"Tea Party" implodes & divides: buh-bye, racist Mark Williams

[Rupert Pupkin]

I watched most of the video and I don't think Ms. Sherrod said anything bad. If you want to nit-pick, you could say that she had some racist attitudes 24 years ago and she was an adult at tht time. She was 38 years old at the time.

But that was 24 years ago and from listening to her speech it sounds like she has totally changed. She seems like a decent woman. I don't think she deserved to be fired.

This is one of the few cases where you can legitimately say that a person's words were taken out of context.

I admit that my initial take on this woman and this story was totally wrong. I'm not too proud to admit it when I'm wrong.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

I admit that my initial take on this woman and this story was totally wrong. I'm not too proud to admit it when I'm wrong.

Rup, the White House was jumping off the cliff right with ya. That's the biggest story here, IMO.

Edit: But Rush isn't backing down! LOL Go, Rushbie!

Rush Limbaugh criticized Shepard Smith and Fox News for their backtracking on the Shirley Sherrod story, saying they had "caved" by admitting that the tape of Sherrod had been taken out of context.

On Wednesday, Smith tore into his own network, saying it had failed to check whether or not the Sherrod story was true. That night, Bill O'Reilly also apologized for his role in pushing the story.

This did not sit well with Limbaugh. On his radio show Thursday, he said that conservative media "cowards" have wrongly abandoned the story:

"I have to go after it, because even Fox caved on this. Even Shep Smith. Even poor old Shep Smith went down there and said that everybody's wrong on this, that Breitbart is wrong and so forth. There's only a handful of us that have the guts to put this story straight. If we don't hammer back, nobody will."

He also said that the video was actually about the "smearing of great patriotic Americans" in the Tea Party, and not about Sherrod herself.

Here's the audio/video of Rush saying that: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_657546.html