Editorial
Investors.com
10/11/2013
Law: An Obama official at the heart of the Pigford reparations scheme sues the widow of the crusading conservative who exposed her and a multibillion-dollar redistribution scam to African-American farmers.
Hell hath no fury like an Obama administration official exposed for corruption or racism. On Wednesday, news broke that Shirley Sherrod, the former USDA official whose speech before an NAACP group revealing her angst about helping a white farmer got her fired, has decided to amend her lawsuit against the late Andrew Breitbart to name Andrew’s widow and mother of four, Susie Bean Breitbart.
As Christian Adams recounts on PJ Media, Sherrod, in a 2010 speech before an NAACP awards dinner, admitted she was reluctant to help a white farmer because he was white. Sherrod said she didn’t help as she could have, and instead took him to “one of his own kind.”
Breitbart, who exposed the Pigford scandal from which Sherrod personally benefited, posted a video clip of Sherrod’s statement. She subsequently resigned from the Agriculture Department.
Later, in February 2011, she filed a defamation suit against Breitbart and his producer and aide Larry O’Connor, claiming the video damaged her reputation and prevented her from continuing her work.
On March 1, 2012, Breitbart died of a heart attack at the age of 43. Yet Sherrod’s case was allowed to continue, while O’Connor and the unnamed John Doe remained defendants.
Now Sherrod seeks compensation from Breitbart’s widow and his estate…
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Related: These are just a few of the most recent posts by blogger Lee Stranahan, who first broke the Pigford story at Breitbart’s “Bigs”:
The Paranoid Racism Of Shirley Sherrod
I’ve been reading Shirley Sherrod’s book The Courage to Hope: How I Stood Up to the Politics of Fear for the first time. I’ve been putting it off because I couldn’t really write about it while working for Breitbart News, since she’s engaged in a lawsuit with Breitbart employee Larry O’Connor and (sickeningly) Andrew’s widow…
Shirley Sherrod BOMBSHELL: NAACP Story Contradicted By White Farmer’s Wife
Who should we believe: Shirley Sherrod or Eloise Spooner, the wife of the ‘white farmer’?
Sherrod and Spooner tell significantly different versions of story about the Spooners almost losing their farm.
In both versions, Sherrod eventually helped the Spooners after Sherrod saw how a lawyer she’d sent them to wasn’t helping…
LISTEN: “White Farmer” Roger Spooner Contradicts Sherrod’s NAACP Tale
Why did Shirley Sherrod tell the NAACP in 2013 that she’d taken ‘white farmer’ Roger Spooner to ‘one of his own kind’?
I’ve just confirmed the bombshell story that I reported this morning : that a key component of Shirley Sherrod’s infamous 2010 speech to the NAACP in Douglas, Georgia appears to be false…
Which Shirley Sherrod Story Should We Believe?
What a tangled web for such a simple story.
There are three distinct versions of the ‘redemption story’ that Shirley Sherrod gave in her infamous speech to the NAACP in Douglas, Georgia in 2010…
