Tweeden was a part of the spreading of the Brightbart sliming of Sherrod. The Breitbart version of the Shirley Sherrod story took a small particle of truth and twisted it. The NAACP and White House officials then apologized for their earlier criticisms, and United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack apologized for the firing and offered Sherrod a new position. However, review of her full speech showed that the excerpts had been selectively edited, and that her remarks - understood in context - were about the importance of overcoming personal prejudices. Based on these excerpts, the NAACP condemned Sherrod's remarks as racist and US government officials called on the official to resign. Her firing was an administration reaction to media reports on video excerpts from her address to an event of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in March 2010 and commentary posted by conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart on his website. For more context on what happened to Shirley Sherrod, here's what Wikipedia says: Shirley Sherrod was fired from her appointed position as Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture.
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