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.
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If by convenient you mean the right is constantly throwing racist crap and this time got caught red-handed, yes.
With any luck the Paul’s and Tea Parties will throw the entire RNC under the bus. Kick out all the damned NeoCon fascists. Then once that threat to civil rights is eliminated we can go focus on the fascists on the other side.
RNC ? Breitbart ? A POX ON BOTH THEIR HOUSES !!! Nothing but LIARS !!! It is what REPUKES DO !!!