Limbaugh calls Breitbart's heavily edited video of former USDA official "great work"

This, kids, is what we call "accidental honesty".

It may be "great work," but it's still completely false in the message it is attempting to portray. Just like the ACORN "great work."

Limbaugh calls Breitbart's heavily edited video of former USDA official "great work"

As in "You're doin' a heck of a job, Brownie!"

:-)

Update Blimpy CNN just let the air out of your story! How are you going to play this now? The lady that Shirley Sherrod helped said that she and Sherrod are friends. How's that for effective government? Shirley Sherrod victim of the Right Wing Noise Machine!

perspective is everything. According to the right wing, this is great work.

Truth-twisting to the point of blatant falsehood: check.

Causing someone to resign totally unnecessarily by constant bleating of said falsehood: check.

We have reached what Frank Zappa referred to as "semantic meltdown" when this is called "great work."

but wouldn't that make rush a racist, since he stated that they are racists because they go around and blame everybody else of being racist, I mean he does that all of the time so by him saying that he falls into that very catergory!!!

This is a terrible story, but it's interesting to see how quickly Fox and I'm sure soon Rush will turn...

At first, it was an indictment on the White House and Obama for having a "racist" USDA member....

Now, since the White House forced her to resign and it looks like she's not a racist at all, but that the misleading clips just makes her look like one...

it's now an indictment on the White House for forcing her out.

In many ways, the Tea Party has won because the White House cares about what they think... I wish President Obama would just stand up to them and Fox News and say, "I don't care what you think, I'm going to do what's right."

But, alas, they have become just as reactionary as the press.

This is going to be the Republican campaign this year, folks, mark my words.

It is going to race, race, race, 24/7, using the jujitsu tactic of casting other people -- who care nothing about race and don't bring up the subject -- as racist.

Those who constantly bring up race as a subject, who have it on their minds every waking minute, those are the ones who are either racist or are at the very least willing to use race as a political tool.

It's only going to get worse between now and November, and what is going on needs to be understood by the public at large, not just the followers of MMFA.

Mr. Creosote, by "great work", I assume you mean the editing, right?

i'm new to MediaMatters but I'm wondering about the title of this article. Specifically, "heavily edited video". Are there sources of fact for this wording?

As a white guy with my share of health needs, I can only hope that I'll be dealing with someone with the dedication and compassion of Shirley Sherrod.