Ned's readers will be familiar with the case of the Ag Dept functionary slandered by the right wingers, whom the Obama people were quick to throw under a bus.
Al Hunt, a talking head on Bloomberg, today referred to Shirley Sherrod, the Ag Dept bureaucrat maligned by the right-wing character assassination machine, as a "hero." Not content with that, he went on the describe the white Mississippi farmers she was talking about in her speech as "heros" too. Now here Ned has to intercede.
Earth to Al Hunt: NOT EVERYBODY IS A F*****G HERO! Some people are just people. Some people are just victims. Sherrod was a victim. The farmers got helped, so they weren't victims or heros. A hero, Al is someone who does a heroic act. Read your f*****g Homer. A Marine who takes on a machine gun nest to save his buddies is a hero. A woman who risks her job and reputation to expose corporate wrongdoing is a hero (ine). A person who dives into a raging river to save a kid is a hero.
NOT EVERYBODY GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS IS A HERO. GOT THAT, AL?
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