Breitbart On Sherrod's NAACP Speech: 'I Did Not Edit This Thing'

TPMMuckraker Tlking Points ^ | July 20, 2010, 3:58PM | Rachel Slajda

[Anita1]

We asked Andrew Breitbart, the founder of Big Government, why he hasn't posted the full video.

"I don't have it," Breitbart told TPMmuckraker in an interview. Breitbart said his source sent him just the edited clips at first, but is in the process of sending the full video. ~ Breitbart said he'll post the full video, if he can get permission from the video production company who filmed it for a local NAACP chapter. He also maintained that he didn't edit the clip and that it was sent to him already edited.

[sirchtruth]

Regardless, the woman made racist remarks, the people in the audience were laughing. The Breibart's tape was in no way taken out of context because she happens to finally get a clue about how much she thought about helping pompass whitey, and instead gets a revelation about, "helping poor people." She is a loser of the lowest sort! She admitted to not doing her job properly by discriminating against the farmer. And since this whole thing has come to light she has gone on all the MSM shows and spouted more racist crap! I don't care if her father was murdered, it gives her no excuse to spout the crap she did and to treat the farmer with LESS then what she should have been required by law. People are missing where the real racism occured. It was when she stated the farmer ought to go find a lawyer of HIS OWN KIND.

Nobody made any mistakes by releasing the first video it showed the racism inherent with the NAACP and this woman. Sherrod's remarks were racist. And that was not even the point Breibart was making!

FU - MSM, NAACP (Racist, bigots, LIARS) and hypocritical dem biased hacks! I've had it with this shinola!

[Eagles6]

The media does not know the difference between EXCERPTED and EDITED.

[ArmstedFragg]

This is a classic example of the guilty mind at work. The normal response to something like this would be to look into it with care. The response of the administration in this case was, “oh my God, we’ve been caught.” “Quick, dispose of the evidence!”

[ArmstedFragg]

Yeah, that’s the funny part. Andy’s point was that the NAACP had no standing to call people racists. She was collateral to the issue.

[TigersEye]

Let poor Shirley speak for herself.

"You know, I haven't seen such a mean-spirited people as I've seen lately over this issue of health care. Some of the racism we thought was buried. Didn't it surface? Now, we endured eight years of the Bush's and we didn't do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black President."

Shirley Sherrod 3/27/2010 @ Georgia NAACP meeting

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While appearing on Anderson Cooper’s 360, Sherrod stated that Breitbart would “like to get us stuck back in the time of slavery.”

[ArmstedFragg]

Shirley is now claiming he wants to put all blacks back into slavery. He may have a better cause of action than just false claims of editing.

[calex59]

Oh, BS. What dumb ass.

[machogirl]

she’s letting her racism come out, front and center. tell us how you really feel Shirley.

[smalltownslick]

“That would be a good idea if it wouldn’t get us Biden as president.”

Every time I read this comment I get angry. It’s a standard response to the possibility of Obama no longer being President. I don’t worry about Biden being President - he wouldn’t be able to DO anything. Isn’t that what we want? And how in the world could ANYONE be worse than Obama?

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Paranoid Shirley refused to appear on Fox News because they
are “ biased “ and would lie about what she said.
And FOX News is also racist.
“ they ( FOX News ) would love to take us back to… where black people were looking down, not looking white folks in the face,
not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person.”
She reuses to lower herself to appear on FOX-
“ It is a bad taste in my mouth dealing with them. “
She is considering suing FOX News , Breitbart and the federal government - again.
Guess that 13 million her quasi community organizing group she got last April wasn’t enough.
Nor was the $ 300,000 she and her husband got last April
from Barry for “ their pain and suffering.”

[montag813]

As someone who has send many a (carefully sourced and verified) clip to Mr. Breitbart, including the Ron Gochez video, I have also sent emails warning them of the marginal veracity of certain clips. The problem is, Breitbart.TV has become a hectic carnival of a dozen hot clips a day - very difficult to manage them all. 99.99% of them are kosher. But all it takes is ONE slip to bring the full wrath of Cass Sunstein down upon all of us. And make no mistake, that is exactly what the Left is planning to use this “crisis” to do.

[spacejunkie01]

I feel the EXACT same way. People that think Biden would be worse or even as bad, as the horror story obama, are completely deluded.

Where does anyone get off thinking obama is even remotely capable of leading this country anywhere but into the ground???? Getting rid of obama is goal one and i don’t care what happens in the interim.

Good grief.

[DJ MacWoW]

There was NOTHING wrong with that excerpt. Sherrod said what she said. And it was never ABOUT Sherrod. It was about the racist reaction of the NAACP to what she said.

[#1CTYankee]

I don't think so, he posted the vid to show the audience's reaction of racist comments during the clip.

He didn't have the full vid and decided to put it out to expose the hypocrisy of the NAACP (agreeing, encouraging comments etc), a calculated risk on his part.

Think about it, if the NAACP was setting him up would they have denounced her?

Just stupidity on there part. (just like the white house)

[smalltownslick]

“Let poor Shirley speak for herself. “You know, I haven’t seen such a mean-spirited people as I’ve seen lately over this issue of health care. Some of the racism we thought was buried. Didn’t it surface? Now, we endured eight years of the Bush’s and we didn’t do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black President.”
Shirley Sherrod 3/27/2010 @ Georgia NAACP meeting

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While appearing on Anderson Cooper’s 360, Sherrod stated that Breitbart would “like to get us stuck back in the time of slavery.”

In my estimation, these comments are even more important than the part of the tape in qustion. So if she was trying to indicate she got over her racism, what do these things say? The ocmment about Health care, Obama and racism is later on in the same speech. This makes it clear she HASN’T changed. And the comment about trying to go back to the time of slavery is just totally insane. I think she may be misguided, but every time she tries to explain herself she digs herself into a bigger hole.

[TigersEye]

In my estimation, these comments are even more important than the part of the tape in qustion.

I fully agree with that. The part in question was prefaced in a way that everyone there knew she was speaking in the past tense with regret. Their expressions were not in agreement with her bias but with her repentant sentiments IMO.

But her other comments, such as the ones I posted, reveal that her repentance is as phony as a three dollar bill. I don't feel the need to make the one thing something it is not in order to make the point that she has a racist victimhood mentality when she has said things in other parts of the speech and since then that make the point on their own.

[EQAndyBuzz]

This topic should be finished. If anything this makes Obama and the NAACP look bad. No reason to keep this alive, especially with the mediacrats ability to spin this.

[DJ MacWoW]

They are successfully spinning it and you want to retreat? That’s why we lose. Every time.

[Vermont Lt]

I know its just my opinion, but in my eyes I would not have posted just that part of the speech without understanding the complete context.

And we know what opinions are like.

I think this was just sloppy work on his part.

As Marion Berry said, “the bitch set me up.”

[sig226]

The speaker and the complete version of the speech don’t matter. They’re not significant. The issue was NAACP charges of racism against FOX News and the tea parties.

Breitbart showed the video to demonstrate a speaker discussing a racial incident while the NAACP audience cheered her for committing a racist act and using government authority to screw someone because of race. She said that she used her job to stick it to somebody because of race. The audience applauded her.

The first comments that I saw with the video stressed the audience approval of what she did. The NAACP cries racism when it doesn’t exist and applauds it when it does.

Now maybe Sherrod really did have some racial epiphany, although I honestly doubt it. Her class warfare comments elsewhere on the tape ought to be enough to have her permanently disqualified from any government position. Nothing in our laws authorizes the use of government as a tool for any economic class to act against any other. What was she before she had this racial epiphany? She was a bigot. By her own words describing her own actions, she used her position to stick it to people because of race. She ought to be brought up on civil rights charges.