jie now back to the shirley sherrod story. the ousted agriculture employee and the firestorm her story has fueled. we re talking with time wise, the author of the book color blind. and warren balentien, the host of his own radio show and bev smith, the host of her own radio show as well. you guys doing okay? we re doing fine. great. hey, don. bev, i learned this week that shirley sherrod is fearless. why? i think that shirley sherrod is the voice of the people who have been silent too long. she s fearless because fearless means nothing to fear. she has nothing to fear. she told the truth. and she told the truth about what s been happening to blacks in america. at a time when no one wanted to talk about it. but, you know, it s funny. she tells the truth and she gets criticized. and andrew lies, not once, but
of shirley sherrod, the former united states of agriculture employee down in the state of georgia. she was making a piece of videotape of her from march was put up on biggovernment.com by andrew brightbart because he wanted to show essentially wait a minute, the tea party is being called racist by the naacp. have you seen what goes on at the naacp? he wanted to expose the double standard. he explained that last night on hannity. the whole point was to show that the for the naacp to find five days on national tv saying that the tea party is racist without any evidence when we can prove that the central argument didn t happen and the mainstream media won t play it, for them to talk about racism, they should not be throwing stones and glass houses and what this video shows and what the naacp afirms in their initial rebuke is not just that shirley sherrod, what she said was wrong but that the audience laughing and applauding as she described
asking and answering questions. one of the things discussed earlier was when major garrett asked was the white house involved with the dismissal of the agriculture employee. she s under the impression and saying publicly she believes the white house did play a role. as i said to ed, that s not anything based on my knowledge. so you re convinced that did not happen. i can only answer your question three times. you re answering once. i gave the same answer three times. fine. is there going to be any effort put forward by the administration to let us talk to sheryl cook but what she did or did not say to miss had sherrod? i direct you to usda about speaking to again, i direct you to. [ laughter ] you asked the same question, i give the same answer. we would like for everyone to