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.

[Anita1]

Although now the liberals are calling for Breitbart's head - they Don't want to see the reality of what happened here to Sherrod -

The really bad actors here are those in the administration and at NAACP who threw this woman under the bus without bothering to verify the charges against her. Vilsack should have to resign.

~ Now Does Sherrod Have Anything to Say About THAT? Not!!

[Gondring]

So is he claiming that the version posted by the NAACP is not complete (I know it has that one skip where they say they were changing the tape)?

He’s throwing his credibility out the door even more.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

I think Andrew was set up by the NAACP.

[Maverick68]

Breitbart should sue any media outlet that claims he edited the piece...

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Breitbart should give Sherrod a phone call (with witnesses and on tape, of course)...he should make her spurn his advances to make peace.

This is the nature of this battle...let's get this show on the road, Breitbart!

[stefanbatory]

[donna]

According to the rules liberals use against everyone else, Sherrod and the USDA should be investigated and possibly prosecuted.

[Maverick68]

the hilarious part of this incident is that the Left ACTUALLY believe attacking the messenger will work.
This video exposed what white America knew existed all along: black racism....the Left would be better off trying to bury the whole affair...

[Jim Robinson]

Obama is the one who should resign. It was his fear of Glenn Beck that got Sherrod fired.

[darkangel82]

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

[doc1019]

I believe, when he posted the first version, he said that it was all he had received. He was trying to get the whole video, and would post it when he had it.

[Jim Robinson]

Horse hockey. Her speech stands on its own. She’s a racist and so are the NAACP members present who applauded and cheered as she screwed whitey.

[Jim Robinson]

I’ll take Biden. He’ll keep us laughing.

[marron]

The funny thing is, he did not disparage her. Her bosses and the NAACP did, they fired her and attacked her in the press and the attack continued until Beck came out and defended her. Within an hour NAACP reversed course and by morning the Obamists had also reversed course. Then started the attacks on the “racists” at Fox when in actual fact Beck took her side.

I’m not so sure that this wasn’t a set-up and when Fox and Beck in particular didn’t take the bait it blew up in their faces. But they are beating the drum anyway.

[FrankR]

Editing cannot easily make a person say something they did not say; parts can be cut out, or rearranged, but not ADDED.

It would take some careful lip-syncing to even imply something different was said.

ESPECIALLY, with the continuity of the BACKGROUND NOISE...i.e. the NAACP members.

I'm not a video editor, but in 15 years in radio broadcasting I've done a lot of tape editing...not with computuers, but the old razor blade/splicing block method. I could take a whole verse out of a song and you'd never know it was missing...no blips, no bumps, no pops. But, adding was a whole different ballgame..

After watching the video of shirley shirly bo birley several times, I do not see any lip-sync dropouts, or notice anything out of timing in her remarks. IF parts were taken out denoting she was for racism before she was against it (ahem) then I would have to do some side by side comparison to judge the edits.

So the bottom line is, the published video is her talking, in context, to the tale she was telling, which garnered laughs and comments from the NAACP crowd.

When a liberal shouts, "out of context", it just means they got caught in a lie, or a gaffe.

End of story.

[Kenny]

Right, it’s like she didn’t say the racist remarks (irregardless of what came later) and those fools in the audience didn’t clap. Why were they clapping, were they prescient? Were they clapping because they knew that she’d turn it all around in the end?

The journolists are conspiring to turn this into a conservative problem but no one is asking about the original tape anymore.

Why were they clapping?

[SouthTexas]

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[ArmstedFragg]

I’m a video editor, and I agree with your comments about what we can and can’t do without it being obvious.

[Eagles6]

No, he is saying that he does not have the entire tape. He has nothing to apologize for and his credibility is not damaged.

[Carley]

And the bigot Sherrod knows it’s the whole tape and nothing but the whole tape.