I love how MSNBC’s Martin Bashir essentially begins the interview with Andrew Breitbart as such: “I think you’re Satan and you eat babies. Why do you do that?”
Bashir spends the remainder of the interview using borrowed intel from Media Matters and works overtime to cast Andrew Breitbart as “guilty by association.” Nevermind that Bashir was silent on the numerous Wisconsin death threats (or Tucson death threats, or RNC bomb plot, etc).
Breitbart asked why Bashir hasn’t held Shirley Sherrod accountable for calling him a “racist” or vowing to bring down his websites. Bashir doesn’t answer. His mind works overtime to connect the dots and mentally edit his version of what actually happened in the Sherrod story as opposed to reality.
This became obvious to Breitbart after Bashir asked his opinion of a truly offensive picture of Barack Obama leading Breitbart to fire back, “You’re trying to insinuate that I’m a racist here, which is what MSNBC does to conservatives every single day”
You could see where that was going from a mile away: Breitbart reveres Limbaugh; Limbaugh because he did an impersonation of the Chinese prime minister is racist, therefore; Breitbart must be racist as well.
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Breitbart had absolutely nothing to do with this email, which means Bashir mentioned it to give viewers the idea his guest was somehow connected and to further the dishonest case being made that he’s racist. Bashir’s entire manner during this interview was more of a prosecutor presenting his case than a journalist discussing a new book with its author.
In the end, this was clearly nothing more than a hit piece designed to make Breitbart out to be a racist, and due to his association with it, the Tea Party as well.
Sadly, this is what now passes as journalism at MSNBC today.
Soros’s Media Matters was quick to throw a hyperbolic post up about Breitbart’s appearance. Their big ace in the hole?
Breitbart Lies About His Initial Sherrod Post
In his initial post on Sherrod, Breitbart did not say “eventually, her basic humanity informs her to help the white farmer,” as he now claims. Rather he said: “Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from ‘one of his own kind’. She refers him to a white lawyer.” He then labeled Sherrod’s story “racist.” From Breitbart’s July 19, 2010, blog post:
In the first video, Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from “one of his own kind”. She refers him to a white lawyer.
Sherrod’s racist tale is received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement. Hardly the behavior of the group now holding itself up as the supreme judge of another groups’ racial tolerance. [emphasis added]
No, that’s their for-real ace in the hole. They repeated what Breitbart stated – near-verbatim in words and absolutely verbatim in context.
Sherrod helped the white farmer but goes on to say that she only referred him to “one of his own kind,” meaning another white lawyer. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how reversing the races and saying “one of his own kind,” and meaning a black lawyer, would be pounced on by the left and media. But for whatever reason it’s glossed over here. Breitbart absolutely included the exculpatory portion of the video in his original post, but if the Soros bloggers want to nitpick over words, perhaps they should take up their disagreements with Sherrod’s intent with Sherrod herself.
Let’s educate Team Soros.
Sherrod’s exact words at 1:28 into the video:
So I figured that I could take him to one of them that his own kind could take care of him. That’s when it was revealed to me that it’s about the poor verses those who have. It’s not so much about white … it is about white and black … but it’s not you know it opened my eyes because I took him to one of his own.
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Nice try, Media Matters (who still haven’t corrected their egregious lies on Planned Parenthood and mammograms but somehow believe they have the credibility to attempt to call out others). But you, along with Bashir, swung and missed.
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