They must be overcompensating for the flak they are taking over the expert handling of the oil spill.

Boy!  They really put that behind them!

Reporter: Why did you guys fire Van Jones, Yogi Sergeant, and Shirley Sherrod based on Beck and O'Reilly and Breitbart?

Gibbs: Why do you cover those stories?

Chilling.

And this shows the genius of Breitbart - anything that causes this much trouble for the enemy is GOOD!  So he has to hem and haw for a few seconds - big deal.  No one will remember that, *Everyone* will remember the stink coming out of the White House and this dog and pony show.

This is a real-time seminar in how to make Alinksy Tactics Work for You!

So, they were for firing her, before they were against firing her?  Or would this be more of a "Well maybe we shouldn't have fired her but hey, you got to admit we did a great job of firing her so damn fast, right?"

Kind of funny that all the brouhaha (I don't care if it's spelled right or wrong) is about what the WH did or didn't do.

God, I am loving this!

You know?  That pile of things they should have read is getting pretty high.

I just want to say this:

You all know the tongue-in-cheek witticism; How do you know when heÂ’s lying?  His lips are moving, or some variation thereof.

Under common usage, that saying is meant to exaggerate, humorously.

Not in BarryÂ’s case.  I donÂ’t believe that Obama is capable of not lying.  It is just not in him.  In fact, I believe with no humor whatsoever, that he has made as a goal for himself to fool so many people as to prove to himself his superior intellect over those he means to fool.

I believe that this guy lies knowingly, purposefully and as a source of pleasure, and this defect is a sickness – a psychological abnormality and a perversion.

I know how this is going to sound and I frankly donÂ’t care.  There are evil people in this world and I believe that that group of people is well represented by Obama.

There.  I feel better now.

BTW, here's Glenn Beck's new hero, Shelley Sherrod, on Fox:

"I think they should but they won't. They intended exactly what they did. "They were looking for the result they got yesterday," she said of Fox. "I am just a pawn. I was just here. They are after a bigger thing, they would love to take us back to where we were many years ago. Back to where black people were looking down, not looking white folks in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person."

"I think they should but they won't. They intended exactly what they did. "They were looking for the result they got yesterday," she said of Fox. "I am just a pawn. I was just here. They are after a bigger thing, they would love to take us back to where we were many years ago. Back to where black people were looking down, not looking white folks in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person."

Posted by: The Q at July 21, 2010 03:12 PM (pfStM)

I hope this bitch keeps on talking.   She's just proving everyone's point.

Gibbs: Why do you cover those stories?

Chilling.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 21, 2010 03:18 PM (5aa4z)

Nope he's still talking, I wouldn't buy yet.

in response to the flap, which was driven by a misleadingly-edited video posted to Andrew Breitbart's Big Government website.

This makes me Hulk mad. 

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2010 03:05 PM (m2CN7)

Whoever put together the original clip that Breitbart posted did, in fact, falsely state that Sherrod was talking about what she did as a USDA employee -- she was talking about an incident that happened 23 years before she was appointed to the USDA job.

However, just as in the case of Congressional Democrats who claim Bush lied them into supporting the Iraq invasion, the issue is not whether the video clip was misleading, but why the geniuses at the NAACP, the USDA and the White House were so easily misled and so easily stampeded.

This is a good thing, right?

Judging by one of this morning's post, I'm not sure any more.

I know how this is going to sound and I frankly donÂ’t care.  There are evil people in this world and I believe that that group of people is well represented by Obama.

There.  I feel better now.

I wanna hear Stuck on Stupid tell me again why this was such a horrible blunder by Breitbart.

<insert sound of crickets chirping>

Posted by: The White House at July 21, 2010 03:19 PM (ySNz/)

The only thing this White House seems willing and able to do fast is fire people who embarrass the President.  McChrystal got the boot in three days, and Sherrod got it in about three hours.

C'mon Gibbsy, say it, the President acted stupidly.

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 21, 2010 03:21 PM (Ulu3i)

No, we are all a bunch of Neanderthals here. Spell it out for us. Please.

OT -

If this is not par for the em-n-effing course, then nothing is; Captain America is un-American.

http://tinyurl.com/2efd9r2

I may have exagerated a schosh - but not much.

That quote is taken out of context. It's from a heartwarming tale of overcoming racism and reaching human connectedness, you cowardly, un-Christian, white-ass mother-whitin' racist-ass white-ass teabaggin'-ass white white-ass racist CRACKAZ. Everyone but me owes her an apology.

I would like one of these go-go journalists to ask Ben Jealous a simple question. 

This speech took place at the NAACP and even if you weren't at the event you obviously had the entire speech because you posted it on your website.  Did you know what she actually said before you called for her dismissal or did you not even bother to watch the tape you had in your possession?

I wanna hear Stuck on Stupid tell me again why this was such a horrible blunder by Breitbart.

<insert sound of crickets chirping>

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 21, 2010 03:21 PM (T1boi)

Breitbart's mistake was in stating unequivocally that Shirley Sherrod acted with racial bias in her USDA job in his post presenting the video.  He said, "In her meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail, that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions."  That is factually incorrect, though Breitbart seems to have relied on the incorrect title cards at the front of the video.

Breitbart can and should undo that part of his mistake by clarifying that the full video contradicts that particular fact because it shows that Sherrod was talking not about her federal duties, but about an incident from long before she became a federal employee.  If he's unwilling to make that correction, then he won't be able to claim in future that any video clip he passes along is "proof" of wrongdoing.

Politically, however, the video did maybe more than it would have if it showed a racist truly ranting and raving.  Because the NAACP and the White House stampeded all over this woman, the revelation that she's not the racist demon they assumed her to be really damages them.

"They are after a bigger thing, they would love to take us back to where we were many years ago. Back to where black people were looking down, not looking white folks in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person."

Bless that angel's heart. She has absolutely recovered from all traces of racism, and if you say anything otherwise it is because you are a racist.

Mad props for Breitbart for sending these fuck-sticks in a complete tizzy, talk about a chinese fire drill? They still don't understand that Sherrod is the least of their problems AND this is what is passing as a competent administration.  

I don't disagree that there may be some outside manipulations but in reality the market is just confused as economic factors are soft but almost 80% of the S&P companies have met earning projections.  It makes it a tough call on what to do.

Posted by: polynikes at July 21, 2010 03:30 PM (m2CN7)

Meeting projections doesn't mean alot. It depends what the projections are. If projections are that you are going to lose money and go bankrupt or that you are going to have a mediocre quarter and you prove the projections right it's not a good thing.

Posted by: fightobama at July 21, 2010 03:23 PM (6IV8T)

No, everyone with brains already knows there's no journalism in the MFM and the Usual Suspects don't care ( or cheer & sneer ).

This is a Libtard Piss-Puddle; let them wallow in it.

someone please tell me why the hell Spehard Smith is on Fox????

as an Indepedent voter, this clown is so freakingly annoying, please FOx do not renew this man's contract, put Lou Dobbs in his place.

The video was not edited to add in the audience laughter, and gleeful expressions of praise, for racist statements and behavior acknowledged as such by the NAACP itself!

The video did not need to be edited to be prima facie evidence that in the NAACP, racists are not a minority, are not agents provocateur, and are not ostracized: on the contrary, racists are the base membership of this organization that regards calling others racists as the default response to criticism of itself or anyone it supports.

Posted by: denny crane

"Us"!?! he listened to us? A bunch of morons and one Obamabot? And somehow you think that such a winning strategy is a winner when practiced by the office of the President of the United States.

hmmm...this kind of reminds me how so many in the media, the WH, the NAACP, the NBPs' called the Tea Party racist without any factual freakin' evidence.

Do any of those f#ckers actually see or understand that?  

"They are after a bigger thing, they would love to take us back to where we were many years ago. Back to where black people were looking down, not looking white folks in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person."

Bless that angel's heart. She has absolutely recovered from all traces of racism, and if you say anything otherwise it is because you are a racist.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at July 21, 2010 03:35 PM (oIp16)

Yes, but Shirley Shabazz is Malor's first love and apparently Beck's New Best Friend.  We must give her every benefit of every doubt and withhold judgment and pick our battles and mind our manners..................

Where's the nearest Turkish Toilet?

Could this Sherrod thing have been sent to Breitbart so deflect attention away from the Journolist story? 

No.  Breitbart was on Hannity last night and said he first received this video in April but held off on using it until the NAACLP said the TEA Party was racist.

I wasn't planning on flying to DC to go to the 828 organized by Glenn Beck, but heck, now I think I will be driving my family to this event.

my in-laws were planning to go, I think my entire family will now be going.

I am so sick of this race baiting shit.

So millions of average americans called racists by NAACP, and no apology, and not a whisper by the LSM.

The question answers itself.

Exactly why I want it asked.  Either he lies or he lies.  Win, win.

someone please tell me why the hell Spehard Smith is on Fox????

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-democrat at July 21, 2010 03:37 PM (ACkhT)

He's tooting someone's horn, IYKWIMAITYD.  A high-placed horn, which he toots often......

Posted by: Atomic Roach at July 21, 2010 03:31 PM (Oxen1)

Ding, ding, ding.  We have a winnah!  Give that roach a, uh, er, uh...

Posted by: Bozo the Gibbs at July 21, 2010 03:10 PM (w9bVp)

You rang?

 it shows that Sherrod was talking not about her federal duties, but about an incident from long before she became a federal employee.

I think you need to watch the tape again and pay close attention to the part right before the smirk.  She was working for RDLN, the acorn for persons living in homes without sidewalks, using federal dollars to supposly help people.  RDLN got a grant from the USDA and needed to keep up the apperance that they would helping everyone in order to maintain the cash flow from uncle sam.   

Posted by: fightobama at July 21, 2010 03:38 PM (6IV8T)

Nobody has to be behind anything to get Obama to screw up.  That's the one thing he does well on his own.

Posted by: Denny Crane's Mom at July 21, 2010 03:44 PM (OWjjx)

FIFY

I wasn't planning on flying to DC to go to the 828 organized by Glenn Beck, but heck, now I think I will be driving my family to this event.

my in-laws were planning to go, I think my entire family will now be going.

I'll see ya there. Me, the mister and the two offspring.  Bring sunscreen.

Posted by: looking closely at July 21, 2010 03:47 PM (6Q9g2)

the market used to work that way, it doesn't now. The market reacts to headlines because there is so much uncertainty in government policies now. Alot of big companies also missed projections this quarter like yahoo, google, B of A , Goldman etc.

Hey Ace, have you ever considered the likelihood that there could be some cicumstances under which overtly demonstrated racism could be construed to be not only rational, logical, legitimate and justifiable, but very healthy, too? 

Or have you been so heavily influenced by Political Correctness and by the position that manipulative liberal organizations want you to take on that issue strictly for their own self-serving reasons that you have become close-minded on that issue? 

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 21, 2010 03:44 PM (Ulu3i)

Why would we want something icky like that?

watched the whole 43 minutes. after nyquil wore off.

although i don't admire where she has ended up . i understand more the road she came from.

what i do agree with, is much of the race angst comes , those who might like to keep the grievance alive  and all of us divided, but has the culprits wrong.

I hope someone one day asks her about journolist. blink

that might be fun.

Posted by: RushBabe at July 21, 2010 03:49 PM (W8m8i)

great.  watch for my in-laws.  they both will be wearing t-shirts: " Tea Party Members. (Disgusted Democrats)" in the front

and on the back it says  "Oh Yes, we exist -- stop lying Media!!"

Supposedly Jealous himself was even sitting there in the audience, begging another question of if her remarks were so racist, why didn't he remember hearing them the first time?

Because he's around racist remarks all the time.  He was afraid of what might have been on the full tape because he suspected that it was worse.  (One could argue it was, but let's just assume not, for simplicity.)

Vilsack knows this woman at least by reputation, Jealous knows what kinds of people speak at the NAACP and both suspected that it was something that had to be denounced.

Frankly, if she's not racist, then she's managed to channel that resentment (the most poisonous part of racism) briefly into a Marxist framework, but her racist pot is always threatening to boil over.

Awwwww!  Look.  It's some of the faces bastiches of Journolist!

http://bit.ly/bI6jek

the issue is not whether the video clip was misleading, but why the geniuses at the NAACP, the USDA and the White House were so easily misled and so easily stampeded.

Obviously the evil genius Breitbart used some kind mind control ray on them. All of this is his fault you know. And the Tea Party. Racists!!!!11!!

Ace, have you ever considered the likelihood that there could be some cicumstances under which overtly demonstrated racism could be construed to be not only rational, logical, legitimate and justifiable, but very healthy, too?  (sYrWB)

No, no, no, no and no.

But, other than that, you're right on track, Mr. Gibson.

Consider the following scenario:

This video comes to light.  Jealous realizes that the light is on this woman and knows for certain she is a stone-cold racist.  He has no problems with her racism, but he cannot operate if the light is on her.  He doesn't check the NAACP tape or even the tape in the public sphere because he KNOWS what it probably shows.  The decision-makers all conference and decide to eject her based on their personal knowledge of her nature. 

Later it's pointed out to these people that the video can be explained rationally as not racist.  Now they're pissed.  They sacrificed the little she-witch unnecessarily.  They want to strike out, but they're the ones who acted.  So they're left with this weak, "You tricksed us!". 

Now they're in a bind.  What if Breitbart has worse info on her?  They need to welcome her back if they're going to stick with this, "They tricked us with their evil Fox News mind rays." line.  But what if Breitbart has slow-played his hand?  They know her nature, and it's probable there is worse tape out there. 

I hope they welcome her back, and that Breitbart has worse info on her.  That would be very very sweet.

someone please tell me why the hell Spehard Smith is on Fox????

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-democrat at July 21, 2010 03:37 PM (ACkhT)

He's tooting someone's horn, IYKWIMAITYD.  A high-placed horn, which he toots often......

Posted by: SantaRosaStan, riding the ridge line at July 21, 2010 03:42 PM (JrRME)

I'm not watching the Shlepster but I will assume he's kissing the "administrations" ass for showing contrition as it pertains to Sherrod. In the early going of this epic tale, the nauseating scourge of TV talking heads stroking Obama and his clan on this is overwhelming! They completely screwed the pooch on this deal, rehiring this hack is gonna just make things more messy. I love it.

GET YER POPCORN HERE!!!

ICE COLD BEER HERE!

Here's the Goldblog post about Cabalist:

http://www.theatlantic.com/ national/archive/2010/07/ meet-the-new-journolist-smaller-than-the-old-journolist/ 60159

Remember to take out spaces

I think you need to watch the tape again and pay close attention to the part right before the smirk.  She was working for RDLN, the acorn for persons living in homes without sidewalks, using federal dollars to supposly help people.  RDLN got a grant from the USDA and needed to keep up the apperance that they would helping everyone in order to maintain the cash flow from uncle sam.   

Posted by: Naan at July 21, 2010 03:45 PM (GARYj)

RDLN is a "trade association" for rural community organizers.  Sherrod was working for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund, whose mission is expressly to help Black farmers in the South.  She may have also been working for or with an organization on whose board she later served, the Farmers Legal Action Group, which provides legal referrals and aid to all farmers.  I can't see why either the USDA or Georgia AgDept would refer a white farmer to the FSC, but they certainly would have sent one to FLAG.

Individual securities will respond to individual circumstances, such as earnings.

That again in my opinion is a thing of the past. It works with some companies and not with others. Take Cisco and Intel for example. Both have beat both top and bottomline estimates by a bunch and both have given very optimistic guidience for the last 3 qaurters yet the stocks have remained static during that time.

In fact Cisco in the last two quarter beat estimates, gave great guidence and the stock went down.

Sorry if this was posted earlier.  I've read most of the posts on the thread and don't remember seeing it.

A very good read and totally on topic from SISU:

http://tinyurl.com/37uh4ab

Led there by Instapundit

Oh Joy! Our lives could not be complete without this:

KeithOlbermann - Tonight on Countdown, my Special Comment on Shirley Sherrod, the Assassins of the Right, and the enablers of the Left. about 2 hours ago via Twitterrific

Posted by: The Q at July 21, 2010 04:11 PM (pfStM)

I'm sure all 6 of his viewers will be thrilled.

Posted by: robert at July 21, 2010 04:14 PM (gue+Q)

Why not?  It would be pretty much the entire story of how the Democrat Party in the South pivoted from the party of Bull Connor and the Klan to the party of civil rights: they realized that they needed Black votes nationwide and decided to turn their backs on racism for the infinitely more profitable pastime of class warfare.

Posted by: Warden at July 21, 2010 04:10 PM (fE6tn)

Well said! By all means, let us go gently so as not to upset anyone.

Posted by: FUBAR at July 21, 2010 04:15 PM (LPL4Z)

I suppose in his usual way of fighting to be at the top of the squish list that he didn't give you any examples of what media companies actually have good, fair journalists?

Of course not, that would be like comparing them to nazis or something.

Posted by: curious at July 21, 2010 04:17 PM (p302b)

But the last Black man that was crucified was Jesus Christ.  It's true, Reverend Wright told me so.

27 I mean, what else could complement the Events of the past day or two?

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I just wanted to compliment you on the correct use of "complement". It's so rare these days.

Hey Ace, have you ever considered the likelihood that there could be some cicumstances under which overtly demonstrated racism could be construed to be not only rational, logical, legitimate and justifiable, but very healthy, too? 

Or have you been so heavily influenced by Political Correctness and by the position that manipulative liberal organizations want you to take on that issue strictly for their own self-serving reasons that you have become close-minded on that issue?

No.

Not in this country.

Leveling a charge of racism is just about the gravest insult you can offer an American citizen.

I don't know how the rest of the world works but I do know that we have certain ideals that shape our national character, ideals that when we have failed to live up to them have caused us great anguish.

That some malicious children will wield this very honorable cultural characteristic as aweapon against our people, in dishonest ways, and for contemptible ends does not make it dispensable, situationally, or otherwise.

I just wanted to compliment you on the correct use of "complement". It's so rare these days.

Posted by: Snarkatron at July 21, 2010 04:21 PM (3K4hn)

Whereas we remain red-headed stepchildren, denied even entry into the language.

31 Why is no one using the word circus? I know a circus when I see one, and this White House is a circus.

I resent this vicious slur against all circus people, and clowns in particular.

Please read this article and then decide if Saint Shirley needs to have her job  back.

comments.americanthinker.

com/read/1/637728.html

You freaks are building your own journolist; a compendium of hey, dude lets expound on Journolist prime over their yellow journalism but hey we love our half baked yellow journalism . . . tastes like chicken . . . ain't nothing wrong with that. At some point, there will be no cause left to fight for once the conservative moral imperative has become one blurred blob of chaos . . . and then what will you stand on?  Truth or fighting fire with fire?  

Breitbart fails to address the fact he was wrong . . . this will linger on and prove to be a cause celeb for the left and a wedge for the right and will move us toward the super state of literary fascism. 

Order up the leather bound journolists because the left is making them as we speak over the b.s. won't admit we're wrong drivel being spewed here.

Posted by: Deety at July 21, 2010 04:22 PM (aVzyR)

How do we classify Jesse Jackson's (admitted) crossing the street when he sees young Black men wearing baseball caps backward and walking toward him on the sidewalk?

62 The only thing this White House seems willing and able to do fast is fire people who embarrass the President.

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We live by the slogan "work smarter, not harder".

"Addendum: IÂ’m going to add one more point that will probably not be terribly popular, but still should be kept in mind.  Painting the entire journalistic profession as evil and conspiratorial because the Journolisters either participate in proposing smears and government totalitarianism or silently give implicit consent is as unfair as painting the Tea Party movement as racist because a few neo-Nazis and LaRouchies show up as provocateurs."

Ed, you ignorant slut.

These aren't "provocateurs" or infiltrators, these are the lions of the profession.  They win the Pulitzers.  This is Ezra freakin' Klein -- no bit player he.

The journalistic profession may not be evil, but it *is* conspiratorial (by definition, Ed) and it *is* corrupt.  From the head.

The analogy is pathetically weak, even for a squish like you, Ed.

The better analogy is the legal profession.  Just that law school is easy, there is incentive to be dishonest, ethics are largely unenforced, the participants are by definition rent-seekers, corruptly overpaid and the profession is a protection racket that should be prosecuted under RICO doesn't make every lawyer evil.

There are honest, hardworking and smart lawyers out there and I think all 5 of them would agree with me on this.

Posted by: Journolist at July 21, 2010 04:30 PM (8EEyy)

I'm intrigued by your deranged blather and inability to construct a sentence. Do you have a blog you could link to?

Posted by: blip at July 21, 2010 04:27 PM (4gYpo)

Surely you jest...is that you Shirley??

65 Could this Sherrod thing have been sent to Breitbart so deflect attention away from the Journolist story?

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Cut. Jib. Tinfoil hat o' month club.

I'm willing to believe that the quick firing was to prevent a close inspection of her hiring, but I don't think it's a big conspiracy to hide the journolist story.

Posted by: blip at July 21, 2010 04:27

Sarcasm or stupidity? I'm guessing that this is the latter. Hey stupid. Running a tape of someone speaking isn't actionable. Of course the trial could be fun, seeing as how the current Administration would have to be on the witness list. And don't forget that the NAACP would also be part of the circus.

Posted by: blip at July 21, 2010 04:27 PM (4gYpo)

The events of the past two years shows me that we are fooked either way. Play nice, you get raped in the arse by the left. Play dirty and you take it in the arse by the left and many on the right as well.

I don't care about this woman, her job, or how people "feel". If the journolist thing didn't confirm the belief we should all have that the game is entirely fucking rigged, then we are too stupid to deserve better treatment. They have us out planned, out hussled and totally behind in every category. Fuck them.

Imagine if she called the farmers red-neck craker ass crakers!

Posted by: curious at July 21, 2010 04:27 PM (p302b)

Well, she didn't join the USDA in 1992.  From 1994 to 2009, she worked for the Farmers Legal Action Group.

"Ms. Sherrod was a member of FLAGÂ’s Board from 1994 until last September, when she resigned due to her new position with USDA Rural Development. She served as FLAGÂ’s Board President from 1995 to 2001. During Ms. SherrodÂ’s tenure on FLAGÂ’s Board, FLAG provided legal and technical assistance to thousands of family farmers of all races across the country. In addition, FLAG provided legal and technical assistance to Ms. Sherrod and the many farmers she served while at the Federation of Southern Cooperatives."

And from the White House press release about her appointment in 2009:

"Shirley Sherrod (to serve as USDA Rural Development Georgia State Director) - Since 1985, Sherrod has served as Director of the Georgia Field Office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund. She has also served as Georgia State Lead for the Southern Rural Black Women's' Initiative for Economic and Social Justice. From 1999-2000, Sherrod served as Executive Director for Community Alliances of Interdependent Agriculture, Inc., in Albany, Ga. Sherrod has more than 15 years experience working with agriculture-focused organizations. Sherrod received a B.A. in Sociology from Albany State University in Albany, Ga., and a M.A. in Community Development from Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio."

Posted by: Journolist at July 21, 2010 04:30 PM (8EEyy)

I'm intrigued by your deranged blather and inability to construct a sentence. Do you have a blog you could link to?

Thanks . . . I'm flattered . . . but didn't order the jerk chicken . . . serve it up at table 86.

82 Cheerleading isn't a sport. So says a federal judge today. It's actually an "underdeveloped sport".
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Try "undocumented sport", sport.

I don't care about this woman, her job, or how people "feel". If the journolist thing didn't confirm the belief we should all have that the game is entirely fucking rigged, then we are too stupid to deserve better treatment. They have us out planned, out hussled and totally behind in every category. Fuck them.

Posted by: Sgt. Fury at July 21, 2010 04:35 PM (gh1bX)

Thanks Sarge...

Go fuck yourself blip, troll, sock, douch.

Sarcasm or stupidity? I'm guessing that this is the latter. Hey stupid. Running a tape of someone speaking isn't actionable. Of course the trial could be fun, seeing as how the current Administration would have to be on the witness list. And don't forget that the NAACP would also be part of the circus.

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 21, 2010 04:35 PM (R2fpr)

Breitbart has vulnerability because the tape didn't only include Shirley Sherrod speaking, it included title cards at the front that (falsely) asserted that she mistreated the farmer in her capacity as a USDA official.  Having later learned that the title cards gave false information, Breitbart would need to offer a retraction/correction to avoid the appearance of reckless disregard for the truth -- which he would want to avoid if he wanted to avoid a libel suit.

182 I'm glad that people are willing to admit that this was horribly unfair.  I hope that Sherrod can sue the hell out of Brietbart.  It's not the first time he's done this.  

Oh really!  Would you care to provide an example based on the fact that you said, "It's not the first time he's done this"

Breitbart fails to address the fact he was wrong . . . this will linger on and prove to be a cause celeb for the left and a wedge for the right and will move us toward the super state of literary fascism. 

Order up the leather bound journolists because the left is making them as we speak over the b.s. won't admit we're wrong drivel being spewed here.

Posted by: Journolist at July 21, 2010 04:30 PM (8EEyy)

Brietbart admitted he was mistaken in thinking that Shirly Sherrod acts of racism that she admits to on the tape he showed were committed while she worked directly for USDA.

The bottom line is that Shirly acted out of racism originally with the white farmer. She admitted that.

Posted by: blip at July 21, 2010 04:27

Breitbart forced the White House to force governmental employee, Shirley Sherrod, to resign at the side of the road?  Wow.  He is dangerous.

Maybe Breitbart can force the LA Slimes to release the Khalidi tape (even just a snippet of it)?  It seems like he's powerful enough to pull that off.  After all, he "snookered" the only people who had easy access to the full, original tape.

Posted by: wtfci at July 21, 2010 03:31 PM (R4rMI)

Strange.  I've definitely seen some cheerleaders who are the opposite of underdeveloped.

"I've been watching Gibbsy's presser.  I've never heard so many "uhs" and "errs" and "ahs" in my life.  What an idiot."

Funny because it is true.  If there was ever a public speaker MORE IN NEED of a Toastmaster's membership...

Sarcasm or stupidity? I'm guessing that this is the latter. Hey stupid. Running a tape of someone speaking isn't actionable. Of course the trial could be fun, seeing as how the current Administration would have to be on the witness list. And don't forget that the NAACP would also be part of the circus.

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 21, 2010 04:35 PM (R2fpr)

Breitbart has vulnerability because the tape didn't only include Shirley Sherrod speaking, it included title cards at the front that (falsely) asserted that she mistreated the farmer in her capacity as a USDA official.  Having later learned that the title cards gave false information, Breitbart would need to offer a retraction/correction to avoid the appearance of reckless disregard for the truth -- which he would want to avoid if he wanted to avoid a libel suit.

Posted by: stuiec at July 21, 2010 04:40 PM

Wouldn't they have to prove that he knowingly omitted information, with an intent to cause harm? And wouldn't they then have to note that the head of the NAACP was in the room when the speech was given? ANs include the race card palying that she was doing today on CNN? And wouldn't he be able say that he had the same initial reaction as the WH did?

She may be able to drag this thing into a courtroom. But getting it back out again is another matter. 

Thank you for your courteous reply, Deety. But it will be the strength of Ace's intellectual honesty and his position on that issue which will interest me. 

Order up the leather bound journolists because the left is making them as we speak over the b.s. won't admit we're wrong drivel being spewed here.

Ok, does anyone have a Dumbshit-to-English dictionary?  Because I'm totally stumped.

Imagine if she called the farmers red-neck craker ass crakers!

The bottom line is that Shirly acted out of racism originally with the white farmer. She admitted that.

Posted by: robtr at July 21, 2010 04:41 PM (fwSHf)

Yup...why can't these trolls wrap their head around this fact and take in to account the snickering audience?? You can't un-fuck the chicken Shirley!!

Posted by: blip at July 21, 2010 04:27 PM (4gYpo)

Not sure why so many people are having a problem with this guy/gal; yesterday this was the official position of this site.

27 I mean, what else could complement the Events of the past day or two?

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I just wanted to compliment you on the correct use of "complement". It's so rare these days.

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Yes, the way people misuse and misspell words makes me wanna loose my mind.

I hope that Sherrod can sue the hell out of Brietbart Gibbs, Vilsack, NAACP and the President of the United States.  It's not the first time he's they've done this.  

Posted by: blip at July 21, 2010 04:27

Fixed it, wreathed it in barbed wire and shoved it sideways back up the orifice from whence it came. Enjoy.

This is just like a lynching. A lynching by racists, that are trying to hold the Black man's head down.

Yes, the way people misuse and misspell words makes me wanna loose my mind.

Posted by: effinayright at July 21, 2010 04:48 PM (GNTj/)

Well, fluck you two madam!

I'm having a happy vision of Gibbsy, right after his disastrous presser, in his office, with the door closed, opening a drawer and pulling out a flask of vodka, taking a swig, and beating his head on his desk.

And with a fivehead like that, the desk is getting the worst of it.

Still don't understand why everyone jumps to accept this racist scrunt at her word.   I guess only marxists can be redeemed (and believed); conservatives are evil forever.

Yup, what's amazingly coincindental to me is that the 80 year old couple that this supposedly happened to 25 years ago just happened to be watching Fox news, saw the tape and immediately knew it was them Shirley was talking about and called the AJC for an interview all within 15 hours of the tape first being release. 

Even though the tape fox played mentioned nothing about it happening 25 years ago.

Not sure why so many people are having a problem with this guy/gal; yesterday this was the official position of this site.

Posted by: The War Between the Undead States

This blog has 'official positions'!?! Who knew? Seriously, who knew? I thought that we were in agreement on guns, pron, hobohunting and our much ballyhooed lack of smarts.

Not sure why so many people are having a problem with this guy/gal; yesterday this was the official position of this site.

Posted by: Journolist at July 21, 2010 04:30 PM (8EEyy)

Say, have you ever met famous conservative blogger Matthew J. O'Connor at June 25, 2010 11:45 AM (8EEyy)? I'm sure you'd find you have a lot in common!

Spanish Ads on Ace!

Awesomesauce

Whoa, this is some killer weed, dude...

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2010 04:53 PM (UOM4

Or Gabe just re-tweeted it.

Posted by: Journolist at July 21, 2010 04:30 PM (8EEyy)

Say, have you ever met famous conservative blogger Matthew J. O'Connor at June 25, 2010 11:45 AM (8EEyy)? I'm sure you'd find you have a lot in common!

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at July 21, 2010 04:52 PM (ERJIu)

Heh, it's amazing how these cowards operate. Matthew J. O'Conner had to invent someone that agrees with him.

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 04:51 PM (At7o/)

Like telling people which kind of health coverage they can buy then lying and saying adding millions of people will reduce the deficit?

This blog has 'official positions'!?! Who knew? Seriously, who knew? I thought that we were in agreement on guns, pron, hobohunting and our much ballyhooed lack of smarts.

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 21, 2010 04:51 PM

And since when does Ace of Spades HQ have anything resembling an official position on anything besides Valu-Rite and hobos?

Posted by: Dianna at July 21, 2010 04:51

Two great morons, with but a single thought, sharing that thought at the same moment in space and time.

How You doin'?

Wouldn't they have to prove that he knowingly omitted information, with an intent to cause harm? And wouldn't they then have to note that the head of the NAACP was in the room when the speech was given? ANs include the race card palying that she was doing today on CNN? And wouldn't he be able say that he had the same initial reaction as the WH did?

She may be able to drag this thing into a courtroom. But getting it back out again is another matter. 

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 21, 2010 04:44 PM (R2fpr)

First: the claim wouldn't be based on his posting the video in the first place with the claim that she misused her Federal position -- that false claim is on whoever added that info at the start of the clip.  The libel claim would be based on whether, upon learning the claim was false, he properly retracted/corrected it (it seems he has) or recklessly disregarded the truth, which would indicate malice.

Second: the banquet was organized by a NAACP chapter, not the national organization.  It's much more likely that the mention of "the President" in the video refers to the chapter President, not national NAACP President Jealous.

Third: a libel suit against Breitbart would be really, REALLY bad for the NAACP and the White House, because their reactions would definitely be part of the plaintiff's case regarding the damage to her reputation, career and earning power.

I was reading recently that libel suits against American media outlets are far, far less frequent than in decades past.  Part of the reason, apparently, is that the Internet allows people to address false accusations quickly and so media outlets can publish retractions, corrections and apologies far more quickly.  In this particular instance, the amazing thing isn't Breitbart's factual error, it's that the NAACP and the White House both responded as if Breitbart were a source of Gospel truth.  (Maybe that's because he played the ACORN story so very masterfully.)

I give Cavuto slack.  He's not the brightest bulb, but he means well.  People seem to use the word "edited" these days without much literal meaning, as is true for so many words.

Now wait a minute . . . AB didn't force anyone to do anything.  AB was wrong.  But the WH is on their own - they bull rushed this as Ace said.  

So here we now have a WH for the first time in the history of our republic playing the victim of its own decision.  Shouldn't the narrative now be that the WH needs to be protected from itself because of its inability to properly analyze an internet story?  

This is now an issue of nat'l security . . . will this work?   

The word "racist" is being debased on a daily basis by the race hustlers (Jackson, Sharpton), the so-called guardians of truth (the media) and by the party of the less fortunate (Democrats).

True dat.  It's been so bastardized by the left that it's largely meaningless now.

Now that's journalistic integrity. Tell 'em how it's done Matthew!

Oh, and by the way? You're not a publisher. Your a blogger, dipshit. And your blog sucks. Thanks for the laugh, though.

Matthew J. O'Conner had to invent someone that agrees with him.

Pathetic.  Good day, sirs!

Fraudsters like Brietbart  Colbert and Stewart  inocculate mainstream younger voters against legitimate criticism of the administration.  With Brietbart the two of them cutting wet, peanutty farts into the pool, sane people won't want to swim in it. 

Posted by: stuiec

Yup. Whch may indicate the level of respect the Dems hold for Brietbart. And/or the degree of asinine decision making of this Administration.

Exit Purely Rhetorical Question: Is it better to act carefully or act forcefully? 

Answer:  It's better to act stupidly.

251 Et tu, Cavuto?

He has twice now said the Sherrod tapes were "edited and rejiggered."

OH Man...once we've lost Cavuto, well...we've lost the friggin stock tickers!!

And since when does Ace of Spades HQ have anything resembling an official position on anything besides Valu-Rite and hobos?

Posted by: Dianna at July 21, 2010 04:51.

you forgot bacon..........  we are all for bacon.

Posted by: Journolist at July 21, 2010 04:30 PM (8EEyy)

Say, have you ever met famous conservative blogger Matthew J. O'Connor at June 25, 2010 11:45 AM (8EEyy)? I'm sure you'd find you have a lot in common!

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at July 21, 2010 04:52 PM (ERJIu)

Heh, it's amazing how these cowards operate. Matthew J. O'Conner had to invent someone that agrees with him.

Hey are you a GS 18 level desk jockey?

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 05:00 PM (At7o/)

Strange, you left out the Democratic party.

It's almost as if that's who you identify with ...

Well, no matter. I'm sure your efforts here are extremely effective in repressing the "teabagger" vote.

So here we now have a WH for the first time in the history of our republic playing the victim of its own decision.  Shouldn't the narrative now be that the WH needs to be protected from itself because of its inability to properly analyze an internet story?  

This is now an issue of nat'l security . . . will this work?   

Posted by: Journolist at July 21, 2010 04:56 PM (8EEyy)

That's pretty funny.  I like it.

you forgot bacon..........  we are all for bacon.

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 05:00 PM

Because then I get to be a concerned Christian conservative and act like a self righteous turd. Happy? Kinda like the junior high school thriil you get for using a pornographic term to disparage a group that dares top exercise their rights. Your idiotic questions will be ridiculed in the order in which you defecated them. Morons are standing by. To mock you.

275 In this particular instance, the amazing thing isn't Breitbart's factual error, it's that the NAACP and the White House both responded as if Breitbart were a source of Gospel truth.  (Maybe that's because he played the ACORN story so very masterfully.)

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Except they said they were afraid of Beck, not Breitbart.

Posted by: s'moron at July 21, 2010 05:01 PM (UaxA0)

Let me guess... she's a Libertarian, right? She's obviously not a racist, you can tell by the color of her skin.

Posted by: Fish at July 21, 2010 05:05 PM (v1gw3)

Maybe Obama is on vacation with Bob Schieffer.

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 05:03 PM (At7o/)

Your country thanks you.

Posted by: s'moron at July 21, 2010 05:07 PM (UaxA0)

With enough motivation, I could put the Queen Mary II through the spam filter here.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby

How dare you people make such an unfounded allegation! Have we learned nothing today from Brietbarts' mistake? Before we consider whether this man belongs in the cabinet, we have to prove conclusively that he is yet another tax cheat. Then we can reccomend him for the cabinet.

I hope that we've learned something from this.

Posted by: curious at July 21, 2010 05:07 PM (p302b)

White Farmers Hardest Hit.

Breitbart will now be compared to Goebbels

Your brain will be compared to moldy cream cheese. Again.

Posted by: denny crane

By you, certainly. Then you can explain why the Dear Leader was led astray by zombie Goebbels. Good luck with that.

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 05:11 PM (At7o/)

You are so Fauxing funny.

I give Cavuto slack.  He's not the brightest bulb, but he means well.  People seem to use the word "edited" these days without much literal meaning, as is true for so many words.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 21, 2010 04:56 PM (Qp4DT)

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Yeah, that Cavuto:  he's really a dumb sack of shit.  I loved it when the Chief Economist for the AFL-CIO walked all over him the other day on the merits of the stimulus .

Oh wait ---  it was the economist who blew his cool and lost the argument, and called Cavuto an asshole in the process.

Wise up, progress:  Cavuto asks very sharpest questions on his program, and knows his stuff.  I've seen him make some powerful people look silly and uninformed.

"He has been awarded numerous times by his peers in the journalism industry, including recognition by the Wall Street Journal as the best interviewer in business news, best business television interviewer four consecutive years, and five nominations for Cable ACE awards.^[2] "

Take yer frackin condescension down the hall............

Not sure why so many people are having a problem with this guy/gal; yesterday this was the official position of this site. Posted by: The War Between the Undead States

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 05:11 PM (At7o/)

How ironic that you would pick that particular insult, considering that you are a faux libertarian.

I hope that we've learned something from this.

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 21, 2010 05:09 PM (R2fpr)

A teachable moment!   I love those!

White Farmers Hardest Hit.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at July 21, 2010 05:11 PM (oIp16) .

before this is over with, the story will be that she did more to help white farmers than Willie Nelson.

Posted by: Journolist at July 21, 2010 04:30 PM (8EEyy)

Say, have you ever met famous conservative blogger Matthew J. O'Connor at June 25, 2010 11:45 AM (8EEyy)? I'm sure you'd find you have a lot in common!

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at July 21, 2010 04:52 PM (ERJIu)

Heh, it's amazing how these cowards operate. Matthew J. O'Conner had to invent someone that agrees with him.

Wow I hae the stones to use my real name but have some fun with the Journolist monicur with the same Ace IP address - AND then a functionary using the handle, "sort-of-mad max" calls ME the coward hiding behind a fictitious identity.  Dude . . . you are sorta mad maxipaddy!

Wise up, progress:  Cavuto asks very sharpest questions on his program, and knows his stuff.  I've seen him make some powerful people look silly and uninformed.

He drives me up a wall with some of his interviews.  What can I say?  But that doesn't take away from the fact that I understand that Cavuto has been, and remains, an important voice against the insanity of government bail-outs and overextension.

Posted by: SJR2 at July 21, 2010 05:26 PM (oCbCP)

tomorrow????   hes on a roll right now.......

Posted by: JackStraw at July 21, 2010 05:29 PM (VW9/y)

Understatement. Barry's ass is bleeding.

oh man. Glenn Beck is on fire!

even my liberal in-laws called my wife to tell her to watch today's show.

Posted by: Waterhouse at July 21, 2010 05:31 PM (mQ8O/)

Sure, they did.  But they could revive it on a moment's notice.  All they'd need is an email address for Sherrod and the checks could start flowing again.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 21, 2010 05:02 PM (Qp4DT)

Hmmm... would "I did not think before I acted" be an admission of acting on prejudice?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2010 05:23 PM (UOM4

Soylent Purple is TROLLS!!!

It's tasty, though.

It started.  Hufpo's floating the . . . there sure are a lot of Progressive Auto ads on AB's site . . .  Progressive may want to reconsider endorsing . . . 

Perhaps Hufpo's advertisers should reconsider the wisdom in supporting Arianna's b.s. grecian formula schtiick.

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 05:20 PM (At7o/)

Well, we all have dreams.

My dream is to be free of government bag limits on libertarian trolls.

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 05:42 PM (At7o/)

So tell us oh smart Libertarian. What does an enlightened Libertarian do to get it's news? Let me know, since you come to this thread trolling like a fucking pussy and shitting all over people who have some if not a lot of Libertarian views. You're exposing yourself for the Lib Prog pussy that you are. Run away, leave us, you bore us.

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at July 21, 2010 05:22 PM (YVZlY)

Hah!  Figures they would find some way to leverage this situation to expand the Federal job rolls!

Yes, the way people misuse and misspell words makes me wanna loose my mind.

Posted by: effinayright at July 21, 2010 04:48 PM (GNTj/)

I may be drunk, but my spellcheck is sober.........and self-aware

complement is a verb; compliment is a noun

that is all......

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 05:42 PM (At7o/)

Yeah! You wingnut morons!

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 05:42 PM (At7o/)

My name is pronounced Cole-bear.

It's French. Bitch.

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 05:50 PM (At7o/)

Oh that paper, the one who was given a loan by the rich Mexican guy that charged 13% interest. How's that working out for them.

GET YER POPCORN HERE!!!

ICE COLD BEER HERE!

 Posted by: dananjcon at July 21, 2010 04:04 PM (pr+up)

Shep is a blower rather than a kisser; a pitcher as well as catcher

knows when to hold 'em, and knows when to Go Downtown Early

truly a Munchkin for all Seasons

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 21, 2010 05:19 PM (UOM4

It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian 'chinanto/mnigs' which is ordinary water served at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan 'tzjin-anthony-ks' which kill cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds.

What can be made of this fact? It exists in total isolation. As far as any theory of structural linguistics is concerned it is right off the graph, and yet it persists. Old structural linguists get very angry when young structural linguists go on about it. Young structural linguists get deeply excited about it and stay up late at night convinced that they are very close to something of profound importance, and end up becoming old structural linguists before their time, getting very angry with the young ones. Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy discipline, and a large number of its practitioners spend too many nights drowning their problems in Ouisghian Zodahs.

--Douglas Adams The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 05:55 PM (At7o/)

troll, you're boring and stupid.  Doesn't your wrist get tired?

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 06:06 PM (At7o/)

Okay, just please don't google me. Nazi sympathizers and communists who work for the NY Times, shouldn't be unfairly singled out.

In fact, Dems fear Breitbart.

If Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 21, 2010 05:15 PM (P9+0W)

Not true. Breitbart is a smallfry and a legend in his own mind.

If you had been paying attention, you would have recognized that the Obama Administration and other Democrats consider Glenn Beck and Fox News to be the biggest threats to their screwy positions on a whole array of issues.

Until you have discussions with at least a dozen Democrats on the Daily KOS to get a cross section of their viewpoints, and until you read a few dozen of the loony comments made my other loonies on that website, also, you have no idea how much the Democrats and the lunatic leftist fringe fear and hate Glenn Beck.  

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 06:14 PM (At7o/)

I'm ready to decrease it, and in ways you may not like. But I still love Palin.

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 06:20 PM (At7o/)

Either you're clueless, or you're intentionally disingenuous. The economy under Bush was fine until a bunch of damned fools put Democrats back in control of Congress in 2006. The president doesn't appropriate and spend money and control oversights, you silly twit. Congress does. The Democrats  own this financial crisis, lock, stock and barrel. Only an uninformed fool would choose to believe otherwise.

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 06:30 PM (At7o/)

Again you prove my point. You are no Libertarian, you are a typical progressive pussy. I've got something for you to google, some homework for you. Look up Libertarianism and learn something.

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 06:38 PM (At7o/)

You are entitled to your opinions. But you've made it obvious that you don't know squat about current events, much less about any political issues.

You are an ignorant fool, who has only his ill-conceived opinions. You don't have any credibility or even currency here.

You claim to be a Libertarian, and yet you stuck your foot in your mouth, admitting that you had to look up the definition of a Libertarian. Man, you continue to make a fool out of yourself. You're one of the dumbest, most dense and ditziest people to ever post here.

Stuck On Stupid? Is that you?

Stuck On Stupid? Is that you?

Posted by: Just ruminating here at July 21, 2010 06:52 PM (sYrWB)

He's just another Lib/Prog pussy posing as a "smart" Libertarian. If he joined the real world and got out of his mother's basement, he would learn a thing or two.

Dear Diary:

Today I sure showed those morons at AoS a thing or too.  Can't wait to get the super secret message from the backup journolist naming tomorrow's target and theme.  Decoder ring is ready.  I surely struck a telling blow against those racist teabaggin winger nuts. Hahahahaha!!!!!1!!!111!!!!!!

Gotta go, Mom just hollered down that the mac-n-cheese is ready.  Hope she cut up some hotdogs in it like I like.  Tomorrow we strike again!!!111!!!!111!!! 

Posted by: Libertarian at July 21, 2010 07:50 PM (At7o/)

What about them? You mean the ones who try to force their views on the rest of America by challenging anything Christians or even secular people who still believe in God in open court. Again, your non-libertarian slip is showing.

371 offered her a unique new position at the agency.

Ah, good. A new fake job, with higher pay and longer vacation, I'll wager. All thanks to her heartwarming story of being a bigoted bitch.
Does this count as a job created?  Saved?  Or both?

Shirley Sherrod is another racist and very opinionated black woman who will be the gift that keeps giving, just as the Carter Administration's Mary Francis Berry and the Clinton Administation's Jocelyn Elders were gifts which kept giving, also.

Wait and see, that woman has such a big mouth and she is so incapable of keeping her screwy, racist opinions to herself that more of her inappropriate comments will be coming out ..., and now that they've made the big mistake of rehiring her, the Obama Administration won't be able to fire her again the next time that she shoots off her big mouth..

Fox didn't snooker those fools. They shot themselves in their feet the day that they hired that big mouth.

Just got back to the ranch swirling a little red and wow dude huge apology on the jab serveral hours back . . . it wasn't you . . . it was me really. Mad Max please forgive . . . I'll even drive up to Malibu to Moonshadows and apologize to Mel the old Mad Max and  . . . I'll even tell the abnoxious Libertarian to bugger off. Will all this square things up?

Thanks and truly sorry for the mix up.  

Why do baggers hate intellectuals

No idea, you'd have to ask a "bagger" (I'm sure Andrew Sullican can point you in the right direction).  But as for me, I hate "intellectuals" because it's generally reprehensible cockholsters like Algore who are defined as such.

http://tinyurl.com/23jvd2c

Jeff Goldstein is spot on with this. 

I'll even drive up to Malibu to Moonshadows and apologize to Mel the old Mad Max and  . . . I'll even tell the abnoxious Libertarian to bugger off. Will all this square things up?

Wow, that would square vehicular manslaughter, much less a little comments wrangling. We cool.