Farmer's wife says fired USDA official helped save their land

[Peikko 1,575]

Perhaps someone will fill in the gap...

Oh, the justifications will continue - but they make no sense whatsoever. I knew when VW posted the original vid that it was baiting - her being so learned presumably she understood the implications of her actions

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

"Rabid defence". That's just priceless that is You do love your melodrama Charles...

The woman admitted to a mistake 24 years ago, she did not present it as a point of pride or that she was justified in it, but never mind that - she opened her mouth, therefore she deserves everything she gets.

The lesson here is clearly: don't ever admit to anything because you'll be tarred, feathered and dragged through the mud to serve someone's agenda. Once again - precisely why US politicians don't do it.

the saying of "the chickens have come home to roost" tend to describe this event better i'd say.

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

When will you admit that the "victim", (you know that pretend friend of Sherrod who would disown her as soon as she saw the video) has point blank stated that Sherrod owned her mistake at the time and is not afraid to own it now in an effort to illustrate that all bigotry is wrong, hmm? Oh, that would be never because this story was originally posted by your good buddy VW and you can't admit that she might have had some ulterior motive for promoting this sort of garbage now can you?

she owned up to it at the time, or years later? what you're failing to understand is i'm in violent agreement with that in bold.

I'll spare you nothing because that is the position you are defending, whether you know it or not.

no, you're trying to paint me with saying or subscribing to those phrases you so liberally sprinkled your post with, which are patently false.

Exactly we'll never know, so what? We need to invent increasingly melodramatic scenarios?

Surely something can be taken from the testimony of the "victim".

if someone screwed you over in a business deal and you thought you did pretty good in it, wouldn't you disagree you got screwed over?

[Marilyn. 340]

if you read the transcript AJ posted it clearly shows that after she found out that the farmer wasn't getting the help he needed she gave him all the help she could... of course they leave that part out of the youtube clip....

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

if you read the transcript AJ posted it clearly shows that after she found out that the farmer wasn't getting the help he needed she gave him all the help she could... of course they leave that part out of the youtube clip....

Indeed.

Of course this could be one of those times where people won't let the truth get in the way of a good story.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Libs spinning it like a top. Let them have their Robert Byrd moment. Its what they do.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Libs spinning it like a top. Let them have their Robert Byrd moment. Its what they do.

It's alright. The NAACP released the whole tape. Let's see how fast the bleeding heart racists backpedal (more like back-peddle) now!

[Ban Hammer 13,334]

if you read the transcript AJ posted it clearly shows that after she found out that the farmer wasn't getting the help he needed she gave him all the help she could... of course they leave that part out of the youtube clip....

read that - the farmer called her back and she finally did help him out to the best of her abilities. it still does not detract from her earlier chance to help him out to her fullest yet she chose not to based on his skin color.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Libs spinning it like a top. Let them have their Robert Byrd moment. Its what they do.

Read the transcript before you talk about spinning. The people who didn't (or still won't) and went off on a big rant about how terrible this woman is and how she deserves what she gets, those people have been spun.

read that - the farmer called her back and she finally did help him out to the best of her abilities. it still does not detract from her earlier chance to help him out to her fullest yet she chose not to based on his skin color.

Which she recognised. That was the point of her story...

What you wrote right there amounts to trying to salvage the wreckage from a train wreck that you caused.

[Marilyn. 340]

read that - the farmer called her back and she finally did help him out to the best of her abilities. it still does not detract from her earlier chance to help him out to her fullest yet she chose not to based on his skin color.

so she made a mistake and then did her best to fix it but now she is supposed to be forever tarred and feathered for that mistake??

Edited July 21, 2010 by Marilyn.

[Marilyn. 340]

the gal admitted to not giving them the full extent of her abilities. we'll never know what she really could have done for them. and if someone gives you only half the effort, how would you really know what really coulda been done?

really (ref that in bold). is there a story about how she went back and righted this wrong by putting her full effort into things?

spare me about the last line - it's unwarranted and offensive.

and also I was just answering your question

[HAL 9000 96]

if you read the transcript AJ posted it clearly shows that after she found out that the farmer wasn't getting the help he needed she gave him all the help she could... of course they leave that part out of the youtube clip....

This might need to go up in larger font size, with sprinkly neon color, just to remind some people of context.

[Peikko 1,575]

Read the transcript before you talk about spinning. The people who didn't (or still won't) and went off on a big rant about how terrible this woman is and how she deserves what she gets, those people have been spun.

Which she recognised. That was the point of her story...

What you wrote right there amounts to trying to salvage the wreckage from a train wreck that you caused.

Charles is always played by VW, who clearly has a very nasty anti black agenda, brought on (I am going to go out on a limb and guess here) by the fact that black muslims do not get victimized in the US whereas muslims who look like arabs do, because of the stereotype that arab muslims are terrorists. If you notice, she always tries to 'enlighten' the VJ folks to how many black muslims there are as a % of the muslim population total - and her hatred of Obama is palpable, which can't simply be laid at the door of his librulism (as even by US standards he isn't which an educated person would know )

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

It's alright. The NAACP released the whole tape. Let's see how fast the bleeding heart racists backpedal (more like back-peddle) now!

When all else fails callem a racist! The majority of folks are catching on to this tactic so you might try something new.

[_Simpson_ 250]

read that - the farmer called her back and she finally did help him out to the best of her abilities. it still does not detract from her earlier chance to help him out to her fullest yet she chose not to based on his skin color.

or the fact that she still believes its about black and white but more about rich and poor.

Edited July 21, 2010 by _Simpson_