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Here. we are not having the government step into our classrooms and determine what the kids can and cannot eat. let's let them decide what they can ingest and what they can smoke and what they can drink. it is something we should strive for. >> basically are you tired of 5-o being all over you. >> yes, i have a real problem. >> you already can smoke pot anytime you like, right? >> you can. >> here is the thing, people go to amsterdam to smoke pot. you don't have to be a super criminal to do it here. just close the door. >> they are doing this to sherrod. >> i didn't smoke anything or drink any...

the pregame chatter when i was at the fox news debated in orlando this week wasn't about the candidates, it was about the lavish spread put on by the co-sponsor of google. everything from shrimp on a stick to a smoothie bar to a guy mixing root beer floats. but the post-game chatter was about whether rick perry had blown. it "politico" going so far with their headline "texas toast?" at least it was a question mark. it was the ankors at cnn who peppered perry with difficult questions and tried to foment a fight with mitt romney. >> governor perry, governor romney has been hammering yo...

Walsh, the editor-in-chief of salon.com. and joan, obviously, the abrupt firing of shirley sherrod was a story. but how much responsibility did the tv networks bear for running that misleading video snippet before knowing the full story? >> i think they bear a lot of responsibility. you know, i want to give cnn credit because i believe cnn was among the first to search out shirley sherrod and find out that there was a very different story than the one that was being told. the "atlanta journal-constitution" i believe was also very quick to go to sherrod. how fox news or anybody else could run a...

>> if you want to talk about people clapping racist behavior, that's exactly what you see in this video. >> reporter: the controversy he stirred up and the way he succeeded in panicking the obama administration resulted in a public apology from the white house to sherrod. >> and on behalf of the administration, i offer our apologies. >> reporter: pretty much everywhere he goes these days, andrew brietbart is looking for a fight. >> "new york times," are you in the room? are you in the room? >> yeah. >> you're despicable. >> reporter: if you interview breitbart, you know what you're in for. as ...

>> by the time robert gibbs and agriculture secretary tom vilsack apologized to sherrod, the media narrative had changed. >> that employee, shirley sherrod, says that the speech she gave was edited and that the point of her full speech was just the opposite. >> she was smeared by allegations of racism, lost her job, and is now being redeemed by the truth, it seems, the whole truth. >> bill o'reilly was among those admitting that he acted too quickly after seeing breitbart's misleading excerpt. >> wow. well, that is simply unacceptable. and miss sherrod must resign immediately. >> so i owe miss...