The Hill News

We learned something very important in the matter of Shirley Sherrod. We learned the full magnitude of fear in the Obama White House. Fear of the conservative media infrastructure. Fear of conservative Republican attacks. Fear of the race issue itself. Fear of Drudge. Fear of Breitbart. Fear of Fox. Fear of being attacked even without cause.

Even after the white couple that Sherrod allegedly did not help emerged with full-blown support for Sherrod and gratitude that she saved their farm, the White House still, even then, publicly backed Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's firing of her.

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