" and I don't give a damn for lost emotions...."
Ok, fine, ... it't not Dame Shirley Bassey that we are talking about it, but really, in the spoon full of sugar vein, always start off something unpleasant with Shirley Bassey working a freaking giant orange boa. ( words to live by...)
FIRESTORM
" While driving back to Athens, Georgia."
Do I need to recount all of the facts?
Andrew " vile pig slime " Breitbart places a false snip of a speech given by USDA employee Shirley Sherrod being all uppity and proving that Glen Beck was right, and President Barack Obama hates all white people.. and is coming to take all their money, guns and first born. ( I mean these things are just a given.) Fox News goes into its overtime dance, and the White House caves.
That is it in a nutshell. If you are totally lost on this topic, do a bit of googling.
It is the worst West Wing script ever, and it really only leads to one question, that so very few are willing to even ask. Why the fuck are Democrats/liberals/progressives so scared of the right wing boogie man, when the right wing boogie man.. could not care less about the Democrats/liberals/progressives ? Did you all see eight years of George W. Bush, doing the hand wringing and gnashing of teeth over something that The Daily Kos ranted about? Or was he all tucked into bed between his Texas Rangers Sheets by 10pm, sleeping soundly?
It is not just Barack Obama either, Bill Clinton was the exact same way. " No, no , no" I'll bend over backwards 10 times to meet your needs, and you know, Impeach me over a blow job or yell out " you lie" and call me a communist all you want. I'll scrape and bow .. yes, all the way to the bank, but still.
As of last November we were the majority! Outside of the Scalia/Thomas kabal , we own the Government, and AND ( this is the part getting lost in the cable tv tempest ) are GETTING A LOT DONE!
It is just all getting lost in the bad reality tv that American politics have become.
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Well of course it's a true snip - if selective. She may have repented of her obviously racist behavior while serving as a federal official later in the speech - but video tape is hard to get around. As are the sounds of approval. That crowd doesn't sound like the National Association for the Advancement of Underpriveleged People at that moment.
And didn't they denounce her before bothering to screen the whole video? Then take it back? Kind of like the administration itself?
Runnin' scared??
A few things here:
Yes, the Breitbart "defense" has been to say, "it was all about the audience reaction.
But he cut out the part that would have also exculpated the audience's reaction. Which is, just before launching into her story, Shirley had put the audience on notice that it was one that totally changed her attitudes about race. So the audience already knew by her intro that the events in the clip weren't the end of the story.
Secondly, who among us has NOT been in a position where someone comes to us to do something for them - something that for whatever reason they can't or won't do for themselves - and then proceeds to let us know that they consider us incompetent or not intelligent enough to do the job? How many of us, in this position, perform our work with the usual care and attention to detail, knowing that it's being done for an unappreciative a-hole who won't be satisfied anyway? And who among us hasn't laughed at, applauded, or otherwise shown vicarious pleasure when we were told a story or watched any of the myriad of movies, tv shows, etc where a situation like this is related and the a-hole gets his comeuppance? No matter what the race of the a-hole is or the race of the audience is, we find these things amusing. It's a HUMAN trait, not evidence of racism.
Then there's this: if it really was just about the audience, what was the point? Some anonymous black people laughing at a white guy acting like an a-hole getting his comeuppance? You mean to tell me that black people sometimes find the foibles of white people amusing? I'm SHOCKED, SHOCKED I tell you! Certainly the idea that people of other races could also harbor racist attitudes had NEVER occured to me before! No doubt that this deserved to be the next big story of the week or month on Fox News, given that it was something none of us knew before!
Last, but not least, can we drop this crazy idea that Obama gives the order on hiring and firing for low-level bureaucrats in each and every federal agency? He was meeting with the British PM when this thing unfolded. You REALLY believe he took time out from that to give the order to fire this woman? Look, I have no doubt that SOMEONE at the White House knew something about it as it unfolded, but I find it frankly insane to believe that Obama himself made the call. He had other, more important things going on at the time - as he does practically every minute of every day.
So while I agree that for anyone to believe anything that comes from Andrew Breitbart or Fox News and use it as the basis for an important decision is nuts, let's not forget who it was that started the whole thing by lying. What should have happened here is that the White House should have used this incident to underline how they were RIGHT when they said they didn't consider Fox a legitimate news organization. THAT would have left a mark. How illegitimate are they? Go over to our blog and see the latest post - with the clip in which Fox was "informing" its viewers that the Taliban is training an army of "monkey soldiers" to "kill Americans." I wish I was making this up.
A few things here:
Yes, the Breitbart "defense" has been to say, "it was all about the audience reaction.
But he cut out the part that would have also exculpated the audience's reaction. Which is, just before launching into her story, Shirley had put the audience on notice that it was one that totally changed her attitudes about race. So the audience already knew by her intro that the events in the clip weren't the end of the story.
Secondly, who among us has NOT been in a position where someone comes to us to do something for them - something that for whatever reason they can't or won't do for themselves - and then proceeds to let us know that they consider us incompetent or not intelligent enough to do the job? How many of us, in this position, perform our work with the usual care and attention to detail, knowing that it's being done for an unappreciative a-hole who won't be satisfied anyway? And who among us hasn't laughed at, applauded, or otherwise shown vicarious pleasure when we were told a story or watched any of the myriad of movies, tv shows, etc where a situation like this is related and the a-hole gets his comeuppance? No matter what the race of the a-hole is or the race of the audience is, we find these things amusing. It's a HUMAN trait, not evidence of racism.
Then there's this: if it really was just about the audience, what was the point? Some anonymous black people laughing at a white guy acting like an a-hole getting his comeuppance? You mean to tell me that black people sometimes find the foibles of white people amusing? I'm SHOCKED, SHOCKED I tell you! Certainly the idea that people of other races could also harbor racist attitudes had NEVER occured to me before! No doubt that this deserved to be the next big story of the week or month on Fox News, given that it was something none of us knew before!
Last, but not least, can we drop this crazy idea that Obama gives the order on hiring and firing for low-level bureaucrats in each and every federal agency? He was meeting with the British PM when this thing unfolded. You REALLY believe he took time out from that to give the order to fire this woman? Look, I have no doubt that SOMEONE at the White House knew something about it as it unfolded, but I find it frankly insane to believe that Obama himself made the call. He had other, more important things going on at the time - as he does practically every minute of every day.
So while I agree that for anyone to believe anything that comes from Andrew Breitbart or Fox News and use it as the basis for an important decision is nuts, let's not forget who it was that started the whole thing by lying. What should have happened here is that the White House should have used this incident to underline how they were RIGHT when they said they didn't consider Fox a legitimate news organization. THAT would have left a mark. How illegitimate are they? Go over to our blog and see the latest post - with the clip in which Fox was "informing" its viewers that the Taliban is training an army of "monkey soldiers" to "kill Americans." I wish I was making this up.
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