Free Republic

(Credit: CBS) Shirley Sherrod, who was forced to resign from the Department of Agriculture after an out-of-context video of remarks she made were published on a conservative website, is still considering the formal job offer she received from the USDA, she tells CBS News Producer Daniel Steinberger. The department has offered Sherrod a position titled Deputy Director of the office of advocacy and outreach at the USDA, she says. The offer was delivered in a draft that puts into writing what Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack offered her on the phone last week. Sherrod said she sat down to read...

On Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, Internet entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart, the impresario of the ACORN scandal and a growing investigative force in the conservative media, held a press conference at the Conservative Political Action Conference. At that press conference, he laid out evidence of a concerted effort by government officials, race-baiting lawyers and certain black non-farmers to defraud the federal government of millions of dollars by exploiting a legal settlement called Pigford. On Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011, Shirley Sherrod, the single largest recipient of cash from the Pigford settlement, filed a lawsuit against Breitbart for defamation. Sherrod, you may remember, was...

You knew it was bound to happen. One of the greatest things liberals are good at is spin. They can take truth and in a matter of minutes twist it into something absolutely unrecognizable. They’ll confuse the issue until you just aren’t sure of what the original conversation was really about. Example in point, the Shirley Sherrod incident. We’ve gone from a two minute expose that Breitbart used to reveal how racist the NAACP is to just a week later the tables have turned and now there are calls to shut down all bloggers, shut down Big Government, shut down...