The Shirley Sherrod 'smear job' by Breitbart and Fox News Channel

[George Gervin's Afro]

Mr Dildo. I have heard the entire speech.

Her remarks are straight up racist. Not wanting to help a farmer because he is white and directing him to his own kind is racist. What part of this don't you get?

Are you telling me this girl is not a racist and/or never has been one? What are you trying to get at here.

You LOOK real stupid right now!

You do realize she said the helping this guy was turning point in her thinking of white people in general. This was 27 years ago....



There's a village out there missing you jack..

[George Gervin's Afro]

We weren't the suckers.

The NAACP, the WH, and her boss were.

No kidding.

I would like to see some in context quotes also.

[spursncowboys]

This should be a lesson to all News organizations and reporters...do your job...report the facts...if you're gonna give your opinion...don't call yourself a News organization...you're Entertainment Tonight...

Maybe they would have learn that with quoting wikipedia of rush limbaugh.

[jack sommerset]

You do realize she said the helping this guy was turning point in her thinking of white people in general. This was 27 years ago....

So she is no longer a racist is your opinion. Let me tell you, I don't believe her.

Those folks at the NAACP laughed when she said she discriminated against that person because of his skin color. That room was full of racist!

[spursncowboys]

Fox News gleefully aired the story as "she is a racist now and that is affecting the way she does her job".

They didn't do any fact checking, they just ran with it.

LOL @ you for being sucker enough to beleive you are told the entire truth by Fox News.

Like all the other news org. had stories on
a. acorn
b. tea parties
c. rev. wright
d. van jones
?

FTR: Fox redid the story first. Krathhammer, Beck and Bair all went on the side of sherrod.

[George Gervin's Afro]

So she is no longer a racist is your opinion. Let me tell you, I don't believe her.

Those folks at the NAACP laughed when she said she discriminated against that person because of his skin color. That room was full of racist!

So you lied and haven't heard the whole video. She said she learned from it and they appauded her. You are a liar who hates liars..

[spursncowboys]

So you lied and haven't heard the whole video. She said she learned from it and they appauded her. You are a liar who hates liars..

the crowd was laughing when you really shouldn't have. kind of like when the ni**er family skit on dave chappelle and white ppl laugh and black ppl look at you like "why is that funny?"

[jack sommerset]

So you lied and haven't heard the whole video. She said she learned from it and they appauded her. You are a liar who hates liars..

It's comical how dumb you are. The NAACP laughed when she informed them she discriminated against the white farmer. You didn't watch the whole video or you would have seen that.

Please tell me how I lied. You can't. More nonsense from the dumbest guy in the room.

[CosmicCowboy]

Laughed AND soft clapped.

[fraga]

This is a prime example of what's wrong in this country...the ENTIRE video has been posted...and yet the two opposing sides CLEARLY see her as a racist...or a humanitarian...that's just ing ridiculous...

[Stringer_Bell]

However. I know that will never happen. It's OK to slander conservatives, republicans, and tea party members. Just no OK to do the same to liberals/democrats. Right?

I really think it's mainly MSNBC and Rick (from CNN) that are the problem. They act like the Democrats behave in common sense ways and the GOP are just a thorn in their side so they can say whatever they want to discredit them. It's not right, and luckily I don't think enough people watch them to make a difference on the voting population.

I wonder what happens to Breitbart now.

[Spurminator]

Boy that sure was scary for white people for a little while, wasn't it? Damn, what a relief.

[TeyshaBlue]

I really think it's mainly MSNBC and Rick (from CNN) that are the problem. They act like the Democrats behave in common sense ways and the GOP are just a thorn in their side so they can say whatever they want to discredit them. It's not right, and luckily I don't think enough people watch them to make a difference on the voting population.

I wonder what happens to Breitbart now.

I dunno about Breitbart. They've been a joke for awhile. I just don't see how they maintain any relevance. Maybe they won't, now.

[beachwood]

Breitbart, Drudge and Fox News are trying to start a race war.

[CosmicCowboy]

Nothing will happen to Breitbart. , the White house fired her...they didn't. He didn't alter the tape, he just played part of it out of context. Thats no different than what happened to Rand Paul a few weeks ago...the media kept playing a snippet of the interview out of context with the rest of the discussion.

[boutons_deux]

"Rand Paul"

you mean when he was quoted in context and in full and live on-air about supporting segregation in private establishments?

[Wild Cobra]

Mr Dildo. I have heard the entire speech.

Her remarks are straight up racist. Not wanting to help a farmer because he is white and directing him to his own kind is racist. What part of this don't you get?

Are you telling me this girl is not a racist and/or never has been one? What are you trying to get at here.

You LOOK real stupid right now!

Jack...

I did see it as her revelation a revelation she had, that changed her.

[Wild Cobra]

So she is no longer a racist is your opinion. Let me tell you, I don't believe her.

Those folks at the NAACP laughed when she said she discriminated against that person because of his skin color. That room was full of racist!

Yes, the room was full of racists, but she was better than them.

[Wild Cobra]

Breitbart, Drudge and Fox News are trying to start a race war.

Bull .

At best, what they did was show what the left does on a regular basis. The race war is a never ending jihad of the left.

[Wild Cobra]

Nothing will happen to Breitbart. , the White house fired her...they didn't. He didn't alter the tape, he just played part of it out of context. Thats no different than what happened to Rand Paul a few weeks ago...the media kept playing a snippet of the interview out of context with the rest of the discussion.

Look how the leftist media edited some Palin interviews.

this is the normal MO of the media. Nothing new, except, it happened to a lefty rather than a righty.

[boutons_deux]

"leftist media edited some Palin interviews."

pitbull screwed herself up in live, national interviews, no need to edit anything, and which mama grizzly videos were edited, not that I expect you to back yourself up.

[jack sommerset]

LOL@Obama afraid of Beck

[CosmicCowboy]

"Rand Paul"

you mean when he was quoted in context and in full and live on-air about supporting segregation in private establishments?

The conversation was in the context of government interference in private businesses.

Maddow asked him, "Do you think that a private business has the right to say 'we don't serve black people'?"

"I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form," he responded. "I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race. We still do have private clubs in America that can discriminate based on race. But I think what's important about this debate is not written into any specific 'gotcha' on this, but asking the question: What about freedom of speech? Should we limit speech from people we find abhorrent? Should we limit racists from speaking? . . . I don't want to be associated with those people, but I also don't want to limit their speech in any way in the sense that we tolerate boorish and uncivilized behavior because that's one of the things freedom requires."

How this "gotcha" question and his honest philosophical answer got twisted into "Rand Paul is a racist and supports segregation" was just amazing.

[Galileo]

Rachel Maddow takes FAUX News to school .....again...

One thing is clear by this incident, the Obama administration is scared -less of the wing-nut noise machine and the M$M proves once again how lazy and incompetent it really is....

MSNBC’s Fake Transcript of the Rand Paul Interview

Rachel Maddow is a lying weasel. She and her network issued a FAKE TRANSCRIPT of the Rand Paul interview, which was then repeated by all the other lying weasels in the “mainstream” media, and they refuse to apologize for their lies.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewr...ves/58246.html

[Winehole23]

I dunno about Breitbart. They've been a joke for awhile. I just don't see how they maintain any relevance. Maybe they won't, now.

What is most fascinating about that second day, however, was the conservative reaction to the collapse. At midday on the 20th, Rush Limbaugh was still praising Breitbart: "I know that Andrew Breitbart's done great work getting this video of Ms. Sherrod at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and her supposed racism and so forth saying she's not gonna help a white farmer."

By the evening of the 20th, however, conservatives were backing away, acknowledging that an innocent women had been defamed.

Here's Glenn Beck. Here's Rich Lowry, editor of National Review.

Here's Instapundit.

Here's the popular Anchoress blog at First Things.

Even the racially incendiary Eric Erickson tweeted his disquiet, and then posted this on his RedState website.


But you’ll never guess who emerged as the villains of the story in this second-day conservative react. Not Andrew Breitbart, the distributor of a falsified tape. No, the villains were President Obama and the NAACP for believing Breitbart's falsehood.

Breitbart went almost universally unmentioned. Erickson even justified Breitbart's falsehood as a tragic but necessary and justifiable measure of conservative self-defense:


This is what we have become in politics because of the unrepentant race-baiting on the Left. It has become a for tat war of retribution. ... That war has casualties on both sides. Ms. Sherrod is the latest. It is not fair. But that’s how the Left plays and the Right must fight on offense or not fight at all. It disgusts me to have to say it, but that is so very sadly where we are."




Breitbart himself had this to say about those who would manipulate the public record for ideological purposes:


Journalists love whistle-blowers. Just not when the whistle is blown on them. Journalists love transparency. As long as they’re not the ones being exposed. No steadfast journalism rule is unbendable when it comes to justifying and protecting the racket that is modern journalism, specifically, political journalism in the United States today. The ends justify the means .... They lie when they claim to be objective. They lie when they claim to be unbiased, because these so called "truth seekers" are guilty of engaging in open political warfare. And when the whistle is blown, they simply double down.


But that of course was not a confession or apology. Breitbart continues to defend his own "ends justify the means" bending of the truth, as you can see here in this July 20 interview with CNN’s John King.


No, Breitbart’s indignant words on the 20th were aimed at another snippets-out-of-context scandal for the Right: the Daily Caller’s publication of quotations from the JournoList archive in which liberal activists and bloggers jeered George Stephanopoulos for asking Barack Obama about Jeremiah Wright.

Speaking on a liberal list serve, journalists had wondered how the Wright story could be stifled. One obnoxious young participant had even suggested that the story could be killed by hurling accusations of racism at conservative figures like Fred Barnes and Karl Rove. Conservatives exploded: The media were colluding to quash bad news about their beloved Obama! Only of course the Wright story was not quashed — unlike the story of Breitbart's role in Sherrod's firing, which has been, at least among conservatives.

On the phone on the evening of July 20, a friend asked me: "Can Breitbart possibly survive?" I could only laugh incredulously. I answered: "Of course he'll survive, and undamaged. The incident won't matter at all."

http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/20...ervative-media