Victim of video distortion by blogger (and later, MSM)

US Dept of Agriculture employee Shirley Sherrod was fired by the Obama White House after BigGovernment.com posted a 1-minute, 40-second video excerpt purporting to show that, during a speech to the NAACP, Sherrod boasted about discriminating against a white farmer while she was a federal employee during the Obama administration. Actually, she was describing events in the 1980s when she was Georgia field director for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, a private group working primarily with Black farmers that had grown out of the civil rights movement; she was not a federal employee at the time. More importantly, a fuller version showed that Sherrod told the story to illustrate how she had overcome her racial hostility toward whites and ultimately helped the white farmer save his farm.