Breitbart's Site Has Video of Kagan Saying She's a Commie

Should Rahm text her to withdraw her nomination?

Everything about the Shirley Sherrod story stinks. Did the White House ask her to resign her USDA job because they thought a video on Breitbart's site -- making it appear she was biased against whites -- actually counts as real evidence? Haven't they heard about dirty tricks? Or is a right wing smear job enough to make good people act stupidly?

 

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Comments

[snesich]

05:23 AM on 07/21/2010

This woman, Shirley Sherrod, was set up and railroaded by this ultra-right winger, Andrew Breitbart.

Breitbart clearly edited this tape to completely distort what this woman said and to deceive the public. In this 24/7 news cycle we all live in, he succeeded in hoodwinking a lot of people, including Vilsack himself.

It's not right and it's not fair that this good woman should be pressured out of her job, especially when there is absolutely no evidence of her ever discriminating against anyone of any color.

In fact, the two white people she worked with are praising her and saying she helped save their farm. They think these false accusations are outrageous. And they are.

The media, the USDA and others owe this woman an apology. And she deserves her job back.

Extremists like Andrew Breitbart shouldn't be allowed to fabricate and lie and get away with it. He's doing it in order to stoke distrust between the races with the hope he can gain some political advantage and also ultimately line his own pockets with the publicity. It's shameful.

[Rubiconski]

05:11 AM on 07/21/2010

Get over the race thing people. Everybody running around calling people racists is not solving anything. It's being used for political purposes and Ms. Sherrod got sacrificed.

So give this nice lady her job back and don't be so quick to judge.

Her story turned out to be quite inspiring.

Do the right thing.

[HST]

02:40 AM on 07/21/2010

We don't have a responsible press in this country, otherwise the truth would have come out sooner.


Breitbart committed career homicide on Shirley Sherrod. What was his motive?

[Tresco]

12:49 AM on 07/21/2010

I agree. I think there is alot more to this story. This al blew up much, much to fast. I'm calling BS.

[Oiiohh]

12:41 AM on 07/21/2010

For the sake of the Left's beloved "diversity", don't you feel We the People could use a communist leaning Supreme Court justice in Elena Kagan?

[HST]

02:29 AM on 07/21/2010

"don't you feel We the People could use a communist leaning Supreme Court justice in Elena Kagan? "

As opposed to the fascist majority we now have?

[Avigdor]

02:16 PM on 07/21/2010

Kagan is what you might call "shariah-compliant." Note that she has said she welcomes the application of foreign law to the interpretation of American statutes. Note also that she had no objection to Harvard's acceptance of $20 million from a Saudi prince to create a program of Islamic history and sharia law. The same Saudi prince whose check was refused by then-Mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani. Note that Harvard Law School now has not one but three Saudi-funded institutions dedicated to the study of sharia. This is all in a commentary at The Hill by a former Clinton advisor.

If you want Islamic law in America (death penalty for women who transgress fidelity in marriage, honor killings, amputations as punishment for theft, that sort of thing), then Kagan's The One.

[springsm]

12:25 AM on 07/21/2010

I think it is time for people with any acsess to msm/talking heads on cable shun this Breibart. You know his job is to sit and look at video's nonstop trying to find something. Why did Vilsack take Fox's news gossip as the truth with S. Sherrod. Anything that comes out of Fox should be double fact checked. Obama and Vilsack need to publicly apologize to sherrod and reinstate her. I can't believe how quickly people are tossed over the cliff by this administration.

[jill2468]

11:25 PM on 07/20/2010

This is very disapointing. Who can we trust anymore to get information? We have known and seen evidance that the far left does this kind of thing and now Biertbart is pulling these dirty tricks also. Shame on him. She should get a beer with the Pres, her job back and a big bonus. This proves that we all must do more research before we beleive anything.

[Artemis34]

11:42 PM on 07/20/2010

"Who can we trust anymore to get information?" Not Breitbart.

Who is the "far left" b/c the American Communist Party has like 28 people now. There is hardly a "left" in the States and no "far left."

[SilverWolfSigil]

11:49 PM on 07/20/2010

The left, left.

[springsm]

12:26 AM on 07/21/2010

The far left does this. Can you give real facts or links to this. I am really curious. Actually maybe they ought to take lessons from the Party of Tea and the Party of No, Rush, Becky and Faux Entertainment. But I would like some solid links/facts.

[dragonlady620]

01:12 AM on 07/21/2010

What does the "far left" have to do with Breitbart?

[jill2468]

08:22 AM on 07/21/2010

As one that goes to Tea Parties in the Washington DC area and the 9/12 March on Washington, I can tell you that the left will take one picture of a nut with a racist sign and show it continually as representitive of the whole. That is dishonest and just one example. Podesta's group, The Center of American Progress, has taken a clip of a racist and just shown him and not the following part where he was confronted by the others at the Tea Party about his views and run off. I would say that is dishonest. No more dishonest than Breitbart, but lets be real and admit that they are all wrong.

[Michael Giblin]

11:25 PM on 07/20/2010

God bless white folks who talk like that in front of their white audiences. I guess that's the message.

[Martha57]

10:41 PM on 07/20/2010

This whole thing stinks and the WH house and the rest of the country should learn to look with eyes wide open if a story appears on Faux News or the Breitbart site.

[SilverWolfSigil]

11:52 PM on 07/20/2010

Unfortunatly I find that the left in America (what passes for left) is too quick to fall for the right wing media's traps. This is the second time these political hatchet men have been found to have doctored a video. What ever happened to "fool me once shame on you fool me... you ain't gonna fool me again"?

[springsm]

12:28 AM on 07/21/2010

"The Left"? Seems to me that it was the SEc. of Agriculture and the NCAAP, not the left. Look at ACORN...that was a set up and spliced video but Obama couldn't wait to distance himself. Not finding truths is disconcerting. Especially when it comes from these elements. Who is next.

[jill2468]

08:24 AM on 07/21/2010

Or MSMBC or NBC or ABC or CBS or CNN

[Jim Pasterczyk]

10:31 PM on 07/20/2010

Yep, the GOP is way ahead the Dems in the field of creative disingenuous video editing.

[jill2468]

11:28 PM on 07/20/2010

Well, I don't think I would agree with you on that one. Center for New American Progress just put out a little film about how the tea party people are racist, and cut out the part where ther guy got railed on by the true patriots for being there and had to finnaly leave. So.

[Oiiohh]

12:24 AM on 07/21/2010

Thanks for pointing that out.

fanned

Liberty
Peace

[despike]

09:39 PM on 07/20/2010

Link to the full video

[pikaomega]

10:21 PM on 07/20/2010

Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9NcCa_KjXk&feature=player_embedded

[CarolinaYankee]

09:24 PM on 07/20/2010

Wow, come on down here we can school you on the dirty tricks of politics. S.C. is the champ at it, I thought- Now I see Breitbart and Carlson has now run off with the trophy this week. And of course Pox News ran with the story as soon as possible, as per usual. Another Acorn, and more innocent people lost their jobs.

[Jim Pasterczyk]

10:30 PM on 07/20/2010

Pox News, that's good!

[jill2468]

11:30 PM on 07/20/2010

At least Ms Sherrod should get her job back cuz she had realized what she had done and learned for her experiance. ACORN, not so much. Bunch of crooks that they were.

[springsm]

12:30 AM on 07/21/2010

They were not.