Shirley Sherrod Debacle
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Shirley Sherrod named Georgia Director of Rural Development
RDLN Graduate and Board Vice Chair Shirley Sherrod was appointed Georgia Director for Rural Development by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on July 25.
Keynote Speaker - Shirley Sherrod - National Community Land Trust Network
Shirley Sherrod is the director of field operations for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in Georgia. For more than 30 years, Shirley has devoted her life to the civil rights movement by working on social justice issues. Through her work at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, she developed a program of outreach, education, and technical assistance for small and limited resource farmers throughout Georgia.
Media refuses to burn Breitbart - Shirley Sherrod - Salon.com
I saw at least one of Andrew Breitbart’s own tweets about this before he died, but now the Boston Review is up with Bill Ayers’s account of hosting a dinner for Breitbart, Tucker Carlson and their righty companions, just a few days before Breitbart mysteriously collapsed near his Los Angeles home. Reading the piece made me strangely sad. Not about Breitbart, though my heart still goes out to his family, but about American politics. The story of the encounter between Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn – former Weatherpeople who planned and carried out cruel and politically destructive bombings in the late 60s and early 70s – and Breitbart, Carlson and friends made newly vivid our increasingly cartoonish political culture. Wow: Ayers is a 68-year-old radical who did some bad things in his youth, then settled fairly quietly into the left-wing of the Chicago education world, teaching and raising a family.
And we begin this hour with the latest in the story of a woman who was, until Monday, an obscure political appointee at the Agriculture Department. Her name is Shirley Sherrod. And today she's at the center of a whirling controversy over race, the media and political activism.
Ex-USDA Official Sherrod At Center Of Media Storm : NPR
President Obama has called and chatted with Shirley Sherrod. Tom Vilsack and Ben Jealous have issued heartfelt apologies . There is talk of a "Chardonnay summit" in the Rose Garden.
Charles J. Ogletree Jr. and Johanna Wald - After Shirley Sherrod, we all need to slow down and listen
Resignation of Shirley Sherrod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On July 19, 2010, Shirley Sherrod was forced to resign from her appointed position as Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture [ 1 ] because of video excerpts from her address to a March 2010 NAACP event and commentary posted by blogger Andrew Breitbart on his website. [ 2 ] Based on these video excerpts, the NAACP condemned Sherrod's remarks as racist and U.S. government officials called on the official to resign. But, with review of the complete unedited video in full context, the NAACP, White House officials, and Tom Vilsack , the United States Secretary of Agriculture , apologized for the firing and offered Sherrod a new position. Extensive media coverage of the excerpted videos, various parties' comments, and later corrections when the full story was discovered, exacerbated the affair.
Andrew Breitbart ( pronounced /ˈbraɪtbɑrt/ (February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012) was an American publisher, [ 1 ] commentator for The Washington Times , author, [ 2 ] and occasional guest commentator on various news programs, who served as an editor for the Drudge Report website. He was a researcher for Arianna Huffington , and helped launch her web publication The Huffington Post . [ 3 ] He ran his own news aggregation site, Breitbart.com, and five other websites: Breitbart.tv, Big Hollywood, Big Government, Big Journalism, and Big Peace.
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Breitbart fiddles while the MSM refuses to burn him - Scott Rosenberg - Open Salon
If you’re a writer or journalist and you quote someone selectively or out of context so egregiously that you can twist their words to mean the very opposite of what they actually convey when they’re quoted in full or in context, what you have done is not just mischievous or aggressive, it’s outright wrong. If you’re a professional, then you’ve committed an act of professional malfeasance.Shirt, sport coat, no pants.