Rachel is calling out the Obama administration for acting too quickly (and just

relying on Fox news for input) regarding Van Jones, Acorn and Sherrod. She's right. The NAACP has admitted they rushed to judgment and overreacted without knowing the entire story and apologized, I hope the administration will do the same.

The brightest light on TV today; her show makes having a TV worth while.

For her

The rest can't even touch her...

I have gotten to the point where Rachel is the only show I watch on MSNBC. I am tired of Keith's show. Rachel rules!

Your post does her great reporting a disservice - sorry to say. This goes far beyond the administration being snookered. You probably realize that now if you've been watching Rachel's continuing coverage. This is a stunning episode demonstrating exactly why Faux "News" cannot be used as a news source ever again.

thank you Rachel.

Now THAT's GREAT REPORTING!

Rachel. She always brings clarity.

:hifive:

I'm baffled as to why others haven't caught up, especially the NAACP!

They felt like they had to make a statement on this and did it without fully investigating.

and will make an official statement once done. I understand the 24/7 news cycle, but this is RIDICULOUS. Did they learn nothing from Van Jones and ACORN?

The NAACP has asked him to reinstate her. From their statement:



I posted the full statement Here

He can make it right now. We'll see what happens.

...but they initially made it easy for Vilsac to pull the trigger (my point).

Of course now that he knows the truth he better fucking reinstate her post haste - I don't want to here any fucking political 'calculations' from him.

because of the controversy. You may be right about the NAACP, they share the blame, but they have apologized and tried to set the record straight. Vilsack, otoh, even though he now has the facts, thinks that she should not be rehired anyhow 'because of the controversy'. She had nothing to do with the controversy. He and the NAACP are responsible for not checking the source and jumping to conclusions.

I hope someone sets HIM straight now, or it is he who will not be able to do his job as he will have lost whatever credibility he has.

I'll also be angry with Obama if he doesn't put his foot down and fix this tomorrow. I expect he will, but as is typical with Obama, he will not be forced into making a hasty decision.

to reinstate her.

posted it at the very beginning of her segment, before she got into the meat of it. :)

You're right about Fox - and that came across loud and clear.

'Cause that sort of trifling, half-assed stuff doesn't sound like the kind of thing that Rachel is famous for.

could tune in. The reason I said it that way was because Rachel is the only one covering this who even mentioned that this isn't the first time the WH has fallen for Fox's crap. I'm the one who's trifling and half-assed. Not Rachel.

Great reporting - yes - 'calling out the administration' - ummm, that would be a bit of personal opining stuck in there. The real culprits here are Fox "News", Andrew Breitbart, the NAACP & Vilsac. The WH had no direct involvement in this as far as I can tell.

I can totally understand why some would be incensed by this.

"Point of Clarification
David Kurtz | July 20, 2010, 5:11PM

There's been some confusion today over one aspect of this Breitbart/USDA story that I want to try to clear up.

Shirley Sherrod, the USDA official forced out, did an on camera interview with CNN at midday. In the interview, Sherrod described the pressure she came under yesterday from within the USDA to resign her post in light of the Breitbart video. Shortly after that, the Washington Post had a write-up of the interview in which they quote Sherrod as saying, "I got three calls from the White House. At one point they asked me to pull over to the side of the road and do it because you are going to be on Glenn Beck tonight."

Now that purported declaration -- that she got three calls from the White House demanding her resignation -- seems off to anyone who follows these things. Sherrod is a low-level official. The White House wouldn't need to get involved so directly and rarely ever wants to. Why get involved directly in a mess that you can leave to a cabinet department to handle? So if Sherrod's account of what happened yesterday is off, then how reliable is her account of the speech she gave back in March?

But here's the thing: We can't find any evidence she actually said that, either in the video or in CNN's transcript. What she did say, our review of the video shows, was: "I had at least three calls telling me the White House wanted me to resign."

That's very, very different.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/07/point_of_clarification_1.php?ref=fpblg

Because if the white house did pressure the USDA, we have a problem with the wh staff

by Vilsack.

I was just trying to get the point across that Rachel was presenting the previous instances in which the administration/government/WH rushed to judgment.

I swear, I'm never going to post a thread again. Others can express themselves more clearly, so I'll leave it up to them.

...it's as good a place as any to thrash this issue out - I don't see too much conflict here. :hug:

Do not give up posting OPs. We don't let message control control us. ;)

...then 'blaming' the WH for overacting and firing someone who may have been railroaded.

NEITHER statement from FAUX was true!!

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If they can make a person of color "appear" to have made a racist statement, then that person's White House career is over. They are the new Klan. Their editors are the new lynch mob.

to see how this admin. handles making an appropriate apology, when one is obviously due.

It goes without saying that the last admin. never apologized for anything.

Really, this is so bad, that Pres. Obama and Sec. Vilsack should both publicly apologize to Ms. Sherrod and re-instate her.

Period.

And then Pres. Obama should call for a boycott of Fox 'News' and publicly condemn Breitbart and his ilk.
(But we all know he won't.)

is asked about it (or criticized for not acting immediately) that the response should be "We've learned the hard way that Fox News only presents less-than-factual "reports" that further their agenda, so we won't be making a statement until we learn all the facts.

I'm starting to see that you don't really have that much of a secure job in this administration, especially if the white conservative establishment decides you need to go.

Obama needs to speak publicly on this one.

the administration should treat mr beck like he has the fucking plague...ignore his existence

Feeling they've got a good dog on a leash vis a vis this admin.

They said 'Sit!!' and the admin obeyed.

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for the opposition. I am not sure why.