Here she is again with the false claim that Fox News had anything to do with getting her fired.
Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, praised CNN’ s coverage of her experience and dismissed protests by Fox News that it was being unfairly criticized.
“I will not give Fox an interview, period. They had their chance to get the truth, and they were not interested,” she said at a plenary session at the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention in San Diego. Fox maintains that it did not air Breitbart’s truncated video, which was edited to make it seem as though Sherrod were a black bigot, until after she was fired.
“I don’t know all that Fox was doing behind the scenes to get the effect they were looking for,” which was to get her fired, Sherrod said in answering a question from Eric Deggans, media writer for the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times.
“I got lots of hate mail on Monday,” she said, before receiving the fateful cell phone call from her supervisor asking for her resignation before the Glenn Beck program aired on Fox News Channel that night.
When Deggans told Sherrod that Fox host Bill O’Reilly said she was injecting race into the conversation, she replied that having lived as a black person, “I saw what Fox did and what Breitbart did. I knew it was racism, and nobody had to tell me that.”
As for the Breitbart suit, good luck with that.
I doubt she ever actually saw ANY of the coverage on Fox. Clearly she is steeped in the koolaid of the left. FOX LIES, so you don't need to actually watch the channel, just make up accusations from your worst bad-faith assumptions -- that has always been good enough for the lefty echo chamber.
And apparently she has never heard of this new thing called "the Internet" either, from which stories become "viral" even without the attention of cable news networks.
I wonder if Obama said anything to convince her not to sue USDA? She already got one settlement from them, and "wrongful termination" is the no-brainer civil suit here (plus can add slander and emotional distress too right?)
Love him or loathe him, Breitbart has the first ammendment on his side. USDA violated due process by firing an employee based on an internet rumour they didn't bother to verify (let alone get the employee's side of the story), and they publicly condemned her for racism to boot -- all in less than 24 hours -- I don't think they have any defense.
As for Ms. Sherrod, if she wants to pick a fight with rightwing media and become a famous race-gadfly for 15 minutes, I don't see how that helps her side politically. Racism accusations have clearly entered their chicken little / boy who cried wolf phase. As a stategy that one is past "diminishing returns" and on to downright self-parody.
And she's missing an opportunity to retire a millionaire!
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