THE FIRST CASUALTY OF WAR

There's really not much I can say about the Shirley Sherrod situation that hasn't already been said or couldn't be predicted from what I've written in earlier blogs.  So anything I'm saying here amounts to little more than a typing exercise.

If tolerating race-baiting idiots in the ranks of the Tea Party weren't enough, Biggovernment.com (not FOX news, by the way) flushes more credibility down the toilet by editing that video of Sherrod's speech to leave out any parts that undermined their point.  One would think that an organization with ".com" in its name would remember that there's this thing called "the Internet" and that people would actually use it to do a little research and FIND THE UNEDITED VERSION OF THAT VIDEO.  Yeah, some people jumped to conclusion without checking all the facts, but not everyone is that gullible.  Allowing for the stupidity of some people in your strategy can sometimes be a good idea; counting on everyone to be stupid doesn't seem to me to make much tactical sense.

Speaking of idiots jumping to conclusions, the Government and the NAACP shouldn't get off the hook too easily either.  Their whines about being misled impress me not one bit.  Again, the relevant people involved in these groups should have followed the leads of some of more ethical people and done a little more damn research before rushing to cover their political asses.  I couldn't blame Sherrod for being ambivalent about getting her job back.

Most annoying of all to me are people who continue to ignore all the inconvenient details of this story and bash the "other" side while playing down or completely ignoring how much "their" side screwed up as well.  Apparently, Sherrod was one of the few people who had stopped to take a look at her own worldview and same something akin to "Oh, my ideas are the ones that need fixing here."  Alas, that seems to be the main thing too many people are intent on not hearing.