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Originally Posted by Riot
The only reason Breitbart posted his grossly and purposely misedited clips of Sherrod's talk was to purposely and deliberately mispaint her to be a racist.
And yeah - that's lying. When you purposely misrepresent, via omission, the meaning of what a speaker says deliberately and with malice, to make the public think the opposite of what the speaker said, that's lying. That's why Breitbart had legal charges pending against him by Sherrod, and was going to trial, when he died.
You know it, and so does everybody else who saw the video when it happened.
Breitbart is lying scum, he's been publicly caught out being lying scum, his lies have cost multiple people their jobs and incomes. The ACORN lies were even worse.
You want to try and make excuses for him, talk to your mirror. No takers for that ridiculous nonsense here.
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That is simply untrue. The clip Bretbart posted was in no way "grossly misedited". It is true he didn't play the whole video. But the media practically never plays an entire speech. They play what they think was a relevant clip. If the journalist has an agenda, they will play the clip that furthers their agenda.
Do you think Breitbart had something against Shirley Sherrod personally? I'm sure he didn't even know who she was.
Breitbart certainly had an agenda. I'm not denying that. He was targeting the NAACP, not Sherrod. Breitbart often clashed with the NAACP. The NAACP is always screaming about racism. Someone sent Brietbart a video of an NAACP event where a black woman (Sherrod) was talking about her own racism (granted her own racism from 20 years earlier and how she overcame it). I'm sure Breibart was really excited when he got the clip. Here you have a group (the NAACP) that is always crying about racism and here is a video where one of their own members is admitting to her own former racism against whites. I'm sure Breitbart jumped at the chance to release the video
By the way, if a white person (let's say Mitt Romney for example) made a speech practically identical to Shirley Sherrod's, do you think it would be a big story? Of course it would. If he admitted that 20 years ago, a black person came into his office and he didn't really want to help the person because the person was black, I think there would be a big outcry. Even if Romney said that he was wrong at the time and he was able to overcome his prejudices, I think it would still be a big story. And I'm sure you and other liberals would be all over him for it.
With regard to Sherrod suing Breitbart, anyone can sue anyone for anything. Her suit is a joke. She has no case. That case will be thrown out in 2 seconds.
I'm not going to get into a big debate about O'Keefe right now but I will admit that those videos (unlike the Sherrod video) were heavily edited. Does it discredit everything on the O'Keefe videos. No, it doesn't discredit everything but it discredits much of it.