Vilsack and the White House have issued apologies to Shirley Sherrod and asked her to take a new “unique” job at the USDA.
I must hit the road (heading towards Vegas, where, yes, I plan to stop into Netroots Nation for the first time), so can’t offer more details on all of this for now.
But just one point: The WH seems to have done the right thing in apologizing to Sherrod, and seem to be making good on the one job they cost in inappropriately firing her based on a deceptively edited hoax video tape posted by pathological liar and con-artist Andrew Breitbart. Now how about those thousands of jobs lost at ACORN, the four-decade old anti-poverty, pro-democracy organization, after the President signed a bill defunding them based on an almost identical, deceptively-edited video tape hoax as perpetrated by the same Andrew Breitbart? Do they plan to make that one right as well now? If not, why not?
See ya from Vegas…
UPDATE: Looks like Joe Conason at Salon has the same thought: “Now reopen Breitbart’s ACORN fraud — and get the story right”
Vilsack should be fired. His judgement is lousy.
I don’t understand why the president himself didn’t apologize. How does it hurt Obama to apologize to this woman he wronged? Is he afraid FOX will rip him for being too nice to black people?
And let’s not forget the apologies owed to Van Jones and Rev. Wright.
This is a problem that permeates federal government. Because there are so many rules and papework which is very time consuming, most sueprvisor’s just promote the losers up and out to another job either in same agency or another. Pretty soon they are running the place with no idea what the agency is or the history. There has been a rash over the past few years of hiring young unexperienced people with lots of degrees lacking common sense or logic. Majority of them would never dream of asking someone below their paygrade for information or knowledge that has been acquired over years of service. So you have a bunch of degreed SES’s running everything with no practical knowledge.
Ernest A Canning.
……and also not forget the apolgies owed toHelen Thomas
When they say they’re “sorry” they couldn’t possibly find a more fitting adjective for their fat selves
as we are all distracted and brad is busy traveling..yesterday it was announced that the doj had finished its investigation into “attorneygate” and while they found that the firings were political,they were not criminal…while many in the election integrity community have focused on the firings to interfere with elections i personally thought the firing of carol lam was the big story
she had indicted and convicted several low level repubs along with duke cunningham,and wade the contractor(a contractor that got his first govt contract with cheney,for office furniture to the tune of $140 grande the same price as cunninghams yacht) but it was when she served a warrant on dusty foggo(the number 3 cia dude) that her name was added to the list of firees…what i am trying to say here in my rambling way is..we lost a big one yesterday…when peops ask..we are so far gone what can we do to get our country back..tell em we could rehire LAM and let her do her job
Speaking of this fiasco and the “pathological liar and con-artist Andrew Breitbart”, check out what Bretibart said back in May at the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Foundation benefit. “BREITBART: I just like doing things that are wrong, feeling like I can get in trouble.” There’s even video of this. If you wish to see this go to the Crooks and Liars website.
Oh. My. God.
This is getting good:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/07/shirley_sherrod_blasts_fox_new.html
What a firecracker!