Get this straight: the video was NOT edited by Breitbart

Clarification: I should have added by Breitbart to my title.
  Over and over at all the mainstream media outlets, including Fox, we are being told that Andrew Breitbart edited the video that was presented on Monday of Shirley Sherrod. Today the usual harping has returned to the idea that right wingers are bigots, can't be trusted and that Breitbart selectively edited the video he received.
  The video was not edited. It was posted as received. The NAACP had it in their possession the entire time. The issue was NOT Sherrod; the issue was the group of people listening to the tale as she related her racist tale.
  To the contrary, very few people, particularly in the press, seem to have actually SEEN Monday's blog entry. Today from Big Government:

In discussing the recent Shirley Sherrod imbroglio, the authors write that Breitbart,

did not quite own up to the seriousness of the error he committed – posting a video misleadingly edited to make it appear that a black Agriculture Department named Shirley Sherrod was boasting of discriminating against a white farmer.

We did not edit, much less misleadingly edit, any of Ms. Sherrod’s remarks. We posted two excerpts from her speech, representing the sum total of the video we had. We didn’t cut anything out of her speech. Is any news organization in the future who only posts excerpts from a speech vulnerable to the charge that it “misleadingly edited” it?

At the very end of one of the video excerpt’s, Ms. Sherrod begins to explain how she later realized her initial discrimination of the white farmer was wrong. In Andrew’s article about the speech he  noted

Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help.

If you're curious, unlike the MSM who is all aflutter today about what a bad guy Breitbart is, here's the link to the original page, complete with Breitbart's remarks. Breitbart says very clearly, it's not about RACE. Read the whole entry here. It's about the NAACP accusing everyone else of racism without identifying the racism in their own midst, as when they nod approvingly as Sherrod talks about her previous racist behavior.

In the first video, Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from “one of his own kind”. She refers him to a white lawyer.

Sherrod’s racist tale is received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement. Hardly the behavior of the group now holding itself up as the supreme judge of another groups’ racial tolerance.

The second video affirms the real reason there is tension between the Democratic Party and a growing mass of middle Americans — and it’s not because of race.

The NAACP which has transformed from a civil rights group to a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party and social-justice politics, supports a new America that relies less on individualism, entrepreneurialism and American grit, but instead giddily embraces, the un-American notion of unaccountability and government dependence. Shirley Sherrod, a federal appointee who oversees over a billion dollars of federal funds, nearly begs black men and women into taking government jobs at USDA — because they won’t get fired.

Sorry if this seems repetitive; it's the hot topic today and no one's listening. Instead these people are taking the opportunity to demand that Breitbart be taken OFF THE WEB (of course!) and that some repercussion happen to Fox.