It may feel like the 1990s, what with a potential imminent GOP takeover of Congress and Dinesh D'Souza pushing pseudo-intellectual racism in newspaper op-ed pages, but the internal administration e-mails detailing the firing of smeared USDA official Shirley Sherrod prove it's still 2010:
The e-mails, some of which were redacted by the Agriculture Department, do not show whether the White House ordered the dismissal, long a point of speculation. Sherrod has said that when department Deputy Undersecretary Cheryl Cook called and asked her to resign, Cook told her the White House wanted her out, but USDA and White House officials have said the decision was made within the agency.
However, the e-mails suggest the White House was watching with interest. "Just wanted you to know that this dismissal came up at our morning senior staff meeting today," Christopher Lu, who serves as Obama's liaison to the Cabinet, wrote to top Agriculture officials early July 20, the morning after Sherrod was ousted. "Everyone complimented USDA on how quickly you took this action," he wrote, adding that it would stop an "unpleasant story" from getting "traction." "Thanks for the great efforts."
Within the USDA, the messages show, government officials had moved at breakneck pace to try to beat the news cycle, leaving little time to ask questions, seek legal advice or consider Sherrod's side of the story.
Of course, nothing proves how much the Obama administration hates white people than its willingness to fire a black employee based on rash speculation and crippling fear that Fox News would use her as an example of how the Obama administration hates white people. Clearly, their race-based confiscatory agenda knows no limits.
