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And i accept that responsibility. and i ask for shirley's 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 everything. indeed it is. >> she was -- >> reporter: at 12:51 monday afternoon, breitbart tweets abou...

More to the speech, but said it didn't 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 didn't 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 port...

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 sherrod's speech is posted on biggovernment.com, a website run by conservist andrew breitbart. a blog begins with no hint of irony. context is everything. indeed it is. >> he was -- >> reporter: at 12:51 monday afternoon, ...

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 didn't know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was -- i was trying to decide how much help i was going to give him. >> you can decide for yourselves if you actually heard appla...

Had harmed white farmers because of racial bias." >> what we didn't 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 about shirley sherrod. this was about the naacp attacking the tea party, and this is showing racism at ...