7/21/10: Obama Admin Apologizes for Firing Ex-Racist Appointee

Remember when video surfaced of Obama administration official Shirley Sherrod admitting to a crowd of approving NAACP members that she let race affect the way she did her job? Of course you do, that story broke yesterday.

Well, it turns out the video in question only showed part of Sherrod's speech - and the speech was made 24 years ago. The rest of the speech kind of implies that Sherrod has learned that quasi-socialism should trump racism in the way government employees perform their duties. Of course, socialism is encouraged in the Obama administration, so Sherrod should have been allowed to keep her job, right?

Well, yeah, except that by the time the Obama administration learned the facts about the context of Sherrod's speech, they had already forced her to pull over to the side of the road and type a resignation letter on her Blackberry. Only the Obama administration could screw up something so royally.

Click to the 1:40 to hear the details of Sherrod's forced resignation and her insistence that she's all about "fairness."

Cue the apology - not for hiring a formerly racist, currently kinda socialist bureaucrat - but for, well, making a giant mess out of everything:

An embarrassed White House apologized on Wednesday to a black Agriculture Department employee who was ousted for her remarks about race, saying the administration did not know all the facts when she was fired.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs called the dismissal of Shirley Sherrod an injustice and a mistake and said he was apologizing for the "entire administration." He said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was trying to reach her to extend an apology.

Source: AP/Google

For more information on Sherrod's ties to extremism and, yes, Bill Ayers, check out this piece at the Illinois Review.