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Andrew Breitbart is more subtle than Axe Handle Maddox but appears to have the same fondness for targeting minorities and is demonstrating that he can be effective in destroying their careers and reputations even if he leaves their skulls intact.
First his pimp-and-pony show brought down ACORN, which was cleared of all charges only after the organization was de-funded and disbanded due to outrage Breitbart manufactured with selectively edited video and Fox-enabled lies about the circumstances of the taping.
And now he’s collected another scalp: Georgia USDA employee Shirley Sherrod resigned after Breitbart obtained and selectively edited a tape of a speech she gave at an NAACP event. The tape was edited to make it appear Sherrod withheld assistance to retaliate against a prejudiced white farmer. But according to Sherrod, others who heard the entire speech and the supposed victim of Sherrod’s prejudice, that wasn’t the end of the story:
Sherrod said the short video clip excluded the breadth of the story about how she eventually worked with the man over a two-year period to help ward off foreclosure of his farm, and how she eventually became friends with him and his wife.
“And I went on to work with many more white farmers,” she said. “The story helped me realize that race is not the issue, it’s about the people who have and the people who don’t. When I speak to groups, I try to speak about getting beyond the issue of race.”
ROBERTS: Miss Sherrod, let’s make it clear though, that this happened 24 years ago. You eventually worked with this white farmer. You eventually became friends, you say, with the farmer and his wife.
SHERROD: Yes.
ROBERTS: So, the question I have is, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture came to you and said you have to step down, why didn’t you just say, wait a minute, you don’t know the full story. Here’s the full story, why should I step down?
SHERROD: I did say that, but they, for some reason, the stuff that Fox and the Tea Party does is scaring the administration. I told them get the whole tape and look at the whole tape and look at how I tell people we have to get beyond race and start working together.
ROBERTS: Many people at home might be thinking if you’re recounting an old story, why did you succumb to pressure to step down, why didn’t you fight this?
SHERROD: If I tried to fight it and didn’t have any support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, what would I do?
So Breitbart is a liar and a bully—that’s not exactly news. But what pisses me off is that USDA, NAACP and White House officials knuckled under to the Foxbagger tactics. If you give those bullies an inch, they’ll take a mile. Didn’t they learn that on the playground?
The NAACP owes Sherrod an apology. The USDA owes Sherrod an apology—and reinstatement. And Breitbart, who should have been thoroughly discredited after the pimp-and-pony ACORN stunt, should be ignored by anyone remotely interested in the truth, i.e., everyone but the teabaggers and Fox race-baiters who are Breitbart’s target audience.
Jesus, people. This not rocket science: Liars lie. Don’t trust them.
Posted by Betty Cracker on 07/20/10 at 03:38 PM • Permalink
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