A Missouri labor educator was vindicated Monday after almost losing his job in an attack by notorious right-wing hoaxster Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart’s outfit was responsible for the deceptive videos that got Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod fired and that took down the national community organization ACORN.
After a vigorous campaign by the United Association for Labor Education, the University of Missouri-St. Louis backed down from its initial statement to Don Giljum that he would not be rehired next semester. The chancellor noted that, upon examination, Breitbart’s videos “were definitely taken out of context, with their meaning highly distorted through splicing and editing from different times within a class period and across multiple class periods.”
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