*Shirley Sherrod’s mass media tour on Thursday included a stop on “The View,” and inevitably, the show’s resident conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck challenged the ousted Agriculture Department employee over remarks she made about Republicans at the end of her speech to the NAACP.
Questioning Sherrod’s contention all along that the speech was about her own epiphany regarding race, Hasselbeck played a portion of the tape in which Sherrod said: “I haven’t seen such mean-spirited people as I’ve seen lately over this issue of health care. We’ve endured eight years of the Bushes and we didn’t do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black president.”
After the clip, Hasselbeck asked Sherrod: “Where’s the epiphany where it’s not about color and it’s not about race?”
Sherrod took a moment, sighed, and said: “Why is it that there’s such opposition to something that’s so important to poor people? Again, I’m coming at it from the angle of poor people. Poor people need health care.”
As the audience applauded, Hasselbeck continued to question the racial element of those remarks, then, asked Sherrod if she was in violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits civil servants from making partisan statements.
Listen to Sherrod’s answer and the rest of their exchange below, plus other footage from her visit to the Hot Topics table.
As long as Hasselback is on “The View”, Sherri Shepherd will NEVER be the one saying the stupidest things!
Hear! Hear! jazzfan. Elizabeth Hasselback needs a reality check. I can only take her rhetoric in very small doses, she is SO ANNOYING!
Elizabeth is one deliberately dense broad. I find her despicable to say the least. She clearly fits all the stereotypes about dumb blondes for sure.
Speaking of stereo types, Melody, youre looking pretty uneducated. and lazy in your facts.
Was it racism when conservatives stopped hilary care, whats your excuse then genious?
Dumb broads on the view say repubs tried to block unemployment benefits. A little out of CONTEXT and missleading. Repubs wanted to cut spending to pay for the stereotypical wellfare cases out there on their porches.
Man, being a racist like Melody is fun!! Stereotypes are great arent they. Excuse me now, I have to go read my stock quotes and drink an import.
Unless the post was deleted, I don’t see anything from Melody talking about racism.
Unless you are referring to a different era, Republicans (as they claim) wanted to “withold” unemployment benefits until money was found in the budget to pay for it.
You happen to be the first person I’ve heard make the “stereotypical welfare” comparison. What I have heard is that most in opposition intimate that it makes people “lazy” – not reliant on welfare. I would guess that most of the “stereotypical welfare cases” aren’t unemployed. So I’m not sure how blocking the never employed from recieving unemployment compensation actually works.
I’m sorry, and what was that about looking pretty uneducated and lazy in your facts again?
BTW, the “stereotypical welfare cases” are blacks. But we are not dumb here on the EUR, we know that the largest percentage of welfare recipients are whites.
Wrong again reds. Whites are the lowest percentage. And basicly blacks and whites are tied in total welfare cases.
See below to whatch how I school bartholomew below, he doesnt seem to know his facts not calling him dumb, but definatley ignorant
Talking about Cheryl Cook, the woman who told Shirley to pull over on her long distance commute and text her resignation for the Glenn Beck show. She is still in hiding. CNN’s been trying to track her ass down to confront her about the WH part of the message, which Shirley just confirmed on that piece on the View.
Now, Shirley was very specific. She said he woman did not say anything about the WH until the second call. Then she mentioned it again in the third call, actually saying that it is the WH that want her to pull over NOW and resign.
Shirley also said she did not ask if when they say the WH, it meant Obama.
The point I’m trying to make, is that despite all the shit they were putting her through, her recollection of how events transpired are crystal clear.
So as far as Gibbs and Vilsack saying that it was not the WH call, someone is lying.
well the donald said it best: elisabeth is a dumb broad
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It’s official, I am a fan of Shirley Sherrod, she intelligently shut Hasselbeck down! haha!
Shirley Sherrod did not shut anything down. She simply filibustered her answer. Shirley did assert that republicans were mean spirited because of a black man in office. It was a racist statement.
“Republicans were mean spirited because of a black man in office.”
That is the truth. If you want to call it a racist statement, knock yourself out, but you know, I know, and the whole world knows that’s the truth.
When did we ever have Republicans unanimously blocking unemployment insurance with a Democratic president.
How about the Obama “Fail” Mock Stamp which appeared in a local Republican Party Office.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Obama-Fail-Stamp-Appears-in-Republican-Party-Office
Limbaugh: “The dirty little secret … is that every Republican in this country wants Obama to fail, but none of them have the guts to say so; I am willing to say it”
I saw this when it aired and I thought Shirley held her on against Elisabytch – who really tried to put her on the spot.
Elisabytch!!! You must trademark this one cause it’s exactly what she is. Stank bytch!
*Well America whether you like it or not, RACE remains an unresolved issue. And rethugs like this bleached blonde hussy try and play it both ways. Pull out the race issue when it serves you.
*When are we going to learn and accept that the rethugs have spent years in think tanks analyzing the power of language, semantics, linguistics, etc. So they turn the Estate Tax to the Death Tax because taxing “Death” sounds a helluva lot colder than taxing” Estates”. Until we learn to master language and sound bites, we will continue to have our messages diffused, undermined and most importantly misunderstood by the masses.
*Rather than deal with the issue at hand, Hasslebeck turns to the next rethug talking point to pull out some shit like the Hatch Act. Trust me, this is not the last time we will hear this.
*And in no way, did President Obama asked her to resign. It was either Vilsack or someone tasked with doing the dirty work as everyone started to panic.
*You gotta handle rethug leaders really carefully. They have no bottomline so they will do and say whatever it takes to serve there needs (including abandoning their own if the heat gets too hot).
*All rethugs care about is POWER and MONEY. They want it at all costs. It is their history of taking what doesn’t belong to them and exploiting it. *
*Ask the Native American Indian.
*Ask all the colonies that they have colonialized over the centuries.
*Everything can and must be monetized and privatized in their myopic view. From
water to social security. The market is king for these sons of bushes.
*They are dangerous cowards…..and there ain’t nothing worse than a dangerous coward.
So I guess you are saying republicans have a monopoly on power and money? Additionally, I guess you are saying republicans have a monopoly on racism? Was it the republicans that passed a stupid resolution like the NAACP pulling the race card that is what precipitated this whole current racial issue?
By the way it is a death tax. The govt comes in and takes 55% of someones money that is dead. The key to this tax is someone died.
So the guy who worked so hard to form a construction company, emassed wealth and property fairly is force to pay the govt 55%. Why. Do you realize that this makes family business go out of business or start completely over paying off what has already been paid for or selling it to keep afloat. Sounds like a great America to me.
Another thing, money is power. The republicans voted that the families keep their money when a loved one dies. The dems voted for the govt to step in and forcably take it…. Who wants the power and money??????????????????????
We have a Douche-bagger in our midst.
Typical words from the kiddie table
Don’t mind the “interloping” Douche-baggers settling in to squat on EW.
Folks, please be sure to check these links.
southernstudies.org/2010/07/the-real-story-of-racism-at-usda.html
ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010072921/stop-coddling-mccarthyite-smear-machine
Stop Coddling The McCarthyite Smear Machine
thenation.com/blog/37881/lies-and-vilification-black-women
Several good articles here.
Given the stakes of the Pigford II decision — which again affirms the present-day consequences of decades of racial discrimination — and the sharp partisan battle over spending in Congress, black farmer advocates don’t think the attacks on Sherrod this week are a coincidence.
And given the history of racial discrimination at USDA, they can’t help but note the hypocrisy. As Gary Grant, president of the 20,000-strong Black Farmers & Agriculturalists Association, said in a statement [pdf]:
The statement from Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, that USDA does not “tolerate” racial discrimination is a complete lie. Talk to almost any family member of a black farmer or check out … the government’s documentation of how USDA employees, on the local and federal level discriminated against black farmers, in particular. And nothing was ever done to penalize the all white officials bent on destroying a society of black farmers across the nation: not one firing, not one charge brought, and not one pension lost. Yet at the first erroneous offering by a conservative blogger that a black woman from USDA might have discriminated, she is immediately forced to resign.
http://southernstudies.org/2010/07/the-real-story-of-racism-at-usda.html
Melody, this article is a wakeup call to all those who are taken by these recent “sincere” apologies.
As usual Elizabeth showed her ignorance by asking if Ms. Sherrod was in violation of the Hatch Act. The Hatch Act deals with federal employees engaged in partisan activities not making partisan statements. The Act states in part that a federal employee may not be a candidate in any partisan election for any public office nor can they belong to groups that engage in activities that go against the principles of the United States’ constitutional form of government. Therefore, Ms. Sherrod can make all the ‘partisan’ statements she wants and would not be in violation of the Hatch Act.
Elizabeth got to be the biggest embarrassment on tv for yt ppl.
And she’s so dumb that she doesn’t even realize how much of a joke she is.
But when you think about it, she is as big a joke as Glenn Beck, Hannity, Palin and most of the other right wing dunces on tv, but because we are not accustomed to seeing them on a regular basis, her behavior seems so strange to us.
Take the recent set of Douche-baggers infesting the EUR. Look at the drivel they’ve been spewing.
I think Mrs Hasselnut needs to read the Hatch Act again. I don’t think anywhere it says that you cannot have a political opinion. She never ceases to amaze me!