirmative action, illegal and legal non-white immigration, anti-white public school systems, and an anti-white media have done much damage to the United States of America and especially New Hampshire. It is time for white people in New Hampshire and across the country to take a stand. We are only 8 percent of the world’s population and we need our own homeland, just like any other non-white group of people deserve their own homeland.
Murdough is running as a Republican because it’s easier to get on the ballot, but the party immediately “disowned him as a candidate on their ticket,” calling him a “despicable racist” and a “fraud.” But Murdough has no love lost for the GOP, complaining, “they’ve sold white people out.”
It’s unclear whether Murdough is a tea partier, but in the comments section of the Monitor’s website, where Murdough is very active, he wrote, “I think the Tea Party movement is doing great things.” His rhetoric in the comments often reflects that of the movement, and he repeatedly advises the the tea party to “embrace the fact [that] there is a racial aspect to the movement.” “White people need to stop wasting time arguing about how they are not racist,” he said in one comment, adding in another:
The Tea Party at its core is all about race but most of the Tea Partiers do not even realize it. They downplay the race issue every chance they get because they are afraid of being perceived as racist.
He also called on them to stop the “jewish appeasing.” “If the Republicans continue to put out weak, israel first, zionist, anti white, neo cons, the tea party will be for nothing,” Murdough warned.
In an interview, Murdough denied that he is a racist, explaining, “I can’t really be a racist, because I don’t hate them. I just don’t want to live around areas that are heavily, predominantly non-white.” Still, Murdough believes Martin Luther King was a prostitute-chasing Communist who was just “out for the black man,” and that Abraham Lincoln was one of history’s worst presidents because “[h]e waged war against the South.” He’s also worried about white “genocide,” noting, “Nobody is flooding Africa with non-Africans.” But Murdough is an equal opportunity bigot, saying, “no group of people has exploited their victimhood as much as Jews have.” “Technically, they’re a different race than white people.” He’s also homophobic, writing that gay parenting is “child abuse” and that “Homosexuals want to get married because they hate Christ.” Murdough acknowledges his stance on race and “Jewish issues” is controversial, but claimed he has DNA evidence to support him.
Murdough is the state chairman of American Third Position (A3P), “a fledgling political party…with the aim of uniting disaffected racists,” the Southern Poverty Law Center reports. Last week, the group proudly announced its “triple-digit donation” (i.e. less than $1,000) to a fund established by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) to defend her state’s draconian new immigration law. (HT: Political Correction)
Race Boating: Swift Boat Backer Funds Racist Mail In Texas
by: Glen W. SmithA group called "Empower Texans," chaired by Tim Dunn of Midland, an associate of Republican Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick, attacked Democratic state House candidate Joel Redmond of Pasadena with a direct mail piece featuring fuzzy images of black and Hispanic lawmakers (plus Barack Obama), several black birds resembling crows, and a picture of the white Redmund. The tag line: "Birds of a feather flock together."
Anyone with any racial sensitivity gets the meaning of the mailer: Redmond has betrayed whites by befriending people of color. He can't be trusted.
This is happening in the Houston area, down the road from Tom DeLay. George Bush's hometown. While an African-American, Barack Obama, is the Democratic nominee for president.
Today's Race Boaters aren't like the Swift Boaters. They ARE the Swift Boaters. Bob Perry. Tom DeLay. Tom Craddick. The same people whose 2002 campaign funding scheme led to Tuesday's guilty plea from the Texas Association of Business, another organization with close ties to the Race Boaters. That plea came from the same investigation that led to the indictment against DeLay.
The nice thing about having my own blog is that I can write whatever I want and not have to wait to see if it will be approved and posted. The sad thing about having a blog is sometimes it doesn’t matter or make a difference. With that said I would start out by saying that even though I have never voted until this year I have always been a huge campaigner. Obviously I made the wrong decision for the last eight years.
All of you old people that are Democrats or Independents who are not sure how to vote stop being so damn selfish and think about your children and their childrens futures. Get past your racist attitudes before you put us at the mercy of what I consider two of the most "incompetent" people in this country.
Republicans open your eyes! This is not the time for your need to be right! You are being stubborn at the cost of our country, knowing that you are supporting two people that will cost our country dearly if elected! I can be light hearted in this blog but the facts are this election is not a game. Your pick for Vice President is scary and a heart beat away from being the President of the US. She is the most dangerous thing I have ever seen happen to this country given the age and health of John McCain.
