By Gregory

Jul 28, 2010 12:49pm

Rep. Waters: Shirley Sherrod Tape ‘Planted by the Enemy’ – ‘Right-Wing Press’

ABC News’ Gregory Simmons reports: At the Urban League’s Centennial Celebration today in Washington, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., delivered a scathing response to the White House and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s handling of the Shirley Sherrod fallout.

Sherrod, a former director of rural development for the state of Georgia, resigned from the Agriculture Department last week — forced out by the Obama administration after video of her delivering remarks at an NAACP banquet, recounting an incident that occurred in 1986, was posted by a conservative media outlet. 

“Here you had a woman who basically had a great history of evidently had done her job and had done it well, she said.  “And all of a sudden because of a lack of courage by people in leadership they responded to a video that was done by the enemy.”

“The enemy,” according to Waters, is the conservative media. “The same people enemy that just killed off ACORN and other things,” she said. “The right-wing press is using that platform to literally do their organizing, to intimidate you and basically run this country.”

Waters went on to rip, although not directly by name, into Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsak and deputy undersecretary Cheryl Cook, whom Waters suggested ignored Sherrod’s experience and reputation.  “Disregarded all of that and said to her pull over to the side of the road and give us your resignation on your Blackberry,” she said.

Sherrod said she received a phone call from Cook last Monday while she was in a car and told her that the White House wanted her to call it quits.

"They called me twice," Sherrod told the Associated Press. "The last time they asked me to pull over the side of the road and submit my resignation on my Blackberry, and that's what I did."

Waters offered a solution: “We’ve got to say to folks in leadership whether it’s the White House or anywhere else, don’t be so afraid of white folks that you treat black people bad.  Don’t be so afraid that somebody thinks that you’re going help black people too much.”

The Congresswoman concluded by offerings some free media advice. “You cannot live in the moment of responding to the right-wing press. It’s about courage. It is about standing up. It is about not being intimidated by anybody. It’s about being able to say to people bring it on.”

 -Gregory Simmons

User Comments

The video was of a presentation to the NAACP…….hardly done “by the enemy”.

Posted by: Rick McDaniel | July 28, 2010, 1:31 pm 1:31 pm

People like you Ms. Waters and the NAACP are fueling the racial discord. So much so lately that it seems planned. You want people of color to unite so you don’t loss too many seats come November. This kind of politics are disgusting !!!
Shame on you and all other race baiters.

Posted by: hkdakota | July 28, 2010, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm

Ms. Waters and the NAACP are fueling the racial discord.”
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Yeah, by pointing out the underlying bigotry amongst the current radical conservatives elements controlling the Republican party and FOX news.

Posted by: indy_voter | July 28, 2010, 1:45 pm 1:45 pm

Maxine Waters is such a racist she will do and say anything to get re-elected,she was also in on Fannie mae and Freddie Mac saying all was fine while they were backing all the bad loans from Country wide mortgage co.

Posted by: stormerF2 | July 28, 2010, 1:46 pm 1:46 pm

Ironic coming from one of this countries leading race hustlers.

Posted by: BDT | July 28, 2010, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm

Are you kidding me?

Posted by: Colin | July 28, 2010, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm

She is a race pimp, and she has the gall to whine about the media, when it was the media ALONE that (s)elected Obama…
Pitch Blease!

Posted by: CBA | July 28, 2010, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

Listen to the whole tape – Shirley Sherrod does make numerous racist comments, such as people only disagree with Obama because he is black. Also look at the NAACP members in the audience who nodd and clapp in approval when Shirley Sherrod makes her racist commetns and how she treated the white farmer. The tape shows what racists and hypocrites that the NAACP members and Shirley Sherrod are.

Posted by: Tom Meyers | July 28, 2010, 2:11 pm 2:11 pm

Well, I have listened to all 42ish minutes of the boring tape. Sherrod is a racist, her husband is a racist. Waters is a racist (and stupid).
Anyone who has listened to this boring speech can not concluded anything but racism.

Posted by: Cindy | July 28, 2010, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm

Maxine Waters, The Jig is Up!

Posted by: mac691 | July 28, 2010, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm

“Here you had a woman who basically had a great history of evidently had done her job and had done it well, she said. ”
Hah? Wha’d she say?
This woman is an illiterate. And there are Democrats who say Sarah Palin sounds stupid when she talks?

Posted by: SezWho | July 28, 2010, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm

>>>>”Ms. Waters and the NAACP are fueling the racial discord.”
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Yeah, by pointing out the underlying bigotry amongst the current radical conservatives elements controlling the Republican party and FOX news.
Posted by: indy_voter | Jul 28, 2010 1:45:31 PM
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And just WHAT did FOXNews have to do with Sherrod getting fired? For that matter, what did FOXNews have to do with that tape that was NOT done by the MainStream Media? Firing Sherrod is 100% on the White House (and obama) and labelling her racist is 100% on the NAACP. So, please, indy_voter, explain thruthfully (if you know what that means) what Fox news had to do with any of this?

Posted by: ncpilot09 | July 28, 2010, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm

Cute solution, Maxine. Here’s a different solution. Check whether it sounds racist to you:
“We’ve got to say to folks in leadership whether it’s the White House or anywhere else, don’t be so afraid of black folks that you treat white people bad. Don’t be so afraid that somebody thinks that you’re going help white people too much.”
Sounds racist to me!
And one more TOTALLY ILLITERATE QUOTE:
“You cannot live in the moment of responding to the right-wing press.”
What the billy hell does that mean?

Posted by: SezWho | July 28, 2010, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm

Horse crap INDY, try thinking for yourself instead on the DNC talking points. You throw accusations without any evidence except what you hear for the party. Anyone who disagrees with the administrations policies is a racist that’s the cheepest tactic in the book and way over played. And free thinks know why, because the left is a fluff and no substance.

Posted by: hkdakota | July 28, 2010, 2:25 pm 2:25 pm

It’s amazing how you right wingers did not listen to the whole speech.The same thing happened with the Rev. Wright speech you did not listen to that one either. As far as the NAACP is concerned they are made up of a diversity of many races. They were founded by Jews and other white people. Mrs. Waters was not only directing her comments at right wingers, but the White House as well. So much for the LIBERAL MEDIA.

Posted by: SpongeyJ | July 28, 2010, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm

It hurts the Dems, so instead of admitting an error – she lashes out at the “enemy.” I thought Dems wanted a “more civil” tone. Ha.

Posted by: Juno | July 28, 2010, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm

Yeah. indy_voter is such a DEEP thinker. Fox News is just sooooo scawwy, isn’t it, Elmer? Ooooo, so scawwy, those wascally Wepublican wadical consuhvatives who wun Fox News…
Just for fun, let’s count the number of posts until indy_voter brings up Bush.

Posted by: SezWho | July 28, 2010, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm

And the Indy voters and moderates exodus from the Democrats continues! Independents in ’10, ’12!!!
Fire the incumbents… make them WORK for a living! The choice is yours… or is it Diebold’s??? Hmn….

Posted by: CBA | July 28, 2010, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm

Andrew what’s his name and Fox are never going to recover from this.

Posted by: Brock | July 28, 2010, 2:33 pm 2:33 pm

indy is busy scurrying around the DNC Talking Point Pages desperately looking for something to bolster his position that Sherrod’s firing was somehow related to Fox News. Can’t blame him, though. He’s confused like a deer in headlights. But then again, the ignorance goes to the very top of the Democratic Party. Did you see the interview (discussion) between Howard the genius Dean and Chris Wallace the other day? It was hilarious, especially when Dean pointed at Fox running the fake tape (as he called it) and that resulting in the firing of Sherrod…..and Chris Wallace calmly informed him that the story was not run on FOX NEWS until AFTER …several hours after….Sherrod was fired by obama

Posted by: ncpilot09 | July 28, 2010, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm

To Rick McDaniel, That is where you are wrong. Sure the tape was a NAACP presentation, but the creep edited the tape to make it look like Sherrod was saying racists remarks. It goes to show you how low a racist group will go to discredit one without getting their facts right. You racists out there the sixties are gone and never coming back.
Everything that is happening today is because of racism. America is going to fall because of racism and the Taliban do not even have to lift a finger.

Posted by: Baba | July 28, 2010, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm

all thats going on in the US and this is still your lead story, comments from a race baiting idiot. we’ll see how maxine likes the “bring it on” mentality come November. People, please make November 2, 2010 a day to remember, if not, it may be our last b/c obama and the left are making the republic of the US irrelevant, illegals will be voting, states are giving up electorial votes, voter intimidation going unchecked, the litany goes on and on.

Posted by: Emmett Wiggins | July 28, 2010, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm

More race hustlers. The Sherrods founded New Communities in 1969 with money from the Office of Economic Opportunity (taxpayer money). It was a commune-style black farm that wasn’t profitable. (What commune was? The women did all the work and men indulged in sex and drugs.) The Sherrods sued as part of the Pigford v. Glickman class action suit against the USDA by black farmers. The government settled the case and awarded New Communities $13 million, including $150,000 each for Charles and Shirley for “pain and suffering.” Over 80,000 “black farmers” took advantage of the Pigford settlement, despite the fact that there were only 16,000 black farmers in the entire country at that time. Had enough Hope and Change yet?

Posted by: web144 | July 28, 2010, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm

This tape was doctored by a right-wing activist named Andrew Breitbart and then was immediately picked up and broadcast repeatedly by Fox News which reported it as being the entire, unedited tape. Instead of apologizing when the entire tape was released by NAACP, Fox News then tried to blame the Obama administration. The right-wing media will do anything the vilify Obama or anyone else who dares disagree with them.

Posted by: acludem | July 28, 2010, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

This is the queen of racism. Anyone who doe not agree with her gets the treatment. Even if you go to her site you cannot even email her as you do not live in her area. I will go out of my way to send money and support the senator that is running against her. Look at her state and that tells you she cannot even run her state let alone the country.

Posted by: Wiseguy | July 28, 2010, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm

“It’s amazing how you right wingers did not listen to the whole speech.The same thing happened with the Rev. Wright speech you did not listen to that one either.”
You’re so silly, SpongeyJ. Just imagine if a white person had said what Shirley Sherrod said, but switch the races. And imagine this White Shirley Sherrod being applauded by a group called the NAAW(hite)P. And then imagine the froth coming out of your nose and mouth as you hurl venom at this White Shirley Sherrod until you are overcome by paroxysms of self-righteous hatred for all things white and finally end up a drooling shattered mass of humanity lying near the foot of your bed, whimpering with your pillow in your mouth.
As for the Esteemed Right Reverend Doctor Jeremiah Alvesta Wright, Jr. — the one who Got Dams America — he lives in a $1,000,000 home, bought and paid for by his constituents…oops, I mean members of his congregation (who attend his TAX-EXEMPT church). Oddly, his home is located in a simply boffo neighborhood that consists, sadly, of only 2.9% African-Americans. Nasty Ol’ White Got Dam America has been pretty good to him, hasn’t it?

Posted by: SezWho | July 28, 2010, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm

If anyone has ever heard this woman speak you would know she’s an absolute “loon”.

Posted by: LongT | July 28, 2010, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm

Waters and the Congressional Black Caucus make a living on race baiting. How long until Charlie Rangel plays the race card? Just wait and see.

Posted by: danny | July 28, 2010, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

Somebody like Waters should be thrown out of office…her enemy is America ..white America…she is not interested in fairness and equality for blacks but privilege, reparations, and revenge for blacks…she and Obama are a disease in this country that eats away at its fabric and serves to divide and destroy…she wants a society that caters to black people and little does she know she has it with b hussein Obama

Posted by: phillysmart | July 28, 2010, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm

Rick McDaniel dumb and dumber

Posted by: TJ | July 28, 2010, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm

I would like to ask ABC News, who is the source of this article, if they consider Rep. Waters comments to be racist? I find them to be very racist and designed to continue the Democratic policy of race warfare.

Posted by: Moose | July 28, 2010, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm

JonR: The original snippet of tape, which was all Breitbart had in his possession at the time, was just that, a small piece of the whole. It itself had not been doctored, edited or complied. And Ms. Sherrod comes off even worse in the complete tape, IMO.
And Maxine Waters manages to demonstrate her dullness of mind, ignorance and bigotry nearly every time she opens her mouth. I feel ashamed for her and of her. Surely her constituents can do better than this unethical woman.

Posted by: SukieTawdry | July 28, 2010, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm

Hey, Corrine. What are you, some kind of kook? Black people can’t be racists? What, are black people so different from every other race that they CAN’T BE RACIST? Just your saying that black people can’t be racist is, um, RACIST!
So if a bunch of black guys beats a person of another race to death while screaming racial epithets, they are not racist?
See, fellow posters? This Corrine person has the same level of intelligence as Maxine Waters. Little to none.

Posted by: SezWho | July 28, 2010, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

“”You want freedom? You’re gonna have to kill some crackers! You’re gonna have to kill some of their babies!”
Those were the words of Minister King Samir Shabazz, also known as Maurice Heath, the New Black Panther Party’s Philadelphia leader.”……..That’s not racist ranting? Corrine, if you refuse to see this sick talk about killing me because I’m white, or killing my daughter or grandchildren because they are white, then you are really a very very mentally disturbed individual, and I feel very very sorry for you. I don’t hate you for that…i just hate your blindness……

Posted by: ncpilot09 | July 28, 2010, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

“THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BLACK PERSON BEING RACIST.”
You keep telling yourself that, honey. Generally speaking, “us people” don’t want to treat “you people” any differently than anyone else.
This is the dodge race baiters and hustlers try to use to continue to spew their own hateful bigotry with impunity. No sale.

Posted by: SukieTawdry | July 28, 2010, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm

This vile wretch is a stuttering stammering ignorant waste of DNA.The whole CBC should be ignored until they join the ranks of the elected on equal terms.

Posted by: Diogenes | July 28, 2010, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm

This vile wretch is a stuttering stammering ignorant waste of DNA.The whole CBC should be ignored until they join the ranks of the elected on equal terms.

Posted by: Diogenes | July 28, 2010, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm

Control the information, control the argument. If you don’t know now you know.

Posted by: Gwilsing | July 28, 2010, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-ranged) is right.

Posted by: John Q Public | July 28, 2010, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm

Spongey, I saw the whole tape. Saying you have racist thoughts and then saying you’re sorry doesn’t change the fact that you have racist thoughts. Wait till you see the tape of her husband

Posted by: JamesJ | July 28, 2010, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm

Notice how liberals and others of their religion always say the same things over and over again, yet they point at MOST OF AMERICA and claim that we are the blind, ignorant sheep being told what to think?
Oh my, Waters is a moron – if anything this whole thing showed Obama, and the rest of the clowns including the NAACP as the racist, race baiting, hate filled un-American sots that they are.
Sherrod for her part should have kept her mouth shut and she could have come out of this looking good, instead she pulled the race card too, ran her ignorant mouth and now we know she made numerous racist and race baiting comments and she’s no better than the rest of the morons!
What is even funnier than liberals in general is the so called ‘journalists’ in the media continuing to cover obama an the dems and pushing the race baiting angle.
Whats going to happen if a full blown race war errupts… when the dust settles and it’s pretty obvious that obama, the media and others lied through their teeth, misinformed and deceived to start it?

Posted by: DJH | July 28, 2010, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm

Andrew what’s his name and Fox are never going to recover from this.
Posted by: Brock | Jul 28, 2010 2:33:43 PM
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They haven’t suffered from this!
The Democrats & Obama will not recover!

Posted by: Juan | July 28, 2010, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm

Radical Racist Conservative= Anyone that disagrees with progressives.
Moderate Republican= Hated enemy, but sometimes agrees with progressives.
Progressive= A person everyone should agree with.
Equality= Everyone is equally poor regardless of education or hard work.
Free Speech= A right guaranteed to people that agree with progressives.

Posted by: DTT | July 28, 2010, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm

Liberals perfected the art of taking comments out of context. She is the pot calling the kettle black. In this case though she is incorrect since Fox did not show the video until after the WH fired the woman. Now if David Duke got up in front of the NAAWP and made these same comments but used black instead of white and the audience clapped and showed their approval, are we really supposed to believe Ms. Waters would focus on whether Duke was trying to make a deeper point or would she cry racism?

Posted by: RDH | July 28, 2010, 4:08 pm 4:08 pm

Wheather or not you believe it’s Race bating or not; Rep Waters is CORRECT. The smallest issue that the Right brings up causes this Administration to bend and bow. The president and his appointees should show they walk straight because they have BACK-BONES and not grissles!!!!!! Check first

Posted by: Rickey | July 28, 2010, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm

Since Obama took office, the liberal media, is out of control. The racist factor is the only way the liberal knows how to attack! Sad day in America! The racists in the Democratic Party are coming out in hoardes! Out with them all!

Posted by: Neva | July 28, 2010, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm

The SAME Maxie that swore Freddie & Fannie were in GREAT shape at the hands of Raines? That Maxie? If any one is a racist, is is Maxie and the tone of the WH. Figures, she is from California

Posted by: Backgammon | July 28, 2010, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm

God help us. An elected official considers fellow Americans the ENEMY because they don’t share the same political views.
Isn’t that a term used in war? A race war since Rep. Waters brought up blacks vs. whites.
Well, President Obama started this attack against Fox, why shouldn’t another Democrat follow suit?
I wonder who is next.

Posted by: malcat | July 28, 2010, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm

I have tremendous respect for Maxine Waters and I think she is right on the money. The Right Wingers with mouthpieces like Fox News are trying to bully and intimidate their way back into power. They regard Dems as the enemy and will do anything to get back into control. Dems would be foolish not to look at them in the same way and to not crush them like the scum they are.

Posted by: hopesprings52 | July 28, 2010, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm

If black people think that Obama is actually going to help “their” race then you better think again. Obama wasn’t elected to help the black people, he was elected by the far left to take over this country and the sooner you get this through your head and get out of your denial, you might want to help the rest of the people out here that is trying to save what is left of this great country. You as a race don’t have anything to give Obama, he is just using you, wise up before it’s too late.

Posted by: grits | July 28, 2010, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm

Dems would be foolish not to look at them in the same way and to not crush them like the scum they are.
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Hopesprings, sounds like you are willing to commit violence to keep the ‘Dems’ in power.
It’s so pathetic when haters claim their ‘enemy’ hates them as an excuse for hate.
It’s appalling that Americans want to crush fellow Americans for nothing more than disagreeing with their political views.

Posted by: malcat | July 28, 2010, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm

Obama….the first black president. And because of the way he has performed and the behavior of Maxine Waters AND Eric Holder, he will probably be the LAST black president. At least for a very very long time…These guys and “lady” have set back race relations by 50 years. At least now, even the liberal in congress are making this same claim……….

Posted by: ncpilot10 | July 28, 2010, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm

Don’t worry malcat. If these morons had the power to crush us they would have done it 40 yrs ago. Remember their pathetic cries for revolution in the 1960s. They may talk about revolution at parties, and on the internet. But they lack the military discipline needed to make it happen. My little niece thinks revolution means people marching in the streets with signs.

Posted by: DTT | July 28, 2010, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm

It boils down to race does it MAXIE? MAXINE WATERS AND HER IL are the problem because she is a racist pig with an entitlement complex. God knows you play the “card” to get elected otherwise you’d be another loser with a nasty attitude who can’t hold a job once again because of race, not because you have issues. How embarrassing that you represent a small part of this country. I love this country but some people should not be allowed to vote, that or trash shouldn’t be allowed on the ballot.

Posted by: Joanie | July 28, 2010, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm

It’s not the fear of being crushed that worries me.
The fact that fellow Americans hate each other so much causes me to fear for the survival of this great nation.

Posted by: malcat | July 28, 2010, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm

I agree malcat..it is sad. But Americans will put a stop to this progressive madness in November.

Posted by: DTT | July 28, 2010, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm

IF THERE IS ANY DOUBT THAT RACISM IS NOT ALIVE AND WELL IN THE GOOD OLD USA, READ THE REACTIONS TO CONGRESSWOMAN’S REMARKS. THE PROBLEM FOR RACISTS IS THAT THEY CANNOT SHUT UP SO THEY SINK THEIR OWN SHIPS WITH THEIR SICK, TORMENTED, AND PERVERTED REMARKS.

Posted by: WJB | July 28, 2010, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

The liberals were dishing racial diatribes along with images and verbal sound bites at others. Then they panicked when a similar method of highlight on their camp was illuminated.
The principle of ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you’ is to encourage civil accord.
The Sherrod highlight caught them off guard since they didn’t expect a retort with like minded vitriol.
It would be advisable that all camps remember that an ‘eye for an eye’ and a ‘tooth for tooth’ only leaves both parties blind and toothless. However, this should be a lesson that even the mild mannered may only turn their cheek twice then respond with a vengeance.

Posted by: TX-MBell | July 28, 2010, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm

More soaring (and sad) rhetoric from the “Race bait express” Thats right Maxy “bring it on” the only trouble with you and your cronies is that you only see racism when it benefits YOU and when it comes from your side of the fence and it does it’s seems to be acceptable. Why the double standard? racism is WRONG period regardless of where it begins.

Posted by: formerdem | July 28, 2010, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm

I think the opposite is true. The NAACP had the whole tape, but somehow an excerpt was given to a guy who likes to point out flaws in our system. I think Brietbart was set up. I heard he had that tape since April, so there was time for it to be released but the NAACP didn’t do it. He won’t make that mistake again, he’s the one being set up.

Posted by: Paul in Ohio | July 28, 2010, 7:46 pm 7:46 pm

The left wing press is almost all of them! Boy!, Are the traditional Americans outnumbered. We have the same ilk in our environment as the Pre- National Socialists had in Germany before the big landslide in their elections. National Socialists–Boy!, does that ring a bell!

Posted by: Richard fusilier | July 28, 2010, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm

It must have been planted by the President….he’s done the most to pit black vs white, liberals vs conservatives, dems vs repubs, dems & repubs vs tea partiers…..

Posted by: hillcoguy | July 28, 2010, 9:37 pm 9:37 pm

This Sherrod incident wasn’t a racist speech at all. It is amazing that Mrs. Sherrod doesn’t have an obvious hatred for white people since she had a family member that was lynched. You know the old Southern Picnic style lynching with the postcard to send your friends of the dead guy hanging from the tree in front of the cheering mob? Now that’s racist!

Posted by: Mack | July 28, 2010, 10:29 pm 10:29 pm

Shame on you and all other race baiters—HELOOOOOOO, Pot???? YOu’re calling the Kettle black!!! WATCH THE ENTIRE SPEECH that Sherrod gave!!!! Sherrod was giving a speech lecturing blacks NOT to discriminate against whites!!!!!!!!! That tape WAS Race baiting, you moron! The tape was a lie!!!!! The undoctored tape is available, so watch it!!!! LISTEN To this women tell her all black audience that it is “NOT ABOUT BLACK OR WHITE< IT"S ABOUT POOR PEOPLE. THIS IS ABOUT HELPING POOR PEOPLE."

Posted by: oh please | July 28, 2010, 11:05 pm 11:05 pm

makes her racist commetns and how she treated the white farmer. The tape shows what racists and hypocrites that the NAACP members and Shirley Sherrod are. ————–did YOU listen to the whole lecture? SHe HELPED THE WHITE FARMER KEEP HIS FARM!!!! She helped him when the white laywer did not!!! did you know the white family in question, the farmer, came out sharply that she should keep her job, that it was wrong to accuse her of being racist and told the press she is the ONE reason why he was able to keep his farm! LOOK IN THE MIRROR!

Posted by: oh please | July 28, 2010, 11:07 pm 11:07 pm

You’re so silly, SpongeyJ. Just imagine if a white person had said what Shirley Sherrod said, but switch the races————yeah? Have I ever heard a white person say they didn’t want to work with ablack person before, but then, they had a change of heart and in the end, it’s not about black or white, it’s about people, helping people. Yeah???? and if a white person did say that????? then, what, do you imagine??? i’m sorry, but I’ve HEARD MANY white people say this. In fact, I was just watching the baseball documentary from Ken Burns and heard no less than five or six white guys, maybe more, say this exact same thing on tv. And????????

Posted by: oh please | July 28, 2010, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm

I listened to what is claimed to be the FULL VIDEO from the NAACP. However, if you notice at 21:00 there is a dissolve. I have no idea of what was originally there, but how is something that is supposed to be the FULL VIDEO obviously edited??? It is right in the middle of the farmer story, so why is something cut?

Posted by: Just Wonderin' | July 29, 2010, 1:33 am 1:33 am

Rick McDaniel wrote: “The video was of a presentation to the NAACP…….hardly done “by the enemy”.” +++++ The PRESENTATION was done to the NAACP, the video excerpt was done by Fox news, NOT the NAACP. Looks like you prefer things taken out of context as much as Fox does!

Posted by: The_Mick | July 29, 2010, 10:19 am 10:19 am

indy_voter, please get your story straight, she got fired BEFORE Fox showed part of the video. The so-called main stream media only jumped at the story AFTER she claimed she got fired because of Glenn Beck.

Posted by: Lizzie | July 29, 2010, 11:24 am 11:24 am

The race war has begone. Helter skelter time.

Posted by: Brian | July 29, 2010, 11:54 am 11:54 am

God love her, we need people like Ms. Waters if for nothing else to keep the rest of us alert, awake, and honest.

Posted by: John M | July 29, 2010, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm

waters herself is a racist lol what a joke. she is also going to cost the taxpayers 29 mill more a year, for adding into the wall street reform bill, equal opportunity czars for each federal dept, waste of money. that we the taxpayers have to pay for.

Posted by: samantha | July 29, 2010, 8:29 pm 8:29 pm

And the Dumbification of America continues…
I’m particularly struck by the opening comment to this article: “The video was of a presentation to the NAACP…….hardly done “by the enemy”.
[Rick McDaniel | Jul 28, 2010 1:31:03 PM] — right off the bat, it’s evident that comments are being made without a *clue!* about how the video of Ms Sherrod was deliberately and purposefully *edited* BY Mr. Briebart to further *his* agenda. He did NOT upload the entire video of Ms. Sherrod’s address to the NAACP…only the parts *he* selected.
Sadly, too many of our citizens have become so lazy that they don’t even bother to question the ‘news’ they’re fed anymore — they don’t even have the curiosity to find out if what they’ve been *led to believe* is even true. Our nation truly suffers for that.

Posted by: George | July 29, 2010, 11:19 pm 11:19 pm

This CBC is the most racist organization in America,’no crackers allowed’ and yet they have the temerity to call US racists. Stick that where it belongs lady. In fact we’ll do it for you in November and we’re gonna revoke ALL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL PENSIONS for starters when our people are done.
Crooks. DONE-DONE-DONE.

Posted by: Chicago Ray | July 30, 2010, 11:33 am 11:33 am

when will People learn that ALL Americans have to take responibility for their actions. Waters is an “elected” Politician?

Posted by: Net Lease | July 31, 2010, 10:00 am 10:00 am

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