Pigford: Andrew Breitbart’s Eight-Month Smear Campaign Against Shirley Sherrod
Pigford: Andrew Breitbart’s Eight-Month Smear Campaign Against Shirley Sherrod
February 10, 2011 12:17 pm ET by Matt Gertz
Andrew P. Breitbart, Minister of Wingnut Propaganda
During a press conference this morning at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Andrew Breitbart issued new allegations of “fraud” in the settlement of the Pigford lawsuit, a class action brought by black farmers who claimed they were discriminated against by the Department of Agriculture in the 1980s and 90s.
Why is Breitbart so interested in Pigford? He is seeking redemption for his infamous smear of former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, and attempting to prove that he, not Sherrod, was the true victim of the events that began when he labeled her a racist based on an out-of-context, deceptively cropped snippet of a speech she had given.
You may recall that Breitbart’s credibility was devastated in July 2010 after his attack on Sherrod was exposed as a lie. But rather than admit his error, Breitbart has spent the last eight months trying to find a way to use the Pigford settlement to advance a new series of bizarre, conspiratorial Sherrod smears.
[Video warning: contains Andrew Breitbart speaking:]