{"id":185490,"date":"2014-11-04T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/04\/chickenshs-on-the-world-stage\/"},"modified":"2014-11-04T20:38:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T01:38:00","slug":"chickenshs-on-the-world-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/11\/04\/chickenshs-on-the-world-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Chickensh%$s on the World Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you are no doubt aware, anonymous sources at the White House called Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu a Chickensh%$<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There was a minor sh%$ storm over this, but reaction was, and is, “But he IS<\/b> a complete chickensh%$?”<\/p>\n

He’s a guy with no morals or vision who cannot look past the next election.<\/p>\n

Then again, in the least surprising news of so far this week, email have leaked revealing that, despite their contemporaneous denials, the Obama administration was intimately involved in the firing of Shirley Sherrod<\/a>:(Background here)<\/p>\n

A 2010 e-mail from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says his department was \u201cwaiting for the go-ahead\u201d from the White House before accepting the resignation of Shirley Sherrod, according to newly released documents, despite Obama administration assertions that her ouster was Vilsack\u2019s decision alone.<\/span>

<\/span>The e-mail, which was made public Friday in an ongoing federal court case over the matter, shed more light on the evening of July 19, 2010, when the USDA hastily asked Sherrod to resign after a video showing her making supposed racist remarks surfaced on a conservative Web site. Her dismissal turned into a racial firestorm after it became clear that the video had been edited and her remarks were meant to tell a story of reconciliation.<\/span>

<\/span>Both the White House and Vilsack have repeatedly said that the agriculture secretary made the decision to ask for Sherrod\u2019s resignation without White House input. The e-mails, along with earlier e-mails obtained by the Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act in 2010 and 2012, make it apparent that Vilsack wanted Sherrod to leave the department and ordered her resignation. But a newly released e-mail sent by Vilsack himself suggests that he was awaiting a decision from White House officials on how to proceed.<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cShe has offered her resignation which is appropriate,\u201d reads an e-mail from the initials \u201cTJV\u201d to Dallas Tonsager, then the USDA undersecretary of rural development and Sherrod\u2019s boss. Vilsack\u2019s middle name is James. \u201cThe WH is involved and we are waiting for the go-ahead to accept her resignation. I suspect some direction from WH soon.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Israel has a chickensh%$ Prime Minister, and the US has a chickensh%$ president.<\/p>\n

Anyone who is surprised by either of these facts has been living under a rock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you are no doubt aware, anonymous sources at the White House called Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu a Chickensh%$. There was a minor sh%$ storm over this, but reaction was, and is, “But he IS a complete chickensh%$?” He’s a guy with no morals or vision who cannot look past the next election. Then again, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1051,1159,978,979,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-hypocrisy","category-israel","category-politics","category-wanker","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}