A YouTube video sent to one of Andrew Breitbart’s websites is posted and barely begins to penetrate the haze of the multi-verse that is the Internet when the Obama administration, who is clearly monitoring these conservative sites, sees the video and apparently rather than react to its bizarre statements seemingly reacts most strongly to the idea that radio and Fox news personality Glenn Beck might use the video on his show. We know this because according to the star of the videos own words on CNN, she was contacted three times by the USDA management mandarins while in her car where Mr. Beck’s name was brought up and according to her ended with her being told to “pull over and resign”.

I happened to be monitoring both news outlets at the time and know that as Ms. Sherrod was finishing her interview on CNN the Fox news anchor Megan Kelly was announcing that she was on her way to the Fox studio to give an interview in connection with her firing. This was literally minutes apart and Fox news had not ran the videotape prior to her being asked ask for her resignation or called for anyone’s resignation. During the Fox news program when it was approaching the time for Ms. Sherrod’s appearance the host announced that the guest had canceled her interview. The NAACP, who had hosted the event at which the video was extracted had already issued a rebuke and was attempting to distance themselves from the video comments, despite the fact that they had in their possession the entire speech which was later found to contain ending comments that seem to disarm the racial component of the edited version as posted by Breitbart; in the form which he had received it.

After viewing the complete video the White House became involved and decided that it clearly did not look good to have acted so precipitously in such a manner and offered to give the video’s star speaker her job back at the USDA and blame Breitbart for posting the video, Fox news for talking about the video and lastly the Secretary of Agriculture for acting precipitously. Criticism then flowed in from the left for the administration’s apparent fear of the hated Fox news network which seem to be clearly stronger than their love for MSNBC. The narrative line of the story has constantly been attempted to be changed by the administration and their angry and jealous followers of the left to somehow craft this as the fault of Fox and the Internet Beelzebub, Andrew Breitbart. This is not political shading or misspeaking on behalf of these outlets, it is simply a lie.

The driving force behind this exercise in false witness is the hope, by those on the left who are quite fearful of Fox and the millions of Americans who would like to have their news delivered in a factual manner, that the majority of people who hear the story from other sources will not be familiar with the chain of events and believe this was at best a rush to judgment and at worse a piece of spite on the part of the right.

This will not work because the information and timeline are too familiar to too many people and tracing the story down is too easy to do. In most instances this might prove to be more effective but as Americans near one of the most important elections in the country’s history, they are heavily engaged in following news and are becoming more equipped each day with ways to find whether or not it has been “reimagined”.

What’s intriguing about this story is that the video, even shown in its entirety, does not paint a flattering portrait of a government employee and this obsession on the left with redressing what they in fact inflicted upon her only draws attention to her background and prior statements which will not find much common ground or generate patriotic zeal the part of most Americans. Since most trying to perform this journalistic sleight of hand also lack that common ground with most of America they are unable to see the damage that has been done by their crude efforts and the damage yet to come by the way they’ve handled the situation.

In the end, I find the left-wing press’s obvious opinion of much of America to be insulting. It makes Hulk mad when people insult American’s intelligence… no one act like America stupid! Hulk smash!

Meanwhile, Turkey calls for a “Final Solution” for Israel.  Scary times my friends, scary times.

“Would that the workers who lost their lives receive as much attention as the large-scale — but temporary — environmental damage caused by oil washing over the Gulf Coast.  We would do well to remember that oil is a natural as water, and regularly seeps into the oceans naturally in quantities many times the size of the Deepwater Horizon spill.  The ocean can handle the oil, but Aaron Dale Burkeen will still be gone when years from now when beachgoers are once again swimming in the pristine waters of the Gulf.

Burkeen and the others died ensuring that the rest of us have the energy we need to go about our business and pleasure, and risked their lives to bring forth the lubricant that greases the gears of our civilization. They should not be forgotten.”

Read the whole thing.

“Via Dan Savage’s blog at The Stranger, some clever chappie (I don’t know who) has declared May 20, 2010 “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day,” in support of Matt Stone and Trey Parker and in opposition to religious thuggery.”

Mohammed (riding the horse) receiving the submission of the Banu Nadir, a Jewish tribe he defeated at Medina. From the Jami'al-Tawarikh, dated 1314-5.

We will definitely be participating.  You can send  your submissions to editor@quantumconservative.com.   

UPDATE: Oh, sweet delicious irony.  Seattle artist who kicked off this whole shebang disavows her own drawing, because she’s “freaked out” that her name and image are all over the web. 

Rest assured, Everybody Draw Muhammad Day will proceed here at QC.

RELATED: Not Even South Park? By Ross Douthat

“This is what decadence looks like: a frantic coarseness that “bravely” trashes its own values and traditions, and then knuckles under swiftly to totalitarianism and brute force.

Happily, today’s would-be totalitarians are probably too marginal to take full advantage. This isn’t Weimar Germany, and Islam’s radical fringe is still a fringe, rather than an existential enemy.

For that, we should be grateful. Because if a violent fringe is capable of inspiring so much cowardice and self-censorship, it suggests that there’s enough rot in our institutions that a stronger foe might be able to bring them crashing down.”

Emphasis mine.

RELATED II: Not to ‘Hip’ and ‘Edgy’ for Censorship, by Mark Steyn.

“Faced with this explicit threat of violence, what did Comedy Central do? Why, they folded like a Bedouin tent. They censored South Park, not only cutting all the references to Mohammed but, in an exquisitely postmodern touch, also removing the final speech about the need to stand up to intimidation.

Stone and Parker get what was at stake in the Danish-cartoons crisis and many other ostensibly footling concessions: Imperceptibly, incrementally, remorselessly, the free world is sending the message that it is happy to trade core liberties for the transitory security of a quiet life. That is a dangerous signal to give freedom’s enemies. So the South Park episode is an important cultural pushback.”

Emphasis mine.

RELATED III: The South Park Test, by David Harzony.

“I admit it. Until now I have always been a bit of an Islamophobia skeptic. Living in the Middle East, I have no illusions about what radical Islam, given the right kinds of fuel and the right weapons of oppression, can do in the parts of the world under its control, or to immediate neighbors who challenge its reign. And while I share in many Europeans’ concern about the spread of violent Islam’s influence across the Continent, I have never really seen it as cause for panic about the future of Western civilization, or even of Europe. An inveterate optimist, I have a great deal of faith that Europeans, deep down, understand what has made them special and will do what’s needed to defend themselves and their culture. And as for the U.S.? It frankly never occurred to me that there was any danger, not now, not ever. Americans cherish their freedom too much and are too willing to defend it even by force of arms for fans of Jefferson and Paine to be truly worried.

Until now. And all because of South Park.”