Everyone on the Left wants to make Fox News responsible for Sherrod’s firing; Has anyone actually reviewed the record? Doubtful. Here’s Glenn Beck from his show yesterday — which aired hours before the full video tape was released — asking why the Obama administration and NAACP were so quick to dump on Sherrod. An excerpt:

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Those are obviously racist comments that deserved to be condemned. But Sherrod was forced to resign before even being allowed to give her side of the story which, allegedly, is that she was just telling a story of an event that took place 24 years ago and, in fact, she is now friends with that farmer and she was only telling the story to show that she’s learned her lesson that it’s not about race, it’s about who has and who has not.
Lending credibility to her side of the story, let me play her comments right after stating that she turned the white farmer over to “one of his own kind”:
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SHERROD: That’s when it was revealed to me that it’s about the poor versus those who have, not so much about white — it is about white and black, it’s not, you know — it opened my eyes. Because I took him to one of his own.
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Now, I’m inclined to believe her, based on what she said right there. But the NAACP was quick to release a statement supporting her forced resignation. But, strangely, the NAACP won’t release the rest of the tape so we can corroborate her claim.
Then on Tuesday, the NAACP released this updated statement: “The NAACP is conducting an investigation into the recent revelations about the situation with Ms. Shirley Sherrod including attempting to speak with Ms. Sherrod, the farmer in question and viewing the full video. Following a full and comprehensive process we will issue an updated statement.”
When was the last time the NAACP didn’t give someone the benefit of the doubt right away?
This much I can say, if she was simply relating an anecdotal story from 1986 to make a point about how her racial perceptions have changed, give her back her job.
Something is definitely wrong here. Yes, the Obama administration has a history of acting without all the facts:
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