Sherrod and her husband are both racists. Just read their comments and listen to their words.

Both are no different than Rev. Wright and Lee Ward, racists, all of them.

All I know is the Sherrod's would sit comfortably beside Barry or Rev Lee for that matter in the racist hall's of Jebidiah Wright's 'church'..

5:58: Video hits foxnews.com

6:22: First comment posted on foxnews.com article.

6:30 (approximately): USDA announces Sherrod's resignation.

That's the same timeline I've seen elsewhere and it fully supports the idea that Fox News contributed.

Actually, CBS reported this first, so, they are the ones who really contributed, those racist bastards!

People on 'ludes should not write chronological time articles.

J Mcneely, did you READ the part where Sherrod solidly sets her firing before Glenn Beck's 5:00 show started? She specifically used the future tense -- "I was going to be on Glenn Beck's show tonight."

The announcement came out AFTER Fox's piece, but the events being announced happened BEFORE.

J.

That's the same timeline I've seen elsewhere and it fully supports the idea that Fox News contributed.

So the same administration that takes a couple of months to respond to a major disaster managed to meet, discuss, decide someone needed firing, and pass it down the command chain in less than six hours, but their decision was directly influenced only by the chance that Fox News was going to run the story Real Soon Now?

Not a chance in hell. What happened was that someone picked up on the Breitbart story early, panic ensued, someone decided she needed a good firing before the news actually hit the airwaves, and she got canned.

It certainly wasn't her immediate boss - someone with that level of political sensitivity wouldn't go so far out on a limb unless someone well above them was pushing hard.

At the very least, it was White House-level decision making. Someone wanted her out, fast, before the rest of the press got a shot at Sherrod - probably because they knew what a loose cannon she would turn out to be (even the fragmentary history available seems pretty bad, and her comments on the following day or so were really, REALLY bad).

For a 'not a valid news organization', according the the White House and Bobby Gibbs, Fox certainly appears to be calling the tune there.

Just like the Democratic obsession with Sara Palin. She's a 'nothing', so we keep on talking about her.

Jay, you need more tweeking.

The three phone calls Sherrod talks about take course over 2.5 hours as she is driving. See CNN's transcript: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1007/20/cnr.03.html

HARRIS: Are you willing to name names?

SHERROD: Oh, I can tell you, that was Cheryl Cook, the deputy undersecretary. She called me and said -- because she called me [#1], and I said, "Cheryl, I've got a three and a half hour ride to get into Athens." She called me a second time [#2], "Where are you now?" I said, "I'm just going through Atlanta."

She called me again [#3] and I said, "I'm at least 45 minutes to an hour from Athens." She said, "Well, Shirley, they want you to pull over to the side of the road and do it because you're going to be on Glenn Beck tonight."

So, if UDAG made the announcment at 6:30, the decision to fire her had been made at least as far back as 4:00pm, which is before Drudge posted, before Beck, and before O'Reilly began taping.

But if one figures AG took time to yack it up, laywer it up, and type up the press release...an hour plus 1/2?... then the decision to fire her came around 3:00pm or earlier.

I'm tired of this woman. Really, really tired.

I'm also tired of so many stories I've read about this where the author blithely and without any evidence whatsoever claims that Breitbart edited or "doctored" the video.

" -- the mere fear that Fox News MIGHT say or do something is enough to drive those powers into making rash, stupid decisions"

Well...I think fear of Fox News is just one of a plethora of reasons the Obama (Ocarter) admin makes rash, stupid decisions. Other reasons:
1. Inexperience
2. Rash, stupid people think rashly and stupidly
3. Immaturity

I could go on...

Still thinking...

Actually, if you simply take these three Sherrod comments...

"Cheryl, I've got a three and a half hour ride to get into Athens."

"She called me again and I said, "I'm at least 45 minutes to an hour from Athens."

"She said, 'Well, Shirley, they want you to pull over to the side of the road and do it because you're going to be on Glenn Beck tonight.'"

... the decision to fire her would have been made around 2:30 p.m. EST., given Beck at 5:00pm minus 2.5 hours of Sherrod's drive time.

That's assuming the "Pull Over" call came right at 5:00m.

Now mix in an hour of White House/USDA beaureacratic hop-scotch, you are lookng at 1:30 p.m., which puts the decision even before FoxNation's link to Breibart.

There is NOTHING complicated about this story. Both the NAACP and the White House immediately figured Sherrod had to go. Reviewing the facts and context or asking Sherrod for an explanation were absolutely unnecessary as far as they were concerned. WHY?? Because the NAACP and the White House are just as racist an Sherrod--and it seems, her husband. Obama and Ben Jealous know how they think, what their beliefs are, how much contempt they have for "whitey" and Shirley Sherrod represented little more than a MIRROR for both of them. The only difference...she was dumb enough and mouthy enough to get CAUGHT. And even the media could not bail her out. The White House could not afford to surrender its credibility on the most important weapon in its arsenal--the race card! So Hussein had to pretend outrage at Sherrod's "contemptible" display of racism and demand her removal from his regime. Now Hussein and the rest of the race baiting left are trying to blame their precipitous actions on FOX, Rush, Breitbart...anything and anyone other than their recognition that a fellow racist got caught and therefore had to be thrown under the bus for the good of the regime. But it won't do them any good. The facts are out, thanks to the internet and talk radio.

Agree with Oyster - I keep seeing this video referred to as having been edited by Breitbart. To me, "edit" implies things cut out selectively, maybe even moved around.

My understanding is that Breitbart was given an excerpt of the speech - one contiguous section, with no interruptions - and that he asked the NAACP for the entire speech before he ran the excerpt.

So, the video was completely accurate within its own context, Breitbart changed nothing, and when libs call it "edited", it's just like when they claim that Breitbart's ACORN stories were "discredited."

It's a lie.

Nobody claims Breitbart edited the video. That's a strawman argument.

It's obvious watching it that it's been edited, and since Breitbart makes his own videos it's obvious he knows it was edited.

Obvious to anyone with a brain. That leaves out half the wingnuts commenting on this thread.

Its obvious watching the video. The Sherrod's are racist. More power to Brietbart for exposing the NAALCP and Barry for the frauds they are.