So let’s put to bed the claim that the original Sherrod tape was misleading, defamatory or reflective of racial codes or racism on the part of Breitbart.
Andrew Breitbart is not around to defend himself anymore, and we owe it to him to push back, hard.
Defending a good man's honor when he no longer can is admirable. But the bigger problem that Breitbart fought is more important: big government is too big and cannot run our lives even if we assume the best intentions and the goals. Just because they care doesn't mean they should get to make decisions that affect us all.
Consider that the government fired Ms. Sherrod over the tape revelation even though the tape actually showed Sherrod doing the right thing in the end. Even in the edited tape, the government had the data to make the right decision (and not fire her). The government also had the knowledge that they could get more information from the full tape. And they even had the opportunity to get more information from Ms. Sherrod herself, who worked for them. Yet with sufficient data on hand and the knowledge that more complete data was available, the government made a hasty and wrong decision.
Yet we are supposed to accept that the government can make good decisions on far grander scales regarding society, the economy, and the climate without even the possibility of getting all the data or understanding the entire system? When they couldn't on a small situation?
And the funny thing is, Ms. Sherrod blamed Breitbart and not the government for her plight. When you assume the government can't screw things up or if you believe they care about the same things you care about, I guess it makes sense to never question the authority of the government to make decisions that affect you.
Caring is not the same as understanding.
