The Sad Tale of Shirley Sherrod: Vilsack Is the Villain

THE RIGHT WING COMMENTATORS FROM FOX HAVE AN AGENDA AGAINST THE TRUTH, FILLED WITH LIES ON THEIR COMMENTS, NOT REPORTING, THEY, ARE NOT NEWSCASTERS, BUT HATE MONGERS, AND RACISTS, ONLY TO MAKE THE PRESIDENT LOOK BAD WE SHALL SEE WHO PREVAILS IN THE END.

It seems to me that, even more than Vilsak, whose main sin is being unwilling to admit he jumped the gun and was wrong, is whoever posted this old video clip out of context, that is by posting it in a way that allowed people to believe it was recent and without showing the part of her speech where she explained the experience caused her to grow as a person. Why haven't we heard who did this, and why is that person not now the target of excoriation?

From article above>>> "On Monday, as Sherrod was driving across Georgia, she says, she received a series of calls from Cook. The department, Cook told her, wanted her to resign immediately because the dust-up was "going to be on Glenn Beck".......this is not accurate, Mr. Corn. Sherrod said Cook said the Whitehouse wanted her to resign. Vilsack is just taking the hit. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Shirley does not have such a really sad tale, though, she sued the agency and won a $13 million dollar settlement - and a job - in 2009. Now they want to give her an even higher job handling those very same claims. Google her and the "black farmer" lawsuits. Even now on TV interviews Sherrod talks about filing lawsuits.

There are still troubling comments like "one of his own" - and others. Plus, she is not suppose to make political commentary when she is representing the agency. More troubling is the fact that she was part of the "black farmer" lawsuits and had sued the agency she now works for and got $13 million. Now, the job she is being offered is handling the claims from the same lawsuit she participated in. Talk about the fox guarding the hen house! Go check out vdare.com for info on the "black farmer" lawsuits - or hidden reparations - and all of the false claims.

This lady was treated unfairly. I went on the NAACP website to see the whole 43 minute speech, and it was nowhere close to what the little snippets represented.

I take issue with you, however, for jumping all over Fox News for running with the story. By Monday night, the story was apparently all over the internet, AND the USDA had forced this woman to resign. By that time, the story WAS news, whether the original "carefully edited" pieces were true of not.

Reverse racism: If those New Black Panther Party members who menacingly stood in front of the entrance to the poling place, making menacing comments, had been dressed in full Aryan Brotherhood or KKK regalia, doing the same thing, does anybody really believe that the U.S. Department of Justice wouldn't have nailed them to the wall? Really? That's really not reverse racism? Then I don't understand what is.

Get your facts straight David Corn, everyone on Fox news that said something apologized the following day, but you aren't telling the American people that. Her getting fired is not Fox news' fault, it is purely the Agriculture Secretary's fault. Do not blame Fox news for her firing, shame on you. Even the NAACP made a mistake but you aren't criticizing them, your blaming Fox news for their mistake, too!? Let me get this straight, 3 main groups made a mistake: the Ag. Department, NCAAP, and Fox News but the only one your criticizing is Fox News, who like the other 2 groups apologized. Get your facts straight, give both sides of the story and stop posting your one sided liberal views. The conservative who posted this was wrong and should be criticized along with the Ag. Secretary, but don’t go blaming every republican because of what one man did.

I find it interesting, that the comments about the conservative news media, are all finding fault, and accusing them of hate. These comments are full of hatred for conservatives. Fox news, didn't air the tape first. Certainly Glen Beck didn't.
AOL, while trying to make it look like they are placing the blame on Vilsack, are twisting it around to blame the Tea Party, which had nothing at all to do with it.
This is still America, we still have the right to free speech, and two or more view points. Why can't we disagree, and respect the oppisite view without name calling, sly digs, and putting others down for their views.

I completely disagree with your analysis. The main culprit in this debacle is the conservative new media who used heavily edited remarks to attack Shirley Sherrod and, through her, a trap for both Secretay Vilsack and the Obama Administration. This episode underscores the lack of credibility of any conservative propaganda organization posing as news media.

We don't have to go far back in history to see how other propagandists used the news cycle to trick the public and officials to think that wahat was being portrayed was real news. When will this country recognize these "news" sources for what they really are?

Why can't a government employee just do his or her job and not be prejudist by whether the person being dealt with is white or black, rich or poor, male or female? Ms Sherrod has come a long way in working through her prejudice toward white people, and she is to be commended. She ought not have been asked to resign, and should not have lost her job. She is obviously a good person, the kind we need in government to deal with the needs of the American people. Having said so, she still has a ways to go in her prejudice against rich people. So what? I can't imagine a rich person wading through the bureaucratic red tape to try to get a handout from the government. No. They go to their rich friends in congress to get an earmark.

If you will go back and watch the whole comment of Ms Sherrod, a comment made before a meeting of the NAACP, you'll find that the group of hearers cheered when they thought that one of theirs used her position to stick it to one of them--white people. I don't believe that was the response Ms Serrod was looking for because she goes on to tell how she went to bat for this poor, white farmer, helping him to keep his farm.

That cheer is the real rub to me. It reveals the attitude that it is okay to stick it to someone if we think that someone is different than we are. Isn't that what prejudice is? And that is what the writer of the artical I am commenting on is guilty of also. Because he is doing the very same thing to conservative commentators that he is accusing them of. But then, they are differt than he is, so that gives him the right to stick it to them.

If Shirley Sherrods had not spoken much about old racism she would still have job and Tom Vilsack would never had fired her. Now Tom Vilsack has offered another position.
Shirley Sherrods please take the job and do your work and do not talk about race.