I disagree with Andrew: Shirley Sherrod should sue Breitbart. The gutless wonders in the White House may be too cowed and cowardly to defend Sherrod—or anyone else—against baseless rightwing smears, but Sherrod can and should come to her own defense. And what David Gergen said:

"This has ripped away the veil and shown us all that is wrong with politics today. An ideologue injects poison into the internet, other people rush to judgment on camera, and an administration gets stampeded and commits this travesty of justice. The NAACP has at least had the courage to come back and say 'we were wrong' and apologize. Now the administration needs to to the same thing. The president—tonight—ought to order the Agriculture Department to reopen this case, give this woman a fair hearing, and—if the facts are as they seem—reinstate her with an apology. Indeed, I think she deserves a whole lot more than an apology. I think she deserves honor for her attempts to bring people together."

Via Sullivan—and what Andrew said:

"[Some] of us backed Obama because he didn't, like Clinton, reek of fear in the face of every rightwing attack. How wrong we were."