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Old 07-29-2010, 12:20 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will pursue a lawsuit against conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart -- the man responsible for posting an edited video clip of Sherrod appearing to say she discriminated against a white farmer looking for assistance


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She will have no shortage of donors for her legal fund.

Maybe she will reject the new job offer from the USDA and take the celebrity route:

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This ought to be good. But he didn't fire her.

This is a dumb move. She was forced to resign without any concern for checking the facts behind the story or any review, yet she's suing Breitbart? Sounds like bullshit. She'd have a much better lawsuit against her higher ups the him.
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Don't you think he is responsible for what happened to her? Since he misrepresented her words and spread lies about her, I believe he has some legal responsibility. And he should have to own up to it.
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Don't you think he is responsible for what happened to her? Since he misrepresented her words and spread lies about her, I believe he has some legal responsibility. And he should have to own up to it.
They fired her because of their own fear. I don't see how he's responsible for those above her ignoring their own protocol and making her quit. They didn't even follow their own procedures before throwing her under the bus. Any monetary losses she may suffer is more the fault of the feds than Breitbart. She's suing the wrong party.
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Was there ever a doubt as to who would be sued? The one's with the authority to fire her without any sense of "due process" or the one that used her own words against her? And of course as the FACTS point out...she is NO VIRGIN when it comes to using her RACE to grift the system, she is actually becoming quite gifted at being a "shake down" artist.

Its true the context was misrepresented, but who in the White House demanded her resignation before any investigation? What the real story is the fact that the "media" also formed a picture taken "out of context".

Even if you listen to the entire speech...in the CORRECT CONTEXT it becomes very clear that Sherrod represents a Marxist Ideology, she may not be a "racist" but indeed her own words demonstrate her political ideology very clearly and quite unambiguously.

In CONTEXT Mrs. Sherrod was addressing the NAACP and was encouraging black minorities to seek employment as a Government Worker (an oxymoron) with the USDA....with her reasoning being, {quote} --, "Have you ever heard of anyone in the Federal Government losing their job?"

She was also claiming that the WHITE ELITE created the ideology of racism in order to to maintain their "social class" and standing. (very clearly implying that she very well knows that RACE is not an issue in this nation any longer...but its about CLASS WARFARE) Then she openly declared that any disagreement with Obama, in specific any disagreement concerning health care, had to be RACIST in nature. How was it she put it? "....it is about white and black, BUT ITS NOT." (clearly implying that it was about social classification hiding behind racism, in other words WHITEY was holding down the blacks of this nation not because of their color but because of ECONOMIC GREED)

The Facts of her history points out that she has become very efficient at using HER SKIN COLOR to become a shake down artist. She has openly stated that "SCHOOL INTEGRATION is the worst thing that has happened to the blacks of this nation", as it robbed the black community of self sufficiency. HER OWN WORDS, she stated that it is BIG BROTHERS duty to, "keep the blacks on their land" (and in their houses given to them through affirmative action....IMPLIED).

And along with her RACIST husband Charles Sherrod (as the record indicates by self profession, "we must stop the white man from stealing our elections", implying a mentality of WE AGAINST "THEM")... she sued the USDA in a 13 million dollar lawsuit when her COMMUNIST style black farm commune was refused GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE because it was not turning a profit like it was projected to do...so the USDA put a stop to her government subsidy grants. Even though the lawsuit was launched to support "NEW COMMUNITIES" FARM.....both She and her husband was rewarded 150k each for "pain and suffering", the largest INDIVIDUAL payout awarded in the suit.

So....no, this lawsuit does not surprise anyone, and apparently it is the reason that "barry" was just as quick to "rehire" her as he was to "fire" her. Its clear that she is being prompted by the media to sue AGAIN....as her civil rights have been violated, not by the ones that fired her, but the ones that used her own words against her??????? Correct Context? No, a calculated prompting by the media to rid them of an enemy by destroying his resources (BREITBART). Good luck...I mean with a little thing like the 1st amendment an all. Its most difficult indeed to prove MALICE when someones own words are used against them, even when taken out of the correct context....if that were the case, MSNBC would have ceased to exist from day one. And, just how many times would the dancing monkey (Jon Stewart) have been sued?

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This could get messy between Sherrod and Breitbutt.
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Only as messy as the press makes it out to be. This close to an election their duty of indoctrinating the masses is best served elsewhere as Mr. Context is running for no public office. The old RACE CARD, mean CONSERVATIVES are going to take your check approach is no longer a valid tactic.....WE THE PEOPLE are PISSED, as its THE ECONOMY STUPID, and believe me, the press does not want to concentrate on the SUMMER OF RECOVERY that is apparently Simultaneously also known as the BUSH RECESSION...and there we have it, a RECOVERY that is also a RECESSION. Not to mention all the JOBS saved by this administration, if there is one person that has not been lain off then Obama can take credit for saving jobs, which for the first time in history is the same credit as creating jobs, apparently Obama has then been credited with saving 71 million JOBS......if he can take credit for ONE....why not ALL?

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Was there ever a doubt as to who would be sued? The one's with the authority to fire her without any sense of "due process" or the one that used her own words against her? And of course as the FACTS point out...she is NO VIRGIN when it comes to using her RACE to grift the system, she is actually becoming quite gifted at being a "shake down" artist.

Its true the context was misrepresented, but who in the White House demanded her resignation before any investigation? What the real story is the fact that the "media" also formed a picture taken "out of context".

Even if you listen to the entire speech...in the CORRECT CONTEXT it becomes very clear that Sherrod represents a Marxist Ideology, she may not be a "racist" but indeed her own words demonstrate her political ideology very clearly and quite unambiguously.

In CONTEXT Mrs. Sherrod was addressing the NAACP and was encouraging black minorities to seek employment as a Government Worker (an oxymoron) with the USDA....with her reasoning being, {quote} --, "Have you ever heard of anyone in the Federal Government losing their job?"

She was also claiming that the WHITE ELITE created the ideology of racism in order to to maintain their "social class" and standing. (very clearly implying that she very well knows that RACE is not an issue in this nation any longer...but its about CLASS WARFARE) Then she openly declared that any disagreement with Obama, in specific any disagreement concerning health care, had to be RACIST in nature. How was it she put it? "....it is about white and black, BUT ITS NOT." (clearly implying that it was about social classification hiding behind racism, in other words WHITEY was holding down the blacks of this nation not because of their color but because of ECONOMIC GREED)

The Facts of her history points out that she has become very efficient at using HER SKIN COLOR to become a shake down artist. She has openly stated that "SCHOOL INTEGRATION is the worst thing that has happened to the blacks of this nation", as it robbed the black community of self sufficiency. HER OWN WORDS, she stated that it is BIG BROTHERS duty to, "keep the blacks on their land" (and in their houses given to them through affirmative action....IMPLIED).

And along with her RACIST husband Charles Sherrod (as the record indicates by self profession, "we must stop the white man from stealing our elections", implying a mentality of WE AGAINST "THEM")... she sued the USDA in a 13 million dollar lawsuit when her COMMUNIST style black farm commune was refused GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE because it was not turning a profit like it was projected to do...so the USDA put a stop to her government subsidy grants. Even though the lawsuit was launched to support "NEW COMMUNITIES" FARM.....both She and her husband was rewarded 150k each for "pain and suffering", the largest INDIVIDUAL payout awarded in the suit.

So....no, this lawsuit does not surprise anyone, and apparently it is the reason that "barry" was just as quick to "rehire" her as he was to "fire" her. Its clear that she is being prompted by the media to sue AGAIN....as her civil rights have been violated, not by the ones that fired her, but the ones that used her own words against her??????? Correct Context? No, a calculated prompting by the media to rid them of an enemy by destroying his resources (BREITBART). Good luck...I mean with a little thing like the 1st amendment an all. Its most difficult indeed to prove MALICE when someones own words are used against them, even when taken out of the correct context....if that were the case, MSNBC would have ceased to exist from day one. And, just how many times would the dancing monkey (Jon Stewart) have been sued?
Wow. 7 question marks? Really?
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