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Jumping the gun slamming, misleading, and making shirley sherrod look like a cold-blooded racist on national TV, then passing the blame for their own screw ups and smear campaign when they are proven wrong! Fox news and the people that follow this far right wing trash should be ashamed,...
And yes right wingers, MSNBC IS fair and balanced. Olbermann lays the hammer down on Obama and for good reason,..
Interesting thing about Sherrod... her appointment to that USDA position was preceded a few days earlier by a multi-million dollar settlement she won in the minority farmers law suit (Pigford vs Vilsack). Shirley Sherrod named Georgia Director of Rural Development
Agri-Pulse has an article indicating that the Pigford class action suit (minority farmers throughout the U.S.) may share similarities to ACORN-like tactics...
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...confronted with the skyrocketing federal deficit, more officials are taking a critical look at the billion dollars spent thus far and wondering when these discrimination cases will ever end. Already, the number of people who have been paid and are still seeking payment will likely exceed the 26,785 black farmers who were considered to even be operating back in 1997, according to USDA. That’s the year the case initially began as Pigford v. (then Agriculture Secretary) Glickman and sources predicted that, at most, 3,000 might qualify.
...many more appear to have been solicited in an attempt to “game” the Pigford system. For example, our source said a large number of late filers had similar zip codes in large Ohio cities, suggesting a door to door effort might have taken place to find likely candidates. Last summer, Agri-Pulse attempted to verify these allegations. We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, asking USDA to provide the names and locations of those individuals who had received payments under all of the Pigford cases, both Track A and Track B, including the late filers. However, unlike the farm program payment data released by USDA and published by the Environmental Working Group on their website, the agency denied access to the Pigford information, citing an “unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”
...To help document improvements in civil rights cases within USDA, Agri-Pulse filed another FOIA on July 2, 2009, requesting additional information on the number of minorities employed in the agency and civil rights cases filed from 1997 to present. Agency staff acknowledged receipt of our request, but almost 11 months later,no formal response has been received.
Jumping the gun slamming, misleading, and making shirley sherrod look like a cold-blooded racist on national TV, then passing the blame for their own screw ups and smear campaign when they are proven wrong! Fox news and the people that follow this far right wing trash should be ashamed,...
Wait.. Obama fires the lady, Fox News reports on the firing, and somehow its Foxs fault..
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Originally Posted by TempesT68
And yes right wingers, MSNBC IS fair and balanced. Olbermann lays the hammer down on Obama and for good reason,..
Ahh yeah.. MSNBC also reported on the firing, but I dont see you slamming them as well..
She quit before Fox aired it. Yet some how in some minds Fox is to blame for her quitting before they even air it << That is shameful
No she didn't. O'Reilly was all over the story before he checked for facts. This all happened before she resigned. He apologized for it. Whatever.
Anyway, I usually don't watch Olbermann. But he hit the nail on the head in regards to Obama. BO wants to be a great peace maker. But he needs to understand the GOP has declared war and he needs to become a warrior for those who voted for him. He is scared of the GOP and the conservative media. Because of the admin's fear, an innocent and honorable woman lost her job. That's pathetic in my book. I understand he has good intentions, but he needs to fight! Screw the GOP and right wing media! Suck it up and get tough Obama!
No she didn't. O'Reilly was all over the story before he checked for facts. This all happened before she resigned. He apologized for it. Whatever.
Anyway, I usually don't watch Olbermann. But he hit the nail on the head in regards to Obama. BO wants to be a great peace maker. But he needs to understand the GOP has declared war and he needs to become a warrior for those who voted for him. He is scared of the GOP and the conservative media. Because of the admin's fear, an innocent and honorable woman lost her job. That's pathetic in my book. I understand he has good intentions, but he needs to fight! Screw the GOP and right wing media! Suck it up and get tough Obama!
That's a great post. Keith is 100% correct.
Obama, for whatever reason, has refused to stand up to the Republican party and the RW media...
Now, the Administration is taking it's cues from Faux News.
What in the heck is going on here? This isn't the man I voted for.
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