Breitbart: I’d like to talk to Sherrod privately
posted at 6:23 pm on July 30, 2010 by Allahpundit
He’s not talking about a beer summit but rather the opposite — a meaningful chat, not a damage-control photo op. And not to prostrate himself either: He wants to know, quite rightly, why her anger over what happened somehow led to accusing him of wanting to bring back slavery. Even big-name reporters are flummoxed about that one, to the point where Anderson Cooper actually apologized last night on CNN for not challenging Sherrod when she said it.
She said she simply wanted an apology. Why not just do it?
All I can say is that this is a person on national television who said I wanted to put blacks back into slavery. This thing has gotten to a place that’s far beyond where it should be. I’d be more than happy to meet with her in private and have a discussion with her…How do you think this got so out of control?
At the beginning, Shirley Sherrod’s first comments were that she got caught between the NAACP and the Tea Party and she said that the NAACP is the reason for this. That’s her quote. The intent of my post was to challenge the NAACP in its six-day media-enabled negative branding of the Tea Party as racist using provably false information that the N word was thrown at the Congressional Black Caucus [earlier this year during the health-care debate]. I’ve been doing this for over a year, and this is just one more attempt of mine to point out to the general public that there’s consistency here in the Democratic Party to strategically issue the race card. My regret was that has been lost, and Shirley Sherrod became the focus…But do you agree that the edited video took things out of context?
Well, yes. But I put up what I had. It granted a great portion of her redemptive tale, but not all of it. If I could do it all over again, I should have waited for the full video to get to me.
The whole interview’s worth reading. As for Sherrod’s lawsuit, which seems shaky from the get go, HuffPo’s right that the favorable coverage she’s gotten since this clusterfark started actually hurts her in court for the simple reason that it makes it harder to show damages. Assuming her new job will pay more than the old one, and assuming that most people who watched the initial clip now know that it didn’t provide fuller context, how do you quantify the harm done? Beyond that, what about the fact that even the initial clip contained a short bit from the part of Sherrod’s speech where she said she realized it wasn’t about black and white? Chris Matthews noticed that last night in his segment on Sherrod — or rather, his second segment on Sherrod, recorded after the first one earlier in the afternoon didn’t quite go according to script. Skip ahead to 9:00 or so for the key bit.
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Sherrod got a taste for the attention, and when things quieted down for a day or two, she had to find something to rattle to bring the media back.
AubieJon on July 30, 2010 at 6:30 PM
I wonder if Andrew already knew about the stuff from the American Thinker article now posted on his site.
Queen0fCups on July 30, 2010 at 6:31 PM
Why not just admit he did his job (which isn’t exactly a particularly difficult or meaningful job mind you) poorly?
ernesto on July 30, 2010 at 6:32 PM
If I lived through what this woman lived through, I would probably be a bit of a bigot myself. If she doesn’t see it in herself, she shouldn’t be so sure about what she sees in others. All people have prejudices, it’s stupid to pretend otherwise.
Cindy Munford on July 30, 2010 at 6:33 PM
Most worthwhile thing I’ve read in Newsweek in a long while.
Breitbart’s an interesting guy. He has a much better grasp than most about how the left actually works, obviously a result of him being a part of it for so long. There are few others who are as effective at getting them to show their true colors as he is.
BadgerHawk on July 30, 2010 at 6:33 PM
BB also pointed that out in the original post:
If BB supposedly went to the trouble to “drastically edit” the video to malign the woman, why would he not edit his written portion as well, and leave out this little bit o’ mitigation? In other words, not only did the Sherrod “walk back” make it into a video that was supposedly edited to slander her, BB actually drew attention to it by writing about it.
Weight of Glory on July 30, 2010 at 6:34 PM
Has she apologized to AB for saying that he wants to go back to the days of slavery ?
If she hasn’t
eff her..she deserves no one’s time or attention.
macncheez on July 30, 2010 at 6:34 PM
Their meme never strays far from McCarthy.
Disturb the Universe on July 30, 2010 at 6:35 PM
How did he do his job poorly?
Del Dolemonte on July 30, 2010 at 6:35 PM
He might have, apart from that whole being accused of wanting to bring back slavery thing.
BadgerHawk on July 30, 2010 at 6:35 PM
it’s actually wise strategery to get a blowhard like Sherrod to talk as much in public as possible. They only hurt themselves.
Moesart on July 30, 2010 at 6:35 PM
Why doesn’t Sherrod just admit her husband’s a rabid racist and both of them have scammed the taxpayer out of millions?
darwin on July 30, 2010 at 6:36 PM
He did? I don’t think you get the jist of what he really did. Exposure, it shows more then most when you only give 20% on the whole.
upinak on July 30, 2010 at 6:36 PM
this was an exploding race card….it’s cutting both ways.
ted c on July 30, 2010 at 6:36 PM
Of course I mean AB, not BB. Sheesh. I think I did that in the other AB post as well, now that I think of it.
Weight of Glory on July 30, 2010 at 6:36 PM
Don’t worry, we knew who you meant.
Cindy Munford on July 30, 2010 at 6:38 PM
“I’d like to talk to Sherrod privately”
Dear God, he’s threatening that poor woman! /s
sharrukin on July 30, 2010 at 6:39 PM
Excellent post!
PS..Have you heard her husband’s speech?
Dire Straits on July 30, 2010 at 6:40 PM
I’d love to watch Sherrod try to back up her claim that AB wants to bring back slavery. She’d fail miserably.
AubieJon on July 30, 2010 at 6:40 PM
she recently said she doesn’t want an apology…she is way past her 15 minutes…I give credit to breitbart for even wanting to meet with her in private…in my opinion she lost that right after saying the above…
cmsinaz on July 30, 2010 at 6:40 PM
Thanks, but I still feel like you guys let me walk around with a sales tag hanging outside my pants.
Weight of Glory on July 30, 2010 at 6:41 PM
Her husband, Charles
Disturb the Universe on July 30, 2010 at 6:41 PM
I remember Whoopi said that to McCain on The View. Is that a common thought? Do people really think that about other people, or do they just use it as a conversation nuker. Something so outrageous that there’s really nothing more that can be said about it.
DrAllecon on July 30, 2010 at 6:41 PM
Mongrel-y-Mongrel
Lily on July 30, 2010 at 6:41 PM
Really??!!
Did you watch the same video I did?
Because right after she said it wasn’t about black and white, she corrected herself and then kind of sorta corrected herself again:
Combined with her present tense accusations of racism against the white farmer (“trying to show me he was superior to me”) and the crack about the white lawyer being “one of his own kind”…
…I’m not sure how anyone can say that she isn’t a racist.
Nor do I understand how anyone can say that the rest of the video changes what she said.
Religious_Zealot on July 30, 2010 at 6:41 PM
Ernie you do realize that AB’s video includes her change of heart?
CWforFreedom on July 30, 2010 at 6:42 PM
Oh, that wasn’t on purpose?
Cindy Munford on July 30, 2010 at 6:42 PM
Ernie and do please comment on her racism AND her husbands.
CWforFreedom on July 30, 2010 at 6:42 PM
He put his conservative good housekeeping seal of approval on what amounts to a faulty scoop. I mean, even for a faux journalist/advocate, thats just shoddy work. This mistake will make it more difficult for his next scoop to be taken seriously, even by sympathetic advocacy outlets like FOX, let alone a journalistic outfit.
ernesto on July 30, 2010 at 6:42 PM
HA!
Weight of Glory on July 30, 2010 at 6:43 PM
Thank you! :)
Dire Straits on July 30, 2010 at 6:45 PM
a faulty scope huh? If I remember right ernie.. you freaked out about it like everyone else. Hmmmm.
It is call a decoy play. Show it for something else and have something else get the blame.
upinak on July 30, 2010 at 6:46 PM
I’ve seen both those videos, and they are disgusting.
Its a family thing with Surely Charade
Linky for newbies lurking here, watch BOTH videos :
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2010/07/sherrod-we-must-stop-the-white-man-and-his-uncle-toms-.html
macncheez on July 30, 2010 at 6:46 PM
Wasn’t the scoop more about the audience, which was made up of NAACP members, vocally approving of discrimination against a white farmer? But you already knew that.
Way to subtly slide in that FOX isn’t a journalistic outfit, too.
BadgerHawk on July 30, 2010 at 6:46 PM
Maybe he can get her to pay back the $13 million she and her husband stole from us…
Zorro on July 30, 2010 at 6:47 PM
Can’t see the forest for the trees..AB meant this clip for the NAALCP..Sherrod got caught in the web by an over reacting Obie Administration! :)
Dire Straits on July 30, 2010 at 6:48 PM
We knew what you meant and we would have jumped at the chance to correct you if you were one of our resident morons.
thomasaur on July 30, 2010 at 6:49 PM
Nice post!..Everyone needs to watch them both.
Dire Straits on July 30, 2010 at 6:50 PM
No American wants to return to slavery. I hear much talk about going back “50 years.” Other than, the most extreme-haters nobody who can read wants a return to slavery.
It’s nice to see Breitbait try and handle this like a man. Too bad it took threat of lawsuit to get his ass moving.
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 6:51 PM
Besides after hearing Bathtub oy pronounce it I thought Andrew’s surname was hyphenated. Burright-Bart!
thomasaur on July 30, 2010 at 6:53 PM
This is true. You gotta know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 6:53 PM
So you know that was his motivation right? And you do realize his video alludes to her change of heart?
CWforFreedom on July 30, 2010 at 6:53 PM
Some of the people who put here through “what this woman lived through” are still alive. I wonder if they are Republicans, Southerners or other non-bigots.
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 6:55 PM
Ernie you don’t comprehend well do you?
CWforFreedom on July 30, 2010 at 6:55 PM
*her
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 6:55 PM
I still don’t see any “mistake” that AB made in the initial release of the video.
He wanted to show racism in action at the NAACP – it did (the people laughing and encouraging her during the first part of the story).
Sherrod, by her own admission in the story, committed an illegal act of racial discrimination. That she later “learned” from it is 1) questionable; and 2) does not alleviate the original action.
And her words and actions SINCE the video have only underlined the fact that she still is a racist.
I said before and I’ll continue to say – we on the right need to stop our limp-wristed, mealy-mouthed, cowardly retreat from the truth when leftists get all up in arms.
AB did nothing wrong and owes no one an apology.
But there are many on the left AND on the right (many right here on HA) who owe AB an apology.
Religious_Zealot on July 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM
Really? Weird just about all the crime my family has been victims of was done by people of color and yet I am not a bigot. This includes robbery, fraud, burglary,and several assaults.
CWforFreedom on July 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM
So ignorant she can’t see it’s the lefties forging the chains
or reprehensible and knows exactly
eff her anyway, you’d be hard pressed to find a place for her in the private sector
Sonosam on July 30, 2010 at 6:57 PM
Sherrod is working the usual old formula
1 I would have been great had it not been for slavery.
2 In order to compensate me for your past sins a few thousand Ben Franklins is a nice appetizer.
3 How about a job? A seven figure salary would be nice as a starter.
4 By the way, did I forget to mention that you’re all racist a-holes
MaiDee on July 30, 2010 at 6:57 PM
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/07/real_sherrod_story_still_untol.html
the_nile on July 30, 2010 at 6:57 PM
It is interesting how RC and Ernie still maintain their footing like little children . Of course, the media is doing the same. The big mistake AB made was forgetting just how stacked the deck is.
CWforFreedom on July 30, 2010 at 6:58 PM
“His video?” Breitbart denied editing the clips, right?
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 6:58 PM
Nah, that’s nonsense. His next scoop will generate more attention, because more people now know who he is. If it’s legit, then it’s legit.
joejm65 on July 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM
The NAACP had the FULL VIDEO when they fired her.
CWforFreedom on July 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM
I was among the first to chastise Sherrod for her seemingly abject racism. What are you talking about?
Oh yeah. As a black man I am not allowed to think differently about race than other Republicans.
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM
Sherrod evidently wants more that her allotted 15 minutes.
GarandFan on July 30, 2010 at 7:00 PM
And that is right. Way to play semantics rather than addressing the real issues. Congrats!
CWforFreedom on July 30, 2010 at 7:00 PM
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 6:59 PM
You’re black? I did not know that.
—–
I just thought you were an asssshole.
CWforFreedom on July 30, 2010 at 7:01 PM
That is the basis of good defense for Breitbart. This is where liberals really suck. Only problem is that Republicans are just as prone to screw up a good thing.
Breitbait and Sherrod have proved themselves to hang on to bigotry that many Americans believed was dead. They’re in a runoff to capitalize on racial-resentment for their own political gain and infamy.
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 7:02 PM
Wow the more I look at this post it is quite funny. WHO CARES! You see so much that is NOT THERE.
CWforFreedom on July 30, 2010 at 7:02 PM
Heh. Yeah, I don’t want to admit it, but that is what I had in my head. Which means that doof is in there, and that depresses me.
Weight of Glory on July 30, 2010 at 7:02 PM
Actually AB’s main point is that the left is full of bigots or aren’t you listening?
CWforFreedom on July 30, 2010 at 7:03 PM
Yeah, neither did I. In fact, I’m prone to disbelieve him now.
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 7:04 PM
Bigot.
the_nile on July 30, 2010 at 7:05 PM
How the hell is anyone on an internet forum supposed to know, or care about your race?
You seem to have a case of the poorpitifulme‘s.
sharrukin on July 30, 2010 at 7:05 PM
I just think you have a chip on your shoulder and some weird complex. See a shrink. Later.
CWforFreedom on July 30, 2010 at 7:07 PM
Mongrel-y-Mongrel
Lily on July 30, 2010 at 6:41 PM
//
Um-hum….obama would be proud:)
ohiobabe on July 30, 2010 at 7:08 PM
That must be why white supremacists are reaching out to them. That’s why so many libs have ended up on shows like The Political Cesspool or with Alex Jones.
That’s why hotairheads consistently ignore racist, anti-Muslim, anti-gay and ethnically bigoted remarks but have nothing but contempt for refuters like me.
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 7:09 PM
Genius. You don’t know what my race is. But some people do know what I’ve stated my race to be. Others have referenced my presumed/declared race in their comments.
You don’t know my race to read my words. I don’t have to know yours to reject yours.
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 7:11 PM
We have nothing but contempt for you because you are a bigoted, race-obsessed idiot.
sharrukin on July 30, 2010 at 7:12 PM
Then why do you constantly bring race up?
IT’S ALL YOU EVER TALK ABOUT!
Her’s some free advice idiot…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cGfrExozQ
sharrukin on July 30, 2010 at 7:15 PM
How’s that strawman manufacturing working out for you.
the_nile on July 30, 2010 at 7:15 PM
I think that when AB’s website featured that video, Obie and those around him panicked because they knew her and her husband’s past, their reputation, their actions and their views, as also Charles She-rod’s associations with Bill Ayers. They didn’t want all of that to come out and so they reacted the way they did.Just to make it go away.
The only problem was when AB showed the video, no one outside of Hussain and his entourage knew who this Charade couple was. BUT NOW WE DO.
And the best part is…this woman still won’t shut up.
BTW, did you know the Charade’s have a daughter named Russia and a son named …Kenyatta ( Jumo Kenyatta was the father of …Kenya)?
macncheez on July 30, 2010 at 7:16 PM
Against whom am I bigoted?
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 7:18 PM
As of late, conservatives.
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 7:18 PM
I tend to think about the times people have lived in. I don’t think I could easily get over my father being killed and the killer not getting indicted.
Cindy Munford on July 30, 2010 at 7:21 PM
While seeing Shirley Sherrod’s face on all the Sunday morning libtard TV political talk shows, it occurred to me she’s the new patron saint of black victimhood.
In this day and age, that’s easily worth several million: book deal, movie deal, talk show deals, speaker fees, Nike deal (just kidding on the last one!).
3, 2, 1……
Sweet_Thang on July 30, 2010 at 7:21 PM
Arguing with an idiot . AGAIN?
macncheez on July 30, 2010 at 7:21 PM
Against whom am I bigoted?
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 7:18 PM
Against whom am I bigoted?
As of late, conservatives.
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 7:18 PM
Are you feeling all right? Or is that your evil twin?
sharrukin on July 30, 2010 at 7:21 PM
He would be wasting his time…she is a pure hater, and ain’t about to change her ways now.
Karmi on July 30, 2010 at 7:34 PM
That’s it exactly. Fame is an addictive drug as powerful as anything from the world of Chemistry.
slickwillie2001 on July 30, 2010 at 7:36 PM
7:21
…and did I fail to mention the big enchilada: LAWSUIT?
Not that anyone’s paying attention. I wonder why I bother posting? I’m out!!
Sweet_Thang on July 30, 2010 at 7:38 PM
AB wants to talk to Sherrod about starting BigRacist.com
faraway on July 30, 2010 at 7:39 PM
Poor TRC has been talking to himself all day. I think he’s finally lost it…completely.
It’s almost sad.
2Brave2Bscared on July 30, 2010 at 7:48 PM
If you go to Cashill’s piece at AT be sure to read the 13th comment and link by “rockingham” for the rest of the outrageous taxpayer swindle.
Cashill early on was the first that I noticed analyzing Ayers’ and Obama’s writing (ghosting) as well as The Stanley Dunham/Frank Marshall Davis connection.
He also had one tracking Obama’s mothers movements after his birth that was interesting.
ontherocks on July 30, 2010 at 7:48 PM
This isn’t the first time he has done this.
Maybe his dad came in and took the computer away from him?
sharrukin on July 30, 2010 at 7:50 PM
Breitbart was a fool to release a partial, deceptive video.
He deserves all the grief he has gained because of it.
And the resulting loss of credibility.
His pussyfooting around that fact (“If I could do it all over again, I should have waited for the full video…”- ya think, Andrew?) is pathetically unimpressive.
Sherrod is a class warfare-baiter, and this foolishness only helps that creepy cause.
Thanks a lot, No-So-Breitbart.
profitsbeard on July 30, 2010 at 7:54 PM
Breitbart himself said Sherrod was the speaker but the thing he believed to be most damning was the audience reactions. It was supposed to be about the audience and how hypocritical it was that the separatist NAACP found the Tea Party to be racist. Sherrod is no racist, that’s great. She’s a marxist. And that seems to be all too common a belief system among blacks. And communists used to be tried and jailed for being subversive. Somehow along the way, we’ve given marxists a greenlight to set up shop out in the open. Her husband’s an elderly man but when he was young and angry he was a compatriot of Stokely Carmicheal. He was a pure straight up radical. A dangerous person.
The federal government solved the problem of the broken peace with organized crime during the depression (because the cops needed the revenue more than some sudden surge in gang violence) by going after the gangsters. The government solved the problem of violent 60′s spawned black radicals raising even more hell by paying them off through the back channels. Pigford seems to be one of those channels.
pc on July 30, 2010 at 7:56 PM
Linky for newbies lurking here, watch BOTH videos :
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2010/07/sherrod-we-must-stop-the-white-man-and-his-uncle-toms-.html
macncheez on July 30, 2010 at 6:46 PM
macncheez: Amen on that,it appears,that the whole family
is Commies!!
And her childrens names,wtf!!
===========================================
She and her white-hating husband Charles Sherrod named her son “Kenyatta”. (In case you’re too young to remember, Jomo Kenyatta was the corrupt, authoritarian ruler of Kenya from 1964-78.
They named her daughter “Russia.” (In case you’re too young to remember, Russia was the largest republic in the USSR, the world’s original communist dictatorship and America’s greatest enemy of the 20th century).
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/shirley-sherrod-children-names
canopfor on July 30, 2010 at 7:57 PM
There is only black liberal, black or liberal bigotry. I know this now. There is no racism whatsoever, never has been, never will be, at all, ever on the right.
I know that Andrew Breitbart will teach Shirley Sherrod about racism. He has much to teach her about racism. GOP has much to teach America about racism.
I realize now that I had no business speaking out against what I misread as bigotry, racism, prejudice, anti-gay haranguing and anti-Muslim hatred. I understand that being a conservative means being sucking it up sometimes no matter how wildly the bigot-spigot flows.
I know my place. “Thanks!”
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 7:58 PM
It’s a waste of his time to talk with Shirley Sherrod. I don’t know what her personal experiences are but this is a woman so deeply rooted in racism and a hatred for white people, that any reasonable discussion is a fantasy.
ramrants on July 30, 2010 at 7:58 PM
on July 30, 2010 at 7:18 PM
Arguing with an idiot . AGAIN?
macncheez on July 30, 2010 at 7:21 PM
macncheez: Cybil complex again!!:)
canopfor on July 30, 2010 at 7:59 PM
Alex Jones was a common feature for libs under a Republican president. Partisans are partisans. The ends justify the means.
As to the second, you’d do better with more than an accusation.
Esthier on July 30, 2010 at 8:01 PM
I know my place. “Thanks!”
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 7:58 PM
The Race Card:So,what is your reasoning of Obama`s
*`Mongrel’ disparaging,and besmirchment
of African Americans,as a *mixed up *breed!!
*Obama`s words!!
canopfor on July 30, 2010 at 8:03 PM
You are not a conservative. You are a hustler. In this case a race hustler who wants to constantly play ‘THE RACE CARD’ for all it is worth.
Conservatives believe in judging someone on their own conduct, not on their race, class, sex, or whatever.
You so far seem totally incapable of judging people, not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Obama waits for you!
sharrukin on July 30, 2010 at 8:06 PM
The blacks should have healed over slavery a long long time ago, like last century. They keep passing that crap down from generation to generation and expect handouts to come forever over something none of us had anything to do with. Th price has been paid. Move on already.
johnnyU on July 30, 2010 at 8:06 PM
Surely you also know that accusations like this only make that more true, not less.
Is it racist that that made me hungry? Those things are perfect when slightly warm.
Esthier on July 30, 2010 at 8:20 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%26M%27s
Concurrent with the Blue M&M campaign, M&M’s introduced computer animated “spokescandies” in their television commercials.
Although brown M&Ms have been around since the beginning of the candy, no brown M&M “spokescandy” was included.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Halen
Van Halen specified that a bowl of M&M candies, with all of the brown M&M’s removed, was to be placed in their dressing room.
It’s everywhere!
Ya, just gotta look hard enough!
sharrukin on July 30, 2010 at 8:25 PM
Andrew-listen. Don’t do it. You don’t talk the same language. And if it does have to happen, you must not call her a mongrel.
PaCadle on July 30, 2010 at 8:26 PM
That is an interesting point. Do you think it would make a difference were those crimes committed because of your race? Would it make a difference if the most-known slur in the world was attributable to your skin color and was used to justify crimes and brutality against people who look just like you for hundreds of years, in the freest nation on Earth?
It all boils down to this. How many years after slavery would Whites be OK with America and American Blacks? Were America’s race-tables turned, how many years after the Civil Rights Act would everything be OK in your mind? Give me an estimate.
To me it seems that the average conservative is a big ole’ wuss when it comes to dealing with racial discrimination but demands MLK Jr. on the mountaintop from everybody else.
The Race Card on July 30, 2010 at 8:44 PM
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