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Originally Posted by Riot
Nonsense. Breitbart lied and edited the video to make Sherrod sound racist, when the complete opposite was true. He was lying scum. He cost her her reputation and job before his fraud was revealed. And no, "everybody" in media doesn't do that. He financed other fraud with his financing of James O'Keefe and the faked, falsely edited "ACORN does prostitutes" lies that unfairly ruined that organization via his lies. Normally lying to Congress is an offense. Not for Breitbart.
Breitbart cost many people their jobs and livelihoods by his lies and fraud for his own personal political goals and gain. Good riddance.
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Your characterization of the Sherrod incident is 100% false. There was nothing "edited". Brietbart simply played a portion of her speech. You use all these words such as "lies" and "fraud". There were no lies and there was no fraud.
The media plays portions of people's speeches every day.
Here is a more accurate description of what actually happened:
"The video clip was posted by right-wing blogger and Tea Party supporter Andrew Breitbart. In it, Sherrod seemingly tells a group she did not help a white farmer as much as she could have more than twenty years ago."
"But missing from the clip was the rest of the speech, which was a lesson in overcoming racial prejudices. Sherrod tells the crowd that she eventually realized her mistake and helped the farmer."
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010...sack-tea-party
Breitbart didn't lie. He played about 45 seconds of the video that had been sent to him. He didn't play the whole thing. That is not unusual. That is done every day.
I don't know if you're trying to BS me or what. You can't BS me because I saw the video of Sherrod's whole speech and I saw the part of her speech that Breitbart posted. There was no editing done. He simply didn't play the whole speech.
Here is an excerpt of Shirley Sherrod's speech. Here are her exact words. I'm not "lying". I'm not "editing". I am simply posting a portion of her speech.
"And young people: I just want you to know that when you're true to what God wants you to do the path just opens up -- and things just come to you, you know. God is good -- I can tell you that.
When I made that commitment, I was making that commitment to black people -- and to black people only. But, you know, God will show you things and He'll put things in your path so that -- that you realize that the struggle is really about poor people, you know.
The first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm, he -- he took a long time talking, but he was trying to show me he was superior to me. I know what he was doing. But he had come to me for help. 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.
I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have 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 so that when he -- I -- I assumed the Department of Agriculture had sent him to me, either that or the -- or the Georgia Department of Agriculture. And he needed to go back and report that I did try to help him.
So I took him to a white lawyer that we had -- that had...attended some of the training that we had provided, 'cause Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted for the family farmer. So I figured if I take him to one of them that his own kind would take care of him.
That's when it was revealed to me that, y'all, it's about poor versus those who have, and not so much about white -- it is about white and black, but it's not -- you know, it opened my eyes, 'cause I took him to one of his own and I put him in his hand, and felt okay, I've done my job. But, during that time we would have these injunctions against the Department of Agriculture and -- so, they couldn't foreclose on him. And I want you to know that the county supervisor had done something to him that I have not seen yet that they've done to any other farmer, black or white. And what they did to him caused him to not be able to file Chapter 12 bankruptcy."
I think different people would have different reactions to her speech. Some people would think it was reprehensible that she was so prejudice at one time. Other people would commend her for overcoming her prejudice.
Here is a transcript of the entire speech:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/spee...acpfreedom.htm