IS A LAWSUIT IN LITTLE ANDY BREITBART'S FUTURE?

Let’s hope so, because this needs to happen. You can’t just uproot lives on doctored propaganda and expect nothing to come your way. Andrew Breitbart – and Fox News by extension – are trying like hell to absolve themselves of sin in smearing Dept. of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod, but she is not letting them off the hook, Breitbart especially. She made it very clear, she wan’ts to “get back at him”. Now that wording is likely to be seized upon by the right to smear her even further, but to hell with them. They picked this fight. They will lose it. And maybe in the future they will be a little more responsible in their actions. If the right wing idiots out there truly want to fight racism, they need to purge their ranks, not pretend that everyone who is not white is no better than them.

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Shirley Sherrod said this morning on CNN that she would like to “get back at” Andrew Breitbart.

Asked if she would consider a defamation suit against Breibart, the conservative blogger who posted the edited clip that got her fired, she said, “I really think I should.”

“I don’t know a lot about the legal profession but that’s one person I’d like to get back at, because he came at me. He didn’t go after the NAACP; he came at me,” she went on.

She agreed with the hosts that it would be a “great thing” if Big Government was shut down. “I don’t see how that advances us in this country.”

“It’s hard for me to understand a person like him, and it’s hard for me to understand what is his purpose, what is he trying to do really,” she said. “He could easily make a decision to destroy me, but in destroying me, what else is he trying to do?”

Sherrod also said on today that she’d like to have a meeting with President Obama.

“I can’t say that the president is fully behind me, I would hope that he is,” she said on Good Morning America. “I would love to talk to him.”

“He is not someone who has experienced what I have experienced through life, being a person of color. He might need to hear some of what I could say to him,” she told me. “I don’t know if that would guide him in a way that he deals with others like me, but I at least would like to have the opportunity to talk to him about it.”