Gingrich: administration “destructive irresponsibility” - July 25, 2010
The Obama administration “acted with destructive irresponsibility in the way that they fired” former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) charged on Sunday.
Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Gingrich refused to apologize for blasting Sherrod as “viciously racist” based on incomplete video excerpts that misportrayed Sherrod, who is African American, as boasting about using her Agriculture Department post to discriminate against a white farmer.
Asked if that were irresponsible of him, Gingrich told host Chris Wallace that it was the Obama administration that acted rashly by firing Sherrod before the all the facts were known.
“Remember, I was acting in the context of the secretary of agriculture having summarily fired her,” Gingrich told Wallace. “And, therefore, there was no reason to disbelieve the clip and what you see is one more example of the Obama administration’s continuing incompetence,” said Gingrich, adding “it’s very worrisome to me” that the administration felt compelled to fire Sherrod before the full context of the video was made public, because they feared that the video would be featured prominently Glenn Beck’s Fox News show.
“If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?” Gingrich asked.
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