Breitbart tells TPM: Sure, I’ll release the entire Shirley Sherrod video — if I can get permission.
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Even Erick Erickson is having his doubts about Breitbart’s video: “I’m hoping there is more to the video of Shirley Sherrod, because otherwise it seems like the right just got the scalp of a penitent lady.”
Chet Traylor, the former Louisiana Supreme Court justice challenging Sen. David Vitter in the Republican primary, doesn’t have quite as squeaky clean a personal life as you might expect from someone explicitly taking on Vitter on family values grounds. A state senator with the novelistic name Noble Ellington says Traylor contributed to the break up of his marriage and later married Ellington’s former wife, and Traylor is now romantically involved with Ellington’s (estranged) daughter-in-law.
CNN just read on the air from a new NAACP statement saying that the organization will now investigate the Shirley Sherrod case:
“The NAACP is conducting an investigation into the recent revelations about the situation with Ms. Shirley Sherrod including attempting to speak with Ms. Sherrod, the farmer in question and viewing the full video.”
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I mentioned before that the NAACP issued a statement on the Shirley Sherrod case. We received it by email late last night. It was also apparently posted on the NAACP site, but doesn’t appear to be there any longer. We’re trying to determine if the NAACP is having second thoughts. Here’s the text of the group’s original statement: Read More
The 82-year-old wife of the white Georgia farmer who was supposedly discriminated against some quarter century ago by the black USDA official forced to resign this week — if the video released by Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government and re-run by Fox is to be believed — is now confirming that in fact Shirley Sherrod saved her and her husband’s farm from bankruptcy and is a “friend for life.”
CNN also spoke with the farmer’s wife and with Sherrod. Rachel Slajda has more.
Senate Judiciary Committee moves Kagan nomination to the floor on a 13-6 mostly party line vote. Only Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) crossed the aisle.
Andrew Breitbart has another notch in his belt: the forced resignation of a black USDA appointee in Georgia who Breitbart has on tape addressing a local NAACP chapter earlier this year and seeming to admit that she didn’t give a white farmer all the help she could have because he was white. Or at least that’s the story you get from Brietbart’s Big Government and from Fox. Read More
TPM Reader AB checks in from Murfreesboro:
I’ve appreciated your coverage of the putative “controversy” enveloping the proposed Islamic center here in Murfreesboro, and I’d like to point out a couple of details that might enhance your coverage.
One aspect lost in national media coverage is the fact that nearby Nashville is home to a substantial Kurdish community; indeed, we in the region believe it is the largest Kurdish population in the United States.
TPM Reader MK, a New Yorker, has had enough with out-of-towners like Sarah Plain protesting the mosque near the WTC site:
I first heard about this project a month or two ago, and the thing that struck me the most about it was the overwhelming support it had from the local community board in Lower Manhattan. As you are probably familiar it is nearly impossible to have a community board agree on even the most mundane issues, so to have a community board agree 29-1 on ANY this particular issue is quite an accomplishment.
Furthermore, why is land use in New York City the business of anyone else but the citizens of New York? If so, I would really like to know Sarah Palin’s opinion of the Atlantic Yards (or Hudson Yards or the expansion of Columbia University) project, an issue that is 1,000,000x more controversial than this project. That’s all this is: a land use issue.