{"id":188610,"date":"2010-08-24T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/24\/shirley-sherrod-to-usda-go-pound-sand\/"},"modified":"2010-08-24T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T02:04:00","slug":"shirley-sherrod-to-usda-go-pound-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/24\/shirley-sherrod-to-usda-go-pound-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirley Sherrod to USDA:  Go Pound Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the US Department of Agriculture, after unceremoniously firing her on a trumped up controversy, offered a new job, the &#8220;Deputy Director Of Advocacy And Outreach,&#8221; but <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/08\/sherrod_refuses_usda_job_offers_may_consult_instea.php\">she declined the offer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that Ms Sherrod was polite and gentle in her denial, but she is not an idiot, and I think that anyone with this experience with any organization would be inclined to believe that the political appointees of the USDA are a bunch contemptible weasels who cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the civil service staff of the USDA were a bunch of contemptible bigots, in the not too distant past, as Ms. Sherrod is no doubt aware, being one of the recipients of proceeds from the Pigford settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the US Department of Agriculture, after unceremoniously firing her on a trumped up controversy, offered a new job, the &#8220;Deputy Director Of Advocacy And Outreach,&#8221; but she declined the offer. I&#8217;m sure that Ms Sherrod was polite and gentle in her denial, but she is not an idiot, and I think that anyone with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,1051,1240,978,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-hypocrisy","category-integrity","category-politics","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188610"}],"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=188610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}