Reply #26: Even with the extra special yellow hair?

[gateley]

:)

I think I've heard people say that Shep was pretty pissed about this, too.

We have to remember that Vilsack did it on his own, that no less than the NAACP had called for her removal (and it was THEIR video!), and if he hadn't done it and it turned out to be true we'd all be going "I thought USDA was supposed to be cleaning out the racists -- here the NAACP has said somebody should lose her job, yet Obama's administration does nothing about it."

As I think about this more, I think that it was Vilsack who should have made the apology - not Obama (but he could have called her like he did). But they still should have responded as quickly as the NAACP did when they learned they'd been duped.