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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It’s a SLAPP suit.
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.
On what grounds?
If you’re going to sue someone, it should be the guys who fired you.
Sadly, she’ll probably win.
One word Shirley, discovery!
Knock yourself out babe.
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?
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.
You can't make this stuff up. Will Breitbart respond in front of the National Association of White Journalists?
Brilliant! I had not realized that but I do believe you're right.
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.
Of course it was people in his admin. He didn’t have nothing to do with it.
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
Breitbart’s response should simply be “I look forward to the legal discovery process.”
Keep this in the news through November at least. Please.
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.
Great news! Now THIS is gonna be FUN :)
Well now that depends on which court and which judge you're talking about doesn't it?
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.
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.
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.
Of course, she'll have a legal team paid for by donations, and Brietbart won't. She's trying to bankrupt him.
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