NAACP Racism story disintegrates: Another Breitbart lie

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No, Beck waited for the facts so that her words could be evaluated in the proper context. Had the radical left done that, they would not be looking so foolish today. But waiting just isn't in the genetic make up of the radical left. Knee jerk, jump to conclusions is what they're all about. It's why their so good at spinning. When you get caught with your hand in the cookie jar so often, you get really good at making excuses and fabricating wild explanations.
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What has radical left done? They have been pointing out the phony controversy on Fox News since the story broke.
 
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And just who are the Sherrod smearers? Seems that the Obama administration and the NAACP fit that profile seeing how it is they who threw her under the bus.
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Its in the title, its Breitbart, the habitual liar. Seems to me you have no issues with the liars who perpetrated the smear but only with those who acted on it in haste just like the last time with ACORN. And if they hadn't acted, there would be stories all over how the 'administration' is being racist and ignoring evidence.

Breitbart was the first to post video falsely suggesting that Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod had discriminated against a white farmer -- allegations that are rapidly unraveling as they churn through the media.

The fact that Breitbart's poorly researched accusations are falling apart should be no surprise to those familiar with his handiwork. He's the one who coordinated and promoted the release of heavily edited videos purporting to show a pattern of illegal activity among ACORN employees -- but multiple investigations found no such pattern, and Breitbart, along with videographers James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, was repeatedly caught in lies and distortions about the videos. Undaunted by his initial failure to catch ACORN breaking the law, Breitbart later announced that "deeply sensitive and highly political" ACORN documents had been discovered in a dumpster and suggested that "obstruction of justice" might have occurred, yet he never offered evidence that the documents were anything other than trash.

Breitbart again hosted O'Keefe's fact-fuzzy work in June, posting a lackluster effort to "expose" Census workers allegedly being encouraged to falsify their time sheets. Unsurprisingly, even this less-than-shocking video turned out to be edited to exclude footage that inconveniently showed a Census leader telling workers that they must carefully and accurately report on their time sheets the number of miles they drive.

The litany continues: Breitbart also latched on to blogger Jim Hoft's blatantly false and homophobic attacks on Department of Education staffer Kevin Jennings, cross-posting Hoft's tirades on BigGovernment.com. He spearheaded wild distortions of the Kenneth Gladney case, accusing the White House of "directing" town hall violence. Breitbart's websites forwarded the unfounded claim that the National Endowment for the Arts broke the law, and the sites also published an "exclusive" purporting to expose a White House visit by ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis, which turned out to be false.

In September 2009, Breitbart embedded a "shocking" video, which he claimed showed the Gamaliel Foundation praying to President Obama with phrases like "Deliver us Obama" and "Hear our cry Obama." According to the organization, the video actually shows organizers saying "Deliver us, oh God" and "Hear our cry, oh God." When Christmas rolled around, Breitbart invented an absurd scandal in three ornaments on the White House Christmas tree.

So it's not surprising that Breitbart -- who has said that his strategy is to deprive people of information they would need to evaluate his allegations -- has peddled utterly false information once again.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201007210004
 
Com'on Hermit, why can't you just admit your gang screwed the pooch on this one? Everyone makes mistakes. But not the self appointed intellectuals, eh? Always gotta' be right. Sorry pal, your boys got caught with their pants down on this one and I'd have alot more respect for you, and them, if ya'll just admitted the mistake.
 
It was outrageous of Breitbart to quote the woman's own words. That seems to be the gist of it. He certainly didn't fire her.

As for the Media Matters accusations, they are well-known leftwing slimemeisters. I'll trust Breitbart anyday over them.
 
Sherrod is/was a racist who made decisions based on race. The NAACP audience she was speaking to laughed and seems to enjoy her racist comments. Now, liberals are upset because a section of the video was omitted where she described that her previous racist views and actions were wrong.

She still did the crime. Just because she realized she was wrong does not absolve the crime. And, the NAACP audience seemed to enjoy her racist comments and actions before she told them she was wrong.

Why can't liberals be honest?


BTW, Breitbart released the video to focus on the NAACP hypocrisy on race when they falsely accused the Tea Party of racism. He did not release the tape to go after Sherrod.

Here is Breitbart explaining his side of the story:

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Com'on Hermit, why can't you just admit your gang screwed the pooch on this one? Everyone makes mistakes. But not the self appointed intellectuals, eh? Always gotta' be right. Sorry pal, your boys got caught with their pants down on this one and I'd have alot more respect for you, and them, if ya'll just admitted the mistake.
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Very nice deflection there, basically ignore everything what happened and blame it on the 'libruls' for the hasty decision that the Obama administration made. Earlier you were blaming how it was all a leftist conspiracy but you wont bring that up anymore after the Beck clip. The right wingers are never at fault even if they lie and distort, its all left's fault in your book.
 
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The ACORN story was true. Try and reference a legitimate news source in the future.
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Try to keep up with news other than what Fox dishes out.

The video that unleashed a firestorm of criticism on the activist group ACORN was a "heavily edited" splice job that only made it appear as though the organization's workers were advising a pimp and prostitute on how to get a mortgage, sources said yesterday.

The findings by the Brooklyn DA, following a 5½-month probe into the video, secretly recorded by conservative provocateurs James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, means that no charges will be filed.

Many of the seemingly crime-encouraging answers were taken out of context so as to appear more sinister, sources said.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/acorn_set_up_by_vidiots_da_x16IroTf4AsXCI19nttFLL

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