Andrew Breitbart: Courts an Instrument of Leftist Thuggery
\nby\u00a0Audrey Hudson
\n03\/24\/2011<\/p>\n
Politicians and their supporters use interesting tactics to intimidate and silence their critics, from rumor-mongering to editorial cartoons, even dueling pistols.<\/p>\n
But the target of a high-profile lawsuit who is also a relentless investigator of the Obama administration says the judicial system is being used to retaliate against him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe President of the United States has an unprecedented and uncanny desire to silence those who report the truth about him,\u201d says media mogul Andrew Breitbart.<\/p>\n
Breitbart first came under fire last year after posting a video on one of his websites of a speech given by an Agriculture Department employee during an NAACP conference.\u00a0 The speech, Breitbart said, elicited racist responses from the audience.\u00a0 The speaker, Shirley Sherrod, says she was then fired at the behest of the White House, but when she was offered her job back days later, she declined.<\/p>\n
Rather than targeting the administration for its actions, or accepting its peace offer of what appeared to be a better job, Sherrod is suing Breitbart in the District of Columbia Superior Court for defamation of character and emotional distress.<\/p>\n
Breitbart concedes that Obama is \u201cnoticeably absent\u201d from the lawsuit, but says it is part of a pattern of isolation and intimidation that is being orchestrated by the Obama White House that threatens to marginalize media critics through the courts.<\/p>\n
Exhibit A, he says, is the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis that is representing Sherrod.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll you have to do is look at who Kirkland Ellis is and where their money went in the 2008 election cycle,\u201d Breitbart said.<\/p>\n
Through employee donations, Kirkland Ellis was a top 20 contributor to Obama\u2019s presidential campaign, with nearly $494,000 in donations, according to Wikipedia.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a man who wants to shut out and silence his enemies,\u201d Breitbart told HUMAN EVENTS.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe courts are a lovely place to take away the energy and resources of the President\u2019s critics,\u201d Breitbart said.\u00a0 \u201cHe thinks he can use the courts as a war of attrition against his political enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Exhibit B, Breitbart says, is how the Left used the apparatus of the mainstream media to target other enemies, such as author David Freddoso and commentator Stanley Kurtz.<\/p>\n
Freddoso, who wrote The Case Against Barack Obama, a New York Times best seller, \u201cwas called a hack, and whatever else they could think of,\u201d Matthew Vadum, a senior editor at Capital Research Center tells HUMAN EVENTS.<\/p>\n
In an American Spectator article Vadum penned during the campaign season, he outlined an Obama campaign memo he obtained urging followers to stir up trouble for Freddoso.<\/p>\n
“The author of the latest anti-Barack hit book is appearing on WGN Radio in the Chicagoland market tonight, and your help is urgently needed to make sure his baseless lies don’t gain credibility,” the memo said.<\/p>\n
“David Freddoso has made a career off dishonest, extreme hate-mongering.\u00a0 And WGN apparently thinks this card-carrying member of the right-wing smear machine needs a bigger platform for his lies and smears about Barack Obamao\u2014n the public airwaves.”<\/p>\n
Kurtz says he was also the target of \u201cAlinskyite tactics\u201d during a Chicago radio show appearance in 2008.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Obama campaign tried to shut me down when I went onto a radio station,\u201d Kurtz told a Hudson Institute audience that same year.\u00a0 \u201cAbout half an hour before I got there, they had been called by 7,000 people demanding that I not be allowed on the air.\u00a0 So they called the Obama folks and invited them to have someone come on to debate me.\u00a0 They refused, demanded that I not be allowed on the radio, and then they asked for the name of the head of the station so they could call and demand that I not be allowed in the radio.\u00a0 They did the same thing to David Freddoso.\u00a0 These are Alinskyite tactics, and Obama is using them in the campaign,\u201d Kurtz said.<\/p>\n
Vadum told HUMAN EVENTS that \u201cleftist radicals don\u2019t really like free speech unless it goes their way.\u201d\u00a0 The courts, it appears, are their final option to shut down the opposition.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen they don\u2019t like what you stand for, they want the police to harass you or they take you to court.\u00a0 That\u2019s not supposed to happen in a constitutional Republic like the United States,\u201d Vadum said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is thug politics straight out of Chicago,\u201d Vadum said.\u00a0 \u201cAl Capone would have been pleased.\u201d<\/p>\n
Exhibit C is the so-called Pigford settlement.\u00a0 Breitbart says it is the most controversial story he has ever uncovered.<\/p>\n
What initially started out as Breitbart\u2019s mission to defend the Tea Party against attacks of racism by the NAACP has now evolved into a mission to expose how federal payments to black farmers for racial discrimination in farm aid has been hijacked as a reparations movement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is about politics, this is about my continued attempts to expose the rotten-to-the-core alliances of the alleged objectivity of the mainstream media and organized groups like the NAACP who have gone to war against the Tea Party for its attempts to bring fiscal responsibility to an out-of-control government,\u201d Breitbart said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I am being attacked because of my effectiveness in exposing how the President\u2019s propaganda is being created.\u00a0 And I am being attacked because I have been a relentless force in reporting and propagating narratives that show that hope and change have been nothing more than organized thuggery and false propaganda,\u201d Breitbart said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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