Shirley Sherrod To Sue Cowardly Andrew Breitbart

Cowardly Andrew BreitbartShirley Sherrod spoke today at a convention for the National Association of Black Journalists. Andrew Breitbart was also invited to speak. He initially accepted the invitation but later rescinded his acceptance. Perhaps he chickened out after he heard that Sherrod would be there.

Breitbart has good reason to be afraid. During her remarks Sherrod noted that she would “definitely” sue Breitbart for posting a grossly deceptive video that implied that Sherrod was a racist. She added that “He had to know that he was targeting me.” She further noted that Breitbart has not apologized and that, at this point, she’s not interested. She is clearly a women who knows her own mind and knows racism when she sees it:

“I saw it in what they did, in what Fox did and in what Breitbart did. I knew it was racism when it happened to me, and no one had to tell me that.”

It’s interesting that Bill O’Reilly saw fit to apologize to Sherrod. Fox News Sr. VP Michael Clemente even acknowledged a “breakdown” within his news operation. But Breitbart said that he has nothing for which to apologize. And Breitbart crony Brent Bozell of the uber-conservative Media Research Center said that Sherrod should apologize to Breitbart and Fox. These people are seriously ill.

Contrast that with the comments by President Obama today in a speech before the National Urban League (which was carried live by CNN and MSNBC, but not by Fox News):

“Now, last week, I had the chance to talk to Shirley Sherrod, an exemplary woman whose experiences mark both the challenges we have faced and the progress that we’ve made. She deserves better than what happened last week when a bogus controversy based on selective and deceiving excerpts of a speech led her led to her forced resignation.

Now, many are to blame for the reaction and overreaction that followed these comments, including my own administration. And what I said to Shirley was that the full story she was trying to tell, a story about overcoming our own biases and recognizing ourselves in folks who, on the surface, seem different, is exactly the kind of story we need to hear in America.”

Why is the right so incapable of exhibiting the slightest bit of decency, humility, or honor? Sherrod was clearly defamed and she deserves her day in court. In fact, it wouldn’t be so bad if the case was expanded to a class action against Breitbart and Fox News with the addition of Van Jones and ACORN as complainants. They were every bit as much victims of Breitbart and Fox. And if Sherrod creates a legal defense fund I will be happy to donate and to promote it.

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13 thoughts on “Shirley Sherrod To Sue Cowardly Andrew Breitbart

  1. I have to laugh at the thought of the right “exhibiting the slightest bit of decency, humility, or honor.”

  2. Shirley Sherrod will lose this case, assuming any lawyer takes up the cuase. If anybody should be sued, it’s the Dept. of Agriculture for forcing her to resign over something that was flating around the internet. This would be like Sarah Palin suing Daily Kos and Andrew Sullivan for promoting the Trig Truther conspiracy. And Sherrod’s cries of racism ring 100% hollow.

    • Scott, if Shirley Sherrod had been white would Breitbart have run the story? The answer is no, so your argument rings 100% hollow.

    • Scott, you’re a dumbshit. She has the best defamation case I’ve ever seen in years of legal practice. She’ll get millions in punitives and put scum Breitfart into bankruptcy. She’ll do to him what the Goldmans did to O.J.–take all of his money away.

  3. Wonder how obama talked her out of suing the government?……..Going to have to keep an eye on her bank account.

    • The government apologized and offered her job back, so she would have no case. It’s called remediation.

      Breitbart neither apologized nor sought remedial measures to undo the harm he caused. He’s toast.

  4. Couldn’t happen to a more fitting joker. Sure hope racism doesn’t distract from the War On Freedom of Religion that the Grinch annonced today.

    ay.

  5. “If Shirley Sherrod had been white…the answer is no, so…”

    How do you know? Can you read minds, Spock?

    Think about this: There is an Andrew who spewed out more falsehood than Breitbart. His name is Andrew Sullivan. Breitbart posted a video without checking to see if there was more to the story. Sullivan pulled this Trig truther story out of his arse – or more accurately, out of Daily Kos’ arse.

    • Andrew Sullivan and Trig have nothing to do with this story. However, I appreciate you admitting that Breitbart spews falsehoods. See, we do have common ground.

      • I don’t have to be “Spock” to read minds in this case. Breitbart wanted to “prove” black racism. So if this had been a white woman and a white crowd, he wouldn’t have released the video.

        As for the Trig story, one man asked if maybe Sarah Palin was the grandmother, and not the mother. It was not then picked up by a “news” organization and pushed as “truth” relentlessly for two days by said “news” organization. So even if Sullivan is an a-hole, he didn’t get someone fired, didn’t perpetuate a myth of some black racism, didn’t get a whole “news” organization to follow suit in calling an innocent woman racist and didn’t then blame someone else for a fuckup. It’s amazing that you can’t see that, Scott.

  6. “…Sullivan…didn’t get someone fired…”

    That’s because nobody from the McCain campaign called up Sarah Palin and said, “We’re firing you as VP candidate because somebody posted a Trig conspiracy on the internet!” Blame the Sherod firing on the Dept. of Agriculture, they’re the ones who went bonkers.

    “…a whole news organization called her racist…”

    Lie. FNC didn’t touch this story until after the firing. O”reilly apologized on Wednesday. Beck didn’t talk about it at first, and he sided with Sherrod.

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