The Republican National Committee has canceled a fundraiser with conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is under fire for promoting an edited video that falsely portrays former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod as having boasted about discriminating against a white farmer looking for her assistance.
Breitbart was scheduled to appear with RNC Chairman Michael Steele at a reception later this month in Beverly Hills…
The spokesman said the fundraiser was cancelled “To better capitalize on the fall fundraising season that happens post-Labor Day, while also lowering costs by utilizing existing trips to California.”
Michael Steele is concerned about lowering costs?
Breitbart has been under fire for posting the video clip of Sherrod that led to a rush to judgment and Sherrod’s forced resignation. She was later vindicated when her speech to a chapter of the NAACP was shown in full.
I look forward to the exercise in sophistry requiring neocons and libertarians to defend both the RNC and Breitbart.
#18–JB==you lose all credibility when you make the “I know you are but what am I” gradeschool retort.
I CHALLENGE YOU: match anything said/done by those you list that was picked up by the Dem Party leaders as their talking point for the day?
I’ll be surprised if you can do it for any group you list which will be proof of just how pitiful your BS is. ie, all BS, just made up BS. Delusional.
Go!!!
jbenson…you did hear the reality behind the Acorn video, right? Overdubbed audio, edited to appear they wore those outfits into the offices, etc? It was all a scam. Reputable news agencies have admitted they were taken…disreputable news agencies still cling to the scam…..
So, who shot the Sherrod video?
Brietbart threw himself under the propaganda bus that the right wing media are driving.
It’s time for legitimate media to stop reacting to the right wing media.
Fox, Limbaugh, Beck, O’Reilly and their zillion dumber clones are professional liars and toxic to America.
jbenson…Here is the real story of the Acorn crap that Breitbard so vigorously defended last year.
Here’s a look at Breitbart’s credibility.
Still care to defend this clown?
>> jbenson2 said, on August 2nd, 2010 at 9:21 am
Code Pink
New Black Panthers
La Raza
Green Party
FALN
Earth Liberation Front
I’ll guess that few-to-none of these are registered Democrats. (Certainly the Greens are not!)
Furthermore, if you add them all up, they a tiny nothing compared to the crazy-ass Tea Party movement which is leading the GOP around by their noses these days.
>> bobbo, demonstrating the value of Sophistry by being so poor at it said, on August 2nd, 2010 at 9:36 am
>> I CHALLENGE YOU: match anything said/done by those you list that was picked up by the Dem Party leaders as their talking point for the day?
You got that right, bobbo.
Most Democrats would have to Google just to know who most of those groups are on his list.
Before the Right Wing Media started their hysteria about the New Black Panthers, I had never even heard of the group.
Yet, Fox wants us to believe they are the Democrat’s version of the tea baggers.
I’ve heard of Code Pink but never met one. The same with the Earth Liberation Front. FALN? La Raza? Never heard of them
But the conservatives want us to believe it’s all the same — the GOP have their nutcase tea baggers and the Dems have these groups.
An arguable exception could be the Greens… WHO ARE NOT DEMOCRATS. (read that again, brainwashed conservative)
I’ve met a few Greens and I think I share some politics although I’ve never really looked into it. I’ll guess that’s the case for most Dems. Many of us Dems are still PO’d at the Greens for helping get GW Bush elected.
But the Greens certainly don’t lead the Democrats the way the Tea Party leads the GOP. Only the most lunkheaded political analysis would draw a equivalence.
Interestingly, “jbenson2″ doesn’t mention the Democrat’s true equivalent to the Tea Party — the progressive movement.
Lots of progressives would consider themselves part of the Dems abut also a pressure from the left.
They are also a large movement. I’m not sure how big they are but I certainly meet a Dems who call themselves that..
And, like the Tea Party and their candidates, there are a few real Dem leaders who call themselves progressives — Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich for example. I think there are others.
Even so, the progressive movement is not equivalent to the Tea Party in scope or influence. But they are kind of the same in the position they play in the Democratic party.
I would also argue that the progressives are not 10% as unhinged as the tea baggers.
Re: New Black Panthers….Fox news loves to cover scary black people.
Remember during the presidential debates when those red and blue lines would squiggle all over based on the response to McCain and Obama talking? Fox has those meters, and they peg (100% up) when the bubble-headed bleach blondes start whining about scary blacks or scary Latinos. Fox is all about pegging those meters. They’re diligently scouring the news for scary brown people, and will break into the news cycle as needed if they find some.
No matter that NBP is just eight guys before Fox started their hysteria, nobody in the video looked the least bit intimidated, and Bush’s DOJ first decided not to pursue the case. No matter the facts, they’re goddamned scary black people!
Morons, all of you that watch that crap.
Olo Baggins of Bywater,
Had you heard of the New Black Panthers before Fox got conservatives all up in a racist lather?
I checked Wikipedia which didn’t list their size. Maybe they could all fit around a dining room table!
Today’s conservatives have abysmal political judgment and Fox exploits that endlessly.
If _I_ hear about some crazy right wing militia group in Idaho, I don’t confuse that with the the whole GOP.
Yet, that’s exactly what the conservatives do with Code Pink or New Black Panthers.
Lesson Learned:
republicans are no different the democrats. they both use underhanded tactics to buy votes, sway opinion and distract you from the real issues.
Both parties need to be deleted.
Sadly, i have no “palatable” solution to the problem. -as my “solution” begins with wiping all forms of “money” and even the *idea* of money or monetary based trade from the mass consciousness at large as well as the planet.
-highly unlikely, but not impossible.
-s
He violated the Repuke rules for slimy slander – getting caught!
Now he must die
Greg, no I had never heard of them, nobody did until Fox ran the video on it’s top-40 rotation for about a week after the elections. And as you know, repeating it over and over makes it true.
Problem now is that those militants ARE often tied into the tea party as the GOP umbrella moves away from the middle and towards the wings. The ‘seriously-crazy’ side of the spectrum is finding a political home, and their ideas are getting traction. As a result the NAACP made their statement about racists in the tea party.
Soundwash, They’re not both the same. The right-wing press has gone off the rails on the crazy train, and normal press seems afraid to take on Fox news.
There is no left-wing equivalent for what they’re doing on Fox news these days.
Wow, I never thought I would see the day that the Republican Party was acting was acting with some honor, instead of just being the party of complete corporate stooges that they have become!
Disavowing Breitbart is a small beginning…. when are they going to cleanse themselves of stooges like the Texas senator that apologized to BP for making it set aside money to cover the cleanup? Oh right.. he is a hero now, defending the little man in the eyes of Republicans.
What next… admit the truth that Dubya and his Republican cadre were idiots that ‘led’ a fearful and gullible country down a path to totalitarianism, plutocracy and economic slavery for the common man, and that we are now succeeding slowly in reversing the economic, social and ethical damage inflicted?
I guess showing a short clip out of a boring hour long speech instead of the whole thing now constitutes “editing”? If that is somehow grounds for a lawsuit, everyone who has posted a clip of anything or anyone online can be sued. This will only hurt the RNC. Nothing else in that ridiculous speech had any impact on his point, which was that the NAACP had elements that got excited when she mentioned her prejudice against a white man in the past. For shit sakes – the NAACP agreed! They renounced the people in the audience who reacted they way they did. And you think somehow hearing that she claims to have changed her ways at the end of her speech does anything to change this fact? Did the audience renounce their prior laughs also at the end of the speech?
Democrats would never even mess with video – they would just spread lies and rumors without a shred of evidence. (See JournoList for some examples.) Whether you like Breitbart or not, he is twice the journalist of anyone today who claims that title.
The RNC should embrace supporters who are actually willing to do some real work. What a bunch of cowards!
#26 Greg Allen,
The fight between the original black panthers and the ‘new black panthers’ has been going on long before Fox News or the ‘Right Wing Media’. I remember hearing about this back in the 90s.
Or here is a link to a traditional media source if you don’t believe me.
http://tinyurl.com/3ybuf95
There was probably more about them in the news in the 90s than there has been recently. Yes, the New Black Panthers are kind of a joke, but they are big enough to get national media attention and big enough to challenge the few members of the original black panthers left.
By the way, if you have never heard of La Raza – you might want to educate yourself. Lets just say it is unanimous on Yahoo Answers that they are a hate group ( http://tinyurl.com/2fhoe4u ) yet Obama thought it was a good idea to speak at one of their rallies. Now ask yourself why you haven’t heard of them.
#26,
Here is a video giving you a good idea of what La Raza is about.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-rBJefInD9M
Be careful though – it is not the entire speech. Its edited!!!
Brietbart made a mistake and ran too quickly without a double check. Unfortunately that will throw a shadow on a lot of good he has done exposing the evil that is the modern Democrat party.
The GOP doesn’t mind scumbags like Breitbart…until he starts affecting their bottom line, then its time to kick him to the curb.
Sorry Andrew, thats capitalism.
Not sure if this has been pointed out or not, but this whole thing has been win-win for Obama personally, and the dems in general:
#1 He gets to like he is zero-tolerance on racism by “throwing Sherrod under the bus”
#2 He gets to look remorseful and appears to be acting with with purpose by giving her back a job.
#3 A known conservative blogger get discredited and creates a certain amount of guilt by association with his previous supporters.
this all seems far too convenient to me…