Jul 22, 2010 6:14am
Shirley Sherrod: ‘I Can’t Say That the President Is Fully Behind Me’
EmailIn my interview coming up on "GMA," Shirley Sherrod says that she’s not ready to accept Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s job offer. She wants to hear more from the Secretary and his boss – President Obama.
“I can’t say that the President is fully behind me,” Sherrod told me. “I would hope that he is…I would love to talk to him.”
Sherrod wants to be convinced that the President and his whole team are fully committed to fighting discrimination against African American farmers.
Watch the interview on “GMA.”
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Oh, and let’s see Obama now have her over to the White House and grovel a bit — what a weak and uninspiring man.
Ol’ One-Term Barry.
Posted by: Class War | July 22, 2010, 6:50 am 6:50 am
I believe in “EQUALITY”. That is where race, or gender, IS NOT a factor. It is where we look at qualifications, irregardless of race, whether in the employment game or in qualifying for help. I think a fireman should be able, mentally, and physically, to go into a fire, and carry a person out. I work in a city where the construction contractors have a minority requirement that outweighs their qualification, or their bids. Equality means EQUALITY.
Posted by: parma hts gary | July 22, 2010, 7:09 am 7:09 am
How does it feel Obama? I absolutely LOVE that someone was able to use this administrations own policy of calling everyone racist who is against them against the administration and now he’s having to eat crow. MAYBE the administration will rethink their policy… maybe not…
This administration has set race relations back 50 years, thanks Obama. I hope you’re happy.
Posted by: ohwell | July 22, 2010, 7:11 am 7:11 am
And how many soldiers is being killed overseas? Why so much coverage on this story? We only hear about things like this when it’s someone of color. Move on or report fairly. How about the black panther’s spewing racist comments and the tea party being made out as racists??
Obama is going to be personally responsible for a civil war in this country as I am sure he’s behind this too.
Posted by: report fairly | July 22, 2010, 7:17 am 7:17 am
I applaud the White House for owning up to the mistakes made; we didn’t get that with the previous Administration. This was a lesson for all of us; to include the media who’s responsible for NOT doing their own homework. We trust you and now we’re put in a position of having to research what you tell us because you’re NOT doing it. Race is and always be a problem in this country; just look at the boards. We don’t talk issues; we label people and name call. America needs to grow up!
Posted by: FL Girl | July 22, 2010, 7:20 am 7:20 am
Fla Girl the previous administration was attacked on a daily basis by the media,unfairly instead of placing the blame where it belongs, and that is the democratic congress.
Posted by: report fairly | July 22, 2010, 7:26 am 7:26 am
From a racist to a heroin? Really, George? We go from one over-reaction to another. She says she wants to be sure the DoA is going to try to reduce discrimination, yet she continues to discriminate herself between haves and have nots. As a civil employee, she should provide her best services to any citizen regardless of how she personally judges if they are a have or have not. Just this week, she still used the phrase that she was sending this farmer ‘to his own kind’. That seems out of place for someone who has had a revelation. Do most of you really think that was the only time she did not give her best for a white citizen? Perhaps she has not done it since, but she did do it. I feel it was wrong to fire her for racist comments, but her actions were not all appropriate and she is clearly over-impressed by herself. During the NAACP meeting, she trashed the Republican Party while still on the government payroll. I understand there is an act forbidding government employees from doing that. This administration does not care much for acts passed before they showed up, but most of us still respect the rule of law. She said that the administration acted too quickly without watching the whole video and she wants the president to call her. She wanted them to listen before they acted. Yet, she totally trashed Fox and the Republicans at the NAACP meeting and on MediaMatters. Did she bother to notice how Fox actually reported it (their reporting was after she was fired) and how they were likely the first network to say she should not have been fired? Sounds like she was guilty of commenting before seeing the ‘whole video’ or listening herself. Does she even know that Glen Beck spoke out on her behalf and that one Fox correspondent even called the WH to tell them they should re-instate her?
She was fired for the wrong reason and now she is being lauded in error. She strikes me as another lawsuit waiting to happen. A well run administration would notice this. Has the media even reported that she had sued the DoA for discrimination before? I doubt it. This is one more glaring example of how inept this administration is. They now have the power to dismantle banks. What if they decided to dismantle one as quickly as they decided to fire and then re-hire this woman?
Posted by: LB | July 22, 2010, 10:26 am 10:26 am
George, it seems you just quote any part of a statement you want just to create a headline! You’re an instigator!
Posted by: Gerald | July 22, 2010, 10:35 am 10:35 am
First she sues the USDA for millions and then she gets a job with them. don’t we live in a great country.
Posted by: Lizzie | July 22, 2010, 11:33 am 11:33 am
I loved GMA before George. Now I hardly watch it. I wish George would have taken a job with Fox News and left the old group at GMA, minus Diane, the way it was. FOX News pushed the story
about Shirley Sherrod without checking facts, and the A G. Secretary Tom Vilsack did the same thing. Hopefully, we can move past this virus of hatred and politics in America.
Posted by: Serena Storey | July 22, 2010, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm
It appears the White House is more afraid of a black president than anyone else.
Posted by: kravitz | July 22, 2010, 1:53 pm 1:53 pm
Considering his poll numbers, maybe she should run and BEAT him!
Posted by: CBA | July 22, 2010, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
President Obama learned a difficult lesson.
Don’t take anything you hear on Fox news at face value.
There’s always heavy editing and a hidden agenda.
Next time…act on reliable sources of information.
Fox News has shown, again, that it isn’t above printing half truths…or half videos and creating stories out of them.
Instead of the racist that Sherrod was proported to be….it turns out, from examination of the full video and a check of her background, that she is exactly the opposite…the type of American we all strive to become
Posted by: Norris Hall | July 22, 2010, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm
Norris and Serena,
You should not jump to conclusions just like the WH did. Fox news did not report on this story until after she had been fired, so the WH did not act on what they reported. They did show the same video everyone else was showing, but the NAACP would not release the whole thing right away. Unlike the President, they did try to get her side of the story the next day. They were also the first network to say the WH should re-hire her.
Sorry, but this is all on Oblamea. He said it was a teachable moment. I wonder if he learned anything this time. He didn’t learn much when he called the police stupid.
Posted by: LB | July 22, 2010, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
FL Girl – “I applaud the White House for owning up to the mistakes made; we didn’t get that with the previous Administration” I believe the closest the Bush administration will ever get to owning up to anything is when Bush said he wished the intelligence had been different before invading Iraq…
Posted by: genhrules | July 22, 2010, 6:26 pm 6:26 pm
LB, you are a day late and a story short. Fox news played the story as their LEAD story ALL DAY. You are partially right about faux’s reporting. It was after Shirly Sherrod was fired that faux started showing the bogus edited video that Breitbart sent them. BUT ALL DAY LONG THEY REPORTED THAT SHERROD WAS A RACIST. REPEATING THAT PHRASE OVER 100 TIMES.
I don’t know how anyone, can believe ANYTHING, on the fake news program faux after they SUED all the way to the Supreme Court, for the right to lie on their “news” show. WHY, WHY, why would they want to lie on the news? You would ask yourself. The answer, to cause fake problems like this, like ACORN, like the 2 fake black panther guys and many more that you can Google if you want to find the truth. The fox propaganda organization, owned by an Australian and a Saudi Arabian have one agenda. To destroy the USA and turn it into a third world nation that pays their workers 1 dollar an hour.
Now faux news is blaming the people they duped with this fake story for reacting the way they wanted and expected them too. That is like blaming a tire for going flat, after you throw nails on the road to puncture it.
I am also very disappointed at all the parties directly responsible for the resignation (firing) of Mrs Sherrod. Her immediate boss, the USDA and the White House, reacted shamefully, just to prove a point. What spineless jerks.
Posted by: Masi | July 22, 2010, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm
Everyone needs to listen to this womans entire speech. I feel bad for what happened to her father, I feel horrible that people were not treated the same. We are all created equal, no one is better than anyone else.
I can not agree with this lady. She said in her speech” I took this white farmer to a lawyer so he would not call and report me for not helping him”. That is the ONLY reason she took him to this lawyer. She did not want to do HER JOB. Her job is to help black and white, rich and poor. How many white people have lost their farms because of Mrs. Shirley Sherrod. I am glad she had a change of heart and started doing her job and helping people of all color. She deserves to be fired. What if this lady was white??? Would anyone be on her side?
Posted by: Aundrea H | July 23, 2010, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm
Propaganda 101: First they came for Acorn, then Sotomayor, Van Jones, “New Black Panthers”, Sherrod – and I said nothing…
Over and over again, Media Inc. allows the proven-false Fox News, to wag the dog. Which makes it complicit in misinforming it’s public.
Stop it.
Posted by: Mike W | July 23, 2010, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm
Ms. Sherrod must realize that she was a racist. Per her own words, she felt the farmer should have on his OWN PEOPLE. Unlike our belated Byrd who stated that joining the KKK was the worst thing he ever did. Ms. Sherrod is still a member of the NAACP. She should not be in a position that would enable her to hire anyone. Does Hypocrite come to mind? She still has not drug herself completely nuetral.
Posted by: William Cole | July 25, 2010, 10:53 am 10:53 am