Andrew Breitbart: The man behind the Sherrod affair
I say he gets off too easy in this artcle. What say you?
Sherrod called Breitbart a racist and vowed to sue.
Breitbart’s misfire also tripped up some of his fellow conservatives: Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly apologized to Sherrod after calling for her resignation. Peggy Noonan, the former Reagan speechwriter, wrote in the Wall Street Journal that Sherrod had been “smeared by right-wing media,” and suggested she’d been “the victim of a high-tech lynching.”
Breitbart defended himself with brio, but it was clear he had some regrets. “If I could do it all over again,” he told Newsweek, “I should have waited for the whole video to get to me.”Berry, reached in Washington a few days later, was not pleased to hear it. “He’s a reprehensible guy who has just no excuse,” she said. “Obviously with Shirley Sherrod, Breitbart should be ashamed of himself.” (Breitbart shrugged it off. “She’s a leftist,” he said. “She’s not going to like me.”)n the Meridien Hotel bar after his speech, Breitbart insisted his motives were pure. “I don’t like it when anybody is falsely branded a racist,” he said. “I’ll fight it, I’ll fight it, I’ll fight it! My disgust at racism is what turned me into what I am.” A post-racial future, he added, is his “dream.”
That drew a snort from one of his most vocal critics, Eric Boehlert, a senior fellow at the liberal website Media Matters For America. “The problem is, on his website, he posts bloggers who call people racists all the time. What he means is you can’t call conservatives racist.