I'm going to link to Fox News -- that he was gunning for the NAACP for its evil, evil use of the word "racism," and he didn't actually care about Sherrod one way or the other).
That's what he says now. And while I don't think it was about her personally, he was pretty clearly saying in the beginning, "Here is a reverse racist Obama apointee, her, right here. Listen to her hating on white people."
And everybody who pays attention to the rancid douchenozzle, goes, "Yep! I knew those black people had it out for us!"
It's the same reason the laughably awful ACORN take down worked. It's because everybody was able to go, "See I knew an organization that helps the poor* and minorities must be stupid and corrupt!"
*Side note. I worked for ACORN Housing. Not to be confused with ACORN, which everyone, including the people covering and pushing this story did. They are sister organizations, but one is advocacy and the other is education. One of the sickest things about the ACORN takedown is that AHC had a pretty good record of getting workouts with banks to keep people in their homes- which we probably could have used in the time since.
Hell, even ACORN proper did great work. And Breitbart was the same guy who aired the medaciosly edited ACORN video.
Asianish stir-fry or Italianish sauté tonight? I have an eggplant, two ears of corn, green beans, and a purple bell pepper. [oh, and two tomatoes]
Someone should e-mail the White House with the url for Snopes. At least, that's what it feels like. Fact checking, is it so fucking hard?
Apparently Diane Sawyer is about 10 years older than I am. That's apparently too old to understand Facebook.
Stir fry.
I have hired a new nurse. I have also spent the rest of my day at the car was place while they are de-childing my car. I kid you not.I have been here since 2:00 and was previously here from 8 am until 10 am.
Who knew my car was that bad? Currently 6 men are cleaning it.
I think I need to take a break from politics. my blood pressure is going to kill me each time I patiently explain something or go and find citations that things are not true when PEOPLE ARE BEING BRAINWASHED BY ASSHOLES.
Apparently Fox News is running with the NAACP/USDA story now with an angle of president shaming (which he deserves), and not even dealing with the fact that before the whole speech came out, they were calling her a rascist too!
Then my boss was telling me that there wasn't rascism because she thinks of Obama as white and she will not apologize to people for being white, because she can't help it. I said that Obama self-identified as black, and since race is a social construct, I think we should probably go with that. Anyway, so I have to go look up cites about DNA, because she did not believe that the races weren't vastly different via DNA. And then she was like-- what about Middle Easterners? Some of them are very dark and some are very light-- so are they Black or White? Arrrgh!
Kat, I've been meaning to share a link with you. A fb friend of mine who I knew when she was in grad school here has a young son on a g-tube with cardiomyopathy, and she and her wife have been blogging about their experiences. They live in northern California. [link] Thought you might find it interesting or helpful. Jaime is super cool, and I only met Laura once but she seems to be as well.
Timelies all!
Argh, some people......(I was trying to find a way to end that phrase that would aptly comment on the political douchebaggery happening, but couldn't.)
