TPM CORRESPONDENT: It was billed as the most diverse tea party rally ever. For three hours Saturday afternoon, we waited for the diversity to show up. for most of the afternoon there were fewer than 500 in attendance. Among those who did make it, for most of the time the numbers of non-white faces could be counted on two hands, and maybe a foot. [ READ MORE ]
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TalkingPointsMemo: The Tea Party’s Uni-Tea rally in Philadelphia today marked Andrew Breitbart’s first public speech since Shirley Sherrod’s firing from the USDA, but Breitbart ducked TPM’s questions about the incident, and didn’t bring it up at all in his 20-minute long speech.
Before he spoke, TPM asked Breitbart whether he would address Sherrod’s ousting in his speech. “We’ll see,” he replied.
His speech did not address the incident, but mostly laid out specific incidents Breitbart says prove the Tea Partiers are not racists, and prove “collusion by the political class and the media class.” [ READ MORE ]
The FAT Hypocrite Speaks — Tries To Justify His Racism
| Simon Maloy: Last August, Andrew Breitbart wrote a column for the Washington Times on Kenneth Gladney, a black conservative activist who was allegedly assaulted at a union meeting. According to Breitbart, the incident was the fault of the Obama White House: “These union thugs were directed by the White House to go to the protests and ‘punch back twice as hard.‘ And they did.” Of course, that’s not at all what the White House did or said, but Breitbart nonetheless demanded that the White House be held accountable.
Fast forward eleven months, and Andrew Breitbart is back again, posting a cropped video of Shirley Sherrod, an African-American USDA official, speaking at a NAACP event. The video, according to Breitbart, was “evidence of racism coming from a federal appointee” and showed Sherrod saying “in stark detail, that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions.” Breitbart’s accusations resulted in Sherrod’s forced resignation, and it was not until after she had lost her job and reputation that the full video came forth showing that everything — literally everything — Breitbart had alleged was absolutely false. The whole Sherrod affair has quite publicly and embarrassingly blown up in the right-wing hatchetman’s face. And now Breitbart, who demanded the White House be held accountable for something they didn’t do, is insisting that he not be held accountable for a fiasco that, without question, is pretty much all his fault. And what’s truly upsetting — aside from the ordeal Sherrod’s been put through — is that he’ll probably get away with it. [ READ MORE ] |
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