Lib Guest on 'Real Time' Calls Breitbart a Con Man, Brings Up Shirley Sherrod
If you're not familiar with GRITtv or Laura Flanders, you will be because her far-left, antagonistic, attack dog style is starting to become all the rage to liberal hosts especially on MSNBC.
On Friday, as part of the panel discussion on HBO's "Real Time," Flanders in her own aggressive style impolitely went after fellow guest conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart feeling the need to bring up last year's Shirley Sherrod affair after which she called him a con man (video follows with transcript and commentary):
LAURA FLANDERS, GRITtv: The only record I want to see here, the only thing I want to see here is Andrew Breitbart apologize to Shirley Sherrod. That's what I want to see. I mean, this has got to be stopped by all of us.
For those wondering, the subject at that moment was Barack Obama and his birth certificate, but Flanders had an agenda to be driven Friday evening, and nothing was going to stop her:
ANDREW BREITBART: Can I answer that?
FLANDERS: This has got to be stopped and it’s got to be stopped by all of us, Bill.
BREITBART: Can I answer that?
FLANDERS: Otherwise it’ll never end.
BREITBART: Can I answer to that?
FLANDERS: Go for it.
BREITBART: Okay, good. You want to hear the truth or are you just going to use your talking points?
FLANDERS: I don't have talking points.
BILL MAHER, HOST: Because Republicans never have talking points.
FLANDERS: Yeah, really.
BREITBART: In my article, I wrote eventually her basic humanity inform her to help the white farmer. The media ignored that. Okay?
FLANDERS: You admitted…
BREITBART: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Secondly, in the actual video that was there, it said, it had the epiphany where she said it's not about black versus white. It’s about rich versus poor, and the only person who defended me on that was Chris Matthews. Thank you, Chris Matthews. And so what happened was is that Glenn Beck threw me under the bus. It happened and he did it on the radio, and he cut out the part on his radio show where she said it's not about black versus white, it's about rich versus poor. And he went on television and said Andrew Breitbart needs to apologize. He’s the one that cut up. People listen to Glenn Beck, they don’t read Andrew Breitbart.
FLANDERS: Are you, is anybody buying this?
BREITBART: It's true.
FLANDERS: I mean, you yourself told Newsweek that you took Shirley Sherrod out of context. You said it yourself.
BREITBART: No I didn’t. No. What I just said is true.
FLANDERS: If this wasn't your agenda, if you weren't doing this on purpose, why don't you just apologize?
BREITBART: When I said, when I write, you know what?
MAHER: Let’s get on to the racism of today.
BREITBART: Alright.
MAHER: Because, you know, okay, you do not believe that Obama wrote his own book? I have you…
BREITBART: No, I think it's a plausible argument by Jack Cashill.
MAHER: I have your tweet. It says…
BREITBART: It's probably the most controversial thing in my entire…
MAHER: Wait, wait, wait, I have your tweet. You said, “I'm sold. Jack Cashill's compelling arguments…
BREITBART: But it is. Yes.
MAHER: …on authorship of Obama’s book.
BREITBART: Have you written all your books?
MAHER: Yeah.
BREITBART: Really? I have, no.
FLANDERS: Horror.
BREITBART: Having a ghost writer, having a ghost writer, having a ghost writer is not that extraordinary. I think that in his first book he clearly wrote it. The second one has a completely different tone and different writing style. It’s just an opinion. I have an opinion on that
MAHER: But the implication is…
BREITBART: No, it isn't.
FLANDERS: It is important.
BREITBART: No it’s not.
MAHER: I haven’t even said, “But it is.”
BREITBART: He's a very smart guy, and I bet he got a 4.0 at Harvard and Columbia.
FLANDERS: It’s just an opinion, but you're not a journalist or a commentator. You're a con man, and that's your job.
MAHER: That’s…
BREITBART: Well, you got in your…
MAHER: No, no, no. Okay.
BREITBART: It's a wrestling match.
MAHER: Yeah.
BREITBART: I answered her question, and she didn’t want to hear the truth.
MAHER: I know. Let’s save the real mean stuff for the end of the show.
Reminds me of the scene from "Sixteen Candles" when Molly Ringwald's girlfriend said "Get the hell out of here" to Anthony Michael Hall, and he quickly responded, "Nice manners, babe!"
Even Maher seemed a bit put off by Flanders behavior, but his audience loved it, so that's probably all that counts.
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So Maher has Breitbart's
Submitted by metaphorsbwithu on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 8:10am.
So Maher has Breitbart's Tweet about authorship of Obama's book but not about what the Sherrod clip actually said nor what he wrote about Sherrod's epiphany.
For that it's okay to ignore the actual facts and just call him a liar when he explains how others "edited" the clip and ignored his commentary.
The actual facts are not helpful to Breitbart.
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 3:41am.
The following is an excerpt of Breitbart's preface to the video clips of Sherrod's speech. He clearly did not portray Sherrod in a positive light, which is borne out by the commenters whose condemnation of her and her perceived racist behavior was virtually unanimous.
"We are in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail, that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions.
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." [my emphasis in bold]
Breitbart had also given the impression the white farmer incident had occurred recently instead of twenty years ago--an impression he reinforced during a subsequent interview by Hannity.
Jer
Here is the initial reaction of The Anchoress
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 3:50am.
to the video clips. It turned out that her sense of 'there's more to the story' was right on the money.
Jer
So why would Breitbart apologize...?
Submitted by NeoKong on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 8:32am.
He wasn't the one who fired her over the phone. We all saw the video. All Breitbart did was show her in her own words. If Flanders wants to talk about Sherrod then maybe she should talk about how she and her husband cashed in big time on the Pigford lawsuit. They got millions from it.
Why was Brieitbart on that stupid show?
Submitted by Red Jeep on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 9:20am.
3 libs vs. him? That's not smart. (Yes, I consider Mark McKinnon a lib.)
He's just asking to be smeared with stupidity.
His response to her "con man" jab should have been
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 2:21pm.
"Oh, Frack that Shite, you Racer!"
You Mean Flanders' "At the Tea Party" book is not a Con Job?
Submitted by Nightfly on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 8:55am.
When Maher was painting all Republicans 'racist', Breitbart reminded him of Rep. Allen West and Herman Cain. Amazing how quickly Maher pivoted away from that topic.
keep your progressive paws away from us
Submitted by mayjon on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 8:58am.
Why do british have bad teeth? She and her communist ilk like soros destroyed jolly old england, and she comes across the pond to destroy the greatest democracy in the civilized world with their wicked progressive views. Her indignancy reminds me of the show trials from the former USSR. Bill's use of marajuana for years has destroyed his mental facilities and that's explains his loony liberal views.
Shes an attack dog. I'll bet
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 9:40am.
Shes an attack dog. I'll bet she becomes a frequent guest on Maddow's show though...
Laura Flanders
Submitted by frank14 on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 12:55pm.
Does Maddow like self-loathing lesbians?
http://sickofitradlz.blogspot.com/2008/01/laura-flanders-self-hating.html
Is Flanders a lesbian? Not
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 2:17pm.
Is Flanders a lesbian? Not that there's anything wrong with that...
I saw Breitbart's ORIGINAL article and the video
Submitted by TexasMom0517 on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 9:48am.
What Andrew Breitbart's saying is absolutely true. I READ his original article and watched the whole video the day it went up. Truth and facts are unimportant to the Professional Left. They have their story and will follow it unto insanity or death.
Another beauty!
Submitted by brutony1 on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 12:24pm.
Wow, is there an endless stream of stupid, loudmouth, and esp FUGLY lib women that this dork never fails to find? Hes like a minor league director of left-winged broads, searching for them, and when he thinks he found one ready for the "Show", he calles them up to display their "talents!" A regular Branch Rickey of the wacky liberal mindset!
When will liberals WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE! -Me
What the hell is gritTV?
Submitted by djwolf12 on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 2:47pm.
I have never heard of it. Is it the bastard red-headed cousin of Current TV?
Repeat the lie, propagate the lie, rinse and repeat....
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 5:31pm.
...to convince everyone the lie is true.
According to the left, Andrew Breitbart is a race-bating conman who doctored a tape to get Shirley Sherrod fired. They keep spreading this bald-faced lie in order to discredit him, because they hate the fact that somebody is actually being a decent journalist and scrutinizing and criticizing the left. They're persistent, I'll give them that.
I will say, Breitbart's main mistake was not viewing the entire video before posting the excerpt, and making sure the left wouldn't be able to twist it around and use it against him. The left tossed Sherrod under the bus in order to make her look like the victim, so she could go on her little pity party media tour and the MSM could bash Breitbart.
My advice to Mr. Breitbart is to remember that clarity and focus are your best friends. Otherwise, the left-wing attack machine can and will try to distort anything you say to use against you in the court of public opinion.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
You Jest
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 10:12pm.
No matter what Breitbart says or does the Lefties are going to twist and distort.
The pot calling the kettle black.
Submitted by big.league.slider on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 11:01pm.
It's pathetic to hear this MSNBC hack calling Breitbart a "con man". A con man is someone that uses lies to steal money from their victim. As far as I know, Breitbart has not gained anything financially through unethical means.
The same can't be said of MSNBC. They are still 49% owned by the GE corp., which has profited billions in taxpayer money from their crony capitalism arrangement with the Obama administration.
Amazon book rankings and a peek at Flander's "spouse"
Submitted by OxyCon on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 12:20am.
At the Tea Party by Laura Flanders
Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #33,299 in Books
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Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! by Andrew Breitbart
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#3 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Professionals & Academics > Journalists
#5 in Books > Nonfiction > Politics
#25 in Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences
And here is Laura Flanders’ “spouse”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hm11QjSyw0
Stupid Flanders!
Submitted by brutony1 on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 11:02am.
D'Oh!
When will liberals WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE! -Me