Shirley Sherrod blasts Fox News as racist

[chibi_lurrel]

Shirley Sherrod blasts Fox News as racist

Now this is going to drive the right bananas.

Check out this nugget in an interview that Shirley Sherrod did with Joe Strupp, in which she comes right out and claims Fox News is using her as a "pawn" in a racist plot to undo the gains African Americans have made:

She said Fox showed no professionalism in

Comments

[thebigbadbutch]

Good for her for standing up for herself. I'm amazed she got a chance to do so and I hope she doesn't just go away. Her point is dead on. Conservatives are trying to undo every civil rights gain made in the last century and they won't stop until its only white people at the front of the bus (except the driver of course).

Countdown till Fox says this is proof of her racism and the rest of the mainstream media follows Fox's lead in 3-2-1..

[kiri_l]

Personally I don't think they even want buses anymore. I"m also hopeful that some of the mainstream media won't follow. But the rest I entirely agree with. I hope she keeps talking until they shut down in pure shame.

[simonejester]

Sherrod is clearly not going away, and now she appears determined to force a larger conversation about the Breitbart-Fox News axis's broader efforts to stoke white resentment towards the nation's first African American president.

GOOD.

[ladypolitik]

LMAO

[nothingmuch]

That Breitbart guy deliberately whipped up a completely false controversy and trashed this innocent woman's reputation and livelihood. I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me like suing for libel would be a slam-dunk.

[bludstone]

there are no slam-dunk libel case. Libel is notoriously difficult

[yunghustlaz]

Amateur law professional (lol legal assitant) speaking here, but part of that is in considering libel is tort, it's hard to prove that the statement or words resulted in an actual liability resulting in damages, right? I mean, in that sometimes its hard to tie the item in question to tangible loss of whatever resulting from defamation.

Though, she'd kinda have a good case here, probs? I mean, there's obvious media documentation of everything and a direct line to that being the reason she was fired, being denigrating statements of such defaming her character. BUT, that's me, I'm fuzzy here on any tort that's not related to contracts or other small business practice.

[angry_chick]

I'm seeing now that I should have paid more attention in Communication Law. (God, I hated that fucking class)

I do remember that if she were to try to get him for false light, it does have something to do with privacy and that she is a public figure, which could hurt her, but Breitbart made those statements with actual malice as his intent.

Either way it goes, libel would be good to fuck up his reputation, but insofar as damages, she's fucked.

[sarien]

Hopefully her voice in all of this gets heard.