{"id":7958,"date":"2010-07-21T14:41:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T21:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7958"},"modified":"2010-07-22T13:47:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T20:47:06","slug":"vilsack-wh-apologize-to-sherrod-offer-new-job-now-how-about-those-jobs-lost-at-acorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7958","title":{"rendered":"Vilsack, WH Apologize to Sherrod, Offer New Job; Now How About Those Jobs Lost at ACORN?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vilsack and the White House have issued apologies to Shirley Sherrod and asked her to take a new “unique” job<\/a> at the USDA.<\/p>\n

I must hit the road (heading towards Vegas, where, yes, I plan to stop into Netroots Nation<\/a> for the first time), so can’t offer more details on all of this for now.<\/p>\n

But just one point: The WH seems to have done the right thing in apologizing to Sherrod, and seem to be making good on the one job they cost in inappropriately firing her based on a deceptively edited hoax video tape posted by pathological liar and con-artist<\/a> Andrew Breitbart. Now how about those thousands<\/i> of jobs lost at ACORN, the four-decade old anti-poverty, pro-democracy organization, after the President signed a bill defunding them based on an almost identical, deceptively-edited video tape hoax<\/a> as perpetrated by the same Andrew Breitbart? Do they plan to make that one right as well now? If not, why not?<\/p>\n

See ya from Vegas…<\/i><\/p>\n

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UPDATE:<\/b><\/i> Looks like Joe Conason at Salon has the same thought: “Now reopen Breitbart’s ACORN fraud — and get the story right”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vilsack and the White House have issued apologies to Shirley Sherrod and asked her to take a new “unique” job at the USDA. I must hit the road (heading towards Vegas, where, yes, I plan to stop into Netroots Nation for the first time), so can’t offer more details on all of this for now. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,393,448,239,188],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-acorn","category-andrew-breitbart","category-barack-obama","category-mainstream-media-failure","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7958"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}