Although the Republican National Committee has postponed its upcoming fundraising event in Beverly Hills, California, they are nevertheless making it clear that Andrew Breitbart — who was supposed to co-headline the mid-August event with RNC Chairman Michael Steele — is still invited to the rescheduled event.
“I don’t know Andrew Breitbart’s schedule for after Labor Day, but he certainly will be invited,” RNC spokesman Doug Heye told the Washington Times.
As we reported last week, Breitbart and RNC Chairman Michael Steele were supposed to co-headline a fundraiser in mid-August.
The timing of the event had seemed strange, since Breitbart had just circulated the infamous misleading video clip of Shirley Sherrod, an African-American official at the Department of Agriculture, seeming to tell a story about how she would not help a white farmer who was down on his luck 24 year ago. Sherrod was quickly forced to resign. Of course, the full context of the video showed that Sherrod was discussing how she did not discriminate against the farmer, and that the event was her own personal turning point in race relations in the south.
It had been unclear after the RNC’s postponement whether they were trying to remove Breitbart from the event. But since he’s still invited, the message seems clear — the RNC still likes Andrew Breitbart, Sherrod affair or no.
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