The Holder gang will make sure she wins, as they are still pissed about Breitbart outing ACORN on the child prostitution ring video.
Posted on 07/29/2010 8:59:36 AM PDT by freespirited
Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week.
Sherrod made the announcement in San Diego at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention.
The edited video posted by Andrew Breitbart led Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to ask her to resign, a decision he reconsidered after seeing the entire video of her March speech to a local NAACP group. In the full speech, Sherrod spoke of racial reconciliation and lessons she learned after initially hesitating to help a white farmer save his home.
Vilsack and President Barack Obama later called Sherrod to apologize for her hasty ouster. Vilsack has offered her a new job at the department, which she is still considering.
Obama said Thursday morning on ABC's daytime talk show "The View" that the incident shows racial tensions still exist in America.
"There are still inequalities out there. There's still discrimination out there," Obama said. "But we've made progress."
Obama pinned much of the blame for the incident on a media culture that he said seeks out conflict and doesn't always get the facts right. But he added, "A lot of people overreacted, including people in my administration."
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...Breitbart’s origional point was not her words per se...it was that the audience didn’t see anything wrong with what she said...several in the audience uttered words of encouragement like ‘un huh’ and ‘aww right’...sounded like something out of the black church.
No problem. She just needs a black jury and Clinton appointed judge!!! After all, posting a VIDEO of someone’s speech to the NAACP MUST be illegal in SOME way or another!! Isn’t there a law against revealing leftists for who and what they are??!!
too bad so sad. Palin should have sued every blooger out there. Sherrod, buck up and take it
too bad so sad. Palin should have sued every blogger out there. Sherrod, buck up and take it
Always remember that the Democrat party is the party of lawyers and billions in slush funds that they can spend on a court fight. They will judge shop until they get one that is a Marxist who will ignore the law and rule in her favor despite the evidence or anything else. Just like they did with the Arizona immigration law. They will then tie this up in appeals until Breitbart is bankrupted and can no longer continue to fight.
Well, I assume she will sue him where he lives and works. I think it's California, but I'm not sure.
You can take it from there.
My totally unqualified opinion is that this has close to zero chance of making it to a jury.
She's a liberal, you can't expect intelligent, rational decisions.
>> I bet Andrew is laughing so hard!
Maybe.
It’ll be a nuisance to defend against the frivolous lawsuit.
She’ll get free minority lawyers to carry her water, but Andrew will have to pay for his defense.
My guess is, it’ll be thrown out fairly early because:
1) He did not edit the video, he excerpted it.
2) His stated purpose was never to frame HER as a racist, but rather to frame the entire NAACP as racist, and therefore hypocrites.
3) The portion he excerpted accomplished exactly that. It showed NAACP members LAUGING and CHEERING when she spoke about screwing Whitey.
Each of them will obtain free press for their cause. Hard to say which one will benefit the most from it. But I bet not a nickel in damages changes hands — either in court, or out of court.
Bring it on!
This is nothing more than suppression of free speech. We all know, she included, that there is no legal basis for a lawsuit. The suit is merely an attempt to intimidate a political speech.
“My totally unqualified opinion is that this has close to zero chance of making it to a jury.”
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Right.
But, if Sherrod can threaten Breitbart with the prospect of a Simpson jury, and/or a Clinton judge, he’d better settle.
I don't believe the video was edited...it was excerpted. Editing would be what Michael Moore did in taking parts of different speeches and splicing them together to make it look like they were given as one speech at the same location to make the NRA look bad. But the left normally likes that sort of behavior and have given Moore Oscars to prove they approve of heavily edited video.
Wouldn’t THAT be newsworthy?
You just described longtime West Virginia senator Robert C. Byrd.
Of course, he had a D after his name, meaning no press coverage and Zero and the Rapist-In-Chief both rationalizing his actions at his recent funeral.
Ain't America grand! It is if you are a racist with a D after your name...
...but I repeat myself.
I dont think it has a snowball’s chance of making it to a jury, but regardless, blacks are a small minority of the population in Los Angeles. I think that is where Breitbart is based.
She has no case, she can’t claim defamation because they are her own words, nor did Breibart cut and past clips to ‘make it sound’ like she said something. He took a ‘section’ from her speech and showed it. BTW, he wasn’t going after her, he was trying to prove a point about how the ‘crowd’ laughed when they heard her ‘stick it to whitty’. Additionally, it’s very very loose to say ‘he’ was ‘responsible’ for her firing. He just showed a video clip. It was her bosses and Barry who fired her. Breibart has absolutely no control over her employment. I think this is just a play to either 1) get an out-of-court settlement (ya right, good luck with that), or 2) embarrass Breibart (again, good luck with that).
HUMMMM. does this mean that the families of Troops KILLED in Afgan can sue Julian A**H***.
BTW ...WHO IS FUNDING HIM?
Wafer or Wafar?
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