Shirley Sherrod ‘Not Sure’ She Wants Her Job Back

George, I am applauded that ABC and other media outlets are stirring racism.. How dare you… Thanks to Glenn Beck the full video was shown.. Stop now before you cause riots

Please tell Ms. Sherrod that she can still help her country. By suing Mr. Breitbart for defamation and ensuring he doesn’t get the opportunity to do this to anyone else. As for The above poster, it’s funny how it’s “stirring racism” now but before the full story was known it was just some black people being hypocritical and racist. When WAS the last time Fox ran a story on someone WHITE being racist anyway? Amazing that 12-15 percent of the population seem to be responsible for ALL the “racist” behavior reported by FOX.

Sharon up above must really be Palin. She is “applauded”??? LOL What an ignorant racist

Where is Chris Cuomo when you need him? George did not control the interview at all. You allowed the guy who started the Sherrod controversy to go on and on. He was uncivil and repetitive. Yet, you were unable to get your voice heard and the other guest barely got a word in edgewise. We need balanced reporting and a higher standard from GMA. It’s important to insist on civility so that the messages can be heard.

George, why didn’t you mention FOX News in your interview with Sherrod? They were the irresponsible news channel that showed the chopped up tape initially? You made it sound like it was the White House/President who was to blame. Even if they acted too quickly, you could at least mention the irresponsibility of FOX in this story. FOX is a dangerous channel and their name should be part of this incident. Glenn Beck may have defended her, but that was done to cover FOX’s ass. George, you are becoming more and more blatantly biased. Why not just go and work for FOX?

George, I was very disappointed in your interviewing skills. I agree, where was Chris Cuomo. The man who posted that edited video, took snippets of words out of context to push his rhetoric. George, you allowed him to continue to rant ridiculously. The other gentlemen was polite and made sense. Miss Sherrod lost her job unnecessarily because of mess reporting.

Did I hear this guy right? He said that the reason for posting this edited version of the video was to show that people at the NAACP meeting were clapping at her comment, showing that some people there were racist? Wouldn’t that mean, by extension, that he feels that no member of the NAACP would be a Tea Party member? Race has nothing to do with party affiliation, but from his comments and stated intention of posting the video it sounds like he does.

Miss Sherrod should sue the Obama Administration.

Remember a time when talk television shows actually showed both sides of the story and reserved the right to make judgement. George take a few communication classes, polictial science classes do not prepare you to make good TV. Racism exists on both sides of the aisle it is how you diffuse the story, to educate people. Fat, Catholic, ugly people are all discriminated against. RESERVE YOUR OPINION FOR YOUR FRIENDS,REPORT BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY AND LET THE AMERICAN PEOPLE MAKE THE CHOICE, NOT YOU OR THE GOVERNMENT, AND I am a Demoract, for the record.

Please be educated on the topic before you embarass yourself even more!

abc news being the King of selective editing has no room to talk about the selective editing of Miss Sherrod’s speech before the naacp.

The relentless message that it is racist to disagree with the President’s policies is solely to blame for this increasingly inflammatory mess. Whether leveled by the media or Congressional Democrats, these accusations have shut down necessary dialogue through critical policy decisions on healthcare and sidetracked the nations agenda away from focusing on job creation! Enough. Democrats and journalists must stop playing the race card to win political points. The concept is becoming meaningless and ignored

George: Your interview earlier this morning with Andrew Breitbart, who runs the right wing nut web site biggovernment.com, and Eric Boehlert of Media Matters—-re: the firing of Ms. Sherrod—- was AWFUL.
You did NOT have control of the exchange, ; you let race-baiter Breitbart repeatedly dominate and drown out Boehlert; and you did not give Boehlert anything close to equal time. What a lopsided mess! And why no mention on your part of so called Fox “New’s” role in demonizing Ms. Sherrod, and airing the Breitbart “clip”, taken out of context.
You need to sharpen your interviewing and moderating skills, ……….and here I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt that your performance was due to incompetence, not to deliberate calculation. Truly, you owe Eric Boehlert and your audience an apology and corrective follow-up.
Keep trying, George. And watch Robin Roberts and your competitors for interviewing tips. Hopefully you’ll improve with time.

Breitbart admits to posting video to stir racism with 20 year old video that he edited for his purpose. He hurt people with his actions and all he can do is rant during this interview. How about apologize to Shirley Sherrod for the mess you started. George: bad interview, idiot allowed to rationalize and dominate conversation.

I don’t blame her for not wanting her job back. This administration is so full of racist and they know it, they threw her under the bus as fast as they .Glenn Beck took up for this woman and the news media should say so instead of vilifying him. You can’t stand the facts and Mr. Beck does not say anything he does not prove with facts. You might try watching sometime you really might learn something.

She still made the statement and therefore needs to stay down. Ohh she is Democrate the party of slavery when founded.

Jack @9:39am. I have to disagree with you. Robin Roberts is not who George should be using for tips. He and Robin should be looking back at tapes of the old style broadcasters who reported the news without ANY bias (Huntly&Brinkly, Walter Cronkite, etc..) Gotta get those ratings.

Interesting … Now if a white person were to have made these comments about a black farmer, you can be assured that there would be no reconsideration to hire this person back. I guess black people can say what they want and it is not racist, but a white person would not stand a chance in hell.

It’s another act of self-righteous defiance.

Her stupid boss Brent should be educated himself and then sent with his walking papers in hand. He should have read the rest of the story rather than a decisive decision.He is the idiot. Our goverment should clean house and remove like minded officials.

Am hoping the president will speak out on Ms. Sherrod’s behalf. There are a lot of racist and purely ideological elements that regardless how hard the president tries and accomplishes things there will be naysayers, but at least he can say he did his best and can sleep at night knowing that he kept us safe for the right, left, moderate and ironically the fringe. And most of us realize that he was straddled with a crappy economy, people are going to use him as a scapegoat when they are desperate, it is the nature of the job. But would hope an apology would be made and who cares about the right this is a matter of principle and a great lesson for all which will bring a positive (probably not long because of short term memory of many but at least for a little while).

I did not hear the entire speech, nor have I read it; however, racist remarks and behavior should not be tolerated, period.
Are we making too much of this? Maybe. But, let’s put a white person in that position, making those kinds of remarks about his/her behavior regarding blacks; Al Sharpton would be on every network, shooting his mouth off about how that person should be terminated immediately. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. People seem to think that racism is only one-sided;racism comes in all colors and should be dealt with equally, across the board. Think before you speak; and if you have “issues” with another race and feel you cannot do your job without those “issues” affecting your decision making and performance, then you need to get another job!

Secretary Vilsack blew it, and President Obama should absolutely take the Secretary to task for the impulsive, absent-the-facts response to the rantings and allegations from ultra-Right Wing!
Mr. Secretary, knee-jerk response from the “tallest hog at the trough” is unacceptable. When one’s principal source is Fox News (the global mouth of the GOP and its racist platform), one – at least – needs to tread lightly.
Further, the President/CEO of the NAACP should be taken to task for his equally fact-deficient public response to the rantings of multiple racist elements in the media.
Ms. Sherrod should be aggressively exploring her legal options against the Department of Agriculture, Secretary Vilsack, the NAACP, Mr. Jealous, Fox News, the President of Fox News, and all other sources from which this despicable representation of Ms. Sherrod’s position eminated. Certainly, a legal eagle wishing a high profile case would be glad to take it on.
Shame on the reactionary decision-makers of our government and the NAACP. They have demonstrated, at the very least, profound absence of fair play. Guilty until proven innocent flies in the face of a basic tenet of our country’s foundation.

I was really very surprised and appalled that Andrew Brietbart was not challenged more effectively during your interview for deliberately misrepresenting Ms. Sherrod’s comments with his edited clip. Any idiot with the most minimal appreciation for the history for the discrimination that people of color have endured in this country should have been able to do better. You seemed to be more interested in challenging the other guy than exposing Brietbart’s racist agenda.
Very disappointing interview.

George, why do you legitimize such fringe elements such as Breitbart? If you’re going to allow people like him to spout their rhetoric, then I want some air time for the fringe left. & I mean REALLY left, not WhiteHouse DemLite.

Shirley Sherrod has been through the “refiner’s fire” in her lifetime. At first I thought, what a tragedy this happened to her. But the fates knew she is a survivor and now her story will be heard by MORE people, and that’s good. I will certainly read her book. And tell media mouths not to used “hatred” when describing her past feelings. She obviously felt something, but even as a White person myself, I can’t see Ms. Sherrod as capable of actually hating anyone.

Where’s the story about Ms. Sherrod and her husband winning millions of dollars in a law suit against the govt. It’s no wonder she may not want to go back to work. Tell the whole story.

Somehow I doubt the sincerity of a woman who when recounting an event that happened twenty years ago still uses the bigoted, racially charged phrase ‘I sent him to one of his own.’ Regardless, did it rise to the level of being forced to resign, no. About Breitbart and Beck, neither put her recounting in full context (Beck conveniently left out the ‘one of his own’ statement and the fact that the only reason she helped him was due to the fact that there would be a report, and the ‘he was showing he was superior to me statement.’ Breitbart used the video to reflect the attitude of the audience of the NAACP who didn’t seem to mind her lack of ethics or her bigoted statements. Nevertheless neither the NAACP or the WH looked at the whole story (the only ones with access to the full video) and her before jumping to conclusions and using/abusing her without due process simply for politics.

Dear George/GMA;
Mr. Britebart did not have command of the facts related to the Congressman spat upon during the Tea Party Debate earlier this year. Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1988) was one of the founders of the Black Panther Party in 1966 and author of “Soul on Ice”. Eldridge Cleaver clearly not at the rally, as Mr. Britebart stated in error several times this morning during his interview.
If your going to be the agent provocateur for the reactionary right wing of the Republican Party, at least have your facts correct to ensure a healthy debate of the issues.
As my late mother who was a school teacher used to say, “You can be as dumb as a door nail, but if you do your homework, someone in the room will think your smart”.

This women is a racist and should not have a job working for my government.

Once again ABC/GMA/George Stephanopoulos were shameful in this interview acting as if their network never takes those with opposing points of view out of context. Even the timeline of these events as accused by GMA was incorrect.
Making incorrect accusations as to the timeline against FOX and many conservative commentators; all this just a day after a sickening display of twisting the facts, half truths and a total lack of knowledge of history in the story about the Mosque being built at ground Zero in NYC (a classic example of attacking the messenger, Sarah Palin while ignoring the hard work of seeking the truth)

Her audience, NAACP, whooped it up at hearing a white person was discriminated against and applauded her for not helping , as much, a white person. The issue being the NAACP scream racism to intimidate their political opponents but practice it themselves. And for those who only read sound bites Breitbart did originally play the rest of her story.

Posted by: Yukon Sam | Jul 21, 2010 10:59:53 AM What facts? Yours? The fact that she had some sort of epiphany doesn’t negate the fact that she did as little as possible to help this person, only did it because she knew there would be a report of her actions and that the audience of the NAACP (the self proclaimed experts on racism) didn’t seem to mind that she operated unethically and in a racist manner. How do you know that she didn’t do this to more people before her so called epiphany that it is about rich and poor. You don’t and neither does anyone else. I don’t believe she should have been fired or be used as a political pawn but by her own admission she was a racist and neither you nor anyone else knows the true extent of her so called enlightenment. Talk about clinging to narratives.

To be honest, hearing this side of the story does slightly change my view of her as a person. BUT, I still believe she should not be holding any positions of authority in government.

When are we going to learn that “trial by blog” is NOT what our Constitution is all about?

I think George did exactly what he wanted to do. By letting Breitbart rant and rave, the guy proved he’s got big issues and should be thrown under the bus. Sometimes the media lets a radical talk and talk just to demonstrate what idiots they are.
That said, why does everyone blame FOX News for something it didn’t do? ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC reported this story as well. Could that be a little politicizing from the left perhaps?
I watch FOX, CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC to get my “fair and balanced” reporting. The networks cover the predictable and like Obama’s policies but that’s okay. He is our President and has done some good things. On the other hand, Fox covers stories that no one else touches (and SHOULD cover). It has also exposed some VERY big issues that unbiased Americans should know about. Like all news organizations, it also tends to slant the stories just as the “left” media does to suit its audience. Why are people so afraid of FOX? I can’t think of anything they’ve reported that are lies any more than ABC.

The Obama administration and the NAACP were pretty quick to throw that woman under a bus.

George,
I’m trying to decide if you lost control of that interview or if you just decided to let Breitbart expose himself as the dangerous manipulative fool that he is. It worries me reading a few of the comments that the “dumbing down” of America has succeeded. It is scary when an American loses her job because her boss caves to pressure rather than do his job and discover the truth. Reacting rather than responding has become the norm…people can’t understand Obama because he actually thinks, listens and responds…the gratification isn’t quick enough for their egos.

The neocon artists need to face facts: they lost on this one and they lost big. The out-of-context hoax was exposed almost immediately after the doctored clip was released, and clinging to the discredited narrative that Shirley Sherrod or the NAACP are somehow racist consigns the true believers to the same level of credibility as the Birther moverment. Allow them to rant; the more they talk, the more they expose themselves as the desperate, pathetic bigots they are, and the further they slide into the deserved oblivion of historical obscurity.

Ask Vilsack WHY these discrimination suits have not been settled.

I’m so glad that on both sides of the table people just allow their fingers to vomit up what they’ve heard from fellow like-minded people. The point is this whole stupid ass argument is yet again distracting us from the fact that our government, on both sides, continues to suck. Wake up America.

Oh the liberal hypocrisy. Just like a bunch of uncontrollable whining parrots in a pet shop.
The most important thing here again is the administration who can’t read before it acts. Let pass health care before we read it so we’ll know whats in it. Now we know it will be called a tax so they force it down our throats. We know we can’t see our own doctors. Way to go “O”
The AZ bill is racist. Wrong again! No the federal law is racist as AZ put in a clause that protects citizens from random checking. At every turn, every bill passed, this administration cost more jobs lost than they produce.
Even Glenn Beck said this lady should get her job back. If it weren’t for Fox news, the liar in chief would go unabated by the left-wing media who conspired to bury all the scandals this president was involved in.
The White House was duped because now we know they are afraid of Fox and Glenn Beck. They know they will be challenged. The clip ran and no one but “FOX” decided to look at the whole tape. Sherrod should sue their butts.

Posted by: TAW57 | Jul 21, 2010 10:29:16 AM
Then watch FOX News and you will see the whole tape unedited. So its ok to be more favorable to your OWN kind, if your black, but don’t you dare do it if your white.

Fox News only has the Cut up taped up spliced in different places parts of the video with words, sentences, paragraphs missing in sentences, with words, sentences, and paragraphs splice from different points of different sentences and paragraphs.
The full video is 45minutes and 15 seconds, of which Fox News did not and does not have.
Shirley spoke of lessons learned.
Fox News and Breithart and Beck, all
have a lot of lessons they have yet to learn.

Not on Fox News Network is when Shirley said: “I made the commitment on the night of my fathers death, at the age of 17 that I would not leave the south. That I would stay in the south and devote my live with working for change.”

Not on the Fox news cut up version is when Shirley said during a time after her father was murdered: “…that I transferred back to Auburn State and did the master there. But two weeks after I went to Fort Valley they called on the phone and told me a bunch of white men had gathered outside of our home and burned a cross one night. Now in the house was my mother, my four sisters, and my brother born June 6th and this was in September(brother only 3 months old). That was wall in the house that night. When my mother and one of my sisters went out on the porch my mother had a gun. Another sister, you know some of the stuff

I watched the interview this morning and was appalled at the length that Breitbart was allowed to take with his comments. I watch GMA every morning and was extremely dissappointed in the tone of this interview and the ramifications it has to incite more racism in our country. Having that man on national tv only gave more credibility to the tea parties already “fringe” stance. I have never commented publically on GMA’s blogs or website, but I was so outraged at the “separatist” comments that I had to say something. I usually believe in a equitable representation of all types of parties and political views, but giving attention to views that do more to damage relationships, versus build bridges, does not impact our society in a positive way.

And continuing which Fox News did not have on their cutup spliced up version of the video, when Shirley said: “…she, my mother, became the first elected black official in Baker County just 11 years later. And she is still serving you all. She’s chair of the Board of Education and she’s been serving almost 34 years.” Then Shirley regains her thought to talk again about her commitment she made

Not on the cut up version on Fox News Cable Network is when Shirley talks about that commitment. but unfortunately you will just have to view the entire video that the NAACP has.
I just wish abcnews.com and other news outlets would show the entire 43minute 15second video. Then and only then would everyone realize just how racially bias Breithart, Beck, and Fox News really are.

Angie – LMAO – I watch and read all the different new media. I quess you did not see it when FOX played the whole video not just the cutup version. FOX again played the whole version again this morning. ABC,CBS,CNN & MSNBC are very bias. I have found that FOX is more fair and balanced that the rest they are slightly biased to the right I do admit. They show the stories that the MSM will not. These fast becoming irrevelent MSM news networks are about out of viewers. Keep drinking the KOOLAID..

A lesson for the White House
NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous: Is it true that Shirley Sherrod at the USDA has been caught on film making reactionary comments?
NAACP Employee: Yes Sir.
NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous: Contact the White House immediately
White House: Yes Mr. Jealous, we understand, this could end up on Glenn Beck tonight. Contact Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack immediately.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack: Yes Mrs. Sherrod, pull the car over now. The White House wants you to resign now, this will be on Glenn Beck tonight.
NAACP: Mr. Jealous, we have new information. I guess we should have watched the whole film.
NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous: Yes, that’s right, Mr. President, we seem to have jumped the gun, the whole film shows a different story. Say, you haven’t watched Glenn Beck have you?
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack: Yes, Shirley, nobody’s perfect. The NAACP seems to have panicked. Has Glenn Beck called you?
White House: Yes Mr. Vilsack, that’s right, talk nice, and slow, don’t get panicked. Here is what you will say. By the way, has Glenn Beck contacted you?
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack: that’s right folks, we will be looking at the whole picture, I mean the whole film. We will get this corrected.
White House: First, contact Pravda America, I mean MSNBC and CNN and tell them not to panic, we will tell them what to say. They will say, Fox News has caused the whole mess. Secondly, Tell Vilsack to send flowers to Shirley and to only speak to Vilsack. Lastly, for God sakes, put someone full-time watching Glenn Beck.
Now, the only logical conclusion to this mess: The NAACP needs to invite Van Jones (the Communist) back for a second “Image” award, then the spotlight will be taken off of this truly embarrassing moment for the NAACP, the White House, and the media.
Apparently, the White house is obsessed with Glenn Beck. Somebody , needs to go get a life.
Lastly, the media on the left, the media on the right, the White House, and the NAACP should all donate to a large retirement fund for Mrs. Sherrod.
Oh, by the way, White House, this retirement money should be tax-free for Mrs. Sherrod. She has been through enough, don’t you think?

It seems that whenever a WHITE person says something (wasen’t it Byrd) that continually was harrassed for over 50 yrs. regarding something he did, but he changed, and never got the respect of changing. Yet when a BLACK person does something like this Sherrod, she is allowed to be forgiven, after 24 yrs.
All I’m saying is, it continues to be “double standards for blacks”.
I’m sick of that!

In today’s age, I can not believe that a racial slur is rendered, and apologized for, by her employer, and this woman is considering if she wants to return to work without disruption to her life…? I’m sorry, what ever her real intent was, the fact is she “SAID WHAT SHE SAID!” Comments taken out of contents…does this really apply to all who have uder words they regret..but how may other that white people pay the price???

The more the racist opens his mouth, the more people can see him for what he is. That was George’s rationale, don’t you think?
Too bad that Breitbart maligned a decent person using a snippet of a piece of video from last March. Foxnews didn’t help matters when it gave credibility to the slant of that video snippet.
Ten years before the chain of events began that led up to this situation, my dad was involved in combatting racism in the South/country. His stand one Sunday to allow a young black woman to take communion in a previously all-white church was written up in the New York Times. In 1961, the city of Atlanta desegregated with NO violence, just a few poster-carrying protestors.
By the time Ms. Sherrod was making a decision to remain in Georgia, I was to begin teaching, and one of my students was a brilliant young woman who turned out to be the present dean of Harvard college.

Wherever Shirley Sherrod is at this moment, I want her to know that I am a poor Mexican American living in South Central Texas. When I heard her full talk on CNN on Rick Sanchez’ show, she said something that cleared my brain, and led me to know that she is a great woman. For years I wondered why I could not find favor with my own three grown up kids. I always thought, since they are half white that it was because they had a Mexican mother, but yesterday I realized that I’m just a poor old woman. So be it. Thanks, Shirley and God Bless you.

Id love to see a white man say the things she did then complain when he got fired.
Would it happen? No, wed all be saying he got fired and rightfully so for sending a black person to ‘one of their own’.
Shes a racist and anyone thats not a coward liberal can see it.
And that audience of NAACP goons high-fiving and shouting ‘amen’ deserve to be stripped of their status.
Blacks are just as racist as whites and dont give me that ‘teachable’ moment, the lesson is that blacks can say and do anything, its always the white devils fault.