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REJECTED! Why Shirley Sherrod Won't Be Going Back to USDA (Anytime Soon)
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 24) -- Looks like erroneously ousted Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod needs more "downtime to reflect" on what she wants to do next. The department's former director of rural development for Georgia today announced she will not be accepting a new, unspecified outreach position offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the wake of last month's bizarre rush-to-judgment slash scandal. To review: That incident entered around a video of Sherrod speaking at an NAACP event about overcoming her prejudice against a white farmer client more than 20 years ago. A heavily ...
Sherrod Not Returning to Ag Department
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 24) -- Shirley Sherrod, ousted from the Agriculture Department during a racial firestorm that embarrassed the Obama administration, rejected an offer to return to the USDA on Tuesday. But at a cordial news conference with the man who asked her to leave - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack - she said she may do consulting work for him on racial issues. She was asked to leave her job as Georgia's director of rural development in July after comments she made in March were misconstrued as racist. She has since received numerous apologies from the administration, including from ...
Why Shirley Sherrod's Case Against Andrew Breitbart Doesn't Look Good
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(July 29) -- Shirley Sherrod announced today at a convention of the National Association of Black Journalists that she planned to sue Andrew Breitbart over the infamous video he posted on his website that led to her eventual firing forced resignation from the USDA. Last week, with speculation over Sherrod's next course of action mounting, Surge Desk spoke to Stephen Solomon, a journalism professor at NYU and a specialist in libel law, only to discover that she might not have much of a case against the conservative impresario after all. 1. First, a disclaimer. The devil is in the details. ...
Mel Gibson as Metaphor for What Ails America
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyOK. Here's my guilty summer confession: I can't get enough of the Mel Gibson scandal. Let me preface this post by saying that I'm hardly one for celebrity gossip. I have no idea who Justin Bieber is. I don't care whether Jennifer Aniston wants kids or not. And despite former Politics Daily colleague Emily Miller's compelling argument for why we should all be taking The National Enquirer more seriously, I can't stomach tabloids. Still, when it comes to the ongoing Mel Gibson saga, I can't look away. And I suspect I'm not alone. And that's because Gibson embodies a whole bunch of different ...
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