I disagree that she wasn't already a public figure before the incident. The NAACP knew who she was. She was a fairly high ranking government bureaucrat who was asked to speak to a national civil rights organization (or at least a branch of it).
But serious lies in serious sources might be a different matter.
Serious lies like posting her videotaped words without alteration? Who are you going to believe - her or your lying eyes and ears?
“I disagree that she wasn’t already a public figure before the incident. The NAACP knew who she was. She was a fairly high ranking government bureaucrat who was asked to speak to a national civil rights organization (or at least a branch of it).”
You know how many of these throwaway meetings, speeches, dinners, banquets, etc. political organizations have? It’s a regular Wednesday night for them. If they weren’t gathered in a reception hall politely clapping and not actually listening to eachother, they’d be dead.
“Serious lies like posting her videotaped words without alteration? Who are you going to believe - her or your lying eyes and ears?”
I was talking about whether a public figure can be sued, not the merits of this particular case. I agree, Breitbart did not lie about Sherrod. He got the story wrong, and frankly none of this should’ve happened to her. But lying wasn’t involved.