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Dean: Fox News “racist” The Fox News Channel’s handling of the Shirley Sherrod controversy “was absolutely racist,” charged former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Dean, who is also a former Democratic National Committee chairman and hero of liberals, asserted Fox News failed to vet video footage of a speech misleadingly excerpted to make it appear that Sherrod was boasting of using her post as an Agriculture Department official to discriminate against a white farmer. “I don’t think Newt Gingrich is a racist and I don’t think you’re a racist,” Dean told Fox News host Chris Wallace,...

I understand how Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official who was forced to resign last week, must have felt. Last year I, too, resigned from an administration job, after I uttered some ill-chosen words about the Republican Party and was accused — falsely — of signing my name to a petition being passed around by 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Partisan Web sites and pundits pounced, and I, too, saw my name go from obscurity to national infamy within hours. Our situations aren’t exactly the same. Ms. Sherrod’s comments, in which she, a black woman, appeared to admit to racial discrimination against...

...Andrew Breitbart, 41... Formerly the editor of The Drudge Report, and a primary developer for The Huffington Post, Breitbart has come into his own in recent years as the conservative online publisher for various websites, including Breitbart.com, Breitbart.tv, Big Hollywood, Big Government, Big Journalism, and (the latest) Big Peace. SNIP A: Believe it or not, one of my primary motives on this planet is to stop this racism, and to stop the Democratic Party's use of race that divides us intentionally. Google me and Clarence Thomas. I went from left to right because I watched this tactic happen to him...

The U.S. Agricultural Secretary offered Shirley Sherrod a deputy director's position within the agency's outreach wing, the AJC has learned. In an exclusive interview Saturday morning, Sherrod told the AJC that she was offered the job of deputy director of outreach, which is within the USDA's Office of Advocacy and Outreach. As Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack described the position to Sherrod the role would, among other things, help to tamp out discriminatory practices the department has been accused of. "He said he wanted to do a lot to address discrimination within the agency during his tenure," Sherrod said. "But he...

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For those of you unfamiliar with the story, let's take it from the beginning. The NAACP decided to smear the Tea Party as racists. Like many Americans, Andrew Breitbart didn't take kindly to something that has become a daily ritual during the Obama Administration -- conservatives being falsely denounced as racists. However, unlike most other people who are sick and tired of being lied about by the Left, Andrew Breitbart had the information he needed to fight back. So, he put out this video of Shirley Sherrod admitting that she discriminated against a farmer who came to her for help...

The facts are clear in the Shirley Sherrod case. Breitbart receives a edited video of a speech given to the NAACP by the USDA officical. In it she admits to racially discriminating against a white farmer (but blacks can't be racist remember) and even going so far as to refer the white dude to "one of his own kind." While she is admitting all this the NAACP crowd is reacting quite approvingly to the racism. Then the whole supposedly unedited video is released and we see that she did in fact admit to the doing the above racist acts but...

I found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race. ~ Barack Obama In a 9/11 New York Times interview, the murderous terrorist Bill Ayers, President Obama's political mentor, the man in whose home he started his political career in 1995, said: ''I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough.'' Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in whose church Michelle and Barack Obama dutifully worshipped for 20 years, said: "Racism is how this country (America) was founded and how this country is still run!" Obama, recounting his formative years, wrote: "To avoid being mistaken...

The entire Breitbart-Sherrod-NAACP-Tea Party mess is a lesson in how the left tries to sabotage and undermine conversations that don’t suit it. It’s a real time event version of what the Daily Caller chronicles in the Jornolist archives show about the media strategizing against Palin. The Democrats used their NAACP organization to try and brand the Tea Party as racist, thereby changing the conversation from criticisms of the Obama Administration, to an attack on the Tea Party itself, in order to delegitimize it, and discourage people from participating in it. Breitbart’s Sherrod attack was the equivalent of the “plate glass...

Former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod said Thursday that she would consider legal action against the conservative blogger who posted the video that led to her ouster. Speaking on CBS' Early Show, Sherrod said that while she hasn't actively talked about suing Andrew Breitbart, she "would definitely consider it." Sherrod said that Breitbart's intentions were obvious - but misguided.

<p>Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he has apologized to Shirley Sherrod, who resigned from her Agriculture Department job under pressure this week over a video showing her making comments about a white farmer.</p>

President Barack Obama called Shirley Sherrod Thursday to offer his apologies and urge her to accept a promotion on Thursday, but the Agriculture Department official, who was forced out on unfounded charges of racism, kept mum on her plans. Obama had tried to call her twice on Wednesday night but couldn’t connect with Sherrod, according to an administration official. West Wing staffers were attempting to call her again when she returned the president’s calls at around 12:35 p.m. The apology came after Sherrod took to the airwaves Wednesday to say she would appreciate a call from the president. The 62-year-old...

The NAACP can't get out its own way on the story of Shirley Sherrod, the Department of Agriculture official who was sacked following comments she made to the "civil rights" group about a white farmer. The Obama administration isn't exactly covering itself in glory either. Meanwhile, most folks seem to be missing the basic point of the story, at least from the perspective of Andrew Breitbart, the man who drove it.

Statement From the National Association of Black Journalists on the Reaction of News Organizations Covering Shirley Sherrod WASHINGTON, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the National Association of Black Journalists issued the following statement in response to the reaction of media organizations covering former U.S. Department of Agriculture staffer Shirley Sherrod: The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is dismayed by the profound failure of media organizations in their rush to report on the allegedly racist remarks of former U.S. Department of Agriculture staffer Shirley Sherrod. Because of the activist propaganda of conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart and the subsequent lack of...

Should there be a "gatekeeper" regulating internet bloggers? In the aftermath of the Shirley Sherrod incident, that's what CNN promoted on July 23. Anchors Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discussed the "mixed blessing of the internet," and agreed that there should be a crackdown on anonymous bloggers who disparage others on the internet. "There are so many great things that the internet does and has to offer, but at the same time, Kyra, as you know, there is this dark side," Roberts said. "Imagine what would have happened if we hadn't taken a look at what happened with Shirley Sherrod...

Shirley Sherrod, who recently lost her job at the USDA after an edited video surfaced showing her saying she didn’t do everything she could to help a white farmer, is now accusing Big Govenment’s Andrew Breitbart of, you guessed it, racism. While appearing on Anderson Cooper’s 360, Sherrod stated that Breitbart would “like to get us stuck back in the time of slavery.” Obviously, this is built up frustration for being urged to resign. But why the anger towards Breitbart? Yes, he released the video and she happened to be in the middle of the crossfire being the speaker, but...

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FIRST BLACKS WERE ALL REPUBLICANS Republicans - the racists? In 1868, Republicans elected the first black person to represent them in Congress. There were no black Democrats in Congress until 1935. For almost seven decades Republicans were the ONLY ONES electing blacks to Congress. Here are the historical facts: John Willis Menard (1838-1893); Republican - Louisiana; Term: 1868 Joseph Rainey (1832-1887); Republican - South Carolina; Term:1870-1879 Jefferson F. Long (1836-1901); Republican – Georgia; Term: 1870-1871 Robert C. De Large (1842-1874); Republican - South Carolina; Term: 1871-1873 Robert B. Elliott (1842-1884); Republican - South Carolina;...

The NAACP full video proved that Breitbart videos were CONTINUOUS UNEDITED EXCERPTS of Shirley Sherrod’s speech without being edited as many in the press are reporting. Breitbart's first video includes Sherrod's so-called exculpatory portion where she realized that it is not about whites-vs-blacks but it's about poor-vs-rich. Now that context is so important, let's give Breitbart that benefit and watch/read the whole thing. Here is the analysis: FULL TRANSCRIPT & VIDEOS: NAACP vs. BREITBART EDIT VS. EXCERPT:ex-cerpt1: to select (a passage) for quoting: EXTRACT ed-it1 b: to assemble (as moving picture or tape recording) by cutting and rearranging1 c:...

Don't hold your breath waiting for Andrew Breitbart to issue an apology to Shirley Sherrod for the infamous video. Highlights from an interview with Politico: •"If anybody reads the sainted, martyred Sherrod’s entire speech, this person has not gotten past black vs. white." (NAACP has the full video here.) •“I believe that I’m held to a higher standard. If this video showed a picture of a Caucasian talking in the exact same way but talking about a black person with an audience affirming and clapping that behavior, the reporter would be getting a Pulitzer Prize right now.” •“I am public...

A poor performance tonight on CNN, Breibart was called just about every name in the book and of course she got some help from Anderson Cooper....At the end Cooper asks her "Do you think he [Breitbart] is a racist?" Sherrod: "Yes I do" (Video from AC360)