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A poor performance tonight on CNN, Breibart was called just about every name in the book and of course she got some help from Anderson Cooper....At the end Cooper asks her "Do you think he [Breitbart] is a racist?" Sherrod: "Yes I do" (Video from AC360)

Shirley Sherrod was visibly disappointed after the phone call apology from President Obama. She wanted to share with the President of the USA the unique experience of her life. She wanted to tell him about the South. Mrs. Sherrod like many Americans has so much to say. She felt she deserved to tell her life-story of struggle. Instead President Obama assured her the USDA Secretary was serious about the job offer. However, Shirley Sherrod is not in it for a job position. President Obama was chasing a new job position whole his life. This is all he knows –...

I realize that the hot topic today is racism and that both liberals and conservatives are falling all over themselves to prove how non-racist they are and, in the process, throwing anyone and everyone under the bus just to prove their bona fides. I think it's sad, especially when the people who are emerging unscathed from this are far from blameless and those accused of the dastardly deeds of reporting this incompletely aren't quite the villains they're being portrayed as. It bothers me how little courage people have to stand up for what is right on the issue of race,...

More quotes from Shirley Sherrod’s famous NAACP speech which you can watch in full here and make your own judgment. Do you want Shirley Sherrod in charge of the USDA outreach position that would deal with discrimination matters? The people with money, the elites decided, hey, we need to do something here to divide them [the white and black servants]so that’s where they made black people servants for life. That’s when they put laws in place forbidding them to marry each other. That’s when they created the racism that we know of today. They did it to keep us divided....

"I know he's African-American or part African-American, and many of us are not totally black in our genes. I'm one of them. But when you get down to where the rubber meets the road, I think he needs to understand a little more of what life is like at that level."

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has conveyed "his regret" to former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod over her ouster in the midst of a racially-tinged firestorm, the White House said Thursday. "The president told Ms. Sherrod that this misfortune can present an opportunity for her to continue her hard work on behalf of htose in need," the statement said, "and he hopes that she will do so."

FACTS & CONTEXT: NAACP VS. BREITBART VIDEOS & TRANSCRIPT OF USDA official Shirley Sherrod’s speech at the NAACP 20th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet on March 27, 2010. First are the excerpt videos released by Andrew Breitbart. Transcripts and timeline have been added. Once the NAACP released the full video of their March event, Breitbart published the full video as well. The NAACP full video proved that Breitbart videos were continuous excerpts of Sherrod’s speech without being cut and edited as many in the press are reporting. FoxNews has also provided a timeline of their coverage. (video, report) At the bottom...

The government is being sometimes “held hostage” by Fox News and other media outlets, the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus charged Thursday. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the caucus, said she was concerned that outlets like Fox were creating a culture of “misinformation” that has led to controversies like the one following Shirley Sherrod.  Lee said on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal”: When you look at how, not only Fox, but other media outlets — but we focus naturally, because we know how this has evolved with Fox — how many including, sometimes, our government is held hostage, mind...

Ousted Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod said Thursday that she's inclined not to accept the job she was offered by Secretary Tom Vilsack after the administration scrambled to apologize for jumping to conclusions about comments she made in a video clip. Sherrod, who spoke during several interviews Thursday morning, revealed that she was offered an outreach position that would deal with discrimination matters. But she said she's not so keen on being the go-to person for those issues. "I would not want to be that individual that the department and everyone is looking to to solve the issue of racism...

Former USDA official Shirley Sherrod, who claims she was falsely smeared as a racist while she herself falsely smears Republicans and Fox News as racists, said this morning that she would like to see BigGovernment.com, the website that made her famous, shut down for the good of the country.CNN's American Morning reported on Sherrod's demand:She said if Breitbart's site were shut down, "That would be a great thing, because I don't see how that advances us in this country ... at a time when we should be trying to look at how we can make space for all of us...

Jonathan Capehart is the early frontrunner to win my Obama Parrot of the Week, the dubious award I hand out on my local TV show to the media member most avidly toeing the White House line. On today's Morning Joe, the WaPo editorialist, trying to suggest the White House was not involved in the firing of Shirley Sherrod, offered a strained theory of how Sherrod misunderstood what she was being told by a USDA official about the White House wanting her gone. But when Willie Geist asked the obvious question, Capehart's house of cards largely crumbled, forcing Jonathan to beat...

Shirley Sherrod, the former Agriculture Department’s director of rural development in Georgia, gives some great tips in her 40 minute speech at NAACP. First time home buyers probably would not think to look for a loan at the Department of Agriculture. Apparently there are some great deals there. So here is more professional advice from Shirley Sherrod and the US government: We have more money for single family housing – the red loans – and that’s loans from the agency - that we’ve ever had in the history of the program. But we are having problems having this money...

Word on the street is that Shirley Sherrod is a saint and Andrew Breirbart is a no good liar.Interesting take. Not mine, but it's interesting.When I saw the video Breitbart posted, I made a few assumptions. I assumed her discrimination happened recently. It didn't. It happened like 24 years ago.And I assumed she had more to say about discriminating against people because of race. She says as much towards the end of the video. She first claims it's not about black or white. Then she says it is about black or white, but more about rich and poor.Whatever.Now everyone is...

Hey, it's been a long day with all this Sherrod stuff. So let's kick back and enjoy some—unintentional—humor, courtesy Ed Schultz. On his MSNBC show this evening, Ed advised Dems not to go on Fox News because they'll "beat you up." Schultz then unleashed a torrent of venom on Andrew Breitbart, saying among—many—other things that Breitbart is a "nutjob" who "makes me sick." But Schultz began the show by whining because—ready?—Breitbart wouldn't come on Ed's show. View video here.

Shirley Sherrod, the now former Georgia Director of Rural Development for the Obama administration, was part of an historic settlement with the U.S. Government recently. Ms. Sherrod is co-founder of a group, New Communities, that took part in a lawsuit that successfully sued the government over the rights of minority farmers. An article at the website www.ruraldevelopment.org discussed the case and the $13 million dollar settlement and Ms. Sherrod’s own $150,000 settlement from Uncle Sam. Ms. Sherrod came under fire yesterday when it was revealed that she made remarks to the NAACP where she talked about withholding help from “white”...

Shepherd Smith just led the 7:00 news hour with a story on the Shirley Sherrod case. He stated that the original video of her speech to the NAACP (which was released by Andrew Breitbart) was EDITED to present her out of context. Smith played the portion of the clip that included Sherrod stating that she did not give the white farmer all the help she could have. Smith then stated that the full clip shows that this was taken out of context and then played the part of the clip in which Shirley said it was revealed to her it...

Now this is going to drive the right bananas. Check out this nugget in an interview that Shirley Sherrod did with Joe Strupp, in which she comes right out and claims Fox News is using her as a "pawn" in a racist plot to undo the gains African Americans have made: She said Fox showed no professionalism in continuing to bother her for an interview, but failing to correct their coverage. "I think they should but they won't. They intended exactly what they did. "They were looking for the result they got yesterday," she said of Fox. "I am just...

CNN - USDA chief makes "profound" apology to ex-employee Shirley Sherrod, offers her a job working on civil rights.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he has apologized to ousted employee Shirley Sherrod and offered her a unique new position at the agency. Sherrod, in an interview with The Associated Press, says she is considering the offer.

The video Andrew Breitbart released on Monday featuring former USDA Georgia Rural Development Director Shirley Sherrod, where she recounted how she had withheld help from a white farmer who was facing foreclosure on his property, appeared to reveal yet more evidence that Barack Obama is quite comfortable working with racists. Except that not all was as it seemed. When I viewed the full video of Sherrod’s speech released by the NAACP on Tuesday, it became clear to me that Sherrod’s words were taken out of context. Breitbart’s excerpt stops at the point where Sherrod says she referred the farmer to...