Context for "we," but not for thee

Legal Insurrection has the best column on this today. Did you know that the president of the NAALCP was present at the meeting in which Shirley Sherrod made her "confession," but claims Fox News "snookered" them by not putting the video into context? IOW, the man who was present and heard the initial speech claimed he didn't know the context, even though he was there? In addition, Fox News did not run the story until after she was fired. Professor Jacobsen:

But the NAACP did not waste time in demanding that action be taken against Sherrod because the NAACP had not seen the full clip, only the part where Sherrod related her racist past. (It appears that Ben Jealous, the President of the NAACP, was at that meeting, so he really should have known the context.) [added: @0.45 of the video Sherrod states that the President of NAACP was present - h/t J.S.]

Now the NAACP is backtracking because of context.

Media Matters and Think Progress, the ultimate out-of-context word and phrase manipulators, are hot on the case because Shirley Sherrod was taken out of context.

REMEMBER THIS:

Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.