Is This a Teachable Moment on Race?

Is This a Teachable Moment on Race?

When a story is too good to be true, it probably is.

It is safe to say that conservative gadfly Andrew Breitbart -- whose notoriety exploded after helping expose ACORN's tax-assistance-for-hookers program -- ignored this journalistic truism when he rushed to release tapes of a speech by Shirley Sherrod.

Yet faster than an administrative assistant in the Ag department could type the words "we are in the midst of conducting an internal investigation," the administration canned Sherrod in what is, no doubt, a particularly terrible time for the White House to be embroiled in any sort of scandal.

Whatever the sins of the participating...