BREITBART: "I could care less about Shirley Sherrod"

[kpete]

Andrew Breitbart issues correction, sort of

..........

“While Ms. Sherrod made the remarks captured in the first video featured in this post while she held a federally appointed position, the story she tells refers to actions she took before she held that federal position,” the correction reads.

Breitbart has been unapologetic in defending his decision to post the original edited video, blaming the NAACP in a recent interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity for having picked a fight with the tea party.

“I could care less about Shirley Sherrod, to be honest with you. This is not about Shirley Sherrod,” Breitbart told Hannity. “This is about tarring the American people and the tea party movement with the false charge of racism.”

The NAACP has since apologized and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has offered Sherrod a new job, one she is considering whether she wants to accept

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/40104.html#ixzz0uQjIIO4x

[sinkingfeeling]

1. So, according to this idiot, Shirley Sherrod isn't one of the 'American people'?

[LynneSin]

25. So she isn't white so she doesn't count in this asshole's world

:grr:

[Ganja Ninja]

2. I hope she sues him until he's blue in the face. n/t

[Common Sense Party]

17. On what grounds will she sue him?

[localroger]

20. Defamation of character

It can be hard to prevail in a defamation suit but she has a slam-dunk in the necessary matter of proving actual harm.

[reformist2]

27. I think it's a slam-dunk on both actual harm and malicious intent.

The idiot himself said his whole purpose was to find racism at the NAACP.

[Common Sense Party]

30. Did he do anything more than show a clip of her speaking?

If not, I'm not sure how she sues for defamation when all he did is show a clip of her own speech.

If he called her a racist, then perhaps she has a case. Maybe.

Except public figures get called racists and homophobes every day.

I'm just unclear how effective a lawsuit would be.

[reformist2]

32. The headline was "The NAACP Awards Racism - 2010" or something like that.

[localroger]

37. He showed a HIGHLY EDITED clip

Had he shown the whole thing to make his point you might have a point -- but the editing was carefully done to make it look like she was saying exactly the opposite of what the full clip shows she meant.

[Ernesto]

35. works for me nt

[Roland99]

3. Ah, so he does care at least some. "I could care less" means he could care less than he does

Sorry...grammar nazi in me. :)

[Hosnon]

22. I wish I could attack people for this but, alas, I find myself doing it more and more.

The force of the language is beating me.

But the point is not lost despite the error so life goes on.

[Blue Owl]

4. What a FRAUD

Choke on your own snake oil, Brutfart.

[Upton]

5. Why doesn't Vilsack offer Sherrod the SAME job back?

This was bungled badly by the Administration..time to rectify their mistake.

[aquart]

8. Does the new one pay more?

[Upton]

12. Who knows?

I'm just saying she should be reinstalled in her former position. Not only will that be saying a big fuck you to Breitbart and Faux News, but it's the right thing to do.

[daleanime]

15. Exactly...

same position, or higher!:bounce:

[BrklynLiberal]

10. Perhaps they are trying to "sweeten the pot" by offering her a better job.

[Karenina]

18. One QUITE ABOVE Cheryl Cook's line of fire...

:rofl:

[monmouth]

13. Perhaps she will be unable to accept her old job back because her

time will be consumed with her attorneys and the lawsuit(S) she will be filing...

[Mz Pip]

6. I could care less about Breitbart

The guy is a nasty, mean spirited partisan hack. If some of this sullies his name or brings him any kind of grief as far as I'm concerned he deserves it.

He deserves a whole lot more though.

[lpbk2713]

7. For someone who says he could care less ...

he sure as hell has been doing a lot of damage control over the past couple of days.

He's a typical RW lying weasel and that is evident.

[BrklynLiberal]

9. In Breitbart's war, Sherrod was merely collateral damage.

Anyone who got in the way of his attack on the NAACP, or anybody else his psychopathology targets, is merely part of the cost of doing war....

No more, no less.

He is one sick f*ck.

And such a statement by him totally obliterates any claim that he may have made about not having anything to do with the editing of the video.

[malaise]

16. Not true

Someone was calling her and sending her hate mail since last week. The good news is that she forwarded it to her employers

[NJmaverick]

11. Breitbart could care less about any African American as he is openly racist

[nc4bo]

14. I want him to go out back and pick his own switch.

The rat bastard's earned it.

Seriously, I really hope that Shirley Sherrod takes his (and Fake News') ass to court!

It all needs to stop.

[jah the baptist]

19. well i suggest he find a lawyer who does

beause spin and spin as he might

this one isnt going away

he wanted this to be a big deal

and now it is

[cbdo2007]

21. I don't understand the wording - is it "could care less" or "couldn't care less" that is worse?

I would think "couldn't care less" because that would mean you care so little that your amount of caring couldn't possibly be any less.

"Could care less" means that he actually does care and there is actually quite a bit of room left there for him to care before he gets to the threshhold of not caring.

I've never understood this saying and which version is correct.

[Caliman73]

26. It is "couldn't". "I couldn't or could not care less"

People get that wrong all the time. Your first observation is correct. When a person "could not care any less" they are expressing indifference bordering on contempt. It is one of those phrases that people mangle regularly.

Another is "he did a complete 360" when they mean to say that a person had a drastic change of attitude or behavior. A complete 360 means that you haven't changed trajectory at all but have come back full circle to the same point. "A complete 180" is a reversal or a drastic change.

Anyway, those are two mangled phrases the make me cringe when I hear them.

[cbdo2007]

33. ha ha, thanks for backing me up on this - it drives me crazy too.

I hate it even more when people shorten it and slangly just say "I could care!!!" (as a shortened version of "I could care less") because that makes even less sense. Or maybe that implies that they don't care, but they could? But if they don't care, why would they. Ugghhh.

This is just one of the many disadvantages in society that those of us who take what people say literally have to deal with. :)

ha ha, "a complete 360"....

[mike r]

23. Joseph Goebbels speaks

[Spazito]

24. Translation to his correction:

His lawyer told him his ass is grass so he better 'mitigate' the damages by publishing a retraction. Idiot publishes this which ain't gonna save his ass, imo.

[rocktivity]

28. You lost this round, Briet-barf

In fact, you've lost everything because no one is going to listen to you cry wolf again. You're as gone as pet rocks and the macarena. You're a loser, baby!


rocktivity

[Cleita]

29. Apparently, he just outed himself as a sociopath.

To Breitbart from me.

"Way to go you racist, sexist douche bag because not only did you wrongly frame an African American for racism, but she was an African American woman, which seems to be a favorite target of you white, racist, sexist sociopaths."

[slay]

31. It's time people started suing this asshole

for slander, emotional damage, whatever the fuck they think will stick. We can't allow one right-wing nut to get away with hurting good people over and over and over and over again. :mad:

[Lilyeye]

34. His a total piece of shit. He was fine with destroying a woman and her carrer for his own gain

[Subdivisions]

36. What a fucking no-account asshole! Fuck you Breitbart. You piece of slug shit! n/t