[quote name='Knoell']As opposed to doing it for political reasons. He didn't really fall for the video and think she was a racist, but he believed the administration was going to get bad press for it so he had a knee jerk reaction that ended up kicking him in the ass.
If he did it innocently, he would have truely thought she was racist and thought that she ought to be fired.[/quote]
I don't see any evidence that points to that conclusion. By the actions of the administration, I don't see how it becomes in any way obvious that Obama or Vilsack or whoever looks at this situation and says "it's an issue, make it go away". In fact I see the opposite. I see "holy shit balls, we've got a racist acting on their beliefs. Shit can her ass and batten down the hatches".
But I sure hope the Presidents administration does a little more research than listening to bias media before taking action against someone or something.
I think much more highly of myself than I should because I'm a slobbering liberal douche bag. I was duped. I saw the video and thought OMG racist. I think a reasonable person would think the same thing. I made the mistake of believing that Breitbart would do due diligence before dropping something like that. I believed it because he was crowing about the video days before its release. In real time you're now faced with the choice: either you believe you have a racist working for the government (impossible? shit no) along with video which appears to directly support that (released by an organization that has only to gain by doing so), or you believe that Breitbart is intentionally lying by omission and in doing so is willing to not only completely
ing destroy some random individual, but moves him into the category of people who are destroyed themselves when it comes out that they are liars (remember Dan Rather?).
Now this may be all Vilsacks fault or not, thats the job of the people surrounding Obama, to distance him from political fallout so we will never know. The fact that the order came from so high up, and since Vilsack couldn't blame it on anyone under him, scares me that it went so high up.
First off, you should lay off the hyperventilation pills. Four days ago you couldn't even name the head of the Ag dept. This isn't Vince Foster. OMG OMG OMG THE HEAD OF AG THAT I DONT EVEN KNOW BY NAME OVERREACTED.
It seems to me the hedge is against Obama or Vilsack (which is Obama ultimately, since he works for him) for not doing their own due diligence. Sure. I'm down with that. Dumb shit thing to do. Glad they're trying to make it right with the person they dicked over.
Sooooo, at what point do we talk about the organization and reporters that were the ones doing the ACTUAL lying? Or the people who also picked up and ran the story without due diligence? Do they walk? How weird is it that your beef isn't with the people that ACTUALLY lied, but those that would dare to believe a liar? And what is the lesson to be learned? Breitbart is a goddamn liar willing to burn random people at the stake and we should all just get used to it?
Anyways, Breitbart's words:
We are in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail, that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions.
That last sentence is 100% fabrication. Not a word of the allegation is actually true. Not one word. Has he retracted or apologized, now that he knows the video is a hack job? Of course not.
"I feel bad that they made this about her, and I feel sorry that they made this about her," he told MSNBC. "Watching how they've misconstrued, how the media has misconstrued the intention behind this, I do feel a sympathy for her plight."
They. Sociopath much?
What part of your link supports the idea that it was politics that lead to the firing? I see absolutely nothing that supports your hypothesis in the link. Obama was told that it happened Tuesday morning. Um, ok?
