Another Straw for the Camels Back or More Hamster Chow

[Calif Striper]

•     Hey Chip, I posted some information, how is it a fail if  some Republican politician had dirty hands also? The point is there was a major  fraud perpetrated on the taxpayers of America by Shirley Sherrod and coconspirators.  One of those conspirators was Barack Obama. Whoever else was involved does not  diminish the fact that “The Almighty Socialist” has his name connected to many  off color (no pun intended) endeavors. Obama, as a state politician, often  voted present instead of taking a stand on an issue. This sets a precedence of  the “Almighty” obviously supporting only those things in which he is willing to  take a stand. Having supported this fraud he obviously took a stand. Chip in  your little hamster mind you seem to think that if some Republican went along  with “The Chosen One” this absolves Obama of any wrong doing. I think not. You  on the other hand will take any small nugget in a larger picture and attempt to  discredit it thinking that somehow the big picture has vaporized into the  nether world, North Carolina or  some other fantasy location. I do not feel the need to blindly defend  Republicans as you seem to with your president. I am not a Republican, I am a  conservative. I do not see every Democrat as evil threat to this country, just  the one in the oval office. The hamster may be lounging about in his wheel but  he is still in his cage.   

[BornToStripe]

Odd....you failed to mention that Republican Senator Chuck Grassley was Obama's senior co-sponsor of the bill in 2008.  Sin of omission lol? I would hardly think Senator Grassley would co-sponsor this bill unless he thought it was a good idea, and had the backing of the Republican Senate leadership.  Maybe Senator Grassley is a maverick.  At any rate, you (or your usually reliable source) failed to do proper research, or just omitted the fact to spin the story a wee bit.  For true, you would not do anything like that?  Maybe a little bit of conspiracy theory a la a certain news organization?


I did not know bills that were passing Congress were considered to be passed in "dead silence" unless they made the front page.  OMG that means HUNDREDS, maybe THOUSANDS of laws are passed EACH YEAR in DEAD SILENCE.

It is nice of you to defend Andy Breitbart.  He needs a friend right now.

GG, but alas, epic fail.

[Calif Striper]

i Received this today from a usually reliable source. Nothing current on About.com(trusted site) and absolutely nothing linked to this woman's name on Snopes.com(questionable site)

•     Everyone who felt pity for Shirley  Sherrod being dealt a bad hand, think again...
   This story doesn't seem to  have made the media - yet!
   
   Andrew Breitbart is a media  genius.   
  He proved it originally with his brilliant handling of  the ACORN 'hooker' scandal which he skillfully manipulated so that the corrupt  media was forced, against its will, to broadcast corruption in one of Obama's  most powerful political support groups.  But Breitbart's handing of that  affair is nothing compared to his brilliant  manipulation of the Shirley Sherrod 'white farmer' scandal. 
  It all began last Monday, July 22, 2010.  As the country  watched in horror, Breitbart released a snippet of a tape on his "Big  Government" site which showed an obscure black female official of the  Dept. of Agriculture laughing to a roomful of NAACP members about how she'd  discriminated against a destitute white farmer and refused to give him the  financial aid he desperately needed.  As she smirked to the room, she'd sent  him instead to a white lawyer - 'one of his own kind' - for help.  The  black woman was Shirley Sherrod - and almost immediately she became the center  of a firestorm of controversy which exploded throughout the country.   Within a day of the release of that infamous tape, the head of the Dept. of  Agriculture, spurred on by Obama, demanded - and received - Sherrod's  resignation.  Breitbart had won.
  But then seemingly Breitbart's actions began to  explode in his face.  As Sherrod screamed in protest, FOX News released  the entire text of her speech last  March to the NAACP.  And there on tape  Sherrod was shown supposedly repenting of her racism against a white farmer and  instead championing his fight to win funds to keep his farm afloat.   Within hours of that entire tape being revealed, the entire world turned  against Andrew Breitbart.  Conservatives throughout the country were  enraged that he'd endangered their reputations by releasing a 'doctored'  tape.  Breitbart, they thundered, had dealt a fatal blow to the conservative  media.  I confess that I also was horrified at what I saw as the clumsiness and stupidity of Breitbart  in 'doctoring' a tape to make a supposedly innocent woman look guilty.   But now I discover I have been as guilty of haste to judgment of Br! eitbart as  the Dept. of Agriculture was of Ms. Sherrod. 
  Only now am I realizing the real purpose for Breitbart's  release of that tape snippet.  It was to allow him to cunningly trick the  media into exposing one of the most shocking examples of corruption in the  federal government - a little known legal case called "Pigford v. Glickman".
  (Read about it here.)
  "In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied  USDA loans due to racial  discrimination during the period 1983 to 1997."  The case was  entitled "Pigford  v. Glickman" and in 1999, the black farmers won their case.   The government agreed to pay each of them as much as $50,000 to settle their  claims. 
  But then on February 23 of this year, something  shocking happened in relation to that original judgment.  In total  silence, the USDA agreed to release more funds to "Pigford".  The amount was a staggering $1.25 billion.   This was because the original number of plaintiffs - 400 black farmers - had  now swollen in a class action suit to include a total of  86,000 black farmers throughout America .
  There was only one teensy problem.  The United States of    America doesn't have 86,000 black  farmers.  According to accurate and totally verified census data, the  total number of black farmers throughout America is only 39,697.   Oops.   
  Well, gosh - how on earth did 39,697 explode into  86,000 claims?  And how did $50,000 explode into $1.25 billion?   Well, folks, you'll just have to ask the woman who not only spearheaded this  case because of her position in 1997 at the "Rural Development  Leadership Network" but whose family received the highest single  payout (approximately $13 million) from that action - Shirley Sherrod.  Oops again.
  Yes, folks.  It appears that Ms. Sherrod had  just unwittingly exposed herself as the perpetrator of one of the biggest fraud  claims in the United States - a fraud enabled solely  because she screamed racism at the government and cowed them into  submission.  And it gets even more interesting.  Ms. Sherrod has also  exposed the person who aided and abetted her in this race fraud.  As it  turns out, the original judgment of "Pigford v. Glickman" in 1999 only applied to a  total of 16,000 black farmers.  But in 2008, a junior Senator got a law  passed to reopen the case and allow more black farmers to sue for funds.  The  Senator was Barack Obama.
  Because this law was passed in dead silence and  because the woman responsible for spearheading it was an obscure USDA official,  American taxpayers did not realize that they had just been forced in the midst  of a worldwide depression to pay out more than $1.25 billion to settle a race  claim.
  But Breitbart knew.  And last Monday, July 22, 2010, he cleverly laid a trap  which Sherrod - and Obama - stumbled headfirst into which has now resulted in  the entire world discovering the existence of this corrupt financial  judgment.  Yes, folks - Breitbart is a genius.
  As for Ms. Sherrod? Well, she's discovered too late  that her cry of 'racism' to the media which was intended to throw the spotlight  on Breitbart has instead thrown that spotlight on herself - and her  corruption.   Sherrod has vanished from public view.   Her  'pigs', it seems, have come home to roost.  Oink!