He's Still Calling Her Racist
This is damning.
And I hope that it spells the end of Andrew Breitbart as an oft-lauded, influential voice on the right.
Note particularly the charge of racism he still levies against Shirley Sherrod, the ongoing invocation of turnabout is fair play, and the fact that he himself says he wasn’t duped by his source.
I’m sure he’ll be back on cable debate programs. His interlocutors should prepare:
“…unrestrained by codes of moral conduct…”
Awesome.
— Erik Vanderhoff · Jul 22, 09:52 PM · #
“I hope that it spells the end of Andrew Breitbart as an oft-lauded, influential voice on the right.”
Why would it?
As one small example, Bill O’Reilly said before we invaded Iraq, “If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it’s clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration again, all right?”
And O’Reilly and Bush were never repudiated by the right.
Facts don’t matter. There’s only tribalism. Breitbart is One of Us, and that’s enough.
I would love to be wrong. But I’ve only seen people excommunicated by the right for insufficient deference to the Party— eg, Frum and Bartlett.
— Elvis Elvisberg · Jul 22, 09:54 PM · #
The thing that kills me is that he’s outright lying. It’s not even remotely hard to poke holes in his story.
This is one of the few right wing memes i saw from start to finish. From the second the vid came out to now. It’s sort of surreal. The same commenters and bloggers that were condemning Sherrod on the basis of the video… are the same people saying it was never about Sherrod. Then the same people saying it wasn’t about Sherrod are the same people saying, “but she’s still racist.” Anything to keep themselves and Breitbart from looking stupid.
And the thing that gets me the most is that it’s so obvious that a lot of people still never watched her speech in full context. I mean, the woman relays a story of her life growing up being discriminated, of having a father that gets murdered by whites and then that murder gets looked the other way by the white criminal justice system, back during the days of segregation… and i’m supposed to somehow be shocked and appalled that this woman had animosity towards whites? That after hearing that the audience is supposed to frown up and tut tut at her turning down a white guy that walked in her office belittling her.
I’m rambling, but this whole thing just leaves me like WTF.
— Console · Jul 23, 03:11 AM · #
Console writes: i’m supposed to somehow be shocked and appalled that this woman had animosity towards whites
Assuming you’re right that Sherrod has animosity towards whites, that makes her justifiably racist, right? (Avenue Q comes to mind, of course)
— J Mann · Jul 23, 01:53 PM · #
Justification is besides the point. The main point is that she’s human and most humans in her position would come out the same way. Which is why her story is great in the first place. It’s the height of politically correct absurdity to say that identifying with her at that point in her story is wrong because she was racist. Empathy isn’t justification, it’s merely the way we understand each other. And if we can’t do that, then what’s the point? Nation of cowards on race… Holder wasn’t just randomly making things up.
— Console · Jul 23, 04:33 PM · #
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— home medical equipment · Jul 27, 07:11 AM · #