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Ousted USDA Employee Sherrod Plans to Sue Blogger [Breitbart]
ABC ^ | 07/29/10

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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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: breitbart; freespeech; loserpays; naacp; saintshirleysherrod; shirleysherrod; tortreform; usda
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To: freespirited

It’s a SLAPP suit.


61 posted on 07/29/2010 9:51:35 AM PDT by Mojave (Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
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To: Crimson Elephant

The Feds, the media and the corporate elite all way to put the kabosh on free speech on the Internet. They can not maintain control over political and social messaging with the Internet around. Rinos are having a difficult time as well.

This generation of “progressives” has a lot of nerve and it is going to backfire on our country badly.


62 posted on 07/29/2010 9:58:54 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: freespirited

On what grounds?

If you’re going to sue someone, it should be the guys who fired you.

Sadly, she’ll probably win.


63 posted on 07/29/2010 10:00:16 AM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: freespirited

One word Shirley, discovery!

Knock yourself out babe.


64 posted on 07/29/2010 10:08:12 AM PDT by mockingbyrd (Remember in November.)
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To: MNJohnnie
Unfortunately for you and your DNC backers Shirley courts deal in facts, not manufactured propaganda accusations about “edited video”.
Bull Sh!t. You haven't been paying attention for a LONG time.
65 posted on 07/29/2010 10:11:12 AM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (That Kenyan bastard is not my president. ENFORCE the Bill of Rights.)
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To: Tzimisce
If you’re going to sue someone, it should be the guys who fired you. Sadly, she’ll probably win.

I believe she was a political appointee. She therefore serves at the pleasure of the president. But I dont see the relevance. She was fired for a whole 24 hours.

What is the expression -- the law is not concerned with trifles?

66 posted on 07/29/2010 10:30:39 AM PDT by freespirited (There are a lot of bad Republicans but there are no good Democrats.--Ann Coulter)
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To: Nervous Tick
You and I must live in different countries. The press in MY country (USA) would never do this.

Dont worry, we live in the same country. The idiot press will talk about her USDA lawsuit as if it proves her lifelong suffering. But it wont come off that way to millions of people, especially when they hear the outcome.

67 posted on 07/29/2010 10:32:20 AM PDT by freespirited (There are a lot of bad Republicans but there are no good Democrats.--Ann Coulter)
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To: freespirited
Sherrod made the announcement in San Diego at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention.

You can't make this stuff up. Will Breitbart respond in front of the National Association of White Journalists?

68 posted on 07/29/2010 10:34:24 AM PDT by Carling (Remember November)
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To: Mojave
It’s a SLAPP suit.

Brilliant! I had not realized that but I do believe you're right.

69 posted on 07/29/2010 10:36:18 AM PDT by freespirited (There are a lot of bad Republicans but there are no good Democrats.--Ann Coulter)
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To: S.O.S121.500
McDonald V City of Chicago, the Hellar Decision and the striking down of bulk of the CFR laws indicates you have NO clue at all what you are talking about when it comes to legal issues.

You are too busy mindlessly clinging to your knee jerk emotion based gloom and doom dogmas to bother paying attention.

Turn off the 5th rate talk radio hosts who's ignorant bile you mindlessly regurgitate and try paying attention to what is going on around here for a change.

70 posted on 07/29/2010 10:36:47 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The problem with Socialism is eventually you run our of other peoples money. Lady Thatcher)
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To: freespirited

Of course it was people in his admin. He didn’t have nothing to do with it.


71 posted on 07/29/2010 10:38:12 AM PDT by Always Independent
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To: freespirited

She’s an idiot and won’t be suing because her lawyer will educate her on “discovery” and that Andrew Breitbart will do discovery on her $13 million Pigford score


72 posted on 07/29/2010 10:39:40 AM PDT by dennisw (Sarah McLachlan in 2012)
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To: freespirited

Breitbart’s response should simply be “I look forward to the legal discovery process.”

Keep this in the news through November at least. Please.


73 posted on 07/29/2010 10:54:16 AM PDT by monkeybrau
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To: MizSterious
Yep, the Left will continue to abuse the court system in order to silence their critics. He will have to come up with big $, she will be financed by rich Mercedes Marxists.

I've long hoped that conservative outlets would examine the hounding of Palin out of her governorship by the Left.

Until we respond in kind, the Left will continue to wreck the lives of conservatives.

74 posted on 07/29/2010 11:07:49 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Democrats soil institutions.)
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To: freespirited

Great news! Now THIS is gonna be FUN :)


75 posted on 07/29/2010 11:40:44 AM PDT by LaybackLenny (Palin-Bachmann Overdrive 2012 - takin' care o' business!)
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To: S.O.S121.500
Unfortunately for you and your DNC backers Shirley courts deal in facts, not manufactured propaganda accusations...

Well now that depends on which court and which judge you're talking about doesn't it?

76 posted on 07/29/2010 11:44:11 AM PDT by LaybackLenny (Palin-Bachmann Overdrive 2012 - takin' care o' business!)
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To: freespirited
Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week.

It won't stand up in court. At the end of the clip, she "repents" of her blatant racism and supports socialism instead. If people missed that, it's not Breitbarts fault. It was right there for everyone to see.

77 posted on 07/29/2010 11:49:43 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: freespirited

She is sue happy. She has raped millions from the system by suing, and she can’t stop herself. More videos of her hatred and her husbands will surface.


78 posted on 07/29/2010 11:50:58 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Hey, Barack "Hubris" Obama, $10 is all it would take, why spend millions to cover it up?)
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To: Choose Ye This Day
Shouldn’t she be suing Vilsack for wrongful termination?

Yep. He jumped the gun first, and was the only one who did any serious damage.
She's trying to scam the wrong person. She could scam more money out of the feds than she could a blogger.

79 posted on 07/29/2010 11:53:46 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: freespirited
She has absolutely no chance of prevailing at trial. She's a public person who was serving in the capacity of a political appointee at the time this story was published. The courts have given WIDE latitude to people saying and publishing almost anything against politicians, to especially include the characterization of what politicians say in public.

Of course, she'll have a legal team paid for by donations, and Brietbart won't. She's trying to bankrupt him.

80 posted on 07/29/2010 11:56:59 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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