President Obama has called Shirley Sherrod to express his personal apology over the events of this week. The White House sends this readout:
The President reached Ms. Sherrod by telephone at about 12:35. They spoke for seven minutes.
The President expressed to Ms. Sherrod his regret about the events of the last several days. He emphasized that Secretary Vilsack was sincere in his apology yesterday, and in his work to rid USDA of discrimination.
The President told Ms. Sherrod that this misfortune can present an opportunity for her to continue her hard work on behalf of those in need, and he hopes that she will do so.





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Barry called Shirley Sherrod? I hope he called her what she is, A BIG FAT RACIST!!!!
Posted by: Libtard | July 22, 2010 1:37 PM
He didn't offer a beer to all parties concerned he's lacking. Nah, he couldn't do that, it involves a Republican and NAACP as well. He has to keep the pot stewing there. Anyway hope Sherrod gets a beer.
Posted by: Born Free | July 22, 2010 1:56 PM
Good move Mr President. Hopefully this will put this unfortunate episode to rest. Shirley Sherrod did not deserve this. And may be the Press and the White House will learn a valuable lesson to check all the facts out before they run a story or shoot their mouths off.
Posted by: depot jim | July 22, 2010 2:20 PM
Shirley Sherrod Blasts Fox News as "Racist"
I like this woman, she's a truth teller
"They intended exactly what they did. They were looking for the result they got yesterday," she said of Fox. "I am just a pawn. I was just here. They are after a bigger thing, they would love to take us back to where we were many years ago. Back to where black people were looking down, not looking white folks in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person."
http://mediamatters.org/strupp/201007210037
Fox News is a racist organization. Glenn Beck is a racist. So is Rush Limbaugh. This clownish hack Breitbart guy is a racist. Right wing grous use race baiting and racism to make money and turn voters against Pres Obama. They should tremble at the possibility that one day they will face their maker and, as Lincoln said, at the possibility that "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
This woman was singled out by the right wing lunatic fringe because she was black, as was the NAACP and the President. There is simply no other way to see it, they wanted to attack a black person in the Obama administration as racist.
"Oh look! It's black people who are the real racists, not us Teabaggers!!".
Posted by: Rob | July 22, 2010 3:23 PM
Gee Rob I don't see the word racist in her quote. The only place I see it is in what you write.
I think I hear your mommy calling you up from the basement. She says its time to take your meds.
Posted by: Lost in Space Donny from Plainfield | July 22, 2010 3:55 PM
The Breitbart Race Baiting Circus, brought to you by: Faux News
"Breitbart focuses on race. Today's episode with Shirley Sherrod, who was forced to resign from the Agriculture Department on the basis of a doctored and intentionally misleading videotape (see below), is an especially ugly case in point, calculated to stir the very worst racial resentments. This time the political world--the NAACP, the Agriculture Secretary--moved as quickly as the media world to unthinking response, and I suspect it happened precisely because race was involved. I don't doubt that the administration's understandable desire to avoid racial issues played a big part in how this turned out."
"But what's galling to me--gut-wrenching, really, like watching old news footage of blacks being beaten and clubbed at lunch counters--is that Breitbart obviously understood the powerful effect his tape would have, posted it anyway, and then assumed the role of ringmaster, expertly conducting the media circus, fanning the flames. It's hardly the first time. But the moral ugliness of what's just happened is glaring, and it's hard for me to see how the media can justify continuing to treat Breitbart as simply a roguish provocateur. He's something much darker."
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/07/the-breitbart-circus/60137/
Posted by: Rob | July 22, 2010 4:15 PM
Posted by: Lost in Space Donny from Plainfield | July 22, 2010 3:55 PM
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I don't know why I bother responding to someone like you who is so dumb that they have to use multiple sock-puppets (Libtard, Equal time, Born Free, Just sayin etc etc) and multiple IP addresses every day because they can't get their "point" across any other way, but - TRY READING THE ARTICLE, Clown!
""When you look at their reporting, this is just another way of seeing that they are (racist)," Sherrod told me about Fox in a lengthy interview Tuesday night. "But I have seen that before now. I saw their reporting as biased during the Bush Administration and the Clinton Administration."
http://mediamatters.org/strupp/201007210037
Posted by: Rob | July 22, 2010 4:41 PM
I see we have the darlings of the "not too" Swift Boaters running amuck and planting more of those phony and doctored tapes. Geez, boys and girls of the " not too " Swift Boaters, can't you do anything on the up and up !! After their successful character-assassination jobs on Former Senator Max Cleland, a triple amputee war veteran, and Senators Kerry and Gore, you're now going after women. Why am I not surprised about these very unmanly, shadowy, cowards, that do their dirt, in the shadows, with lies and innuendoes?? Now, they are using women as grist in their character assassination mills. What a despicable bunch of cowardly Americans, if I can you that fine word, american, in association with these cowardly, low-lifes. Don't worry, President Obama, what doesn't harm you, makes you stronger!! So, please, for all of America, continue the good work you, President Obama, and Vice-President Biden have been doing, for all of America!! It's slow going, thanks to the Republican Obstructionist, but we are making progress, away from that precipice, the Cheney&Bush, left us!!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, IL | July 22, 2010 5:30 PM
Can we get the cop that Obama called stupid on an interview?
Look who's really stupid, beer or no beer; it' Barry and his goofy incompetent band of marxists. I get a sense that Barry was eager to jump on this woman because he, like our resident Swamp Thing "darling" Rob wants to paint those that don't agree with the messiah as racists. Of course he will use the NAACP and idiots like Rob to do his dirty work. BUT, Barry got caught riding dirty this time.
Posted by: Free to Watch Liberals Bankrupt Europe | July 22, 2010 5:32 PM
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Posted by: Rob | July 21, 2010 5:33 PM
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Poor, deluded, factually-challenged and racist Rob,
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Sherrod is being used as a tool of the far left screamers, and you are buying all of it.
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Look at the FACTS. Breitbart posted the out-of-context video clips on Monday, July 19, 2010. Sherrod received at least three telephone calls DURING THE DAY from officials in the USDA, pressuring her to resign. She was basically forced to resign on her way home from work. That was before 5:00 p.m. EST. The first Fox News program to cover the matter - in which they basically played the video that Breitbart posted on his web site - did not air until two or three hours after the USDA and the White House had already forced Sherrod to resign.
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If Fox News didn’t cover the matter until three hours after she finally succumbed to the Obama administration’s pressure for her to resign, how could she have been the victim of Fox News’ racism? How could a report that occurred three hours later have contributed to the pressure to resign?
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Of course, you (and Sherrod, and the rest of the loony left) are happy to overlook the glaring inconsistencies and believe what Sherrod is now saying because it agrees with your accepted narrative. Narrative is everything. If enough people call an organization a “racists” organization, then the narrative will convince enough feeble minded people (like you) to believe that it’s the truth. This is the current propaganda tactic in play by the NAACP and the loony left against the TEA Party Movement; and it is the same tactic in play by Sherrod, the NAACP and loonies like you against the FNC.
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There is no escaping the fact that your brain is not your own. If you aren’t a total idiot and fool, you may as well be. You are being played like a fiddle by a naked emperor while Rome burns.
Posted by: John W. | July 22, 2010 5:59 PM
Hey Rob (HHH) and Donnie boy
Let me ask you a question. How do you feel about JournoList? What do you think they stand for? What do you think their objective is? Why is it no mainstream media is reporting on them but one?
Come on children, lets see if you are willing to answer these tough questions.
Posted by: Lost in Space Donny from Plainfield | July 22, 2010 6:05 PM
Some observations:
Thsi is another bungled situation by the Obama Regime. This is what happens when you rush things; just like the Stimulus, ObamaCare, and Financial Reform. When nobody had time to watch the whole 40 minute tape or read any of those bills.
The timeline of this event was the tape was posted Breitbart and then she was fired. After she was fired, Fox News picked-up the story.
It's ironic that the MSM is covering the story now when it sheds a bad light on Breitbart and not on the Obama Regime.
Posted by: Terry | July 22, 2010 7:16 PM
"There is no escaping the fact that your brain is not your own."
Posted by: John W. | July 22, 2010 5:59 PM
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I see your point, but actually what "Rob" The Basement Troll has in his head isn't a brain in the strictest sense. It's more of a ganglion.
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And responding to him is a waste of time if you expect him to engage in an honest, intelligent debate.
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I just skip past his posts.
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Posted by: Just sayin' | July 22, 2010 9:13 PM
I just skip past his posts.
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Posted by: Just sayin' | July 22, 2010 9:13 PM
I'd just as soon. Problem is Just sayin, Rob and the rest of the loons on the left, the NAACP are doing exactly what John W. explains. Repeat a lie long enough; get some "experts" to agree and keep saying it and soon everyone believes the lie. FOR EXAMPLE: a black congressman was spat on and called the "n" word as the healthcare bill, astroturf, march up the steps. IT NEVER HAPPENED. If anyone has it on tape they can earn $100,000 from Breibart. There were cameras all over that day. You still have idiots like Rob repeating the lie. It was reported by the MSM! And, I'm sure Rob believes it, because as John W. explained Rob's brain has been hijacked by the Marxist Brothers. You watch, it will still be repeated on MSM.
Posted by: Free to Watch Liberals Bankrupt Europe | July 22, 2010 11:21 PM
Here is the truth about Congressman Cleaver and "Spitgate."
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/04/cleaver_changes_his_i_was_spit.html
So, Cleaver himself said nothing happened. He never reported it. Yet, you still have morons repeating the story. Now when you have the NAACP come out and claim that the Tea Party is racist, where do you suppose they are getting their marching orders from? Hmmmm? And then the White House jumps all over Sherrod, in order to do some quick CYA so that the strategy of demonizing the Tea Party can go forward as planned.
One little problem, Sherrod is on the record saying that it was the White House that made her resign...what was the big rush, Obama? You afraid that a story is gonna break, a BIG story and the MSM won't be able to cover for you? The MSM won't be able to help you demonize the Tea Party; too bad Barry' you got caught ridin' dirty.
Posted by: Free to Watch Liberals Bankrupt Europe | July 23, 2010 12:14 AM
Playing with the truth can be dangerous, for any Republican-Libertarian-T.Bagger!! They are libel to come up, babbling, which they normally do !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.!!
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, IL | July 23, 2010 9:27 AM
Playing with the truth can be dangerous, for any Republican-Libertarian-T.Bagger!! They are libel to come up, babbling, which they normally do !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.!!
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, IL | July 23, 2010 9:27 AM
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To Don Fitzgerald: Yes, "playing with the truth can be dangerous" as you suggested in your post. But I have a question for you. How are your beloved Democrats going to explain a 13 Billion Dollar deficit to the people of Illinois? Are we all facing major tax increases under the disguise of any tax increase in Illinois being just temporary? Our elected leaders tried that one before the last time they raised the State Income Tax. And how is President Obama going to pay for his recently passed Health Care Program? Where is all the money going to come for that huge new government program? Don, I hate to break this to you but it is not coming from Santa Claus unless your really believe Uncle Sam is Santa Claus. And guess who support Uncle Sam, the American Taxpayer. Yes Don, "playing with the truth can be dangerous" for any politician whether they be Democrat or Republican. And both have been equally guilty of this.
Posted by: d | July 23, 2010 11:52 AM
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Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, IL | July 23, 2010 9:27 AM
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Don,
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You are so used to believing lies that you wouldn't know the truth if it kicked you hard enough to lift you off your feet.
Posted by: John W. | July 24, 2010 8:40 PM
There is a new book out about the DREYFUS affair.
Plus ca change....
I guess one thing Shirley can be grateful for is that the truth could come out a lot faster in her case....
Posted by: ornery | July 25, 2010 3:04 PM