Let's not forget that Breitbart aired the recording...but who rushed to judgement? Who called her three times to tell her to resign, despite the fact that she kept telling everyone that once they got the whole story she'd be exonerated? Yet the White House and the USDA are no longer being portrayed as the villains, it's all on conservative radio.
I'll repeat what I said yesterday, if you listen to the tape, her audience is enjoying her initial tale against the white farmer...they, NAACP members, are clapping and nodding and laughing, so you know there's a bit of racism there. That's what Breitbart's point was.
Rush Limbaugh said it very clearly and concisely on his program today:
I'm here to tell you Ms. Sherrod and the rest of you at the NAALCP, this guy could be from Mars and it wouldn't matter. This guy could be Ronald Reagan's son and I would oppose him. This guy could have been adopted by Ronald Reagan. This guy could come from Barry Goldwater's own family in Arizona and if he was doing what he was doing, I would oppose him as stringently as I am now. I don't care what his skin color is. I don't care where he was born; I don't care where he's grown up; I don't care where he went to school; I don't care about Saul Alinsky other than that's who basically formed this guy. I know who he is. I know who his mentors have been, and I know why he's doing what he's doing. I don't like it. It has nothing to do with his race and nobody in the Tea Party is animated because of this guy's race. We are patriots, we are Americans, we know the traditions and institutes that have made this country great, and we have an administration that's undermining those traditions and institutions.
One of the things that has always propelled this country is parents and families working hard to make a better life for their kids, a better life for their grandkids, and it's now impossible to do, becoming harder and harder. The future does not look bright because of policies that have been implemented in just 18 months by people who have views of this country that do not relate. Miss Sherrod, the views of the president of the United States are less than 20% of the thinking of this country. Call them progressives, call them liberals, call them Democrats or what have you, we are being ruled by a minority that has a big chip on its shoulder, it's angry about whatever it's angry about for this country, and it's seeking to take its measure now to get even, payback time, what have you. Frankly the reasons are not the paramount thing. The paramount thing is that it's happening. It's distressing, it is unnecessary, and it needs to be reversed. I am talking particularly and exclusively about policy, philosophy, legislation, all of this stuff.
I'm talking about the things that are real. And none of it is influenced, none of my thinking, none of my reaction, none of my wants, needs, or desires are in any way, shape, manner, or form shaped by anybody's race, which is why most of us are continually fed up because all that does is put another roadblock in front of everybody who wants genuine progress to stop this downward spiral that we're in, that many people feel was created on purpose, and we're not sitting here happy about it, and it has nothing to do with how much melanin is in somebody's skin. Zilch, zero, nada. Nobody's denying this was a slave country. Nobody's denying it. But it isn't now. We're the one country that's gone to war with itself over it. Over 500,000 Americans died to end it. It's over. We've had civil rights legislation, we have had affirmative action, we have addressed every grievance ten to 20 times, and the people who have made us address these grievances have openly said there'll never be enough redress, this has got to happen in perpetuity. This is doing nothing but dividing the country. It's not dividing it among rich and poor or black and white. It's dividing this country as progress versus anti-progress.
The people in the Tea Party, of which many are black and many are minority and many are Hispanic, are simply standard, ordinary, everyday, extraordinary Americans. They know what it has been that's made this country great. They understand and love the traditions and institutions that they see under assault. And they're under assault not just by a black man. They're under assault by all kinds of white Democrats, too. They're under assault by Hispanic Democrats. I don't care if they're Hispanic, black, racist, whatever, I don't care if they're Asian. If they are liberals they are assaulting this country and it is that which we oppose. We oppose ideas, we oppose philosophies. And it doesn't matter the skin color, it doesn't matter the state, the country, or wherever these people come from. What matters is what they believe. And that's what we oppose.
I resent having to talk about all this because it's nothing more than a giant distraction from the things I have just mentioned in the last ten minutes. So, frankly, I'm through with it. I'm not going to be baited by it anymore. I don't care. Go talk to Obama if you want to. Go and have a discussion about racism. Have a discussion about slavery. Go tell him all you want about it. Go get your job back. Go hold him up for as much as you can, get everybody on our side in the media. In the meantime the rest of us are going to go about trying to save this country for the rest of our children and grandchildren because that's what matters to us. Not your skin color. Not where the president was born, not where he grew up, and not what his skin color is. It's what he thinks. He's wrong.
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