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A presidential apology and we did in the know if she decided on the job offer but we know there is a lot of allegations lone away in the sherrod case. >> as victims of unfair media treatment go, sherrod got off easy, when dwowr -- when 24 hours she was apologized and offered a new job and got a call from the president, part of an internet videotape that made it appear she had done less than her best for a white farmer because of his race. it was unfair and the apologies were deserved but the rush to judgment sherrod was not the only rush to judgment. consider: sherrod says she was ordered to r...

Understand it's going to take some time to heal this. but again, you are seeing recovery, you're seeing private investment expand again, job growth starting to come back, and that's very encouraging. >> we're going to begin with the shirley sherrod case. by now i'm sure you know the story, how a heavily edited tape that was taken totally out of context was put on the web and the result was that the administration, without checking to see what the rest of the tape said, fired the woman. then came a lot of apologies and an offer of a new job. michael eric dyson, you are writing a book about bara...

Conservatives and hammer their enemy, hammer andrew breitbart. it seems like both sides played this game and i think a lot of people in america are just kind of sick of the game. >> of course, anderson. that's why they distrust politicians and members of congress and others, as popular as root canal. they're sick of it. at the same time, this is where you need leaders. where are the leaders on the right? where are the leaders on the left that can find common ground? i'm looking for someone on the right willing to ge out there and walk the plank with me and say, we can find common ground on mf ...

So they overlearn that lesson. they were fighting the last war. and i think that's what contributed to this almost pathetically inept response to the sherrod case. >> i take your point about them overlearning that lesson. you look at the allegationas about van jones and read the transcripts and look at the tape of glen beck saying he was a convicted felon who organized the rodney king riots and did six months in prison. i mean, those were the allegations against him. and then van jones gets canned without those things ever having been rebutted. glen beck never becoming the story. instead, we g...

A vote that's expected soon. some of them, including fox news, insinuating conspiracy, in the fact that sherrod and her husband, civil rights leader charles sherrod, won a settlement of their own last year before she joined the usda. working on this story is senior reporter christina belantoni. good evening. thanks for joining us. could you take us through this sherrod case, the litigation, the sherrod family was involved in? >> absolutely. this is all part of the pigford settlement which started in 1997. in 1999, a settlement was agreed to where several thousand black farmers, it was found ...