foreclosure help

Breitbart
strongly suggested Sherrod was discussing actions she took as a federal
official

Breitbart: Sherrod's "federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions." In a July
19 blog post
on Big Government, Andrew Breitbart strongly
suggested that Sherrod discriminated against a white farmer in her capacity as the
USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development:

We are in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural
Development, speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her
meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally
appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail, that her federal duties
are managed through the prism of race and class
distinctions.

In the first video, Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn't do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from "one of his own kind". She refers him to a white lawyer.

Sherrod's racist tale is received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement. Hardly the behavior of the group now holding itself up as the supreme judge of another groups' racial
tolerance.

Video proof: Sherrod's interaction occurred 24 years ago

Sherrod to AJC: Encounter happened 24 years ago and was "completely misconstrued" by Breitbart because she
was discussing "getting beyond the issue of race." In a phone interview with the Atlanta Journal Constitution on July 20, Sherrod said the video was "completely
misconstrued" and "excluded the breadth of the story about how she eventually worked with the man over a two-year period to help ward off foreclosure of his farm, and how she eventually became friends with him and his wife." From the AJC:

But in a phone interview from her home in Albany early Tuesday morning, Shirley Sherrod told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution that the

video posted
online Monday by biggovernment.com and reported on by FoxNews.com and the AJC completely misconstrued the message she was trying to convey.

But Tuesday morning, Sherrod said what online viewers weren't told in reports posted throughout the day Monday was that the tale she told at the banquet happened 24 years ago -- before she got the USDA job -- when she worked with the
Georgia field office for the Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance
Fund.

Sherrod said the short video clip excluded the breadth of the story about how she eventually worked with the man over a two-year period to help ward off foreclosure of his farm, and how she eventually became friends with him and his
wife.

"And I went on to work with many more white farmers," she said. "The story helped me realize that race is not the issue, it's about the people who have and the people who don't. When I speak to groups, I try to speak about getting beyond the issue of race."

Sherrod made similar comments during a July 20 appearance on CNN's American
Morning.

Video producer confirmed that "the full speech is exactly as Sherrod described...she
goes on to explain learning the error of her initial impression."
Talking Points Memo reported
that, "The Douglas, Ga., company which filmed the banquet for the local NAACP
has refused to release" the video until the national NAACP gives him
"permission" to post it. However, Wilkerson told TPM  "that the full speech is
exactly as Sherrod described, and that she goes on to explain learning the error
of her initial impression and helping the farmer keep his
farm."

In the video,
Sherrod says "Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just
been enacted for the family
farm," - in 1986. Statements Sherrod
made while she recounted the relationship she had with a white farmer during the
NAACP dinner corroborates her claim that she made those statements 24 years ago.
In the video, Sherrod can be heard saying that "Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just
been enacted for the family farm," when she had the encounter with the white
farmer:

SHERROD: I did enough
so that when he - I assume the Department of Agriculture had sent him to me -
either that or the Georgia Dept of Agriculture - and, uh, he needed to go and
report that I didn't help him.

So, I took him to a
white lawyer that had attended some of the training that we had provided because
Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted for the family
farm.

Chapter 12 Bankruptcy
was enacted in 1986.
In a June 2009 press
release touting Sherrod's appointment to USDA, the
Federation/LAF states that Sherrod had worked for them "Since
1985."

Conservatives
have raised questions about Breitbart's editing of
tape

The
Anchoress: 
"I am uncomfortable with this 'get' by Breitbart." In
a July
19  post
on The Anchoress, blogger Elizabeth Scalia
questioned Breitbart's selectively edited video of Sherrod's comments (emphasis in the
original):

Nevertheless I am
uncomfortable with this "get" by
Breitbart.

But
the video ends so abruptly!

Sherrod, who
is not an impressive public
speaker, says she did not do
all she could for the "poor white farmer" who she perceived to be somehow both
asking for her help and simultaneously "trying to show me he was superior to me;
I knew what he was doing..." She admits that she did just "enough" for the farmer
so as to cover her own sense of accountability and then: "I took him to a white
lawyer . . . I figured if I took him to one of them, then his own kind would
take care of him."

Yes, there is a bit of
paranoid projection, there, and some shocking language-language that has been
rightly rejected by society-that seems to play well to the audience. But then
Sherrod apparently has a revelation. She begins to understand that "it's about
poor versus those who have, and not so much about white-it is about white and black-but you know it opened
my eyes, because I took him to one of his own."

Yes? AND?

Doesn't it seem like,
after all of that sort of winking, "you and I know how
they really are" racist crap wherein
Sherrod-intentionally or not-indicts her own narrow focus, she was heading to a
more edifying message? What did it open her eyes about? Was she about to
say "I took him to one of his own, but it shouldn't have
mattered about that; my job was to serve all the farmers who needed
help."

Was she about to
say, "I learned about myself and about how far we still
have to go?"



Was she about to say "it's not poor vs those who have, because we are not
at war, we are just in the same human reality that ever
was?"

Was she about to
say, "poor is poor, hungry is hungry and the past is the
past when a family can't eat?"



I want to know. Because it seemed like Sherrod was heading
somewhere with that story, and the edit does not let us get there. I want the
rest of the story before I start passing judgment on
it.

I
want to see the rest of the tape. I cannot believe
Sherrod ended on "I took him to one of his own." Either she said something much
worse after that (which we would have seen) or she said something much
better.

If it was something
"better" then we should have seen that, too.

Hot
Air's
Allahpundit: "Doesn't it sound like Sherrod was building to a 'but' before the
clip cut out?" In a July 19 post on
prominent conservative blog Hot Air, Allahpundit echoed Scalia's
concerns about Breitbart's editing of Sherrod's statement, despite his
"assum" that "Breitbart's edit is fair to the spirit of her
remarks":

Here's
Ed's post on
the vid in case you missed it this morning. It's a great write-up, but The
Anchoress adds
an important wrinkle: Doesn't it sound like Sherrod was building to a "but"
before the clip cut out?

Breitbart has not
released the full video. As Media
Matters has noted, Breitbart has yet to release the full
video of
Sherrod's speech.

Farmer's
wife said Sherrod is a "friend" who "helped us save our
farm"

Farmer's
wife said Sherrod "helped us save our farm."  In
an interview with CNN on July
20, Eloise Spooner - the wife of the farmer who Sherrod
helped - came to the defense of Sherrod, calling her a "friend" who "helped us
save our farm." The Atlanta-Constitution Journal similarly reported
that Spooner considered Sherrod a "friend for life" and said that Sherrod
"worked tirelessly to help the Iron City couple hold onto their land as they
faced bankruptcy back in 1986." From the Atlanta-Constitution
Journal:

But Spooner, who
considers Sherrod a "friend for life," said the federal official worked
tirelessly to help the Iron City couple hold onto their land as they
faced bankruptcy back in 1986.

"Her husband told her,
'You're spending more time with the Spooners than you are with me,' " Spooner
told the AJC."She took probably two or three trips with us to Albany just to help us
out."

Breitbart has a history of promoting "heavily edited
tape"

California attorney general:
ACORN videos were "severely edited by [Breitbart protégé James]
O'Keefe." According to the California attorney general's
office:

Videotapes secretly
recorded last summer and severely edited by O'Keefe seemed to show ACORN
employees encouraging a "pimp" (O'Keefe) and his "prostitute," actually a
Florida college student named Hannah Giles, in conversations involving
prostitution by underage girls, human trafficking and cheating on taxes. Those
videos created a media sensation.

Evidence obtained by
Brown tells a somewhat different story, however, as reflected in three
videotapes made at ACORN locations in California. One ACORN worker in San Diego called the cops.
Another ACORN worker in San
Bernardino caught on to the scheme and played along with
it, claiming among other things that she had murdered her abusive husband. Her
two former husbands are alive and well, the Attorney General's report noted. At
the beginning and end of the Internet videos, O'Keefe was dressed as a 1970s
Superfly pimp, but in his actual taped sessions with ACORN workers, he was
dressed in a shirt and tie, presented himself as a law student, and said he
planned to use the prostitution proceeds to run for Congress. He never claimed
he was a pimp.

"The evidence
illustrates," Brown said, "that things are not always as partisan zealots
portray them through highly selective editing of reality. Sometimes a fuller
truth is found on the cutting room floor."

Breitbart repeatedly published
O'Keffe's videos on his BigGovernment.com website.

Law enforcement
sources criticize O'Keefe and Giles' editing ACORN tape "to meet their
agenda." A March 1 New
York Daily News article reported that "a law enforcement source"
said of O'Keefe and Giles: "They edited the tape to meet their agenda." A March
2 New York Post article,
headlined "ACORN set up by vidiots: DA," reported of O'Keefe and Giles' ACORN
tapes: "Many of the seemingly crime-encouraging answers were taken out of
context so as to appear more sinister, sources
said."

Breitbart and O'Keefe
released "heavily edited tape" of Philly ACORN
office. On October 21, 2009,
Fox News reported
that O'Keefe and Giles released "a heavily-edited video on Wednesday depicting
their visit to ACORN's Philadelphia office." Fox reported that a "new
eight-minute video depicts O'Keefe and Giles entering ACORN's Philadelphia office and
meeting with [ACORN employee] Conway-Russell. O'Keefe and Giles are seen
speaking with Conway-Russell, but audio portions of the video are missing or
edited in some portions." Fox News correspondent Eric Shawn stated,
"They played that heavily edited tape but did not show the ACORN worker's audio
for legal reasons." O'Keefe later wrote: "We muted the audio of the ACORN
employees on the video released today due to ACORN's legal attack upon us. We
call upon ACORN to state publicly now that it has no objection to the public
release of any its employees' oral statements to us. If they are interested in
the truth, why wouldn't they do so?"

In video promoted by
Breitbart, O'Keefe
falsely claims he sought advice from DC ACORN on establishing brothel for
"prostitution of a dozen underage
girls." In a voiceover at the
beginning of his Washington, D.C., ACORN video -- which was promoted by Breitbart -- O'Keefe claims that in
Washington, he and Giles "sought housing assistance from ACORN in order to
establish a brothel where we could profit off the prostitution of a dozen
underage girls trafficked in from El Salvador." In fact, at no
point in the
transcript of Giles and O'Keefe's visit to the
Washington, D.C., ACORN office does either Giles or O'Keefe clearly state that
they are planning to engage in child prostitution.

Breitbart-promoted
doctored video falsely claimed community organizers were "praying" to
Obama. On September 29, 2009,
Breitbart.tv embedded a YouTube video under the headline: "Shock
Discovery: Community Organizers Pray TO President-Elect Obama." The video
included captions reading "Deliver Us Obama" and "Hear Our Cry Obama,"
suggesting that the crowd of people -- members of the faith-based group The
Gamaliel Foundation -- featured in the clip was "pray to" Obama.
Breitbart.tv subsequently updated the original post with an editor's note
acknowledging that "there is a debate over what is actually being said" and that
the crowd may, in fact, be saying "oh God" rather than "Obama." The Gamaliel
Foundation subsequently stated that "at no time have we prayed to President
Obama" and that in the video, the organizers "can be heard saying, 'Hear our cry
oh God,' 'Deliver us oh God,' etc."

The Senate showed strong support for the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act by passing it with a 60-39 vote. It will be sent to the White House where President Obama is expected to sign it into law next week.

This historic bill represents a principled effort to bring financial fairness to all Americans and to ensure that lending transactions be both honest and transparent. Any policy that protects those consumers who do not have the means to protect themselves is a step in the right direction.

Many urban communities in America today are in a state of emergency, requiring the highest and most urgent attention of the private and public sectors. Passing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act opens the way for a system that oversees the practices of participants in the financial markets, rewarding those who conduct business in the spirit of honest free trade and holding accountable those who continue predatory and abusive practices.

Certain provisions of the bill go a long way toward addressing the needs of the roots of our economic tree. In particular, this bill effectively addresses the root causes of the predatory lending induced mortgage meltdown that ultimately triggered the global economic crisis.

We are relieved and grateful that the final conference report addresses the crucial issue of foreclosure prevention. While 2.5 million families have already lost their homes to foreclosure, well over 5 million more are in imminent danger of doing so, and potentially as many as 13 million could lose their homes before the end of this crisis if they do not get some kind of assistance.

Overall, homeowners in America will be much safer as a result of the new mortgage standards. More effective foreclosure prevention will not only help homeowners, but also will help stabilize the economy and contribute to a strong recovery.

Again, we very much appreciate the act of congressional leadership shown by passing this historic legislation.

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