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Will Pigford vindicate Andrew Breitbart?
daily caller ^ | 12/9/10 | Caroline May

Posted on 12/09/2010 3:28:44 PM PST by Nachum

This summer Andrew Breitbart, publisher of a number of conservative news sites, found himself in the throes of a media scandal of dramatic proportions — and one which he later discovered went far deeper than a mere contextual snafu.

For those unfamiliar with the story, in July, when liberals, the media, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) were slamming Tea Partiers as racist, Breitbart released a now infamous video of United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) official Shirley Sherrod’s speech before the NAACP describing how she had discriminated against a white farmer. Her comments were met with nodding approval by the members of the audience.

In the wake of the release, the USDA wasted no time in forcing Sherrod’s resignation, despite the fact that Breitbart says his intent was never to harm Sherrod, but rather to expose the NAACP as a racist body.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Agriculture
KEYWORDS: breitbart; pigford; vindicate; will

1 posted on 12/09/2010 3:28:49 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Very interesting article.


2 posted on 12/09/2010 3:38:10 PM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Nachum

90,000 claims???

When you get the trial lawyers and an aggrieved minority and an infinite government slush fund in the same room, you know there’s gonna be fun aplenty.

Great work by this journalist, and Breitbart.


3 posted on 12/09/2010 3:51:34 PM PST by babble-on
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To: babble-on

President Palin will appoint a special prosecutor to investigate, individually, all 90,000 claiments. Those who are found to have submitted false claims and recieved cash will be prosecuted. All trials will take place in Alaska, Wyomgin and North Dakota, where the chance of jury nullification are low. The guilty will surrender their ill-gotten gains, and accept felony convictions, making them unable to vote. Justice will have been done.


4 posted on 12/09/2010 4:10:05 PM PST by Jack Black ( Whatever is left of American patriotism is now identical with counter-revolution.)
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To: Jack Black

Why wait until then? We should go ahead and do it during the Mitch Daniels administration.


5 posted on 12/09/2010 4:11:56 PM PST by babble-on
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To: Nachum

Louis T. March was on this long before Breitbart and the author of this article. I’d post the article but it’s my experience that FR doesn’t like VDARE.com so here’s the link.

It isn’t the only article at the website about this either.

http://www.vdare.com/asp/printPage.asp?url=http://www.vdare.com/misc/061106_march.htm


6 posted on 12/09/2010 4:40:31 PM PST by abigailsmybaby ( I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. Yogi Berra)
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