going on that story. and you know, people do kind of forget how it was in those days. this wasn t an administration that was trying to, you know, challenge us at cbs. they were trying to destroy network news because it wouldn t come to heel. and there were people in the corporation here at cbs who were very worried about that. but it never worried old dan schorr. he just kept on keeping on. and he never stopped. that was the amazing thing. right. and on that point, bob he was doing reports at npr, what, two weeks ago. that s exactly what i was going to say. he was on the program last year after walter cronkite s passing. and look, clearly he had been slowed by age but his mind was very sharp. i ve got about 20 seconds. he didn t retire. he didn t go gracefully into that good night. he kept working until the age of 93. and he ll be remembered for a long, long time, especially by the folks around here. and bob, when you turn 93, we d like to have you back on the program.
tape of her speech to the naacp, would wind up on beck s show. that tape snippet, posted online by conservative activist andrew breitbart, once the administration fired sherrod, much of the media pounced on an absurdly incomplete story, that is, before learning that the full videotape showed that sherrod was not talking about discriminating against a white farmer but rising above such racial prejudice. an official in the u.s. agriculture department is now responding to a video that shows her making some very controversial comments about a white farmer at an naacp event back in march. well, a usda official in georgia has resigned after a youtube clip shows her admitting that race helped determine how much aid would be given to a white farmer. but the reporting changed as more facts surfaced tuesday. developing this morning, racially charged remarks coming back to haunt an official at the department of agriculture. we talked to sherrod just a few minutes ago. she told us that v
what a racist this woman was after she had resigned. fox & friends went crazy the next morning. it doesn t matter that merely the obama administration overreacted. it matters. that s terrible. they did that. but there was this pouncing on shirley sherrod without getting her reaction or her response that i think is unconscionable. well, the story did not it was easy to find. the story did not run on the fox website until shortly before the firing. matt lewis, you ve heard joan s take on it. i still want to know because lots of people, including cnn, initially ran that tape. how do you run the tape when it s a two-minute snippet and you don t have the whole tape, you don t have the whole story? look, i think i thank joan for actually saying what we know to be true, that fox news did not air it until after she was fired. once shirley sherrod is that s not true. that s not what i said, by the way. i think that is what you said. it s not true. no. you disagree with t