21 July 2010
My Solution to the Shirley Sherrod Debacle
One: full public apology from all the idiots who fell for this. Reinstatement for Shirley Sherrod. A raise, even.
Two: Tom Vilsack, fired. Benjamin Jealous, resign. Seriously. Both have shown they jeopardize what they supposedly run by being there. No spine, no intelligence, no questioning. They destroyed an innocent woman who's spent her life HELPING people, on what? A blogger's word? That of a news network they claim not to take seriously? Over a cherry-picked out-of-context clip from a speech that was about how SHE got over the prejudices of her youth and helped two white farmers who are still grateful to her?
And after telling us about this, Maddow interviewed a very nervous Jealous, who she then gave softball question after question(unusual for Maddow) and let him veer away from Shirley Sherrod and babble about this being a teachable moment. Man, fuck your teachable moment. You destroyed the life of a nice, harmless lady. YOU did it. YOU took the bait. Yet you talked like this was something someone else did. Just shut up, step down, and let someone who actually pays attention run the NAACP.
What exactly is wrong with Obama's administration? Do they actually pay any attention to anything? Why are they so willing to give the cons what they want, anytime they want, but not willing to give us, the ones who will actually vote, none? And they reward good deeds with this?
Did I vote for Obama so he'd do the GOP's work for them? I did not.
I am almost tempted to wish Obama would step down if this is his true self, the idiot who would accept the resignation in the first place.
Shame. Complete shame. We expect Breitbart and Fox to do this like we expect a rattlesnake to bite. But Obama has shown that, if you get bitten, he'll leave you behind.
That's not "hope." Whatever else it is. And it's making his supporters, like me, wonder what use he actually is, when it's obvious the people we thought we voted out still run EVERYTHING. And are laughing and laughing.
Faith and credibility, once lost, don't come back.
And as for the true villains in all this, Fox and Breitbart, just because I expect this of them doesn't mean they should be free to do it. I say that Mrs. Sherrod should sue them for what they committed here.
LIBEL.
One: full public apology from all the idiots who fell for this. Reinstatement for Shirley Sherrod. A raise, even.
Two: Tom Vilsack, fired. Benjamin Jealous, resign. Seriously. Both have shown they jeopardize what they supposedly run by being there. No spine, no intelligence, no questioning. They destroyed an innocent woman who's spent her life HELPING people, on what? A blogger's word? That of a news network they claim not to take seriously? Over a cherry-picked out-of-context clip from a speech that was about how SHE got over the prejudices of her youth and helped two white farmers who are still grateful to her?
And after telling us about this, Maddow interviewed a very nervous Jealous, who she then gave softball question after question(unusual for Maddow) and let him veer away from Shirley Sherrod and babble about this being a teachable moment. Man, fuck your teachable moment. You destroyed the life of a nice, harmless lady. YOU did it. YOU took the bait. Yet you talked like this was something someone else did. Just shut up, step down, and let someone who actually pays attention run the NAACP.
What exactly is wrong with Obama's administration? Do they actually pay any attention to anything? Why are they so willing to give the cons what they want, anytime they want, but not willing to give us, the ones who will actually vote, none? And they reward good deeds with this?
Did I vote for Obama so he'd do the GOP's work for them? I did not.
I am almost tempted to wish Obama would step down if this is his true self, the idiot who would accept the resignation in the first place.
Shame. Complete shame. We expect Breitbart and Fox to do this like we expect a rattlesnake to bite. But Obama has shown that, if you get bitten, he'll leave you behind.
That's not "hope." Whatever else it is. And it's making his supporters, like me, wonder what use he actually is, when it's obvious the people we thought we voted out still run EVERYTHING. And are laughing and laughing.
Faith and credibility, once lost, don't come back.
And as for the true villains in all this, Fox and Breitbart, just because I expect this of them doesn't mean they should be free to do it. I say that Mrs. Sherrod should sue them for what they committed here.
LIBEL.
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