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Jim Messina: heckuva job on Sherrod, guys. [Corrected.]

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  July 21st, 2010 at 07:00 PM  | 

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[UPDATE: The previous link was incorrect; now fixed. My apologies. - ML]

(Via AoSHQ) Every time I think that the Shirley Sherrod story cannot make the administration look more foolish, new details come out [link fixed - ML].

…three Democratic sources said deputy chief of staff Jim Messina singled out the White House’s initial response to the incident for praise in the regular 8:30 a.m. staff meeting Tuesday morning.

[snip]

One source, who is unhappy with the administration’s handling of the incident, paraphrased Messina’s remarks: ”We could have waited all day — we could have had a media circus — but we took decisive action, and it’s a good example of how to respond in this atmosphere.”

No, in fact, it was not a good example*.  It’s hard to see how it could be a worse one.  The Right is hardly abashed that Ms. Sherrod ended up being maligned by the Obama administration and defended by Glenn Beck; the Left is infuriated** that their precious man-god stomped all over their favorite narrative before it could even get started; and the Middle is mostly going to take away from all of this the sight of the White House apologizing to a black woman for passing instant judgment on her based on the color of her skin, rather than the content of her character.

And, oh yes: there’s a media circus, too.

Moe Lane


*For what it’s worth, the other two sources of Politico’s are pushing back on the first source’s narrative.

**They’re even more infuriated that some of their favorite devil-figures showed more discernment than said man-god, which was both a: funny and b: not very difficult to accomplish.  Contra that link above, the President is not actually very good at deflecting criticism, mostly because up until now he’s never particularly needed to…

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • 77redcounties

    the Keystone Cops, running around & getting nowhere, gotta laugh

  • averagevoterdotcom

    Good article Erick! Let’s pick our targets wisely.

  • makemyday

    Scout your targets, learn their ways. Pick a ambush spot with necessary fields of fire, cover and retreat routes. Get your sight picture, inhale, exhale slowly, hold it, hold it, squeeze the trigger, verify the hit and make your exit.

    Now that the ant hill has been kicked over and the ants are running around, we need another target, now and quickly go through it all again.

  • jisaacconnett

    When I read this article over at Politico, I was astounded at how the activists on the left are criticizing each other! It does not get better than this! They are saying things about us that I say daily about them. This article spells out loud and clear just what the left thinks about us in the conservative movement.

    This should be required reading for all tea party patriots and other conservatives. We all need to understand loud and clear that they view us as the enemy and we should view them as our political enemies. We are not on the same page with the left, and we never will be. We should only be striving to defeat them, not get along with them. We are antithetical to each other. Our motto should be: we win, they lose.

    We need to keep vigorous debate going about the legal scandle in which Shirley Sherrod and her husband have involved themselves with the USDA payoffs. There is a huge pile of smelly stuff hiding under the rug here, and I really believe this is part of the real reason the Obama administration was so quick to fire Mrs. Sherrod. They did not want this to be aired publicly in the main stream media. Now that Glenn Beck has given them cover to ignore this scandle, they can keep Shirley Sherrod around to help disburse the possible many billions of tax payer dollars that will be paid out to thousands of fake farmers recruited by the USDA .

  • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

    nt

  • 6eorge Jetson

    Muuwaaahh!


    Wheel of Fortune, your turn:

    The _ost Racial President

  • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

    Do you have a picture to go with it?

  • tngal

    No, no. Crowley doesn’t get an apology. He got a beer. So…beer? Apology? Beer, Apology? I’m torn. Both make me feel good.

  • http://www.suvstrategery.blogspot.com SoFiMil

    (What he actually does is punt to avoid making tough decisions.)

    Meanwhile, on other matters that require a pause to look at all the facts, he recklessly dives in before knowing what he’s talking about.

  • snowshooze

    Vilsack offers unique new position..Sharrod back in good graces…daaaa..
    Sooo…I suppose we will look like mud if we make a single peep about it, we will again be racists and the bad guys. (I am kidding…right??)
    I didn’t shove those words in her mouth, and the extended story gives me little to be hopeful about so far as her ability to serve and make fair and unbiased decisions. On anything.
    Why on earth would anyone make a retraction on a dismissal so well supported?
    Ok, the long view is we went fishing for minnows, but caught a whale.
    Well we got it on the boat alright, but it turned out to be a killer whale and ate us.
    So I am still watching this snooker match.. to see who gets who, but I can’t believe how they are managing this, and I have to give them credit for being the scumbags they are.
    In short, I am just amazed.

  • snowshooze

    Vilsack offers unique new position..Sharrod back in good graces…daaaa..
    Sooo…I suppose we will look like mud if we make a single peep about it, we will again be racists and the bad guys. (I am kidding…right??)
    I didn’t shove those words in her mouth, and the extended story gives me little to be hopeful about so far as her ability to serve and make fair and unbiased decisions. On anything.
    Why on earth would anyone make a retraction on a dismissal so well supported?
    Ok, the long view is we went fishing for minnows, but caught a whale.
    Well we got it on the boat alright, but it turned out to be a killer whale and ate us.
    So I am still watching this snooker match.. to see who gets who, but I can’t believe how they are managing this, and I have to give them credit for being the scumbags they are.
    In short, I am just amazed.

  • Scope

    Erick Holder. We all heard Vilsak say today about all the tens of thousands of cases in the department, right. He sited Civil Rights issues, right? Take a look at the final decision on the Pigford case-

    http://beginningfarmers.org/vilsack-and-holder-announce-pigford-ii-usda-settlement-with-black-farmers/

    Settlement with “black farmers” in Sherrods state. Why does this look like “reparations”? Didn’t she say that it wasn’t about black and white, well really, it was against rich and poor. I would make a gazillion dollar bet that there were some really poor farmers in GA that were white. They apparently don’t qualify, because, they are not due reparations. Who is sticking up for Sherrod? the Fox news people, not doing the first research on the case. Dumb.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    Thanks for the PhotoShop request, but I’m in the midst of a relocation and am away from my beloved PhotoShop for the next few weeks.

  • DONTREADONME

    they say. I believe she was rightfully fired. If I were to say something that would embarrass a DoD department I would be fired. She should have known better than to get up and present those inflammatory remarks. I actually think that the 0bama admin looks foolish for having apologized when they have every right to fire her, IMO.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    a poor man’s Dan Rather, only to have the ball bounce off the Administration’s helmet, and is now up for grabs, but in my opinion with a lot more Consevatives in the area where the ball seems to be coming down.

    Now the Left can loft all sorts of pejoratives, but each has with it the sequitur “and you acted upon this without any of your own investigation?”. How stupid is that?

    What will the Zero admin do when Ahmad

  • 6eorge Jetson

    (Darn iPhone premature post)

    Plus, Sherrod may not be such a sympathetic figure after her life working the system gets the spotlight.

  • Beasley Beesmeal

    I think we may need to look into that

  • Adjoran

    You see, these people in the White House claim to have taken “…decisive action, and it?s a good example of how to respond in this atmosphere.? But now the Ag Dept. says the White House didn’t do anything at all.

    And it turns out that doing nothing was EXACTLY THE RIGHT MOVE! So when the White House “decisive[ly]” took NO action, they were indeed setting “…a good example of how to respond…”

    Once again, just like with the Gulf oil spill disaster, Obama’s “deer in the headlights” policy of quick and decisive inaction saved the day!

    And did you also notice the oceans are beginning to recede, as well? Thanks, Comrade Obama! To you we sing our songs of glorious praise and adoration!

    Heh, heh, heh . . . any of you yokels need cigs or drugs in the Reeducation Camp, come see me at the guard tower, mmmkay?

  • uselogic

    “Conservatives wrongly forced innocent woman’s resignation”. My local, the Orlando Slant-inel is just a joke anymore.