This ought to be the last word on Shirley Sherrod:
In both the full video and a 3 minute excerpt I produced, Sherrod labels the entire Republican Party racist, claiming they simply can’t stand to see a black man in the White House. She also characterizes totally legitimate political opposition to ObamaCare from average citizens as mean and ultimately racist in the end. Had some previous Bush appointee called the Democrat Party a bunch of race-baiting hucksters, or poverty pimps – putting black citizens in that camp, too – there is no way said official would be able to keep their position. Yet, that is precisely what Sherrod did, only it was Republicans and her political opponents she so openly smeared.
The standards are ugliness, ignorance and divisiveness. There should be absolutely no doubt that those are the standards to which a Bush appointee would be held. I see no valid reason to not hold Sherrod to the very same standards, as well.
Unfortunately, it won’t be. The new narrative will be that Breitbart willfully cropped the video (he didn’t, but that’s certainly a tactic the left uses early and often as recently evidenced by the deceptively edited “tea party is racist” video), that conservatives rushed to judgment (some did, but by no means all), and that Sherrod is the innocent victim of the eeevil mean teabaggers (she isn’t.) And I seriously doubt the right has the will to oppose the new narrative enough to keep it from taking hold.
Added: yep, I’m slow getting through my RSS feeds today, but – right on time… Breitbart is fighting the good fight, though.
