Sherrod Plans to Sue Breitbart
by PubliusFrom the Associated Press:
Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week.
Sherrod made the announcement in San Diego at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention.
The edited video posted by Andrew Breitbart led Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to ask her to resign, a decision he reconsidered after seeing the entire video of her March speech to a local NAACP group. In the full speech, Sherrod spoke of racial reconciliation and lessons she learned after initially hesitating to help a white farmer save his home.
Vilsack and President Barack Obama later called Sherrod to apologize for her hasty ouster. Vilsack has offered her a new job at the department, which she is still considering.
Obama said Thursday morning on ABC’s daytime talk show “The View” that the incident shows racial tensions still exist in America.
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" In the full speech, Sherrod spoke of racial reconciliation and lessons she learned after initially hesitating to help a white farmer save his home"
She alludes to this in the original clip!
i need to take a break from this for a while… my head is going to explode. This lady is going to lose. She should be suing the Obama Admin for wrongful termination, if anything.
Maj. Gen.Jerry R Curry (Ret.) Speaks Out On The Obama Eligibility Issue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO8n4Pij158
She's thinking about getting her job back? I thought suing people was her primary income? Sounds like she's already got it back.
How many times do we have to say this – AB did NOT EDIT the video.
If you watch the ENTIRE video – it's an UN-EDITED clip. /sigh
The sad part is whatever lib judge they find probably won't throw it out right away. (and just because she "announced" she's suing doesn't mean it's going to happen)
Well, then! I think it's time for the Tea Parties to initiate a class action suit against everyone and every organization who's alleged racism charges against them! Fair is fair, right?
My God, will the insanity never end? This woman made a mint suing on behalf of black farmers (or would be farmers). It's part and parcel of how she landed her job with the USDA…a settelement bargain, no doubt!
Good if you ask me. Breibart needs to settle before this goes to civil court or he would b forced to sell this site
The AP could not even get past the first paragraph without lying.
The video was NOT edited. It was an excerpt.
Sherrod said every word she said.
Hmmmm, so saying AB wants slavery and is a racist is okay. Guess Miss Sherrod did not get the memo to "Please keep a low profile" and went ahead and put her name back on top of the news cycle with the lawsuit.
Nobody asked you.
RACIST AND ANTI-SPEECH BIGOT!!!!
The video was clearly cut to make her appear as racist to the white farmer. If the white farmer testifies for her the case is over.
Edit- I hear the white farmer is her main witness
What a racial idiot she is. That's what they do if they don't agree with you. Commie lawyers will harass you for free to chill free speech as a warning to others. She should sue Obama for wrongful termination.
Tea party Should sue ABC, NBC, and CBS and NAACP, and the rest of the democrat-media complex for calling them racist non-stop for 18 months. Defamation, slander irresponsible leading to violence against members.
The white farmer said he was not discriminated against. Breitbart will be forced to explain his smear in court.
Sherrod would be the owner of this site in a few months time LMAO
Hand delivered AS EDITED by an NAACP operative, you ommitted that little fact.
FASCIST!
The white farmer said he was not discriminated against. She helped him keep his farm. He will be a witness. Breitbart is toast
Good and she should be forced to pay for Mr. Beitbart's attorney fees when she loses. Pathetic.
Sure and you are a real american.
I'm a fascist because I oppose smearing of innocent people? How did she discriminate against the white farmer when the white farmer said he wasn't discriminated against
Time to pay up AB
Can't wait for all of Shirley Charades prior antics to surface.
Burden of proof will be on the plaintiff to prove that the video was deliberately cut that way, and that Brietbart had access to the remainder of the video when he posted the original clip.
(That doesn't mean Sherrod can't go venue shopping to find the most sympathetic jury possible, but if that happens and you get a jury that rules not based on the law but on how they feel, the verdict will be reversed or lowered on appeal (I attended the Michael Moore trial back in 1996 when he got slapped with a $7 million judgment by a Texas jury, which was then lowered by a federal appeals court based on Mikey's overall free speech rights, even if his story on "TV Nation' did make false accusations against the company Moore was targeting).
Turn the page on your talking point memo from media matters. You're starting to get repetitive.
Just as Miss Sherrod can explain the statement that AB "wants slavery back".
This is such a lose-lose situation for Sherrod, Obama, the NAACP and the LibDems. For one, it keeps the subject alive when you'd think most lefties would want it dead and buried. Second, suing for misrepresentation or selective "out of context" video editing? Welcome to the Club, Shirley! And even if she were to win (which I doubt), that opens up a legal and ethical Pandora's box the leftist media does not want opened. Just think about the edited and fraudulent Think Progress Tea Party video, never mind Rep. Lewis. I'd love to drag him and the others in court to testify under oath to those imaginary racist epithets. BRING IT ON, BEEYATCH!
Stupid is as stupid does. Shirley should have quit when she was ahead. I do not see any grounds for a lawsuit coming from her. Now Andrew Breitbart? Another story. Sherrod called him a racist and made the public asumption that he wants to re-enslave blacks. Now if THAT's not grounds for a suit, nothing is. Go get her, Andrew. Continue to expose this racist witch.
Another freedom removing tyrrany loving censorship favoring liberal comment. Douche bagger all the way.
You like Hitler or Stalin more?
This case is a slam dunk. The white farmer who was allegedly discriminated against said he wasn't. Breitbart smear backfired. Time for him to pay up
When New Media barks and MSM jumps, its a good thing.
Obama said Thursday morning on ABC’s daytime talk show “The View” that the incident shows racial tensions still exist in America.
And his race-bating pastor, race-hustling colleagues, and victim-card-shark support groups (the organization fka ACORN, Moveon, Rock the Vote, etc) have set race tension back 50 years. Obama is black people's greatest enemy.
A few questions:
Who originally released the video?
Was it edited before it was released?
Did Brietbart edit it before he released?
Why did the administration move at lightning speed to request her resignation?
Why did the administration not investigate before making their decision?
Why was she asked to resign before the video was even posted or reported on?
Why is she only going after Brietbart and not including the people who forced her to resign with investigating?
Before any decision or judgments are made we should get the hole truth.
One word, folks. DISCOVERY
Breitbart will take that race baiter apart.
I think Ms. Sherrod ought to take any job she can because AB's countersuit for libel and slander ought to be a doozy!
Sorry 343, we'll make sure ABb is not personally 'out' one thin dime, if this lovely lady decides to bring
action against him. In effect she will be suing the entire Big Nation, and we look out for our own.
She has no legal case. He posted of an exeprt of her speaking. That's it. That's no legal means to sue anyone.
Now liberal hater judges never let the law get in the way of a desired outcome as we just saw in Arizona, Obamacare, GM share holders, DoJ not trying blacks etc.
Law means nothing any more, just the hate from the left is all that matters.
The white farmer said he wasn't discriminated against…
I felt that Sherrod may have been racist in the edited clip and was certain that she was when I watched the unedited clip.
Mr popularity, you have bugs in your brain.
This is about creating state-run media.
Are you okay with "official news" issued solely from the White House under ANY president's power????
If you are, I hope you get what you wish for.
You will be become one of the first "useful idiot" victim of it.
If you can't understand what a "useful idiot" is, look it up, every murderous dictator in history has made use of people just like you.
She is dumb as dirt. Breitbart made no comments or suggestions about her. He just let people reach their own conclusions on what she said.
Her lying will haunt her. She said that Breitbart wanted to take us back to slavery. She lied and made that up. It was a smear on her part.
Name a case where an incomplete clip was shown on a media outlet and the outlet was successfully sued. She has NEVER spoken with or met Breitbart? Didn't the ones on ACORN make the same threats? How did that work out?
Oh, we have a professional suer. This kind of person is the lowest of the low. She hurts everyone on both sides of the fence.
If Breitbart had been a man, accepted his error and apologized, this would have gone away. To his credit, Fox's Bill O'Reilly took responsibility for jumping the gun on this story and has emerged unscathed. Personal responsibility and accepting consequences used to be bedrock conservative principles. In the Breitbart/Beck era, there is no integrity.
Sherrod made the announcement in San Diego at the National Association of Black Journalists…..
Can you imagine a someone talking to a "National Association of White Journalists"? When will you people wake up and fight back? You can expect to keep getting rolled so long as you don't.
Just wait until Breitbart's lawyers did much deeper into her past. Think she has skeletons in her closet? This will not end well for her.
Blame your ancestors for your inability to be openly racist …….
Witness to what? Her scrawny case is limited to a video clip of her speaking and nothing more. ACORN made the same threats. Where is ACORN?
You're right. However, Breitbart will be forced to spend a load of money to defend himself against this bogus suit. Amerika…here we are!
Of course it does, because you have no understanding of law. He posted and an exerpt of her speaking. That's IT! All damages were done to her by OTHER people. She's suing the wrong people. Legally she has NO case.
The court case will be about this tape not her past. Have you ever been to a civil court?
And Breitbart didn't say Sherrod was a racist. He said the crowd reaction proved everyone else reacted in a racist fashion. Get your facts straight! She has to prove defamation and malice aforethought. Too many First Amendment issues in play here. And if you want to get into false accusations of racism…
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/stephen-glass-redux-...
You really don't want to go there, Oliver Stone. Or are you some other liberal Jew, lol!
Isn't fact an absolute defense in libel/defamation cases?
Only way this flies is if the judge is a Clinton appointee. Oh, wait…
I think we should sue Think progress, MSNBC, Center for America Progress, black congressman — good stuff.
- MSNBC – cut the video of a black guy with a gun at a tea party rally to make it look like a racist white guy
-Think progress put out the call to infiltrate tea parties with fake racists to make them look racist
-Center for Am progress – put out a video of fake racist but edited the tea partiers chasing him out
-black congressman made the false claims they were spit on and called ni**er.
We got the goods on all of them. Sherrods was wronged by the Obama administration who makes it legal to discriminate against whites in the DOJ. Breitbarts clip showed the "redemption" bit
Can I put in my bid to buy this site now since it would sold anyway to cover the millions Breitbart will be forced to pony up? LMAO!!!!!!!!
"This looks like a slam dunk to me"
Well, then it's a good thing for Breitbart that you're an idiot.
"…Sherrod’s racist tale is received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement. Hardly the behavior of the group now holding itself up as the supreme judge of another groups’ racial tolerance."
~Andrew Breitbart, 7/19/2010
"…The reaction from many in the audience is disturbing. We will be looking into the behavior of NAACP representatives at this local event and take any appropriate action."
~Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP 7/20/2010
This isn't about Shirley. And her gripe is and should always have been with the Administration and the snap judgement made against her by Jealous in the full quote, found here: http://www.wral.com/golo/blogpost/7996211/
At first some may wonder how your post applies to this board and topic. Here is why: Multiple social security numbers under the name of Barack Obama show up from addresses in GA which may tie him to the money laundering scheme that was the lawsuit where the USDA was sued and Ms. Sharrod and hubby were awarded $300,000. This was way out of proportion to what the farmers received. More farmers were listed in the lawsuit, and won, than there are actually real-live farmers. FRAUD. Should you want to google this info of multiple social security numbers, do not use google, bing, or yahoo since the links/articles will come up very short. Download and use search engine ixquick.
Also, some are going to say there can be other Barack Obamas in the country. Yes, this is true but if they existed they would have been paraded through the media as how it was to share the same name as this historical president. Stories were done in the past with people sharing the same names as past presidents. AND IT IS AN UNUSUAL NAME!
Name – OBAMA, BARACK
Street Address – 1603 RUCKER RD
City, State, Zip – ALPHARETTA GA 30004-1435
Probable Current Address – No
Telephone –
Telephone Accountholder –
Social Security – 579-02-xxxx
Age –
Date of Birth –
Deceased – No
Date Record Verified – Feb 08 – Aug 08
*********************************************************************************************************
Name – OBAMA, BARACK
Street Address – 505 FARR RD APT C
City, State, Zip – COLUMBUS GA 31907-6275
Probable Current Address – No
Telephone –
Telephone Accountholder –
Social Security – 420-67-xxxx
Age –
Date of Birth –
Deceased – No
Date Record Verified – Jan 08 – Mar 08
*********************************************************************************************************
Name – OBAMA, BARACK
Street Address – 505 FARR RD APT C
City, State, Zip – COLUMBUS GA 31907-6275
Probable Current Address – No
Telephone –
Telephone Accountholder –
Social Security – 423-29-xxxx
Age –
Date of Birth –
Deceased – No
Date Record Verified – Feb 08 – Aug 08
Good! Breitbart deserves to be sued for this! I hope this lawsuit sets a precedent that you can no longer just make stuff up about people to inflame race relations and further your own political agenda.
I hope theres a way to donate to help fund her lawsuit.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I hope she wins, and shows that slimeball his deliberate distortions don't work.
heres her husband . tell me this guys not a racist . Me thinks shes opening a big can of worms . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ua8liTPzQ
ACORN didn't have a legal standing since they were performing an illegal activity so it would have been legally an unwise decision to sue
Just keep talking Shirley. Keep your name and your plight against the evil rich white people in th news.
The longer you do the more interested everyone will be to get to the bottom of your Pigford settlement and everything else you've been up to.
They didn't make her resign that quickly over this vid. There is much more to this story.
Um… He edited out the rest of the story she was telling! He only showed one small clip that was taken completely out of context. How can you say that's not edited? Stop swinging from AB's nuts.
It's already funded via previous lawsuits.
Feel free to make a donation here though if you want.
http://www.irs.gov/
It doesn't get better than this – you see here "Exhibit A" to the postulate of what happens when you start believing your own b.s. Ms. Sherrod believes she will have the same willing co-conspirator she had in her government lawsuit. This will be the most damaging thing to happen yet and I think the counter-claim filed by Breitbart will be an incredible boon for America as the depositions are taken and we have her on the record about communism, racism, her close friendship and continued support for the likes of Stoakley Carmichael and H. Rap Brown. Let us all pray she goes through with the charade and files the lawsuit. Talk about gifts from heaven, this will allow us to really hammer Obama and demonstrate he never, ever stopped supporting communism and African Liberation Theology and we'll have Mr. Sherrod's public testimonials to use as well. I have a feeling she is just making points with JounOlist members who will continue to further this corruption.
The longer it is alive, the more the chance of a fraudulent connection between the Obamas and the Sherrods will come to light. Birds of a feather flock together.
I'm asking right now. Hey Liberal Jew, what do you think about this situation?
This moron should be paying Andrew B. for her sudden fame and all the government money she will make from this. This woman is despicable! I hope she gets her ass sued off someday and it costs her everything. She is a race divider.
And how they are tied directly to Obama and Ayers
Hahahhaa. Wow. You are exactly why people think the right wing is so ignorant. Take a history lesson you dbag.
Time to pay up Breitbart.
LOL! Who are you, Sherrod's lawyer? What a dope!
She has to be talking out her you know what. I can't imagine she has spoken to a competent attorney and been told she has a case. She has no case. She said what she said and it's on video. An excerpt of the video was used, with an explanation of the video that actually made her look better than she really is.
She's a complete idiot moron if she files suit.
Maybe you should start with the smear leader Breitbart
It was an excerpt taken completely out of content with the intention of warping what she was trying to say. So, you're wrong.
These race hustlers have no idea how predictable all their old tactics have become. Andrew, like a lot of people in New Media, tend to think outside of the box. sherrod and the rest of the race industry have chosen the wrong target this time. We're not playing by the old rules anymore.
The white farmer says he wasn't discriminated against. How is this not a slam dunk? Breitbarts intention was to prove otherwise and it backfired on him. Pay up racist
Problem is white farmer said he wasn't discriminated against.
How would he know? Further, even after these old people get taken by scam artists and are shown the proof by journalists they deny it because they are embarrassed. They don't report it when they give their money to scam artists. Besides – didn't you see the guy call a lawyer "colored"? LOL! You guys like to prop him up now because he is useful but if he was against you you would be jumping on his case for that!!!!!!!! LOL!
Problem is white farmer said he wasn't discriminated against.
So, Sherrod lied? Which is it?
What the he!! are you talking about? How does your absurdly incoherent argument factor into this story at all? Just keep saying anyone who disagrees with you is a fascist and everything will be ok.
All the trolling in the world does not change the FACT that she does not have a case.
Posting a video clip with an accompaning editorial is not illegal. How the clip was misinterpreted by her superiors is not the problem of the poster. All she's doing is taking the advice of some scumbag left wing shit lawyers who want to smear Breitbart. She doesn't have a case. She cannot win a lawsuit against Breitbart based on the facts of the posting, the timeline and the bad judgement of the decision makers involved in her firing. She should just take the new position, her five minutes of fame and be thankful she's not in jail for violating the Hatch Act.
Also, she is a racist.
343, I have a theory about that 'white' farmer. Do you remember in the video of Mrs Sherrod to the racist
NAACP audience, when she said the white farmer was acting uppity toward her? Now keep in mind, 24
years ago she was working for an entity that was doing outreach to the black farm community. Could it
possibly be that she felt that white farmer was uppity because he asked for her help and when she was
reluctant he brought up that she was racially discriminating because he wasn't black? Could it be that he
forced her to see that he was as poor as the black farmers whom she preferred to assist? And BTW, is
there ONLY ONE white farmer that has been helped be Mrs Sherrod in her entire career? Could it be that
this single WHITE FARMER is a good Christian man and forgave Sherrod for her initial rebuff of him? Could
it be that this might come out in a lawsuit? We'll see!
Awesome! Good job Shirley. Fight back against the racist smear job that Breitbart did to you. He is GUILTY!
This coming from ppl who defend everything Breitbart, the talking points king of the right wing, says. Hypocrite much?
Yes, and since there is only one white farmer in the entire state of GA ,I for one believe her story in its entirity.
He better save that $100,000 that he keeps blabbing about, LOL!!!
Who's going to pay her legal fees, Acorn, SEIU or the NAACP?
Yes yes. And I"m a communist and a fascist and a marxist blah blah blah. Government bad. We get it.
Me too!
Keep on on with the "could it be". I will stick to the facts.
Fact-1-White farmer said he wasn't discriminated against
Fact2- The was the only white farmer she talked about in the tape.
Breitbart needs to pay up and quick
liberaljew can't do anything but repeat the same 3 phrases over and over again. It's like an infant who thinks that if they say unicorns exist enough times, it somehow will be true. What an idiot. This guy is just the perfect example of what a typical lib is. Shallow, devoid of any logic or reasoning, emotional and reactionary with a soul filled with hate and bigotry. It's the liberal brand put up for all to see. He comes here daily just to troll, and offers no intellectual counter to anything, no meat to discuss, debate and learn from. It's just empty and pure hate typical of all liberals who are dans of tyrrany and censorship.
So the white farmer gets to make the decision huh? That's how the legal system works. Thanks for your insight.
She's a public figure — and speaking before an audience shows she was such BEFORE the tape was made. Breitbart did nothing that damaged her; the acts against her that are actionable were all committed by the NAACP and the administration.
You can't make stuff up? That;'s what the Journolists ADVOCATED doing, and DID!
Another typical hypoicrtitical moronic lie-beral
How can you take an excerpt out of context? You are just a crazy troll.
You're a fascist because you lie for the powerful.
Lets step back and get a little perspective here.
Ignoring the tape from Breitbart for the moment if you listen to the entire tape posted by the NAACP you clearly hear the woman calling Bush supporters racist and Obama supporters non racist.
From http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38192
"During the Bush years, says Sherrod, "We didn't do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black President." Gone is any valid argument over actual policy, fiscal restraint, government growth, or control of healthcare—supported or opposed by entire national political parties. In Sherrod's world, everything is all and only about race. If that isn't a tenet of racism, then what is? Without ignorant race-based presumptions, otherwise known as racism, Sherrod's entire scope of political argument falls apart. "
This is clear, she is accusing tea partiers, Republicans and conservatives who oppose Obama racist; this is inflammatory, false and disgusting. This woman is a race baiter and her firing should stand.
But in the bizarro world of today media perception is all that matters. Getting back at the conservative is all that matters, facts and logic aside.
This whole thing is a setup from the start to distract us from the real goings on, out of control congress and executive branches ignoring the Constitution, depriving us (ALL OF US, ALL RACES AND POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS) of our rights and liberties, all in the name of collectivism.
Blah blah blah is about the deepest response a liberal can have because facts logic and reason are never on their side.
How about we take your money to pay for the defence? Since you're a RINO, I'm sure you're all about the redistribution of wealth.
Oh nooo! That's tantamount to blasphemy on this site!
"Just keep saying anyone who disagrees with you is a fascist and everything will be ok."
The left has been doing that for as long as I've been alive; how's it feel to be the target for a change?
You didn't answer the question, quit changing the topic!
Is state run media EVER okay?
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