It's almost
impossible for a public official or public figure to win a slander or libel suit, especially after the Larry Flynt-Jerry Falwell case. If it was as easy as she seems to think, half the Bush administration could have sued Michael Moore and George W. Bush could have sued CBS and Dan Rather over the forged national guard records.
I'm willing to bet, however, that Sherrod's attorney will have some sort of tie to either the DNC or the Obama administration and she won't actually have to foot the bill for this. So maybe she'll get a settlement just because it will end up more expense for Breitbart than her to try what should be-for her-a losing case.
Another point I forgot to mention: if the case went ahead, Breitbart would probably be able to use the discovery process to uncover new information about Sherrod and about his other adversaries whose conduct is relevant to the case, namely the NAACP and the Obama administration.
Sherrod led a class action suit that netted over a billion dollars in settlement money for 85,000 black U.S. farmers.
The only problem is that there are actually
only 39,000 black farmers in the U.S. at the time of the case !So Shirley Sherrod is involved in even more corruption. Revealed only because she opened the door to investigating it.
And yeah, M E M, I guess it is pretty "evil" of Breitbart to simply report the truth.
