Breitbart Gets Served With Shirley Sherrod Lawsuit At CPAC

Look what's buried at the bottom of the New York TimesCPAC straw-poll story:  

Andrew Breitbart, the owner of several conservative Web sites, was served at the conference on Saturday with a lawsuit filed by Shirley Sherrod, the former Agriculture Department employee who lost her job last year over a video that Mr. Brietbart posted at his site biggovernment.com.

The video was selectively edited so that it appeared Ms. Sherrod was confessing she had discriminated against a farmer because he was white. In the suit, which was filed in Washington on Friday, Ms. Sherrod says the video has damaged her reputation and prevented her from continuing her work.

Mr. Breitbart said in a statement that he “categorically rejects the transparent effort to chill his constitutionally protected free speech.”

Seems like this was kind of a big deal back when the White House made a show offiringShirley Sherrod because Breitbart pieced together a fraudulent web video. [ NYT via Wonkette commenter Greypanter ]