Next season, Saturday Night Live (SNL) will have to do a skit about the Shirley Sherrod story. Sherrod was fired by the Obama Administration on Monday from her position as Georgia State Director for the United State Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development after a video surfaced of her saying she did not do all she could for a white farmer. Sherrod is black. She was speaking at a NAACP Banquet. The video had been edited and Sherrod was really talking about reconciliation and what she learned 24 years ago.

SNL will have a lot of material just by watching Wednesday’s White House Press briefing. If that is not enough, all they will need is a copy of USDA’s Secretary Tom Vilsack’s press briefing a couple of hours later. They can also find some funny lines just by watching Fox News coverage of the incident. Continue reading →