Tom Vilsack is stupid AND stubborn

It is quite a combo when the Secretary of Agriculture is stupid and stubborn.

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He jumped the gun and quickly fired Shirely Sherrod for a comment taken out of context when the full context proved exactly the opposite. Okay - maybe too fast in order to take race out of question with regards to a African-American President.

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However, when it was shown that the tape was artificially edited so she seemed to say the opposite of her point, he said that he wasn't going to change his mind.

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His tiny tiny little mind.

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from an opinion from Joan Walsh (Salon):

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Today a big Breitbart "scoop" blew up in his angry face, when it was shown that the Big Journalism proprietor selectively edited a clip of an African-American USDA official seeming to admit she treated a white farmer poorly out of her own racial bias. It turns out that Shirley Sherrod was actually telling the story to show how the issue of race often obscures the issue of class, and the fact that poor black farmers and poor white farmers had a lot in common (eventually, she helped and became close to the white farmer and his family) — but Breitbart left all of that out of the video (just as he selectively and unfairly edited his cartoonish ACORN tapes).

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Unbelievably, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack fired Sherrod based on Breitbart's creative editing, which left out Sherrod's real point (and in fact, accused her of making the opposite point) and also made it seem as though she was talking about something she did while working for the USDA, when the experience in question took place 24 years ago, when she worked for a nonprofit. If Vilsack doesn't hire Sherrod back, I will personally contribute to her legal fund.

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I get making a mistake - but be a big enough man to admit you were duped by a right wing hack.