Posted by
Bill Crawford on Saturday, July 31, 2010 6:52:05 PM
First off: Shirley Sherrod, beleaguered NAACP speech victim, sues Andy Breitbart for running an edited video of her. The first thing is, if that goes anywhere, Michael Moore had better get a dream team together- he does more chopping than anyone in the business. And his edits do not create a new message by simple omission, they seek to create an entirely new message of Moore's choice. Anyone who doubts this should check out Heston's NRA speech in "Bowling For Columbine" and compare it to the actual transcript.
Anyway, Ms. Sherrod has obviously decided that Tom Vilsack at Agriculture, or the White House, who was intimated by any number of people, were not culpable in calling her three times, telling her to pull her car off the road and not getting back in until she resigned. No, this was obviously done by Breitbart, who must have had pictures of Vilsack in his magic bag. This is sort of like getting hit by a drunk driver and deciding that the car manufacturer is the problem. This is also troubling in that the White House shows such a thin skin towards thier critics in general, and Fox News and Glenn Beck in particular. If you want anything done in the White House, you should never let them know what your buttons are.
Thing two: Maxine Waters is joining Charle Rangel in the list of people their own party can no longer avoid ethics trials with. This, I guess, is Pelosi "draining the swanp", as discussed in 2006. Nancy, get with the program. Do it the way Harry Reid does it: if you have a Senator who buys a home and property at outrageous rates, brokered by a felon, or gets his Wife's salary tripled in a year by getting grants for her hospital, get him the hell out by getting him to run for President and move the problems to another branch of government.
Thing three: has anyone else noticed that Obama's Cabinet members (and other West Wing employees) are referred to by this President as "my"? As in "my Secretary of State", not "THE Secretary". I've gone on here before on Obama's narcissism, so none of this surprises me. I guess it's just a matter of time before he starts referring to himself in the third person.