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Own political lens and never admitting when youve made a mistake, never admitting that the other side may be right some of the time, never doing anything that damages your faction. its a game for people like mr. breitbart and others. they dont go out into the field and meet the people theyre supposedly reporting on. they stay behind their desks and see the world as black or white, left or right. its much more complex than that. president obama spoke to secretary vilsacks decision to fire sherrod...

Told the agriculture secretary tom vilsack to reconsider his decision to fire sherrod. this afternoon, the white house apologized. tonight, secretary vilsack is apologizing and offering her a new job. our senior white house correspondent major garrett is live in the north lawn today. major, what about this womans assertion that the white house pressured the agriculture department to oust her or push her out? >> thats right. at todays briefing, robert gibbs said he had no personal knowledge of th...

Behind vilsacks decision to fire sherrod after the fact and supported that decision. the naacp retracted their original statement saying the video was edited to make sherrod appear racist. a short time ago we a full copy of the tape from the naacp, showing even more contacts to sherrods remarks. listen to this: >> it made me see it is about those who have verse those who dont have. they could be black, they could be white, they could be hispanic. and it made me realize then that i needed to work...

Be of her making racial statements of white farmer. she was offered her job back when the entire video was released offering to help the worker. there is documents it claims that the white house approved the decision to fire sherrod but claimed at the time it had no role in the matter. >> this was as you heard yesterday, the decision that was made by the u.s. department of agriculture. >> so did he or anyone at the white house direct that she be fired? >> not to my knowledge. no. >> judicial wat...

On this program last night that the problem is not liberalism or conservatism but factualism, seeing the world through your own political lens and never admitting when youve made a mi mistake, never admitting that the other side may be right some of the time, never doing anything that damages your faction. its a game for people like mr. breitbart and others. they dont go out into the field and meet the people theyre supposedly reporting on. they stay behind their desks and see the world as black...

Behind vilsacks decision to fire sherrod after the fact and supported that decision. the naacp retracted their original statement saying the video was edited to make sherrod appear racist. a short time ago we a full copy of the tape from the naacp, showing even more contacts to sherrods remarks. listen to this: >> it made me see it is about those who have verse those who dont have. they could be black, they could be white, they could be hispanic. and it made me realize then that i needed to work...