HOUSTON, TEXAS — Andrew Breitbart says he still stands by everything he’s said about Shirley Sherrod, the former U.S.D.A. official who filed a lawsuit against him charging he defamed her by “publishing an intentionally false and misleading clip” that damaged her reputation.In an interview with TPM following his speech before the True the Vote national summit on Saturday, Breitbart said that the Sherrod story — in which Breitbart’s Big Government website posted what turned out to be a selectively edited video clip of Sherrod that made it appear as though she was bragging about discriminating against a white farmer — has always been about the Pigford settlement, even if he didn’t realize it in the beginning.
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