As we near the anniversary of the first Beer Summit, maybe it's time for another. Maybe President Obama should sit down with his Ag Secretary and the the woman who -- it appears -- was unfairly fired after a video flap about race. I say they serve Beck's beer.

Because it appears the Obama administration acted harshly and without all the facts -- this time because a story was about to be on Beck!

Shirley Sherrod says she was told to pull over to the side of the road and phone in her resignation. Why? She says she was told by someone high up the Obama's Ag Department that her story was about to run on Glenn Beck. Yes, perhaps the administration's most hated personality on Fox -- and that's saying something! -- that cable outfit that's not really a news operation in the eyes of the administration. But -- gasp! -- they couldn't have a racial controversy aired on Beck!

It turns out, Beck did not air the video that day. And now Beck -- and just about everyone else you hear -- is saying Sherrie Sherrod should get her job back.

The story the Obama administration feared was this edited video of the now former Ag Department employee, who is black, telling an NAACP gathering last March that she didn't help a white farmer as much as should could have in her job 24 years ago.

Now, if all you saw was that edited soundbite from Sherrod, most people would agree she had to go. Even the NAACP said so (even though the group reportedly had Sherrod's unedited speech in its entirety). But Sherrod says that snippet that played on the news was taken out of context. That it was just part of a story Sherrod tells about racial redemption. She said that experience more than two decades ago made her realize her job was to help all people, regardless of race.

But the administration went off half-cocked, firing Sherrod before they had all the facts. Even though we live in this suddenly tense atmosphere with stories about the New Black Panthers and the NAACP and the TEA Party -- with accusations of racism tossed into instant news -- The White House should be able to take a breath, and gather and deliberate all the facts. I mean, did anyone in the administration even bother asking Sherrod for her side of the story?

I'm reminded of a saying: a lie travels halfway around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.

I'm willing to take Shirley Sherrod at her word. That old farmer does. Ag Commissioner Vilsack is now apologizing to her. He's taking the blame, and offering her a new job, reportedly. Here's hoping she takes it. Or this wrong is somehow made right.