Sherrod To Sue Breitbart

Shirley Sherrod has announced that she plans to sue Andrew Breitbart for outing her as a racist.

The problem is, the entire controversy over Shirley Sherrod has been completely and entirely contrived by the media and the White House.

Andrew Breitbart's original post made reference to the fact that Sherrod's speech was about her realization that rich vs. poor was more important than black vs. white - and that context was even included in the edited video posted on Breitbart's website Big Government.

In fact, Breitbart's real target was the NAACP audience, who were laughing and agreeing with Sherrod as she described how she discriminated against a poor farmer because he was white.

In fact, Breitbart had been railing against the NAACP for a few days on Big Government due to the NAACP's baseless accusations of racism in the Tea Party movement.

But none of the facts have stopped the Left from re-branding the incident as an indictment of Fox News and right-wing bloggers taking someone on the Left out of context - something the Left is very, very good at - just take a look at Media Matters for America, the true masters of taking things out of context...and the liberal media tend to pick up on Media Matters' material all of the time and report their out-of-context videos as fact.

The truth of the Sherrod case is that the liberal media and the White House jumped all over the point they thought Breitbart was making by posting the Sherrod video, and in doing so, they missed the true point completely and overreacted before getting all of the facts.  Personally, I'm not convinced that Shirley Sherrod isn't a racist - she made several comments in her speech and in the media frenzy that followed its posting that show quite clearly that she still views people primarily through the prism of black vs. white.  But the truth is that I and many other Americans would be perfectly willing to overlook her views due to the troubles in her past, as long as those views don't influence her decisions in her position in the federal government - and in her speech, she was saying just that: her first reaction was to allow her racist views to influence her decisions as an employee of the Department of Agriculture, but then she realized that was wrong, and in the end she helped the poor white farmer.

The truth is that the White House and the Leftist media are shifting blame in this incident to Breitbart and Fox News because the Obama administration and the media took the entire situation out of context and it was they, not Breitbart or Fox News, who smeared Sherrod and fired her before examining all of the evidence.  In many ways, this case is reminiscent of the incident last year where President Obama publicly smeared the Cambridge Police, saying the "acted stupidly," without first getting all of the facts about the case.

This is the Left's version of a "post-racial" society: they get to determine who is racist and who isn't.  Fox News and Andrew Breitbart are the racists, but President Obama and former President Clinton are allowed to rewrite history in order to praise liberal icon Robert Byrd at his funeral, saying he was only a member of the KKK in order to get elected in the South, when there is plenty of evidence to show that Byrd was an unapologetic racist.

The American Left cannot be trusted to run the United States, and they can not be trusted in issues of race.  They are all too willing to smear, lie, obfuscate, and label, all while claiming victim status and using the liberal media to spread their lies. 

The True Nature of Education in America

Who Controls Our Children?

My sister shared this video with me, and part 1 was so interesting that I had to watch all 6 parts.  It's a speech/seminar about the federal government's takeover of the education system nationwide, but it really is much more interesting than that - the speaker outlines in detail how control is being taken away from parents and local school districts and is given over to the state and federal Departments of Education, which are trying to mold America's children into what the government deems to be good citizens.

It truly is frightening and enlightening - I highly recommend watching all 6 parts.

Corrupt Scumbag Finally Charged

Senator Charlie Rangel has finally been charged by the Senate Ethics Committee...pretty much all there is to say is, it's about time!


Rangel has been violating Senate rules for a long time now, and has been allowed to get away with it in spite of Speaker Pelosi's pledge to "drain the swamp," primarily because Pelosi's pledge was directed toward draining the swamp of corrupt Republicans, not corrupt Democrats. 

Rangel has been under investigation for some time for a variety of violations: accepting trips paid for by corporations, preserving a tax shelter for an oil company, using rent controls improperly for his campaign office...the list goes on and on.

The charges against Rangel have been a long time coming...and hopefully, he is only the first of many.

Killing The Private Sector

Today, the Democrats passed their so-called "bank bill."  In reality, this isn't so much a bank bill as it is a move by the Democrats to take control of the US economy.  They have taken over AIG and GM.  With the health care bill, the federal government set itself up to take over the health care and health insurance industries - as the news stories tend to put it, fully one sixth of the US economy.

Obama's socialism is failing.  His bank bailouts haven't saved the banking industry.  His economic stimulus bill hasn't improved the jobs market - though President Obama does seem to enjoy lying to the American people about how much worse the economy would be without his wasteful spending.  And with these ever-increasing regulations, the Democrats are once again trying to lie to America, attempting to finagle the people of America into believing that their socialist policies might actually do something to fix our economic problems.

This couldn't be further from the truth.

The Democrats are trying to pull a big lie/little lie sting on America.  The small deception is the lie that the AIG/stimulus/heal care/wall street takeovers will have a net positive effect on the American economy.  The large deception is the lie that the Democrats are actually trying to help the American economic situation.

The Democrats aren't trying to help the American economy, they are trying to take over.  The problem for the Democrats is that the more they trample on the Constitution, the more they enable the Republicans to do so when they take power - and they will take power.  The political pendulum tends to swing back and forth, as the American people vacillate between one lying political party and the other.

The truth rests in between the lies of these two parties: the government needs to maintain some control over the US economy, but moderation is the key to success.  It was, after all, lack of government regulation of Fannie May and Freddie Mac that helped to bring on the US financial crisis in the first place.

It was over-regulation that led to the Deepwater Horizon disaster being so far out to sea that the best minds in British Petroleum and the Coast Guard couldn't "plug the damn hole" until very recently.  On the flip side of that coin, it was government corruption and lack of regulation that led to the circumstances that caused the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

In like manner, it was over-regulation that forced banks to make bad loans to people who couldn't afford them.  The powers-that-be in the federal government believed that artificially inflating the housing market was more important than making responsible loans to people who could afford them.  At the same time, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, and other politicians in the Banking Committee wouldn't allow proper regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac because they were taking sweetheart deals.

The truth is that the American people can't trust either side of the political aisle with the kind of power the Democrats are currently taking through this banking bill.  It is exactly the ind of thing the Democrats will take advantage of while they're in power, then will complain about when the Republicans take over.

To trust either political party with the kind of power the Democrats continue to flirt with would be a monumental mistake on the American people, but the Democrats are continuing forward regardless.  It's almost as though they have designs on the upcoming elections, either in 2010 or 2012.  Either way, the Democrats are up to no good, and the Republicans cannot be trusted to reverse this trend enough to matter over the long-term.

The Democrats don't just want to create a nanny-state, they want to create a mommy-state.  Are you hurt?  Mommy will heal you.  Unemployed?  Mommy will take care of you.  In poverty?  Mommy will support you.  Not a US citizen?  Mommy will change that.  The Mommy State will keep you safe and warm and happy.

No political party can be trusted with this kind of power, and no political party should be.  This is why we have a Bill of Rights, but the parties are all too willing to ignore the rules and remake the government in whatever way will maintain their power and keep them in control of the people.