Compliments to the Republican echo chamber, Mark Twain's words are proven true: "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes!"
Andrew Breitbart, of ACORN pimp video fame, concocted another traveling lie using Fox News as his travel agent... Shirley Sherrod may have been tying her shoes when she got word from the Obama Administration that she was fired as a result of the Breitbart doctored video of her allegedly making racist statements. All is not lost, though...
Shirley Sherrod is now a heroine. Breibart remains a weasel, and members of the Obama administration appear to suffer from collective racial cowardice.
In watching the full video of her speech, Ms Sherrod goes through the history of her family and how her father was murdered by Southern racists. She clearly spells out how despite her struggles with racism in the South, she advised young people to overlook racial differences and reach their goals through hard work.
What makes her a racist? NOTHING she said...
Moving ahead, it should be even more clear that "conservative" media should be viewed very sparingly, if at all, by fair minded individuals. The Obama administration must stop shying away from the inevitable fight that must be waged here in America regarding the issue of race. Obama must stop knuckling under to Fox News hacks, realizing that Fox and the right-winged echo chamber is going to create trouble for them when there is none...
Lies are sometimes hard to defend, and near impossible when you are up against a news agency that is dedicated to lying. But in this case right has once again prevailed. Shirley Sherrod has been vindicated. She has been offered even a better job by those who fired her.
Fox News has egg on its face, but so does the Obama administration...
Fox News has egg on its face, but so does the Obama administration...
The problem of race in America continues... "Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power." Martin Luther King Jr.
G.L.M.
