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SHIRLEY, YOUR 15 MINUTES ARE UP – AT 7:41 P.M. ET:  Some people just don't know when to get off the stage.  From The Politico:

Former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday that she would “definitely” sue conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart over the video that prompted her firing last week.

“Andrew Breitbart ... had to know that he was targeting me,” Sherrod said. “Now, whether he was also trying to target the NAACP ... he had to know that he was targeting me.”

“At this point, he hasn’t apologized — I don’t want it at this point. And he’ll definitely hear from me,” she said.

Sherrod was asked to resign last week when Breitbart’s site, Big Government, posted an edited version of her comments at an NAACP event, in which she said that she had considered not giving a white farmer her “full force” to help him avoid foreclosure. In the full video, it was clear that she related the 23-year-old incident to make the point that “it was about poor, versus those who have” and that she ultimately steered the farmer to a lawyer who helped him save his land.

Sherrod received a public and private apology from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who admitted that he and his staff acted too hastily in asking for her resignation last week and offered her a new job at the Agriculture Department. President Barack Obama later called Sherrod to apologize.

COMMENT:  The woman was somewhat wronged, but got justice in 24 hours and a call from the president.  How many of you, if you've been wronged, got that kind of response? 

Shirley, it's over.  You're not going to be the next Oprah, or the next Michelle, and Halle Berry isn't begging to play you in the movie.   A Rosa Parks you're not.  Publishers are not knocking down the doors for your life story.

Now please go back to work. 

July 29, 2010