I'll alert the media ...
Posted on 08/15/2010 4:01:38 PM PDT by Noob1999
I need help determining if this e-mail is accurate. Snopes checked, but no hit!
Andrew Breitbart is a media genius. He proved it originally with his brilliant handling of the ACORN ‘hooker’ scandal which he skillfully manipulated so that the corrupt media was forced, against its will, to broadcast corruption in one of Obama’s most powerful political support groups. But Breitbart’s handing of that affair is nothing compared to his brilliant manipulation of the Shirley Sherrod ‘white farmer’ scandal.
It all began last Monday, July 22, 2010. As the country watched in horror, Breitbart released a snippet of a tape on his “Big Government” site which showed an obscure black female official of the Dept. of Agriculture laughing to a roomful of NAACP members about how she’d discriminated against a destitute white farmer and refused to give him the financial aid he desperately needed. As she smirked to the room, she’d sent him instead to a white lawyer – ‘one of his own kind’ – for help. The black woman was Shirley Sherrod – and almost immediately she became the center of a firestorm of controversy which exploded throughout the country. Within a day of the release of that infamous tape, the head of the Dept. of Agriculture, spurred on by Obama, demanded – and received – Sherrod’s resignation. Breitbart had won.
But then seemingly Breitbart’s actions began to explode in his face.
As Sherrod screamed in protest, FOX News released the entire text of her speech last March to the NAACP. And there on tape Sherrod was shown supposedly repenting of her racism against a white farmer and instead championing his fight to win funds to keep his farm afloat. Within hours of that entire tape being revealed, the entire world turned against Andrew Breitbart. Conservatives throughout the country were enraged that he’d endangered their reputations by releasing a ‘doctored’ tape. Breitbart, they thundered, had dealt a fatal blow to the conservative media.
I confess that I also was horrified at what I saw as the clumsiness and stupidity of Breitbart in ‘doctoring’ a tape to make a supposedly innocent woman look guilty. But now I discover I have been as guilty of haste to judgment of Breitbart as the Dept. of Agriculture was of Ms. Sherrod.
Only now am I realizing the real purpose for Breitbart’s release of that tape snippet. It was to allow him to cunningly trick the media into exposing one of the most shocking examples of corruption in the federal government – a little known legal case called “Pigford v. Glickman”.
http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/07/27/pigford-v-glickman-86000-claims-from-39697-total-farmers/?singlepage=true
“In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to racial discrimination during the period 1983 to 1997.” The case was entitled “Pigford v. Glickman” and in 1999, the black farmers won their case. The government agreed to pay each of them as much as $50,000 to settle their claims. (About $20 million?)
But then on February 23 of this year, something shocking happened in relation to that original judgment. In total silence, the USDA agreed to release more funds to “Pigford”. The amount was a staggering $1.25 billion. This was because the original number of plaintiffs – 400 black farmers – had now swollen in a class action suit to include a total of 86,000 black farmers throughout America.
There was only one teensy problem. The United States of America doesn’t have 86,000 black farmers. According to accurate and totally verified census data, the total number of black farmers throughout America is only 39,697. Oops.
Well, gosh – how on earth did 39,697 explode into 86,000 claims? And how did $50,000 explode into $1.25 billion? Well, folks, you’ll just have to ask the woman who not only spearheaded this case because of her position in 1997 at the “Rural Development Leadership Network” but whose family received the highest single payout (approximately $13 million) from that action – Shirley Sherrod. Oops again.
Yes, folks. It appears that Ms. Sherrod had just unwittingly exposed herself as the perpetrator of one of the biggest fraud claims in the United States – a fraud enabled solely because she screamed racism at the government and cowed them into submission. And it gets even more interesting.
Ms. Sherrod has also exposed the person who aided and abetted her in this race fraud. As it turns out, the original judgment of “Pigford v. Glickman” in 1999 only applied to a total of 16,000 black farmers. But in 2008, a junior Senator got a law passed to reopen the case and allowed more black farmers to sue for funds. The Senator was Barack Obama. (Amazing!!!)
Because this law was passed in dead silence and because the woman responsible for spearheading it was an obscure USDA official, American taxpayers did not realize that they had just been forced in the midst of a worldwide depression to pay out more than $1.25 billion to settle a race claim.
But Breitbart knew. And last Monday, July 22, 2010, he cleverly laid a trap which Sherrod – and Obama – stumbled headfirst into which has now resulted in the entire world discovering the existence of this corrupt financial judgment. Yes, folks – Breitbart is a genius.
As for Ms. Sherrod? Well, she’s discovered too late that her cry of ‘racism’ to the media which was intended to throw the spotlight on Breitbart has instead thrown that spotlight on herself – and her corruption. Sherrod has vanished from public view. Her ‘pigs’, it seems, have come home to roost. Oink!
bttt
I'll alert the media ...
Well, every word of it is true.
I have been saying the same thing since the beginning.
You can’t check something like that at snopes because snopes is liberally biased. But the story is fact. I’ve seen it shared other places. Republicans have been holding out on funding the settlement, as they should, because of the large number of obviously fraudulent claims involved. Sherrod and her husband made out like bandits.
Yeah, it’s pretty much true. Google Pigford v. Glickman. This info was written about a lot during the Breitbart/Sherrod story.
All true ... but because the corrupt fifth column enemdia decides what the average American is allowed to know, this truth will never be publicized beyond Breitbart and perhaps Glenn Beck on FOX. When Beck airs the entire scandal, get a screen save asap because the criminal democrats in power will clean it from the media venues as quickly as it hits.
In a nut shell: If I am black and my grandma has a tomato plant on her patio....CA-CHING! I have been a black farmer, discriminated against and get $50,000.
Where is Rush on this? I can't listen to him everyday...but, darn it, it is ripe for the picking.
I realized this was the fruit Breitbart was going after soon after old Shirley went into hiding. What an utter POS she is.
One of the interesting aspects which will not be investigated is where is the money funneled to the imaginary black farmers going to end up? ... Democrat party election coffers anyone?
That seems to be an accurate description of what happened but you’d do well to find a documented source.
I never use snopes anymore. I heard they are just a very liberal couple who post their views as often as possible.
Anyone else read this info about snopes?
86,000 black farmers represents the kids, grand kids, great great great great great etc., etc. of anyone who may have planted a tomato 200 years ago.... this is really not that difficult.
Why, yes...Snopes has a very liberal bias. Very protective of the Golden Child.
I was snooping around for info about the notorious gay bath house in Chi-town...Man’s Country, I think it’s called. Pretty much all the gay men in Chicago know that Barry and Rahmbo were card carrying members in the 90’s...but nobody is talking. On a lark, I went to Snopes. Shocked, I tell you! Nothing about Man’s Country or Urkel’s fondness for old white guys on that site of uber-truth.
I was here in the early days when we would put something out for the others to investigate, but we knew each other's history. You are asking people to trace a controversial web artifact for what purpose? To entrap FR?
-PJ
I wuld take it with a grain of salt, or more like a pound.
bflr
I thought Sherrod got $300,000 not $ 13 mill
Bookmark
A nOOb that took 10 years to figure out his a** from a hole in the ground. Shocking.
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