Big Government Falsehoods: An updated guide to Andrew Breitbart's lies, smears, and distortions
Following the dissolution of Andrew Breitbart's smear of former Obama administration official Shirley Sherrod, Media Matters provides an updated look at how his sensationalist stories have been based on speculation, gross distortions, and outright falsehoods.
The "video evidence" of Shirley Sherrod's "racism" (NEW)
"Nationwide ACORN child prostitution investigation" (UPDATED)
Platform for anti-gay Jennings smears
Breitbart-promoted O'Keefe Census tape features selective editing (NEW)
Breitbart-promoted video falsely accuses Democrats of reconciliation hypocrisy (NEW)
Wild accusations over Gladney case
Breitbart's websites make baseless claim that NEA engaged in lawbreaking
Bertha Lewis' nonexistent White House visit
The Maoist Christmas tree ornaments
The ACORN "document dump"
False claims of community organizers "praying" to Obama
The "video evidence" of Shirley Sherrod's "racism"
Breitbart released heavily edited video purporting to provide "proof" of Obama admin official's "racism." In a July 19 BigGovernment.com post -- headlined "Video Proof: The NAACP Awards Racism -- 2010" -- Breitbart purported to provide "video evidence of racism coming from a federal appointee and NAACP award recipient." The heavily edited video clip Breitbart posted shows Shirley Sherrod, then the USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaking at an NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia, and stating that she didn't give a "white farmer" the "full force of what I could do" because "I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland, and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land." Breitbart characterized Sherrod's comments as her "describ[ing] how she racially discriminates against a white farmer."
Full video vindicates Sherrod, destroys Breitbart's accusations of racism. On July 20, the NAACP posted the full video of Sherrod's remarks, exposing how the clip Breitbart posted had taken Sherrod out of context.
This is your conservative Republican lamestream media at work. Edited tapes, lies, baseless accusations, racism and fanaticism.
