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You'd think this now former government official would get this treatment under a Republican administration, but no: This poor woman gets forced out by a so-called Democratic one.

This case is REALLY stupid:

Shirley Sherrod, the former Georgia director of Rural Development, said she received a phone call from the USDA's deputy undersecretary Cheryl Cook on Monday while she was in a car. Cook told her that the White House wanted her to call it quits.

"They called me twice," Sherrod told the Associated Press. "The last time they asked me to pull over the side of the road and submit my resignation on my Blackberry, and that's what I did."

The controversy began after several media organizations posted a 38-second video clip of Sherrod speaking to a local Georgia chapter of the NAACP. She tells the group that she did not give a white farmer "the full force of what I could do" after he asked for assistance.

It is ridiculous and despicable what the Obama administration did to her. But not surprising when this administration goes out of its way to "court" the right, a segment of the population which wouldn't deign to have anything to do with it.

Glenn Greenwald has an excellent piece about this despicable episode.

Sherrod should get some kind of medal for enduring this garbage.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack plays the fall guy in this debacle and says he's sorry and Sherrod has a job if she wants it:

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If it is definitively proven Lance Armstrong has cheated all those years while competing in the Tour de France, it will be the biggest fall from grace of any athlete in history.

And evidence is growing that he did, but it won't be long before the whole truth gets out there.
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