Salon: "Vilsack might be a hack and definitely is a coward"

[Enrique]

http://www.salon.com/news/andrew_breitbart/?story=/politics/war_room/2010/07/21/vilsack_disgrace

In the wake of the grievously unjust firing of Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, it’s clear that agency head Tom Vilsack might be a hack, and he’s definitely a coward.

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Vilsack's contorted reasoning and the stench of unfairness around the whole fiasco guarantee that Vilsack will face a fusillade of criticism in the coming days. And justly so. He deserves scorn and more for being goaded into an irresponsibly hasty decision based on intellectually dishonest reasoning and incomplete facts. Breitbart’s blatantly flimsy (and demonstrably false) allegation of racism is another example of the right’s obsession, increasingly intense, with bias against whites.

But it’s also an unseemly example of Democratic panic in response to scurrilous racial allegations. It's Breitbart's role as an agitator to try and make trouble (this is, after all, the guy whose biggest mission is to prove that John Lewis wasn't on the receiving end of racial epithets during the healthcare debates). It's the Obama administration's duty, though, to respond surgically to these attacks, not hack off a non-gangrenous limb. Vilsack's willingness to be led by the nose by the most craven parts of the Republican base doesn't speak well to his leadership skills, and his simultaneous slander of a subordinate says even worse.

If someone from the USDA needed to be excused from the USDA, it wasn't Shirely Sherrod.

[theoldman]

1. When in doubt, check it out.

[formercia]

3. ..and throw in a little fair and due process.....

..after all, this is the United States of America, not Iran.


..at least they didn't stone her.

New name: Vilesack.

[MrsBrady]

2. when they KNOW that Breitbard and Fox are FOS...

why, why, why would they not check it out first....

it makes NO sense. :banghead:

[niyad]

4. k and r--actually, I think they were being generous in their assessment of this person.

there are a few more names I can think of to describe his craven, cowardly, intellectually dishonest actions.

[Fire1]

5. Enrique, I must say, THAT WAS DEAD ON POINT!!!! n/t

[MissMarple]

6. Craven knave. His actions defy understanding, unless he has nefarious motives.

[ladjf]

7. and he appears to be a bit on the dumb side as well. nt

[frylock]

8. knr