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From: bentway	7/23/2010 1:34:46 PM
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Sherrod: Breitbart stirs racists By: Andy Barr dyn.politico.com July 22, 2010 08:37 PM EDT Former Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod said Thursday that Andrew Breitbart knew exactly what effect posting an edited video of her would have with the "racist people he's dealing with." Since the original video Breitbart posted was exposed as misleadingly edited to portray Sherrod as a government employee who did not provide her "full force" to a white farmer, the conservative media entrepreneur has argued that the video was not about Sherrod but rather the tea party's recent dust-up with the NAACP. "This is not about Shirley Sherrod," Breitbart said during a recent interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity. "This is about the NAACP attacking the Tea Party and this is showing racism at an NAACP event. I did not ask for Shirley Sherrod to be fired. I did not ask for any repercussions for Shirley Sherrod. They were the ones that took the initiative to get rid of her." Asked to respond to Breitbart during an interview Thursday night with CNN's John King, Sherrod – who was fired after the edited video gained widespread media attention and then offered an apology by the president and a new job at the Agriculture department after it emerged that the edited remarks were misleading – called Breitbart a liar and accused him of stoking racist elements. "He knew exactly what effect that would have on not only — he knew what effect that would have on the conservative, racist people he's dealing with," Sherrod said. "That's why I started getting the hate mail. And that's why I started getting the hate calls." "He got the effect he was looking for," she said. Asked what Breitbart would need to do in order for Sherrod to forgive him, the former Department of Agriculture official said he "would really need to come and sit down with me and look me in the eye so that we could see if we can find a place." "I'm not saying I won't forgive him," she said, "but we would need to see if we can find a place where that can happen."

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