Shirley Sherrod, Ousted USDA Official, Defended by Farmer She Helped, Others

Shirely, Good for you, being called a racist and thrown under the bus before facts are revealed really hurts. I would tell them to shove the position where the sun don't shine. Keep your dignity, walk with your head up high and let the accusors slump to the ground.

The question is just where did the "out-of-context" video clip first show-up?

My understanding is that the incident itself, Ms. Sherrod faced with having to help poor white farmers, took place back in the early 1980's. Since her father had allegedly been killed by white klansmen, she had vowed to return to Georgia to defend black people and was naturally reluctant to help white people.

The entire video shows her retelling of the whole story, how it was an epiphany to her that poor white people needed her help as well - that it was not a race issue at all.

So the initial video that rapidly became viral had obviously been taken out of context for a reason.

The questions that need answered are:
Who aired it first?
Why did they pick out the parts that made Ms. Sherrod look and sound racist?

Shame on Agricultural Sec. Tom Vilsak for not investigating the situation before asking for her resignation. And shame on the NAACP for criticizing her before finding out the whole story.

But at least the NAACP did look at the entire video, and CNN brought the whole story to the public.

Just who is the real villain here?

WHY WAS MS. SHERROD EVEN TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING SHE WAS EVIDENTLY (MORALLY) INVOLVED WITH "24 YEARS AGO" AT A "NAACP" CONVENTION/MEETING? WAS SHE "PATTING HERSELF ON THE BACK"...OR MAKING "RACIAL COMPARISONS" FOR S-O-M-E PURPOSE? THE RESPONSE OF THE COUPLE SEEMED SOMEWHAT "STAGED"...AND, ARE THEY S-T-I-L-L ON THIS FARM NOW OR WHAT HAVE THEY DONE WITH THE "FARM" SHE "HELPED THEM WITH" THE LOAN 24 YEARS AGO?

How much longer is fox going to be allowed to use grossly edited tapes to smear a persons and get away with it Why are they allowed to say fair and baslance Iam waiting for the so called news peaple on fox to publicly appologise to Sherrod Iam waiting for the head of fox news to appologise to america for using such yellow jurnalism . Iam wainting for foxes sponsers to speak out Wonder how long america thinks ill have to wait for those appologies Every time i go in aspublic place and fox is on I ask why would you have a station that is dso lax in their reporting that at least three times they have used edited tapes to smear peaple or organizations

I hope they get to the bottom of it, and I wish the liberal left would conduct the same type of research when this is done the right on a continual basis.

Wasn't this another Breitbart 'drive-by' where that right wing journalist uses video footage out of context to get at the Obama administration. This is similar to the hatchet job he did with Acorn.

Isn't it funny how people read too much into situations when race is involved at times. The fact is that we are all Americans first , and race is no where near the problem that politicians or organaztions that make there living off of racism make it out to be for political and monitary gains. United we stand, divided we fall people.

It's sad to see how an item taken out of context can destroy a person's reputation......The Republican version of the Huffington post?