None of it is true. Nothing. Breitbart is a dirty rotten scoundrel and should be shunned by every decent human being.
*UPDATE: Like all cowards, the dirty trickster, Breitbart claims a "source" edited the video--he didn't do it.
Breitbart employs dirty politics alla Lee Atwood and attacked, with the help of the hyenas at FAUX News, a great American, an innocent American.
What is wrong with the GOP that they tolerate a scumbag like Breitbart? He was involved in the fake ACORN pimp/prostitute video, and again he used his slanderous dirty tricks to attack an innocent woman.
Ms. Sheerrod will be vindicated.
There's a special place in hell for vermin like Breitbart and the fascists who run FAUX News.
FROM THINK PROGRESS:
"As it becomes increasingly clear that the video that brought down former USDA official Shirley Sherrod’s career was deceptively edited to make her appear racist, the two white farmers she allegedly discriminated against vigorously defended her. The video shows how Sherrod “racially discriminates against a white farmer,” BigGovernment.com owner Andrew Breitbart claimed. But that farmer, Roger Spooner, and his wife Eloise, flatly denied that this afternoon on CNN, telling host Rick Sanchez, there is “[n]o way in the world” Sherrod is a racist:
SANCHEZ: In all your time knowing Shirley Sherrod, has there ever been anything about her, either through her attitude, her words, her opinions or behaviors that would lead you to believe that she is in any way a racist?
ROGER SPOONER: No way in the world. No way. No way. I don’t even want to talk about it. It don’t make sense. She was just so nice to us as — she didn’t — there wasn’t no — there wasn’t no racism attitude at all in it. Heck no. … They don’t know what they’re talking about. Let me say. They don’t know what they’re talking about, if you want to know my opinion.
ELOISE SPOONER: She always treated us really good. She was nice mannered, thoughtful, friendly. Good person.
CNN also reported that Sherrod’s father had been murdered by a white farmer in an apparently racially-motivated crime, which a grand jury refused to pursue. Asked how she dealt with that, Sherrod said, “what I had to do was turn that into a positive. And I did it by devoting my life to working for change.” “I made a commitment the night my father died that I would not leave the South and that I would stay here and work to make a difference,” she added. Watch a compilation:"
Breitbart’s New Conspiracy Theory: The ‘Purported’ Farmer’s Wife Is A Plant
Two white farmers who were supposedly discriminated against by former USDA official Shirley Sherrod spoke out on her behalf yesterday, saying “no way in the world” is she racist.
But last night, the right-wing blogger who instigated this faux controversy questioned the white farmers’ honesty and repeated his false racist charges. In interviews with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and CNN, the Iron City, GA couple Roger and Eloise Spooner described Sherrod as a “friend for life” and a “good person” who helped save their farm. Speaking with CNN’s John King, right-wing provocateur Andrew Breitbart challenged Eloise Spooner’s “purported” story, accusing King of trusting Sherrod “that the ‘farmer’s wife’ is the farmer’s wife”:
You tell me as a reporter how CNN put on a person today who purported to be the farmer’s wife? What did you do to find out whether or not that was the actual farmer’s wife? I mean, if you’re going to accuse me of a falsehood, tell me where you’ve confirmed that had this incident happened 24 years ago. [...]
You’re going off of her word that the farmer’s wife is the farmer’s wife?
Of course, CNN wasn’t just going off Shirley Sherrod’s word, but also the word of Eloise and Roger Spooner themselves. Just for the record, if the “purported” Spooners are a hoax, they’re a quite involved one:
– Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Marcus Garner confirmed to ThinkProgress that the paper independently found Eloise Spooner for her interview.
– Eloise and Roger H. Spooner are listed in the Iron City, GA phone book.
– The Spooners’ 62nd wedding anniversary, according to a blog post of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, was celebrated at the 2009 Tennessee Truck Show.
– Roger Spooner has been cited in “mainstream” news reports, including a 2002 Associated Press story in the Lexis-Nexis database, claiming to be a “survivor” of the USS Yorktown at anniversaries of the Battle of Midway, which purportedly happened in 1942.
– In a 2009 article, USS Yorktown survivor Roger Spooner claimed to have “discharge papers” from the Navy in his “wallet.”
In his desperation to defend his ugly tactics, Breitbart is resorting to dragging an innocent family’s name through the mud
We can only hope that this scandal will ruin Breitbart. He makes Goebbels look like an amateur.
(O)CT(O)PUS over at The Swash Zone reports on this story as well. Please read.
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Joshua Green of "The Atlantic" wrote of Breitbart and his lies:
"But what's galling to me--gut-wrenching, really, like watching old news footage of blacks being beaten and clubbed at lunch counters--is that Breitbart obviously understood the powerful effect his tape would have, posted it anyway, and then assumed the role of ringmaster, expertly conducting the media circus, fanning the flames. It's hardly the first time. But the moral ugliness of what's just happened is glaring, and it's hard for me to see how the media can justify continuing to treat Breitbart as simply a roguish provocateur. He's something much darker."
Its time that the good people of this country put people like Beck, Breitbart, and all these other reich wing shrills in their place...
Its time we stand up and put an end to their inability to do anything constructive in life other than spin lies....
Its time we take our country back!
Here's a bit from Greenwald giving his opinion on whether Sherrod would have a case against Breitbart.
Brietbart is just one walking vermin among many GOP operatives whose only function is to smear and libel people.
I hope this latest dirty trick ruins his career forever.
It's amazing how nobody in the media has yet to blame themselves or Breitbart for what has happened to this poor woman. Although many people were involved, it clearly started with Breitbart and was quickly spread by many in the media before the truth was found. Breitbart needs to be sued and many in the media need to start the real journalistic practice of knowing the facts instead of wanting to be the first to have a story.
Shaw, this definitely was not the farmer's wife.
Anyone with an ounce of sense and decent eyesight could see that this woman was a Victoria Secret's model, planted, on purpose, by them librul thugs to confuse decent right-wingers, and even the poor farmer himself.
Yep. Breitbart is right, as usual.
I am so happy I'm not a Fux "News" watching dupe. Sitting there thinking that the video clips and bullsh*t that they're telling me is real. It's like watching professional wrestling for god's sake. When will they wake up? Jeezus people, wake the f up!!!!
The election of our first bi-racial president has exposed the racism that has always been just below the surface in certain regions of the country and in certain rightwing adherents.
Breitbart is a vicious agent provocateur and the large low-intelligence audience that FAUX News attracts eagerly swallows the lies and distortions it produces each day.
We are in trouble because in addition to FAUX being a fraudulent "news" organization, they have captured the weak-minded citizens who are too lazy and too uninformed to do the hard work of critical thinking.
FOX News is an enemy of the state, IMHO.
I understand that people will not "wake up" because there will always, always be a part of our population that has no desire to be informed and would rather be played for the moronic dupes that they deservedly are.
I've commented on my feelings about Breitbart many times. I commented on Octo's and TnLib's posts that I hopr Sherrod sues the pants off this clown for his blatant libeling of her.
This takes me to a different subject, yet totally related in the example it sets. Sherrod, a woman who felt first hand the brutality of racism, chose to embrace compassion and working with others as opposed to spending a lifetime hating a group of people. This example should be followed by all of us, and especially with other nations. A helping hand and empathy would go farther towards achieving world peace and cooperation in the wars on terror and poverty than threats of sanctions and invasions.
Sherrod should be nominated for Secretary of State when Hillary agrees to run as Obama's Vice President in 2012.
I hope this sn't off topic Shaw. The woman is a true hero and example for her honesty and work.
Thank you for your comments, TRUTH, I am in full agreement with you.
Sherrod is a true American hero.
Breitbart and FOX News are disgraceful, cynical worms.
Thank you Breitbart for elevating Ms. Sherrod to American hero and debasing yourself to American scum.
If you hadn't played this dirty trick, we would never have learned how heroic Ms. Sherrod is and how depraved you are.
Again, thank you.
So, let's take Breitbart at his word. He got an already edited tape.
You CHECK things, you idiot. (And this goes for the White House and Vilsack, too.) Someone makes an accusation, you CHECK it. You ask the source for comment. It's called journalism, a concept Breitbart is obviously not familiar with.
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