On CNN Newsroom with Tony Harris, Shirley Sherrod, the former USDA official who was the subject of a virtual lynch mob ignited by Andrew Breitbart, spoke for 15 minutes. She addressed why she did not accept the offers to return either to her old job at the Department of Agriculture or to a new position. Show More Summary
As the controversy over Shirley Sherrod's ouster grew last month, Secretary Tom Vilsack told President Obama that he was willing to resign from the Department of Agriculture. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Fox News' Kristin Brown reports:Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack reportedly said that he offered to resign over the department's handling of former employee Shirley Sherrod - furthering Vilsack's insistence that the blame lies with...Show More Summary
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Shirley Sherrod has declined a job offer from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. (CNN) – Former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod insists that the White House was behind the rush decision in July to ask her to resign after a conservative web publisher released an edited video clip that seemed to show her recounting racist behavior on [...]
The theater of the Sherrods continues.
Earlier today, Shirley Sherrod, who, according to the current version of ruling class wisdom, was prematurely evacuated from the USDA by Director Tom Vilsack, decided not to accept an offer to return...Show More Summary
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Fired USDA official Shirley Sherrod has turned down Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's offer of another job. However, she doesn't rule out helping the department in the future. More »
This post first appeared on Shakesville. Shirley Sherrod has turned down a job offer from the Agriculture Department, after being forced to resign in July on the basis of Andrew Breitbart’s doctored video. [Sherrod] declined an offer Tuesday to serve as the agency’s deputy director of the Office of Advocacy and Outreach. [...]
Mysteriously acquitted of racism despite advocating treating whites differently from blacks, she now wants to work on — you guessed it — racial issues: She said she needs to “take a break” from the events of the past few weeks, but looks forward to “some type of relationship with the department in the future.” “We need to [...]
Shirley Sherrod Photo Credit: CBSAfter two hours of meeting today, Tom Vilsack, the Secretary of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Shirley Sherrod, the former USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development held a press conference. During the press conference, Sherrod, who was wrongly accused of racism and forced to resign discussed the UDSA's offer for [...]Show More Summary
In July radical Shirley Sherrod was fired by the Obama Administration after clips from a racist speech she gave were revealed to the public. After her firing the state-run media quickly declared her innocence despite the fact that the speech in question was loaded with racist attacks against whitey and numerous attacks against Republicans. The [...]
Former USDA official Shirley Sherrod has declined an offer from agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack to take another job with the department, but says she wants to see the work she started continue.
“I just don’t think at this point with all that has happened” that it is possible to continue working at the department. Show More Summary
Shirley Sherrod said Tuesday that Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack had pressed hard for her to return to the department.
Shirley Sherrod has turned down a job offer from the Agriculture Department, after being forced to resign in July on the basis of Andrew Breitbart's doctored video. [Sherrod] declined an offer Tuesday to serve as the agency's deputy director of the Office of Advocacy and Outreach. Show More Summary
First they were together, then they had a bad breakup, then they talked about getting back together again, and now, Shirley Sherrod, in declining the offer of a new job, says she needs a break from the USDA. Coincidentally, this is exactly the relationship arc of Sammi and Ronnie on Jersey Shore. [Fox]
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Former USDA official Shirley Sherrod, whom the government inappropriately fired last month for appearing to make (but not actually making) racist remarks in a heavily edited speech clip, has turned down the USDA pity-job offered to her following the scandal. More »
Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Dept. official who was ousted after Andrew Breitbart posted an incomplete video clip of her speech to the NAACP, has declined Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack's offer of a new position at the department. Show More Summary