In response to all of your point number 5:

Breitbart said this wasn't about Sherrod. This paragraph seems to say that it is about her. If it's not about her, anyone should have known that playing the out of context clip would make it about her. If it is about her, the full clip would have done the job. She said plenty of things that show she's too bigotted, black against white, rich against poor, even after her come to Jesus moment. It turns out Sherrod's going to be ok. Her boss at the USDA took the fall for the White House. The NAACP will point to how quickly they had Sherrod fired for being racist against whites and then use that in their false accusations of the Tea Party being racist to make the NAACP look like the good guys who helped get a black racist fired and the Tea Party are the bad guys who won't even tell the white racists to stay home.

The MSM and left will bring this up forever to discredit Breitbart. The good guys never beat the bad guys at the bad guys game. The good guys always beat the bad guys when they stick to honesty because honesty is like the bad guys kryptonite.

" Also, does anyone really believe that Andrew Breitbart would intentionally distort a video clip to make a one-day splash? "
Distort? As in edit? No. Post the clip of the woman's statements out of context? According to the quotes above from Big Government, he was using the left's playbook against them. Doing to the left what the left and MSM does to us was the plan. Two writers at Big Government believe that's exactly what he did.

http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/07/21/breit...
" Breitbart has identified that tactic, and like he did with the ACORN video exposé, he’s used the left’s playbook against them."

The MSM does this kind of thing all of the time, which means they have no room to talk about Breitbart doing the same this once, which is what he was doing according to the two Big Government posts that are quoted above. But what about those of us who have come to rely upon "citizen journalists" because we long ago figured out the MSM sucks? Keep in mind that neither Fox nor some of the conservative blogs that posted the clip, posted the text about Sherrod doing her job for the white farmers, too, and her change of heart. Fox and the other bloggers took Breitbart at face value, neglecting to read the fine print, in a way, and were stung for it, right along with the NAACP. From this moment on, do we need to read Breitbart carefully, from the Big page where it's originally published, checking for disclaimers to avoid being caught up in the "gotcha!"?

"The initial version of the video included Sherrod’s change-of-heart conclusion that she ought to engage in class warfare rather than race warfare. Her subsequent remarks (the ones that were supposedly edited out) simply built on that theme."

When the video got passed around, that text didn't follow. O'Reilly, for one, didn't read that text when he played the clip on his show. Other blogs didn't include that text, either, only the clip.

"MSM critics are pouncing on Breitbart & Co. for “smearing” Sherrod by exploiting out-of-context remarks. As others have noted, many of these same critics were remarkably mute as the ACORN videos were revealed, yet eagerly jumped into the fray to prematurely crucify James O’Keefe when he was arrested in Louisiana."
http://biggovernment.com/laborunionreport/2010/07...

"He just facilitated them getting caught in their own hypocrisy. [Alinsky Power Tactic # 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”]"