{"id":7962,"date":"2010-12-09T12:59:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T17:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7962"},"modified":"2010-12-09T12:59:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T17:59:57","slug":"more-pigford-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7962\/more-pigford-revelations\/","title":{"rendered":"More Pigford Revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a wide-ranging piece, <em>The Daily Caller<\/em> explains <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/12\/09\/will-pigford-vindicate-andrew-breitbart\/\" target=\"_blank\">the continuing mainstream media bias against Andrew Breitbart<\/a> and anyone else who dares to shine a light on government corruption.\u00a0 Breitbart\u2019s castigation during the Shirley Sherrod episode spurred him to research liberal claims he only spotlighted Sherrod\u2019s discriminatory comments to an NAACP crowd as a quick gimmick.\u00a0 After four and a half months of interviews, Breitbart is in the early days of a multi-stage release on the depth and breadth of the <em>Pigford<\/em> settlement scandal that so far has cost taxpayers over $2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/835-pigford-settlement-fraud-opening-floodgates-for-other-groups-reparations-claims-\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama has a direct link<\/a> to the newest $1.15 billion funding the <em>Pigford II<\/em> settlement round, don\u2019t be surprised if the White House comes under continuing pressure to defend itself for its legislation-for-votes deal-making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a wide-ranging piece, The Daily Caller explains the continuing mainstream media bias against Andrew Breitbart and anyone else who dares to shine a light on government corruption.\u00a0 Breitbart\u2019s castigation during the Shirley Sherrod episode spurred him to research liberal claims he only spotlighted Sherrod\u2019s discriminatory comments to an NAACP crowd as a quick gimmick.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2157,143,351,1997,2103,2158,2104],"class_list":["post-7962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-andrew-breitbart","tag-barack-obama","tag-corruption","tag-naacp","tag-pigford","tag-shirley-sherrod","tag-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7965,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7962\/revisions\/7965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}