is a VERY weak leader. he probably gets passing grades as a negotiator, or barginer, but in the long run he is going to go down as a weak and failed president, just when we needed someone who had the balls to stand up to the bad guys...

and how FOX (aka Big Government) is equipped and motivated to undermine and distort.

Making it primarily an Obama issue just turns it into the usual WH attack , however deserved, rather than providing a real understanding of the power that right-wing media currently have. The extent of White House involvement(who said what to whom) seems unclear at this point- somebody panicked.

Just my opinion.

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Presumed guilty.

Due process? That's so in the past. This the rule of man, not law.

It is there whole Raison d'être.

Problem is the Obama WH plays into the narrative. Fox should not have gotten any scalps *ever* Even if they by accident were to come across something fishy.

Fox is Obama's arch enemy. You don't cease any ground to such an obviously biased news organization.

Helmut Kohl the eternal chancellor of Germany once got into a vendetta with Spiegel. A much more credible and well respected leftist news media than Fox obviously. For a decade and more he did not give them an interview nor called on any of their journos. He did not manage to completely marginalize them but he marked the line and stuck to it. He was accused of many things but never of being weak. This is how you treat a media that has it out for you. Spiegel hated him for this but also respected his stubbornness.

For libel and defamation? I'm not familiar with this part of the law, but given the reporting on Big Government and Fox, it appears to me like she has a prima facie case. Why doesn't someone sue that Fucker Andrew Breitbart? She's not a politician.

This Breitbart situation is big. Jonathryn: You can't get anywhere with libel/defamation if the op is just a misleadingly edited video clip.

So now a usda staffer got fired over andrew breitbart's biggovernment.com deceptively edited video. In chicago the judge won't let rod blagovich play all the damn FBI tapes. Wired.com and radaronline.com edit their wikileaks and mel gibson clips. These are all 'information operations'. Breitbart is working w brandon darby. Activists need to tell mainstream how naacp acorn info ops go down.

Darby was the FBI operative informant who setup the RNC 2008 molotov cocktail case, and for some time has been a player in Breitbart's fleet of provocateurs. As a columnist/author on Breitbart's site, Darby surfaced talkin smack about ACORN when BigGovernment.com was launched with those edited ACORN videos.

Now the White House is getting played by the same sorts of ops that took out anarchists around town here. As usual Dems running around confused without a sense of the tactics going on.

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With all sides overheated it's become a dangerous habit of 'hang 'em first, ask questions later' mentality. Breitbart correctly gauged the temperature of the NAACP and deftly lit a match to their anxious desire to follow their own challenge to the TeaParty and denounce anything that even smelled rascist a country mile away. He used the NAACP lust for righteousness in the moment and it worked.

Obama's Admin may or may not have known but the onus is on him to fix this. One can only hope that he fixes is in such a way that Breitbart will feel the sting publically (a knock on his door by the IRS would be a nice touch).

Fox is already spinning this that Obama has railroaded the poor lady. Nice touch guys. Obama, at this point, is the last one out of the gate so his fix better be a good one. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing her getting Vilsich's job.

...from here; after 8 years away, America looks and appears to be a loony bin; lock, stock, and barrel. I follow the news via Democracy Now, cough-Huffpost, gag-NPR, Al Jazeera, Tom Dispatch, BBC, Asia Times and Drudge Report. And you know what? It all looks pretty much the same. Pathetic! American politics is a soap opera; but it's real time and right in ones face. It appears the Europeans have a far better grip on reality and are far less influenced by the wackos governing the U.S. Geez, if you provincial idiots could just step outside of your psychosis for 5 minutes you might just get jolted with a dose of reality. For now yall are living in lala land; god help you and if god is what it takes, your done; really, really done.

The Obama admin. Too bad it was for such an unworthy cause. But it shows their weakness: fear of the righties.

... agree what a morally courageous person Shirley Sherrod is. And, that there has to be a space reserved in Seventh Hell for Andy Breitbart.
The "man" (using the term, in a very expansive sense) is a despicable liar and con artist, who may (now) even have worn out his welcome on Fox Toons.
At the risk of being redundant, I think the Agonista Community (though sadly NOT the the American public) is aware that there was NEVER any "Pimp" involved in the so-called ACORN vote registration scandal last year. This was all conjured up after-the fact by Breitbart to make it appear that a ludicrously dressed white "Pimp" graced ACORN's offices with one of his "girls" in tow. A total fabrication. Even Breitbart has reluctantly admitted that this big lie was "only the B-roll".
Brad Freidman (at Bradblog) has done yeoman service (over the past year or so) staying on this creepy-crawlie. If 1 good thing comes out of this whole episode; I hope that Breitbart is forced to crawl back under his rock, and this time for good!

How about firing Vilsack and giving his job to Sherrod? How about publicly announcing that Brietbart has lost all credibility?

Nah, never mind.
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