WHITE HOUSE SUCKERED BY ANDREW BREITBART

The question is simple: Why the hell is Andrew Breitbart still suckering people at the top with doctored videos? Why the hell is anyone even worried about this guy anymore? We know the guy is fradulent, and yet idiots in the press keep taking his crap at face value? The latest in his soon-to-be-a-major-lawsuit-against-Breitbart’s-sorry-ass series is trying to do the standard deflect the issue routine conservatives like to play whenever they are busted having to cop to doing something racist. In this case, it was him – and Sean “Ask Him About Hal Turner Sometime” Hannity of course trying to keep people from talking too much about Teabagger racist Mark Willams. Breitbart found a video of a woman talking at an NAACP function about how in 1986 she discriminated against a white farmer while working for the USDA. Breitbart and Hannity left out the part where she was explaining how wrong she was, and it worked. The woman ended up having to resign from pressure – for something that happened 25 years ago that she was warning people against being about! Now we have to be honest here – the whole thing from the Obama Administration about trhowing people under the bus the right cries about is going to cost them. Obama has asked Congress to grow a spine, and we have to ask it of him. Sure, he has a stronger one than most politicians, but when Sean Hannity and Andrew Breitbart are making you jump, that’s a problem. Of course, folks on the mainstream left need to do something about that yellow streak down their back overall, but this is a sign to do it quick. Here’s the funny part. The video Breitbart used was shot just a day before he spoke at a Tea Party rally in Searchlight, NV – that was sponsored by Mark Williams’ Tea Party Express. Breitbart likes to call others racist and is angry they are not held accountable. Project much, Andy? By the way chump, we are still waiting for James O’Keefe to speak for himself, Kevin Martin to take us up on the debate he called for on your website, and you to explain why Jared Taylor’s press release about his white supremacist conference being canceled ended up on your site. Sadly, we think we will be waiting a while for all of those.

Crooks and Liars

This whole episode screams “Why can’t we have reasonable discussions about racial issues???” at me.

The answer is twofold: First, Andrew Breitbart is a dirty, lying SOB who thrives on waving his malodorous lies around on Fox News and the Internet. Second, the White House or USDA, depending upon which story you read, believed him.

Here’s the story in short bites:

Shirley Sherrod was an employee of the USDA; specifically, the USDA Georgia director of rural development. In a speech to the Georgia chapter of the NAACP, she tells a story that appears to indicate she prefers to put black folks ahead of white folks.

Breitbart edits the video, puts it up, and the world goes mad. Sherrod is fired, after being told pressure is coming from the White House to fire her.

Does this sound like the ACORN story? Via Salon:

Sherrod was speaking to a Georgia chapter of the NAACP. In the speech, according to Breitbart’s characterization, Sherrod is explaining how she refused to help a white farmer as much as she could have because she preferred to help black people. Breitbart:

We are in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia director of rural development, speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions.

The speech wasn’t to an all-black audience (though the specter of black people revealing their contempt for whitey in closed-door meetings of fellow black people seems to drive a lot of conservatives into a paranoid frenzy), as the mayor of Douglas, Ga., was among the white attendees. And the story Sherrod told was about her work 24 years ago for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund, not “her federal duties.” So, that’s a lie. Andrew Breitbart is lying in this paragraph. Just for the record. Andrew Breitbart lies.

If the White House or the USDA had bothered to actually look for facts, they might have discovered that Sherrod had ultimately befriended that white farmer she talked about, and helped the family save their farm.

The story Sherrod told was one of redemption, not prejudice. But Breitbart twisted it around into a story that never existed and the White House/USDA took the bait.

As the President so often says, “You’re entitled to your opinions, but not your own facts.” It might have been good for the folks in the White House to actually think about that before reacting to a lying liar scum like Andrew Breitbart.

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