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Van Jones on the Sherrod Debacle

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jamesfirecat7/27/2010 6:57:16 am PDT

re: #92 Judith

Hm…Charles I am having trouble with this one. Certain people on the right go out and start a smear campaign with unfair details taken out of context. Someone in government then reacts in a knee jerk fashion and fires them unfairly. Yet instead of blaming the government you blame the smear tactic types?

The article you quote clearly lays blame where it belongs, on those who fire people unfairly based on stupid smear jobs. If Obama’s administration had not urged the immedaite resignation from this woman, the swearers would have been made to look like idiots. Instead Obamba’s administration has been to look incredibly weak and vulnerable.

I mean, honestly, if they made her resign over a smear job what will they do with faulty intelligence on the bomb from Iran or something equally serious. Is this the right man to have his finger on the button?

Don’t get me wrong, I do think the smear campaign is stupid, wrong and morally reprehensible. However it wasn’t those doing the smear job that ruined their lives. It was the people who fired them without cause because of a smear job.

Yeah how dare we blame the jackass who pulled the fire alarm instead of the firemen who axed their way through several doors, sprayed water all over the computers and turned the place upside down looking for a fire for them to put out!

Really dude, in what other situation do you hold the victim of a con more to blame than the conman?