Breitbart's Point Resurfaces

With a vengeance:

The media and [re]gressive-left Democrats now appear in a rush to convict Andrew Breitbart of shoddy journalism, while exonerating Shirley Sherrod and the NAACP from charges of abiding racism within their ranks. Both Sherrod and the NAACP have charged the Tea Party movement and the Republican Party with racism, while offering less proof than Breitbart did of the racism he correctly alleged. In many cases, the Left has outright manufactured evidence of racism regarding Tea Party events, yet no one has raised a voice about that slander at all. If one didn't know better, this wouldn't be today's news, but an Orwellian script circa 1984.

At approximately seventeen minutes into the now-released full video of the event, Sherrod can be heard relaying a tale from her past in which she initially failed to help a white farmer with the full effort she would reserve for a black farmer.

The assembled crowd of card-carrying members of the NAACP took great pleasure in that, their laughter was not nervous at all. That is a contemporaneous expression of racism by today's politically correct standards, not racism from some forty years ago.

Sherrod later says, "It's not so much about white…" then catches herself and says, "It IS about white and black." Perhaps Sherrod should explain why, even today, color is so centrally important in her work, be it at the Agriculture Department or elsewhere.

Breitbart’s web-posting of the speech showed more racism at one NAACP event than those charging Republicans and Tea Parties with racism have yet to produce after making accusations for months on end. The people making that charge include both Sherrod and the NAACP, neither of which has produced any proof. But it is Breitbart who should be convicted for false charges in the court of public opinion? That is totally absurd given the actual facts.

See, this is why I didn't get wrapped up in all the handwringing over the Sherrod tape.  The point Breitbart made with the tape is that the NASCP is itself hopelessly racist, thus morally delegitimized from projecting/vomiting that condemnation upon anyone else, least of all the Tea Party movement (aka The REAL Rainbow Coalition).  Even the full Sherrod tape still makes that point in her audience's reactions.  As I lamented a few days ago, the whole point of the Left zeroing in on Sherrod was to play on the Right's ethical highmindedness to derail Breitbart's narrative by making the story not about leftwing racism and character assassination but Shirley Sherrod, Victim Of Rightwing Media [drumroll, please] Racism.

To which A.B., God love him, is rightly and properly saying, "Mule fritters!":

In this year of American voter anger and discontent, Andrew Breitbart has found his moment.

"I get to be me right now," he said. "That's the best part of this entire thing. This, to me, is the beginning of the beginning."

And what is beginning is, he hopes, the age of Breitbart.

He's everywhere. On Fox News - a lot. Hobnobbing with Republican leaders in New Orleans. Rallying the Tea Party faithful in appearances across the country. Launching the websites Big Government, Big Journalism and Big Hollywood.

He's also lobbing grenades of controversy - like his most recent revelation this week of an old speech by Obama Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, in which she confessed that she once, decades ago, was deeply reluctant to help a white farmer who needed her aid.

"I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland, and here I was faced with helping a white person save their land," Sherrod said in the video.

Sherrod resigned under pressure - and then it turned out Breitbart had released only a clip of her speech that distorted her real meaning: that she had been wrong and learned from her error.

The controversy continues - to Breitbart's delight. He says he considers it a victory to have panicked the Obama administration and precipitated a public apology from the White House.

And pulled the decayed propaganda fangs from the diseased muzzle of the NASCP.

Leaving the question of just who it was that sent the edited Sherrod tape to Breitbart in the first place:

Given that A.B. reportedly received this tape in April, that revives my previously expressed suspicions about the whole New Black Panthers/NASCP/Race war angle as the Left's midterm strategy of last resort against the Tea Party movement (i.e. the American people), depending upon the identity of its source.  A piece of information in which I, for one, would be verrrrrry eeenterested.

Meanwhile, back at the racist fraud, Red Barry is offering Double-S the lofty and exalted post of Race Czar, but she's already figured out that she can be as big a racist demagogue as she wants to be as a vastly better paid Obamedia gadfly.

The "Racist FoxNews racistly set up Sherrod, the racists!" countermeme is already falling apart:

Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news editorial, said the network’s news programs reported the story with caution. “When I heard about this Monday morning and saw it on Breitbart’s website, I said, ‘OK, could be a story, let’s check it out,’ ” Clemente said. “We did the normal fact-finding we would do on any story.”

At an afternoon editorial meeting Monday, Clemente urged the staff to first get the facts and obtain comment from Sherrod before going on air, according to internal notes from the meeting that were provided to the Times. “Let’s make sure we do this right,” he said.

Sherrod ended up resigning Monday afternoon, hours before O’Reilly broke the story on his show. The first reported piece on Fox News, by correspondent James Rosen, aired on Tuesday morning, and included a second video clip that added context to Sherrod’s comments.

Sherrod, of course, wouldn't return Fox's calls.  Because they're not journalists.  And, you know, they're racists.

Annnnnd Slesack is now firmly ground up under the wheel's of Barry bus:

Now if Breitbart will resume his leftwing racist vid series as he promised waaaaaay back on Monday, we can get back to the serious business that needs to be done.

And fuel the Olby inspiration that so delights Glenn Beck.