Shirley Sherrod, a former US Department of Agriculture employee, has sued Andrew Breitbart (shown in the photo) and Breitbart TV head Larry O'Connor. The lawsuit centers on a video Breitbart released in which Sherrod states before an NAACP audience that she discriminated against a white farmer because of his race. The Washington Post noted the story in today's editions. The article includes useful links, including one to Breitbart's website and statement on the litigation.Breitbart's video, in which his selective editing of the speech presented Sherrod in such an unfavorable light, caused a firestorm when it was released. I have not seen the video. From the descriptions of it, the video distorts Sherrod's comments by eliminating the context in which they appeared. The eliminations were evidently intended to promote Breitbart's right-wing propaganda, rather than present a dispassionate view of an event.
Breitbart's odious agitprop should be denounced. Breitbart distorts situations and misrepresents innocent people in order to reach his ideological goals. Are Breitbart's repellent tactics how conservatives, in the wake of the moral nihilism of the Bush-Cheney era, plan to persuade Americans about the clarity and justice of their ideals?
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