As to the attempted canonization of Shirley Sherrod,

I'd like to quote some things from her:
You know, I haven’t seen such a mean-spirited people as I’ve seen lately over this issue of health care. Some of the racism we thought was buried. Didn’t it surface? Now, we endured eight years of the Bush’s and we didn’t do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black President.
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On Andrew Breitbart: I know I’ve gotten past black versus white. He’s probably the person who’s never gotten past it and never attempted to get past it.

I think he would like to get us stuck back in the times of slavery. That’s where I think he would like to see all black people end up again.

COOPER: You think — you think he’s racist?

SHERROD: … I think he’s so vicious. Yes, I do.

And I think that’s why he’s so vicious against a black president, you know. He would go after me. I don’t think it was even the NAACP he was totally after. I think he was after a black president.
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On Fox News: “They are after a bigger thing, they would love to take us back to where we were many years ago. Back to where black people were looking down, not looking white folks in the face, not being able to compete for a job out there and not be a whole person.”
Reliably hitting the left talking points, despite the facts:
But for all the chatter—some of it from Sherrod herself—that she was done in by Fox News, the network didn’t touch the story until her forced resignation was made public Monday evening, with the exception of brief comments by O’Reilly. After a news meeting Monday afternoon, an email directive was sent to the news staff in which Fox Senior Vice President Michael Clemente said: “Let’s take our time and get the facts straight on this story. Can we get confirmation and comments from Sherrod before going on-air. Let’s make sure we do this right.”
There's been a bunch of people waning to throw Breitbart under the bus; I think that's a BIG mistake. His original point was to show that while the NAALCP is accusing the tea party of racism, the NAALCP hasn't spent any time cleaning their own house. Oh, he's proven that. Now Sherrod has a lot of people, in the name of "See! I'M not one of the nasty ones, I'm a GOOD right-winger!", giving her praise she really doesn't deserve, and she's using it as a club. She and the left can't be allowed to get away with that.

Speaking of the left, and the major media, CNN is just drooling at the thought of shutting down competition AND people who cover stories CNN would rather not be heard:
Anchors Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discussed the "mixed blessing of the internet," and agreed that there should be a crackdown on anonymous bloggers who disparage others on the internet.

"There are so many great things that the internet does and has to offer, but at the same time, Kyra, as you know, there is this dark side," Roberts said. "Imagine what would have happened if we hadn't taken a look at what happened with Shirley Sherrod and plumbed the depths further and found out that what had been posted on the internet was not in fact reflective of what she said."
You'll note that CNN has flat ignored or glossed-over the other things Sherrod said that don't fit their narrative AND ignored or glossed-over the marxist 'rich vs.poor' crap; I doubt they're happy with people pointing that out, either.
"Well what Andrew talked about with me was this idea of a gatekeeper but there are huge first amendment rights that come into play here - freedom of speech and all that. And he said the people who need to be the gatekeepers are the media to check into these stories," said Roberts.
Totally ignoring the fact that if the major media HAD BEEN DOING THE JOB OF REPORTING THE NEWS, ALL OF IT, there wouldn't have been this explosion of alternate media; but they won't want you to think about that.

CNN, there are reasons you were nicknamed the Clinton News Network, and you're carrying on that tradition; you want to shut people like Breitbart and the Geek and me down? Screw you.