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Posted on 02/15/2011 10:01:58 PM PST by Nachum
On Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, Internet entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart, the impresario of the ACORN scandal and a growing investigative force in the conservative media, held a press conference at the Conservative Political Action Conference. At that press conference, he laid out evidence of a concerted effort by government officials, race-baiting lawyers and certain black non-farmers to defraud the federal government of millions of dollars by exploiting a legal settlement called Pigford. On Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011, Shirley Sherrod, the single largest recipient of cash from the Pigford settlement, filed a lawsuit against Breitbart for defamation.
Sherrod, you may remember, was a ranking Department of Agriculture official in Georgia. Breitbart released a video of Sherrod speaking to the NAACP, where she told a story about discriminating against a white farmer before realizing that such discrimination was wrong. The purpose of releasing the video, as Breitbart clearly stated, was to demonstrate that the same NAACP that labeled the tea party racist tolerated racism within its own ranks. The video accomplished that purpose -- members of the NAACP cheer and laugh as Sherrod describes her past racism in the video.
After the video broke, due to pressure from the Obama administration, Sherrod resigned; the NAACP also condemned her. Shortly thereafter, the NAACP released the full tape, which showed that Sherrod had in fact helped the white farmer at issue. In full attack mode, the leftist media went after Breitbart, accusing him of selectively editing the tape in order to target Sherrod. This despite the fact that Breitbart himself said he cared nothing about Sherrod and that his actual target was the NAACP; this despite the fact that Sherrod herself said the real problem was the Obama administration.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
The Odd Timing of Shirley Sherrod’s Lawsuit Against Andrew Breitbart
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lee-stranahan/the-odd-timing-of-shirley_b_822549.html
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http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/02/dissecting-shirley-sherrods-complaint.html
The MSM's spin has been that Breitbart personally edited the tapes in order to make Shirley Sherrod look like a racist. That simply did not happen, and it will be very easy to prove that in court. I suspect that Sherrod wants for this case to be tried in front of a D.C. jury. I hope Breitbart avoids that trap.
“...Shirley Sherrod, the single largest recipient of cash from the Pigford settlement, “
I was not aware of this. How does an Ag dept official justify making a bunch of money from disbursements by the Ag Dept?
bump
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The Jimmy Quaeda ConspiRACY -
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She was not an Ag official during the time frame for which the money was paid.
Wasn’t Breitbart just cozying up to queers at CPAC?
shirley was government while andrew was private citizen. The government can’t sue private citizen on free speech
what does that poorly worded comment have to do with the lawsuit??? breitbart is one of the few willing to take on the dangerous institutional left with their endless checkbook and policies of personal destruction...this is about a lawsuit...where goes breitbart under these attacks go all of us who dare to go against the left publically...are you saying someone deserves this kind of attack to shut them up and stop them from exposing the left?
I'm saying he was cozying up to queers at CPAC.
Strive for comprehension.
Very punny!
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Yup!
I am surprised I did not think of that long ago -
It does have a certain unforgetable lilt to it -
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Kinda reminds me of Carne Quesada.....snicker.
[But that’s something good!]
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