Artful Dodger:  Whatever turns u on.

Ferris Bueller: How about a big fat lying blowhard?

Artful Dodger:   To be called a blowhard by the far right is an honor.

Obama's daily approval rating has dropped back down to 44%. That exactly the same level as Karzai's approval in Afghanistan.

Tuesday: You don't find that on CNN or MSNBC

Tuesday: Yeah, brothers and cousins against each other. That was a nasty nasty war. Lot's a bad things happened to the South when the Union won.

I love the way O'Reilly has liberals and conservatives on his show and he let's them both offer their POV. He is the best commentator and news analyzer out there.

Tuesday: Oh I don't doubt that those facts are true. But they still lost. Personally I think it was a sad chapter in US history. Many men died in that horrible war.

Wow, two conservative commentators just said that Britbart made either an honest mistake or a dishonest one. Either way, they said, he needs to apologize to everyone.

Fair and balanced. I love it

Tuesday: That's like saying they lost the football game because they didn't have enough time on offense.

Tuesday: A culturalist is one who keeps up with current trends in a culture.

Tuesday: In case you missed it, the South lost.

I'll be back. Have to take the doggies out.

Tuesday: I could falsely claim you are a racist because it's easy to do (see Sharrod for that AND the NAACP) but I won't.

You are a knucklehead tho.

See how easy it is to call someone a racist? Who knew? YOu don't need proof, just a microphone.

CBS News itself has reported that John Lewis was called the 'N' word 15 times. That is a lie, that is a despicable lie, that never happened. Why doesn't CBS News apologize for that?

Liars and racists.

Turns out Sherrod is just another black pretending to be past race but is in face still a racist. She's a fraud. She plays the sympathy card and the race card. What will she do next?

She'll lose in all rounds.

Shirley Sherrod, the former Agriculture Department Georgia Director of Rural Development, says she is a victim. A victim of poor reporting and, as she contends, clear bias and racist coverage from both Andrew Breitbart and Fox News.

“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.”

How long before they go from “supporting” to attacking her again? Answer: not long.
Breitbart is back at it, again accusing Sherrod of being a racist, using snippets of the very same video, her March 27 speech before a Georgia NAACP chapter, to smear her again.

Sherrod also told Media Matters how her firing unfolded:
But after Breitbart posted the video clip, Sherrod said the lack of context and explanation sparked anger against her. She said she found out about the clip when someone e-mailed a link to her and asked about it.

“I couldn’t believe it. I found this out when someone sent me (a link to) the tape, people who follow him, who put it out there,” Sherrod said about Breitbart. “I got crank calls right away. Someone sent me an e-mail and link and said ‘shame on you’ and other stuff. I was sitting in a meeting and I was really upset.

“I texted back that they were so wrong and that they need to know the message and they got it wrong.” Sherrod said Cheryl Cook, USDA deputy undersecretary, called her Monday and said she had to be on administrative leave.”

She adds: “People were calling and writing the Department of Agriculture in Athens, Ga., and Washington to tell them about it. That I needed to be fired. That a racist like me had no business working for the department. That is the way they intimidate people and it worked.”

By the end of the day Monday, she was forced to resign.
Sherrod, 62, said her first reaction was shock that, after a career working for civil rights and as the daughter of a father murdered by racists, she would be seen in such a terrible light.

“To have people say that I was such a racist was unbelievable,” she said of the fallout from the video and Fox coverage. “My whole life, if you look into what I have done, my father was murdered in 1965. If you look at all of us, we all hurt with that and we got involved into the movement and channeled our effort into good, instead of hating.

“I am getting hate calls and e-mails at this point. I got one call last night at my house at 12:30 a.m. that said ‘you lost your job, good for you’ and ‘bitch’ There are people out there who will believe that I am a racist person, even though the story is getting out there.”

And she said neither Breitbart (who she’d never heard of) nor anyone at Fox News ever contacted her to get her side of the story before running with Breitbarts smear. But that doesn’t mean they haven’t called at all…

“Not before they reported it,” she said of Fox’s negligence. “They have called me today and initially I had said yes (to an interview), but I thought about it and I did not think they intended to be fair in their reporting. They are going to say what they want to say regardless of what I say.”

She said Fox showed no professionalism in continuing to bother her for an interview, but failing to correct their coverage.

Beck is absolutely right that the administration was hasty in forcing her resignation. They were unwilling to listen to Sherrod's side of the story, and as we've detailed throughout the day, it seems that the clips of Sherrod were ripped from context in order to paint her as a racist.

But Beck -- while claiming that "Context matters" -- somehow manages to erase Andrew Breitbart and Fox News from the creation of that image.

All Beck says about Breitbart is that he's "trying to get the full video." In fact, it was Breitbart, without having that full video (the "context" that "matters") who originally posted the clip, claiming that it was "video evidence of racism" by Sherrod, and illustrating his post with an actual "race" card. Breitbart called her a racist without knowing the context of her statements, and has subsequently said that the context doesn't matter, that what he saw in the clip is sufficient to support his claims. Beck doesn't mention that -- in fact, he actively suggests the opposite is true, that Breitbart is engaging in responsible journalism.

Beck does not mention Fox's own horrendous coverage, which certainly did not wait for "context" before declaring Sherrod a racist. FoxNews.com's first report on Sherrod -- the first mainstream report on her speech -- gave no indication that her comment might have been taken out of context. It reported that Fox was "seeking a response from both the NAACP and the USDA," but not that they had attempted to find the full version of the tape or contact Sherrod herself. In the network's first coverage of the comments, Bill O'Reilly said they were "simply unacceptable" and called on Sherrod to "resign immediately." Newt Gingrich said that her comments indicated a "viciously racist attitude," Sean Hannity called them "racially charged," and the Fox and Friends co-hosts agreed they were "Exhibit A" of "what racism looks like."

And yet, in his analysis, Beck slams the administration for judging Sherrod before all the facts were in while completely disappearing Breitbart and Fox.

Beck may have not of said anything.. but he is only an hour of a 24 hour so called news company .. something the cons seem to be forgetting to mention.

Great parody of Olbermann

http://vodpod.com/watch/1130871-keith-olbermann-spoof-on-snl

Keith Olbermann
Olbermann's Production Staff Jumping Ship, JournoListers Hate Him
By Noel Sheppard | Fri, 07/23/2010 - 10:39

While on a much-needed vacation, things for Keith Olbermann have gone from bad to worse.

News is coming out almost daily concerning members of his production staff jumping ship to work for Lawrence O'Donnell's new program.

On top of that, the Daily Caller has published e-mail messages of liberal JournoList members expressing their disgust for the "Countdown" host.

As lefties hating on Olbermann is guaranteed to brighten a conservative's day, let's start there:

"He's become O'Reilly on the left- completely predictable, unfunny, and arrogant," said Georgetown University Professor Michael Kazin in May 2009. "To my mind, what they do is no different form Hannity and O'Reilly," said the New America Foundation's Michael Cohen, "At least Hannity and O'Reilly engage with the other side (if mainly just to yell at them). Olbermann is just an echo chamber."

The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman said a brutal parody of Olbermann reflected his true nature. "I hate both Ben Affleck and Saturday Night Live, but this should end all debate about the merits of Olbermann," he said, linking to the parody.

For those that have forgotten, Affleck absolutely skewered Olbermann with his November 1, 2008 parody:



Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/07/23/olbermanns-production-staff-jumping-ship-journolisters-hate-him#ixzz0uXStavgs

Jim Dandy:  I just listened to the tape.  Thanks for proof that Oberman is a moron.

Jim Dandy:  Oberman?  Even the far left can't stand him.  lol   They call him the far left O'Reilly.   lol

I told you knuckle heads that race is in the forefront of the news.  When will you learn?

Neither cockroaches or progressives cannot stand the light of day.

Beware if you make an FOIA request of Homeland Security
Andrew Thomas
For the Department of Homeland Security, "the system worked." Over the past year, the Department has tried to protect itself from annoying and unwanted requests for information that they were legally required to provide through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), according to a report by AP:

"For at least a year, the report states, 'the Homeland Security Department detoured requests for federal records to senior political advisers for highly unusual scrutiny, probing for information about the requesters and delaying disclosures deemed too politically sensitive...' That's according to nearly 1,000 pages of internal e-mails obtained by AP."

Most disturbingly, the requesters themselves became targets of government investigation. FOIA documents are intended by law to be freely accessible to all American citizens upon request. The intent of the law is subverted if one becomes too intimidated to ask for the information due to the potential for government retribution. The AP story also reports that Career employees "were ordered to provide Secretary Janet Napolitano's political staff with information about the people who asked for records..." The information could include where they lived, whether they were reporters, even about the organizations where they worked.

DHS management also wanted to know if a member of Congress was making the request, whether they were Democrats or Republicans.

Coincidentally, this policy was immediately rescinded just as the AP got their hands on the DHS internal e-mails.

Ferris Bueller:  You clearly don't know what you are talking about.  Why do you go on about a situation where you have not even investigated?  You're the blowhard here.

Ferris Bueller: Aye.. if the tapes were really a big deal then they would have 'come to light' in March. N' when it came to certain questions regarding the 'tapes' he did everything (including filibustering) to run from simple questions.

I hope she does sue him... seeing as he is 'protecting' his source!!

(V):  When you have no ethical standards, its very hard to take responsibility.

Ferris Bueller: He denies all responsibility. He knew of the 'tapes' since march (by the link I just posted.. CNN interview included).. he decided to go back to the person who sent them and use the videos to discredit the NAACP. To him it's all about the NAACP accusing the tea party being racist. That's all he cares about from the interview.

A right wing blowhard intentionally distorts the context of her statements.  And the NAACP & Admin. throw her under the bus with kneejerk swiftnest, giving credence to the lie.  NO ONE remotely checks the facts.  Everyone from O'Rielly to the Pres. line up with apologies when the lies are exposed, but no one really addresses the character assination.  Its time for someone to take the cronic liars to task.  There is someone missing from the parade of apologies - Brietbart.  Yess!!  She ought to sue him.