White House Demands Firing of AG Dept. Employee Over Worries of What Glenn Beck Will Say

Posted by Policy Director, PAI on Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Shirley Sherrod, the Ag Department’s ex-Georgia director of Rural Development, said the WH forced her out after a video surfaced showing her telling a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer in trouble, but she claimed the video omitted key context and that the administration just got scared, Fox News reported. Sherrod noted Cheryl Cook, deputy undersecretary for Rural Development, called her several times on Monday to eventually demand her resignation on behalf of the White House… “because you’re going to be on Glenn Beck tonight.” The White House has begun making decisions based on what Glenn Beck will say?! WHAT?!

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