Pigford Scandal – Andrew Breitbart Vindicated

Posted by Tina

On Friday morning The New York Times finally bothered to notice the corrupt claims exposed by Andrew Breitbart in the Pigford Farmers case…they even bothered to credit Breitbart as did Politico and the Daily Beast. Mother Jones grudgingly acknowledged the fraudulent cases but stuck to it’s racist meme regarding Breitbart’s motives. Breitbart takes the occasion to recall the wrong-headed Media Matters sliming of Andrew Breitbart and provides related links:

It should be remembered that the left-wing Media Matters for America scoffed at Andrew Breitbart, calling his interest in Pigford the “stupidest conspiracy theory” on the Internet. Now that MMFA’s precious New York Times has at last come to Andrew’s side on this issue, one wonders whether MMFA will keep its anti-Breitbart/Pigford posts up on its site.

The settlements could cost taxpayers upwards of $4.4 billion with law firms making $130 million. Barrack Obama was among the influential Senators that pressured to expand payouts using the Pigford case to garner political support for his presidential bid in the 2008 election. Once he was in office he expanded the program and cut the review process and red tape to award fraudulent claims.

One commenter to the Breitbart story links to a posting titled, “Pigford III”, a Black American Farm Relief Petition by George Harris, Founder, Center for Family Farm Development, Inc., Launched Monday at WhiteHouse.gov.

This petititon, according to the information provided on the site, is a “morals and values-based social media campaign of 100,000 petitioners seeking President Obama’s endorsement of Pigford decree injunctive relief loans. “Pigford lll” calls for release of more than $7.5 billion in farm production loans in Georgia, alone…”

Families with farms that are legitimate claimants in the Pigford case deserve just compensation. But the NY Times article reveals that the “Agriculture Department reviewers found reams of suspicious claims, from nursery-school-age children and pockets of urban dwellers, sometimes in the same handwriting with nearly identical accounts of discrimination.”

Accuracy in Media points out that our government has spent over $1.33 billion compensating Hispanic and female farmers for federal loan discrimination despite a 2010 Supreme Court ruling dismissing those claims.”

Let’s hope media scrutiny will finally put an end to this despicable indiscriminate transfer of taxpayer monies. This is an insult to the families that were actually harmed and deserve compensation and it is in no way an honorable path to success and prosperity with dignity for minorities. Such leadership deserves nothing but scorn.