This past week was consumed with commentary about race; as usual, the end of the discussion, as far at the MSM goes, is that Republicans/ tea partiers/ bloggers/anybody who opposes Obama policies are racist.
This is absurd; what Breitbart did is present an actual clip for the point he was making, which included exculpatory footage which he did not delete. Clarice Feldman at American Thinker lays the case out clearly, in addition to the many race baiting situations created by the left to nullify any right wing thought as racist, before anyone bothers to consider its merit.
On a side note, it's interesting to see who supports Breitbart and who doesn't.
What Breitbart had done was a bit of judo, using the NAACP's hair trigger response to racism and its habit of using selective and not credibly evidenced reports against opponents like the tea party to embarrass the organization itself to demonstrate how careless it is in its accusations of racism. They stepped in it with both feet, embarrassing Ms. Sherrod, the White House and their own organization in the process. To my knowledge this is the first serious pushback against such NAACP techniques. There is a certain symmetry in all this.
As my friend JMH noted," They demanded that tea party leaders publicly excommunicate putative racists in their midst -- and then suddenly found themselves stumbling over their own petard."
Those who use this to attack Breitbart are wrong. He baited the hook and all the usual suspects leapt at it.
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