I am glad to hear this, so glad.
Shirley Sherrod is going to sue Andrew Breitbart for this racist foolishness.
Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week.
The edited video posted by Andrew Breitbart on his BigGovernment.com website led Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to ask Sherrod to resign, a decision he reconsidered after seeing the entire video of her March speech to a local NAACP group. In the full speech, Sherrod spoke of racial reconciliation and lessons she learned after initially hesitating to help a white farmer save his home.
She said she doesn't want an apology from Breitbart for posting the video that took her comments out of context, but told a crowd at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention that she would "definitely sue.''
Vilsack and President Barack Obama later called Sherrod to apologize for her hasty ouster. Vilsack has offered her a new job at the department, which she is still considering.
"I have many, many questions before I can make a decision,'' Sherrod told the group. "I don't know what will happen from this day forward in terms of whether I'll be back in the department or what I'll do.''
E-mails to Breitbart's websites seeking comment were not immediately returned Thursday morning.
Take EVERYTHING you can from him!
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She should also find out if she can make a criminal complaint, too. Taking his house and his freedom seems a reasonable trade off.
Of course, now Mr. B. will be a martyr to the right wing: Punished for "uncovering the truth."
Good for her.
Damn good for her.
Good for her---she was wronged over some irresponsible blogger and the tampering of a video by her own organization. She should go for broke... and she'll win.
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