Apparently, American Spectator blogger Jeffrey Lord didn't get the memo that, after the original Breitbart smear was revealed to be a fraud, the plan was to argue that this was never about Sherrod but rather about racism within the NAACP. Lord decided to pen an article attacking Sherrod as a liar for saying in her now famous NAACP speech that a relative had been "lynched" by the sheriff and a mob when, in fact, he was only beaten to death by the sheriff and a mob. I'm not making this up. Ironically, Lord is not just disgusting, but also wrong, since (as I had wrongly assumed was common knowledge) the definition of the word "lynch" includes forms of murder other than hanging. (HT Adam Serwer)

Eduardo M. Peñalver is the Allan R. Tessler Dean of the Cornell Law School. The views expressed in the piece are his own, and should not be attributed to Cornell University or Cornell Law School.

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