That being said, I have heard that watching the whole video vindicates Sherrod, that she tells a story of change of heart and redemption. Even so, I found her language and mode of expression to be inappropriate and even offensive. Kind of like if Robert Byrd said even though he had been a klansman, he has learned to love n******.

The latest response from the NAACP of having been duped by Fox News is slapstick comical. It was their own event and their own video. They are merely floundering about in their reactionaryism after having the race card successfully dropped on them and are now dissembling and trying to divert the issue from being about the accusation of racism of the NAACP to pretending that it was an accusation of racism against Sherrod. They are trying to disprove a charge that wasn’t made.

I wonder, Vanderleun, if you have any facts to back up your assertion. And given that the goal of the video (which in full length was available to the NAACP) was not to impugn Sherrod but to impugn the NAACP, is your assertion even relevant?

“The two-minute, 38-second clip posted Monday by BigGovernment.com was presented as evidence that the NAACP was hypocritical in its recent resolution condemning what it calls racist elements of the tea party movement. The website’s owner, Andrew Breitbart, said the video shows the civil rights group condoning the same kind of racism it says it wants to erase.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/21/shirley-sherrod-unsure-if_n_653927.html

Therefore, the context of this incident, is the exchange going on between the NAACP and the TeaPartiers about who is rascist. The video was the last in that exchange, and the NAACP’s reaction to the statements of Sherrod regarding the white farmer are presented by Breitbart as evidence of rascism in NAACP. Even the Huffington Post seems to recognize this. If one reads further, it is the Obama administration’s overly quick reaction which is getting zinged.

Apparently, they are so well-tuned to the racist leanings of their hires that their first instinct was to believe every bit of it as presented.

I dont’ think Breitbart goofed, and I have openly second-guessed him before. I think he may have fallen into a bigger truth than we knew, precisely: that is that they know.

Without the first hint of a pause to consider, they went with it because they know it’s exactly what they would do under the same circumstances. Her assumed guilt by the race-mongers is just so much projection.

It’s what they wink at and allow and advocate from thousands of church pulpits, state conferences and civic meetings every week. The NAACP is thoroughly corrupt and assumes everyone else of color is. Racist!

And really, I could care less what Sherrod thinks of white people, but she had better do her job according to the law.

The “reaction of the audience (naacp ppl)” is the spin Breitbart is putting on it.

And that’s just what it is: Spin.

The dynamics of web publishing on Breitbart’s level virtually compel a ceaseless search for volatile material like this. And they propel people at a greater velocity than caution would allow because of the fear a.n. other may put it out first.

I hope Breitbart takes a strong lesson from this. Fast and first are always the place to be.

i believe this was stated elsewhere too. i think ppl are intentionally focusing on her and her words when everyone should be focusing on the audiences’ reaction to her comments.