After the Breitbart ACORN scam you would think Democrats might be suspicious of highly edited video footage that is fed to Fox News. The initial reaction by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to the edited Breitbart video was to force the resignation of Shirley Sherrod so the administration could avoid any problems with the right wing noise machine. It would be encouraging to see Vilsack change course, following a review of the entire story - not the edited version - and re-hire Sherrod. Why is it so often difficult for this administration to work with friends and appease its enemies?
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Wednesday he will reconsider the department's decision to oust a black employee over racially tinged remarks after learning more about what she said.Here's a bit more background by TPM on the story following Sherrod's firing.
Vilsack issued a short statement early Wednesday morning after Shirley Sherrod, who until Tuesday was the Agriculture Department's director of rural development in Georgia, said she was pressured to resign because of her comments that she didn't give a white farmer as much help as she could have 24 years ago.
Sherrod said her remarks, delivered in March at a local NAACP banquet in Georgia, were part of a larger story about learning from her mistakes and racial reconciliation, not racism, and they were taken out of context by a blogger who posted only part of her speech.
Vilsack's statement came after the NAACP posted the full video of Sherrod's comments Tuesday night.
