Shirley Sherrod Shoots for a Second Payday in Pigford

If I see another portrait of Shirley Sherrod looking into the heavens in the glow of angelic lighting, like she just had a visitation from MLK, I am positively going to hurl.

This Sears size 16 tribute to the “Lazy Man’s Way to Riches” flimflammed her way into the low eight-figure bracket on the Pigford Settlement pyramid, and now she’s found a new way to make a quick buck without lifting a finger—sue Andrew Breitbart.

Which is what Mrs. Sherrod did this week after Breitbart released his latest salvo of evidence in the billion-dollar Democratic Party Pigford reparations scam.

“This lawsuit is not about politics or race,” Sherrod told the George Soros front Media Matters. “It is not about Right versus Left, the NAACP, or the Tea Party. It is about how quickly, in today’s internet media environment, a person’s good name can become ‘collateral damage’ in an overheated political debate.”

Which of course is true.

While the left has combed CNN and MSNBC’s archives for one single fragment of racist film on the tea parties, Breitbart found the video lying right under his nose. No, wait—that was the NAACP applauding enthusiastically when Sherrod, a ranking USDA official, suggested that a white farmer should go to “his own kind” for help.

You will remember Breitbart releasing the video last year showing Sherrod speaking before a regional NAACP crowd and the crowd’s disturbing response to her confession of racism. In the resulting scandal the White House pressured Mrs. Sherrod to resign from her high post at the USDA.

Background courtesy Townhall.com:

After the video broke, due to pressure from the Obama administration, Sherrod resigned; the NAACP also condemned her. Shortly thereafter, the NAACP released the full tape, which showed that Sherrod had in fact helped the white farmer at issue. In full attack mode, the leftist media went after Breitbart, accusing him of selectively editing the tape in order to target Sherrod. This despite the fact that Breitbart himself said he cared nothing about Sherrod and that his actual target was the NAACP; this despite the fact that Sherrod herself said the real problem was the Obama administration.

Let’s not be duped by Sherrod here; the former bureaucrat is not entirely innocent in all this, although she obviously was forced out of her government post without due process. But Sherrod, who cashed in on Pigford to the tune of $13 million, is not suing the government. She’s suing Breitbart the man who exposed racism within her beloved NAACP.

Will the hypocrisy never end? While hundreds of black farmers who were discriminated against by the USDA have been left out in the cold, thousands who never farmed a turnip patch in their backyards have collected huge sums of taxpayers’ dollars, and are demanding more.

Shirley Sherrod should be ashamed of herself.

New Pigford Documentary: Another Multi-Billion Dollar Grift

Grifter in Chief

Further evidence of fraud by Andrew Breitbart in the Pigford reparations scandal should come as no surprise to anyone who has been following the story. Now Lee Stranahan, whom Breitbart brought in from the Huffington Post to double check his facts, is on board with an upcoming documentary that will expose organizational wrongdoing in the case.

In other words, not only did thousands of un-entitled claimants file for damages, but they may have been encouraged and told how to successfully file those fraudulent claims by the organizations that set up the scam.

Stranahan and Breitbart presented a video at a CPAC presser yesterday that will eventually become part of a larger documentary; it includes undercover audio that indicates a conspiracy to commit fraud by the head of at least one Democrat-supported nonprofit.

Rep. Michele Bachmann introduced Breitbart who in turn brought on Stranahan and GOP Rep. Steve King from Iowa. King, who has been investigating Pigford II since 2008, has been smeared as a racist by the left for describing the scheme as a Trojan horse for slavery reparations.

Does any of this sound familiar?

A disturbing pattern is emerging here that indicates far more than the multibillion-dollar Pigford theft of taxpayer dollars. Put it together with the massive 2009 ACORN scandal and recent revelations of corruption within Planned Parenthood, and we begin to see a much-repeated, criminal modus operandi within Democrat-supported nonprofits.

Stranahan—who is not a conservative—has laid out a scathing indictment against Pigford II; he has not only exposed widespread corruption on the part of lawmakers and liberal nonprofits, but also suggests further intentional disregard by the national media, after similar abuses were expose in the ACORN and Planned Parenthood scandals.

More shockingly, it appears that President Obama himself may have been knowingly involved in this fraud from the very beginning, as a United States senator. Lots of luck making it stick but it certainly appears that way.

With the revelation this week by former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel that he supports slavery reparations, and President Obama’s outright prevarication to Bill O’Reilly that he is not for wealth redistribution, it is clear that this administration will stop at nothing to promote its socialist agenda.

In 1972, a couple of cub reporters at the Washington Post brought down an American presidency for a little two-bit burglary at the Watergate; you’d think a multibillion-dollar grift by this president would at least attract a sidebar.