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"Context is everything." Andrew Breitbart's latest racist

by Ziks511 Jul 21, 2010 10:43AM PDT

assault and fake news story.

http://www.slate.com/id/2261271/

At least the Agriculture Secretary has reinstated Ms Sherrod. I particularly enjoyed seeing the elderly couple whose farm Ms Sherrod was alleged as having refused help. Turns out they say she helped them save their farm. Breitbart is the guy behind the ACORN smear based on selected videos, and the Shirley Sherrod speech was edited within an inch of its life, or comprehensibility. 2 minutes out of an hour or more, there's your context. Just like those juvenile idiots messing with ACORN.

Lies, damned lies, and Andrew Breitbart.

Please note: Mr. Breitbart is not a politician.

Rob

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(NT) Breitbart didn't fire her
by James Denison Jul 22, 2010 6:33AM PDT
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I wonder if this will cut down on posts
by JP Bill Jul 21, 2010 8:17PM PDT

in this forum linked to Breitbart (advocating Breitbarts POV/opinion)

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about as much as
by James Denison Jul 21, 2010 10:04PM PDT

it cut down things linked to that Obama has said or done.

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Was Ben Jealous of NAACP "Bamboozled" or "Hoodwinked"?
by James Denison Jul 21, 2010 10:34PM PDT
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Perhaps he was "hornswoggled"?
by EdHannigan Jul 21, 2010 11:12PM PDT

Or "flummoxed"?

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There's more, it's not over yet.
by James Denison Jul 22, 2010 3:23AM PDT

A Ben Shapiro at Breitbart's site now claims Sherrod was involved in a shakedown.

http://biggovernment.com/bshapiro/2010/07/22/congressman-sherrods-hiring-should-be-investigated/#more-147466

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to interview Congressman Steve King... The topic of Shirley Sherrod came up, and in particular, the topic of the so-called Pigford Farms settlement.
The federal government settled Pigford Farms for an unbelievable $1.15 billion. An incredibly high percentage of those receiving awards under this settlement have done so fraudulently.

Shirley Sherrod was not only an initiator of the Pigford Farms case, she received ...received the largest chunk of change for New Communities ? $13 million. New Communities was a bankrupt commune-type land trust held by Sherrod and her husband.


Agriculture Dept pdf on it.
http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/crs/RS20430.pdf

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/Examiner-Opinion-Zone/Shirley-Sherrods-Disappearing-Act-Not-So-Fast-98846149.html

Here are just a few questions about Ms. Sherrod that deserve answers:

* Was Ms. Sherrod's USDA appointment an unspoken condition of her organization's settlement?
* How much "debt forgiveness" is involved in USDA's settlement with New Communities?
* Why were the Sherrods so deserving of a combined $300,000 in "pain and suffering" payments -- amounts that far exceed the average payout thus far to everyone else? ($1.15 billion divided by 16,000 is about $72,000)?
* Given that New Communities wound down its operations so long ago (it appears that this occurred sometime during the late 1980s), what is really being done with that $13 million in settlement money?
* Did Shirley Sherrod resign so quickly because the circumstances of her hiring and the lawsuit settlement with her organization that preceded it might expose some unpleasant truths about her possible and possibly sanctioned conflicts of interest?
* Is USDA worried about the exposure of possible waste, fraud, and abuse in its handling of Pigford?
* Did USDA also dispatch Sherrod hastily because her continued presence, even for another day, might have gotten in the way of settling Pigford matters quickly?


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2556601/posts

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/07/forty_acres_a_mule_sherrod_sty.html

Shirley Sherrod's quick dismissal from the Obama administration may have had less to do with her comments on race before the NAACP than her long involvement in the aptly named Pigford case, a class action against the US government on behalf of black farmers alleging that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) had discriminated against black farmers during the period from 1983 through 1997. According to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigford_v._Glickman

Also American Thinker;
In other words, according to Agri-Pulse.com the number of total claims filed not only exceeded the original estimate by almost 40 to 50 times, it is close to four times the USDA's estimate of 26,785 total black owned farms in 1977!

james denison - So, this sounds like a back door of reparations for anyone who was black and got tipped off to jump onto the turnip cart headed for market?

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I had the opportunity to interview Congressman Steve King
by JP Bill Jul 22, 2010 3:35AM PDT

The topic of Shirley Sherrod came up


SURPRISE!

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The more I read about the lawsuit
by Steven Haninger Jul 23, 2010 9:41PM PDT

the more disturbing I find it to be. It's not so much about the original intent but what it developed into. As well, I can't think that those dealing with it today can have the right "feel" for it's origins. They might just want to make it go away by buying their way out of it. Who wouldn't jump at a chance for a $50,000 check with virtually no effort needed to apply and probably no one to verify that it was deserved? As well, I've always had a problem with trying to make restitution for alleged wrongs against the grandfather with pay offs to the grandchildren.

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Maybe all such silliness...
by James Denison Jul 23, 2010 11:54PM PDT

...will be crushed by the coming Depression. After that, nobody will have whiner rights greater than any other. Of course that should have happened after the last Depression, so I guess for the whiners and con artists, there's always the future.

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According to Breitbart... this was about the NAACP
by grimgraphix Jul 23, 2010 11:57PM PDT

Beirbart has somewhat characterized Sherrod (over the 2 days now) as if she was innocent "colateral damage", because the video clip that vilified her was actually meant to show the audiences' racist tendencies.

Sheesh, I guess y'all need to paint Sherrod as somehow worthy of crucifixion now, to make Breitbarts's fallback position more credible.

She shook down the government, eh?

This comment here, contains a creative editing style worthy of this whole mess... "Shirley Sherrod was not only an initiator of the Pigford Farms case, she received ...received the largest chunk of change for New Communities ? $13 million."

The reality is that she received $300,000. dollars for her part of the CLASS ACTION SUIT. That is far less than the $13 million claimed in the above quote.

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Today's Atlanta paper...
by J. Vega Jul 24, 2010 4:29AM PDT

Today's Atlanta paper had a story about her. In it, they said:
"Together with about a half-dozen southwest Georgia families, the Sherrods were awarded $13 million following the Agriculture Department?s admission of discriminatory practices in the 1997 Pigford class action suit.".
Link to full story:
http://www.ajc.com/news/accused-of-racism-sherrod-577463.html

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