conservative blogger gets sued by ex USDA employee
Staff Writer
2011-02-14
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Shirley Sherrod has filed a defamation suit against Andrew Breitbart, the conservative gadfly she alleges triggered her firing by the Obama administration and ignited a national debate on race and reverse discrimination.
Sherrod was the Georgia director for rural development for the U.S. Department of Agriculture until last June, when Breitbart posted online a heavily edited video excerpt of her speaking to a Georgia civil rights group in which Sherrod, a black woman, suggested that she once discriminated against a white farmer seeking help.