Congradulations, I look foward to seeing you on Tim Russert.

Remember how this used to be a country where people talked about accusations as being only accusations, until proven?

Where did that great nation go?

Republicans make up dirt on decent hard working people, then Dems jump quickly on the band wagon, as they don't want to be smeared by the FOX noise machine. And the victim ends up spinning in the wind, on their own.

I know this isn't any more horrible than politics as usual (less so because there is no mass death, at least not of the literal kind) but its just so tedious and so, so, boring. Good grief. So many absurd white people are tipping back their frosty mugs of false self-righteous gotcha and reveling in the collective injustice of having to control the whole fucking world while pretending you're not. Oh news...

Once again Tiny Revolution and its ilk provides a small umbrella of right on-ness in the midst of the bullshit storm.

What's amazing to me is that Breitbart, of all people, could cause this shitstorm after what he has already done in the past.

This helped me figure out what had happened.
http://mediamatters.org/research/201007200047

I'm glad Eloise Spooner stood up for Sherrod and the NAACP and Vilsack have at least partially come to their senses now. It's impossible to watch the full video of Sherrod's speech without concluding that Breitbart is a lying scum, and I hope he gets sued this week.

we've only been in our relationship w/ ailes/fox since 1996. divorce statistics tell us there's only ~25% chance of breakup at that point in the relationship, but it's a flawed predictor because of how many of us married rupert murdoch for the money.

NE: EXACTLY.

On the other hand, Sherrod did say this: "The story helped me realize that race is not the issue, it's about the people who have and the people who don't."

It sounds as if we might have a government official who realizes that there are class differences in this country. THIS IS A VERY GRAVE SIN!

I have a couple of suggestions concerning people who should be tendering their resignations, even if it means they have to pull off to the side of the road to submit them on their Blackberries... But I'm sure that Tom Ballsack and Rahm the Vindictive won't be called on the carpet for this idiocy. You see, consequences - if there are any - only fall on their underlings, who are no doubt guilty of providing them with an incorrect briefing, don't you know. Whocouldanode?

The Obama Administration: Spineless Marionettes for the Right Wing Noise Machine. Pull the strings, and just look at them dance! Don't trouble to ascertain the facts of the case. Don't bother to find out if it was just another of Breitbart's dirty tricks. No, just throw the woman under the bus, cuz ya know, they're sayin' BAD THINGS about ya on Fox. Of course, they never say anything ELSE about you on Fox, so why would you reflexively rise to the bait, having been so definitively punked before by the same people? This line of thought is too sophistimacated for Rahm and His Team of Crack Commandos, however. He and His Team must focus the totality of their vigilance and spite on the all-important task of Hippy Bashing, after all.

God, they are unspeakably stupid. But they provide a perfect illustration of the Iron Law of Institutions, though, so there's that to be said for them.

This post is bullshit. The video clip is the only valid way to interpret and experience reality. Why isn't this post in the form of a video clip?

[Follow-up: this comment is bullshit.]

Also: isn't this libel?

Even if it has been edited (for space considerations, only, no doubt) you've done an admirable job faithfully boiling down the original to its essence.

saurabh

Some sort of defamation is what I thought he should be sued for. Originally libel was written defamation and slander was spoken defamation, but I don't know what the hell kind of defamation a website with videos is. I think it might make a difference in determining what type of damages she can recover, which strikes me as stupid.

Gulliver's Travels would give better insight to America Today, IMHO.

Well, hm. When I went off to read about defamation law in the US, I found this sentence: "In no state can a defamation claim be successfully maintained if the allegedly defamed person is deceased."

That is, one can most easily speak ill of THE DEAD.

saurabh

That's right. That's why after you call someone a fat ugly idiot, you need to back over them in your car too.

More importantly, that's also why it's so easy to make up so much shit about JFK. :)

Speaking of the dead, Shirley Sherrod's father is one. Here's an account of how he died, and of what people did next:

The Story Behind the 1965 Killing of Sherrod's Dad, by Will Bunch

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-bunch/the-story-behind-the-1965_b_655218.html

May the Creative Forces of the Universe stand beside us, and guide us, through the Night with the Light from Above (in a metaphorical sense)

No fair, you added a hyphen. That would be like editing in footage from some totally different time when he was wearing some totally different, ridiculous, get-up... oh, OK.