It’s the same old “Do as I say not what I do” mantra the Right just loves to use double standards!

Still, it reads as if Elizabeth Scalia halfway understands the need for honesty in political discourse. Not like Erick Son of Erick, a top candidate for Breitbart’s best drinking buddy.

But she sees Lott as a victim — just like Sherrod. And the idea that he got in trouble simply because he was “taken out of context” is false.

I was speaking not of her comparison to Lott, but of the “context matters” paragraph. The Lott comparison is why I can’t credit her with more than half an understanding.

The Rs removed Lott, not the Dems. He was toxic after his remark.

Where’s Glenn Beck in Erickson’s screed? Hell, he compares the current administration to Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler…and probably “the heartbreak of psoriasis,” for all I know.

That’s right. W. and Rover never liked the guy, and they used that as an excuse to whack him.

“Racism is about the abuse of power. Sherrod had it in her position at USDA. According to her remarks, she mistreated a white farmer in need of assistance because of his race.

We are appalled by her actions, just as we are with abuses of power against farmers of color and female farmers.

Her actions were shameful. While she went on to explain in the story that she ultimately realized her mistake, as well as the common predicament of working people of all races, she gave no indication she had attempted to right the wrong she had done to this man.”

Is Elizabeth related to Nino?

LOL!!! Thanks for that, Shoto! I needed a good guffaw.

Well, BT, thanks for bringing this to my attention (I think). As you say, emminently predictable, but typically stupid and a false equivalency of the most primary of orders.

But now the masses have drunk their daily dose of Kool Aid, so that they’ll know how to judgementally respond to this latest incident of leftist perfidy & disgusting behavior by minions who should know their place.

And so: on it goes….

Linky thing, please?

So, by CLAIMING that Sherrod is racist, Erickson is ACKNOWLEDGING that Limbaugh is?

More right wing thuggery.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0720/police-alleged-freeway-shooter-targeting-aclu/

You are very amusing today.

Good point, but of course, you know that’s not what they’re saying at all.

Sherrod is the most vile of racists, whilst Rush & Trent are just good ole boys being good ole boys… you know, just Frat boy pranks ‘n all. Which is why Rush & Trent are much more to be pitied, than nasty Sherrod who rightfully lost her job. And so on and so forth.

There is no end to the lies, hypocrisy and double-talk from that camp. But I do enjoy the point you made.

Oh, I know what they mean but living in this little space I like to call “reality” they simply can’t have it both ways.

Indeed. And well said, or: touche!

Another viewpoint on this pathetic stupidity: Rush & Trent are too super wealthy, elite white men who got hoist on their own petards (and thru their own vile stupidity, hubris and bigoted entitlement).

Sherrod appears (not totally sure) to be a more-or-less middle class AA gov’t employee attempting to help poor people hold onto their family farms and is alleged to have made a racist statement (but really didn’t).

Part of this about the class war, too, and I think that should be highlighted.

To Erickson’s credit, he was one of the early ones to spot the problem with the creative version of the Sherrod quote on Breitbart’s blog. But the comparison with Limbaugh had me saying “Huh?”

Just how much protection does the 1st amendment give ?
Isn’t what Brietbart did to Ms Sherrod illegal ?

I just don’t see how any one could be allowed to get away with this type of action ,this isn’t journalism it’s defamation .

I agree, it looks a lot like defamation, and I hope Ms. Sherrod can afford to lawyer up and give Brietbart the drubbing he richly deserves.

Neither Mr. Limbaugh nor Mr. Lott’s comments were taken out of context; that was them backpedaling when confronted with the teeniest bit of pushback, which for no obvious reason reminds me of the ivory tower argument of what would Hitler have done if he’d been stopped in 1936 when he invaded the Rhineland. Never mind.

Ms. Sherrod’s history and her words were ripped from their mature, constructive context by Mr. Breitbart and his patrons, his followers and wannabes.

The White House panicked, as usual. It lashed out at a peon who had the nerve to speak the truth. It now blames Ms. Sherrod, rather than itself, the GOP or Fox, for the scratches it earns gallumping in the brier patch it so desperately wanted to be thrown into.

Yea, both Lott and Limbaugh are wealthy, white, male, racist victims of a wealthy, white, male establishment, just like Ms. Sherrod. Hahahahaha.

Sherrod said she was on the road Monday when USDA deputy undersecretary Cheryl Cook called her and told her the White House wanted her to resign because her comments were generating a cable news controversy.

Complete cowards. They didn’t investigate at all. Just had a breakdown when it was mentioned on CNN. Can’t have that – it’s not bi-partisan. I have nothing but disgust for them.

If Lott was smart, he would have said how proud he was that West Virginia voted for Robert Byrd and his Klan platform.

The lady was simply explaining the learning process she went through. She ultimately decided that race shouldn’t be a factor in determining who to help. She did go on to help the farmer , Spooner save his farm. The Spooners were interviewed recently and both spoke highly of Ms Sherrod.

Her story is one of awakening a realization that her thinking had been wrong,it was need not color that mattered.
It is sad the way this has been twisted around it sounds like a wonderful learning experience to me !

The Science of False Equivalencies: Bribart farts in LA and, by the time it reaches the east coast noise machine, it’s a tornado of biblical proportions. Rich and powerful white guys are just as victimized as black women who fought the scourge of racsim all their lives. I can hardly imagine just how difficult it was for Rush to beg his Hisppanic maid for more Oxycdontin. “Oh the shame and horror.” Or Trent, who after his house on the Gulf Coast was destroyed by Katrina, had to talk to his insurance agent and fill out some paperwork. I guess we have all failed to realize how truly tough life has been on these guys. Were it not for big cigars and golf junkets, it’s had to imagine how they would have even survived the toil life has placed on them.

I refuse to click an Erickson link, but does he say exactly WHY “The Shirley Sherrod debate reminds me of Rush Limbaugh trying to buy the St. Louis Rams”?

Or is he just throwing up enough words to (he hopes) tire people out and change the subject?

…all you’ve done is destroyed Sherrod in the same way that Trent Lott was ruined: by taking her remarks out of context.

The conservative definition of “out of context”: “If I tied you in a chair and talked at you for six hours, this would all start to make sense.”

Jon Walker has a fresh cross-post up: FL Sen: Crist Holds Steady, Dems Stuck in Third Place

It is mostly about the denial of American of history. To lie now you have to lie about yesterday.

OT, does anyone else turn off the sound when Obama’s voice comes over the airwaves?

We can not tolerate racism in any form.

Trent Lott? Oh please, we had to endure days of the Democrats slobbering all over that old Klansman Byrd and now people worry about Lott?

The left comes up with nonsense about the Tea Parties, that is false or taken out of context or just plain fraud and now all of a sudden they are in a state of moral outrage over Sherrod. Breitbart did not fire the woman, the Obama administration did and if they had bothered to look at the whole tape first it would not have been an issue. Instead the NAACP, fresh from calling 20 million people they do not know racists based on smears and baseless attacks…go after the woman and she gets fired. Blame them. Don’t blame Fox and while the libs are blaming people, maybe they could start with themselves, after all this fake but accurate stuff is their best thing.

At least Byrd had the civility to disown his racist past. Lott celebrated it and his party booted his from his leadership position.
Oh yeah, in wingnut world, exactly the same…

Hey ! I’M THE ONE WHO CALLED BARRY A MAGIC NEGRO!

And his Magic has plum run out with this disgusting episode. I wouldn’t pee in his ear if his brains were on fire.

The Tea Party is racist to the core. Its only difference from the KKK is the thread count of its sheets.

He didn’t simply disownb it. He actively worked for civil rights at the last. People CAN change.

And that’s one thing “Conservatives” hate beyond measure.