Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R), former Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, and Reverend Jesse Jackson joined Fox News Sunday to discuss the fallout over the forced resignation of Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod. On Monday Sherrod was forced to quit her job at the Department of Agriculture because the Obama administration had mistakenly thought that she had made racist comments during a March 27 speech in Douglas, Georgia. An edited portion of the speech was posted on the internet, which took Ms. Sherrods comments out of context. The debate over the firing was put to Mr. Gingrich, who commented on the matter on Monday night before Ms. Sherrods full comments were known. He defended himself by saying, I was operating in the context of the secretary of agriculture having summarily fired her, and therefore there was no reason to disbelieve the clip. Howard Dean, the former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, weighed in on the medias coverage of the story, particularly Fox News. I think Fox News did something that was absolutely racist. However, Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace was quick to correct Dean and pointed out that Sherrods name had never even been mentioned on Fox News Channel until after she was fired. Dean then broadened his argument by addressing the current state of race in America. The former Vermont Governor said, Theres been this ongoing theme about black racism in America... But I think continuing to cater to this theme of minority racism and stressing comments like this, some of which are taken out of context, does not help the country knit itself together. On how the White House handled the Sherrod case, Gingrich said that this was just, one more example of the Obama administration's continuing incompetence. The former Speaker raised the question of whether the White Houses effort to be one step ahead of the media in this instance might foreshadow other future decisions. If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians? In the following segment, the Reverend Jesse Jackson was asked about why he thought the Obama Administration made such a rush to judgment. Jackson responded, If you are about to be hit by an avalanche of news media criticism and you feel you have no moral foundation, there's a tendency to buckle. Now, the reality is that Shirley Sherrod was denied due process. The White House was wrong.