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" Oh, come on now. I sincerely hope Shirley Sherrod and her lawyers win so big in this thing that they have to dig up Andrew Breitbart and collect the pennies off his eyes. I sincerely hope, at some point, Shirley Sherrod gets in a room with Tom Vilsack, and with the incumbent president of the United Stares, and with everyone of his micturating staffers, and she spits on every damn one of them. Look at this stuff. This is the most powerful office in the world, trembling over spin, and wetting itself because a charlatan has triggered a storm of fake outrage for a bunch of clowns with microphones.... USDA director of communications Chris Mather sent the White House press office a heads-up email describing the video. &amp;quot;She goes on to make it a larger case about understanding race.... but looks bad. (Fox News host Bill) O&amp;#039;Reilly just called us for statement,&amp;quot; Mather says in the email. White House spokesman Reid Cherlin, responds, asking Mather in an email what USDA is going to say about the matter, &amp;quot;and has she been fired? I&amp;#039;ll alert folks here.&amp;quot; Mather answers, telling Cherlin that Sherrod had been placed on administrative leave. &amp;quot;I guess some folks over there are circling wagons,&amp;quot; Mather says, referring to the White House. At the same time, Valerie Green of the White House presidential personnel office was emailing the USDA&amp;#039;s White House liaison, Kevin Washo, asking him to loop her in, &amp;quot;Please. Please. Please.&amp;quot; All of this because Bill Fking O&amp;#039;Reilly calls for comment? You know what the proper answer from the White House to a call for a statement from Bill O&amp;#039;Reilly is?  &amp;quot;Get your hands out of your pants, you lecherous, sweaty-balled creep. We have nothing to say to you, now or ever. Oh, and Andrea Mackris, Andrea Mackris, Andrea Mackris.&amp;quot; Instead, the whole place goes to DefCon1, and a good woman loses her job because of a tailored videotape. This is what happens when the people running politics accept as axiomatic that spin is everything. This is what happens when, because of that, courage is defined by keeping your own job. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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