Shirley Sherrod
Former Reagan administration official Jeffrey Lord understands the importance of language. He can tell, for example, that Shirley Sherrod is a racey race-baiting race racist because she said that her relative was “lynched,” when in reality he was only BEATEN TO DEATH BY A BLACKJACK.
This obviously makes Sherrod a lying racist with a particularly morbid vote-getting strategy, because, according to Lord, she “knew the truth and chose to embellish it, changing a brutal and fatal beating to a lynching.” HOW HORRIBLE. Lord makes a valid point.
Except–wait–no he doesn’t. Even Lord’s colleagues at the American Spectator felt the need to point out his extreme dickishness, as “lynching is an extrajudicial murder by a mob, whether or not the weapon of choice is a rope.” Oops. Never mind.
