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Official: No White House pressure on (Shirley) Sherrod
Politico ^ | 7/20/2010 | Ben Smith

Posted on 07/20/2010 2:54:54 PM PDT by Qbert

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this afternoon took responsibility for firing an official, Shirley Sherrod, whose appearance on video recalling her behavior toward a white farmer drew charges of racism, and whose immediate firing drew suggestions that the administration had over-reacted to an edited video clip.

A White House official told me just now that the White House backs Vilsack's decision -- but that it was Vilsack's alone. The official said the White House -- contrary to the Sherrod's charge -- did not pressure the Department to fire her.

Vilsack's statement:

Yesterday, I asked for and accepted Ms. Sherrod’s resignation for two reasons. First, for the past 18 months, we have been working to turn the page on the sordid civil rights record at USDA and this controversy could make it more difficult to move forward on correcting injustices. Second, state rural development directors make many decisions and are often called to use their discretion. The controversy surrounding her comments would create situations where her decisions, rightly or wrongly, would be called into question making it difficult for her to bring jobs to Georgia.

Our policy is clear. There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA and we strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person. We have a duty to ensure that when we provide services to the American people we do so in an equitable manner. But equally important is our duty to instill confidence in the American people that we are fair service providers.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndstringer; barackhole; benchsitterbarry; democrats; government; haters; liberals; mentaldisorder; naacp; obama; racism; sherrod; socialism; usda; whitehouse
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To: Qbert

The buck never reaches Obama.


21 posted on 07/20/2010 3:06:19 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Qbert

Sherrod, under the bus.

Vilsack, time to get under the bus.

All of them go under the bus for Hussein their Saviour.


22 posted on 07/20/2010 3:08:07 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Qbert

Sordid civil rights record? Vilsak have any examples of that?


23 posted on 07/20/2010 3:08:40 PM PDT by linn37 ( "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Qbert

The Buck never got to Bozo.


24 posted on 07/20/2010 3:09:16 PM PDT by boomop1
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To: steelyourfaith
Isn't it curious how this administration is continually claiming people are liars?

People, especially democrats, always accuse others of what they are guilty of.

25 posted on 07/20/2010 3:11:08 PM PDT by thirst4truth (The left elected a mouth that is unattached to an eye, brain or muscle.)
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To: Qbert

Pretty crappy job of vetting her. another epic fail courtesy of the Obama Regime.


26 posted on 07/20/2010 3:12:46 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: thirst4truth

“Sordid civil rights record? Vilsak have any examples of that?”

Yes, the mass exodus of our primarily white male institutional knowledge base due to rampant reverse discrimination for the sake of hiring unqualified non-whites to GS-15 and SES positions where they use hand calculators to manually add columns on excel spreadsheets.


27 posted on 07/20/2010 3:16:36 PM PDT by chambley1
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To: Qbert

They said Jon Kyl was a liar too, remember?


28 posted on 07/20/2010 3:20:12 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: Qbert

I’ll take the word of a low-level bureaucrat over one of Zero’s cronies any day.


29 posted on 07/20/2010 3:23:46 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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To: Qbert

Nope, it’s just what they redefine the word “pressure” the Chicago way. The poor woman was not “pressured” in that sense.


30 posted on 07/20/2010 3:25:38 PM PDT by alecqss
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To: Parley Baer
The buck never reaches Obama.

And when it reaches, it's not the buck that Obama knew...
31 posted on 07/20/2010 3:28:16 PM PDT by alecqss
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To: Qbert
Official: No White House pressure on (Shirley) Sherrod

So I see the number of things done right by Zero is back to zero.

32 posted on 07/20/2010 3:29:12 PM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
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To: Qbert

0bama is calling Sherrod a liar? I hope she sees what racial loyalty gets you and slaps the Man-Child upside his haid.


33 posted on 07/20/2010 3:32:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (Greenhouse Theory is false. Totally debunked. "GH gases" is a non-sequitur.)
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To: NoGrayZone

I don’t usually watch Beck, but I did today. He’s spot on with his analysis of this. She isn’t as much of a racist as a Maoist, and fits right in with the Obama crew. She got smacked to deflect the blowback from the NAALCP resolution against the Tea Party.

What bugged me more than not helping the farmer as much as she could have because he was white, was the part about putting him with “his kind.”


34 posted on 07/20/2010 3:32:50 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
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To: Qbert
Watch out Ben, have you really done all you could for the Obama administration? Tomorrow they may want to say they did fire a racist thug.
And if they picked you for this story then they're planning on throwing you under the bus so-to-speak...
35 posted on 07/20/2010 3:43:42 PM PDT by mrsmith
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To: Cyber Liberty

It’s hard for me to say which part of her behavior was most disgusting, but I think the part about having a difficult time deciding to help someone based on their race, and then, doing it because, she says, he would have to go back to the Dept. of Ag and tell them she helped him. This is not being widely discussed, but she clearly says it’s why she DID ANYTHING for this farmer. Only because she wants him to go back and say she did something for him. Even so, she doesn’t do as much as she could.


36 posted on 07/20/2010 3:44:11 PM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Qbert

Glenn Beck turned this entire situation around on the White House. It was genius. He made them look like idiots. Thank you Glenn!!!


37 posted on 07/20/2010 3:45:13 PM PDT by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona)
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To: Nasher

The all blatantly lie and frankly don’t care.


38 posted on 07/20/2010 3:47:11 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: OrangeHoof

I missed that story. Link?


39 posted on 07/20/2010 3:51:26 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: Qbert

Might want to give this video a gander. Mike Fleming the white man is the former WREC 600 AM afternoon talk host, seems to think that the dem commentator is making anti semitic remarks. This concerns the US 9th District TN race.

http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/politics/local_politics/071910-fox13-insiders-on-9th-district-race


40 posted on 07/20/2010 3:53:11 PM PDT by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, retired Military, disabled & Seniors)
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