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9:40 AM ET, July 21, 2010

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NAACP:
NAACP STATEMENT ON THE RESIGNATION OF SHIRLEY SHERROD  —  (BALTIMORE, MD) - NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous issued the following statement today after a careful investigation into the presentation of former USDA Official Shirley Sherrod.  —  “The NAACP has a zero tolerance policy …
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Washington Post:
Firing of USDA official highlights larger political problems involving race  —  A fuzzy video of an Agriculture Department official opened a new front Tuesday in the ongoing war between the left and right over which side is at fault for stoking persistent forces of racism in politics.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
So much for that ‘conversation’ on race  —  The election of Barack Obama, America's first black president, was supposed to be a sign of our national maturity, a chance to transform the charged, stilted “national conversation” about race into a smarter and more authentic dialogue …
Rachel Slajda / TPMMuckraker:
Breitbart On Sherrod's NAACP Speech: ‘I Did Not Edit This Thing’  —  The crux of the Shirley Sherrod controversy is what she said outside of the two-minute video clip posted by Big Government — whether she was, as she claims, telling a story about how she overcame racial prejudice …
Andy Barr / The Politico:
NAACP: Breitbart ‘snookered’ us  —  NAACP President Ben Jealous on Tuesday said the organization had been “snookered” into condemning former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod.  —  Sherrod was fired Monday after a video — posted on one of Andrew Breitbart's conservative sites …
Matt McLaughlin / Media Matters for America:
Full video vindicates Sherrod, destroys Breitbart's accusations of racism  —  The NAACP has posted the video of Shirley Sherrod's March 27 speech, and it definitively proves false Andrew Breitbart's claim that the edited video he posted at his BigGovernment.com website is “evidence of racism.”
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Breaking: NAACP President Was In Attendance at Sherrod Speech (Video)  —  On Monday July 19th, video was released of Georgia Director of Rural Development Shirley Sherrod admitting in a speech at an NAACP banquet in March that she discriminated against farmers because of their race.
Discussion: Left Coast Rebel
CNN:
Ag chief: Former USDA worker's case to be reviewed
Frances Martel / Mediaite:
CNN's Campbell Brown To NAACP VP: ‘You Allowed Yourselves To Be Snookered’
Discussion: Big Government and Pat Dollard
The Politico:   USDA will reconsider firing
Sister Toldjah:
More to Sherrod/NAACP story than we know? …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Official: No White House pressure on Sherrod
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Farmer's wife says fired USDA official helped save their land
CNN:
NAACP says it was misled over video
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Jonathan Strong / The Daily Caller:
Liberal journalists suggest government shut down Fox News  —  When the writer Victor Davis Hanson wrote an article about immigration for National Review, for example, blogger Ed Kilgore didn't even bother to grapple with Hanson's arguments.  Instead Kilgore dismissed Hanson's piece out of hand as …
Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
California Official's $800,000 Salary in City of 38,000 Triggers Protests  —  Hundreds of residents of one of the poorest municipalities in Los Angeles County shouted in protest last night as tensions rose over a report that the city's manager earns an annual salary of almost $800,000.
Guardian:
Arab guilty of rape after sex with Jew  —  A man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after telling a woman that he was also Jewish  —  A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after having consensual sex with a woman who had believed him to be a fellow Jew.
Michael J. Boskin / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Economic Fish Stories  —  On unemployment, the president claims that the stimulus bill was several times more potent than his chief economic adviser estimates.  Such statements hurt his credibility.  —  A president's most valuable asset—with voters, Congress, allies and enemies—is credibility.
Discussion: Commentary and Betsy's Page
Quinnipiac University:
Obama Approval Drops To Lowest Point Ever, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Independent Voters Turn On President Since Honeymoon  —  A year after President Barack Obama's political honeymoon ended, his job approval rating has dropped to a negative 44 - 48 percent, his worst net score ever …
Zaid Jilani / Think Progress:
Ben Stein: The Unemployed Are People With 'Unpleasant Personalities...Who Do Not Know How To Do A Day's Work'  —  Today, the Senate extended unemployment benefits for millions of jobless Americans.  Despite the terrible shape of the economy, conservatives resisted extending unemployment insurance …
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
RNC fails to report $7 million in debt to FEC  —  Party treasurer faults Steele  —  ASSOCIATED PRESSRepublican Party chairman Michael Steele, center, talks with Republican state leaders and volunteers during a visit to the Colorado GOP headquarters in the Greenwood Village south of Denver on Thursday, July 8, 2010.
Aaron Blake / The Fix:
W.Va's Capito will not seek Senate seat, sources say  —  Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) has decided she will not run to replace Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), three sources familiar with her plans said Tuesday night.  —  Capito was the favorite on the GOP side, and state legislators gained …
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Handel and Deal Lead Georgia Governor Primary  —  ATLANTA — Karen Handel, a former secretary of state who was endorsed by Sarah Palin, came in first in Georgia's Republican gubernatorial primary Tuesday evening and will face Nathan Deal, a former Congressman, in an Aug. 10 runoff.
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Why Sarah Palin Endangers American National Security (and Israel's, as Well)  —  A Goldblog reader writes, with more invective than is minimally necessary: … There are those on the Interwebs who doubt whether I possess any sort of “liberalism” whatsoever, but let's put that issue aside …
Discussion: Washington Wire and RedState
Shmuley Boteach / Jerusalem Post:
No Holds Barred: What's up with Tom Friedman?  —  Columnist's recent piece on Hizbullah's Fadlallah shows a man who's line between right and wrong is becoming blurred by the day.  —  Talkbacks (28)  —  Make JPOST.COM your Home Page  —  Iranian Threat  —  Jewish World  —  Local Israel
David Lawder / Reuters:
US financial system support up $700 bln in past year-watchdog  —  * US support swells by $700 bln in past year-watchdog  —  * Mortgage, housing commitments account for most of rise  —  * TARP watchdog criticizes Obama housing rescue efforts  —  Increased housing commitments swelled U.S …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Overcome by Heat and Inertia  —  This city just endured its hottest June since records began in 1872, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  So did Miami.  Atlanta suffered its second-hottest June, and Dallas had its third hottest.
Frank J. Gaffney Jr / Washington Times:
GAFFNEY: Kagan's Shariah problem  —  Nominee backed Islamic compliance of U.S. financial sector  —  The author of the New York Times best-seller “The Grand Jihad,” Andrew C. McCarthy, has put the Senate Judiciary Committee on notice: There is a serious problem with the nomination of Elena Kagan …
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Lindsey Graham's vote on Elena Kagan ensures primary challenge
 
 
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