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Look, that's what we're paid to do and that's the way things work here. here now, comes bill o'reilly of fox news on monday. just hours before the white house forced the resignation of shirley sherrod. >> shirley sherrod was caught on tape saying something very disturbing. >> that's simply unacceptable and ms. sherrod must resign immediately. the federal government cannot have skin color deciding any assistance. >> that was bill o'reilly of fox news. when we had the timeline, finally figured out, here's how i explained it on my show. think about it, o'reilly is asking for her resignation. some...

Removed here or asked her to step down from her position. but prior to that, it was o'reilly and it appears o'reilly alone, who actually asked for the resignation. some would wonder whether bill o'reilly needs to apologize to her for that. i asked that question moments after i had learn had with the timeline was. did bill o'reilly apologize? well, here he is last night. >> so, i owe miss sherrod an apology for not doing my homework and not putting her remark into the proper context. >> all right. fine. by the way, you may not believe this but fox news is saying, now, hey, we didn't contribute ...

Brietbart videotape before she got the word that she was gone. but that's only part of the story and i want to make sure you have the full story. there are really two fox news'. maybe three. we're not really sure. and they each play by different rules of fairness and accuracy. here's how we understand it. fox news says that a memo went out to the, quote/unquote, news staff monday afternoon from the senior vp of news. let's take our time, it said. let's get the facts straight on this story. can we get confirmation and comments from sherrod before going on air? let's make sure we do this right. ...

First time, one of the reasons behind it. >> living in this media culture where something goes up on youtube or a blog and everybody is scrambling. and i've told my team and i told my agencies that we have to make sure we're focusing on doing the right thing instead of what looks to be politically necessary at that very moment. we have to take our time and think these issues through. >> now even the president is weighing in on how this story got so out of hand. the question that hadn't been answered. not to the satisfaction of many americans is why this administration forced sherrod out at the...

For a long time. >> wow. earlier i spoke about sherrod's case with wade henderson of the leadership conference on civil and human rights. >> wade, thank you very much for joining us. i don't know but i was surprised at the dignity of this guy taking the bullet for this. he said he did it. he was wrong. he apologized. it's all his fault. >> it was an incredible moment in american history. for the first time, you've seen a secretary in this instance secretary of the department of agriculture making a very personal apology to an employee whom we all agree has been deeply aggrieved. tom vilsack is...