Friday, July 23, 2010

Robert Gibbs Blew it With the Shirley Sherrod Saga

You've used circular logic to refute my point while providing an ersatz agreement.



Yes, the problem was a setup. A setup staged by a known dirty tricks repug operator.



HOWEVER, Vilsack FELL for the setup - hook, line, and sinker. The setup is bad. But walking straight into the obvious trap is worse.



For that, he's demonstrated a spectacular lack of sound judgment. You can't ignore that. And if it was an underling who fed him this information, then he's demonstrated poor judgment in hiring advisers to help him 'root out racism in the DOA' (don't have the link, but saw quote on HuffPo attributed to Vilsack to that effect). If you're fishing for racists, then you better have ALL your facts - double and triple-checked! He has no excuse.



My suggestion for lowering the boom on faux news does just what you seem to promote - a platform to debate and discuss the poor excuse for "news reporting" that we get on these w.retched networks. And Obama decided to take a pass on challenging this establishment, so my umbrage with the President isn't incongruent with yours - I just choose to take him to task on his decision to not lead on this topic.



I'll only compromise this far - Vilsack should resign, not be fired.
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