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Sherrod Story Raises Question: How Many Breitbart Frauds Will Media Fall For?

by NewsFeed on Jul.21, 2010, under Watchdog Related News Feed

The lesson of Shirley Sherrod’s disgraceful treatment by right-wing and not-so-right-wing media (followed by her equally squalid dismissal by an administration that took that media at face value) boils down to a single question: When will journalists see Andrew Breitbart as the serial promoter of journalistic frauds that he is, rather than as a legitimate source for story ideas?

FAIR readers will remember Breitbart’s dissemination of videos that purported to show ACORN employees advising a “prostitute” and her “pimp” — conservative activists Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe–on how to avoid paying taxes. The videos have since been heavily debunked. As FAIR has noted before (Action Alert, 3/11/10), O’Keefe didn’t “pose” as a pimp–he didn’t wear his ridiculous  “pimp” outfit inside ACORN offices, and in almost every case pretended to be a concerned boyfriend trying to get his girlfriend away from an abusive pimp. He also did not receive advice on how to “cheat” on his taxes. Additionally,  ACORN has been cleared of wrongdoing by three separate independent investigations.

Breitbart’s latest fraud–posting a selectively edited video in which Sherrod appears to make some overtly racist statements to a local NAACP chapter–led to the forced resignation of the USDA employee.

That video went viral in the right-wing media and beyond, as accusations of Sherrod’s racism were tossed about, along with the larger implication that the Obama administration harbored racists. As Sherrod tells it, she soon received three separate calls telling her the White House was asking for her resignation, with one official telling her she would be on Glenn Beck that night.

The Sherrod story didn’t actually make it on Beck that night, but it was all over Fox News. Bill O’Reilly (7/19/10) called Sherrod’s comments “unacceptable” and called for her to “resign immediately.”  Sean Hannity (7/19/10) called the comments “racist” and praised Breitbart for exposing them.

The next day, as details of Sherrod’s entire speech emerged, it became clear she was describing her experience of struggling with and surmounting bias. Her point was an anti-racist one. Even the white farmer who was allegedly wronged by Sherrod appeared on CNN (7/20/10), along with his wife, to defend her.

Predictably, many right-wing media personalities stood by Breitbart even as the truth was being revealed. Rush Limbaugh (7/20/10) said Breitbart did “great work getting this video of Ms. Sherrod at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and her supposed racism.”  Hannity (7/20/10) invited Breitbart on his show to defend himself.  Meanwhile, O’Reilly (7/20/10) stood by his demand for Sherrod’s resignation, and even chastised the rest of the media for not reporting on Breitbart’s heavily edited video–adding it to a long list of invented right-wing controversies he believes have been ignored by the mainstream media, including the aforementioned ACORN hoax, as well as the  New Black Panther voter intimidation “scandal” and the Van Jones resignation–both of which were wildly overblown (Counterspin, 7/16/10; Extra!, 11/09), but were, contrary to O’Reilly’s protestations, picked up by more centrist media after amplification in the right-wing echo chamber.

The same is true of the Sherrod resignation, which some outlets continued to frame as a he said/she said controversy even after the truth began to emerge–outlets such as AP (7/20/10), which also took the opportunity to laud Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com as the site that “gained fame after releasing video of workers for the community organizing group ACORN counseling actors posing as a pimp and prostitute.”

In the Washington Post (7/21/10), Karen Tumulty and Krissah Thompson were still lending credence to Breitbart’s video even after the entire speech was released, reporting on the episode as a controversy between Sherrod and “her critics” as well as one that reinforces the right-wing narrative “that the administration of the first African-American to occupy the White House practices its own brand of racism.”

It isn’t surprising that right-wing media continue to exalt Breitbart, but when will the rest of the corporate media learn that he can’t be trusted?

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Disaster in the Gulf: 93 Days and Counting …

by NewsFeed on Jul.21, 2010, under Fox News Feed

The Obama administration claims it has been on top of the Gulf oil spill disaster since “day one.” Here’s a look at what the president and administration have been doing every day since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, triggering the massive spill. 


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Mark Potok: Shirley Sherrod and the Right: A Day That Will Live in Infamy

by NewsFeed on Jul.21, 2010, under Watchdog Related News Feed

The entire Shirley Sherrod affair is such a disgusting, stomach-churning episode of right-wing lies, propagandists posing as “journalists,” and craven political cowardice and gullibility, that it’s hard to know who to be most enraged at.

Andrew Breitbart, the chief propagandist of the American right who severely edited a videotape of a speech by the Agriculture Department official to falsely label her an anti-white racist? Fox News, several of whose miserable excuses for journalists relentlessly plugged the entirely false story until Sherrod was fired? Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who had a minion call Sherrod on a cell phone and insist that she pull over to the side of the road and text in her resignation before any of the relevant background facts about the “scandal” emerged? The White House, which, apparently frightened of appearing in any way linked to black racism, stood by the essentially forced resignation even when it became clear that Sherrod’s speech was nothing like what Breitbart suggested? Even the NAACP acted poorly in this sorry episode, calling for Sherrod’s firing based on what Fox News was airing. (To its credit, the civil rights group quickly recognized its error, retracting its call yesterday and saying it had been “snookered” by Breitbart and Fox’s falsehoods.)

Here’s the story in brief, for those few people who still don’t know about it. On Monday, Breitbart — the same loathsome character who publicly called Ted Kennedy a “pile of human excrement” a few hours after the senator’s death — aired a video of Sherrod speaking to an NAACP banquet in Georgia last March. In his edited version, Sherrod talks about initially not wanting to help a white man who was facing the loss of his farm because of her anger toward white racists. But Breitbart, furious about the NAACP’s recent criticism of racism within the ranks of the Tea Parties, edited out the crucial conclusion of what was really Sherrod’s tale of redemption — that in the course of the 1986 case she was discussing, she came to realize that “the struggle is really about poor people,” and that her anti-white feelings were wrong. She said the case changed her entire outlook. (And in fact the farmer and his wife were all over the media yesterday, saying that Sherrod had saved their farm, was a fine and caring woman, and should get her job back.)

Fox immediately picked up Breitbart’s fairy tale and began plugging it, as did a number of other right-wing media outlets. (Many of them suggested that Sherrod’s actions in the 1986 case had occurred while she was an Agriculture employee — a complete falsehood.) That prompted Vilsack to have her thrown out of her job as the department’s director of rural development in Georgia — an act that Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen rightly described today as pure political “cowardice.” Vilsack didn’t bother to hear Sherrod’s side of the story first, and he didn’t watch the full videotape. Incredibly, even as the true story began to emerge, Vilsack said he was sticking by Sherrod’s ouster, because, “rightly or wrongly,” perceptions about her comments could make her job more difficult. Then, early this morning, the Associated Press quoted an unnamed White House official saying President Obama had been briefed on the situation but was supporting Vilsack’s decision.

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this kind of wilting of White House officials under pressure from the political right. They fired Van Jones, a White House environmental advisor, after Fox’s Glenn Beck made false claims that he was a “black nationalist” and former “radical communist” who was using green jobs as a form of “stealth reparations.” They repudiated an accurate 2009 Department of Homeland Security report that was leaked and then attacked by right wingers for supposedly defaming conservatives — a charge that was patently false.

Let’s take a closer look at a couple of the other actors in this nasty little episode.

Andrew Breitbart is a former editor for the right-wing Drudge Report and a columnist for the arch-conservative Washington Times who sometimes substitutes for Michael Savage, a radio talk show host who regularly makes racist remarks on the air (and who, in the interest of full disclosure, has attacked me personally many times). It was one of Breitbart’s websites that aired videos made by right-wing activists of ACORN employees giving advice concerning prostitution, and later suggested that ACORN was destroying incriminating documents. (California Attorney General Jerry Brown investigated, concluding there was no criminal activity depicted on the “severely edited” tapes Breitbart aired.) Breitbart also has claimed that Congressmen John Lewis and Andre Carson “made up” a story about being repeatedly called “niggers” during a walk through a Tea Party rally.

Breitbart recently blogged about the “insufferable assholes” he claims populate the mainstream media. Ironically enough, given the role he played in the defaming of Shirley Sherrod, he described “the racket that is modern journalism,” saying that journalists “lie when they claim to be objective.” Elsewhere, in his first column about Sherrod, he crowed that “the new media will not be silenced.”

Which brings us to Fox News, that infamous purveyor of falsehoods, wildly skewed reporting and propaganda posing as real facts. As my colleague Alexander Zaitchik wrote on this blog yesterday, the network has “a long history of crude and transparent race-baiting.” And Zaitchik wasn’t even talking about the Sherrod spectacle — he was writing about Fox’s current obsession with the “scandal” of the Justice Department dismissing part of a voter intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party, a black racist hate group. On MSNBC last night, Rachel Maddow did a serious takedown of Fox’s rantings about Sherrod.

The United States faces many serious problems in the year 2010, from a crashed economy to the largest oil spill in our history. But no American should ignore another serious threat to our integrity as a nation and a culture: the far-right propagandists, their media and political enablers, and the political cowardice that allows complete falsehoods to destroy perfectly innocent human beings.

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Shirley Sherrod SCANDAL: Democrats, Republicans Unite To Insist She Be Rehired (VIDEO)

by NewsFeed on Jul.21, 2010, under Watchdog Related News Feed

***Scroll down for videos, including a complete version of Shirley Sherrod’s speech that started the controversy.***

Shirley Sherrod has accomplished a number of things in her career, but she had never planned on uniting Glenn Beck and the NAACP.

The former USDA official was allegedly forced out of her job as director of rural development in Georgia after a video surfaced that appeared to show her admitting that race played a factor in a decision to limit help for a white farmer. Sherrod is African American.

Her speech was significantly longer than the original clip, which now appears to have been taken significantly out of context.

According to Sherrod, she was given no chance to explain herself. “They asked me to resign. And, in fact, they harassed me,” she said about a series of phone calls from USDA Deputy Under Secretary Cheryl Cook. Sherrod was in the middle of a long road trip, but pulled over after Cook insisted that she write her resignation via Blackberry. She remembers being told, “You’re going to be on Glenn Beck tonight.”

Sherrod was a political appointee, chosen by President Barack Obama almost exactly a year ago.

Beck did wind up attacking the administration on his Fox News talk show, but not for the reason the White House may have expected. “She should not have been fired or forced to resign,” the conservative commentator said, pointing out that Sherrod’s side of the story was far more complex than initially reported. He even suggested that Sherrod should get her job back and joked about her getting a promotion.

The NAACP, which had originally condemned Sherrod’s comments, is now urging USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to consider reinstating her after learning more about Sherrod’s speech. A second statement from the organization lashed out at Fox News and Andrew Breitbart, claiming they had “snookered” the NAACP and the media.

The video clip at the center of the controversy received widespread attention when it aired Monday night on Fox News, but it was first reported that morning in a story by Brietbart on BigGovernment.com. The first three words of the story that launched this controversy now smolder with irony.

“Context is everything.”

Context was sorely lacking.

As more information emerged the following day, Sherrod began to get backing from a diverse coalition that includes not only the NAACP and Beck, but also Democratic strategists Paul Begala and Donna Brazile. The latter pair have called for Sherrod to get her job back. David Gergen, an adviser to four presidents, echoed those sentiments.

Gergen issued perhaps the strongest critique of all while speaking on “AC 360″ with Anderson Cooper. “This has ripped away the veil and shown us all that is wrong with politics today,” he began. “An ideologue injects poison into the internet, other people rush to judgment on camera, and an administration gets stampeded and commits this travesty of justice. The NAACP has at least had the courage to come back and say ‘we were wrong’ and apologize. Now the administration needs to to the same thing. The president — tonight — ought to order the Agriculture Department to reopen this case, give this woman a fair hearing, and — if the facts are as they seem — reinstate her with an apology. Indeed, I think she deserves a whole lot more than an apology. I think she deserves honor for her attempts to bring people together.”

Tuesday was anything but routine for Sherrod, but it started as just another day on the farm for a man named Roger Spooner. The 87-year-old Albany, GA resident was out on his Peterbilt truck, his wife Eloise was inside on the telephone. On the other end of the line was CNN’s Tony Harris.

“She’s a good friend,” said Eloise of Sherrod. “She helped us save our farm.”

Roger Spooner was the man Sherrod had allegedly discriminated against. Eloise started talking about the treatment their old friend has received. “That ain’t right. They have not treated her right.”

It was a moment of perfectly timed live TV for CNN, who had pursued the story relentlessly all day. The camera showed Sherrod sitting. Listening. Her eyes watered and she pumped her fist in celebration and — above all — validation.

Even her so-called victims were flocking to her defense. Hours later, Roger went on the record and boiled everything that had happened to Sherrod into one word familiar to farmers and city folk alike.

“Hogwash.”

Life moves at a slower pace for many in rural communities. Sherrod had dedicated much of her own life to serve those people, but she appears to have been run over amid the breakneck speed of politics and a nonstop news cycle.

The video clip that cost her a job was just a couple minutes edited out of a lengthy appearance at a local NAACP banquet. Sherrod was at the podium for over 40 minutes, often preaching racial unity. “There is no difference between us,” she told the crowd. Later in the speech, she added, “White people, black people, Hispanic people, we all have to do our part.”

Yet the version that initially went public only showed her introduction to a story about the first time she helped a white farmer — Spooner — save his farmland. Citing her feeling that Spooner was trying to make himself appear “superior” to Sherrod, she acknowledged that she first “didn’t give him the full force of what I could do.” The clip provided no sense of the lengths she would eventually go to in order to help Spooner save his farm, nor any indication that the pair became friends.

The video gave little sense of when everything occurred, only a reference that, at the time of the incident, Chapter 12 bankruptcy had recently been enacted for family farmers. An obscure reference for many viewers, that protection was enacted back in 1986 — more than two decades before she joined the USDA. That time frame was first reported on HuffPost early Tuesday morning. While speculation raged online about a potential abuse of power, few were aware that she was working for a community organization at the time.

Sherrod has since clarified on CNN, “If I had discriminated against him, I would not have given him any help at all because I wasn’t obligated to do it by anyone. I wasn’t working for the government. I didn’t have to help him. But I did.”

The edited video clip did include one key statement casting Sherrod in a positive light, an acknowledgment that the encounter with Spooner “opened my eyes.” That was only her first experience helping a white farmer. On Tuesday she pointed out that she has helped hundreds more.

Also first reported Tuesday on HuffPost, Sherrod appears to have worked actively on behalf of the civil rights movement. She and her husband, Charles, were part of a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the USDA stemming from civil rights violations in the 1980s. That case wasn’t settled until May of last year, just two months before her appointment to the agency. There is even a park in their hometown named the Charles M. Sherrod Civil Rights Park.

Sherrod felt hurt by the harsh position initially taken by the NAACP’s national leadership, who apparently weren’t aware of the entire context of the speech she gave to the local branch of the group. “I’ve done more to advance the causes of civil rights in this area than some of them who are sitting in those positions now with the NAACP,” she told CNN on Tuesday afternoon. “They need to learn something about me. They need to know about my work. They need to know what I’ve contributed through the years.”

Regardless of what Sherrod has done over the years, it’s now clear what she did during her speech — make a heartfelt point about looking beyond race.

The NAACP has been faulted by critics for pouncing on Sherrod before all the facts could be gathered, but the organization’s president, Benjamin Jealous, made it clear that their “zero tolerance policy” was misapplied because of the way the video clip had been edited. He now calls it a “beautiful story of transformation.” The NAACP recently made headlines after passing a resolution condemning the tea party movement for tolerating bigotry. The subsequent media storm may have increased pressure to speak out quickly on this new situation.

Early Wednesday morning, USDA Secretary Vilsack backed off his own “zero tolerance policy” and said that he would “conduct a thorough review” of Sherrod’s departure from the USDA. He had previously cited concern over a “checkered history” of discrimination at the agency.

A few hours before Vilsack made that announcement, Sherrod was on CNN with Anderson Cooper, who pointed out that she had lost her own father in a racially-motivated murder. Sherrod’s response said more about her than anything on TV or the internet in the previous 24 hours.

“If I could move beyond race, if I could move beyond the ability to try to hate, and when you look at what happened to us, when you look at what was done, if I could move beyond that to a life of love and service, we all should be able to do it. And that’s my message.”

It remains to be seen if the administration will get her message.

WATCH SHIRLEY SHERROD ON CNN WITH TONY HARRIS:

WATCH SHIRLEY SHERROD ON CNN WITH ANDERSON COOPER:

WATCH SHIRLEY SHERROD’S FULL SPEECH AT THE NAACP BANQUET:

WATCH THE EDITED VERSION OF SHIRLEY SHERROD’S SPEECH:

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Shirley Sherrod Defended By Diverse Coalition Calling For USDA To Give Her Job Back (VIDEO)

by NewsFeed on Jul.21, 2010, under Watchdog Related News Feed

***Scroll down for videos, including a complete version of Shirley Sherrod’s speech that started the controversy.***

Shirley Sherrod has accomplished a number of things in her career, but she had never planned on uniting Glenn Beck and the NAACP.

The former USDA official was allegedly forced out of her job as director of rural development in Georgia after a video surfaced that appeared to show her admitting that race played a factor in a decision to limit help for a white farmer. Sherrod is African American.

Her speech was significantly longer than the original clip, which now appears to have been taken significantly out of context.

According to Sherrod, she was given no chance to explain herself. “They asked me to resign. And, in fact, they harassed me,” she said about a series of phone calls from USDA Deputy Under Secretary Cheryl Cook. Sherrod was in the middle of a long road trip, but pulled over after Cook insisted that she write her resignation via Blackberry. She remembers being told, “You’re going to be on Glenn Beck tonight.”

Sherrod was a political appointee, chosen by President Barack Obama almost exactly a year ago.

Beck did wind up attacking the administration on his Fox News talk show, but not for the reason the White House may have expected. “She should not have been fired or forced to resign,” the conservative commentator said, pointing out that Sherrod’s side of the story was far more complex then initially reported. He even suggested that Sherrod should get her job back and joked about her getting a promotion.

The NAACP, which had originally condemned Sherrod’s comments, is now urging USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to consider reinstating her after learning more about Sherrod’s speech. A second statement from the organization lashed out at Fox News and Andrew Breitbart, claiming they had “snookered” the NAACP and the media.

The video clip at the center of the controversy received widespread attention when it aired Monday night on Fox News, but it was first reported that morning in a story by Brietbart on BigGovernment.com. The first three words of the story that launched this controversy now smolder with irony.

“Context is everything.”

Context was sorely lacking.

As more information emerged the following day, Sherrod began to get backing from a diverse coalition that includes not only the NAACP and Beck, but also Democratic strategists Paul Begala and Donna Brazile. The latter pair have called for Sherrod to get her job back. David Gergen, an adviser to four presidents, echoed those sentiments.

Gergen issued perhaps the strongest critique of all while speaking on “AC 360″ with Anderson Cooper. “This has ripped away the veil and shown us all that is wrong with politics today,” he began. “An ideologue injects poison into the internet, other people rush to judgment on camera, and an administration gets stampeded and commits this travesty of justice. The NAACP has at least had the courage to come back and say ‘we were wrong’ and apologize. Now the administration needs to to the same thing. The president — tonight — ought to order the Agriculture Department to reopen this case, give this woman a fair hearing, and — if the facts are as they seem — reinstate her with an apology. Indeed, I think she deserves a whole lot more than an apology. I think she deserves honor for her attempts to bring people together.”

Tuesday was anything but routine for Sherrod, but it started as just another day on the farm for a man named Roger Spooner. The 87-year-old Albany, GA resident was out on his Peterbilt truck, his wife Eloise was inside on the telephone. On the other end of the line was CNN’s Tony Harris.

“She’s a good friend,” said Eloise of Sherrod. “She helped us save our farm.”

Roger Spooner was the man Sherrod had allegedly discriminated against. Eloise started talking about the treatment their old friend has received. “That ain’t right. They have not treated her right.”

It was a moment of perfectly timed live TV for CNN, who had pursued the story relentlessly all day. The camera showed Sherrod sitting. Listening. Her eyes watered and she pumped her fist in celebration and — above all — validation.

Even her so-called victims were flocking to her defense. Hours later, Roger went on the record and boiled everything that had happened to Sherrod into one word familiar to farmers and city folk alike.

“Hogwash.”

Life moves at a slower pace for many in rural communities. Sherrod had dedicated much of her own life to serve those people, but she appears to have been run over amid the breakneck speed of politics and a nonstop news cycle.

The video clip that cost her a job was just a couple minutes edited out of a lengthy appearance at a local NAACP banquet. Sherrod was at the podium for over 40 minutes, often preaching racial unity. “There is no difference between us,” she told the crowd. Later in the speech, she added, “White people, black people, Hispanic people, we all have to do our part.”

Yet the version that initially went public only showed her introduction to a story about the first time she helped a white farmer — Spooner — save his farmland. Citing her feeling that Spooner was trying to make himself appear “superior” to Sherrod, she acknowledged that she first “didn’t give him the full force of what I could do.” The clip provided no sense of the lengths she would eventually go to in order to help Spooner save his farm, nor any indication that the pair became friends.

The video gave little sense of when everything occurred, only a reference that, at the time of the incident, Chapter 12 bankruptcy had recently been enacted for family farmers. An obscure reference for many viewers, that protection was enacted back in 1986 — more than two decades before she joined the USDA. That time frame was first reported on HuffPost early Tuesday morning. While speculation raged online about a potential abuse of power, few were aware that she was working for a community organization at the time.

Sherrod has since clarified on CNN, “If I had discriminated against him, I would not have given him any help at all because I wasn’t obligated to do it by anyone. I wasn’t working for the government. I didn’t have to help him. But I did.”

The edited video clip did include one key statement casting Sherrod in a positive light, an acknowledgment that the encounter with Spooner “opened my eyes.” That was only her first experience helping a white farmer. On Tuesday she pointed out that she has helped hundreds more.

Also first reported Tuesday on HuffPost, Sherrod appears to have worked actively on behalf of the civil rights movement. She and her husband, Charles, were part of a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the USDA stemming from civil rights violations in the 1980s. That case wasn’t settled until May of last year, just two months before her appointment to the agency. There is even a park in their hometown named the Charles M. Sherrod Civil Rights Park.

Sherrod felt hurt by the harsh position initially taken by the NAACP’s national leadership, who apparently weren’t aware of the entire context of the speech she gave to the local branch of the group. “I’ve done more to advance the causes of civil rights in this area than some of them who are sitting in those positions now with the NAACP,” she told CNN on Tuesday afternoon. “They need to learn something about me. They need to know about my work. They need to know what I’ve contributed through the years.”

Regardless of what Sherrod has done over the years, it’s now clear what she did during her speech — make a heartfelt point about looking beyond race.

The NAACP has been faulted by critics for pouncing on Sherrod before all the facts could be gathered, but the organization’s president, Benjamin Jealous, made it clear that their “zero tolerance policy” was misapplied because of the way the video clip had been edited. He now calls it a “beautiful story of transformation.” The NAACP recently made headlines after passing a resolution condemning the tea party movement for tolerating bigotry. The subsequent media storm may have increased pressure to speak out quickly on this new situation.

Early Wednesday morning, USDA Secretary Vilsack backed off his own “zero tolerance policy” and said that he would “conduct a thorough review” of Sherrod’s departure from the USDA. He had previously cited concern over a “checkered history” of discrimination at the agency.

A few hours before Vilsack made that announcement, Sherrod was on CNN with Anderson Cooper, who pointed out that she had lost her own father in a racially-motivated murder. Sherrod’s response said more about her than anything on TV or the internet in the previous 24 hours.

“If I could move beyond race, if I could move beyond the ability to try to hate, and when you look at what happened to us, when you look at what was done, if I could move beyond that to a life of love and service, we all should be able to do it. And that’s my message.”

It remains to be seen if the administration will get her message.

WATCH SHIRLEY SHERROD ON CNN WITH TONY HARRIS:

WATCH SHIRLEY SHERROD ON CNN WITH ANDERSON COOPER:

WATCH SHIRLEY SHERROD’S FULL SPEECH AT THE NAACP BANQUET:

WATCH THE EDITED VERSION OF SHIRLEY SHERROD’S SPEECH:

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