jealous, as president of the naacp. think what it would mean to this nation if we would have an open forum and a real summit-- a real tea summit instead of a beer summit-- on race relations. >> schieffer: all right. we have 30 seconds left. i'm going to give you time to answer. will you join him in doing that? >> well, i think i have plans that day, but we can certainly plan something, absolutely. we have gotten death threats across the country since we asked you guys to expel these folks from your ranks. if we asked the naacp to expel the klan, the klan wouldn't call and complain. deal with it, david. keep on dealing with it. >> schieffer: time is up for both of you. very helpful. back in a minute. >> schieffer: finally today, washington is pretty much a company town. most people here are in the government or lobby the government or, if you're like me, observe the government and report on it. so what we usually talk about around here is just that, the government. but last week, we had a whole new topic to talk about--

you are absolving the naacp -- >> i can be critical of the naacp, but -- >> why aren't you? >> because i don't have to in this case. we have to look up how that thing started. >> this was a big lie. >> it big lie, a big snip, let the record show that colby already said that the administration is yellow, and that is about as tough as you can be. they did take because of -- cave because of van jones, the black panther charge of a voter intimidation in philadelphia. this only want a bible because of andrew breitbart, and fox news, -- only went viral because of andrew breitbart and fox news it was all fox news? no. >> didn't the naacp condemn the remarks? >> they did and then they said they got snookered. i watched sean hannity with the blonde woman who is the darling of the right -- >> ann coulter. >> who said that andrew breitbart was set up. she is making him the victim. it is beyond comprehension on that side. >> talk about selective editing. the main news show on fox at 6:00 with threbret baier -- we did not touch the store on monday because we had no background. we touch t

you are absolving the naacp -- >> i can be critical of the naacp, but -- >> why aren't you? >> because i don't have to in this case. we have to look up how that thing started. >> this was a big lie. >> it big lie, a big snip, let the record show that colby already said that the administration is yellow, and that is about as tough as you can be. they did take because of -- cave because of van jones, the black panther charge of a voter intimidation in philadelphia. this only want a bible because of andrew breitbart, and fox news, -- only went viral because of andrew breitbart and fox news it was all fox news? no. >> didn't the naacp condemn the remarks?s? >> they did and then they said they got snookered. i watched sean hannity with the blonde woman who is the darling of the right -- >> ann coulter. >> who said that andrew breitbart was set up. she is making him the victim. it is beyond comprehension on that side. >> talk about selective editing. the main news show on fox at 6:00 with threbret baier -- we did not touch the store on monday because we had no background. we touch

the naacp. has passed a resolution, blasting the tea party movement for what it calls continued tolerance of bigotry. meantime, the north iowa tea party billboard has been papered over. but the controversy it ignited still rages. here to talk about it, david web, co-founder of tea party 365 in new york city. also co-founder of the black republican forum. he's a talk radio host on sirius xm. and benjamin todd from kansas city. is president and ceo of the naacp. all right, ben. it was obviously a ridiculous ad. but it's one person in one party in one section of the country. why raise a whole racist thing against the whole movement, ben? >> well, you know, the billboard actually wasn't what prompted this. what prompted this were folks here in the "show me" state who, you know, had -- knew that the council of concerned -- sorry, the council of conservative citizens. a group that says black people are not prepared -- not genetically equipped to participate in democracy. has been promoting tea party m

that's what we do here at the naacp. that's what responsible groups do. i think you and i both agree the tea party's much more powerful. the concern is this, you know, dick armey -- >> racism, excuse me, mr. jealous, racism is not a function always of power. if there is a racist -- >> you and i agreed, right? >> we agreed. >> it's wrong. >> you go to the power of the tea party versus shabazz, for this instance. that is not the function here. if racism happen, you should address it as it happens. >> absolutely. >> there's one incident in congress, that has not been proven, you address that on a larger scale. you should address king shamir shabazz on the same scale and denounce him forcefully and forthrightly. >> right, and i've done so here. all i would say to david, i think you're familiar with the expression in our community, which is -- to whom much is given, much is expected. and a lot of power and prestige has been given to the tea party and there's a lot of expectations. you know, including folks who are active in naacp, who are in the tea party, who

sided with the naacp's characterizations. if the obama administration is this afraid of glenn beck do you youngsters they deal with the iran -- how do they deal with the iranians? >> there may better similarities. >> if they are that frightened by an american tv show how do they deal with the real world. >> chris: let me ask another question because this goes to a bigger issue. you spoke at a progressive conference at which you said this, you elected barack obama, a democratic congress, a democratic senate and now it is time for them to behave like democrats if they want to get reelected. they have foregotten where they have come from. have the president and democrats been too timid? >> the healthcare is my largest concern although that is over and done with and we have to make what we have work. that was a disappointment for me. financial reforms was good. i mean there is definitely some good stuff in there. there was some things that i thought got taken out at the last minute, there was some concern. but i think that the ma

the naacp had its convention. they passed a resolution, not yet released to the public, that condemns racism among the tea party movement. and here's naacp president, ben jealous. >> they have called congressmen the n-word, have called congressmen the f-word. we have seen them carry racist signs. and whenever that happens, the membership tries to shirk responsibility. the party wants to be respected and part of the mainstream in the country, they have to act in a responsible way. >> clarence, why did they get so much time? was this an important priority to them? >> rightly or wrongly, they're voicing the sentiments that a lot of african-americans feel. we can debate over whether they were actually called the n-word or not. it's a he said, he said dispute. a year ago, we were talking about is the naacp still relevant when you have a black president? now the naacp is on page one. this is probably the most talked about issue of the week. they're diametrically opposed to the tea party. in virtually every way. demograp

at an naacp event -- >> he's going to show you a video out of context. he's going to launch a smear and label her a racist without having the slightest clue. >> why not show the four videos he's talking about? >> you can show them. >> do you think they're accurate? >> i don't think they're accurate. >> we are out of time. >> thank you. >>> it's time for the weather and sam champion. >> george, we're going to start with a line of storms and some big heat going on into the new england area today. because of the heat lately, now, we have a front moving in. that's going to trigger what could be powerful thunderstorms in a large area. every major airport. every major railway. every major road surface could be affected by this. it could be heavy rain. pittsburgh comes in near 84 degrees. new york, 92, before this comes through with strong storms. there's another pocket of storms that will develop west of that. sioux falls to dubuque. iowa had inches of rain from a stationary front and storms that developed along it. this could be a day of heavy rain, three inc

naacp making the charge against the tea party. the tea party responding in kind by going after sherrod. eugene robinson wrote this in his column. there's a flurry of charges from substantial conservative figures about racism against whites by blacks and other minorities. the allegations are being hyped and exaggerated because they are designed to make whites fearful. it won't work with most people but it works with some. enough perhaps to help erode obama's political standing and damage his party's prospects at the polls. this is a political strategy. >> first of all, we should have zero tolerance for racial discrimination period. beyond that, the indirect question is the tea party racist, the real question are there racists in the tea party? i would contend that there's going to be racists in any group. the tea party is more a thought and feeling and philosophy than a party. i think in february of '09 when i was the lightning rod for this movement in many ways, many different diverse groups of people from all walks of life, all r

well -- well, we are assuming that the naacp is more progressive and left wing. i'm saying that yes, the naacp acted, i think, dishonorably and said it was snookered. why do we take the word of a right-wing media on the issues and practices of behaviors of the broader mainstream. we have to be careful here. it shows that andrew bright bar and other white wing bloggers have an intense power focused on -- fox news that then forces the mainstream media to pay attention and the white house itself got rope flood this. the question is can it get ahead of the curve and say let's have some interesting, powerful, insightful dialogue. mr. obama wrote a brimmian book on race. now that he's president i think he has been ham strung and i think the american public is skittish. i think mr. obama is disinclined to engage in the racial maelstroms that exist. i think what we need, though, is that for the bully pulpit of the president to be used to honorably engage in dialogue and difficult discussion across the board. when we do that, then we have a better chance of being honest a

this grew out of the spat between the naacp and the tea party about who is racist and not racist. >> it's an important point. the video was posted on a website, by andrew breibart who accused the tea party of being racist and informs the tempest in the teapot and this was the answer. not a lot of remorse. but some of the -- the fox network had actually amped up some of the stuff on monday night and did walk back and said -- they deserve credit for that. and the other thing, at the united states department of agriculture which has a long history of short shriveting and shortchanging minorities, blacks, women, in agriculture, tom sill vack, the man who -- tom vilsack, the monday who apologized profusely, -- the man who apologized profusely, cast light on how far that department has come in the last few years. gloria: and although this isn't a question, it's a question in a could take a -- a question that could take a whole show. this is a white house, the first after can american president that goes out of its way to not be defined by race, yet things like this always occur. seem to oc

fox news and others who allowed this bogus tape to hit the air waves. >> the naacp. >> the >> the naacp that did not call the local chapter. did not confer with miss locald. it's mind boggling. i talked to miss sherrod. ploouchlt.ew up in the deep of theas i did, you know the history of the movement. the history of the sherrod story.. you know shirley sherrod's yersonal story. i'm ashamed so many people failed to google her name. >> the only people that could fire her were the hatinistration. ration. news, not the naacp. the only administration could naacp.er. they bear the most culpability here. i think, by a long shot. true.ther thing that's true. what she actually did say gets wh d right back to the last ht back toon. what she did say was that the ivision, she came to nderstand, were really not really black and white but between haves and have nots. that is what turned her around and made her fight for the white farmers. >> and i think except for her, there's enough blame to go aroundfor everyone here. tention.le that maliciously and firsttention misrepresented the dment. i believe i

this naacp is an organization in search of a purpose% this is a search for relevance. who would care about this if this had not happened? you have an african-american attorney general in charge of civil rights. civil rights was heroic in a classic civil rights era. that is long over and needs a purpose. this was a publicity stunt. >> let me go back to unemployment. i want to talk about extending unemployment benefits forces extending the tax cuts. >> you have asymmetry there. alan greenspan this week approved the bush tax cuts said let them expire you could pay for the unemployment extension with a bat. unemployment money going out spurs demand that you have on certain the gone and buying power out there. the stimulus works better and you end up with more jobs. >> ne media consultant would say to fill in the black congressman voted for massive tax increases at a time of great unemployment bamut trickle-down does not work. those tax cuts for reckless to begin with and are reckless now. they should be allowed to die. i suspect there'll be some compromise because everyone

department of agriculture and obama administration appointee, at a naacp dinner in march of this year describing her initial reluctance to help a white farmer who came for aid. >> i was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland, and here i was faced with having to help a white person save their land. so i didn't give him the full force of what i could do. >> reporter: sherrod says the incident she was describing occurred more than 20 years ago, before she worked for the usda, a story she told as an example of overcoming her own prejudices. >> that's when it was revealed to me that it's about poor versus the people who have. >> and telling that story, how i changed while working with him, i used that to help others to see it's not about race. >> reporter: but the reaction was swift and certain. the usda asked her to resign. sherrod said she was driving when she got the call from an agriculture official in washington. >> she said, well, they want you to pull over to the side of the road and submit your resignation. it was just unbelievable, you know. it

but by tuesday night, the naacp had reversed course. officials looked at the full context of her remarks made at the naacp's own event, concluded they'd been, quote, snookered by fox news and the conservative activist who first posted portions of the video. but they acknowledged they were too quick to condemn. >> we made a mistake here. we had a very good batting average. you know? it is near a thousand, but sometimes we make a mistake and we made one here. >> reporter: for shirley sherrod, the damage has been done. >> they called me a racist, of all people! they called me a racist. when you look at my work, when you look at everything i've done, you know that i'm not a racist. >> reporter: all right. so, initially, officials here at the white house said this was solely at the discretion of the agriculture secretary, tom vilsack, that the president was briefed only afterward, although staff knew something of it, and that he fully stood by the agriculture secretary's decision. however, late last night, after the full video was posted on

after first denouncing her remarks, now the naacp is fighting to get her job back. >> what we didn't realize, it was sliced and diced six days from sunday, so as to completely hide this beautiful story from transportation. >> reporter: a conservative web blogger was first to post the clip and said he was making a bigger point. >> this was the naacp affirming a racist sentiment. this was never about shirley sherrod. >> reporter: the white house says the president is fully aware of sherrod's situation and given all of the facts, the white house agrees her case should be reviewed. i'm sandra endo. >>> coming up next at 6:00, a driver who has trouble seeing at night forced to work the night shift and another driver who passengers say didn't know his route just two of the new accusations tonight involving that contract disspeed between ac transit and the drivers. >>> and famous farm that was attached today. it had been missing for three years. >>> and shark warnings coming up next. >>> a storm brewing in the caribbean prompted the bp relief well to a halt. thad allen said he would wait to

maybe the naacp and the farmers committee is going at the wrong way. host: margaret, sacramento, up early in california. caller: good morning, c-span. the man that just called saying that black people are looking to obama as our savior, i am a black woman and i do not look to obama as my savior. when he got in i knew that this would probably be said about the news media and white people, but we already knew that obama was up against a lot of different things. the right has taken over christianity, but they cannot take away god. black people are praying people. what these right-wingers are trying to do this country, believe me, we will be okay and this needs to stop. this guy is going around with eight videos, getting over it and realizing we are in this country together, going through rough times. we need to pray that we can save this country for -- from what it has gone through. host: "the appeal is to that stupid and gullible, this story should have the left to the right wing blogs and media." in "the new york post," he points out "liberals shame to

. >> reporter: sherrod said she was disappointed that the naacp also condemned her before hearing the entire tape, a sentiment echoed by her children today at a rally held in her hometown. >> for them to step out and rush to judgment because some organization is pushing them just doesn't sound like the organization we have grown up with our entire life. >> reporter: the white house today also apologized. >> on behalf of the administration, i offer our apologies. >> reporter: for his part the conservative blogger, andrew breitbart, who posted the original edited clip made no apologies. he said his goal was to seek retribution on behalf of the tea party movement. the naacp has said some parties of that movement are racists. >> when she talks about not giving him what the full weight of what she can do with her position, the audience cheers in this video. that, to me, is the standard of showing that racism existed in that room. >> reporter: you know, this story re-opened the debate about how easily the media can get manipulated in this day and age and for the white house, it's re-opened

conservative website posting a video clip of department of agriculture official shirley sherrod at an naacp event talking about meeting with a white farmer. >> i was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland. and here i was faced with having to help a white person save their land. so, i didn't give him the full force of what i could do. >> reporter: an obama administration official called sherrod in her car and demanded she pull over and type a resignation letter in her blackberry. agriculture secretary tom vilsack said in a statement that there is zero tolerance for discrimination at his agency. none of them bothered to learn that the incident in question happened 24 years ago when sherrod worked for a nonprofit. the question is, why would you look at the white farmers differently than you looked at the black farmers? >> because i always, up to that point, i felt they had all of the advantages. >> reporter: then, in 1986, she changed her mind, as she said in the speech. >> that's when it was revealed to me that it's about poor versus those who have. >> rep

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and like the administration, the naacp also reversed course and called for sherrod to be rehired. betty, back to you. >> tara mergener joining us live in washington. tara, thank you so much for that. >>> the effort to permanently plug the gulf of mexico oil leak has been suspended. skimming boats have been moved to shore and evacuations have begun. all of this because of a cluster of thunderstorms that could move into the gulf this weekend. forecasters say it has a 40% chance of becoming a tropical depression. kelly cobiella reports. >> reporter: with a storm brewing hundreds of miles away, the work to finally plug bp's blown out well has come to a halt. bp stopped drilling its relief well until the threat passes. >> if we are forced to move off the site because of weather, the entire operation could be delayed 10 to 14 days. >> reporter: that's a worst case scenario. since no oil has flowed into the gulf for nearly a week, bp is confident they can leave the well closed and unwatched if they have to. in louisiana some people are fishing again, but those who make their living selli

guest: the naacp's role in this? i think that they overreacted and following the blog in this instance. i have met at the white house with every president since jimmy carter. and i can tell you there is one defining thing about presidents it's what they believe, and once they believe something, you don't deter them, and i believe that this president wants a better america and clearly wants us beyond this issue of race. and not to get the credit but helped in the process. but he's got to step forward and take the conversation and lead and then we will be reacting to what he said. and that's what we should, but not to glenn beck. host: tennessee valley, go ahead. caller: yes, i want to make a statement, i mean when it comes to race relation in this country, we have to look the everything. we are the only race forced to come over here. and still forced now to even talk to each other about race. when it comes to the president, and i hear a lot of people, they don't call him president, they say barack or mr. obama. and de

it provoked outrage from the naacp. he says it was written in response to the naacp that they cracked down on racist elements in the group. vice president joe biden said he and president obama don't think the tea party as a whole is racist. >> the truth is elements involved in some of the tea party folks expressed racist views. we saw that in television. but i wouldn't characterize the tea party as racist. >>> the vice president predicted that the democrats will hold on to majorities in both the house and the senate in the november election. >>> oakland could become the first city in the nation to allow and regulate wholesale medicinal pot farms. on tuesday the city council will consider licensing four large scale medical marijuana warehouses. last week the council's public safety committee approved the plan which also included an undetermined number of medium-sized farms to supply the three tons of pot sold legally in the city ef year. the city says licensing the farms will generate millions in city fees and taxes. sma

. >> reporter: posted on a conservative website, it shows shirley sherrod at an naacp dinner in march of this year describing her initial reluctance to help a white farmer who came for aid. >> i was struck by the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland. and here i was faced with having to help a white person save their land. so i didn't give him the full force of what i could do. >> reporter: sherrod says the incident she was describing occurred more than 20 years ago, before she worked for the usda. a story she told as an example of overcoming her own prejudices. >> that's when it was revealed to me that it's about poor. versus those who have. in telling that story how i changed while working with him. i used that to help others see, it's not about race. >> reporter: the reaction was swift and certain. the usda asked her to resign. sherrod said she was driving when she got the call yesterday afternoon from an agriculture official in washington. >> she said, they want you to pull over to the side of the road and submit your resignation. it was just unbelievable. it was

conservative website posting a video clip of department of agriculture official shirley sherrod at an naacp event talking about meeting with a white farmer. >> i was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farm land and here i was faced with having to help a white person save their land. so i didn't give him the full force of what i could do. >> reporter: last night, an obama administration official called sherrod in her car and demanded she pull over and type a resignation letter in her blackberry. agriculture secretary tom vilsack said in a statement that there is zero tolerance for discrimination at his agency. none of them bothered to learn that the incident in question happened 24 years ago when sherrod worked for a nonprofit. the question is, why would you look at the white farmers differently than you looked at the black farmers? >> because i always, up to that point, i felt they had all of the advantages. >> reporter: then, in 1986, she changed her mind, as she said in the speech. >> that's when it was revealed to me that it's about poor versus those who h

he was trying to attack the naacp. she got caught in the crossfire making comments that appeared to be racially motivated, but they were edited and when looking at the full tape, her bosses decide she should not have been fired. the white house has also now given her an apology. so at this point, she's just weighing whether or not she wants to continue while here in washington, there is sort of a big debate over whether this is a left versus right issue between the naacp and these conservative bloggers. >> yeah, or if they jumped the gun not doing enough investigation as to what was actually said when and in what context. thank you very much, tracie. it will be interesting to watch. >>> the question this morning, is it okay to laugh about osama bin lad cnn scott mcgrew is here to show us a controversial new movie out. >> is terrorism comedy not generally going to mix but there's this movie made in india. it's released now. it's banned in parts of the world. the baliwood plot revolves around a down on his luck pakistani

. >> reporter: she gave a speech last spring to an naacp banquet in georgia. video clips of the speech posted online make it sound as if she supports discrimination. now she and others say the clips were taken out of context. sherrod and her supporters argue that the whole speech was about learning from mistakes and overcoming racial bias. civil rights leader wade henderson says the naacp acted too quickly when it first condemned the remarks. >> last week, they accused the tea party movement of tolerating racial bias and bigotry within their movement. and i think in the case of shirley sherrod they wanted to lean over backwards to make clear that they had to keep their own house in order. >> reporter: the clips of sherrod's speech first appeared on a website run by conservative activist andre breitbart. he told fox news the naacp at a dinner honoring this person is cheering on a person describing a white person as "the other." this is far worse than anything that's ever been alleged against the tea party. in addition to the job offer and apology from the agric

. >> and the naacp as well? >> no doubt, they issued a statement, jim, where they condemned her. they wanted to be very clear that they don't stand for racism on any side of any issue, yet they retracted that last night and said they had been snookered. and i think to some degree we all were snookered. >> but there's a tea party angle to this, is there not, in terms of the begining with the naacp? >> that's right, because where this all started was at the naacp convention, they passed a resolution condemning racist elements in the tea party what they called some racist elements in the tea party. they passed this resolution and sarah palin and other tea party advocates sort of rebuked this resolution. but that is where this started because then that conservative website, big government.com, they wanted to show, hey, it's not just the tea party that has racist elements, but look at that agriculture employee. but again it was not the full story. but that is the genesis of it. it was that kind of response. >>. >> lehrer: but you're thinking that what's behind all of this is everybody

differently than she did the black farmers. >> because i always -- up to tat i feall optheages the naacp speech. >> that's when it was revealed to me that it's about poor versus those who have. >> reporter: the white farmers in sherrod's story agree, and credit her with saving their farm. roger and eloise spooner from iron city, georgia, consider sherrod a friend. >> if it hadn't been for her, we'd -- wasn't ever just a matter of a few months, we'd have lost it. >> reporter: t.j. winick, abc news, washington. >>> democratic lawmakers are set to approve an extension of benefits for the long-term unemployed today. they broke through a stubborn republican filibuster yesterday, with the help of the newest senator from west virginia. carte goodwin was sworn in to succeed robert byrd, who died last month. republicans had argued the benefits would add too much to the national debt. >>> the government's oil spill chief says five small leaks seen bubbling around the underwater containment cap are nothing to worry about. admiral thad allen says the cap is holding firm. bp now wants to try a new wa

the naacp, the new director really has made this an important issue, and that is what is going to take. we could run down the list of all the great things there are to do, but we have to push back on this kind of hysteria on crime, and it takes leadership to do it -- it takes individuals, all of us, to do it as well, to put pressure on leaders, but it takes real leadership to do that. that is how i would put it together all in one place. >> in the vein of what is hopeful, and there is a reentry coordinating council in san francisco and also one in alameda county. what has been helpful to me is i think that overwhelmingly, we have this being tough on crime problem as opposed to being smart on crime, but i think that even in places where you would not expect it, people are starting to make the connection. for example, a lieutenant from the sheriff's department in alameda county is one of the most consistent and supported participants in the coordinating council for reentry in alameda county. i would say it is an unlikely ally, and i'm sure that we are lucky in his leadership and support.

the naacp released sherrod's entire 40-minute speech last night. and the organization, which had initially condemned her remarks is now saying it was snookered by the initial reports. betty. >> all right. cbs's jan crawford. thank you. >>> thirty people were injured when a united airline jet was rocked by severe turbulence. flight 97 en route from washington to l.a. but was diverted to denver. the 777 landed safely last night. passengers said the violent turbulence struck quickly about two hours into the flight. >> the person behind me, he actually flew up, and then he landed across the aisle onto somebody else's head. so he got a bump and a bruise on the chin. >> it was pretty bad. laptops was everywhere. it looked like there was a huge party on the plane but there wasn't. >> one of the passengers was critically injured. there were 255 passengers and 10 crew members on board. >>> stormy weather threatens to set back possible plans to plug the oil well in the gulf with a static kill. this is a live picture of the containment cap on the leaking well

that being a little different than the naacp case where it was the state. the naacp to leave in the center -- in this instance, when voters are told the committee ffr -- the hurray for everything committee is sponsoring an ad that it is actually the good people of bp, the senators sponsoring the bill think voters should know that. i do not know the naacp was funding political candidates secretly in alabama or in some way launnering its funds to prevent people from knowinn thaa. i don't know how applicable that analogy is. >> i think it is an interesting question that the court has not quite gotten to, the issue of harassment and the issue of disclossre for harassment. it seems like that is a coming theme, but they have not wressled to the ground yet. >> thank you. one of the more interesting opinions i saw, interesting because it was so unusually hard to decipher, was in the case of the juvenile justice parole case. chief justice roberts wrote a separate opinion. he did not join the majority in its reasoning, where he basically said this may or may not be u

banquet last march saying it was proof that she and the naacp were racist. that clip we now know completely misrepresented her and her story. but it spread like a cyber virus. in a matter of hours shirley sherrod was attacked by politicians, denounced by pundits, criticized by the same naacp and told to resign her post immediately. to literally pull over to the side of the road and submit her resignation on her black berry. i guess she should be grateful they didn't send a patrol car to arrest her for texting while driving. what's so sad about all this is the story shirley sherrod tells, the story that was left on the cutting room floor. it's so compelling. including her father's murder by a white man when she was a teenager and her decision to stay in the south, confront her own misconceptions about race and class, and work for change. i've come a long way, she told her audience. >> as my mother has said to so many, if we had tried to live with hate in our hearts, we probably would be dead now. but i've come to real... ize that we have to work together beca

. >> after first reporting her firing, naacp is campaigning to have her reinstated. sherrod says she is not sure she wants r old job back. >> how will i be treated once i'm ba there. i have would to be reassured on that. >> the conservative blogger that posted it getting sherrod fired was neve his intent. he merely wanted to show that people in the audience was applaudi when she talked about her perception of the white farmer. >> governor swzenegger nominate the first philippine woman to appellate court. she is the next chief justice. she would give the state preme court a female majority for the first time in its history. 50-year-old sacramento native is a graduate of u.c. davis school ofaw and a republican. if approved by voters in november, she would replace ron george. >> they are threatening to shut down efforts to bp well. thad allen the weather could force crews to abandon the watch over the experiment tell that has been bottling up the well. scientists have be examining cameras for days trying to determine if that cap is displacing pressure and causing leaks

everybody, right, left, naacp, jumped the gun? >> oh, you nailed it, larry. it is a complete product of our times. what we've seen here, we saw the journalist and the department of justice case. i think what we saw was a political ideology that was desperate and this -- what is happening where everyone's just rock throwing with race? something's racist? everything is racist? the words almost lost all meaning and people who have really been rendered with true injustice, their needs go unmet and i kenneth glady and cedric crenshaw, i could go on and on. it is. a product of our times. i've heard the allegation that a lot of videos were taken out of context and i completely, wholeheartedly viciously disagree with the statement that they were taken out of context. i know that remark was made earlier. this is a hyperracial environment. this was supposed to be a post racial era. with all the progress that has been made this is doing a lot to dismantle that and it hurts the heart to see it. >> larry: peter, does the president have to make another speech about racism?