Left's lawfare against conservative media...

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David Horowitz pointed out that Republicans play politics...you win some you lose some, wait for the next election....that sort of thing...he then went on to point out that the left/democrats fight complete and total political war against their enemies, and take no prisoners...here is the lawsuit against the widow of Andrew Breitbart Shirley Sherrie...

Rule of Law » Exclusive: Inside a Deposition in Shirley Sherrod?s Speech-Chilling Lawsuit v. Breitbart

Sherrod’s lawsuit is premised on a dangerous idea: when conservatives speak about liberals, they shouldn’t be allowed to quote the liberal saying disgraceful things unless they quote the liberal also saying nice things. Supposedly, Andrew Breitbart’s Breitbart.com didn’t publish enough of the nice things Sherrod said, and thus Sherrod sued Andrew and Larry O’Connor (a Brietbart.com editor).

Let’s call it the not-enough-nice-context theory of defamation. They don’t teach it in law school, yet.

Sherrod’s defamation theory is dangerous to the free press. When Sherrod said that she intended to discriminate against white farmers, that was a stand-alone story, period. Nothing else that followed mattered. It showed that no race is free from bad actors, white or black.

The stand-alone story of black on white discrimination runs counter to the well-worn critical race theory dogma that some are incapable of racialism or racism.

Sherrod’s defenders falsely claim the video Andrew Breitbart aired was “heavily edited.” What they really mean is that video of Sherrod saying things that make her look good wasn’t aired alongside video that made Sherrod look bad.

Sherrod’s lawsuit is also seeking to knock down the attorney-client privilege relationship at Breitbart.com. Attorney-client privilege is the idea that what a lawyer discusses with a client is confidential. Larry Solov has served for years as counsel to Andrew and Breitbart.com. Larry has been a practicing attorney since graduation from Harvard Law School. Larry gave legal advice to the company and to Andrew throughout the entire Sherrod saga — the very same sort of advice Kirkland and Ellis now provides to its big corporate clients.

No matter. Shirley Sherrod and her pro bono lawyers at Kirkland are trying to penetrate the attorney-client relationship between Solov and Breitbart. She wants documents in which Larry is giving company employees — including Andrew — legal advice and is demanding the court order that the documents be surrendered.