skippy the bush kangaroo: que sherrod, sherrod, whoever will sue, will sue

Thursday, July 29, 2010

que sherrod, sherrod, whoever will sue, will sue

sharon sharrod is going to sue andrew ~~asshole~~ breitbart. usatoady:

ousted usda employee shirley sherrod says she will sue conservative blogger andrew breitbart, the associated press reports.

sherrod made the announcement thursday in san diego at the national association of black journalists annual convention.

breitbart posted a heavily edited video of sherrod on his website, biggovernment.com, speaking to an naacp group and appearing to admit that she had deliberately refrained from giving full assistance to a farmer because he was white.

she is referred to on the site as a "racist govt employee."

the political fallout from the posting prompted the agriculture department to force sherrod to resign.

a full version of the speech, released later, shows that she was referring to an incident that occurred more than two decades earlier and lessons she learned after initially hesitating to help a white farmer save his home.

politico tells us breitbart is unapologetic:

breitbart did not immediately respond to a request for comment. he has not apologized for posting the misleading video, arguing that the incident was “not about shirley sherrod” and was instead about the naacp’s accusation that the tea party has employed “racist tactics.”

"andrew breitbart is going to be fine. he's done nothing wrong,” said brent bozell, president of the conservative media research center. “i wonder if ms. sherrod, who is such a champion of transparency, will publicly disclose who is putting her up to this. and i also hope this champion of honesty will stop lying about fox news. i'm also waiting for ms. sherrod to publicly apologize for accusing anyone opposed to nationalized health care of being racist. last time i checked, that was more than half the country."

actually, more than half the country thinks brent bozell is stoopid.

posted by skippy at 1:12 PM |

4 Comments:

Why should anyoneneed to "put her up to this"? She's an injured party. I would be surprised if lawyers had not been abandoning ambulances to get her to give them the case.

Mr. Bozell is getting closer to having his own face at the dictionary definition of "meretricious."

commented by

D., 1:33 PM PDT

The right fringe is going nuts over the possibility of a lawsuit. They are demonizing Ms. Sherrod like no get go. (Some of what they are saying might very well be actionable.)

I smell fear on the racist right.

commented by

libhom, 7:16 PM PDT

It is just so outrageous that someone like Breitbart receives the attention that he does. And the fact that the media consider him to be a viable source of information is mind boggling. Maybe I am not sufficiently cynical yet, but I do not understand why we are not striving for higher standards here. I understand that the media does, after all, try to sell itself for as much as it can, I am not naive. But isn't there any journalistic integrity left to prevent this sort of nonsense from being pervasive? Or are we past that point...?

commented by

Michael, 10:19 PM PDT

This is the skippy the idiot page. Breitbart did this to her out into the light about her involvement in the "Pigford vs USDA" case. Where a court decision in favor of black farmers being denied help from the USDA. The problem was the census only showed something like 36,000 black farmers in the country but when it was over, the USDA had paid out to almost 84,000 and Mr.Sharrod was quite rich all of a sudden. On USDA pay? Something smells here.

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