To set the record right....
1...Breitbart said he contacted the source again asking for copies of the speech and obtained two edited clips over the weekend.
So Breitbart DID NOT have the entire video, only the edited version
Which is NO excuse for him to run the clip! Any journalist worth his salt sure as hell does as much fact checking as possible before running a story. Bottom line: Brietbart DIDN'T perform due diligence, and essentially ran a propaganda piece to attach to his diatribe against the NAACP....of which I proved in this thread was ALSO false. So again, Breitbart is full of shit...and your willfull ignorance just compliments that fact.
2...Fox news first reported on the Shirley Sherrod Video and resignation on Bill O'reilly's show at 8:00 pm on July 19th.
Anyone blaming Fox news for this is either a dupe or intentionally dishonest at this point considering
she resigned before fox news even reported on it.
Once again, you slavish devotion to neocon talking points leaves you just parroting lies and distortions. FoxNews.com carried Breitbart's posted video that morning after Breitbart's 11:18 am posting. FOX NATION was bullhorning the story by 1:40 p.m. along with other neocon talking heads. O'Reilly was late to the party by over 7 hours. YOU'D KNOW THIS IF YOU DID THE PROPER RESEARCH HONESTLY.
3...
Shirley Sherrod was called by the White House during her afternoon drive home and asked to resign, before 5:00pm on July 19th (eastern) when Glenn Beck aired,
according to her own words on CNN.
http://www.ajc.com/news/usda-reconsiders-firing-of-574027.html
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No shit, sherlock....that doesn't change the FACTS that Breitbart's a liar, and Fox Noise was more than willing to bullhorn his slander.
Sherrod's admitted racism...
Sherrod, who is African-American, was asked to resign Monday night by a USDA official after videotaped comments she made in March at a local NAACP banquet surfaced on the Web.
Recounting her dealings with the Spooners, Sherrod said she didn't help them as much as she could because of their race.
"[The white farmer] was trying to show me he was superior to me," she said, recalling the day some 24 years ago. "I knew what he was doing, but he had to come to me for help."
In the video,
Sherrod told the crowd at the NAACP banquet in Douglas, Ga., that she didn't do everything she could to help a white farmer whom she said was condescending when he came to her for aid.
"What he didn't know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was, I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him," Sherrod said on the video, recorded "I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland, and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land.
So I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough."
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Once again, you parrot Breitbart's folly. All one has to do is watch the full video to see how out-of-context the quotes you put forth are. I explained all this on Post #24. So once again, the WHOLE truth makes Breitbart out to be a liar and a slanderer....and makes YOU out to be just a neocon parrot.
Sherrods's vindication....
she discovered the white lawyer she had referred the Spooners to took their money for six months, but did nothing to help them.
"This lawyer told them, ‘ya'll are getting old ... why don't you just let go of the farm,'" she said. "I could not believe he said that to them."
Sherrod said she'd learned her lesson.
"It's about the poor," Sherrod said, just over 20 minutes into the speech. "It made me see it really was about those who have, versus those who don't ... black, white or Hispanic.
"It made me realize that I needed to work to help poor people ... those who don't have access the way others have."
She said the incident helped her get beyond issues of race.