Untangling Sherrod: Timeline Shows Glenn Beck’s Lies Altered Course of Sherrod / Breitbart Story
[Guest post by Lee Stranahan]
NOTE: This is a long post, I know – but I was trying to be complete and lay out the story without excerpting. For a really interesting summary, go to the very last video. It was produced by a real Beck hater but it’s accurate and it points out something amazing…Beck literally invoking God to bolster his blatant lie about not covering the Sherrod Story. – Lee
Glenn Beck has been very deceptive about his participation in the Shirley Sherrod story, telling a number of deliberate lies about his own reporting on the story. And somewhat surprisingly, his strategy seems to have worked.
Back in July, 2010 an article TV Newser reported…
Fox News host Glenn Beck has received quite a bit of praise for his restraint regarding the Shirley Sherrod videos. When many other conservative commentators were condemning her, Beck was defending her, arguing that the brief video clip that cost her her job was taken out of context. As a result Beck was praised this morning by theNew York Times editorial page:
Here’s what Beck himself has said..
Shirley Sherrod, is the next example. We didn’t rush to condemn her. This is another seemingly "redistribution of wealth" woman — who I would bet that I vehemently disagree with on probably everything. But she asked for the rest of the tape to be heard, the farmers in the story backed her up. It was a turning point story. We defended her and said her side of the story demanded to be heard — because context matters…
This is patently false. Becks’ statements have helped muddy the actual story, leaving not just a false impression of Beck’s own involvement. Beck cuts out the context that Mrs. Sherrod’s remarks were placed in – namely, to show the NAACP audience’s reaction to Sherrod’s initial admission to not helping the white farmer. By dropping this essential detail, Beck helped promote the idea that Breitbart had launched an out-of-context personal attack on Sherrod.
Here’s an actual timeline showing how things really went down. On July 19, 2010 Breitbart published the initial blog post, which was focused primarily on a running dispute on racism and the Tea Party that Breitbart was engaged in with the NAACP. In fact, Breitbart mentions the NAACP by name 17 times in the piece while only using Sherrod’s name 4 times.
Beck’s July 19th TV show didn’t mention the story because the show wasn’t news driven, but instead focused largely on Beck’s upcoming 8/28 event.
The first time Beck mentioned Sherrod was on three segments of his radio show on July 20th. By this time, Sherrod had been forced to resign by the White House.
July 20, 2010 – Morning : Radio Show
Here are ‘the missing tapes’ that Glenn Beck doesn’t want you to hear.
Most of Beck’s impact comes from his TV platform, so his radio show comments flew under the radar. On the radio, Beck sliced and diced Breitbart’s two and a half minute video clip down to shorter sound bites. Beck focusing solely on Sherrod and dropping the NAACP angle that Breitbart had focused on. Beck’s radio show also edited out the section (that Breitbart had included) where Sherrod discusses it not ‘being all about race, but about rich and poor’.
At no point during Beck’s radio show does he do anything that could possibly be construed as defending Shirley Sherrod. Nor does he say anything about waiting to hear her side or waiting to see if more of the video will be released. In fact, at the end of the show Beck taunts Sherrod and says she will be the focus of his TV show that night.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the Fox News building.
In the last hour of Beck’s radio show, news breaks on CNN – apparently unknown to Beck.
(The following times are from Media Matter’s flawed but occasionally useful timeline.)
11:20 a.m.: On CNN Newsroom, farmer’s wife calls Sherrod a "friend" who "helped us save our farm."
July 20, 2010 – Between Radio & TV Shows
Then Beck’s radio show finishes…and more of the story breaks in rapid succession.
- 1:03 p.m.: Video producer confirmed that "the full speech is exactly as Sherrod described … she goes on to explain learning the error of her initial impression.
- 1:36 p.m.: HotAir’s Morrissey reports that edited video was "the entirety of the speech [Breitbart] had in his possession.
- 3:58 p.m.: Breitbart confirms in a TPMMuckracker interview that he never had the full video of Sherrod’s remarks.
- 4 p.m.: Rick Sanchez devotes an entire hour of his show to the accusations against Sherrod
This all obviously changed the story from the way it was initially reported. And Andrew Breitbart was showing no signs that he was trying to hide anything. He said in that TPM interview…
Breitbart said he’ll post the full video, if he can get permission from the video production company who filmed it for a local NAACP chapter. He also maintained that he didn’t edit the clip and that it was sent to him already edited.
July 20, 2010 – Evening : Beck TV Show
And suddenly, Beck’s editorial focus and tone about Sherrod changes radically. What you see below is a blatant bait and switch that makes no mention of his clip-job radio show attack on Shirley Sherrod. Rather than use his show to get his viewers up to speed on the developments, he switches into full Beck egomaniac mode and desperately tries to make himself out as the real victim.
In part 2, he says…
“They are trying to make me into the bully.
I mean, she seems like a nice woman.”
But you’ll also note that at no point does Beck mention the wider context of Breitbart’s post. Instead, Beck makes the story all about his own victimhood. Beck lied to cover his tracks and spun out the narrative out in a dishonest direction that benefited no one but Beck himself.
And of course Beck has never had Breitbart on either his radio or TV show since this incident.
Later in the week…
Beck describes himself as ‘a prince of peace’.
In fact, watch at 2:40 – Beck tells O’Reilly a complete whopper where he claims that he ‘sat in his office’ and realized ‘something isn’t right with this’’ – then go listen to his radio show from the 19th. Beck is trying to take credit for getting the story right from the beginning, when he was clearly going after Sherrod on the radio.
At 4:20 or so, he also claims his initial reaction was to support her.
In this video by a Beck hater, Beck goes all in with his lie about deciding not to go after Sherrod and seems to imply that God told him not to go after Sherrod. Apparently, God doesn’t listen to Beck’s radio show, either.
The truth has no agenda. Glenn Beck does.
– Lee Stranahan
The big angle when this fiasco first broke was that Breitbart’s video insinuated that Miss Shirley had done whitey wrong in her capacity at the Department of Agriculture. This was very misleading at best, and Breity had to correct it.
The fact that a few people in the audience ruefully chuckled was not particularly meaningful given the entire context of the tape. Miss Shirley had herself an epiphany about helping people and she told her NAACP pals about it.
Making a big deal out of that is just goofy.
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 5/21/2011 @ 8:44 pmWhat was her ‘epiphany’, specifically? That was was supposed to help white people in the job was hired to do in her late 30s?
Lee Stranahan (708cc3) — 5/21/2011 @ 8:55 pmHer epiphany was that poor farmers, and by extension poor people, are all in the same boat I think
She decided that class trumped race. It’s a common dirty socialist epiphany is my understanding of them people.
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 5/21/2011 @ 9:05 pmBeck began going wrong at some point, maybe this is it. By going wrong, I mean off the rails.
It’s hard to explain, so the only comparison I can draw is Rush.
He certainly went around the bend, but was able to come back because of core conservative values.
As I’m sure many will come on board to condemn Rush’s transgressions, it is indisputable he remains a significant voice of the right.
Beck was not able to do so, and it is an interesting study to ascertain why.
Ag80 (1bc637) — 5/21/2011 @ 9:42 pmLee Stranahan has an agenda also.
badger (70c78d) — 5/22/2011 @ 12:26 amTell me where I’m getting it wrong here…
Lee Stranahan (708cc3) — 5/22/2011 @ 12:43 amEveryone who heard her white-hating rebop at the beginning of her NAACP speech thought that it was a knock on white folk, attendees included. The fact that a small segment without her ass covering “it’s all about money” remarks was given to Breitbart looks like an intentional trick to me, Beck or no Beck.
Dirty Old Man (2e2a43) — 5/22/2011 @ 3:34 amRegardless of any ‘epiphany’, how many white farmers suffered damages until she supposedly had the epiphany, who is responsible for the damages and how should the victims be compensated?
Shouldn’t we be looking for all the white farmers who had dealings with Sherrod up until her epiphany and get a class action suit going?
j curtis (3feec6) — 5/22/2011 @ 5:34 amLee,
You’ve said repeatedly that context is key to this story. But you keep leaving out the context of what Sherrod was hired to do, and by who, when the original incident occurred. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought that in the early to mid 80’s there was a major problem with black farmers being denied help/equal treatment by the Dept. of Ag. I also thought that Sherrod was hired by black advocacy group specifically to help black farmers receive equal treatment. My understanding was that she turned him away because she assumed that as a white farmer he’d receive the assistance that congress had authorized.
If context matters, shouldn’t that also be included?
time (aa4765) — 5/22/2011 @ 6:43 amTime approves of discrimination.
JD (b98cae) — 5/22/2011 @ 7:01 amThe way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
~Chief Justice John Roberts
@Time-
elissa (d37c7c) — 5/22/2011 @ 7:03 amThe your kind, my kind stuff has got to stop in this country. That is the only context which matters. You lost me at the point when referring to Sherrod you used the words, “because she assumed”.
Beck lied,Sherrod’s career died.
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 7:38 amLee, while you may have a disagreement with Beck on what he said, she said, that is NOT the story. The story was that black NAACP members cheered when Sherrod said that she had discriminated against a white farmer. The other part of the story is when she relates how she had an epiphany, and decided to help the white farmer by taking him to one of his own kind. Even though Sherrod was helping that white farmer, she was still injecting race into her decisions on how to help him.
More important than your [or Breitbart’s] dispute with Beck is how Sherrod herself profited from the Pigford scandal. More important than your [or Breitbart’s] dispute with Beck is the billions of American dollars that have been pilfered from the taxpayer on something that was nothing more than a retribution scam.
If you, or Breitbart, have a dispute with Beck, work it out. But to imply that Beck, who no one I know gets on the radio (living in a small town like we do) is an important factor in the Pigford scandal is to give more credence to Beck than the actual scandal itself. And that scandal is the billions taken from taxpayers to be put into the hands of non-deserving black who “attempted to farm” and the sleaze bag lawyers who pimped for them. The read scandal is how Congress simply ignored their responsibility of fiscal responsibility with our money.
You, and Breitbart, have done yoeman’s work on Pigford, but the real scandal here is not your dispute with Beck, but the billions of taxpayer dollars that have been paid out to blacks on the pretext of “an attempt to farm”, the lawyers who have earned millions pimping for them and the Congress who failed in their fudiciary responsibility to spend our tax dollars wisely.
Stick with the scandal itself, not those things on the periphery that simply tweek your nose.
retire05 (2d538e) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:30 am_________________________________________
Glenn Beck has been very deceptive about his participation in the Shirley Sherrod story
I wonder if Beck’s tendency to well up and weep on so many occasions — certainly as part of his TV show — indicates someone whose head was (and is) screwed on a bit too tightly? That and his admitted history of alcoholism gave me a sense he was always one step away from a major d’oh moment, such as his making a bad call about some topic or matter.
Mark (3e3a7c) — 5/22/2011 @ 9:18 amThis actually kinda opens my eyes about why a lot of people think Beck is a jerk. I think his radio program is hilarious, but I can’t change the facts presented here.
I was mocking Obama’s admin for worrying that Beck was going to bring this up on TV… but they were just taking him at his word.
What really irritates me is that Beck can’t just say ‘we need more facts, but what we’ve seen is an admission of racism on the job, which is not acceptable’. He had to say that Sherrod is a nice lady, and on and on.
It was all about the Beck brand, I guess.
Dustin (c16eca) — 5/22/2011 @ 9:21 amThe truth has no agenda. Glenn Beck does.
— Every political commentator on talk radio has an “agenda”. This is a revelation?
Icy Texan (81c642) — 5/22/2011 @ 9:45 amWhy do you hypocrites always bring up beck’s alcoholism while demanding we keep a lefty’s alcoholism private?
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 9:48 amOK, so tell me again why Beck’s comments hold more importance in the Pigford scandal than the blacks who took money they were not entitled to, the scum bag lawywers who helped facilitate that theft of taxpayer dollars, and the Congress who did not live up to their fudiciary responsibility when spending our money.
retire05 (2d538e) — 5/22/2011 @ 10:42 amAgreed Retire05.
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 11:25 amI don’t think anyone is saying that Beck’s comments are more important than the Pigford scandal. Certainly Lee Stranahan of all people is not saying such a thing, given his dozens of detailed discussions of the latter.
But the way the media twisted the facts about Sherrod is also really interesting. She was a racist scumbag who thinks she can excuse herself because she’s a socialist now. She thinks it is so awful to honestly discuss her own confession that if you do, she will sue you.
And part of the problem is that the MSM adopted a BS spin of the story, and it’s clear Beck used this as a chance to get a few kudos from the NYT.
I think that’s worth looking at.
Happyfeet is wrong. 37 year old people do not suddenly realize that white people have problems too. She realized that she was a much more prominent democrat now, who can’t get away with being an overt racist anymore. People who acted this way with government funds do not belong in lofty positions in the government, no matter if they are sorry or not.
A white supremacist who reformed at 37 from screwing blacks over, wouldn’t be tolerable either. And frankly, I don’t accept Sherrod’s word that she’s reformed. I think she abused grants and probably should have been prosecuted. That’s before we even get into Pigford.
Dustin (c16eca) — 5/22/2011 @ 11:41 amI used to be bigot. When I was a teenager growing up in a predominately white farming town, I loved hearing and repeating racist jokes. And when I enlisted into the military, I served with a much more diverse group of people than I grew up around. And I learned the err of my ways.
Today when I recall some stories of my youth, like of saying mean and rotten things to black people, I do not smirk or laugh. I tell them with the sober, ashamed demeanor that reflects how I feel about my past immaturity. And if the audience laughed, or applauded? I would be disgusted.
Sherrod had an epiphany, sure. But I so don’t think it was the one everybody claims it was. Despite everyone in the world who defends her, including the very farmers who she “didn’t do all she could” for, she is STILL a bigot. And I base this not just on the original video, but on the things she has said and done since.
FoundaryTech (873dda) — 5/22/2011 @ 11:52 amVery good point.
Sherrod assumes that Breitbart, who after all has gone out of his way to be fair to her if you look for yourself (rather than buying the media hysteria) was a racist who wants to enslave black people.
Why does she see him that way? his skin color, of course.
Dustin (c16eca) — 5/22/2011 @ 11:58 amDustin, Lee spent a lot of time posting a very lengthy diatribe on Beck. Why? Again, what does Beck have to do with the actual Pigford case and the scandal that no one seems to want to talk about, especially our elected officials who had to approve those funds paid to blacks who had never farmed in their lives?
Let’s deal with the real scandal, not some vendetta that Lee and Breitbart seem to have going on with Beck. Why destroy real investigave reporting with nitpicking over a talk show host?
Now, if you can show me where Beck has any sway over Congressmen that should be investigating this scandal, and misappropriation of taxpayer dollars, I am willing to listen. Until then, what Beck, or O’Reilly or “Tingling leg” Matthews has to say about the matter is moot to the scandal as a whole.
retire05 (2d538e) — 5/22/2011 @ 12:27 pmBeck didn’t say or do anything on the 19th which indicated that Sherrod would be on his TV show that evening.
The WH overreacted trying to get out in front of the story and fired her preemptively that afternoon (the 19th).
Beck’s statements about her being on his TV show didn’t come until the 20th.
Your mockery and scorn of Obie and his administration are right on target.
Aye (08bdc8) — 5/22/2011 @ 2:06 pmBreitbart may not have been on Beck’s radio or TV show since, but they did appear at Right Nation in Chicago in September 2010, two months after the Sherrod incident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWlqiv-YL7c
I have all of Beck’s radio shows archived from last year. Missing from the above clips is “The 4th Hour” with Beck’s sidekicks Stu Burguiere and Pat Gray, which is available only to Insider Extreme subscribers. At the beginning of the show (9 AM PT, 12 noon ET) both of them started to talk about Sherrod’s appearances on CNN and played clips. On the main radio show on 7/21/2010, Beck said he was in a meeting when he found out that the story was turning. He said he called Breitbart and according to Beck, Breitbart told him he was trying to get the full tape.
What is missing in all this is no one could predict that the USDA would fire Sherrod so quickly. I believe Breitbart when he says his target was the NAACP, not Sherrod, but her quick firing made her a target nevertheless.
None of this would matter if Sherrod was not (baselessly) suing Breitbart for libel, or if Beck’s website TheBlaze (run by a former Breitbart employee) didn’t run a critique of James O’Keefe’s NPR story. I wish both of them would settle this privately.
ClericalGal (63225b) — 5/22/2011 @ 2:30 pm“Untangling Sherrod: Timeline Shows Glenn Beck’s Lies Altered Course of Sherrod / Breitbart Story”
retire05 – From the title of the post, I don’t see it about Pigford at all. I see it about the incessant MSM effort to discredit Breitbart, which in this case was given an inadvertant helping hand by Beck.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/22/2011 @ 3:15 pmClerical, I’d love to hear that last hour.
And sorry — I think that Beck blatantly and provably lying matters, for a bunch of reasons. He obviously thought it mattered, or he wouldn’t have lied.
Lee Stranahan (708cc3) — 5/22/2011 @ 3:38 pmSo do you think Sherrod is a fraud or not?
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 3:44 pmI don’t think ‘fraud’ is the right word.
I think she’s more complex than either her defenders or detractors think.
Lee Stranahan (708cc3) — 5/22/2011 @ 3:49 pmAh.
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 4:10 pmLee: I think this is all a misunderstanding. I don’t believe Beck deliberately lied or edited the original tape in order to make Breitbart look bad. Obviously nothing I can do or say will sway you. Another thing: Breitbart said on Bill Maher’s show that Beck asked him to apologize to Sherrod. I think that would be news in conservative circles, but I have never found evidence of it.
ClericalGal (63225b) — 5/22/2011 @ 4:10 pmClerical…
1) Did Beck say anything on his radio show on 7/20 where he defended Sherrod — or did he go after her?
2) Has he claimed that he always defended Sherrod? That God told him not to go after her?
How much clearer could it be? He lied. Repeatedly.
Lee Stranahan (708cc3) — 5/22/2011 @ 4:30 pmLee: I think you’re wrong, and you think I’m wrong. Let’s agree to disagree. I don’t know what else to say.
ClericalGal (63225b) — 5/22/2011 @ 4:45 pmI honestly think you aren’t answering the factual question because it’s so clear.
1) Did he defend Sherrod on his radio show or did he attack her?
2) Can you point to any place he admits what he did on his radio show?
Simple questions. Now answering them honestly doesn’t look good.
Lee Stranahan (708cc3) — 5/22/2011 @ 5:00 pmLee: Yes, Beck attacked Sherrod on his radio show… like every other talk show host had up to that point. Yes, he said he defended Sherrod from the beginning, but I think he was referring to the TV show, not the radio show. I’ve listened to Beck’s radio show for 5 years, and I’ve heard him make some mistakes, but I believe they are honest mistakes, not intentional. I don’t think his memory is the best, possibly because of his alcoholism. I know this will still not convince you, so this is the last I am going to post on this.
ClericalGal (63225b) — 5/22/2011 @ 5:18 pmLee – ClericalGal is a big defender of Beck on the internet, but I give her credit for finally sort of answering your questions in #35.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/22/2011 @ 5:26 pmDaleyRocks: Thanks.
ClericalGal (63225b) — 5/22/2011 @ 5:29 pmThat’s closer…but…
We agree he attacked Sherrod on his radio show…
So — why doesn’t he ever admit that?
Why does he say God told something was wrong — when as I’ve shown, by the time the TV show aired EVERYONE knew something was wrong?
Lee Stranahan (708cc3) — 5/22/2011 @ 5:38 pmThe point is did he urge her to be fired, was his attention, so much that the White House, said that’s
ian cormac (72470d) — 5/22/2011 @ 5:42 pmBeck’s influence provoked her removal. Does Breitbart really agree with you, on this tack, Lee,
“Does Breitbart really agree with you, on this tack, Lee,”
ian – I have seen numerous clips of Breitbart interviews promoting his books where he gets asked about how the media got everything wrong and he points the finger at Beck for omitting the redemptive portion of the clips Breitbart posted on his site and then the MSM running with it.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/22/2011 @ 6:16 pmThat may be, but I don’t see why Beck would take this tack, Breitbart had been a long time collaborator, it doesn’t make sense.
ian cormac (72470d) — 5/22/2011 @ 6:22 pmIan: All of this happened nearly a year ago, and now Breitbart and his defenders are bringing this up. Why now, instead of last year? Why would Breitbart defend Beck in front of hostile protestors at the Right Nation event in Chicago if he knew all of this at the time?
ClericalGal (63225b) — 5/22/2011 @ 6:36 pmRight, it doesn’t make sense, at all, maybe it’s part of the defense against Sherrod’s suit, but I don’t get the logic of that.
The Pigford fraud, is the be all and end all, in this, that’s why the White House dropped ‘the hammer
ian cormac (72470d) — 5/22/2011 @ 6:44 pmon her’ so hard, she didn’t know what hit her.
Ian: You’re right, I think this is a part of the defense against Sherrod’s lawsuit, which I hope is thrown out, because it’s bogus. The Pigford fraud is the bigger issue.
ClericalGal (63225b) — 5/22/2011 @ 6:53 pm“Why now, instead of last year? Why would Breitbart defend Beck in front of hostile protestors at the Right Nation event in Chicago if he knew all of this at the time?”
ClericalGal – Maybe in September of last year, the time of the Right Nation appearance, Breitbart had not figured out that the false meme about his work had actually started on the right instead of the left as it usually does.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/22/2011 @ 6:57 pmI’m done here. I’ve tried to make my point and that’s all I can do. I have to get in touch with my cousin who lives in Siloam Springs, AR, which is not too far from Joplin, MO where all the tornadoes hit. That’s more important now.
ClericalGal (63225b) — 5/22/2011 @ 7:19 pmI can’t think of an argument, why this would happen,
ian cormac (72470d) — 5/22/2011 @ 7:27 pmit seems there is a whole lot of piling on Beck, that bs story by Sherman, at the top of the heap.
Beck supposedly lied,Sherrod got pied.
I can do this all night.
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 7:45 pmI agree that there are bigger components to this story, yet at the same time, it is interesting how the Beck narrative arc seems to have determined the overall narrative arc, and painted BREITBART in a manner inconsistent with the actual facts. All of the well why would he defend, what about this, what about that is a distraction from what Beck actually said.
JD (318f81) — 5/22/2011 @ 7:52 pm“I’ve tried to make my point and that’s all I can do.”
ClericalGal – What you have not done is offer an explanation of why Beck did a 180 and changed his story about Sherrod, effectively throwing Breitbart under the bus.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:05 pmIf there’s one thing to take away from the Sherrod story it’s that Breitbart is the victim of the right wing media.
Bruuuce (f22ca9) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:05 pmIf there is one thing to take away from the sherrod story is that i’am retarded.
FIFY.
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:07 pmDon’t bring me down, Bruuuce.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:10 pmPlease, please, Beck is just a garden variety sensationalist. Nothing more, nothing less..
gemologist and luvin'it! (70f08e) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:12 pmBwuuuuuuucie is just trying to get banned. Again.
JD (318f81) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:13 pmI’m reminded of the Python sketch in the outback.
ian cormac (72470d) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:15 pmPlease please,my mom doesn’t know i’am on the computer nothing more,nothing less.
What you meant to say.
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:17 pmDoh, if stupidity were a virtue, you would be a saint.
gems (70f08e) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:20 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f_p0CgPeyA
ian cormac (72470d) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:27 pmWell, I’m back. My cousin is OK. As to this: Possibly because of his faith, I honestly believe Beck felt sorry for Sherrod once he heard the whole story, but he blamed the White House and the USDA for her treatment, not Breitbart. I go back to my first post: no one thought that the USDA would fire Sherrod so quickly. She became an instant victim, whether you like it or not.
ClericalGal (63225b) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:32 pmThe nazis persecuted christians just like Obama is persecuting his critics………..accuse me of violating godwin’s laws but i’am right.
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:35 pmIan, that’s a hell of a good sketch.
Dustin (c16eca) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:35 pmWhether or not Shirley became a victim has nothing to do with what Beck said and did.
JD (318f81) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:45 pmWhat I have done in regards to the Beck portion of the Sherrod is EXACTLY what I’ve done with other portions of the Sherrod story — lay out the FACTS carefully and logically.
Until my piece few people had even tried to do it — and the people that had were Media Matters and the guy who made that video with the flames.
Even Breitbart himself didn’t know the extent to which Beck actually contributed to falsehood about this story.
The fact that someone like Clerical is tricked — got that? tricked, hoodwinked, fooled — by Beck’s ‘faith’ here says a lot, really. Beck was praised by the New York Times for his supposed ‘restraint’ when, in fact, he went after Sherrod.
Not only did Beck never correct the record, he lied about it. And he invoked his faith to do it.
Wow.
Lee Stranahan (708cc3) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:52 pmIf stupidity were gems Bruuuuuuuuuuce would be wealthy.
It’s a shame people just don’t want to admit Shirley Sherrod is a black nationalist wench.
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:55 pmThe truth is a hard row to hoe. We should all be grateful for those who take up the task.
Ag80 (1bc637) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:59 pmLee: I know when I am “tricked, hoodwinked, fooled” by someone, and it is not Glenn Beck. As I said before, I believe this is a misunderstanding, not lies, and should be worked out in private. Good night.
ClericalGal (63225b) — 5/22/2011 @ 9:27 pmExactly we aren’t hoodwinked by Sherrod’s douschebaggery and we aren’t hoodwinked by the left’s lies that nazism was far-right they were far left and persecuted christians who did not support their far-left race based socialism.
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 10:13 pmBut you can’t explain HOW it’s a misunderstanding…
Did the words accidentally fall out of Beck’s mouth?
Lee Stranahan (708cc3) — 5/22/2011 @ 10:23 pmPoor poor Sherrod being persecuted for her racist views.
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 10:24 pmSo, is it Beck’s and Breitbart’s fault that Vilsack fired Sherrod?
Icy Texan (0e63a0) — 5/22/2011 @ 10:42 pmNot only that Beck is a poopy headed creationist
/Chuckles Johnson
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 10:46 pm“Lee: I know when I am “tricked, hoodwinked, fooled” by someone, and it is not Glenn Beck. As I said before, I believe this is a misunderstanding”
ClericalGal – So is Beck defending Breitbart? If not, why not.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 5/23/2011 @ 8:00 am