From Big Government:
She was likened to a modern day Rosa Parks or Nelson Mandela, but former the Ag official, according to the Washington Post, was not interviewed on a single major Sunday morning talk-show following a week that can only be described as a Shirley Sherrod media frenzy. Though the conversation on Sunday morning focused on race in America, noticeably absent from the discussion was the woman behind the controversy. Earlier this week a handful of people in the blogosphere began to speculate Sherrod would pull off a “full Ginsburg,” or become only the thirteenth person to appear on all major Sunday talk-shows on the same day since the feat was first accomplished by William H. Ginsburg in 1998. However, this was before a clip of Sherrod suggesting Andrew Breitbart wants blacks “stuck back in the times of slavery” went viral. Sherrod also drew extensive criticism late in the week for blasting Fox News as racist…
I watched (and posted) that Anderson Cooper bit where she accused Breitbart of wanting to restore slavery and maybe I’m over-interpreting things, but it seems to me that Cooper tried to rescue her from making that absurd statement. She didn’t take her cue, it would seem – and now the MSM doesn’t want her within a country mile of a television camera, lest she wreck the liberal racial narrative entirely.
Liberals here in 2010 are just the gang that can’t shoot straight. Even when their opponents have served them up a grand, exploitable mistake on a silver platter, they can’t get it right. Had Sherrod kept to the racial-healing talking point, she would have been invincible and would have kept the right on the defensive for a couple weeks, at least – and this is regardless of the merits of her case. Now, she’s already political kryptonite.
Just goes to show – if you don’t actually work for justice, you simply cannot get anything right, in the long run. Ms. Sherrod approached it, but then blew it right before the finish line.
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