we need better, brighter folks in d.c. people who will get all the facts before a knee-jerk reaction. maybe vilsack should be resigning?
the naacp needs to do some house cleaning as well. they jumped in without checking all of it out too.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...rss=rss_nation
"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," Vilsack said in a statement.
But in Sherrod's account, her firing was driven more by the exigencies of the news cycle -- and the administration's fear of conservative wrath. She said she was "harassed" to quit by USDA Deputy Undersecretary Cheryl Cook, who told her to "do it, because you're going to be on 'Glenn Beck' tonight." Sherrod added: "The administration was not interested in hearing the truth."
A video of the full speech -- which runs more than 45 minutes -- shows that Sherrod was trying to make a very different point from the one her critics saw in her inelegantly worded account of the episode with farmer Roger Spooner. An examination of her own prejudice, she said, taught her that "there is no difference between us."
"The only difference is the folks with money want to stay in power. It's always about money, y'all," she said. "God helped me to see that it's not just about black people. It's about poor people. I've come a long way."
Ultimately, she did help the farmer -- and on Tuesday, his family was among those who came to her defense. "She's a good friend. She helped us save our farm," Spooner's wife, Eloise, told CNN. "She's the one I give credit for helping us save our farm."
Sherrod laid some of the blame on the organization that had sponsored her speech. The NAACP, she told CNN, is "the reason this happened. They got into a fight with the tea party, and this all came out as a result of it."