My Report: Rush and Sherrod, and Who Was Really Racist

I missed the opening minutes of Rush's monologue today, when I turned it on he was talking about the Sherrod case, but apparently I didn't miss anything. He didn't reference his comments about her yesterday at all.

Instead he said this. (I share just the first paragraph. GO to his site if you want to read the whole thing.)

RUSH: Then there is this amazing story of Shirley Sherrod. This is an amazing thing to watch. We've got some audio sound bites we're gonna get to here in just a second on this, but Shirley Sherrod was thrown under the bus by the Obama White House, and now they're backing the bus up and they're gonna pick her back up and put her back in the bus, but she may not want to get back in the bus because everybody is now saying, "Wait a minute, the context of what happened here, we fired this woman and we didn't have the full context. We gotta go back and get the full context." Well, where was that during my St. Louis Rams circumstance as Erick Erickson pointed out on CNN last night? It's a great point and we'll get to that here in just a second. If we're gonna fire Shirley Sherrod on the basis of racism, then why the hell does Eric Holder still have a job? If she was suspected of making decisions based on race in her -- and the White House, they couldn't wait, and the NAALCP couldn't wait to throw her under the bus. And you know why? Why, Snerdley? Why did they throw her under the bus? That's right. They had to keep their own credibility up if they're going to sit there and call the Tea Party a bunch of racists and they're gonna call conservatives a bunch of racists, if they're confronted with racism in their own ranks they gotta get rid of it and so they didn't care, they didn't care about Shirley Sherrod, they didn't care about the truth of her story, didn't care about the context, all it took was that one little video, and, bam, she's gone.

Later on in his monologue he did play a quote from the mainstream media:

RUSH ARCHIVE: The real thing you need to glean is that the Obama administration and the federal bureaucracy is full of incompetents like Shirley Sherrod and it's not going to be very long before you're going to be dealing with her for your health care. And if you happen to be showing up to a black bureaucrat appointed by Obama and you happen to be something other than black, you might have the same treatment regarding your health care that this poor white farmer got. I mean that's the bigger picture here is that.

RUSH: I'll stand by the whole competence of this. You know, I didn't jump on her yesterday on the racist aspect. I didn't even play her videos yesterday. I played the audio from her videos yesterday because I'm not one to jump on bandwagons. But it does worry me that we've got incompetent bureaucrats throughout the federal bureaucracy who are going to be your daily interface when it comes to your banking, when it comes to buying your car, when it comes to getting a mortgage for your house, a student lawn, or eventually your health care. Roland Martin then responded again on CNN.

Now, later on in the program Limbaugh did make a relavant point.

When you listen to the Breitbart tape of Sherrod, when she's telling her story - everone in the audience, and this is the NAACP audience, is laughing and clapping as if they were glad of how she'd treated this white farmer...so there's some racism there. One hopes the consciousness of the people in the audience were raised as Sherrod continued her story and pointed out that she had been in the wrong in that instance.


(As my Kindle readers can't see, I'm sharing the video of the *first* part of Sherrod's talk. The important thing is not really what she's saying at this partiular point in time, but how much her audience is enjoying what she's saying.)