Andrew Breitbart To CNN’s John King: “I Did Not Fire Shirley Sherrod”
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The Shirley Sherrod saga continues, with this round being fought on the unlikely ground of CNN. Andrew Breitbart was a guest on an unusually spirited episode of John King, USA tonight, standing his ground that the story is the NAACP and not Sherrod, and that he did not want to see Sherrod fired.
In what was probably the most contentious discussion in the history of the show, John King took a stab at debating Andrew Breitbart and holding him accountable for releasing the tape that got Sherrod fired. Breitbart extensively detailed why he believes the story is exclusively about the NAACP and not about Sherrod’s case specifically: “this tape is about the NAACP. It’s raison d’etre is about non-discrimination. And when Shirley Sherrod is talking there, in which she expresses a discriminatory attitude towards white people, the audience responds with applause and the NAACP agrees with me. And it rebuked her and the audience.” He also says there are more tapes coming up, with even more racism, and that despite the NAACP agreeing with Breitbart on this point, the Sherrod case in the tip of the iceberg.
King challenged Breitbart on the point that the Sherrod tape was taken out of context, and that it is, in large part, Breitbart’s fault for releasing the tape that she lost her job. “I did not ask for Shirley Sherrod to be fired,” he repeated several times, “I did not fire her.” He also responded that he thought “she should have the right to defend herself,” but whenever King brought up the fact that the tape was posted on his website, Breitbart repeated, “This is not about Shirley Sherrod.”
At another point when King questioned Breitbart’s methods, Breitbart turned on him and CNN, skeptical of whether the fact that the story Sherrod tells happened two decades before, as has been affirmed:
“If it is the case and it can be shown to me that the incident that she’s talking about was done many years ago and not in her current context — but as a reporter, you tell me how you confirmed that the incident that she’s talking about was 24 years ago. You tell me as a reporter how CNN put on a person today who purported to be the farmer’s wife. What did you do to find out whether or not that was the actual farmer’s wife? I mean there has– if you’re going to accuse me of a falsehood, tell me where you’ve confirmed that this incident happened 24 years ago?”
King and Breitbart also grappled on whether King and CNN have called the Tea Partiers “racist,” which King vehemently denied doing, and Breitbart eventually shifted from “CNN” to the “mainstream media.”
On a scale of his appearances on Red Eye to his legendary shouting match with David Shuster, this was a combative but fair Breitbart interview. It was clear that King was afraid of pushing so many buttons that the conversation would be completely counter-productive, but was keen on not letting some of his suspicions slide (some, like our own Tommy Christopher, have not been as generous with King, but his show is simply not meant to be a venue for shoutfests, which is what any more prodding than he managed to do would have created. As for Breitbart, he is going to have to answer to some extra “snookering” before he can evaluate this performance.
The full discussion from CNN’s John King below:
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177 comments
BHO and the NAACP got her fired.
Just look at this guy. He is full of anger, envy, deceit and rage. Something is not right about him.
some, like our own Tommy Christopher, have not been as generous”
What a joke. The Chairman of the NBPP made mincemeat out of TC.
Yes, he sounds and acts like BHO, Rev. Wright and KO all rolled into one.
Dave, coming from you, that’s rich!
Great job Andrew! I think alot of us have the same questions of the media that you have.
They spit the congressman. That is worst than the N word. Long live John Lewis and to hell will Andrew Brightbitch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmP4Gb2pEsY
And now the asshattery begins
The full video shows that it was edited in away to make her look like she was being malicious. In all actuality she was talking about a life journey out of racism. This is a fucking hit piece and nothing more. Andrew brightbitch will be exposed soon for the racist fraud he is. Disgraceful
Total B.S and a scam- it never happened and there is video that proves it didn’t happen and not one- not one of those Congressman ever went on TV to claim they were called that.
Nice lie- Dave- your record is intact!
Let me see, 24 years ago there were no camera phones and there were no little hand held cameras. Who taped this video? Does the lady look 24 years younger than she does today?
I don’t know the answers to these questions but you would think CNN and others would find out before they shoot off their mouth.
You will notice that I did not attack the woman in the video. I always wait until I know the FULL story. Oh by the way so does Beck.
Did Obama get the FULL story when he attacked the Boston police?
Box of rox never waits for the FULL story. Lets see if she apoligizes to Beck today?
RRK never gets the story right even when he has the FULL story. He just attacks any statement made by Beck or Palin.
It may not have been all she said, but it was not edited and all your lies can’t change that , Davey!
Dave, you are a race-baiting lying moron!
I heard that crap today where a lib said the vid was 24 years old.
I rolled on the floor- Now that’s lying “outside the box.”
Grampy nutso you old fool, you’ve got like what two minutes left on this earth and this is the best you can do with your life
Iris, the home called- your crib is ready!
This whole stupid notion that he has proven that no one said the N word is absurd. Listen to the video. You can’t hear anything. So he has no proof either way. I personally trust and admire the Civil Rights Hero John Lewis. A true patriot. Not a gossip rag mogul like Brightbitch.
Brightbitch would cry like a little girl if he went through this. http://static.open.salon.com/files/lewis-at-selma1251551529.jpg
The guy on the ground taking a beating from the white cops is Congressman John Lewis. The man that Brightbitch calls a liar. http://static.open.salon.com/files/lewis-at-selma1251551529.jpg
Dave, you’re deaf, I can hear it just fine and they are shouting, “kill the bill”. You’re a liar!
Aw Grampy nutso your concern for me is touching
Notsosmart it’s all there. Check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9NcCa_KjXk&feature=player_embedded
The video shows spit hitting the congressman. It doesn’t prove either way that there was racial slurs. Again John Lewis is a Hero. Brightbitch is well, a bitch.
So, we are seeing John King get on the CNN bandwagon and protecting the one and blaming Breitbart for the whole incident?
Too funny – John King, whose wife laughed hysterically when Kathy Griffin called Sen. Brown’s daughter’s prostitutes, and he is still pretending to be a fair jouno?
Sorry CNN, but you shot yourself in the foot again….John King is trying to blame the right for what the left did. Typcial CNNer – lies, lies, and more lies.
You can hear every word spoken by every person in that crowd. BULLSHIT!
Correction Dave Britebitch is a sorry asshat bitch
The video shows the spit as big as day. Take that fro off notsosmart and maybe you’ll see it.
The video shows the spit as big as day.
No it doesn’t Dave. Nice try though!
I guess that stupid remark was aimed at me. Not worth commenting.
As Johnny Cochran might have said ” Don’t set Shirley free until the whole tape you do see “. Or was that Nipsey Russell ?… Noland and Iris : Rabies is treatable .
Shelley I think you’re experiencing sympathy blindness
You must be as blind as beck. It happens at exactly 14 seconds into the video
Nice surprisingly, Michelle in Utah’s great hero has proven to be a huge, huge liar. Only a fool would believe anything Breitbart writes or says. O’Keefe should have sealed the deal, but …. A truly horrible person is Mt. Breitbart.
Of course, FOX did its level best to perpetuate the lie.
The usual suspects.
Bwha, ha ha ha ha ha! Rachel’s eating Fox’s and Breitbart’s faces. I’m also LMAO!
Apostrophe bones you are as stupid as you are partisan. You’re white is blinding me
Brietbart like most conservative don’t have sex. If they did they might understand that black women make beautiful lovers.
Dave, you need to really think about this. Nancy Pelosi and her gang walked through the crowd TRYING to provoke them. The media was everywhere to capture it when it happened and yet there is NO video of someone using the N word EVEN WITH a $100,000 reward. Is that what you want us to believe?
John Lewis is my Congressman and a civil rights hero . Emmanuel Lewis is the congressman who claims he was spat upon . I can tell one black person from another . Try it sometime .
Michelle you need to think about why you admittedly defend racist.
I am glad to see the NAACP is feeling its own self-inflicted pain and that Ms. Maddow is all in the Obama Administration’s face over this. We moderates, progressives and liberals are playing too nice. It’s time to throw the mud back in the lying rightist scums’ faces.
That wasn’t even my point you fucking retard. Lewis is the man Brightbitch is calling a liar for saying he was called the N word. Emmanuel Lewis was spit upon. You my friend are sick and twisted. Nice try though
Dave, that’s about the answer I was expecting. I couldn’t spin that one either if I were you.
So walking firm through an angry mob is provoking them. It’s a free country you ass hat. They can walk where they damn well please. Nice throw back to Jim Crow there Michelle
Michelle racist sympathizers like you are blind as beck. You’ll never get it. You’ve been taught the hatred you posses and it will take a lot of thinking outside of your upbringing for you to even get where I’m coming from. Good luck on your journey:)
Nancy was trying to paint herself as MLK, linking arms with her fellow civil righters. It was actually quite disgusting. And again, I can’t blame you for not being able to spin it. You had to use the old fall back liberal position that I’m a racist.
Tucker’s got more…..lots more.
Let’s see how Tommy addresses Tucker’s new revelations….that will be released tonight at midnight.
Names and everything….in a government attempt to shut down fox news. People who still hold places in the “journalist” community.
I wonder who sold out and gave the journolist archives up? What it Schuster? Is that why Olbermann is on an unscheduled vacation? Or will Olbermann be named specifically in the new reveal tomorrow?
I look forward to watching how Tommy does some dancing CYA tomorrow for his liberal pals.
You need to cool it Michelle. Your lying hero destroyed a good and decent woman. You had a part in that. A woman, I might add, who has worked hard to support her family and to help people. That’s a far greater accomplishment than you or your scum hero.
King is not.
Are you gonna wipe the mud off yours first, or the egg?
Go back to the Compound and fix your son’s dinner, Michelle. He’s hungry while you’re defending lying scum.
You are delirious and terribly wrong. Not that you’ll listen or change, but I feel better letting you know that.
Asshat Jones , your racial inferences are quite outdated though not suprising from an old fool
“Racism is used by the Left and the Democratic party to shut up opposition.” Andrew Breitbart
Unquestionably true, and has been for decades. Today’s release of the Journolist transcripts confirms the racist tactics and the collusion of the mainstream media with the Democrats in those tactics.
“This was never about Shirley Sherrod.”
Then Mr. Breitbart should at least have hidden her face. Furthermore, since she has been forced to resign, the story has become about her.
“I did not fire her.”
Weak and lame.
She didn’t mean that comment for you, you commies are on the same side.
That’s funny. She blames the NAACP, and says the White House fired her. Are you lying, King, or is Ms. Sherrod?
It’s about the “white-hating AUDIENCE laughing & applauding the anti-white racist story – Sherrod realized the errors of her ways…Racists in the naacp don’t!!!
- but it shows how quickly the Obama Cult will toss one of their own under the bus!!
TfT you must be watching Hannity. Did you get who that quote was from that he used? The liberal that said their strategy was to use racism so they wouldn’t have to talk about the actual issues and to discredit the TP.
Oh and royal race-baiter, shut up!
You’re right, Tim Z. Ank. I am angry with the Administration. I’m angry with the NAACP. I’m angry with that lying scum, Breitbart. I’m angry with the serial liars at FOX. I’m angry with people who won’t denounce the lying scum Breitbart and the liars at FOX. The difference between my anger and your anger and the anger of your ilk is it’s not going to go into years of bleating, moaning and whining, and I am going to act on my anger in a productive way. Tonight, I get my anger. Tomorrow, I started mopping up after the pigs.
I’m still trying to figure out this Breitbart fellow’s logic.
It seems from the clip that he’s trying not to backpedal and he desperately wants to get clicks for his “evidence” about a single incident that he claims was falsely portrayed and he’s wanting to keep the pressure on the NAACP to protect his “Tea Party” cred, but there’s a lot of cake and eating it too in his argument.
The villainous “left” and the NAACP has asked the Tea Party to distance themselves from their more racist elements and to rebuke anyone who transgresses. So, he posts a video of someone telling a story at a NAACP event and faults the audience for not condemning her, while now with the benefit of more information, he argues that the organization and her employers are wrong for distancing themselves from her remark, four months later.
So, if I’m understanding his logic; the audience should’ve immediately recoiled in terror in March and since they didn’t it shows that the NAACP is racist, while when the national organization became aware of the remarks and issued a statement, they were wrong for reacting the way he wanted the audience to have done?
After that, I’m still trying to figure out whether he’s saying that racism from Tea Party adherents should be investigated before the members are rebuked, as maybe should have been the case with Ms. Sherrod? And I’m not sure, but it looks like he’s saying that the national NAACP is racist because he feels one audience didn’t react appropriately, while the whole of the “Tea Party” movement isn’t racist because questionable statements only come from from individual members and small groups.
Sorry, Michelle, isn’t going to happen. You and your ilk have awakened a sleeping giant.
Now, please go feed your son.
Based on what I’ve seen reported, the tape was from March of this year and she was telling a story about something that had happened 24 years prior, before she worked for the feds and was still employed by the state.
“I’m angry with people who won’t denounce the lying scum Breitbart and the liars at FOX.”
I’m angry with people who won’t denounce the lying scum on the Journolist listserv.
Magister, as he just said on Hannity, he heard about this back in April, but it wasn’t until the NAACP made fools of themselves last week with their resolustion that he decided it was time to point out their utter hypocrisy. And there’s more to come! He’s sick of the left using racism to beat people over the head who have the nerve to disgree with BO. Frankly alot of us are sick of it as well.
Asshat Khan, Britefart wanted it to be about her and because of his jumping the shark it has become about him and the geezer channel fox. Britefart has teh stupid
Noland . Or Nobitch , in your parlance . Emmanuel Lewis played Webster . It’s Emmanuel Cleaver . Please keep it straight . If your are foaming at the mouth now , have Iris call the pound to pick you up . I know John Lewis . The poor man does not know what is going on . He remains in office because his staff covers for him . Calm down . Back away from the keyboard . …Bitch .
Funny Royal Race-Baiter, that’s what we’ve been saying for months about your ridiculous charges of racism!! Bring it!!
it has become about him and the geezer channel fox.
Iris, I think you need to visit the thread about Fox not even reporting on the story until the regime forced her out.
Ya the tea baggers arent racist just look at the signs at the rally’s. No racism here. BullShit. This guy will get his, and I hope it happens real soon. He’s a lying race bating asshole.
It was never about her, it was and is about the NCAAP,. and demonstrating the bunch of racists in their ranks. They brought this on themselves by claiming the Tea Party patriots are racists. As always, you point your finger at someone else, and two fingers are pointing back at yourself.
Good for Brietbart.
So, he edits a tape into an outright lie, and Hannity helps spread the lie. Are these your kind of folks, Michelle in Utah. Shame on you! I say: Shame on you!
“the whole of the “Tea Party” movement isn’t racist”
After reading the racist smears and character assassinations planned by the “journalists” on the Journolist list-serv, it is clear that 99.9% of the accusations against the Tea Party are lies.
Do you like all liars, orjust Breitbart?
FOX IS THE NEW MAINSTREAM MEDIA!
Daily Caller EXPOSED the collusion between network & print media, and editing their news coverage to work on behalf of Obama’s election!
Republicans should Boycott the Obama network & print media!
Oh and Royal Race-Baiter, since you are so worried about my son, I just ask him and he thinks I’m a GREAT mother, but he appreciates your concern.
Let’s see, we have a dead website you’re kicking around, whilst extolling the virtues of a huge liar spreading his lies with every word he types. Seems a bit misplaced to me.
So, if racism does not pervade the Tea Party and is not at the core of so many Teapartiers, why does Brietbart have to crucify a hardworking African American woman on false evidence to prove that point. I don’t think you appreciate the damage your great hero, the lying scum Breitbart and the liars at FOX have wrought today.
Like, he could answer otherwise.
@MichelleF: As tried to express in my earlier comment, Breitbart’s explanations requires you to divorce yourself from reason and all I’ve seen proven is that he posted a clip out of context to prove a point and now that he’s being called on it, he’s come up with some kind of convoluted argument to support his original point.
Oh, and he wants clicks for his “evidence” about one event.
Actually, he’s mad that I won’t let him respond himself, but I don’t want him that close to pure evil!!
“Let’s see, we have a dead website you’re kicking around, whilst extolling the virtues of a huge liar spreading his lies with every word he types. Seems a bit misplaced to me.” RRK
Even though I know you are a complete fool, I confess that sometimes you still manage to surprise me.
Michelle, a great mother isn’t a welfare queen who sits at the computer all day and all night, K?
You are given to fantasy, aren’t you?
These Right Wing thugs should be sued for mental anguish, estimated life time wage loss, etc. All of the Fox bunch who first fell for this doctored tape and raved on about it on their programs, should also be individually sued along with the corporation. If they were real journalists, they should have had someone from their “news group” covering the NAACP convention of any remarks. Where were those race bating scalawags?
How would you like to be a kid in Iris’ ballet class tomorrow ? Or a customer in Noland’s line at the Post Office ?
Son you are the bitch. You are a boy with boyish ideas and an adolescent mind. you need to grow up and expand your character beyond the musings of ReDEYE
Amen!
Well I think you have jello for brains and the sooner you turn off Fixed News maybe a brain will grow one day. Maybe?
Hey RRK,
Here’s what happend, he posted the video hoping to start the FOX Machine of lies. Then…… The real tape surfaced. He said, Oh Shit. Im Fucked. Im Caught In This Big Fucking Lie. That’s why he trying to spin his way out now. Caught lying by Everyone. What a fucking putz.
I wonder why Olbermann took two weeks off, unanounced. Will he be part of the new Daily Caller reveal to be released tonight at midnight?
I’m loving how the left is frothing at the mouth, working overtime on the CYA stuff.
Journalist archives are going to really put a dent in the lamestream media and who they colluded to elect the one. Too funny, I’m looking forward to daily caller tomorrow.
I love how the Rev Wright is back in the news….I wonder if John “sloppy seconds” Roberts will claim his show is a Rev Wright free zone again (journolist member extraordinaire).
Iris, I’ve NEVER received a welfare check in my entire life. Do I care if you believe me? Not even a little bit!
As my bumper sticker says, “raised Republican, I can take care of myself, thanks!”.
Simple, concise and true. Love it!
YEAH! Except that she was fired before Fox ever broadcast a word about the tape. Genius.
That broad was probably genuine, but the asshole naacp racists who were egging her on before she put anything in context are nothing but a bunch of racist dicks. I notice that there’s no video proof of any of the racism bullshit that the naacp contends of the tea party, but no one had to look real hard for racism at the naacp, did they? And I suspect that Breitbart, Carlson, and others have actually foreseen the dems tactic this time, and have pre-armed themselves, which is a hoot. Fuck those racist libs and dems, anyway.
Part 2 at midnight tonight!
Stayed tuned to the Daily Caller at midnight, more to come. In part, liberals in the media saying the gov’t should take Fox off the air. Oh those liberals and that pesky first amendment!
OOO, Lanquigirl is really mad cause the NAACP chair was jumping on Stoemfronts ass
If you’re here as much as she is, how does that work?
Why is BREITBART saying CNN should confirm whether Sherrod is talking about something that happened 24 years ago or more recently and what job she was holding at the time? Why is BREITBART saying CNN has to confirm anything in the video HE edited and released?! Breitbart is a duplicitous POS and this act — this hit piece — will go far in proving he’s a friggin’ fraud and a liar. Breitbart — and many conservatives, Republicans and teabaggers — aren’t even trying to hide the fact they’re playing on white fear and resentment for what could be the last couple of election cycles for short-term gain in Congress. It’s a numbers game and they’re on the losing end in the long run.
Not what he said.
Awwww, is Breibart hitting an iddy biddy nerve with the racist libs in the crowd?
tz , you and welfare michelle are here day and night defending these asshats and fools and both of you have teh stupid just like britefart (staying on topic)
hey dave, umadbro?
iris your pimp wants another 40. get back out on the street.
Awww is the NAACP hitting an iddy biddy nerve with the aryan nation stormfronters in the crowd?
iris how is the NAACP stepping on its own dick gonna hurt anybody but the NAACP?
poor poor black people, they got duped into getting home loans they cant afford and they fired that poor woman for no reason. i feel so sorry for them…
Ok, thought I’d give my two cents in this.
First of all, I have to say that Maddow got it wrong on her show tonight and many others have as well. Fox News (I can’t believe I”m saying this) did not report on this story on its broadcast until after her resignation, which means Fox News didn’t force her to resign or create tons of pressure to resign. If I’m wrong on this, please let me know. The rest of her segment, though was right on the money. I’m sure Mediaite will report on it.
That said, Brietbart, at the beginning of his video, along with many other right wingers, have implied that this was all while she was a federal official. She mentions in the video that this occurred around the inacting of the Chapter 12 bankruptcy for farms, which was in 1986. The point was that she has learned that she was wrong and that this was about redemption.
This whole thing has been twisted around not as a rebuke on Breitbart, but as a rebuke on the White House and the NAACP, as it rightly should have been. They should know not to take anything Breitbart says seriously until they know all the facts. Fox News also fell for it as they too thought it was horrible and racist what Sherrod said. Much of the earlier furor over this story was regarding how she was a federal official who had denied assistance to white people. News organizations reported this, including Fox News.
Everybody was guilty of commenting before the facts were out. Everybody. Andrew Breitbart duped us all.
Sherrod is not a racist. She may have harbored racist feelings in her past, but she has overcome them.
This country has turned into recess in kindergarten. NAACP is calling elements of the Tea Party racist. Tea Partiers are calling the NAACP racist. I’m frankly sick of it all. I can’t back up the NAACP’s claims that the Tea Party is racist because I have “infiltrated” a tea party event (not to make a scene, but just to observe) and I did not see a shred of racism at this event. Hell, I have a cousin that epitomizes the tea party, and at her son’s wedding, a black friend of the couple showed up and my cousin was delighted and chatted him up like they were the best of friends. Are there racists in the tea party? Sure, but the NAACP has more pressing issues to worry about regarding African Americans than alleged racism in the Tea Party. My concern about the tea party is many of the ridiculous accusations about how Obama is supposedly a Marxist and a Communist and a Fascists and (sighs) a racist. I can’t call the Tea Party racist because of the actions of a few, any more than a conservative can call liberals violent because of the actions of a few.
We thought we’d see the end of racial tensions in this country with the election of a black president. Guess that’s not the case. People on BOTH sides of the spectrum are guilty of playing the race card. What about residents of the Gulf? What about those who haven’t received unemployment checks while they look for jobs? What about bringing our troops home?
Problem is Lewis never said he heard the N word. He said a staffer told him. Why do you think he has never been interviewed about this ? Only two people have said they heard the N word. Both were proven liars.
One said it was coming down the steps when he heard the slurs. When showed that video he changed his story. He changed it again when shown the other video going up the steps. The other guy said he was standing next to someone when he heard it. The video showed he was not.
The NAACP started this with their attack on the Tea Party so now their getting a taste of there on medicine…..but instead of bother with people like Sherrod..Breit Barr should release videos of the warm welcome the anti-Semitic Louis Farakhan received when he spoke at NAACP events.
You’ll notice that iris has never said anything of substance. He’s a school kid who has douche lib parents and who can’t really think on his own.
Are you really that much of a dumbass? You ever hear of video cameras? Which grew popular in the 70’s. Or did you live in a closet most of your life? Of course you might only be 10yrs old.
Stoogedudes, I appreciate the objectivity in your post. It was both thought out and written well.
LMAFO !!!!!!!
Bill, this may hurt your dreams of Breitbart getting sued:
Official Ousted From Ag Department Had Taken USDA to Court, Won
The Agriculture Department has a lengthy history with the official forced to resign Monday over a controversial YouTube clip — it turns out she and a group she helped found with her husband won millions last year in a discrimination suit settlement with the federal government.
The information about the suit only thickens the plot that has evolved seemingly by the hour since Shirley Sherrod resigned late Monday as the department’s Georgia director of rural development.
She claims the video clip, which showed her telling a story about how she withheld her full assistance to a white farmer, omitted key details, and she argues she was pushed out by the Obama administration without getting a chance to tell her side. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is standing by his decision.
But it’s not the first time Sherrod faced off against the federal government. Days before she was appointed to the USDA post last year, her group reportedly won a $13 million settlement in a longstanding discrimination suit against the USDA known commonly as the Pigford case.
The Rural Development Leadership Network announced last summer that New Communities Inc. — a group Sherrod formed with husband Charles, who is a civil rights activist, and with other black farmers — had reached the agreement. The RDLN said the USDA had “refused” to offer new loans or restructure old loans to members of New Communities, leading to the discrimination claim.
The announcement said that in addition to the $13 million to New Communities, Shirley and Charles Sherrod would each get $150,000 for “pain and suffering.”
A USDA official told FoxNews.com on Tuesday that the settlement had “nothing to do with” Sherrod’s hiring last year — likewise, the official said her resignation was only the result of her comments in the video.
“This is all about her comments,” the official said.
Sorry, here’s the link: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/20/official-ousted-ag-department-took-usda-court-won/#commenting
Here’s the quote I was looking for:
Mary Frances Berry admitted this at the Politico:
Professor of American Social Thought and History, U. Penn. :
Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.
I breathlessly await the left’s spin of this.
Not surprisingly, Anderson was pro Sherrod tonight! The live blog on 360 tonight was heavily censored. From what I could tell 99% of the comments were supportive of Sherrod, but based on the comments I have seen on this story all over the Internet I know that the 360 moderators are just blocking the anti-Sherrod comments. I guess they think their viewers are dumb enough to believe that what they are representing to them is the truth.
I am not a fan of Breitbart’s, but Sherrod’s words, in the edited and unedited version of the video, speak for themselves. If those words had been spoken by a white person about a black individual, no matter what context it was taken out of, it would have been considered racist and no apology would have been sufficient.
I didn’t get my first VCR until about 83 or 84. Even then, there were very few video cameras out and about, and the ones that were out there were large and bulky and mostly only brought out for special occasions.
When I was a kid, 8mm and then Super 8 movie cameras had been around for years, and they were less bulky than the first video cassette cameras, but, who actually carried a movie camera around with them.
Tip of the hat Stoogedudes . Thanks for posting .
Again CNN and the left wingers are shooting the messenger. Breitbart didn’t put those words in Sherrod’s mouth.
Ha ha ha ha ha watch him squirm like the worm he is. That’s the face of a man realizing his credibility is done. His niche is “gotcha” journalism, and he will never be believed again….
OH! So we’re suppose to judge the history on the video camera on when you got your first VCR? Quit showing your ignorance.
Thanks to Bowenisland for additional info on Mary Frances Barry:
She is the former Chairwoman of The United States Commission on Civil Rights, appointed by Jimmy Carter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Frances_Berry
“in one speech, Berry embarrassed the Carter administration by praising major aspects of the education system in communist China,”[2] specifically seeing no problem in the government’s requirement that students develop “socialist consciousness and culture” as a condition of attending university. “It would be both cheap and easy for us here in America to denounce that approach,”[citation needed] she said.”
And “she wrote in 1984 that “civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.”
Kudos bowen!
ugh… well I’d like to add my two cents…
I’d first like to say that this story is interesting because without the story written for it by Breitbart, it really isn’t a story at all. Even in the video shown by BigGovernment Sherrod makes a note that it’s about “the poor” and not the race of the person. The fact that there are even comments on this very article seems to me that there are extreme partisan/bigoted (and I mean that in the nicest, closest to dictionary definition) sentiments of the commenters.
That being said, I think that the media (and many others) in general should be ashamed of itself for this story. First, Breitbart. Not only did he frame a story about a reconciliation and true American spirit about racism, but he had the knowledge of this tape since April, and said that he just got the tape this week. Did he not do any other research then watch the tape that he supposedly had as is? Did he speak to anyone that attended the benefit or the members of the NAACP that ran the benefit? I’m going to say most likely not. And ran a half-cocked story that as much as he may say didn’t get her fired, the fact that he didn’t do HIS due diligence on the story gives him a chunk of the fault. All of this is assuming that he is a fair, reputable journalist without an underlying agenda, but basically, had he done his homework, it wouldn’t be an issue. Secondly, shame on Fox, the NAACP, the USDA, and the administration for not doing their due diligence before jumping the gun. I saw the videos of O’Reilly, Hannity, etc. ridiculing Ms. Sherrod, and if you make a statement based on false information and run with a story, when you could have looked into the issue and find out later the information is false, then you do not deserve to call your pieces news. And that goes for the Left and the Right. In the same token, where is the responsibility of the media in this? Had, in the short life of this story, the NAACP, the USDA, and the administration not acted at all, what would the media have said? It would have set people like Megyn Kelly up to run a story to confirm her claims of Obama’s “racism”. Instead they did what would be sound political discourse, given the facts at hand, and renounced the problem. Granted many other organizations could take a lesson from those actions, but now they should retract, and give her the job back, in my opinion.
I feel as if it is irresponsible in this situation to say that “you didn’t fire her” yourself. When had all the facts of the story been brought to the table, IT WOULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED. I mean, we can liken this to the Gen. McChrystal story. Whereas, Michael Hastings may have been ridiculed but he simply wrote McChrystal’s words, and although you may argue it, most if it was in context and he had invited him into his inner circle. Sherrod’s words, in a limited, framed context, although by themselves may be damning, within the FULL story fit perfectly and turn out to be a wonderful story.
Whats more interesting to me in this is how and where people are pointing the finger. I read a story on RedState that this is all somehow the Left’s fault. Do they have fault in it? Yeah, to an extent. But this was a story put together by a conservative “tea party” guy, and was run by a conservative “news” channel. Where exactly do you get that the Left is to blame, completely for this? At the same time, even with the access of the full story, people will still consider Shirley Sherrod a racist for her words. Which is preposterous. Shirley Sherrod may have had her own reservations about white people, which unfortunate as it may be is slightly understandable, her father was killed by a klansman. But her story was one of building bridges and new understandings, and I think this is something that we all, Left and Right, should take a step back and take the time to realize, personalize, and pontificate.
Concerned. OUT!
Hey dumbass, what’s this have to do with Mary Frances Barry?
You were implying by this comment that video cameras were popular in the 1970’s. They weren’t.
Judge whatever you want. I simply pointed out that I bought my first VCR in the early 80’s, and I was about average. Most people bought VCR’s before buying actual cameras, and those that were available at the time were bulky. It’s not as though everyone had a video camera in their breast pocket, as they do with their phones these days.
John, the topic has always been liberal race-baiting. It’s highly relevant dimwit. Now, I think I’ll go get a good night’s sleep.
So a video of a single statement is said to be telling of how this woman is racist, but in it’s entirety shows how she’s overcome racism, but it’s liberal race-baiting? Isn’t this a classic case of conservative race-baiting?… just saying
Yeah, you probably don’t get very many hits on your porno live cam, fatso.com.
The ONLY difference between the McChrystal firing and the Sherrod dismissal is race. McChrystal made derogatory comments about a black man, which is against all the PC rules, and Sherrod made racial comments about a white family, which for some strange reason has become acceptable in this day and age.
People who have problems with the Sherrod firing are more concerned about who posted the tape and that it was “edited” and less concerned about what she actually said. Reverse the races in this scenario and then ask yourself if it would have been acceptable to the PC bunch.
Beyond the broad saying stupid things, it’s the crowd at the naacp event where she was at and their responses before she even finished her story which is the racist bullshit here. The naacp most recently shit on the tea party for alleged racism, yet here’s a video of a gathering of naacp members egging this dumb chick on with what they thought was going to be a story of how she fucked over whitey. Yup, the naacp is a bunch of racist fucks, and they need to purge the fucken poison from their ranks. Which is pretty much everyone.
Why don’t you go down and listen to the whole video? No, you won’t do that, because you can’t stand the truth. And McChrystal didn’t just make derogatory statements against Obama, but everyone else that was higher than him.
Well maybe you also need to listen to the whole story. Obviously you have an awkward view of racism and being that small statement is apart of a broad story about breaking down racial barriers you are obviously wrong.
PS. The Breitbart captioning pointed out what one person said in the audience. But the crowd gave a thunderous applause when she said that what was important wasn’t race, but the haves and have nots. So that makes them all racists? Isn’t that stereotyping? Didn’t the NAACP renounce her statement and the crowds reactions when that was all they knew? But somehow because they denounced “racism” they are still racist? You can’t have your cake and eat it too…
For the uninformed on this blog, I have listened to the entire unedited Sherrod video several times, but it does not change my opinion about what she said. Her comments are still racist.
I did, and have concluded that the naacp is full of overtly racist assholes. As have most normal people.
And both of you don’t have the intelligence to understand it, or you just don’t want to. Which makes you a fucking racist. Better move out of your glass houses.
Well I’m not sure exactly how you came to that conclusion but you have your right to your own opinion. I have not seen the NAACP as racist in this, considering they initially condemned not only what was thought to be racist remarks by the person, but the crowd as well and have a track record of supporting civil rights issues for not only African Americans, but also Whites… As I said, to each his own…
Well, john t, since you take the side of racists, and make no mistake, unless one is a fucking blind dildo, one knows that the naacp is overtly racist, I guess that makes you a piece of shit racist. You’re in the same lib douche company as normal though, since all of you racist assholes are defending racism. Fucken bastards.
“They (the white house) asked me to resign. And in fact, they harassed me” – Shirley Sherrod
Ouch.
The left and the white house just stepped in it, big time.
You’ve shown over and over again who is the racist, and it sure ain’t me. Go look in the mirror.
SHEESH!
It’s a real hoot watching you Breitbart clones desperately trying to clean this one up, and thoughtlessly parroting your masters narrative, despite the evidence.
From your posts, it’s clear that most of you don’t even have the basics of this story straight at all (then again, that was never part of Andys plan for you.)
Face it, papa went and shot himself square in his own foot with this fiasco.
He has made a fool of himself by not checking the very footage to which he has had you react so violently. He works you like the puppets he needs you to be! He even has you re-program yourselves like robots over the very message of this story.
But no matter how Breitbart tries to spin this, he’s been exposed (by his own hand) as the mean-spirited liar that he truly is.
This whole affair says so much more about Andy’s own deviousness (and that of his crack-head staff) than it ever could about NAACP or Ms Sherrod. Even people on the right are starting to see that.
The only person now exposed as dishonorable and unreliable is Andrew Breitbart. He has no one to blame but himself for letting his misplaced anger push his reckless lack of foresight, and smother what little integrity he might still own.
The evidence is stacked miles high against him on this one, and now (thanks entirely to his own efforts) there’s nothing that will change that.
He posted an edited portion of a speech cut in such a way as to erase the actual story that Sherrod was telling, and that is now more than obvious.
He posted not even a quarter of her story and fed it to you numb-skulls in his following as the very fantasy you all wallow in so pathetically. (You drank it down like crazy kool-aid on a hot Gayana afternoon.)
Sherrod was talking about her journey out of racism, and the white farmer in question continues to be friends with her. He has already made his own perspective clear to the public, and has called Breitbart out for the devious charlatan that he is.
Now that Andy has been exposed, his website has changed the memo on this whole affair, and his faithful following re-programs themselves to filter the whole sordid mess through a fresh vista of absurdity. (Your loyalty must do you proud!)
Breitbart, maybe that unquestioning moron gimp crowd who follow you like a pack of sad strays might choose to fall for this.
But now even people on the right are seeing you for the unreliable and malicious liar that you truly are.
Keep it coming Andy, the more horse puckey you spit out, the more clear it is that youre just a blathering ass.
500K4Sarah2Speak,
Bravo, very well stated.
Bierbert didn’t fire Sherrod. He just TOLD THE LIE that got her FIRED. BEIRBERT IS A LYING RACE BAITER WITH THE COLOSSIAL HELP OF FOX!!!
And all the right wing lemmings and the NAACP fell for that lie. Goes to show you. You can’t believe EVERYTHING you see. (i.e) The New Black Panther video.
For once the Teabaggers are right: They didn’t fire Sherrod. Obama and his gutless stooges did that because they are cowards who are scared of the Teabaggers.
I’m loving this according to the writer “As for Breitbart, he is going to have to answer to some extra “snookering” before he can evaluate this performance.”
Good!!! And the Fox’s boy was caught with his pants down. Fox isn’t going to find it so easy to get away with their B.S. in the future. And…..the WH and NAACP won’t pay attention to their NEXT pack of lies. BTW who is the person in the WH everyone is talking about??
EGG ON BIERBERT FACE. DEFINITELY A PROBLEM FOR FOX IN THE FUTURE. HEY FAUX WANT TO BRING OUT ANOTHER EDITED TAPE TOMORROW.
ACORN IS THE WINNER!!! GOOOOOOOOO ACORN YOU SAID FOX WAS LYING. NOW THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS!! FOX PALS AROUND WITH LIARS LIKE BIERBERT. SO THEY MUST BE LIARS.
Sorry Jelperman
You’re lying “scumbag” started it. The only thing The WH did. If in fact they did ANYTHING is prove they aren’t RACIST like Baggers and they were willing to stand up FOR THE WHITE FARMERS unlike that racist bag of Lying scumbags BIERBERT AND THEIR BUDDIES FAUX.
YOU LOST. Let Fox put out another tape tomorrow and see how many people believe them. Just you and your Kool Aid drinking buddies.
(Tea Hee) I can’t WAAAAIIIIIITTTTTTTT! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
ACORN IS THE WINNER. THEY ALWAYS SAID THEIR TAPE WAS EDITED. And “righties” all over the internet flapping their jaws about how they saw it on TEEEVEEEE from the most “Fair and balanced” New Media. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
FAUX PALIN’ AROUND WITH THAT LIAR BIERBERT!!
SUE ACORN SUE. ADD FAUX TO YOUR LAWSUIT AND ASK FOR $30 MILLION.
All of the Fox viewers will believe it. Since that’s the only channel the dumbasses watch.
THE WHITE HOUSE AND NAACP STOOP UP FOR WHITE FARMERS AND THEIR NO TOLERANCE POLICY.
BIERBERT AND THE RIGHTIES TRIED TO VICTIMIZE AN ‘INNOCENT AFRICAN AMERICAN’ AGAIN.
BUSTED!!
John King, you are an idiot for letting Breitbart off-topic filibuster like that.
Do your damn job.
It’s funny to watch his meltdown though. I can’t wait for tomorrow. It will not be a good day for him. lol
This is definitely Andrew Breitbarts McCarthy moment.
All that’s left is for someone to stand up and say….
“Until this moment, Andrew, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Let us not assassinate this lady further. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?”
Big F—
The NAACP and WH have “short term” EGG on their FACES. But FOX is going to be “tainted” for a LONG time by this. And….Breitbart may have one last horrah. But his h8ful mess is exposed. And….Fox can spin it any way they want but they are CLOSELY associated with him. People will initially talk about the NAACP and WH. But eventually they’re going to get around to FOX and ACORN tape and Van Jones and O’Keefe and Breitbart and how far Fox will Go to bring down the Pres.
If Beck wants to do something next month worthwhile. He’ll steer people toward “racial healing” instead of Bashing the Pres. all day. Of course that “idiot” Palin will stand there with her usual “idiot” rant. But this is Becks moment go down in History as a Real Patriot or go down in History as a Hack.
Guess what, dipshit -Obama’s flunkies fired Sherrod. They fired her because either they were stupid enough to believe a serial liar like Breitbart, who has a history of pimping doctored video OR because they are gutless cowards who don’t have the balls to stand up to creeps like Breitbart. Given that Van Jones was also fired after Glenn Beck and his little hate campaign smeared Jones as a communist, it’s obviously the latter.
If Obama had a pair of balls, Sherrod would still have a job.
Please. Most Americans can stomach lying and stupidity and corruption, but no matter what their political beliefs are, they can’t stand a wimp -and that’s exactly what Obama is: a WIMP! If he had a backbone he wouldn’t have fired Sherrod. If he grows one in the next 24 hours he’ll re-hire Sherrod Brown and apologize for how she was treated.
yweston said:
Big F—
The NAACP and WH have “short term” EGG on their FACES. But FOX is going to be “tainted” for a LONG time by this.
FOX didn’t break this story.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/fox-news-responds-to-naacp-snookering-accusation-we-didnt-even-do-the-story/
Fox proves day after day that it is not a news outlet; this is just more of the same.
The question is why the White House fell for the sneaky Fox’s propaganda.
@Jelperman:
Get over it. In the END Fox is exposed and they will eventually be held accountable for all their lies. ACORN, VAN JONES AND NOW THIS. Breitbart is a liar closely associated with Fox. And….People aren’t going to be sooo…..QUICK to believe them and their phoney video ANY MORE. That includes the White House.
FOX IS THE BIGGEST LOSER!!
Glenn Beck helping Ms. Sherrod is like a “Crack Dealer” helping a woman who has been “robbed and mugged” by his ‘CLIENTS’
This is the text of my e-mail sent to President Obama overnight. I understand thousands of such e-mails have been transmitted and thousand more will be.
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Sir:
My letter addresses, in particular, those Administration actions which led to the forced resignation of Ms. Shirley Sherrod. In the witch hunt-like hysteria bought about by the lies of Andrew Breitbart and his various outlets and certain media personalities at FOX News, eager to perpetuate the lies, your Administration acted rashly. We all understand the toxic racial environment in which this unfolded, and the Administration’s noble desire and efforts to clean this environmental catastrophe are commendable. However, to over-react to self-serving liars masquerading as journalists creates yet another problem. The victim of Mr. Breitbart and such FOX News personalities as Glenn Beck, Steve Douchey and Sean Hannity, and others, Ms. Sherrod, needs to be given the opportunity to return to her position. She is, by all accounts, a good and decent person, a loyal and valuable public servant. Right the wrong your Administration has perpetuated, at once.
The Administration has a larger problem, however. In its efforts to illustrate its post-racial nature, the Administration has previously overly-reacted to reports by, frankly, lying scumbags, wholly devoid of personal and journalistic integrity, with the only discernible effect being the loss of talented, dedicated individuals in the Administration. You have gained no respect by the loathsome cretins, and you have effectively encouraged them. The Administration has tried, honestly and aggressively to reach out to these marginal people in our media who have being openly hostile to the Administration and to you from the moment your 2008 victory became apparent. No good end has come, and none will come. These are not good people. You simply have to accept the fact you are dealing with shameless self-promoters without any respect for their profession, for you or for our nation. You have to adjust your policies accordingly. I encourage you to do so, at once.
Respectfully,
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TRUTH AND DECENCY DIE AT BREITBART AND FOX NEWS!
No, Sara N. Italy. FOX News seldom breaks any story. However, it lapped up the Breitbart lies and vomited them out. FOX News is every bit as despicable as Breitbart.
TRUTH AND DECENCY DIE AT BREITBART AND FOX NEWS!
Indeed!
TRUTH AND DECENCY DIE AT BREITBART AND FOX NEWS.
A wonderful piece on Breitbart’s lies and general shoddiness:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/07/the-breitbart-circus/60137/
TRUTH AND DECENCY DIE AT BREITBART AND FOX NEWS!
This is the key point in the Atlantic piece:
Breitbart focuses on race. Today’s episode with Shirley Sherrod, who was forced to resign from the Agriculture Department on the basis of a doctored and intentionally misleading videotape (see below), is an especially ugly case in point, calculated to stir the very worst racial resentments. This time the political world–the NAACP, the Agriculture Secretary–moved as quickly as the media world to unthinking response, and I suspect it happened precisely because race was involved. I don’t doubt that the administration’s understandable desire to avoid racial issues played a big part in how this turned out.
TRUTH AND DECENCY DIE AT BREITBART AND FOX NEWS!
Where pray tell was John King demanding evidence from the NCAAP regarding their “tea partiers are racist” statements? He was NOWHERE.
Just more double standards at CNN. Protect teh one at all costs, demean the tea party patriots.
Brietbart’s points are and should be well taken – the left and the media (is there a difference?) slandered the tea partiers without evidence, and now claim that Breitbart did the same.
Gawd, the media sucks.
Truth and decency die everywhere EXCEPT fox news. MSNBC, CNN, NBCABCCBS and print media all claimed the tea partiers were racists, without one shred of evidence.
There is no doubt that the audience applauded her racist statement, even though that was only part of her story. If you deny that, you are deaf and blind.
By all means, let’s not focus on Breitbart’s continuous lies and Hannity’s perpetuation of those lies which have resulted in the forced resignation of a good and decent woman who, demonstrably, did much to help people who needed help. Ancient grudges and canned criticisms, well beyond their shelf lives, are what truly matter.
TRUTH AND DECENCY DIE AT BREITBART AND FOX NEWS!
This has to be one of the weakest interviews done by a so-called reporter I’ve ever seen. John King is not prepared and he doesnt keep Breitbart on subject or accountable. King is a minor leaguer Sherrod mentioned this incident with the farmer occurred when gvt first passed farm insurance – back i the 1980s. Hence the time-frame..
King, you’re always pointing out that no one watches Fox, so how did they influence anything? And was it Fox or Breitbart who actually did the firing?
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“The full video shows that it was edited in away to make her look like she was being malicious. In all actuality she was talking about a life journey out of racism. This is a fucking hit piece and nothing more. Andrew brightbitch will be exposed soon for the racist fraud he is. Disgraceful”
This video was intended to show how the group of NAACP personnel LAUGHED AND CLAPPED when Sherrod was only half-way through the parable (life journey out of racism). The group in the room didn’t understand she was explaining her “life journey” because she hadn’t yet finished the story. The whole room joyfully expressed their agreement when she told them the part about ignoring the plight of a poor white farmer.
The video is damning evidence of racism at the NAACP, the very same organization who attacked the Tea Party a week earlier with no real evidence to support wide-spread overt racism. The clip of the man spitting on the CBC member on the steps is terrible, but it’s just ONE man. The Sherrod video shows a large group of important NAACP members cheering for racism, and today NAACP has condemned it.
King, in that novel you wrote to the president, you left out your hatred of white people, and how you completely ignore racism when it comes from blacks such as the panthers, Rev. Wright, or Farrakhan. You should write another letter and tell Obama just how badly you hate whites, then maybe you two could have a beer summit to talk it over.
Shirley Sherrod doesn’t work for Andrew Breitbart, she works for the government. The White House fired her, period.
@Joe Shaver: It was a small group of local members who nodded in recognition. Earlier, I compared it to a waiter telling a gathering of restaurant employees about the rude actions of a customer, which caused them to think about spitting in the soup.
In actuality, the reaction was more reserved than what can be typically found on Sunday morning at some predominantly African-American churches, when the preacher is talking about the behavior or justifications offered by a sinner. It doesn’t mean that the congregation endorses the sin, it just means that they found a truth in the story.
@Magister
The group in the room definitely clapped and laughed, feeling safe to do so in a room with no white people. And even if it were true, nodding in agreement is agreement with a racist sentiment nonetheless.
Yes, the recent Breitbart video was definitely intended as a hit job on a Obama administration appointee (and resulted in her firing). And yes, the rest of the video shows the second half of Sherrod’s story, a recounting of a life journey/epiphany, and how she eventually recognized her own prejudices and “overcame” them. The video was edited to skew the context, period. Shame on Breitbart.
In related news it’s interesting to see the Obama people extracting their collective foot from Shirley Sherrod’s rear today. “Sorry ma’am, we throw people under the bus reflexively, I’m sure you understand, we shall overcome this..” and so on.
That being said, consider the fact that Breitbart had the video since March. He didn’t release it to randomly attack Obama’s interests, rather, he released the video to counteract and defend against the NAACP’s recent attack on the Tea Party. You know, the narrative that every single US news broadcast covered last week, the manufactured story that was purposely coordinated by the Obama administration and the NAACP to to discredit and marginalize the American Right a few months before the mid-term elections. Yeah that one.
When viewed in it’s entirety, the most important aspect of the video isn’t Sherrod’s story at all. The real controversy stems from the audience’s reaction. The whole room of card-carrying NAACP personnel laughed, clapped, and more or less cheered when Sherrod was only half way through her story. They couldn’t have understood she was relating a parable of personal growth; she hadn’t yet finished speaking. The whole room joyfully expressed their agreement when she told them the part about ignoring the plight of a poor white farmer. Yeah! Stick it to that cracker!
The video is damning evidence of racism within the ranks of the NAACP, the very same organization who attacked the Tea Party a week earlier, the very same organization founded as a bastion of resistance to bigotry. The hypocrisy is palpable.
Granted, there is inconclusive video evidence of a man spitting on a Congressional Black Caucus member (saliva that may have been inadvertently discharged while the man was belching non racially-epithetic rhetoric inches from the congressman) and few crazies carrying Obama-is-a-monkey placards at rallies open to the general public. The Left’s evidence of Tea Party racism is sparse and piece meal at best. The Sherrod video isn’t from an outdoor public rally, but an invitation-only NAACP-sanctioned event.
The fact remains that anyone who doesn’t believe the Sherrod video is sickening evidence of racism within the NAACP is either blind or stupid. Even the NAACP condemned the crowd’s behavior.
No, you just edited a tape of hers to make her seem like she was saying something and THAT got her fired
But no, you had nothing to do with it….except all of it
People like this make others wonder how stupid some people can get
A manipulating creep ,,,,all this over trying to get recognition for the Tea Party…Your credibility is down the tubes there Breitbart!!!! Hope it was worth it,,,
One of the worst interviews I have ever seen. Breitbart changes the subject every time he’s asked a question he doesn’t like, and King just allows it. That’s not to say that everything Breitbart mentions is irrelevant, but King never gets the change to play video that’s central to the story because Breitbart cuts him off. Regardless of you political leanings, I think most people would agree that Breitbart is a pretty odious person. Why is he always so agitated? When you’re a conservative and even Sean Hannity can barely stand to do an interview with you, something is very wrong. He’s not helping anyone’s cause by appearing on television.
There is no question that the Chair of the NAACP made a racist statement. There is no question that Shabazz of the NBPP made a racist statement. Wright has made racist statements. The NAACP and WH fired Sherrod without knowing the facts and without due process. Now the WH is offering a job to Sherrod. Breitbart has offered a $100k for anyone showing proof of spitting or N-word. The money is unclaimed. Obama jumped the white cop and defended the black Harvard professor, before he knew the facts. Abrams stepped forward to say that O’Reilly had make a mistake and that he had recommended that he apologize, which O’Reilly did. I believe these incidents are well documented and are acknowledged by both liberals and conservatives.
ill see you in hell breitbart
Thank you, Andy Breitbart! Your video exposed the RACISM among the NAACP who had just called the TEA PARTY a bunch of RACISTS! Even though your video did touch on Shirley admission that she was wrong in her early dealings with the white farmer, it also showed the members of the NAACP laughing and affirming her overt RACISM which had occurred years ago. I understand you held on to the video for at least 3 months and didn’t use it until Ben Jealous, the IDIOT CEO of the NAACP came out with his RACISM claim on the Tea Party. The PROGRESSIVE PUKES will try and blame you for their own failures. You are a Patriot and an American Hero. We can count on REAL TRUTH from Big Government and Big Journalism. The fact that the White House and the goofball head of the NAACP jumped the gun and fired Shirley without finding the full story is THEIR PROBLEM, not yours. Keep up the good work!! The real truth-seekers in this nation are behind you, 100%!
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