Obama: Ag Sec Tom Vilsack "Jumped The Gun" On Firing Shirley Sherrod

ABC News: "He jumped the gun, partly because we now live in this media culture where something goes up on YouTube or a blog and everybody scrambles," President Obama said.

If there's a lesson to be drawn from this episode, it's that rather than us jumping to conclusions and pointing fingers at each other, we should all look inward and try to examine what's in our own hearts and, as a consequence, I think we will continue to make progress,” he said.