Breitbart Not Racist: Color of Change Not Happy
[Guest post by Lee Stranahan]
What’s the color of mope?
Color of Change manages to successfully pressure HuffPost to do something unprecedented – make Andrew Breitbart the only person in the entire world who can’t be featured on the front page of the Huffington Post. After initially backing free speech and good publishing practices, HuffPost caved.
But that wasn’t good enough for James Rucker. Check about this comment from his awful new article about Race-baiting vs. Racism.
Breitbart, though, is relieved that Sekoff and Arianna Huffington have said publicly that they don’t think Breitbart is a racist. "I want to make it as clear as possible that neither I nor Arianna believe that Andrew Breitbart is a racist," Sekoff said in his email to the Daily Caller. "If we did believe that, we never would have allowed him to blog on HuffPost — let alone featured him on our front page. The decision about not featuring him on the front page in the future had nothing to do with race, but was based on the nature of his attack on Van Jones, as we’ve always made clear."
Sekoff’s words are troubling for several reasons. For one, he (and, because he implicates her, Arianna Huffington) pretends that race has nothing to do with why Breitbart is bad for the Huffington Post brand. Instead, he sticks by their stated, implausible rationale for getting rid of their Breitbart problem: that it’s because Breitbart said mean things about ColorOfChange co-founder Jones on someone else’s website.
Why not tackle the issue directly and speak to Breitbart’s role in destroying Sherrod’s career, maligning the NAACP and financially crippling ACORN under false pretenses? Why did taking that additional step prove too difficult for Sekoff and Huffington? Perhaps for the same reason that many white progressive organizations and bloggers (with some important exceptions) that are usually eager to pile on when there’s an opportunity to call out the lies of conservative operatives were silent.
The race-baiter is James Rucker – they are the ones who introduce race into the issue and then pretend that they aren’t calling Bretitbart a racist. Note how race-baiter Rucker throws in “many white progressive organizations and bloggers”? Got to force that white guilt, right James? What – you didn’t get enough people piling on your censorship crusade?
Color of Change’s James Rucker is a cowardly censor. I hope James Rucker gets Google Alerts, because I’ll debate that dishonest fundraiser any time, any place. Rucker is happy enough to write for the Huffington Post and use it for his own purposes but he doesn’t want other people, specially Andrew Breitbart, to have the same ability. You want to debate Sherrod or the NAACP or Pigford or ACORN? I’m right here, man.
Good job, Roy and Arianna. As I said in my Arianna Shrugs article – the far left hate you. Stop sucking up to them. They hate you.
– Lee Stranahan
If James Rucker actually could lay out a case for intentional deception by Breitbart it might be worthwhile having a discussion. Merely mouthing the words does not make them true. I agree, bring it on.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/10/2011 @ 4:13 pmThat little cyber bully will never get within two timezones of you, Lee.
SPQR (26be8b) — 4/10/2011 @ 4:13 pmJames Rucker is heavily edited.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/10/2011 @ 4:17 pmWho? I mean, most everyone has heard of Andrew Breitbart. James Rucker is a fellow whose name makes me think of schoolyard name calling. I would start by calling him “Rames Jucker.”
A little man, overall.
Simon Jester (c8876d) — 4/10/2011 @ 4:56 pmJames Rucker is apparently a racist.
JD (3dfbdf) — 4/10/2011 @ 5:17 pm“the far left hate you” They hate _everything_ except dogma.
gp (30ebe2) — 4/10/2011 @ 5:18 pm“maligning the NAACP”
Nobody maligned the NAACP. Some people have just pointed out that the NAACP is a racist organization.
There’s nothing evil about pointing out something that is obviously true.
Dave Surls (65ca80) — 4/10/2011 @ 5:41 pmRucker, is the one who coordinated ‘the Bush doesn’t care about Black people’ line, and leads the way, in the ginned up boycotts of Beck, which
narciso (cfef6a) — 4/10/2011 @ 6:22 pmreally didn’t work all that well, then again the Huff Po, certainly evolved into a conveyor belt for the latest smear, pushing ridiculous premises like
FRK jr’s attack on vaccines, and deriding critics
of liberal policies,saying for example, it was all recycled cold war paranoia,
ColorOfChange.org exists to strengthen Black America’s political voice. Our goal is to empower our members – Black Americans and our allies – to make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.
Heh. There’s more than a bit of irony at the information page of Color of Change regarding their purpose, no?
Dana (9f3823) — 4/10/2011 @ 6:34 pmDana – They obviously mean everyone of the right color. Prolly just bad proofreading.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/10/2011 @ 6:47 pmI was wondering if Rucker was speaking at this important conference for educators this week. I started clicking through the program and then got sick to my stomach. This social justice crap is just reverse racism and white guilt that the system is trying shove down the throats of our kids. Seems perfect for Color of Change. Perpetuate victimhood!
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/10/2011 @ 6:53 pmGot to force that white guilt, right James?
He can’t even be honest enough with himself to come out and claim these white progressive organizations are racist. He can only wink and hint.
He is apparently the equivalent of the feminists who think that every act of heterosexual sex involves rape: he sees bigotry in every interaction between white and black. And like them, he must be a rather barren and frigid sort of person.
kishnevi (14ed7d) — 4/10/2011 @ 8:27 pmJames Rucker is anacephalic.
DohBiden (984d23) — 4/10/2011 @ 10:20 pmThe next year or so should be interesting for the HuffnPuff. AOL blew 1/3 of their cash on the purchase and Ariana is in the midst of downsizing the AOL content staff (as well as it’s subsidiaries) to replace with her own. There has also been talk that HuffnPuff will reduce it’s political content in the hopes of attracting more people to the entertainment side (and to retain AOL users that are conservative in nature who would now see an increase in left wing, progressive viewpoints and realize that they really don’t need AOL as an internet on ramp after all). Not sure where this will go with the exception of the probable ouster of the current CEO of AOL (the guy that went with deal) when AOL subscribers start to fall and HuffnPuff still isn’t making money on Ad revenue.
scr_north (4b44c6) — 4/10/2011 @ 11:05 pmIt’s all about the Benjamins. Without bogeymen to demonize, slander and smear, these organizations would not be able to stay in business. Just look at the way the Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson shakedown rackets work.
Gotta keep the ha8 flowing to keep the money coming. Simple business model. Admitting your opponents, whether Breitbart, Beck or the Tea Party are not racists or race baiters blows up your economics.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2011 @ 8:40 amI give a big fat hearty Ruck you to James Rucker.
DohBiden (984d23) — 4/11/2011 @ 8:47 amBreitbart *was* pretty race-baity and gay the way he lynched Shirley I think – I think he knows this too. I seriously doubt he would have gotten all fired up about pigford if he hadn’t been embarrassed to where felt he needed to retrospectively rationalize his really really classless faux pas what he did on Miss Shirley.
happyfeet (a55ba0) — 4/11/2011 @ 9:06 amto where *he* felt I mean
happyfeet (a55ba0) — 4/11/2011 @ 9:07 amThat was kind of BS.
JD (3dfbdf) — 4/11/2011 @ 9:09 am“Breitbart *was* pretty race-baity and gay the way he lynched Shirley I think”
Mr. Feets – Surely lynching Shirley with her own gay racisty words is not race-baity, especially when Mr. Breitbart included her later comments acknowledging she was wrong in the same release and that she turned the farmer over to a lawyer over to “one of his own kind.” It was Mr. Obama and Mr. USDA what decided to fire her before investigating context. Mr. Breitbart provided context, but the race-baiting progressive media and people like you continue to lie about it.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2011 @ 9:15 amSmearing people with their own words is gay and race-baity. A hate crime!
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2011 @ 9:16 amcrimethink, clearly daley,
narciso (8a8b93) — 4/11/2011 @ 9:20 amMr. Breitbart bent over backwards to misrepresent Shirley and made a big deal about absolutely effing nothing what really screwed up her life – it was rude and mean-spirited and pointless irrespective of pigford corruptions.
happyfeet (a55ba0) — 4/11/2011 @ 9:20 am“I seriously doubt he would have gotten all fired up about pigford if he hadn’t been embarrassed to where felt he needed to retrospectively rationalize his really really classless faux pas what he did on Miss Shirley.”
Mr. Feets – I don’t know about embarrassment, but is there a problem with one story leading to another. The concentration camp the Sherrod family ran for black farmers in the 1970s and the complaints those farmers attempted to make very interesting reading. If you support government waste and fraud on settlements like Pigford, good on you
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2011 @ 9:24 am“Mr. Breitbart bent over backwards to misrepresent Shirley”
Mr. Feets – Mr. Breitbart is not a contortionist. Open your good eye. Everyone can clearly see that Mrs. Sherrod deserves sainthood and that the $13 million settlement she wangled from the government for that concentration camp her family called a farm is a fraction of what she is owed. Her husband is an even bigger saint.
If there were misrepresentations that were not immediately corrected, please detail them.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2011 @ 9:35 amPigford is bad Mr. daley – real bad – it’s theft. If Breitbart wants to blow the lid off Pigford yay that is a noble pursuit but I think he did his cause a disservice by getting embroiled in a personal vendetta against Miss Shirley. His videotape shenanigans were not on point and Shirley’s not guilty of very much more than taking monies the corrupt US Congress and our corrupt Soros-fellating president made a conscious choice to squander – and you’ll remember that the cowardly Team R in the Senate passed the Pigford monies on a voice vote – Team R was too pansy to force people to go on the record.
Horses and barn doors.
happyfeet (a55ba0) — 4/11/2011 @ 9:46 am“If Breitbart wants to blow the lid off Pigford yay that is a noble pursuit but I think he did his cause a disservice by getting embroiled in a personal vendetta against Miss Shirley.”
Mr. Feets – With respect, the NAACP was the target of Mr. Breitbart if you care to get your facts straight. By prematurely firing Shirley, Obama and the USDA screwed up and substituted targets. The narrative, as your comments indicate, has survived.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2011 @ 10:51 am“Team R was too pansy to force people to go on the record.”
Mr. Feets – Was a motion for a roll call vote made or entertained by Hairy Reid? Any idea?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2011 @ 10:57 amoh cause the NAACP chuckled ruefully it was a big scandal and the black hoochie had to get hauled in front of the country and branded a hateful racist?
I’m not saying Breitbart can’t play in that sandbox if he wants to but it really didn’t prove to be to much purpose I think and I don’t think it did his credibility any favors.
happyfeet (a55ba0) — 4/11/2011 @ 11:03 amWas a motion for a roll call vote made or entertained by Hairy Reid? Any idea?
I can’t find where any of the coward Team R senators fought for a recorded vote.
happyfeet (a55ba0) — 4/11/2011 @ 11:04 amYou know what would be great? If the House GOP had the foresight to pass some kind of funding measure for military salaries, to take effect only in the event of a government shutdown.
A bill like this, free of any riders, should be the HR 1 of every legislative session for the near future. It doesn’t matter this year, and yet it could matter a lot next year.
If fact, they could go ahead and set up the next shutdown debate considerably by passing funding for a few things in the event of a shutdown (but the military salaries should be its own, completely independent, bill.
Dustin (c16eca) — 4/11/2011 @ 11:09 amLook at what we have to contemplate Dustin, if he is capable to threaten this, what else would he consider.
narciso (8a8b93) — 4/11/2011 @ 11:13 amI know, narciso.
That’s exactly how I feel. It’s beyond politics that Obama would use his station as commander in chief to hold military family welfare as a negotiation chip.
So you bring up another problem, which is my (and the rest of the GOP’s) inability to predict how much farther Obama could take things when Ryan’s FY 2012 budget comes up.
But the least we could do is adapt to the new rules Obama has written for budget shutdowns. And frankly, the messaging here is invaluable.
Dustin (c16eca) — 4/11/2011 @ 11:21 amWow, I posted both these comments in the wrong thread. HA!
I apologize, Lee Stranahan. Your posts have been excellent, and I didn’t mean to threadjack.
Dustin (c16eca) — 4/11/2011 @ 11:31 am“I can’t find where any of the coward Team R senators fought for a recorded vote.”
Mr. Feets – You could choose to ignore the at least nine time a Republican(s) delayed approval of the settlement in the Senate to focus on that final voice vote.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2011 @ 12:05 pmnone of the senators are on record opposing the Pigford II Settlement Mr. daley how is that the way steak is done? It’s not!
Team R needs to raise the level of their game and not be all acquiescing to voice votes what squander billions of dollars on nuffin. How else do we hold these holes accountable?
happyfeet (a55ba0) — 4/11/2011 @ 3:14 pm“Mr. Breitbart bent over backwards to misrepresent Shirley…”
No, he didn’t. He just shined a little bitty light on her, so that people could see what she is, if they cared to look.
And, if you care to look, you’ll see that what she is is a life-long racist, and a life-long parasite on the American taxpayer.
Dave Surls (31554d) — 4/11/2011 @ 4:42 pmthere’s been no evidence shown whatsoever that Miss Shirley is a racist but if she were a racist who gives a flip life is too short to stuff a mushroom and to give a flip whether Miss Shirley is racist
happyfeet (a55ba0) — 4/11/2011 @ 4:54 pmMr. Feet, “Miss Shirley” and her racist husband certainly did take a lot of taxpayer money under false pretenses. Right?
Given your prior statements about that kind of thing, I’m a little surprised at you.
Or rather, not. Peace be upon you.
Simon Jester (12f0da) — 4/11/2011 @ 5:02 pmHappyfeet, my view is that these government jobs are too plumb to give to people who confess being egregiously racist in the way they administer their duties. Sherrod’s behavior was, to some extent, on the US Government’s behalf. Yes, she speaks of this as though she is reformed, and yet the way she handled the aftermath shows she probably isn’t.
I’m more inclined to let her live her life and hope she’s grown, rather than hold a grudge, but why trust her with government power?
That’s the central issue with the pigford scammers. I don’t trust them, even if they play the race card a lot. Especially because they play the race card a lot. Not trusting them is the solution to most of this problem.
Anyway, you want to allow that Sherrod is not this horrible person anymore, and I think that’s very good. It’s a lot easier to live on that kind of assumption if the stakes are lower.
Dustin (c16eca) — 4/11/2011 @ 5:20 pmShirley Sherrod acted stupidly.
I am not inviting her over for a beer summit.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2011 @ 5:25 pmBarcky and Vilsack also acted stupidly. Breitbart, not so much.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2011 @ 5:27 pmDustin, I would feel much better if Ms. Sherrod did two things:
1. Disavowed the comments of her charming husband.
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2010/07/sherrod-we-must-stop-the-white-man-and-his-uncle-toms-.html
2. Gave back the 12 million bucks. Or at least the 330,000 bucks she got for “mental anguish.” I know some folks in Japan who could use the cash.
Simon Jester (12f0da) — 4/11/2011 @ 5:30 pmI hope Mr. Feets has someone helping him move the goal posts around today. I would not want him to injure his back.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 4/11/2011 @ 5:34 pmWell, he did call her a “hoochie,” so there is that.
Simon Jester (12f0da) — 4/11/2011 @ 5:43 pm“there’s been no evidence shown whatsoever that Miss Shirley is a racist…”
Oh, yes there is. Every economic endeavor she was ever part of discriminated on the basis of race, and that, my friend, is racist BY DEFINITION.
Spend 40 years working for all black organizations, that makes you a racist.
Same thing for being a parasite. Everything she ever did in her life was partially funded by money stolen from the taxpayers, by the government, and then given to her, and her racist pals.
True of the all-black farm her and her friends ran into the ground, and true of her work with the all-black Federation of Southern Cooperatives.
Dave Surls (31554d) — 4/11/2011 @ 5:47 pmI’d have a beer with Miss Shirley – we could sit out on her porch and drink it like maybe a pale moon cause of it is very tasty not cause of it’s pale no Miss Shirley that’s not some kind of crack haha and then I would ask her if she would like some tasty Portugese sausage cause of I would have thought ahead and brought some tasty cheeses and sausage and some good bread too from Porto’s.
I think we’d have a nice time and all you haters won’t have the tasty beers and the tasty sausage and the tasty cheese and the tasty Portos’s bread, just me and Miss Shirley, sitting on the porch drinking tasty beers watching fireflies and talking bout the struggle.
happyfeet (a55ba0) — 4/11/2011 @ 8:32 pmJust promise me you will ask her to pay, Mr. Feet. She has plenty of money that she didn’t earn, from the taxpayers. That normally seems to bother you, and cause you to say all kinds of personally insulting things about people who do that kind of thing.
Hmmm.
Maybe you could ask her to donate some to the Japanese, during SausageFest 2011.
Oh, and you should probably ask her husband not to attend. He seems to not like white people. I mean, based on his own speeches.
You could ask Al Sharpton and Jeremiah Wright to stop by, too.
You do that, and I’ll buy you all a round.
Simon Jester (12f0da) — 4/11/2011 @ 9:24 pmFeets, you’re an effing liar. None of that is even remotely like what happened, and you ought to know it, since you’ve been following this blog. Breitbart didn’t “lynch” Ms Sherrod; why would he, when he’d never even heard of her before he released the recording? And how exactly was releasing the clip of her own words, completely unedited, a “lynching”?
Breitbart released the clip to substantiate his claim about NAACP racism, and it did exactly that. It showed NAACP bigwigs, including its president, listening to a racist story and approving of it. Why exactly do you think he shouldn’t have done so? What do you think he should have done instead? What “videotape shenanigans” are you talking about?
Milhouse (ea66e3) — 4/11/2011 @ 11:47 pm“I’d have a beer with Miss Shirley”
Make her buy. Her and her racist hubby worked the system for hundreds of thousands of dollars (at least).
They can afford it.
Dave Surls (fcaa5b) — 4/12/2011 @ 12:38 am