Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:34:15 am
Confirming everything I’ve written about them, the delightfully vindictive John Hawkins of RightWingNews.com takes a poll of the right wing blogosphere on their attitudes toward race. It’s as bad as you might imagine. Get a load of Hawkins’s title: Polling Conservative Bloggers On Race, Jesse Jackson, the NAACP, & False Accusations ...

Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:56:16 pm
This is classic. The wingnut blogs are still ranting that Fox never aired a story about the Sherrod case until she had already resigned, pretending not to be aware that Fox did run stories on their websites, FoxNews.com and TheFoxNation.com. Today Fox suit Michael Clemente admitted there was ‘a breakdown’. ...

Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:05:35 am
At the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists, Shirley Sherrod said she is going to sue Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart, meanwhile, is continuing the smear campaign, and today at his “Big Government” site, Greg Gutfeld actually whines that somebody needs to apologize to the Tea Party movement. It’s the ...

Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:07:56 pm
On the Michael Savage clown show, Andrew Breitbart now claims President Obama ‘is orchestrating the campaign to destroy’ him and his ‘reputation’. Video

Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:35:16 am
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Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:46:34 am
Coming up in August, a very special Republican National Committee fundraising event featuring right wing hero Andrew Breitbart. Unbelievable. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has a party fundraising event coming up in August that is scheduled to feature a very special guest: Conservative media activist Andrew Breitbart, according to ...

Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:54:27 am
By now, you can predict right wing tactics almost to the letter. Whenever Fox News, a Tea Party group, or a Congressman from Texas is caught saying or doing something stupid, misogynist, racist, or kinky, the tactic is: pick out an irrelevant or minor point in the criticism that can ...

Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:14:32 pm
The LA Times’s Jim Rainey has pretty much the same take on the Shirley Sherrod affair as I do — there’s a villain in this little play, and his name is Andrew Breitbart. Certain media outlets have played the story and the political ramifications for the Obama administration (and there ...

Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:47:26 pm
The dim bulbs of the right wing blogosphere are working hard to throw up (and I mean that literally) a thick coating of BS as cover for Andrew Breitbart. It’s a perfect storm of willful denial, and totally expected. Earlier we took note of hateblogger Jim Hoft, who didn’t even slow ...

Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:20:41 pm
Anderson Cooper has an on-point commentary about Andrew Breitbart’s sleazy hit piece on Shirley Sherrod. Video

Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:06:10 pm
Having done his best this week to smear and destroy an innocent woman, Andrew Breitbart is heading off to vacation. But first he gave an interview to Politico, to boast about his wonderfulness and direct some more race-baiting smears at Shirley Sherrod. “I am public enemy number 1 or 2 ...

Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:02:55 am
Meanwhile, even after everyone had seen the full video and knew that Andrew Breitbart’s out of context clip was promoting a lie, Breitbart was still trying to destroy Shirley Sherrod’s reputation. Late Tuesday night he posted another out of context clip at Breitbart TV, with the lurid title: Shirley Sherrod ...

Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:54:36 am
On CBS’s Early Show, Shirley Sherrod says she’s considering legal action against hateblogger Andrew Breitbart. Video Speaking on CBS’ Early Show, Sherrod said that while she hasn’t actively talked about suing Andrew Breitbart, she “would definitely consider it.” Sherrod said that Breitbart’s intentions were obvious - but misguided. “As much as he’s saying ...

Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:06:45 pm
David Frum seems surprised that conservative media helped Andrew Breitbart smear an innocent woman: Shirley Sherrod and the shame of conservative media. I’m not sure why he’s surprised. I got over being surprised a while ago. Frum calls Breitbart “the conservative Dan Rather.” But Joshua Green thinks Breitbart is something much darker. Breitbart ...

Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:39:39 pm
Joe Conason asks if it’s time to reopen Breitbart’s ACORN fraud — and get the story right. Why, yes. Yes, it is. Real justice, as I suspect Sherrod would agree, also requires due process for Andrew Breitbart, the Internet impresario who framed her on his Big Government website. In these circumstances, ...

Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:27:59 am
LGF reader “teh mantis” was one of the first to discover the facts behind Andrew Breitbart’s absurdly deceptive video of Shirley Sherrod (here’s the comment), and when our tipster decided to post the same information at a raving wingnut blog, here are some of the responses: “She can get a ...

Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:03:28 am
Andrew Breitbart says he feels “sorry” for Shirley Sherrod — after falsely smearing her as a “racist” and trying to destroy her reputation. [Video]

Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:58:55 am
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is reportedly reconsidering the resignation of Shirley Sherrod, after it became clear that Andrew Breitbart’s edited video was a complete sham intended to smear an innocent person for purposes of race-baiting: Vilsack, USDA to reconsider employee ouster. Vilsack’s statement came after the NAACP posted the full ...

Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:39:02 am
Apparently it wasn’t enough to smear and attempt to destroy one innocent person; here’s Andrew Breitbart on CNN claiming that the farmers who supported Shirley Sherrod were planted. [Video]

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:04:38 pm
Roger Spooner, the farmer who appeared today on news shows backing up Shirley Sherrod’s story, and who was accused by Andrew Breitbart of being a liar and a “plant,” is not just a lifelong friend of Sherrod; he’s also a veteran of the Battle of Midway. It’s been more than ...

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:49:43 pm
Roger Spooner, the farmer to whom Shirley Sherrod referred in her speech, says Sherrod is not a “racist,” she’s a lifelong friend — and she helped save their farm. Video I don’t know how Andrew Breitbart sleeps at night. What he did to Sherrod is beyond despicable. This was one of ...

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:00:19 pm
The NAACP has posted the full unedited video of Shirley Sherrod’s speech — and it completely vindicates her. Her speech is an inspirational call to end racism, not a boast about refusing help to white farmers — as Andrew Breitbart portrayed it. [Video]

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:20:27 pm
Andrew Breitbart is now on CNN, and he’s digging in and getting even more deranged and hateful about the Shirley Sherrod story; he just said that the two white farmers who praised Sherrod were liars, and probably planted by someone. He’s repeating over and over, “It’s not about Shirley Sherrod” like ...

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:15:07 pm
Here’s the new statement just released by the NAACP: NAACP Statement on the Resignation of Shirley Sherrod. With regard to the initial media coverage of the resignation of USDA Official Shirley Sherrod, we have come to the conclusion we were snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart ...

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:46:42 pm
Andrew Breitbart now says he didn’t edit the videotape of Shirley Sherrod’s NAACP speech, but that it was already edited when he received it. And of course, he’s not backing down on his claim that it shows Sherrod to be a “racist,” even though he must now be aware that ...