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2010-07-22 Home Front: Culture Wars

Full Sherrod tape shows she should have been fired for violating the "Hatch Act"

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-07-22 11:09|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The Hatch Act of 1939 is a United States federal law whose main provision is to prohibit federal employees (civil servants) from engaging in partisan political activity.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-07-22 11:17|| 2010-07-22 11:17|| Front Page Top

#2 The Sherrod affair reminds me of the Uncle Remus Tar Baby story. Good Luck Brer Obama, before this is over you are going to get more stuck.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-07-22 11:29|| 2010-07-22 11:29|| Front Page Top

#3 The administration managed to very quickly change the focus of the Sherrod incident by firing her. It wasn't about Sherrod, it was about the reaction to her words from the audience. The purpose was not to show that Sherrod was a racist, but that the NAACP members listening to her were racist in their reactions to what she was saying.

By firing her, they have managed to shift the focus away from what was really going on and from what the point of the story was.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-07-22 13:22|| 2010-07-22 13:22|| Front Page Top

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