Leeann Tweeden's questionable claims.

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17. They did it to Shirley Sherrod for the same reason.

On July 19, 2010, Shirley Sherrod was fired from her appointed position as Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture.[1][2] Her firing was an administration reaction to media reports on video excerpts from her address to an event of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in March 2010 and commentary posted by conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart on his website.[3] Based on these excerpts, the NAACP condemned Sherrod's remarks as racist and US government officials called on the official to resign. However, review of her full speech showed that the excerpts had been selectively edited, and that her remarks – understood in context – were about the importance of overcoming personal prejudices.

The NAACP and White House officials then apologized for their earlier criticisms, and United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack apologized for the firing and offered Sherrod a new position.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firing_of_Shirley_Sherrod

In today's atmosphere nobodies going to apologize to Senator Franken, nobodies going to offer him a new position and a good man who could have had a very long progressive legislative career, will have had his life ruined.