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Dad, she started off thinking one way and how she came to another way of thinking. and what this guy breitbart is now saying is that, when the speech started, you, in the audience, didnt know that she had changed her way of thinking, and that you were agreeing with her when she was talking about, you know, sending a white couple to a white attorney, to somebody of quote/unquote, their own kind? >> no. what i got out of that was that, i had talked with her before about this same situation. and i ...

The message is still, is also, to let america know to let all of us know, that our work is not done. with this surfacing like this about it being a racial issue, all of the publicity that has come up about it, it lets us know that our work is not done. we still have a long way to go. >> listen, i appreciate all of you joining together on this evening and talking about what you heard and experienced at this night. mary, hal, elizabeth, reverend porter and yvonne, thank you very much. >> thank you...

Blasting sherrod claiming, its appalled by her actions. this, even though the speech was given at an naacp event. no one at the organization had clearly bothered to learn more about what was said. it wasnt until early the next morning we learned this portion of the tape was only a snippet of the full 43-minute speech. sherrod told cnns "american morning" -- >> the stuff that the tea party does is scaring the administration. i told -- i told them, get the whole tape and look at the whole tape, an...

>> the sherrod speech, saying andrew breitbart took the message out of context, and has a hidden agenda. he has a history of smear campaigns. well hear from him. will he apologize to ms. sherrod? >> nothing warrants an apology. >> im asking you. >> the people who through he under the bus, the people who didnt look at the video that i put up in the post that i put up at biggovernment.com offered the exculpatory part. >> breitbart also says hes not to blame for this mess. is that fair? well talk i...

Employee forced to resign monday visited today with roger and eloise spooner, the georgia couple that jumped to her defense when the story broke. they hadnt seen each other in decades. the spooners are the couple sherrod talked about in a speech that was misrepresented as racist. the spooners credit sherrod with helping them save their family farm. she says they changed the way she thought about race. roger spooner said theres a lesson in the ugly episode that caused ms. sherrod so much pain. >>...

And i accept that responsibility. and i ask for shirleys forgives in and she was gracious enough to extend it to me, and for that i am thankful. >> secretary vilsack also offered ms. sherrod a new job at the fda. sherrod had a seven-minute phone call with president obama. quite a week for her, from smears to miea culpas, randi kae breaks it down. >> reporter: an edited clip 6 shirley sherroded speech is posted, a website run by andrew breitbart. a blog begins with no hint of irony. context is ev...

More to the speech, but said it didnt matter. 5:00 p.m. tuesday, the naacp does a 180. it releases a new statement after finally watching and posting the entire speech on its website. this time it says, "we were snookered by fox news and tea party activist andrew breitbart into believing she -- sherrod -- had harmed white farmers because of racial bias." >> what we didnt realize is that it had been sliced and diced six ways from sunday so as to completely hide this beautiful story of transformat...

Forgiveness, and she was gracious enough to extend it to me, and for that i am thankful. >> secretary vilsack also offered ms. sherrod a new job at the fda. sherrod had a seven-minute phone call with president obama. quite a week for her, from smears to mea culpas, randi kaye breaks it down up close. >> reporter: just after 8:00 a.m. monday morning, an edited clip of shirley sherrods speech is posted on biggovernment.com, a website run by conservist andrew breitbart. a blog begins with no hint o...

The edited tape that cost shirley sherrod her job was lifted from a 43-minute long speech. calling it a snippet. the verbal equivalent of a snapshot. the conservative blogger who posted the snippet claims it proves the organization sherrod was speaking to was racist. he uses this portion of the clip as evidence he said the audience applause explodes racist language. >> he come to me for help. what he didnt know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was -- i was trying to decide ...

Had harmed white farmers because of racial bias." >> what we didnt realize is that it had been sliced and diced six ways from sunday so as to completely hide this beautiful story of transformation. >> reporter: that evening on cnn, john king presses breitbart about why he posted just a portion of the speech. breitbart dodges the questions. never gives clear answers about anything. >> did you reach out to her and say, what incident are you talking about? when did this happen? >> this was not abou...