Quote:Breitbart posted a video he received from an anonymous source that showed Sherrod speaking at an NAACP civil rights dinner. There she told of the hesitation she had felt decades earlier when a white farmer came to her for help while she was working for a cooperative intended to aid black farmers who were losing their land at a fast rate.

The video, which did not include Sherrod’s remarks in full, made it appear that she did not help the white farmer as much as she could have, through counseling and other assistance, to save his failing farm. Sherrod became an instant lighting rod — painted as a racist African American bureaucrat. The incident served as an example of Breitbart’s ability to polarize.