The last time there was this much hot political commentary by people who hadn’t actually seen the source material was probably the week that most of us first heard of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. That talk-storm had a lot in common with the media and political pratfall over Shirley Sherrod, the suddenly former mid-level Georgia [...]
Salon’s Joan Walsh wrote about me today, so I figure I would return the courtesy. Walsh and I (along with Jane Hall of American University) appeared on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” with Howard Kurtz Sunday morning, to discuss the Shirley Sherrod story, as well as the “JournoList” story. Things got rocky early on. During Walsh’s opening [...]
Shirley Sherrod mulled her situation this weekend, saying she is unsure whether she wants to return to the Obama administration after she lost her job with Agriculture Department over a misunderstood video — then got offered a new spot along with an apology. A repentant Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilask, the guy who forced her resignation, [...]
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack rushed to judgment when he fired Shirley Sherrod over a misunderstanding about comments she made on race, President Obama told ABC News. “He jumped the gun, partly because we now live in this media culture where something goes up on YouTube or a blog and everybody scrambles,” the president told “Good [...]
An apologetic phone call from Barack Obama and a new (and still unaccepted) job offer from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack should help end the media frenzy over the grotesquely unfair firing of Shirley Sherrod. There still are mysteries, like who doctored the tape that right-wing attack artist Andrew Breitbart ballyhooed to erroneously and maliciously claim [...]
Following a bipartisan outcry over the ouster of USDA regional official Shirley Sherrod, President Obama phoned Sherrod Thursday afternoon to offer his apology. According to a White House press release, the president expressed “his regret about the events of the last several days. He emphasized that Secretary [of Agriculture Tom] Vilsack was sincere in his [...]
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