If there is anything to learn from this week's news story about Shirley Sherrod getting fired from the USDA because of a completely made-up story broadcast by FoKKK's Noise it is this...Democrats (and the NAACP) have no spines.
The heavily-edited video clip given to Fixed Noize by right-wing hack and serial-liar Andy Breitbart, rather than offering proof of the NAACP's, and by default (because, you know, he's black), the Obama administration's tacit approval of reverse racism, actually shows that this administration has a complete and total lack of spine when it comes to fighting back against the right-wing noise machine.
Rather than looking more deeply into what the whole story was, the WH decided that Shirley Sherrod was guilty of discriminating against whites (24 years ago) and she should be asked to resign (that's gummint speak for 'fired') immediately. According to Shirley she was travelling by car when she was contacted by her superior at the USDA and told to pull off the road and resign via her Blackberry.
Now here we are just one day later, and it turns out that the truth is completely the opposite of what we were led to believe. The complete video of Shirley Sherrod's speech shows that rather than being a racist that discriminated against poor white folks, she used her life experiences to help the poor and disadvantaged regardless of the colour of their skin. This little nugget was deliberately over-looked by the white-sheet wearing bastards at Fixed Noizze and their cross-burning messenger Breitbart. Because it suited their own agendas, these despicable, under-handed reptiles destroyed the career and reputation of a hard-working government employee, all for a blatant, vicious, (and hopefully) libelous lie.
But that's not who I am royally steamed at. You see, I expect those hacks to behave that way. I expect them to pervert, twist and mis-represent the truth, afterall, that's their job. Getting mad at those douche-nozzles for this behaviour would make as much sense as trying to stop Sarah Palin from being a brain-dead, vapid, political opportunist. Some things just are, you know?
No, the people that really fry my frijoles in this mess are the WH and the NAACP.
These folks I expected much more from, and their reactions to this story are maddening beyond belief. The spineless, gutless, scared little creatures in this administration that cower like beaten dogs every single time the right-wing noise machine belches, and the knee-jerk reactionaries at the NAACP, fresh from their recent victory over the racist Teabaggers, were now all too eager to dump one of their own, in case the label of 'racist' boomerang back on them. The speed with which this towering act of cowardice occurred was spell-binding. No-one thought that something might be wrong with this story bearing in mind who was pushing it, no-one thought to fact-check it. No-one thought to find out where the rest of the video was. Nope. They just took it at face value and fired her ass inside of 24 hours.
So, here we are another 24 hours later, and the whole video has now come out. Shirley Sherrod it turns out, isn't a racist, Breitbart and Fukked Noizze still are, and the WH and the NAACP look like scared little children, afraid of the dark. Whether that was the intention all along, to show to the world at large that the WH is a 'Nad-Free' Zone, or not, the inescapable fact is that the people that look like complete arseholes in this situation are not the racist skidmarks that destroyed Shirley Sherrod's career for shits and grins, but rather the spineless dipshits in the administration that folded like cheap deck-chairs in a stiff breeze.
With friends like that, who needs enemies?
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