I better watch out. Bloggers are lawsuit-bait for thin-skinned liberals who don’t like it when bloggers show videos of speeches.
Shirley Sherrod, whose videotaped comments about sending a white farmer to “one of them that his own kind would take care of him” since she “didn’t give him the full force of what I could do,” has decided to sue the blogger who played the video excerpt that led her to being fired and subsequently coddled.
At the National Association of Black Journalists convention in San Diego, Ms. Sherrod said she would “definitely” file a lawsuit. The type of suit is unclear.
“He had to know that he was targeting me,” she said in a speech at the convention.
Quite the speaking gig she’s got going on, eh?
Let’s see. If “targeting” a public figure by playing a clip of a speech is something to sue over, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and a host of other news networks and programs better open the checkbook.
Wonder what the statute of limitations are about media sources “targeting” public figures by playing a few sentences of a speech.
Dan Quayle can be the richest man in America. Someone tell Sarah Palin she can sue the media. Newt. Bush. WOW! This could be a lawyer’s field day. The Washington Post better watch out for George Allen’s attorney.
Hey, Sherrod. Here’s a hint. When you give a speech, especially a distinctly long and boring one to audiences as diverse and multi-cultural as the NAACP and the National Association of Black Journalists, some media will probably report parts of your speech without playing the entire insomnia-curing thing.
And let’s get another thing straight. If, a few years ago, a white Bush Administration official gave a speech to a Whites organization and talked about how he was supposed to help this black farmer, and he didn’t do everything he could’ve and just sent him to “one of his kind,” what do you think the Left would be saying?
And if he whined that he was taken out of context, would the Left suddenly say “OK, we understand. Everybody gets too worked up.”
And if that Bush Administration official decided to sue the blogger who reported what he said, the nutroots would explode.
So let’s cut the hypocrisy. Sherrod is becoming a huge embarrassment. Her 15 minutes are up.
